this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
77 points (96.4% liked)

GenZedong

4294 readers
153 users here now

This is a Dengist community in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This community is not ironic. We are Marxists-Leninists.

This community is for posts about Marxism and geopolitics (including shitposts to some extent). Serious posts can be posted here or in /c/GenZhou. Reactionary or ultra-leftist cringe posts belong in /c/shitreactionariessay or /c/shitultrassay respectively.

We have a Matrix homeserver and a Matrix space. See this thread for more information. If you believe the server may be down, check the status on status.elara.ws.

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This weird idea that Trump is less of an enemy towards the Global South because he did a few symbolic things like meet Kim Jong Un and tried to extort Zelensky needs to die. That's just him being chaotic.

He's the one that started providing Ukraine lethal military aid. He started the policy of US military invasion "games" aimed at the DPRK. He attempted coups, loudly assassinated Soleimani, and claimed Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This weird idea that Trump is less of an enemy towards the Global South because he did a few symbolic things

Exactly. I used to take that exact line. Then a friend of mine pointed out that, really, the very best you can say of Trump -- and it's being generous -- is that he has some instincts toward realpolitik and political pragmatism, which in principle would at least make him better than the neocons (who are totally delusional and driven by ideology). However, Trump also wants to be respected, and he's terminally insecure, so he bowed to the neocons at pretty much every major juncture. Which completely obviates any reason one might have for supporting him.