Leftists Whoring for Putin Thread

Naomi Klein, Jeffrey Sachs, the Jacobian et al.

Pro-Russian leftist logic.

The West is obviously guilty because it provoked Russia, but whatever sins it may have committed, it also has an obvious right to self-determination - after all, it is inconceivable that anyone should decide for the US, Canada, or the UK. The people oppressed by the West - Iraqis, Afghans, Palestinians, indigenous people - also have this right and they deserve it for centuries of colonial oppression. East and Central Europe, on the other hand, neither the West nor its victims, a liminal zone, a bit wild, a bit barbaric, something between a younger brother and a provincial uncle, the mythical land of Borduria, Zubrowka, Ruritania, can be sacrificed. After all, it's not the first time and probably not the last.​

According to this logic, in 2014 it was not the Ukrainians who decided that they were closer to the European Union than the Eurasian Union - it was the US that staged a coup, apparently in a social vacuum. Whether the Eastern and Central European states wanted to join NATO is not of the slightest importance: their admission to the North Atlantic Alliance was clearly a mistake because God forbid you will have to live up to your treaty obligations. It would be far better to leave a "buffer zone" of no-man's land. The whole East-Central Europe is just a pawn on the geopolitical chessboard, spoils passing from hand to hand and having no say regarding its own future.​

 
Norm Chomsky is and has always been a fucking asshole.


he is a typical ui

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George Galloway


You're identifying him with American 'Leftists' re the Democratic Party. No way. He does though have the same position as they do on this it seems.
 
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