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  • Actually it's worse than that. The third world countries never got to develop their infrastructure, whereas the US got theirs early and just let it rot because maintaining it is not profitable.

  • New York being the international capital of the Capital and running its metro system on 18th century technology is fitting.

  • APL does not to my knowledge uphold any current socialist projects, but it does not uphold “Western Marxist” traditions.

    That is a Western Marxist tradition in itself.

  • could trigger a humanitarian crisis

    Yeah, that's the point of the blockade.

  • Surely this couldn't possibly have anything to do with a certain country using its control over financial institutions to prevent processing payments from "bad" countries.

  • Many such cases

  • Dude applying one drop rule to determine socialism and think they are profound.

  • This AND the fact that the investment is "no strings attached" unlike western investment usually entailing some kind of austerity or "market opening" stipulations. Also higher confidence that the deal won't be broken on a whim.

  • First they came for the Commune Jews

    And I did not speak out

    Because I was not a Commune Jew

    Then they came for the Social Jews

    And I did not speak out

    Because I was not a Social Jew

    Then they came for the Trade Jews

    And I did not speak out

    Because I was not a Trade Jew

    Then they came for the Jews

    And I did not speak out

    Because I was not a Jew

    Then they came for me

    And there was no one left

    To speak out for me

  • So, in short the demands are: disarm yourself, and THEN we will totally not attack you!

  • Wait, but I've been told that foreign powers sponsoring separatist movements is how you promote democracy and human rights.

    Don't Canadians want more democracy and human rights? Are they some kind of authoritarians?

  • Yeah, ultimately she's just a libertarian masquerading as a "leftist", I always cringe at her libertarian takes which she always makes sure to frame in a "progressive" language.

    Like, it this very video she's like government control/censorship is categorically bad, but on the same breath she tries to say we shouldn't glorify China because, for example, Douyin is just as bad as TikTok because kids are spending hours on it and "rotting their brain". Of course ignoring the reality that the authoritarian government in China has very strict policies and controls that try to prevent that precisely because they recognize it as a problem.

  • It goes even deeper:

    as he clung to power despite US opposition

    [Insert the "Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask" meme here]

  • Awwww, did you think US military would only kidnap people from bad countries like Venezuela?

  • he even removed the Israeli and US flag from his bio

    Funnily enough, he also replaced "Anti-communist" with "Human".

  • China, a developing country: lifts 800 million people out of extreme poverty.

    Meanwhile UK:

  • Let us put backdoors in every single device our agents are using, what could go wrong!

  • Ironically, Venezuela appealed to Washington for help at the time, using the Monroe Doctrine as a justification to prevent further colonization by the British Empire in the hemisphere. US President Grover Cleveland eventually declared the matter of US interest and forced Great Britain to sign a Treaty of Arbitration with Venezuela in Washington in 1897. Two years later, the Arbitration Tribunal, which had no representatives from Venezuela but instead two arbitrators from the United States said to be acting in Venezuela’s interest, ruled in favor of Britain.

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.