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> Some other western leftists do sound like this Even Lula said something similar on a Time interview recently. Brazil is very dependent on Russia's fertilizer
by marcodiego 4y ago
> Some other western leftists do sound like this
Even Lula said something similar on a Time interview recently. Brazil is very dependent on Russia's fertilizers and is a big (biggest?) food exporter. Brazilian politicians have been very careful to condemn the war while being light on Putin or the result could mean a significant rise on the price of food and even famine.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoRight what we see is a kind of world of (at least) bipolar competing imperialisms, of which the "Russian" side (roughly speaking) is less powerful but attempting to assert itself. Sergei Lavrov has tried to carve out an ideological space in which this sphere around Russia has inherited some sort of anti-colonialist sheen. But in large part it is frankly worse than "the west" in almost all respects. Lavrov talks like an anti-imperialist while actually basically being the Mouth of Sauron. The talking face of a failing autocratic petro-state.