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You can't just say "Left" and "Right". That distinction has become rather meaningless. While the Right as a whole is leaning stronger and stronger in at least
by papito 4y ago
You can't just say "Left" and "Right". That distinction has become rather meaningless.
While the Right as a whole is leaning stronger and stronger in at least silent support of people like Putin (Christian defender of the white race and all that), the Left does not have this problem. There is a small crew of commies and tankies that drool over Putin, but us left-leaning folk laugh at them as much as anyone.
- qaq 4y agoThey might not drool over Putin but they are the most effective people to push the stop arming Ukraine narrative. Also again I've pretty much never seen them criticise russia for being a colonial empire with pretty brutal practices towards the colonised nations (outside of Chechen wars). Compare the amount of criticism Israel gets to Russia from the left.
- papito 4y agoThat's not a Left/Right problem. Everyone, and I mean everyone, fell for the "Russia is not an empire" schtick. Right now the world is in a process of reevaluation, and academia is a huge part of this. Educational institutions have realized they have been teaching Russian history all wrong, and it SHOULD be taught through the prism of imperialism. It's kind of amazing, considering that even looking at the last 100 years, Russia has been on a rampage of conquering and subjugating nations from East to West. Before anyone tries, please do not compare this to ill-fated American adventures. Last I checked, Vietnam and Iraq are still not part of the United States.