• Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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            5 months ago

            Even the USSR allied with England and the US to defeat Hitler, and the CPC allied with the KMT to defeat Japan. So what is your point here? I trust the Cuban leadership on Cuban military affairs way more than some guy with an internet connection.

            • CamillePagliacci [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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              This analogy doesn’t work unless you believe Cuba is currently close to being invaded. This is a geopolitical alignment, not an alliance of desperation against a genocidal threat. Cuba sees aligning with Russia as preferable to isolation, it is not gearing up for a potential war with the US.

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                5 months ago

                Cuba is not facing an invasion but they are facing a strangling embargo, aligning with Russia is preferable than withering away in isolation.

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                5 months ago

                This is a geopolitical alignment, not an alliance of desperation against a genocidal threat.

                Yeah, sanctioning a tiny island and threatening the whole world to follow along in a globalized economy is not akin to genocide.

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                5 months ago

                This whole thread has been most garbage take I’ve ever seen a Hexbear user account of any significant vintage make. It’s like you have almost no understanding of imperialism/colonialism or of “critical support” for bourgeois nationalist movements against them. Almost everyone here disagrees with you, as do many people of the Global South, who also align with and significantly support Russia against the imperial core.

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                  This whole thread has been most garbage take I’ve ever seen a Hexbear user account of any significant vintage make.

                  My friend, this isn’t even the dumbest I’ve seen in the last 48 hours (thanks to the CPUSA threads)

                  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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                    5 months ago

                    You know what’s gonna improve Russia, China, Syria, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Palestine, North Korea, and all the other places liberals hate? Being pillaged by American and western European capitalists (in the case of Russia, being pillaged again). That definitely won’t create the type of crisis that’s perfect for promoting fascism.

                    You’re right, if you’re worried about fascism you should definitely oppose an alliance between Russia and Cuba.

                    Less sarcastically, I don’t know how old you are, but I’m old enough to remember seeing what the west did to the people of the Soviet Union. I know what they’re up to and the people of Russia, regardless of they’re government, do not deserve to go through that again. This is a world the US made, not Russia. If you don’t like capitalist restoration Russia you seriously need to ask if anything else is realistically possible in a world where they have to coexist with the US.