https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2135509
this is practically a child’s view of the world. good guy vs bad guy. Russia = bad, NATO = good. plus, someone should tell her she has it completely backwards: ending russia is kinda natos entire thing
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2135509
this is practically a child’s view of the world. good guy vs bad guy. Russia = bad, NATO = good. plus, someone should tell her she has it completely backwards: ending russia is kinda natos entire thing
One of the most surprising things about the war in Ukraine is that it revealed a very sharp difference in the perception between Western left and the rest of the world.
The Western left sees Russia as an imperialist power trying to conquer Ukraine, while most leftists in the Global South see Russia as a victim of Western imperialism and Ukraine as an extension of the Western imperialist arm.
Maybe the lived experience of being outside of the imperial core, and thus being exposed to the direct impact of imperialism, makes one evaluate the global situation differently than those living inside it?
Being from the “backyard” of the USA, I can say that many many people back home are much more aware of the Empire’s doings in general.
That doesn’t mean that it made all of them leftists. There are a lot of liberals and fascists as well. But they kinda openly accept and praise the Empire.
People in the core live in this weird fantasy land where reality is entirely fabricated by myths forged by propaganda.
To the point where a major “experience” many more political people have is “waking up to the truth”.
Learning shit we used to learn in school for the first time in their lives lmao
Then either becoming communists or nazis.