I'm still flabbergasted that so many African countries see Russia as an anticolonial power. And antiracist. Because I can assure you, Russia is neither.
@LiberalLibrarian: Ye Olde Marxiste Rhetoric still gets people going, especially folks who have hold of the short end of the stick. The spiel gives them something to rally about and get their hopes up over... and for their leaders to get some pocket money from and to shore up their images at home.
@thedisasterautist @LiberalLibrarian
Nor are we completely blameless in this. It could just be an exchange of exploiters as far as most of these nations are concerned.
"America and the West have had their crack at us. Let's give this other group a try."
@testamonk @LiberalLibrarian: That's a generational ignorance of history, if so. Everyone's had a crack at them, and everyone has fucked them over, and this was not a conversation about East vs. West and blamelessness, at least AFAIAC. It's commentary on a current event, though one that repeats every twenty years or so.
@thedisasterautist @LiberalLibrarian
Sure. But we're the current yeah? That's what this generation is dealing with. So their making the swing over.
But if we are wondering why these nations are looking at Russia now as this or that, it's in relation to what they have now.
I might not be making sense probably.
@thedisasterautist @LiberalLibrarian
One of the current summaries I was reading was braking down the aid received from US funds. And aid distributed etc. And then the abuses of the governments associated with those US aid.
Then when the nations governments change the next group lean towards Russia and/or China. I'm surprised that other people are surprised. Everything the current people know has been unpleasant and associated with US ties.
Am I completely nuts?
@thedisasterautist @LiberalLibrarian
Doh. I reread the thread and I sound argumentative. I really don't mean to. I just tend to come across that way.
Apologies if I offended. Not my intent at all.