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 That's what's hilarious. Tankies think Putin is a new Stalin who will bring the worker's paradise. I mean, come on.
@LiberalLibrarian: "I mean, come one"? It's textbook human behavior, practically Pavlovian at this point, alas. An Ethiopian exchange student I knew in college in the early 1990s used to lament at not only the way other blocs of the world treated African but also the way Africans wound up treating themselves towards others. He said it was a tragedy that hungry dogs would eat off of anyone's plate, that "he who feeds them on any given day is their god, at least for that day".