Funnily enough, he could've fit with our posters

  1. Praised China's rise to power

  2. Negiotitated with DPRK to rid its nukes, and condemned the U.S sanctions on it

  3. Praised Venezuela's electoral system

  4. Declared the settler-colonial entity that took over Falastin, an apartheid state

https://www.wabe.org/president-trump-calls-president-carter-to-talk-china/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/22/when-jimmy-carter-went-to-north-korea/

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7272/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid

Then again, some pessimist might have point out, during his presidency, his support and alignment with reactionary anti-communist gov't and forces in the cold war in the following (some of which Reagan expanded upon and was known for) :

Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo - backed the dictator Mobutu

Guatemala - backed the Mayan anti-gov't genociders, around 200k dead

East Timor - backed the East Timor genocide over, over 200k dead (his little pet project) https://web.archive.org/web/20170226181104/https://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indoarms.html

Unfortunately, despite its professions of support for human rights in Indonesia, the Carter Administration picked up where Kissinger and Ford had left off. As Noam Chomsky writes in the preface to Matthew Jardine's 1995 book, East Timor: Genocide in Paradise, "In 1977, Indonesia found itself short of weapons, an indication of the scale of its attack. The Carter administration accelerated the arms flow."[7] U.S. arms sales hit $112 million in 1978, and averaged nearly $60 million per year for the four years of the Carter administration -- this was more than twice the level of weaponry supplied to the Suharto regime by the Ford Administration.

Angola - backed the anti-communist civil war there, along with apartheid South Africa, that caused 1 million deaths

Afghanistan - started Operation Cyclone

In the West, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan. These concerns led Carter to expand collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which had begun in July 1979, when the CIA started providing $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen.

El Salvador - supported anti-communist death squads, including the ones that killed Jesuits there

Vietnam - refused to recognize and continued the sanctions on Vietnam post-war (he was supposed to give reparations)

Nicaragua - supported the Somoza clique and started to back of the Contras that followed

Cambodia - post-Khmer Rouge, he supported China and Khmer Rouge + anti-communist elements against the Vietnam-aligned People's Republic of Kampuchea

South Korea - supported Chun Doo Hwan, in a line of SK strongmen, responsible for the Gwangju massacre

Philippines - supported dictator Marcos

Middle East - expanded bases there, as part of the 800 in our global world

In addition, he:

Supported the destabilisation of Grenada after the election of a socialist government leading to the eventual invasion and occupation by his successor’s administration

Facilitated and supported a fascist coup in Liberia

All along with Zbigniew Brzezinski https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/05/john-helmer-zbigniew-brzezinski-svengali-jimmy-carters-presidency-dead-evil-lives.html

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy-2/

https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2020/11/19/jimmy-carter-is-a-saint-now-was-a-war-criminal-then/

Plus his start of neoliberalism and destruction of Unions (wow, talk about Dems starting, and Reps expanding it)

https://truthout.org/articles/neoliberal-policies-associated-with-reaganomics-actually-started-with-carter/

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-was-no-friend-of-union-workers-like-me/

  • Redcuban1959 [any]
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    16 days ago

    I may be wrong, but after leaving office, Carter turned against Indonesia and promoted East Timor's independence. I think he just didn't care anymore, since his own party and the media destroyed any chance he had in 1980 of winning that election. In addition, Carter had a strange friendship with Evo Morales, probably because Carter was the only US president to openly support Bolivia's claims on the coast of Chile. The two played soccer/football together.

    Carter also signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which ended up giving Panama full sovereignty over the Panama Canal, until Reagan ordered the CIA to kill General Omar Torrijos and Bush Senior invaded Panama because Torrijos and Noriega, who were Socdem military leaders, began to distance themselves from the US. Carter also wrote a book criticizing Israel, which angered the Zionists so much that they continued to harass Carter and his family for many years, and the Democrats basically expelled him from the party.

    I don't like James “Jimmy Peanut” Earl Carter Jr., I think he was as bad as any other US president. But after leaving office, he did more than all the other presidents combined to improve the image and relationship of the US with the Global South. And what did the US governments that followed Carter do with this opportunity Carter gave them? Nothing, they got angry at Carter saying that he was violating the Logan Act and that he was interfering in their government and that they didn't need his help for anything.

    • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 days ago

      But after leaving office, he did more than all the other presidents combined to improve the image and relationship of the US with the Global South

      Well, I hope for no more Jimmy Carters who act indirectly as the U.S's foreign image, for good people like Evo Morales and countries like Panama and East Timor.

      What a ghoul.