While isreal's genocide is obviously a bad thing and the palestinians have every right to fight back

Fuck off.

You should support everything that is anti-west even if whatever the argument is is contradictory as there's contradiction in everything. Not because you're a brainwashed tankie but taking more nuanced and detailed positions makes you better than the slava ukraini liberal.

Chinese leaders still write at length about Marxism and how I see it becoming a socialist country or even a communist country is incredibly difficult in the face of powerful countries that also know this playbook and want to destroy you for it. Its not enough or even practical to press the socialism button because in real life with countries that absolutely hate you and make it their mission to subjugate and exploit you, it doesn't work.

We're currently seeing a socialist government who still writes, reads and acknowledges Marx and is taking the means of production from greedy Capitalist who overplayed their hand. The US doesnt make anything anybody wants anymore and appears to be in the beginning of a dying empire. The hope is that China rises from those ashes and follows through with socialism.

I don't really consider pointing out the point of view of non-western powers as 'defending' them. So much of the framing around 'foreign policy' on the English language internet is deeply chauvinistic, and frankly any time I see someone hand-wringing about chinese or russian imperialism all I see is 'But what about the xenos (Asians) doing imperialism just as bad as us some time in the future?!"

The US is vetoing UN resolutions to stop its vassal from genocide, and you're like "but what about Irans imperial aspirations, they're so like America!"

Wake me up when China is enforcing austerity on developing countries like the IMF- rather than simply forgiving loans.

At this point US 'foreign policy' is the same as British 'foreign policy' :to lose its shit at any large continental powers simply because they're big and therefore a threat. There's nothing deeper or ideological anymore, and it's really just projection of a western-focused worldview to think that everyone else is motivated in the same way or with the same goals.

Iran doesn't control any of the Shia groups that it gives weapons to around the Middle East. The Arab world and particularly the lapdogs in the monarchies are so incredibly hostile to anything remotely Shia, that all iran needs to do is give some weapons to people who would otherwise get massacred, and then their geopolitical goals are fulfilled all the same. How that qualifies as imperialism is legitimately beyond my conception. Particularly since Iran doesn't seem to benefit in any way like a colonial overlord would expect to, nor does the Iranian economy seem to have pressing need to expand to new markets like Lenin wrote about in Imperialism

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