Europe: collaborates in the genocide of Palestinians
Europeans: "China is so evil and militaristic, look at all those hypothetical things they could hypothetically do to Taiwan!"
Riverside
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Believe me, I'm a communist, there's nothing I wish more for Iran than a secular socialist government, land reform, LGBTQ and women's rights, economic equality... Unfortunately, the west destroyed their most recent chance at this with the total sanctioning and military intervention against Mosaddeq, because British Petroleum's interests in the region were more important than the lives of Iranians. CIA paying mafias to perform protests against the government, MI6 paying actors to destroy private property and pretend they were communists, military blockade of petroleum exports... The whole suite.
This is why I reject so much further western meddling. If Iran is to have a socialist government, it will be by itself without meddling, and the point of focus from the west should be, IMO, preventing sanctions and military action against the Iranian people. However bad the Iranian government is currently, the only alternative for now from what I see is ISIS or Israel, and neither is better, it's the sad truth of geopolitics.
It's not whataboutism, the protests are literally created by western-manufactured poverty, the US has admitted as much. Remember that the sanctions on Cuba are justified with the following:
"to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government". I'm quoting official US memos here.
You don't need to know much about Iran at all to know for a fact that US intervention will make it worse, you just need to look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine, and every other "repressive dictatorship liberated by US efforts" to see the consequences of invasion.
The protests in Iran are happening because people are literally dying due to impoverishment caused by western sanctions causing the local currency to implode. Focusing only on the government reaction during a period of military buildup Against Iran amounts to atrocity propaganda, however well-meaning your intentions are. It's meant to create mixed feelings about the invasion amongst progressives "look at how dictatorial they are"
How many people have died in Iran as a consequence of western sanctions since their currency exchange value plummeted? Remember, EU+US sanctions murder HALF A MILLION PEOPLE YEARLY over the world.
I agree, that's why we all should condemn the western sanctions that made the local currency collapse and led people to starvation and violence
Hahaha I'm not Spanish, I'm not a communist, damn, I should reevaluate my life
Jajajaja me vas a decir a mí de dónde soy. It's amazingly racist that you can't conceive a western communist being pro-China.
Glad I disarmed you by bringing actual meaningful material improvements to the living conditions of people instead of arguing about technicalities, though.
My project is whichever feeds the children. China saved 800 million from poverty in half a century.
Oh so you're a western leftist defeatist without a political project, and you will not support anyone fighting against global imperialism because they're not "pure enough". Classic western "leftist". Your apathy and lack of solidarity empower the ones currently in power, i.e. western imperialism.
It was posted because it was written
All propaganda is written at some point. It being written doesnt make it less atrocity propaganda.
You seem very worried about "fake communists", what's an example of real world socialism to you?
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Looking at history, it's western intervention leading to far right in both though. Ukraine saved itself from Nazism thanks to communism, and only after western-style capitalism took control have far-right movements taken place. As for Iran, I wish Mosaddeq hadn't been ousted by the west too, but alas it's again not "tankie lies" leading to violent regimes, it's western meddling. The tankies you hate have advocated since the past century against the ending of the USSR (which would have saved Ukraine from the demographic and humanitarian disaster it's suffering for the past 25 years) and against intervention against Mosaddeq. If you had listened to the tankies 70 years ago, there would be no far right.