I think the west is pretty concerned in not losing elections to Russia - intervened parties… I love democracies and everything, but they are proving to be extremely weak with lunatics like Putin roaming the streets.
I think that we need to build better ways of understanding between each other. Polarization is the real killer of democracy.
Well that… And the fact that globalized capital isn’t particularly beholden to the interest of individual nation states.
The west could utilize their economic hegemony to truly starve the Russian war machine if they wanted, but that would require leveraging their economic trade status with countries like India and China and would come with a large disruption of capital.
The biggest flaw in modern democratic states is fairly uniform in nature. Instead of corporations being beholden to their governments, governments are beholden to their corporations.
He’s taking over a country drained by kirchnerism for years, of course people are hungry…
This recipe repeats all over latin america, left governments fuck the country over for 10+years, the moment they get voted out. Hur Durr it’s all because this new guy… Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia. The only reason Brasil didn’t suffer from this is because their economy is much stronger than the rest of Latin America.
Evolution of Chile, Argentina and Venezuela’s GDP per capita. Chavez was president from 1999 to 2013, Bachelet (Chile) was president from 2006 to 2010 (as well as later, after this graph), the Kirchner ruled in Argentina from 2003 to late 2015.
I don’t think anyone is going to argue that the left is perfect, but most leftist governments in South America in the last two decades have been positive, with Maduro’s being a pretty blatant exception.
The way the Chagos Islanders have been treated is so horrible. A lot of them live right near the airport where they landed, because they got as far as the UK but then had nowhere to go. No provision had been made for them at all.
Well, it could just be a temporary plateau and later could continue to rise still. Even a plateau is better than a continuous rise I guess, but doesn’t mean that it’ll decrease only from now on :)
I don’t want to paint a dark picture or be a pessimistic guy or anything, just writing my thoughts. All in for everybody lowering emissions :)
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