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Ukrainian author-turned-soldier takes aim at Westerners' ‘abstract pacifism’
(kyivindependent.com)
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So is in almost all of Europe, which I'm assuming you were labelling as west leftism, right? Or were you exclusive to the Americas?
When I say Western leftism, I am refering to people such as Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis or the people behind Jacobin in the US.
Corbyn is a genocidal imperialist who has openly cheered for the occupation of Crimea and prosecution of Ukrainians and Crimean Tartars.
Jacobin routinely hosts articles that include something along the lines of "I don't support the invasion of Ukraine, but actually here are the reason the russian are justified in invading Ukraine. And aren't all Ukrainian Nazis anyway?"
Varoufakis is probably a more useful idiot type, but he has also supported some non sequitors about "peace based on Good Friday agreement". This is so stupid.
Academic leftists like Jeremy Morris routinely whitewash near universal support for genocidal imperialism among the russian public by claiming that it merely 10-12% of russians support imperialism.
Does this help you understand why I think Western "leftists" are full shit and why I hope the malicious ones (like Corbyn) get a taste of their own medicine; them and their families get to experience what they wish on Ukrainians.
You mentioned a bunch of names I don't recognise. I assume they are from the US. So basically by west you meant exclusively US, ok.
Corbyn is English. Varoufakis is Greek.
Anybody in Europe knows about these two, but of course.people in Asia or Africa or America might not, and OP forgot about that.