I like to think I'm firmly ML when it comes to these things, but somehow I got LibLeft.
Economic Left/Right: -8.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62
I legit don't understand how this thing works, because I chose a bunch of rather authoritarian options including being pro-death penalty and somehow I still come out lib.
This is the type of post you make when you have direct experience in a major european city, but have fuck all in the way of tools to analyse this situtation, and have also given the subject zero extra thought beyond your gut reaction. I know this, because I had the exact same type of thinking when I was 19 and had just started university.
Also just a quick story time: When I had a job in central Copenhagen, there was definitely an element of class to the choices in transportation, as me and the other young grads had to take the train to work, as both of us lived some 20 odd kilometers from the office we worked in, while my boss and most of the upper management were all congratulating themselves on being eco-conscious and biking to work.
Insert Parenti speech about "Capitalism works oh so well in Latin America, Africa and Central Asia"
Morocco never quite forgave the rest of North Africa for their support of republicanism, which is also why the previous king Hassan II allegedly spied on the Arab Republics for Israel during the 6 day war. It's honestly hard to overstate just how much the moroccan royal family sucks ass and they are only saved by the fact that the other Arab monarchies are somehow even worse.
Just like Bernie Sanders probably has a history of voting against the Feeding Children Into a Woodchipper Act, Biden either voted for said act, or directly sponsored the bill that became the act.
If the US decided to rid the world of the Petro-dollar, wouldn't that undermine the ability to export debt and inflation to the rest of the world? Or at the very least, happily speed up the dedollarization that the Yanks are so afraid of. Sure it would massively hurt the petro-states in the Gulf, but presumably they could theoretically weather it if they got given international assistance in the transition periods.
the CIA is presumbly trying to recreate that network that got got in China, and so don't really have the time or the inclanations to help out a competing empire.
I think it's pretty clear that a whole lot of the current situation is due to miscalculations from both sides of this conflict, in as much as you can call Ukraine a side. I don't really know or understand what caused Russia to act the way it did, but I think it's pretty clear from the actions of their ministry of finance and the central bank, that they did not intend for this to be a broader reckoning with neoliberalism, and the central bank is in fact fighting tooth and nail to protect the neoliberal ideologues in charge of it. I kind of agree with you that Russia probably thought the easternmost parts of Ukraine would greet them as liberators, or at least expected some kind of cooperation from them, which has simply not materialised.
However I have 0 fucking idea why the fuck Ukraine is continuing to fight a war that they are 1) never going to win outright, and also 2) is rapidly depleting the male population, which is going to hamper whatever remains of Ukraine when it inevitably have to rebuild, when a ceasefire is signed. Not to mention all the privatization and destruction of labour power is going to ensure that any gains post-war by Ukraine are going to be hoarded by the ruling class and rather than being used to rebuild infrastructure, is probably going to be used in real estate speculation in Toronto, Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles.
The worst of the Blue MAGA libs still get an angry look in their eyes if you mention Ralph Nader's name, and consider him responsible for Bush Jr. and all his assorted terribleness. Which sort of underlines the communist point that if the president is so powerful that just one single bad (republican) one can cause so much death and destruction, maybe it's time to consider changes to the system, but libs never want to go that far.
Somehow my previous reply to you got merked by the servers, so i'mma try again.
A Maghreb union is absolutely not in the cards for the next generation I think. Morocco is very much in favour of the current status quo, where they get to brutalize sub-saharan migrants/refugees on behaf of the EU and receive quite a lot of investment from the EU because their wages are quite low, so Dacia, Renault and other companies have build some pretty big factories there. Furthermore, Morocco just bought a bunch of surveillance drones from Israel to use against West Sahara. And the topic of West Sahara is itself pretty much gonna guarantee that Morocco and Algeria will never agree on anything beyond the most tepid cooperation.
Reddit libs use the same type of phrases and terminology when describing Russia and other "enemies" of the US State Department, as fascists and far right freaks in Europe do when describing Muslims and Arabs / Middle Easterners (same thing in their mind really). It's fucking terrifying how quickly they got on board with the whole "enemy of the free world" shit that also got them to support the interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
Misread that as Catholic Evil and somehow thought that sounded fine. It did give me a new idea for my next DnD game though.