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• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not a purity test. I watch Pakman and Kyle Kulinski and the Majority Report. But, they don’t claim to be a libertarian socialist. It’s about honesty. Maybe he’s just confused. But for someone who has read “all theory,” I find his position on NATO dishonest.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And a real democratic socialist thinks russian imperialism is… Good? I mean you can’t even pretend Ukraine is NATO’s fault because they’ve been invading neighbors for over 20 years.

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    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All imperialism is bad. A person can be against Russian imperialism, American imperialism and NATO. NATO’s original mission was a check on the socialism of the Soviet Union. Source.

      Today,

      Instead of being for collective self-defense, NATO is a means for several of the most powerful states in the world—including the US, Canada, the UK, France, and Germany—to maintain global control of people and resources to serve western capitalist interests. Source

      Simply, as a socialist, you can’t be anti-capitalist and pro-NATO. Vaush is not a socialist. He’s a social democrat at best, which is fine. But don’t lie to your audience and misrepresent yourself.

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      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        OK, I’ll let you have it because I have a separate question.

        So in the ideal socialist land where nato disbands and the US is no longer the world police… Who stops Russia?

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