FunkyStuff [he/him]

It’s a NATO problem. It’d definitely be wrong to hold Ukraine to be uniquely responsible for NATO’s legacy, and Ukraine isn’t even formally part of NATO. If you want a full breakdown of the history of the NATO bloc’s Nazi problem, have you read Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds?

muster any genuine evidence there’s a systemic problem.

Actually, that’s men’s fault too, Rowan.

It is adventurism just by definition, unless it’s being carried out by some kind of underground, organized revolutionary cell network.

tldr the kind of repression and state control that @[email protected] notes in Cuba as disqualifying it from the label of ‘socialism’ and making it ‘communism’ instead are actually the precise things that make Cuba a socialist state, as opposed to a communist post-state society.

It’s an error to just use the words like ‘socialism’ = ‘cool and good’ while ‘communism’ = ‘bad and scary’ because that’s just 2nd grade tier analysis that doesn’t clear anything up at all, and just confuses you further.

One thing that’s worth noting is that Israel and the US are the two countries that voted against making food a human right at the UN and both are actively committing genocide via starvation.

These two processes are actually intrinsically connected and are part of a broader strategy I fear is only going to see more examples as climate collapse plays out. There’s going to be more groups that the imperialist powers will want to wipe out and ecosystem collapse will cause famines that a blockade can escalate into a mass death event.

That’s not how it works. If there’s an organized effort to exterminate a group of people because of their immutable characteristics (in this case nationality) it’s genocide. You can be guilty of the crime of genocide even if you don’t kill a single person. The US embargo absolutely meets the criteria and has already caused thousands of excess deaths (as well as underdevelopment) over the course of decades. It’s like Gaza, blocking off a group of millions of people from being able to get anything from the rest of the world and restricting the flow of basic necessities. They don’t have to kill any specific number of people for that to count as genocide, it just is.

There was also a famine in the 30s in Kazakhstan, not just Ukraine. A similar number of people died.