Yesterday, a Declaration of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity was voted at UNO. As usual, Israel and the USA voted against. How did your country vote? Any thoughts about it?

  • Logi
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    3 days ago

    Sweden, Ukraine, UK, Canada, Japan, Iceland, and Hungary are all pretty damn right-wing and pro-imperialist.

    What an absolutely preposterous statement.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      How so? All are dictatorships of capital that rely on exploiting the global south, or play a role as a vassal state for imperialist countries.

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        2 days ago

        How tf do Ukraine and Hungary exploit the global south?

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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          2 days ago

          Ukraine is more of a vassal than one of the bigger imperialists, it’s used similarly to how Israel is by the US Empire. It’s itself being harvested for rare Earth minerals and shackled with tons of debt while at the same time being used to attack enemies of the west. Hungary is both a NATO and EU member state, it’s firmly on the side of the imperialist system.

          Imperialism essentially is monopoly capitalism at its most developed stage, turned international. In the modern day, the US Empire is at the helm of this, with the EU and other NATO countries being used to protect this system of international extraction. By being in NATO, Hungary plays a part in defending this system, and by being in the EU, it benefits from imperialist spoils.