Amid the recent victories for the anti-imperialist forces, we should let these developments boost our morale, but the last thing we must do is become complacent.
For personal reasons I am pretty much obsessed with Venezuela and to a lesser extent Latin America as a whole and I think you’re off the mark. For one thing the Venezuelan election last year yielded bad news and less bad news. The bad news is that the fascists probably won the vote, as the government to this day has refused to release the actas as Venezuelan law requires. The less bad news is that Maduro had the political strength to disregard that result. Lula and Petro were put in very difficult positions since they had been recruited to guarantee the election. Both are presidents of countries with strong fascist oppositions and both for political expediency have to insist they would respect a vote against themselves. None of these countries are workers states.
Colombia and Brazil have signed on to the BRI. Brazil blocked Venezuela from joining BRICS because investment in Venezuela is a Black Hole of corruption.
All transactional worthless leaders -- China & Russia, and the rest.
Hypocrisy, Thy Name is China!
In 2024, China was Israel’s most prosperous trading partner, outdoing other countries with $19,097.962m worth of sales and in third position with $2,858.745m in purchases.
When capitalism was restored, and the USSR dissolved (at the beginning of the 1990s), a period of great political instability opened up in Russia—this period ended when Putin’s faction of bourgeois oligarchs gained an iron grip on power. An important step toward this was the counter-revolutionary war, in which he defeated the separatist forces of the small Republic of Chechnya (with a large Muslim majority).
From there, Putin developed a policy of increasingly closer relations with Zionism and Israel. An example of this was the agreement he made with the government of Ariel Sharon (then Prime Minister of Israel) in the first years of the 21st century to encourage the immigration of Russian Jews to Israel, who, by the Law of Return in force in this country, automatically became Israeli citizens.
Thousands of Jews of Russian origin settled in Israel, and the number continued to increase every year. Today, it is estimated that there are about one million. These immigrants have received great benefits from the Zionist state, such as land and property stolen from the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (the “Jewish settlers”). Therefore, they have become the front line in the defense of Israel and have been in large part responsible for the agressions against Palestinians in those places. Politically, they tend to support and vote for the far right-wing Yisrael Beteniu party, founded and headed by Avigdor Lieberman, a traditional ally of Netanyahu and minister in his government .
For personal reasons I am pretty much obsessed with Venezuela and to a lesser extent Latin America as a whole and I think you’re off the mark. For one thing the Venezuelan election last year yielded bad news and less bad news. The bad news is that the fascists probably won the vote, as the government to this day has refused to release the actas as Venezuelan law requires. The less bad news is that Maduro had the political strength to disregard that result. Lula and Petro were put in very difficult positions since they had been recruited to guarantee the election. Both are presidents of countries with strong fascist oppositions and both for political expediency have to insist they would respect a vote against themselves. None of these countries are workers states.
Colombia and Brazil have signed on to the BRI. Brazil blocked Venezuela from joining BRICS because investment in Venezuela is a Black Hole of corruption.
https://youtu.be/2WgKmbEKEM0?si=IuDG9yrZkz3CmSAf
Happy to debate or discuss this.
All transactional worthless leaders -- China & Russia, and the rest.
Hypocrisy, Thy Name is China!
In 2024, China was Israel’s most prosperous trading partner, outdoing other countries with $19,097.962m worth of sales and in third position with $2,858.745m in purchases.
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-china/
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The Close Relations between Putin and Zionism
https://litci.org/en/the-close-relations-between-putin-and-zionism/
When capitalism was restored, and the USSR dissolved (at the beginning of the 1990s), a period of great political instability opened up in Russia—this period ended when Putin’s faction of bourgeois oligarchs gained an iron grip on power. An important step toward this was the counter-revolutionary war, in which he defeated the separatist forces of the small Republic of Chechnya (with a large Muslim majority).
From there, Putin developed a policy of increasingly closer relations with Zionism and Israel. An example of this was the agreement he made with the government of Ariel Sharon (then Prime Minister of Israel) in the first years of the 21st century to encourage the immigration of Russian Jews to Israel, who, by the Law of Return in force in this country, automatically became Israeli citizens.
Thousands of Jews of Russian origin settled in Israel, and the number continued to increase every year. Today, it is estimated that there are about one million. These immigrants have received great benefits from the Zionist state, such as land and property stolen from the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (the “Jewish settlers”). Therefore, they have become the front line in the defense of Israel and have been in large part responsible for the agressions against Palestinians in those places. Politically, they tend to support and vote for the far right-wing Yisrael Beteniu party, founded and headed by Avigdor Lieberman, a traditional ally of Netanyahu and minister in his government .