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Also it relied on Israel presenting itself as a relatively normal western nation. Netanyahu leading a coalition of absolute freaks and going fuckin Grima on the old orange bastard shattered that illusion. God willing the election in October goes well for the left.

The opening of the Ukraine war was quite fascinating that way, pretty clear to me that Biden's plan was just to do sanctions and wash his hands of the whole thing but public opinion here and in Europe pushed elites hard towards more support

The intersection of mass politics and foreign policy in the US is the CPC releasing stupid statements about Ukraine and then blaming them on interns, or Romer proposing a resolution to I/P that was the same as Clinton's proposal in 2000 and reacting poorly when that was pointed out to her.

I made a video about this almost 3 years ago www.ryanlcooper.com/the-socialis...

She’s the co chair and just stated her position as “we.”

I hope so! It still feels like a lot of ukranazi jokes and blaming it all on NATO though!

I think it's also very important to remember how small a percentage of left of center voters believe some of the crazier things like "Ukraine needs more diplomats" or "abolish the police". In comparison to a majority on the right believing completely ridiculous things like "global warming is fake".

Has Hasan? He's dialed it back since first dismissing the imminent Russian aggression as bloodthirsty Western propaganda, but he's still among those arguing Ukraine must "give peace a try" (cede territory and sovereignty to the invader) www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...

I don’t think she is tbh. Like the DSA IC is still comprised of utter loons, and I have a strong suspicion she gave this terrible take not because she actually believes it, but to avoid alienating the “Putin’s Russia is anti-imperialist in effect” loons