Using academic terms like the Global South doesn’t instantly make you smart or right.
Especially when you consider both geographically and historically Russia has been part of the Global North. Often guilty of the exact same exploitation (or as in Ukraine much worse) as it’s peer set…
Lmfao the USSR directly funded and supported emancipatory movements all over the world, like Vietnam, Korea, Bangladesh, Palestinian resistance organizations like the PFLP, etc; even directly supplied wars against “israel” for that last one. Afganistan is about the only one where the US and USSR funding opposite sides turned it into a warzone instead.
Russia’s interests are still broadly aligned with most of the world against Imperial core countries. Even though they’re not socialist anymore and have thus stopped funding Vietnam, PFLP etc because it’s not profitable, they support the sovereignty of Global South countries like Syria, Venezuela, etc, and are a core part of BRICS. There’s a reason sentiment like this is common in third world countries.
And if “Global South” sounds too academic to you… I’m not sure what to say.
Using academic terms like the Global South doesn’t instantly make you smart or right.
Especially when you consider both geographically and historically Russia has been part of the Global North. Often guilty of the exact same exploitation (or as in Ukraine much worse) as it’s peer set…
Lmfao the USSR directly funded and supported emancipatory movements all over the world, like Vietnam, Korea, Bangladesh, Palestinian resistance organizations like the PFLP, etc; even directly supplied wars against “israel” for that last one. Afganistan is about the only one where the US and USSR funding opposite sides turned it into a warzone instead.
Russia’s interests are still broadly aligned with most of the world against Imperial core countries. Even though they’re not socialist anymore and have thus stopped funding Vietnam, PFLP etc because it’s not profitable, they support the sovereignty of Global South countries like Syria, Venezuela, etc, and are a core part of BRICS. There’s a reason sentiment like this is common in third world countries.
And if “Global South” sounds too academic to you… I’m not sure what to say.
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Yeah that’s a temp ban for holocaust trivialization if I ever saw one
Russia’s economic integration has undoubtedly been with the Global South in recent years. What, exactly, are you disputing from OP’s comment?