A lot of people are trying to see something greater in the emergence of the multi-polar world than is actually the case. Obviously this includes those online geo-political analysts who see in countries like Russia an alternative to the godless, decadent, feminist, emasculated West. [With this subset of people including "Jewish controlled" in their list of the West's deformities.]
But there are also decent people, appalled at the murderous brutality and the shameless hypocrisy and the dangerous hubris and the titanic incompetence of the West's ruling classes who have convinced themselves that countries like Russia, China, India, Iran, are not themselves ruled by oligarchs, anti-democratic, often authoritarian, often religious bigots.
Iran, for instance, is still a place where women can be arrested and tortured and raped for challenging the state's morality laws. It is a place where homosexuals can be arrested, fined, or abused for who they are. India's Modi is an Islamophobic, neoliberal.
But it is not the place for Westerners to believe they have any right to lecture these countries about anything. In fact, our raucous support for protest movements in these countries only serves to discredit them. Generally, we find out about some protest movement via our corporate media/propaganda system. And, generally, our propaganda system is informing us of these protests because either the West has instigated them through dupes or stooges in those countries, OR the West wants to use their dupes and stooges to co-opt the protests to effect a regime change.
We have more than enough to do trying to correct our own governments' sins to spend time counter-productively declaring our "solidarity" with the women of Iran or dissidents in Russia or Hong Kong.
Our governments are thoroughly corrupt. Massively deluded. Inhuman. Anti-democracy. Debased. Stupid. And cruel. And, lately, openly genocidal.
I was glad when Iran smashed the fuck out of the nazi state of Israel in retaliation for its unprovoked, criminal aggression. Of the two governments, it is the nazi Israeli state that is worse. But I'm not going to pretend that I like the Iranian government.
I'm glad that Putin's Russia is successfully crushing the NATO proxy-offensive against it. But the tragic loss of life [150,000 Russians and over 500,000 Ukrainians killed] is nothing to celebrate. The ultimate guilt for those deaths hovers over Washington DC, London and Brussells. But Putin is an authoritarian neoliberal. I am no fan of his.
We need to maintain our perspective and dedicate ourselves to disempowering our own oligarchs instead of wasting our time yammering about affairs in other countries of which we know little.
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