• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Occam’s Razor: It’s not that Macron is a domestic right winger who happens to be correct on international politics. It’s that your beliefs are left domestically, but you’re supporting right-wing foreign policy.

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      3 hours ago

      Macron’s foreign policy isn’t left or right or centre it’s French. It’s actually quite exceptional for a nation’s foreign policy, at least in its core aspects, the steady lines, doctrine and long-term strategy, to be partisan. France is all about strategic autonomy, and to make that more affordable they’re pushing for European strategic autonomy, hence the constant heavily anti-Atlanticist streak.

      And that applies to the US too, btw: Biden waged a trade war against the EU with the inflation reduction act. Tactics might differ, crassness differs, the core elements? Exactly the same.

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        Yes, it’s right wing everywhere. That’s because capitalism requires constant aggression to gain access to new markets and resources to exploit. So it has spread like a virus. And if a country doesn’t comply with right wing global policies, they’re overthrown by right wing capitalists.

        Why don’t you ask the people in French colonies if they think French foreign policy is right wing?

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          As to extractive capitalism: What part about “strategic autonomy” do you not understand. How can you be autonomous if you’re reliant on extractive exploitation. Also, former colonies. Also, ask Mali whether they’re faring better under Russia’s thumb. France is not in the business of forcing itself on countries if they’re hell-bent on making idiotic mistakes. The offer was there to help Mali keep out Islamists and extractive capitalism, what did the Junta do? Invite Wagner over so they can join in massacring the civilian population.

          France does have some homework to do regarding its colonial past, big and glaring one being the Haiti debt, but you know what you sound like? Like an ANC politician willing to blame your country’s issues on anything but your own corruption. “Oh no it is the colonisers who make us embezzle our people’s wealth”.

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            30 minutes ago

            France just had to be forced out of African colonial holdings within the past year, and they sabotaged infrastructure on their way out.

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              I’m curious why you’re not giving specifics. Maybe because it’s part of the Russian colonial programme? France left, willingly, when those states withdrew their invitation. They didn’t force themselves in in the first place, they were there to fight Boko Haram and like ilk. The states had some reservations “The French are going to do all the fighting without developing our own military capabilities so afterwards we’ll still be vulnerable”. Germany said “yep we’ll expect the same that’s how they roll” so Germany went in together with the French, specifically doing training. Both left together once uninvited.

              And don’t tell me they should’ve left bases etc. for Wagner to use.

              I’m curious: Is Russia currently involved in an imperialist, genocidal conquest of Ukraine? Yes or no. Once that’s out of the way we can start talking about Africa.

              …and don’t fucking even begin talking about Uranium. Noone needs North African Uranium, Australia has everyone covered for millennia to come.

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                Ahh. So now the right wing foreign policy is justified, and it’s Chad’s fault. LoL.

                Does your script not cover Africa? Is that why you need to deflect to another place entirely?

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                  Chad, as in the country, no. Chad, as in the powers that be in Chad selling it out to foreign interest, yes, they’re very much at fault. The Déby dynasty (I guess that’s how it’s going to be now) is better than Habré but come on none of them are worse even a single clap of applause.

                  Overall, that’s some real neo-colonial, infantilising, BS from you, there, “Oh these poor undeveloped countries can’t make decisions for themselves, they’re at the whim of foreign influence, they have no agency”. That’s like 1/1000th of a step away from “we should invade and rule for them because they can’t”.

                  Does your script not cover Africa? Is that why you need to deflect to another place entirely?

                  No, Tovarish Vatnik. That is not the reason.

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      23 hours ago

      Macron is centrist at best, who is socially progressive but economically right, in which the latter is only feeding the right.

      He had been advocating for EU army since Trump’s first term. I was indifferent or at best opposed to it because, like most people, nobody thought Trump is crazy enough to threaten to pull out of NATO, and there was no war in Ukraine. Then now with Trump 2.0, him pulling out from more international obligations, and the invasion of Ukraine happening at the same time, I can see why re-arming is a better course. I am still not a fan of an EU army, but I am sympathetic to the sentiment.

      Also, it is not “right wing” to allow rearmament. There are right wingers who are isolationists, especially those with ties of varying degrees to Kremlin and don’t see Putin as a problem. Sure, there are even left wing isolationists.

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          23 hours ago

          I don’t support NATO either. But is as if there are no left leaning supporter for international military alliance lol. I don’t know what your smoking, but no thanks.

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            21 hours ago

            So you don’t think you’re rightwing, but you think there should be a massive international military alliance 🤦🏻‍♂️