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How did your country vote? (lemmy.ml)
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Yesterday, a Declaration of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity was voted at UNO. As usual, Israel and the USA voted against. How did your country vote? Any thoughts about it?

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[โ€“] 6 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

Why is that surprising? Ireland is sometimes better, I would suppose, but Sweden, Ukraine, UK, Canada, Japan, Iceland, and Hungary are all pretty damn right-wing and pro-imperialist.

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Sweden, Ukraine, UK, Canada, Japan, Iceland, and Hungary are all pretty damn right-wing and pro-imperialist.

    What an absolutely preposterous statement.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    How so? All are dictatorships of capital that rely on exploiting the global south, or play a role as a vassal state for imperialist countries.

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    How tf do Ukraine and Hungary exploit the global south?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago

    yeah i dont its not like ewwwwrope in general is connected to the usonian war machine, yes you are right if things are not 2 + 2 they must not be real, it's not like there is a complex mechanism designed specifically to mechanize atrocities and commodify them yes you are right im sorry.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago

    Ukraine is more of a vassal than one of the bigger imperialists, it's used similarly to how Israel is by the US Empire. It's itself being harvested for rare Earth minerals and shackled with tons of debt while at the same time being used to attack enemies of the west. Hungary is both a NATO and EU member state, it's firmly on the side of the imperialist system.

    Imperialism essentially is monopoly capitalism at its most developed stage, turned international. In the modern day, the US Empire is at the helm of this, with the EU and other NATO countries being used to protect this system of international extraction. By being in NATO, Hungary plays a part in defending this system, and by being in the EU, it benefits from imperialist spoils.

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