Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.
Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.
Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?
Neocolonialism is a very well-studied phenomenon that absolutely exists, and is why the Alliance of Sahel States are kicking France out of Africa.
So these states voluntarily signed agreements and now decided to terminate it? That’s neocolonialism?
Exploitative agreements signed at gunpoint lol, try harder halfwit
How are they exploitative or at gunpoint if you can just resign anytime???
Try harder, tankie
You literally can’t just resign at any time without being sanctioned and/or couped, fucking duh, read a book
“Voluntary” is certainly a way to phrase the control and comorador regimes they had in place, but it’s far more than eliminating defense contracts, it also has to deal heavily with export controls, sovereignty, and more. Again, neocolonialism is a fact of modern geopolitics.