Today i had the misfortune of encountering a western “leftist” on Twitter. He stans Podemos (a spanish demsoc party, very liberal and proNATO, they are now in a coalition government with the socdems and they love Zelenski). We discussed the Ukraine War and Russia. I thought he would do the typical “ok the US and NATO are very bad, but Russia is bad too!” so i brought up the NATO invasions of Yugoslavia and Libya to show how the west is manufacturing consent now with Ukraine just like they did with Yugoslavia and Libya, which i assumed he would say were bad. Well the motherfucker goes and says “akchually those invasions were good, we stopped genocides and evil dictators”. WTF. How are these people “leftists”? They are straight up NATOist warhawks. How is this “the left” now? And this is in Europe, where the left is much stronger than in the US! I cant stand this. HOW IS THIS “LEFTISM”? Im so angry right now, what a piece of shit human being, defending imperialist genocides while calling himself a “leftist”. He even had the gull of saying “you arent a leftist, you defend genocidal regimes like the USSR, Putin or North Korea, youre a fascist!”. Fucking unbelievable. Ok rant over.
Oh and he also defended finnish and baltic nazis of WW2 and said “bolshevism is just like nazism”. Plus he said holodomor was real and when i showed him that expert historians on the subject like Mark Tauger, J Arch Getty and Stephen Wheatcroft think otherwise, he said “youre wrong, the historical consensus doesnt agree with you”.
NATO even has a requirement that that majority of the population of the applicant should support the decision to join, yet there is no referendum, perhaps this fast-track ratification is what Biden and president Niinistö discussed in Washington in the very early days of the Ukraine conflict? I genuinely would not blame Russia if they were to escalate any action with Finland, as you said, this situation is similar to the background to the Winter War. Finland has had a quite friendly relationship with both the Soviet Union and later on Russia post-WW2 (frequent dialogue with Putin and our presidents, we hosted the Trump and Putin meeting etc) and that is now being thrown away for solely strengthening the Western hegemony. Lenin wrote over 100 years ago that even within the working class movements in what he called “United States of Europe”, there are opportunists that are working towards strengthening Westerm imperialism, and that is exactly what I have experienced in Finland as well. The Left Alliance who said in 2019 during the parliamentary elections that they would not be able to sit in a coalition government if the nation was to join NATO, has now done a complete 180, in the most revisionist manner. Very disappointing, considering the history of this party, that was split from the Communist Party of Finland because the latter was “anti-Stalinist” and anti-Soviet.
Let’s hope that there is no military escalation, but if push comes to shove, I might try to emigrate to Vietnam since I still have citizenship (thanks mom!) there even though I am born and raised in Finland.
You are part vietnamese? BASED! Wait, isnt there in Finland a based communist party tho? The one formed in 1994, which was the prosoviet faction of the original one that became revisionist eurocommunist and antisoviet. Ive heard there is one tho its very weak. Indeed, european “left” are total traitors, they support war with Russia now. I hope there is no escalation over there but there very well may be. Stay safe Comrade!