I saw some meme of him talking online about being against Israel and people calling him anti-semitic, I looked him up and Google tells me he is universally recognized as one of the most brutal modern dictators as leader of Uganda in the 70s. Immediately I thought oh this dude may be based, but on Wikipedia it mentions he gained power through a coup and was initially pro-west. It continues by saying after that he drifted away from them and was backed by totally evil “regimes” like the Soviet Union and East Germany. And that he was like shunned by the UK for declaring himself “CBE”, conqueror of the British Empire. He was a Pan africanist as well, which leads me to seriously wonder if he was all that bad. Was this dude just a useful ally to the Soviets or was he a serious anti-colonial fighter?
Yeah I also thought he was legit brutal dictator but when I saw that he was allies with Lybia, USSR, hated west etc, I had a second thought.
Idk personally
I read that he only temporarily allied with the USSR and anti-imperialism to suit his own interests, and that after changing face multiple times, he turned leftward again after realizing he had been used by Britain.