• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPEnglish
    41·
    4 months ago

    European left shat the bed by aligning with warmongering libs. This left the right as the only parties to have a consistent anti-war position from the start. Now the right is massively capitalizing on the public opinion souring on the war.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPEnglish
        25·
        4 months ago

        I recall libs ridiculing me when I predicted this would happen, but yeah anybody with a clue knew this was inevitable.

    • grandepequeno [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      More of a german/french phenomenon than broadly european (though maybe france and germany are the only countries that really matter honestly), in most EU countries the further right wing parties are also pro-war, and here in portugal where the communist party has been consistently anti-war, moreso than dem soc Left Block, including opposing arms shipments to ukraine even, we just get consistently attacked and mischaracterized in the media and I can’t say we’ve made electoral gains from taking a principled anti-nato position, maybe we will in the long run but not yet, it has definitely cost us votes.

      Public opinion on the war hasn’t soured that much here (fucking portuguese provincialism wanting to be “close to europe”), and even where it has a lot of people are still unwilling to go along with us when we call for something like a political solution.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        I think the fact that France and Germany play such a dominant role in Europe is precisely why this is such a big problem.

    • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      The european left has shat the bed decades ago when they turned from social democrats to neoliberal ghouls. Nobody actually cares about the Ukraine.