Full BBC Hardtalk Interview between Stephen Sackur and EFF Leader Julius Malema. In the Interview Malema says Russia is an ally of South Africa and that Russ...

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I don’t know if sending weapons to Russia is the best use. Russia has arms factories, they’re doing fine. Meanwhile Palestine could use the weapons.

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I think Malema was talking more in principle rather than in terms of practical need

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Yep. The idea that Russia needs others to give them weapons is somewhat silly. Russia is a major arms exporter, they are the ones who give others weapons. The only reason i could see for other countries to send weapons to Russia is as a symbolic gesture to show the West that “what’s good for the goose is also good for the gander”, i.e. if the West is allowed to send weapons to Ukraine then they don’t get to tell anyone else not to send weapons to Russia. It would be a big middle finger but it wouldn’t really affect the war itself.

Arming the Palestinians (and doing so in a pragmatic, non-ultra, non-moralizing way, meaning not shying away from supporting certain Palestinian liberation groups just because you don’t like their ideology or their positions on certain social issues) would be much more impactful and much more radical of a step.

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not shying away from supporting certain Palestinian liberation groups just because you don’t like their ideology or their positions on certain social issues

Could you elaborate on this part, please?

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Possibly referring to Iran not supporting non-Islamic Palestinian liberation fighters?

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Yes, but also vice versa, secular Westerners being squeamish about supporting Islamic liberation groups like Hamas.

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We don’t need weapons. We need socialism

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We ain’t gonna get there by singing kumbaya

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True, though to speak to what comrade Shrike502 was saying, Russia is a lot more lacking in the socialism department than the arms department (as in, they don’t seem to have much of a problem at all when it comes to arms production).

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I think Malema was talking more in principle rather than in terms of practical need

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We ain’t gonna get there by pouring weapons into bloated capitalist system either

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That “bloated capitalist system” is making a mockery of NATO, they must succeed in this war

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Kumbaya is a Gullah Geechee phrase that means “Come by here”, a plea for their God to intercede in their oppressed condition. It is not, as many have been taught, a song of togetherness and peace but rather an explicit acknowledgement of ongoing conflict. White people singing kumbaya in times of peace and prosperity to express togetherness and fraternity is, to say the least, a complete disarming of the meaning.

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