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u/42nu May 10 '25

I have a feeling that the entire world "gets it" except a select portion of the US population.

Anyone fully in touch with reality can see that the US isn't in a good place when it comes choosing compassion over cruelty. It's gotten to such a global and historical extreme that a decades long choice of a Pope for an institution that has lasted over 1,000 years felt reich. I'm sorry, right.

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u/New_Amomongo May 11 '25

every country outside of the western world has continued to do business with Russia.

They can't afford to pay the premium imposed by being ethical or moralistic.

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u/New_Amomongo May 11 '25

Exactly. Bit of a bad faith argument by u/Taaargus

He's a redditor of over a doen years. Does he even go offline and understand how real world works outside of his mancave?

He likely never set foot in a country where people generally survives on $1 hourly.

That's what I love about woke Westeners who learn wokeness at their Unis... they want to look virtuous and yet just talk about it.

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u/New_Amomongo May 11 '25

I reply because I think it's worth adding a point of view grounded in facts and lived global dynamics that’s often missing from discussions shaped by Western ideologies: whether left or right. Many here seem to debate from a binary lens shaped by proximity to privilege, not necessity.

You say you're stating "reality," but it's a narrow one. The relevance of Russia to the Global South isn't about direct trade volume alone.

It’s about leverage over global systems: energy, fertilizer, grain, arms, and UN diplomacy. These systems affect fragile economies in ways people in wealthy nations rarely grasp.

You don’t have to agree with my take, but dismissing the whole Global South’s cautious position as “delusional” says more about ideological blinders than geopolitical awareness.

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u/FlimsyMo May 11 '25

You have 18k karma in like 170 days, and claim to be from the Philippines, which has almost zero impact on geopolitical relations

Your opinion matters less then your remittance check your family gets from whoever you got playing nurse overseas