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PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton’s “idea mill” aka think tank. Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here. They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.
it’s safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economics and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It’s basically a Neera Tanden farm.
The creator of r/neoliberal, Colin Mortimer, is the Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI, which seeks to “develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism.”
Could those fucking nerds seethe harder?
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Rich, liberal countries are indeed morally superior and I’m tired of pretending they’re not.
“Developing world” implies that all countries have the same teleological destiny. All nations should strive to be free and prosperous nations and I’m tired of pretending there’s a culturally acceptable deviation from democracy.
This is just a poor argument for a couple reasons. First most of the wars in the “Global South” are internal conflicts driven by ethnic and sectarian tensions which limits what the West can do and this is also compounded by the fact that most of the conflicts are between extremist groups fighting corrupt governments meaning that there really is nothing the west can do to help other than offer humanitarian aid. But the thing that is most shorted sighted about these countries supporting Russia is that Russia and Putin long for the days of great power politics, Putin wants to return to a 19th and early 20th century world of imperial ambitions, spheres of influence, vassal states and great game power plays. The irony is the countries that support Russia would end up like Ukraine in Russia dream world order.
Okay buddy, let’s just ignore things like the IMF and the World Bank. Definitely no imperialism going on from Western countries. That ended in 1959.
I love this article it’s so mask off and radicalizing.
They correctly identify the situation: It’s only the West that hates Russia (Anglo nations/EU/Japan). The rest of the world supports Russia or is indifferent, and just wants this sanctions war to end so they can afford to live.
But the conclusion they draw from that is insane: we were too compassionate and anti-colonialist before. We need to rid ourselves of any empathy for the global poor and push to steal more from them than ever before. Doing otherwise and going easy on them is “soft racism”. It’s actually the anti-colonialists who are the real racists. Let them all starve for supporting Putin!
Instead of questioning themselves and doing introspection to why they are on the opposing side as the global poor and colonized, they instead double down. Do we lift the sanctions, allow our Ukrainian proxy to surrender & help alleviate the global food crisis urgently? No. We sanction those ungrateful little nations for being disobedient, we let those Putinists starve & we fight to the last Ukrainian. Their egos are going to get us all killed, they are starting to see how crazy this is but they can’t back down now
Liberals will never come out and say “Only good white Europeans are capable of building civilization and that is why we must rule the world,” but that’s the hole in the middle of everything they’re willing to express out loud.
They’ve always pretty much said this. Throughout history, “liberals” have been some of the most unrepentant imperialists in the name of “saving” people from their inferior superstitions with the light of Enlightenment values.
Depends on the lib in question, I suppose. I’ve known a lot (usually the type to loudly complain about “tankies”) who will talk about how bad it is that there are still colonialist themes in western entertainment and then, in the next breath, proclaim that Western hegemony must be maintained to oppose evil China and Russia.
