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As the world is finally preparing to defend itself against the inevitable Western aggressions, as the people of Asia, Russia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East are discovering their own voices silenced for centuries by colonialist barbarity, as it is while the governments of these countries are making such discussion platforms possible, the Western left is howling at the moon, beating its chest in self-righteous narcissist gestures, and essentially insulting those who are fighting, standing tall, building much better world and yes - governing!
In several countries of South America, the left has recently been defeated precisely because it was too influenced 'ideologically' (or more precisely, 'anti-ideologically') by those weak, obsolete and overcautious Western pseudo-revolutionaries. Latin Americans should not and hopefully will not, make similar mistakes in the future.
No revolutionary country can aim at perfection, yet. Revolution is not a bed of roses, said Fidel. Defending one's country against brutal foreign invasions is not always a pretty business: it is thoroughly messy and bloody stuff.
The weak and soft-skinned Western left can demand from non-Western revolutionary governments both 'purity' and a 'silk-gloved-approach', simply because it has no idea (or it doesn't care) what it is like to govern in countries consisting of millions of men, women and children who have been forced to live in absolute sh*t, after being robbed of everything by European and North American slave drivers. One simple mistake which those governments make, one sign of weakness, and their countries will go up in smoke, end up in ruins, in oblivion: like Iraq, like Afghanistan, like Yeltsin's Russia, or like China during the "century of humiliation".
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The 'over-sensitivity' of the Western left is actually only a faà �ade, it is not real.
Just as an example, the editors of the above-mentioned magazine, which has so unceremoniously stopped publishing my work, never showed any interest in my well-being or safety. I think if I would have dropped dead in one of the war zones I have covered, they'd hardly notice. Articles and essays signed by me would simply stop coming. Everyone is, after all, replaceable. To offer any support would be below their dignity. But to ask, regularly, for the reader's financial support, never has been.
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