Latin America's mixed message about Russia's war in Ukraine is deplorable, and it will hurt the regi

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Full Title: Latin America’s mixed message about Russia’s war in Ukraine is deplorable, and it will hurt the region

Latin America’s biggest democracies are making a huge mistake in failing to denounce, without ambiguity, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and in not imposing even symbolic sanctions on dictator Vladimir Putin. They not only are on the wrong side of history, they’re also on the wrong side of their own economic interests. The leaders of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina have refused to join the democratic world’s economic sanctions against Putin; they have not suspended military, cultural and sports agreements with Russia to protest its unjustified invasion of Ukraine. In some cases, they are even allowing groups within their own ruling parties to support Russia publicly.

Full article: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/latin-america/article259794770.html

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

On March 23, about half a dozen legislators from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s leftist Morena party, alongside congressmen from other parties, created a “Mexico-Russia Friendship Committee” at the Mexican Congress.

Russian ambassador Viktor Koronelli was the honored guest at the ceremony, where he praised López Obrador’s self-proclaimed neutrality on the conflict. Koronelli celebrated that, “Mexico will never join anti-Russian sanctions,” and that “across the world, there are countries like China, like India, like Mexico, that will never say “Yes, Sir” to Uncle Sam’s orders.”

That same day, López Obrador said in his daily press briefing, that, “Our posture is neutrality.”

It’s pathetic that Latin America’s Jurassic left claims to be “anti-imperialist” and a champion of “national sovereignty,” while at the same time siding with or ignoring Russia’s full-scale military invasion of a sovereign country whose president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was freely and fairly elected with 73% of the vote.

At the inaugural ceremony of the Mexico-Russia Friendship Committee, the Russian ambassador got the privilege of a podium to spread Russia’s blatant lies.

[Cheezoholic]

2. Why the fuck would they say "Yes Sir"

to Uncle Sam as much as we've used, abused and meddled in their countries for untold decades. In some ways we have been no different than Russia/Soviets when dealing with their neighboring states with our neighbors in our hemisphere. The flat out imperialistic exploitation of our neighbors (sans Canada for the most part) is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, dumb fuck policy moves this country has ever enacted. If we threw half the cash and support and extended 2 fingers of a hand of the full shake at our neighbors to the south as we do in the middle east the prosperity of everyone in this hemisphere, including us, would increase 10 fold. This is one of the areas we really need to clean up our act if we want to be considered truly a leader of the free world.

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4. Because it would move it from

the personal to the principled.

From it being about the oppressor to being about the oppressed, even when it's not the oppressed who's being asked to do the talking.

From it being about the 1920s and being about the 2020s.

[Scrivener7]

3. Seems like plenty of USA citizens are doing the same. While we have tfg and his minions

paying tepid and obviously insincere lip service to support for Ukraine while extolling Vlad's genius, we can't complain all that much.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Same with much of Africa.

Due to colonialism, most Africans side with Russia because it’s the opposite of what Western Europe wants.