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Western media are slowly admitting that shills, propagandists, and putinbots were right all along. (www.bbc.com)
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[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I expect there's going to be a huge backlash against the US as the economic situation continues to unravel in Europe.

Yes, though nearly all this backlash seems to becoming from the far right as the “left” in Europe is 110% on board with supporting Ukraine. So we could see anti-US sentiment take off (good) but from the right (bad).

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Witch mean that the liberal "left" will have to make a choice: either changing their stance away from pro-US or doubling down, but if the anti-US sentiment start growing from the right, the liberal "left", by contrarian bias, might coose to double down, witch would be it's undoing.

While the fall of the liberal "left" in europe might be an opportunity as desilusioned liberals are typically a fertile ground for the communist ideology, it will be a short lived and risky one, as from there, the only thing that might stop the rise of the far right would be the apperance of a widespread true leftist movement soon enought that the right doesn't completely take over the political landscape among common folks.

If we fail to create such an able leftist movement, europe might see a secound taking over by fascists.