Groucho Marxism
Questions and answers on socialism, Marxism, and related topics
Category: Geopolitics
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It has been less than three weeks since the US and Israel effectively declared war on Iran but already thousands have been killed and no less than 14 countries have been bombed, including Israel itself. How long the war will continue is not clear. What is clear is that the US and Israel have massively…
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US and Israeli missiles are currently raining down on Iran. Neither Donald Trump nor Benjamin Netenyahu are motivated by ending the suffering of the Iranian people, despite what they might claim. Instead, both are motivated by distracting the citizens of their respective nations from their growing disaffection. Reports are emerging that the US is attempting…
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The rules-based international order is a post-WWII framework of laws, institutions (United Nations, World Trade Organisation, and International Monetary Fund), and norms supposedly designed to govern state behaviour, promote liberal democracy, and foster economic cooperation. In a recent speech, the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney argued that this decades-long arrangement is coming to an end.…
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Anti-government protests have been going on in Iran for the past two weeks. The protests were sparked by rampant inflation and the collapse of the Iranian currency, but have since spread across the country and morphed into more general protests against the Iranian regime, with people in more than 100 cities participating in the demonstrations.…
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Two days ago, president Nicolas Maduro was kidnapped by US forces during a military strike on Venezuela, in a major international development. In a previous blog post I said that the US is clearly is aiming at regime change in Venezuela, and this has been now been proven correct. Not that I am claiming any…
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The UK and other European nations are currently being urged to prepare for potential conflict with Russia. In a recent speech, NATO chief Mark Rutte said that Russia could attack a NATO country in the next five years. According to Rutte, “Russia is already escalating its covert campaign against our societies,” and we “must be…
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The US has recently launched a military build up in the Caribbean, the likes of which has not been seen in the region for decades. Just last week, a Venezuelan oil tanker was seized by the US in an act of imperial piracy. It is pretty clear that the US is after Venezuela’s oil reserves:…
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Since April 2023 there has been an active civil war in Sudan between two rival factions of the country’s military government: the internationally recognized government controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan; and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Hemedti, who leads the broader Janjaweed coalition.…
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On September 29, US president Donald Trump announced a plan to address the ongoing Gaza genocide in a press conference at the White House alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan calls for an immediate ceasefire, return of hostages, demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, deployment of an international stabilization force, transitional governance by Palestinian…
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There have been several rounds of peace talks to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine since it began in February 2022, but obviously none have been successful. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin outlined five terms for a ceasefire and negotiations in June 2024: 1) recognition of all occupied land as Russian, 2) Russia to be given…
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Since Israel began its genocide of Gaza nearly two years ago there has been a massive outpouring of grief and support for the Palestinian people from the general public here in the UK and across the world. Although this has been heartening to see, it is also concerning that a large section of the public…
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Like most people, I have been horrified by the events that have unfolded in Gaza over the past two years. What has made these events so much more difficult to watch is the knowledge that they are not the result of some unavoidable natural disaster but instead are being perpetrated deliberately by a regime that…
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