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Lol they still haven't learned that sanctioning these massive countries just backfires
It doesn't though. Raising costs by forcing a country to dodge sanctions is very effective. A supply will never entirely dry up, but it will shrink and become more expensive, and that's enough.
So far sanctioning Russia and China has mainly just sped up the Global South's economic integration and China's becoming self-sufficient. I can see this happening with Iran too since its economy is already somewhat Global South-oriented.
Though of course, sanctioning less developed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, and Afganistan does successfully greatly harm their working-class population, and it has.
Nobody ever said it did; you're just trying to use the fact that they know what they're talking about to discredit them.
Lol, this is just being deliberately obtuse. Next you're going to be arguing that Australia isn't part of the West
Ok, now you're just straight up denying history
Yeah that's a temp ban for holocaust trivialization if I ever saw one (the person you're replying to)
Lmfao the USSR directly funded and supported emancipatory movements all over the world, like Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, Bangladesh, Palestinian resistance organizations like the PFLP, etc; even directly supplied wars against "israel" for that last one. Afganistan is about the only one where the US and USSR funding opposite sides turned it into a warzone instead.
Russia's interests are still broadly aligned with most of the world against Imperial core countries. While they're not socialist anymore and have thus stopped funding Vietnam, PFLP etc because it's not profitable for the capitalists that are now in power since the USSR's overthrow, they continue to support the sovereignty of Global South countries like Syria, Venezuela, etc, and are a core part of BRICS. There's a reason sentiment like this is common in third world countries.
And if "Global South" sounds too academic for you... I'm not sure what to say.
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Russia's economic integration has undoubtedly been with the Global South in recent years. What, exactly, are you disputing from OP's comment?