This is more or less the standard playbook for controlling Latin American and African countries, like Ecuador and Ethiopia or even Mexico. Haiti suffers more of this mostly due to its unique situation as both a Caribbean and “African” nation, providing easier justification for intervention (racism) while being right next to Florida.

Some preconceptions borne from this structure might be applied to unaligned Venezuela and Bolivia. Narcotraficking is just another instance of the international division of labour in imperialism.

I’m finding these editorials to contain a good amount of modern applied ML theory in English, which is usually very lacking, so I took the time to transcribe it here for ease of access.

I mean, Marx came from Germany so…

But I think it has to do with how both Germany and Italy were heavily industrialized while also not having as many colonies like Spain, Britain or France.

But Germany actually got a socialist government in the east after the war, so their western counterparts by necessity had to be social democrats. The Communist Party of Italy on the other hand went on existing for most of the 20th century, supported by the Comintern.

In all of Western Europe the last century, I think Italy and maybe (Northern) Ireland had the most consistent revolutionary potential until Eurocommunism doomed the peninsula.

I agree with most points but I don’t think allowing a West Ukrainian rump state to still join the EU and NATO is a palatable settlement for Russia. If this state was left to its own devices it’d just be waiting for a second war.

I think the best-case scenario for Russia would be to negotiate a joint appointed government for the western half for a few years before allowing elections. That’d take a total victory to be able to demand, so a more likely middle ground is a permanent ceasefire that would provide justification to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO with the “can’t join while at war” article.

I think it’d take a major colapse European Union core states for Russia to ever be able to demilitarise that border safely.