What's the go with Cornel West in the US presidential election?

Deceptichum@kbin.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 8 points –

From my outside perspective, he seems like an amazing candidate with actual left-wing policies and ideas, yet I've never heard a single American mention his name?

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On Russia's invasion of Ukraine, West said it's "a criminal invasion, provoked by the expansion of NATO"

Fuck off, it's provoked entirely by Putin being a shithead. The invasion proves the worth of NATO. Coincidentally , NATO is something West wants to get rid of.

His other positions are fine, but I'd prefer a president who's not gargling Putin's balls.

He’s also said:

West has also described Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a "crime against humanity."

"Russia has its own deep authoritarian and neofascist elites who are in control and concerned about the Russian empire being gloriously based on its past, Ukraine being a part of it, and Ukraine not existing," he told U.S. magazine Jacobin in November 2022.

"This is the typical colonizing language that you get going back to the early moments of the age of Europe—the people are not there, the land is ours, etc."

Leftists are anti-NATO that doesn’t mean they go and support another imperialist power (Tankies excluded, but they’re tankies so fuck em).

Blaming NATO for what Ukraine is going through is copying Russian propaganda. It is absolutely an example of "gargling Putin's balls" at this point.