I really don't get why people would prefer the world die rather than act less than ideally, erring on the side of erroneous caution in the nuclear age

I also don't get the postulations that state that the final victory of the US camp is all but assured if the Middle East or China or Russia fall

I absolutely don't want that to happen,but I don't buy the assumption that it would permanently solve the contradictions within capitalism or end any hope of a better world

It would set humanity back millenia,sure,but a nuclear war would reset all of human history as well as make the planet fully near unlivable, something even worse than if the worst climate change predictions come true

Is this leftist nihilism? I honestly don't get why people are becoming posadists all of a sudden

Well,the world economy is about to die,so sadly no one is safe

The Finns copped one "W" in the Second World War by not having the country be annexed and they're never letting it go

Mearsheimer has been banging this drum ever since the Crimean annexation

Bull in a china shop market

Sure,but Lenin didn't ship oil to the Americans while fighting the whites

Nor did he proceed to win and let the powers of the time run amok in Russia,that came later

I get your point,but is it crazy to say that they could've done more? What exactly is worth preserving in a leftist formation if for most of its existence it served as a helper to the US and Israel? Will the Kurds be any freer now? Will having the people who made multiple deals with multiple archduke's of hell to survive in charge be considered an acceptable price for completely selling out?

I find it strange they are so open to collaborating with the Turkish puppet government

And when you keep their track record in mind,it certainly doesn't paint them in a favourable light

I'm not saying they should begin an all out assault,but such ready cooperation really doesn't seem like a good or particularly smart thing to do

Millie needy baby

I fucking hate the Austrians

Not enough that they cut down our forests and refuse us entry into Schengen,no,they have to go full Schicklgruber and call for this shit

The fucking Ottomans should have taken Vienna

I remember seeing something about how in Mexico,the white americanized city people act like tourists in their own country when visiting the less developed areas

This is exactly how the diaspora here act,they come here on vacation because we have the lowest prices in EU (for them,for us it's eyewateringly expensive),they drive their fancy BMWs, disregard traffic laws and then go on to say that it's still a backwards country and that everything here is shit and then come autumn they scurry back to Germania to work in some multinational company or as you said small business

You're underestimating the teutonic particles abounding in the brains of the descendants of Vienas Trajkums the Jew-killer

Extinct like the dodo bird for now

Old people love to reminisce,but the sentiment doesn't translate to any meaningful political movement

The Social Democrats are kind of a cartel party, offering benefits for votes, backroom deals type of stuff Young people are eurobrained to the max if they're not apolitical anticommunists

The only "reform" party that sprung up after a massive corruption scandal in the Social Democratic party was a mish mash of various currents,some leftish sentiment,but the euroatlanticist libs came out on top and now the party barely exists as a political force

So to give my very limited and not at all authoritative analysis about how the current political climate is, I'd say business as usual since the 90's, the SocDem Liberal coalition that's in power now we jokingly call the reunified National Salvation Front,since both parties are splinters from it,one "left" and one "right", the reformists (Save Romania Union) are a spent force and now any reform minded youth goes for independents as far as I know

Still,the youth don't really have any actual goals in mind, mostly wanting to toss the old guard out so we can be like the "proper Europeans" in the West, all anti-corruption,but pro-EU and pro-NATO

The Socialist party just barely exists and consists of two old guys who love Ceausescu

People like me are like the needle in the haystack for now

We aren't in any significant crisis that I know of(but maybe that's me being sheltered) so nothing to create radicalism

I'd say we're in some sort of very small and incremental improvement due to NATO pumping funds into our infrastructure and the war in Ukraine being an economic boon for now, with them having to use our ports to transport grains and such after the sea corridor thing went bust

The average Romanian isn't impacted by the war,unless they live in a border region like yours truly so it's out of sight out of mind for most people

Oh,and we had our own Far Right party rising up after 2020, but the people leading it were incompetent and now are stagnating at 15% or something like that for a while

And they splintered too,the mainstream one is pro NATO anti Eu and there's also a smaller one that broke away that's pro-Russia,but they're not really a significant political force

So I guess that's another sad thing,you z post in here, people will think you're a right wing crank

Still, Romanians aren't too happy with Ukraine either, mainly due to a minority rights issue concerning the "Moldovan" identity which is a big sticking point for Romanians seeing as they think the Romanians and Moldovans are one and the same and that the usage of that term is a holdover from the USSR and it has to do with Russian imperialism

Ukraine also has regions which were part of Romania so that's another sticking point for the nationalists

Sorry for the tangent

So,to finish it off,I'd say the left is kind of dead for now, barring some old farts who reminisce about Ceausescu and westoid type Anarcho-NATOists in the youth if they have any vaguely leftist sentiment

I haven't read enough theory to properly say where I fall specifically on the ideological spectrum,but I'd say I'm in the ML ballpark

People like me are probably very few and far between, especially if you wanna look for socially progressive ML's

LGBTQ people here have a very hard time and they're only now beginning to see some degree of acceptance in the biggest cities

I can't speak on the political sentiment in the LGBTQ community here,as I have not had the occasion to really interact with it,but the vibe I got was sadly pro-western and pro-NATO as is the case with most of the youth

Keep in mind I don't go out much,so this is what I gathered mostly from vibes, interaction with my friend group and reading the news,so it is in no way a comprehensive analysis