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2026-05-27 18:52 UTC

Trump has not tried his hardest to erase sanctions, end the war in Ukraine, etc. If he wanted, he could do so right now. Trump has no reason to be a Russian ally. As for the petite bourgeoisie, they aren’t necessarily working class, though they do labor. The national bourgeoisie aren’t the same as the petite bourgeoisie. As for nationalism in the global south, this is also internationalist. I recommend looking into Marxist analysis of the nation and nationalism, again, Cuban, Palestinian, Vietnamese, Chinese, etc. nationalism is all progressive against imperialism in their wars for liberation. Once liberated, then the process of building socialism can genuinely begin (as it has in the socialist countries mentioned).

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@icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world 2026-05-27 19:19

Trump definitely has worked towards removing sanctions from Russia, and has several times promoted Russian ‘peace deals’ which would gift them chunks of Ukraine (an imperialist aim of Russia’s). He can’t do literally anything he wants, which is why this hasn’t happened. His reasons for being a Russian ally go back decades to his longstanding business interests, which have been entwined with Russia for decades. Also, my experience of nationalism in the global south suggests otherwise. Take Latin America, for example: nationalist movements may have been instrumental in developing support for independence from Spain, but actual independence from Spain was won by transnational movements not limited to any one state or ethnic identify. Moreover, the modern day nationalists in each state are basically racist movements which do nothing but undermine working class solidarity (Chilean nationalists, for example, are known to carry out acts of violence against anyone whose skin is dark enough that they might conceivably be Peruvian or Bolivian, despite the fact that this includes many Chileans with indigenous ancestry).

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