that actually is the point. You said they could have used the US as an ally and I am saying that probably doesn't happen because of that vocal half that supported slavery.
Toussaint was having success. You know what you don’t do when you are trying to court a slave owning white supremacist society. Massacre all the white people.
Dessalines actually sent Thomas Jefferson a letter in real life “yo bro what’s good, wanna be economic partners. I let my former master wash my dishes and clip my toe nails”
unless I am missing something, you said the bourgeoisie are usually the rational actors, and I responded that the west is governed by the bourgeoisie who have shown not to be the most rational actors throughout history.
I’m talking about economic and social stability. It’s unarguable that you need a strong bourgeois class. Didn’t Marx say revolution would come from the middle class and the peasants were virtually useless?
yeah, fukk Henry Kissenger, bro.
That’s how it works. Look at India and the Ukraine conflict. India could take the moral position and not buy Russian oil, but they took advantage. You’ll never see the U.S. come at them sideways either. If you are a smaller weak country like Vietnam, you play all sides.
which the US is indifferent about and Israel does not want.
indifferent for now. Biden’s generation doesn’t have long left. There is going to be a massive shift soon.
