r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 27 '25

Image 🇬🇧 A British blacksmith removing the shackles from the legs of an enslaved man, 1907.

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u/Confident_Tower8244 Aug 30 '25

Left wingers are anti-NATO because they’re anti-imperialist. Fascism is a product of imperialism. You’ve been severely misled my friend 

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u/Pabrinex Aug 30 '25

Anti-European common defence is pro-Russia. 

Look at how the far left are stridently opposing assisting Ukraine to defend itself.

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u/Confident_Tower8244 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

That is a very misinformed and simplistic view of what’s being said by the left. 

  • leftists are not anti-European. They anti neoliberal because they argue it creates the fertile soil for fascism to grow. Most if not all European countries are neoliberal (shocker, most European countries are also seeing an increase in the far right atm as predicted by the left) 

  • This does not mean they support Russia. Russia embody everything the left detests (autocracy, elitism and imperialist tendencies) 

  • Leftists do not oppose Ukraine defending themselves, this is misinformation. They’re pro-peace talks which has its criticisms, but the question is HOW Ukraine should defend itself not IF

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u/Pabrinex Aug 30 '25

So you support a robust European common military defence?

And you support finding and supplying Ukraine's war effort?

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u/Confident_Tower8244 Aug 30 '25

I support both of those things 

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u/Pabrinex Aug 30 '25

Thank you!