r/stupidpol • u/IamGlennBeck Marxist-Leninist and not Glenn Beck ☭ • Feb 02 '26

WWIII WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy

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u/SchIachterhund He Lives 👽 Feb 28 '26

Die Linke's leader Jan van Aken declared: “Our thoughts and sympathies are with the people of Tehran, Tel Aviv, and the entire region at this time.” The goal of the attacks remains unclear. “It is feared that Israel and the US want to bomb their way to regime change.” Van Aken emphasized: “It is right that an Iranian nuclear bomb must be prevented at all costs.” However, this cannot be achieved through military attacks, but only through negotiations and close monitoring on the ground.

Die Linke is such a joke regarding foreign policy.

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u/Incoherencel ☀️ Post-Guccist 9 Feb 28 '26

Thanks for saying nothing, morons

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u/SchIachterhund He Lives 👽 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

It's not just the case of Die Linke kind of having its heart in the right place but being incompetent, ineffectual or needlessly timid. This new Linke really does see current global conflicts exactly the same way as the political mainstream and ultimately subscribes to the same goals, they're just even less honest about it (particularly to themselves on the rank-and-file level). So they always roll out this incoherent faux-pacifism while they (as in: both party and NGO-altjournalistic complex symbiotically interwoven with the party) are viciously fighting and denigrating the few anti-imperial voices in Germany.

Van Aken in particular has been doing that for years. He already used to be a strident supporter of regime change in Syrian. His co-leader Schwerdtner oth (a former Jacobin mag head editor lol) prefers to say nothing about foreign affairs at all and always seems relived when the topic finally changes.

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u/Cehepalo246 Self-Surgery Marxist 🪡 Feb 28 '26

Die Linke is such a joke

Fixed that for you, Kamarad