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Another day, another lefty Government elected in South America
BillieTheBot
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My adopted homeland last year of Ecuador looks like it's swinging that way...
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Not really sure where I stand on this. Though I doubt he will do much for the country. At least with Noboa, there would have been some business acumen at the helm which is what the country desperately needs. However, now all we will see is a pathetically defiant lefty two-fingers up to the US attitude that will gain support from the people only for as long as they can cover up how much it's going to fuck the economy. When will they learn?
Clicko
Not really sure where I stand on this. Though I doubt he will do much for the country. At least with Noboa, there would have been some business acumen at the helm which is what the country desperately needs. However, now all we will see is a pathetically defiant lefty two-fingers up to the US attitude that will gain support from the people only for as long as they can cover up how much it's going to fuck the economy. When will they learn?
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Some of the richest countries in the world have prospered under left wing govenrments.
What do we know for sure is that even if a country did well under a right wing government it will mean preciesely fuck all to the working class people, who will continue to be fucked over by the wealthy and the powerful, and who will not see a penny of the wealth created. At least they have a chance of seeing improvements under left wing governments.
we should all give whatever support we can to these governments even if it's only verbal.
Exactally.
The US isn't going to like losing its power over right wing government in South America.
Good luck to him, tbh. A left wing economy has the potential to be far more sucesful than any capitalist one does!
Salute all Italia, Ritorno a Camelot?
Pinning your colours to the wall?
I sincerely hope for the average Ecuadorian's sake that he doesn't do what his bestest buddy Chavez does and regularly tell the US to go screw itself. The country is no way as powerful as Venezuela and thus has little leverage when it comes to pissing off people like the US.
China are buying a lot of guinea pigs from Ecuador as both nations love to eat them. Aside from that, my Ecuador-China trade relations are poor. That said, I don't think, and nor does anyone else who matters, that China's growth is going to be at all sustainable. Russia is where it's at. Mother Russia will rise again.
China, however, has more favourable growth prospects.
And Russia has great prospects supplying thier armed forces, she has been making, litterally, billions from that the past fews years. Not jsut new technology - maintaining the already existing Russian technology over there.
Even the apparently indigenous J-10 fighter is based around Russian Tech - and China wants Russian Thrust Vectoring engines for it.
All good news for Mother Russia.
Good heavens! Washington DC must be studying ways to dettach US territory from the American continental mass and float it away from that Continent of Commies
Its quite thin near Panama, so enough explosive should do it :thumb:
A point so good I made it twice.
We have some Trident's going spare soon...
I'd be surprised if any intelligent person automatically accepted this 'victory.' Chavez after all has already shown himself to have no respect for democracy, his previous coup attempt does not inspire confidence - hence it's quite plausible that with the infrastructure of the state that power brings he's abused it. He's a demagogue, like Huey Long or Benito Mussolini.
There's an excellent article from The Spectator I'm sure you'll like...