Holy <deleted>. You have become a Mosleyite. But you live in Thailand, spouting off, defending Mother Russia at every opportunity. As a Trotskyist, you believed in Irish freedom, supported the 'RA. Now you support the Planter in Ireland. What an extraordinary journey. A man who calls himself a Trotskyist ends his post with "Britain First!" At some point, Leon Trotsky must have fallen off his chair. For all the talk of internationalism, solidarity and the common interests of workers across borders, your argument boils down to a remarkably simple principle: "I don't care what happens to other countries as long as I can live out my retirement in comfort." That isn't Trotskyism. It isn't even socialism. It is isolationist nationalism dressed up as realism. You tell the Baltics that it is wiser to "live with psychopathic neighbours" than provoke them. They did. For fifty years. They were occupied, absorbed into the Soviet Union, subjected to deportations, censorship and political repression. Having survived that experience, they are perhaps entitled to be a little sceptical when told by comfortable observers thousands of miles away that they should simply relax and trust Moscow. Your Churchill argument is even stranger. Churchill and Roosevelt abandoned half of Europe to Stalin, therefore what? Therefore Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should accept being part of somebody else's sphere of influence today? That is not a justification. It is precisely the historical warning they are determined never to repeat. And then we arrive at the Russian-speaker argument. Funny how concern for national minorities only seems to appear when it can be used to justify Russian geopolitical claims. The Kremlin has spent decades weaponising the language of "protecting Russian speakers" as a pretext for interference in neighbouring states. The Baltics know this because they have spent thirty years living next door to it. But the most revealing line is the last one. "Britain First." There it is. The mask slips. Not "Workers of the world unite." Not international solidarity. Not anti-imperialism. Not socialism. "Britain First." You have travelled so far to the political right that you have ended up echoing sentiments far closer to Oswald Mosley than Leon Trotsky. The irony is almost beautiful. MAGA extremists do the same, hence MAGA Commies enthusiastically endorsing effective nationalisation of American industry (the Federal government buying shares in tech companies like Intel). The truth is that small nations have every reason to care about the ambitions of large powers because history teaches them the consequences of getting it wrong. Britain, meanwhile, did not become secure by pretending threats elsewhere were none of its business. Every generation that believed it could ignore events beyond its shores eventually discovered that geography is not a force field. So spare us the lectures about realism. What you are advocating is not realism. It is complacency. It is the comforting belief that freedom, security and stability can be preserved indefinitely simply by looking the other way. History has not been kind to people who believed that before, and it is unlikely to be kinder to those who believe it now.
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