his guy has no more ideological commitment to Palestinian liberation than Western leaders are ideologically committed to Zionism.
I don't think that's the case. "Anti-colonialism" is a hobby horse that 3rd world dictators have been banging on since the West left them to their own devices. It's code for anti-west of course, but the hatred is no less ideological than BLM's hatred of whites. South Africa in particular has been buddy buddy with every anti-Western regime since the blacks took over, since those regimes backed the ANC to fuck with the West. Let's just be glad the white government gave up its nukes before before this crowd took over.
This is why I made the distinction between someone like Ramaphosa and his power-base. Yes, third-world dictators always use anti-white rhetoric and anti-colonialist rhetoric to shore up support for their autocracies, and it works because their native support base is certainly ideologically committed to those ideas. But the ANC, even back in the Apartheid days, were taking money from the (white) Soviets to fund their terrorism, just like they take money now from the (white) Russians. It's not about ideology for a leadership that has been in power this long. They're much too cynical for that.
I don't think that's the case. "Anti-colonialism" is a hobby horse that 3rd world dictators have been banging on since the West left them to their own devices. It's code for anti-west of course, but the hatred is no less ideological than BLM's hatred of whites. South Africa in particular has been buddy buddy with every anti-Western regime since the blacks took over, since those regimes backed the ANC to fuck with the West. Let's just be glad the white government gave up its nukes before before this crowd took over.
This is why I made the distinction between someone like Ramaphosa and his power-base. Yes, third-world dictators always use anti-white rhetoric and anti-colonialist rhetoric to shore up support for their autocracies, and it works because their native support base is certainly ideologically committed to those ideas. But the ANC, even back in the Apartheid days, were taking money from the (white) Soviets to fund their terrorism, just like they take money now from the (white) Russians. It's not about ideology for a leadership that has been in power this long. They're much too cynical for that.