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[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What? In what way were Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, and North Korea true adherents of the non-aligned movement and not merely doing so for realpolitik reasons? All four of those countries were staunch supporters of the USSR and major diplomatic allies, trade partners, and in ideological cohorts with the Soviet Union.

Cuba sent hundreds of thousands of troops alongside the Soviets to fight the South Africans invading Angola.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] cenarius@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Predumably they are non-non-aligned

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Not enough negatives, I prefer non-non-non-non-aligned.

But in all seriousness, I don't even know what the non-aligned movement is, what OP's sources are on why China specifically is not part of it, or what this has to do with today's geopolitics.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago

What even is the Non-Aligned Movement since the Second World fell to the First World in 1991? Does it have any teeth today? Is it salvageable, or should it disband?

[–] reallybigShell@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've always wondered how Cuba was a part of N-AM in the 60s-80s when the country was aligned with Soviet Union?

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago

Because the non-aligned movement was largely lip service and Cuba was seeking any and all allies against the United States. Ideologically and diplomatically Cuba was staunchly in the Soviets corner.