That would explain why his best films are based on books

don’t believe there have been many properly successful socialist nations outside of Europe

???

Yeah, but it’s a specific form of chauvinism

Is there a term for this kind of “our brave soldiers, their barbaric hordes” terminology? Because I’m increasingly feeling like most liberal politics can be boiled down to it

It’s a feud that has been going on forever and nobody is going to solve it or take responsibility for their actions.

You would have said the same thing about the Holocaust while it was happening.

supporting Israel and not the side that has religious fundies bent on control

That IS Israel