The US government is the absolute arch enemy of anything actually socialist. To construct some weird ass reasoning, that any kind of foreign interference amplifies that very fringe aspect of US society is … man, I would argue that you‘ve got brain worms (but more likely a default western mind, which you yourself are the master of, if only you dared).

The US population is conditioned to reject anything labeled socialist since the Russian revolution in 1917, the very moment the proletariat brought the evidence, that the exploited class is able to govern itself. That radiated internationally, as evidenced by the establishment of communist parties in the following years all around the world.

The US elites, panicked a worker’s revolution could threaten their rule, and immediately joined forces to invade Soviet Russia to try and put an end to that (but failed). The US did not recognize Soviet Russia until 1933, in fear to legitimize the Bolsheviks.
The US immediately started its domestic red scare propaganda and repression of anything vaguely critical of the government, so mostly anarchists, communists and worker unions.
The US/CIA ever since has been the main actor to topple and squash any attempts of socialism (or otherwise unaligned rule) by force, going as far as to genocide the native population, see Korea, Vietnam, where it slaugthered millions. It‘s using military force, interference and coups until today.
The reason there even was a Cold War was, because the US capitalist class was scared that the communist idea would tale hold and thereby forced the war ridden and slaughtered Soviet people into an perpetual arms race so it wouldn‘t be abble to get crushed by the US war machine. Resources that would have been needed in other places.
US propaganda is the very reason, that nowadays a bunch of so-called socialists hold the conviction, that communism is somehow bad or evil, because it put a lot of energy into building that narrative.
The US produced the so-called Compatible Left to pacify the movement, so it wouldn‘t grow to become a danger for the ruling class. A philosophical poison throughout the western hemisphere.

No foreign actor needs to add a drop into the ocean that is US anti-communism, that‘s the definition of a wasted effort. The USA IS anti-communism by being the capitalist world hegemon. US-Americans fully support capitalism, because it‘s their domestic ideology, their only conceivable reality. Their country and their system has become the sole ruler of the world (or, has been as of lately) ever since the Soviet Union as a counterweight vanished. That‘s also a good chunk of the reasons why the world has been in constant crisis ever since. They really don‘t need Russia for any of that.

I’m absolute certain, that you have absolutely no fucking clue, what you are talking about. Would you be an LLM, we‘d conclude that you are hallucinating.

How it really works: I got bored, checked Lemmy, it’s been a while, saw some fun nonconfrontational turmoil and was more entertained by that and by the quality of the answers, than what late night YouTube had on offer. Until this post I didn‘t even realise that Ukraine did another terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure. I see no reason to celebrate this kind of stuff like it‘s done here by the users that think so highly of their own morals.

I come at you, because your takes are shit.

One point that could actually be a cause of confusion, so I ask you to please clarify: Do you count Russia and China towards „the northern countries“?

Those pesky global south countries perpetuating constant conflict. The world could be such a peaceful place, if only they wouldn‘t do what Russia and China want. Either way, can’t be that those backwards (brown and black) people could have any kind of self-efficacy. Surely the least racist take around.

The ones that aren‘t Russian bots, obviously.

Our principles are fairly straightforward: the world should not be run on money, should be rooted in solidarity, community, mutual help, equal rights and freedom, and social justice.

That’s not “Europe slowly moving off US software”. Projects like these exist to protect against European state repression, as they exist to protect against any state repression, period. I’d also bet, that their thinking wasn’t “we need a European alternative, so the USA can’t spy on us”. So yes, it’s great, there are other projects similar to this one in other countries, as well, but your take doesn’t make much sense.

Nice source you base your hate on.

From https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/about/:

The initial phase of this research project is supported by the US government’s State Department

From Wikipedia:

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is a defence and strategic policy think tank (…), founded by the Australian government, and funded by the Australian Department of Defence along with overseas governments, defence, and technology companies.

What are the overseas governments, defense and technology companies, you never wondered before?

ASPI receives funding from defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales Group and Raytheon Technologies. It also receives funding from technology companies such as Microsoft, Oracle Australia, Telstra, and Google.

Finally, it receives funding from foreign governments including Japan, Israel, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

They also have an office in Washington, D.C. In short, it’s a western nation-state and capital funded, crappy propaganda source.

Aaand you think, if you used the non-american version*, the evil Chinese version, to check out what people say about Xinjiang, you‘d end up being brainwashed by Chinese state propaganda? And you‘re so scared or prejudiced about that possibility, that you won‘t even consider it? How do you actually manage to do critical thinking with that kind of approach?

*which got bought to modify the algorithm, so that US citizens won‘t be able to see the reality of the Palestinian genocide anymore, so with the sole intention to censor and brainwash.