I’ve seen the word tankie being used around the internet mostly for MLs and MLMs, but I understand your point

Lula isn’t even in good terms with Maduro anymore. There has been a diplomatic tension between Venezuela and Brazil since Dilma Rousseff was impeached. People expected the ties between countries to strenghten when Lula returned in 2023, but Maduro did not like that Lula and Celso Amorim were trying to work as some kind of international watchers for Venezuela’s elections. Lula even implied that their elections was rigged, which is WAY different than his discourse for his first presidencies, when Chavez was still alive.

So yeah, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Well, it depends on what is a tankie to you. If being a tankie is just some left-leaning dudes with a taste for boot licking, then okay, but if being a tankie is being marxist-leninist… Few countries have actual MLs running for elections at a chance of winning.

No. Moving elsewhere is a high emotional and financial cost that I will avoid until it is not possible to avoid anymore (also, where in the world is safe of fascism rn?)

I could give a ton of counter examples based only in Brazil

A concerning example regarding what I’m saying is the fact that over Rio de Janeiro there are drug cartels which distribute cocaine packed in Israel’s flag. I wish I was kidding.

Is it because they’re Jewish? They support Palestine’s genocide? No, they’re Christian Neopentecostal Evangelicals who apply their (unofficial but VERY real) rules based on the Bible and make money over cocaine cartels. Israel’s flag is a way of showing they are God’s chosen and the true governors of Rio de Janeiro.

This is only a superficial example.

See, when we analyze Latin America countries, one cannot think exclusively in terms of US or Europe political science. Our states may seem like weak forces when scrutinized from afar, however this is exactly the problem. Fascism has different ways of spreading through institutions and evangelical militias or drug cartels are literally everywhere. Sometimes, our states do not enforce fascism by law. They are weak on surface and extremely dangerous in their militias and affiliations with drug cartels. The contradiction is the rule around here. Mexico is not the heaven you make it sound. Do not trust a country’s safety based on official governments, it is a starter error when analyzing Latin America politics

Least likely to be involved… Unless Bolsonaro or any other dumbass decides it would be fun to lick Trump’s ass, which is very likely to happen if they arise to power in 2026. I wouldn’t be sure about that least likely remark. Also, there are ways to live in a fascist state even if it is not involved directly in a war - Getúlio Vargas is the name that comes to my mind, only to start

You are very, very wrong

“Which countries” basically all of them since the 1800s

Everyone saying Latin America has absolutely no clue about what Latin America is, lol. The only place safe from fascism rn is either another planet or being dead.