Back in the USSR: Jeremy Corbyn hires Seumas Milne

You can’t say we weren’t warned. Jeremy Corbyn is nothing if not consistent. When he casts his baleful, weary, disappointed, eye around the world he knows what he sees: a world bought and sold by American gold, aided and abetted, as always, by its snivelling junior, British, partner. So Cuba is not an island gulag and Venezuela not an incompetent kleptocracy. Each is, rather, a defiant hold-out of revolutionary socialism sticking it to the Yankee man. If that means ignoring certain inconvenient truths then, well, these truths shall remain unexamined. If that means blaming Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine on Nato then so be it. Because Nato, as any Dave Spart knows, is the latest means by which American hegemony is established, justified and expanded. Remember that the root cause of any problem, anywhere in the world, is simultaneously always overlooked by the doltish mainstream and yet also, for them with eyes and a nose for the truth, remarkably easy to discover.