i'm often not too fond of american policy, and i've expressed that here. however, i am also fully cognizant that every single writer in the history of socialism - every single one - knew that the revolution must happen in america. even the ones that focused on the germans knew the real revolution happens in america.
there are no legitimate counter-examples.
when you hear people running their mouths off about the decay of america or the decline of the west, realize that these are longstanding conservative tropes about the arrogance of babylon that have absolutely nothing to do with socialism, and you've managed to find yourself in a gathering of the right, not the left. when you start hearing people rambling about this garbage, about the overthrow of the west, or the return of some traditional religious or ethnic group, you should just get up and leave. these people are no allies of the left.
the soviets would sometimes support these groups. they often didn't. it depended on whether cynical soviet calculations thought supporting them would be of benefit to russian geopolitical strategy. when the soviets did support these groups, they would nurture any hatred that their nationalism invoked in them, and the americans did the same thing when they supported the mujahideen in afghanistan, or the nationalists in china. south korea spent most of the cold war as a right-wing hyper-nationalist dictatorship bent on destroying the north by overwhelming force, but kept in check by the chinese, and the americans, who said 'no'. this had nothing to do with right or left, it had to do with great power competition between the united states and russia. the post-war order was not defined by some set of rules written in the 90s, it was defined by rivalries between moscow and washington. the "post-war order" as used today means the order that emerged after the cold war, not after world war two, and i don't think it's shattered at all. the cold war was defined by spheres of interest and immense competition by great powers. the liberal media narrative is bizarre. right now, i see little evidence that american hegemeony is being challenged, anywhere. the americans are succeeding in dominating latin amerca, the middle east and eastern europe at the same time, and probably could not have done that even in the 90s. what is happening is that the americans are unilaterally withdrawing at the height of their own power, because they've lost the plot, no longer understand divide and conquer, don't remember why they invaded and occupied the world in the first place, and think they're better off in isolation. in fact, the british made exactly the same mistake under disraeli, and it was the proximate cause of the first world war, as it opened up a vacuum for the germans to walk into. as stated previously, i would expect the germans to do exactly the same thing yet again if the americans decide to withdraw from europe. america's fortress in greenland won't protect them from german submarine attacks, but an open ended occupation of berlin will.
what i'm getting at is that no leftist would talk like this. actual leftists that have read actual leftist writers don't oppose western civilization, but adhere to concepts of progress, and expect that the revolution, when it happens, will in fact happen in america. it's certainly not going to happen in angola or yemen or venezuela or palestine or iran.
the "national liberation" struggles, when you look at them, are almost always right-wing religious groups seeking to overthrow authoritarian socialist groups or bourgeois liberal groups and when they aren't, like in iran, the fake left has nothing to do with them.
the left is not about fighting america. it's not about fighting the west, it's not about "american decline" and it's not about fighting colonialism. these are all right-wing tropes and suggestive of conservative ideology trying to co-opt you. the left is about the proletariat taking control of the means of production and the distributive justice that follows from that. when you hear people that identify as leftists or organize on the left talk about these other things, you should identify them as what they are, and get up and leave.