You wouldn’t think of a European community of being so insanely pro Russia, yet on every single post mentioning Russia, any negative comments about Russia or their government will get downvoted to hell, some people get banned. I would not be surprised if I am banned or downvoted for posting this. People who are not just blatantly spamming Kremlin propaganda, please say why you are so pro Russia, to someone confused.
The Russian Federation is not imperialist. Tsarist Russia was overthrown, and the soviets liberated the former Tsarist economies. The Soviets then built a highly industrialized economy devoid of finance capital, and the Russian Federation inherited this industrial superpower. Finance capital never had a chance to actually grow in the Russian Federation, and their attempts to join NATO and the west in imperializing the global south were denied. As such, Russia is a nationalist, capitalist state in the modern day, and is not imperialist.
In the conflict between a nationalist state and imperialism, the nationalists are progressive. The same applies to Iran in fighting NATO and Israel, of Algeria against France, etc. I’m also not talking about past colonalism, but present imperialism and neocolonialism.
As for the west supporting the Banderites in 2014, this is well known. Russia presses this fact because it’s important, the fact that they press it does not make it wrong. In supporting the Banderites, the west started the Ukrainian civil war, which spiraled into the current stage with the failure of the Minsk agreements. Calling an uncomfortable truth “BS” does not make it so. It matters to this conversation because ending imperialism earlier would have prevented this war, and without ending it there will be more and more wars.
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What specifically do you think is wrong about what I said? Do you disagree with my analysis of the facts at hand, or the facts themselves?
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Gotcha. Western support of the Banderites in 2014 is factual:
Regarding the idea that Ukraine having fascists “justifies the invasion,” I never made this point. I explained why, in this conflict that never should have happened, Russia is the more progressive side in that it is fighting against imperialism and therefore weakening the west’s grip on the world. In cozying up to NATO and training far-right death squads around the world, Ukraine plays a similar geopolitical role as Israel.
Regarding Russia not being an empire, I fail to see how one can consider a country that isn’t colonizing, neocolonizing, nor imperializing to be an empire. Russia’s economy is internally driven, and largely relies on industrial production and energy export. The west relies on capital export, which is the primary engine of imperialism and neocolonialism.
I understand that we likely aren’t going to agree. I’m a communist, I take an explicitly and unashamedly anti-imperialist line. Reality is not black and white, but instead very nuanced, and unfortunately we do not choose the conditions of the world we live in but merely work with what we have.
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Fair enough.