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.
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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.