• Tunnelvision [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      8 months ago

      You gonna actually point anything out? or just keep typing in caps because it makes your non point look better? What are you even saying at this point. It shouldn’t be out of hand to admit Putin has done good things, but we should be skeptical of a guy who tried to join the Nazi club for his entire career. He doesn’t get a cookie for having what should be considered normal relations to the global south you fucking ding dong.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        8 months ago

        i just want you to use historical materialism evenly instead of haphazardly and drop your western programming of russiaphobic exceptionalism. For Putin and only Putin we mind read and judge based on hypotheticals.

        • Tunnelvision [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          13·
          8 months ago

          You’re barking up the wrong tree, I’m easily one of the most openly pro SMO people on this site.

          drop your western programming of russiaphobic exceptionalism.

          Literally where?

          For Putin and only Putin we mind read and judge based on hypotheticals.

          Again literally where?

          • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            11·
            8 months ago

            sorry, I thought I was talking to the other person and got mixed up. Lots of comments.

            I’m just saying, the mind reading and hypotheticals about Putin gets real old from supposed “materialists” and “realists” on most other subjects. China and Deng did join the Nazi club that you’re shitting on Putin for trying to join, they didn’t join NATO militarily but damn did they sell out big time and help the US and the west a lot, that shit with Kissinger is embarrassing too. I try to see the bigger picture because maybe they had to do it. Putin was leading a defeated and looted Russia, he was groveling because Russia was weak and he had no choice. Now he no longer does that.

            • Tunnelvision [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              8·
              8 months ago

              I see your point, but I will say you cannot hold China and Russia to the same standard. You’re absolutely correct that China has done some sus shit over the years but to say

              Putin was leading a defeated and looted Russia, he was groveling because Russia was weak and he had no choice.

              Okay I understand and somewhat agree, because you’re right Russia had been essentially taken over by the west and we shouldn’t downplay the role Putin played in fixing it, but Russia was already developed as a nation and already had somewhat of a roadmap to a developed future thanks to the Soviets. Now compare that with China who for the longest time was one of if not THE poorest nations on the planet before cooperating with the west, had no roadmap other than a history of dynastic control, being invaded by the west, invasion of Japan, civil war. Just an extremely harsh situation for the Chinese that is much more comparable to the Soviet experience than it is to modern Russias experience. It’s much more understandable for China to want to cooperate with the west than modern Russia would. The Chinese situation is more like the Soviets taking lend lease materials than it is comparable to modern Russia groveling to be let into the imperialism club.

              Now he no longer does that.

              He did it until he couldn’t anymore because he’s a lib and has always been a lib at heart.