Firstly, thank you for accepting me into the community. Within the last few weeks I came to the realisation that there is no such thing as a healthy, stable, capitalist society. I want to learn more about communism because it could be a real alternative to the frankly poor conditions of working class life in the UK (and any other capitalist country).
There is one thing that stands out to me here that I’d like to understand because it’s a little jarring. In a few places (e.g. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9012898/6943775) on the topic of Russia, specifically the war, people seem to believe the invasion was justified and that the Ukraine government is Nazi? Why? From my point of view, which I do admit is going to have inherent Western/NATO bias because I live in the UK, is that this is an example of Russian imperialism. If the US invaded Canada, or the UK invaded France, it would rightly be considered a travesty. Why is Russia not given the same treatment? After all, it is not communist any more and it is working class people being sent to die in this war.
Shouldn’t the modern Russian government receive the same scrutiny as any other capitalist government?
I didn’t know about Syria, but it doesn’t surprise me. It’s not the first time the US or UK armed al Qaeda!
In fact there are a lot of similarities between the US and UK arming the Afghan Mujahedeen and these Ukrainian paramilitary groups. After the Ukraine war is over, I wonder what these armed and trained Nazis will do…
On Syria: there was a famous email exchange leaked by Wikileaks in which a US state department official and later Biden regime national security advisor tells Hillary Clinton verbatim “Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria”.
So do we. Many people have been pointing this out since the conflict escalated in 2022 when the West began supporting these groups wholesale.
What happens when you have tens of thousands of well armed, radicalized extremists with extensive military experience, who have severe PTSD and are used to killing without remorse, and who will be searching for someone to blame for their defeat? Who will they point to as having “betrayed” them and robbed them of their victory, in a similar way to what the German WWI veterans did who formed the first fascist and Nazi paramilitary organizations?
Many of them also have drone warfare experience and drones are extremely easy to smuggle across borders and very hard to detect and shoot down at short notice. Where will they go and who will they target for mass casualty terrorist attacks? Russia has learned how to take appropriate precautions for the most part. Also these people will be wanted as war criminals by Russia so they will have a hard time getting in. Europe on the other hand is already welcoming many of these people with open arms…