Some people have said this is another war in the proxy wars that the US wants to cause to de-stabilize China, similar to India-Pakistan.
I disagree, I think these conflicts are more about the fact that international multilateral order has been gutted, and countries are seeing more green lights to carry out their bourgeois wars. I would not be surprised if more conflict sparks in for example Greece vs Turkey, or Venezuela vs Guyana and the such when countries realize the US is more and more hand tied in its imperialist projects and will not be the stabilizing hand it was in its unipolar moment.
Additionally, thinking that all of these wars are masterminded by the US is defeatist nonsense, the US is barely able to scrape by in Ukraine and Israel, how is it gonna be so powerful to suddenly be puppet master to every single border war on Earth.
It's amazing. Azerbaijan fucked the Armenians over Nagorno Karabakh, apparently the parliament has had some shit for wanting to join or not join the EU, and they are still bending over to the West by rejecting russian aid.
The people, of course. Look at anti-gentrification protests in México and the pink tide in Latinoamérica.
Anything is better than being a colony. Political independence is the first step. Simón Bolivar/Iturbide/L'ouverture/San Martin/O'Higgins/Martí brought the first independence, the second and true independence will be fought in the streets against the imperialists and their compradors all around Nuestra América.
It is easier for a Cuban or Venezuelan to emigrate to the US or another country. But the people that stay are those that want to build a new and sovereign nation, free from the shackles of the empire. And even then people are noticing that emigrating to the US is a bad idea, you are bound to get insulted and deported to El Salvador. People in Latinoamérica are noticing that staying put and building a better country at home is a better idea to leaving. Venezuelans are slowly but accelerating their return to the motherland.
True but having formal independence means that an anti-imperialist and anti-neoliberal campaign can be waged as a national struggle and not add a liberation campaign on top, which could turn extra violent in other circumstances.
It also means having the sovereignty to start creating ties with other powers in the world, and getting closer to oppressed nations like Cuba or Venezuela.
I think the most important takeaway I see is the reminder of how from 1933 to 1941, the Nazis were basically roaming free in Europe. They had managed to annex Austria and Czechoslovakia, destroy Poland and Luxemburg, set up puppet regimes in France, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and start the labor camps.
It was only until they made the fatal mistake of invading the Soviet Union, that they ended up stopped and Hitler offed himself, after 27 million Soviet deaths, of course.
It's a grim reminder that we are in it for the long haul. We are talking of 8 years of almost complete Nazi hegemony in the region and passiveness from the Western powers, as well as the strategic retreat of the USSR.
It's also a reminder that expansionist fascist powers will never be satisfied. The Zionists might very well end up annexing Gaza and the West Bank, it will not satiate them. They will go for Lebanon and Syria next. When they are done, Jordan and Egypt are on the chopping block. Then Saudi Arabia. They might build the NaZionist empire from the Nile to the Euphrates and still might be hungry for more.
But it's also a reminder that they WILL be stopped. All imperial expansionist projects eventually die. Greece, Rome, Spain, France, England, they all had imperial might, and later died. The US is in its death rattle. The idology of the cancer cell will kill its host eventually.
It's painful to live in a time where we see in plain sight how colonization works. Especially from the colonized south. But it's important to remember that history is written in years, if not decades. And we need to have a political project that thinks in that time frame, instead of the now and immediate.
Well, the war is about an existential threat to Russia, so they will do the fighting whatever it takes.
It just seems that they have taken the best strategic route that has allowed them to minimize casualties while methodically disarming NATO as a whole and while also avoiding excessively fast escalation, which is a major consideration in this nuclear armed world, see Iran-Israel.
I think that it is thanks to the experience of the SMO that Iran decided to go the way of attrition in its own war against the Zionist entity. It has proven effective to today's war doctrine of the West.
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