Same as the 'grad SadArtemis🏳️⚧️
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They literally sent me Lenin, I'm abiding to Lenin's definition of imperialism on "Imperialism: higher stage of capitalism".
And Russia is in this war to "expand its markets and abuse cheap resources/labor" how? Funnily enough, NATO is the one doing that to Ukraine as we speak, and before their sanctions, this is what Europe and the west at large was doing to Russia.
Forgive me for not believing Putin's intent here is humanitarian development of western-liberalism-affected regions with Russian majority.
"Forgive me for not believing (insert non-western state/leader resisting western aggression here)'s intent is humanitarian development or any such high ideals, they're no saint." That's not the point, I think the sensible analysis would show Putin (being a lib and still having wished to be a comprador then) didn't want this war in the first place. All that said, what I described is what they are engaging in, and you can theorize about the intent (which is surely not just "charity") but the material reality can't be denied.
Famous defender of human rights capitalist Russia, not at all constantly passing laws against minorities (whether women, queer, or national minorities like central-asians), and on a downwards spiral towards fascism
Yes, Russia has its issues with these things (most places do, though Russia is going in the wrong direction with much of it to say the least). Good for you for understanding that. And so surely because Russia is so evil, they also love it when their ethnic kin are getting bombed and pogromed, when their language and religion are suppressed by Ukrainian ethno-nationalists who are being used by the west as a dagger at the belly of Russia.
Your last paragraph is a tirade calling me basically an eurolib and linking me to the Spanish empire (like, seriously, wtf) for not wanting to defend the modern Russian capitalist regime.
If you feel called out by it, then maybe you should be lol. My point was less to link you to the empire (though it surely is interesting, that you Euros and the white west in general seem so eager to offload your imperial guilt onto others through whataboutism) than it was to call you a Eurolib, though- which yes, I do think you are.
Russia has many, many issues (as all states do), and it is an explicitly capitalist, by-and-large reactionary state. But anyone shitting on it (even if they can recognize NATO is objectively worse) by painting it as "imperialist" and comparing it as akin to the west ("90% vs 99% Hitler") is failing to understand its role, both in the current Ukranian conflict and in the broader world economy, which is decidedly not imperialist, and in fact (though they would no doubt much rather have been welcomed into the imperialist fold- Putin himself did try to join NATO after all) anti-imperialist by necessity of survival.
And yes, I think it's a particularly lib thing to want to stand against, or wash your hands of the matter by calling it a "inter-imperialist conflict," as such. If you're only looking to support saints and paragons of virtue (not that Russia is anywhere close to that) you'll find yourself with a very small pool of support or solidarity, though I suppose your Euro conscience will feel better and self-righteous for it. You yourself can recognize that Russia's struggle is if anything, anti-imperialist- it is literally in defense of its nation, as well as (coincidentally or otherwise- more coincidentally than not) the rights of the ethnic Russo-Ukranians, etc from western imperialism. But if you want to sit on the sidelines and "both sides" it, continue being a Eurolib by all means.
Are we going to pretend that imperialism only exists in this specific and convenient definition that you make and did not exist before industrialization and the financialization of economies, or that the Russian entry into this war was for "imperialist" reasons or that Russia is exploiting its new territories (which have always had indigenous Russians as the main population base) in the model (of "expanding markets and abusing cheap resources/labor") you describe, rather than painstakingly taking effort to integrate and develop the regions that Ukraine and the collective west has been shelling for a decade?
There is a clear difference between the imperialist warmongering of the western nations, and this war of defense by Russia, capitalist as it may be- a war to defend their country from being further encircled, threatened, and carved up, and to protect the legitimate human rights of the indigenous Russo-Ukranians. The entire majority of the world can see it, but somehow you- by the looks of your recent comment history, a Spaniard (white west European, whose imperialist heyday it should be noted fell outside of the definitions of imperialism as you describe it) conveniently do not. I'd recommend taking a look at your own biases, because you're clearly Euro-brained and it's not a good look.
Even if his reasons are probably/definitely far from perfect, unintentionally based.
German police classified Greta Thunberg as "prone to violence"
It's like they're trying to inspire the hatred of the world with just how hard they crack the whip for Isntreal.. I must admit, even as someone whose partner is half-German and who would want to like the culture, and as someone who knows "not all (or most) Germans" it's somewhat working, certainly for the idea of Germany as a state (Morgenthau might have had the right idea).
Not even milquetoast libs(?) like Thunberg can escape Germany's antics, and if I'm not wrong they try to exercise their reach across the west (western govts being more than happy to let them do it and take the blame also, I guess). Germany is truly in a wretched (and infinitely cucked) state.
Agreed. They are either with the global majority, with the true force of humanity, or they are against it. Thankfully humanity has built itself up to a point where the tides are truly and fully turning, now.
They can either get with the program, or resist and be eradicated. The chance will always be there, right up until they're at the wall, yet so many of them undoubtedly will reject it till the end. Fuck them, the beatings will continue until they can express even the slightest humanity, and if they can't may they die with their empire.
Cutest little friendly gremlin-animals. Reminder as always, they can't (almost/effectively never) get rabies, they love eating ticks, and they are North America's only marsupial