cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4112192

Men that carried out terrorist attack on concert in Russia received funds from Ukraine.

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  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
    hexbear
    34
    3 months ago

    Is he fighting imperialism?

    only by accident. don't forget the critical part of critical support. the enemy of our enemy isn't our good friend.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
      hexbear
      22
      3 months ago

      It’s not an accident, and intentions don’t matter only actions. Radlibs never cease their mind reading moralizing

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
          hexbear
          22
          3 months ago

          Tell that to the millions of Syrians he saved from western backed jihadist fascism.

          He’s the foremost anti-imperialist force on Earth currently, adopting the stances of KJU with the military and geopolitical might to back it up. Meanwhile China putts around trying to placate the west still, and meanwhile half the global south is run by open compradors. Why don’t you focus your ire on our enemies who are many instead of our foremost friend in a small group of friends?

          • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
            hexbear
            15
            3 months ago

            Why don’t you focus your ire on our enemies who are many instead of our foremost friend in a small group of friends?

            what fucking part of critical

              • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
                hexbear
                4
                3 months ago

                no i'm not. russia isn't our primary contradiction unless you're queer and live there, it's useful to the rest of us for now, and it's on the right side of any conflict it has with nato, but that's as far as it goes.

          • Tunnelvision [they/them]
            hexbear
            7
            3 months ago

            Why don’t you focus your ire on our enemies who are many instead of our foremost friend in a small group of friends?

            This is where I have to say the CRITICAL part of critical support has to come into play. Russia is a nation with a long history that encompasses many eras and ideologies. Putin on some level has been able to posit the idea that Russias imperial, Soviet, and modern history is one long unbroken history of the Russian people as a whole in a way that should be extremely sus to us as communists. Putin is an ally of the global south yes, but his commitments on a base level ideologically can only be described as liberal and that’s obviously a problem that should be brought up. You can’t tell people to just ignore Russia and its actions (good or bad doesn’t matter) when they’re one of the superpowers of the world.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
          hexbear
          21
          3 months ago

          Also literally everything that has ever happened is due to circumstance. We are materialists here right?