Debunking NATO propaganda and consent manufacturing means massively massively more than your personal relationships and comfort. I don't want to hear how hard it is to be called a 'shill for Putin'. People should have already been calling you a shill for Assad, for Kim Jong Un, for Xi, for Castro or you have been fucking NEGLIGENT AS LEFTISTS. If you're in the imperial core your primary fucking duty is to anti imperialism. Clearly a lot of you haven't been doing this. Now there are possible nuclear consequences and I see a great deal of you still too fucking chicken shit to stick their necks out for people living under the thumbs of America and NATO. Investigate the situation thoroughly and have an informed, consistent take based in Marxism and historical materialism and then REPEAT IT LOUDLY AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD DO NOT STAND FOR THIS. This is supposed to be a board of principled communists, act like it.

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    • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I don’t know much but isn’t russia’s primary goal in this war to destroy Nato as a concept/organisation by exposing their lies and ineptitude

      No Putin doesn’t give a fuck about that. Dude just doesn’t want American nukes in the country next to him.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Saying it's Russians goal seems a bit ambitious. I think they just want the disputed territory and Ukraine to be neutral and fuck off. NATO is showing its whole association to the rest of the world which works for that idea but it's also fanning the flames of NATO support within NATO countries. I doubt that's being seen as a net positive for Putin but that's also kind of a thing there. If he were acting totally based on being an evil oligarch then how does he benefit financially or materially in any personal or national way from this increase in tension? It was probably seen as necessary but risky cause it is.

    • Old_Barbarossa [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yes, because Russia isn't doing this to restore full democracy and sovereignty to Ukraine, but simply to bring them under their influence. Russia only opposes NATO because it stands in the way of it's own imperial project. Not out of an ideological opposition to al imperialist actions.

      • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Russia only opposes NATO because it stands in the way of it’s own imperial project

        Holy fuck the :brainworms: on this one. They don’t want a hostile country to put nukes at their front door. Imagine the response if Mexico entered into a military alliance with China and then the Chinese military put missiles right on the Texan border lol

        Not out of an ideological opposition to al imperialist actions.

        Agreed.

        • Mao_Zedong [comrade/them,none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          if Mexico entered into a military alliance with China and then the Chinese military put missiles right on the Texan border lol

          Or like, the USSR put missiles on Cuba. Luckily these things are mere thought experiments :thinkin-lenin: