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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  • voice_of_hermes [he/him,any]
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    3 years ago

    Okay, and?

    I kinda have news: whether Russia has imperial ambitions or not, it really, really doesn't have the capacity to be imperialist right now. If it seriously tries to take and hold all of Ukraine, it's only going to steepen its own decline. And likely its ambitions aren't that at the moment, and it is just trying to do serious damage and force major concessions (like it's existing demand that NATO stay out of Ukraine, both technically and in practice by not occupying it with troops, bases, weaponry, and continued subversive politics).

    But either way, Russian war making should be opposed.

    ...as should U.S.'s and Ukraine's (hello Donbas).

    Do you live in Russia? If so, okay I guess. If not, your "denunciation" is probably pretty meaningless. Like, what are you actually going to do about it? Spit into the wind? Help support war making and sanctions against the working-class people already being oppressed by the Russian nation-state (yikes)?