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.
Read Combat Liberalism
And if i am not in the imperial core can i have a tiny crumb of criticism for the regional imperialist state that is bombing the neighbours to shreds?
We have shit tons of refugees flowing in from Ukraine, i'm yet to see one Nazi.
Nazis, the shock troops of American imperialism, are the last to leave Ukraine.
Last week everyone here said they were the first to leave.
Really? Where?
I think they're talking about the early reports that Azov fled to Poland to form a government in waiting
Yes.
I agree that different positioning should lead to different focus and rhetoric on the trends you try to combat as a leftist so guess OPs post can be true from a anglosphere perspective with the unhinged anti Russian craze and with the stanning of Nato across the board in the majority of the "left".. Here in the Balkans, at least in a bunch of countries there is some deep rooted anti-nato/western bias, especially among older generations (even if it doesnt come from a "left analysis") so naturaly the online and offline convo among regular people beyond the political sphere is more "balanced" and less unhinged and you dont have armies of baby leftists overnight shifting into pro Nato narratives or uncriticaly shallowing anything. Even the hardlne "tankies" here in greece are "both are worse and equaly shitty and should be opposed on equal capacities" regarding Russian imperialism and Nato in their stance .
On your last point i guess the Nazi problem in Ukraine more has to do with those far right groups being by far the most well organized , ideologicaly motivated , militarized and mobilized outside the liberal democratic electoral sphere and l having free reign to exert disproportinate to their numbers control and influence in the army, police and mayors or local politicians. And so at this point they do controll and lead the "defense" and armed forces in a lot of eastern and south Ukrainian cities and absorb more and more of their surrunding groups and also volunteers. There have been reports here in Greece from the Greek minority there (while also being anti putin) of how in Mariupol Azov basicaly is running the "defense" of the city in an utterly fascist and civilian-human shield fashion. FInding ideologicaly commited tattoo having Nazis among Ukrainian refugees is very unlikely i feel.
There is a big anti-NATO bias indeed (i remember my parents changing their mind about NATO-membership after the campaign in Serbia) but it's not NATO bombing an eastern european country at the moment and that's what a lot of Eastern European leftists try to convey here. Pointing out (correctly) that NATO had a major role in this won't stop the war and that's the main issue right now.
This is for imperial core people. If you aren't in a NATO country it's different
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