Thanks for the post. It's obvious that I was definitely oversimplifying things, especially since I've never studied this academically or through books but was taught a more simplified version of this by family moreso to understand my roots.

But yeah we obviously agree on the main point though. Communists in Russia and the Donbas should not be engaging in revolutionary defeatism, though I'd argue that Ukrainian communists probably should. Despite the unfair treatment of the communist parties in the Donbas republics (which I think is the direct result of Putin wanting to prevent them from actually becoming Communist), they do deserve critical support and Ukrainian communists should support their existence and fight the Kiev regime.

Unrelated, but whenever I swipe text "regime" my phone suggests "redbone" lmao good