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this may induce :some-controversy: but we can all agree his accent is :chefs-kiss:
Where is Russia's International Monopolist Capitalist Association? I'm sorry, but you can't even begin to compare the instruments of economic control that Russia has compared to the United States.
Like, holy fuck. Where's the Russian petrodollar? Where's the Russian IMF? America has managed to get most of the Western world to sanction Russia in some way almost instantly and all Russia can do in response is internal economics and control its fuel exports. We are comparing global market control to maybe a local sphere of influence at best.
He also suggests that oppressed nations deserve "critical support" which means fuck all when they are functionally economically held hostage by the western world. Russia might actually give these countries a second choice in terms of markets and trading.
You can throw all your "critical support" behind whatever country you want but if you start to oppose any action that might actually materially benefit them then the support isn't actually real at all. It's a LARP to make you feel good about supporting oppressed countries while endorsing the system that keeps them oppressed.
Yeah, the fact Russia got kicked out of SWIFT so quickly and easily kinda' tells me they'd be sub-imperialists at best. If the tool of imperialists to actually transfer capital across the globe is denied to them then how are the part of the imperialist camp in any meaningful sense?
I mean he’s arguing that they are part of a separate, but also (to a lesser extent) imperialist faction and that this is therefore imperialist infighting. He’s wrong about that and his arguments for Russia being imperialist are trash, but he isn’t saying that they are part of a unified “camp” with the US and other imperialist nations. He’s saying that they’re adversarial to that “camp”, but also that their camp is imperialist too lol. Basically he’s living in WW1 times and not understanding the real world implications of what Russias opposition to US hegemony could be.
Where is Russia's International Monopolist Capitalist Association? I'm sorry, but you can't even begin to compare the instruments of economic control that Russia has compared to the United States.
Like, holy fuck. Where's the Russian petrodollar? Where's the Russian IMF? America has managed to get most of the Western world to sanction Russia in some way almost instantly and all Russia can do in response is internal economics and control its fuel exports. We are comparing global market control to maybe a local sphere of influence at best.
He also suggests that oppressed nations deserve "critical support" which means fuck all when they are functionally economically held hostage by the western world. Russia might actually give these countries a second choice in terms of markets and trading.
You can throw all your "critical support" behind whatever country you want but if you start to oppose any action that might actually materially benefit them then the support isn't actually real at all. It's a LARP to make you feel good about supporting oppressed countries while endorsing the system that keeps them oppressed.
Yeah, the fact Russia got kicked out of SWIFT so quickly and easily kinda' tells me they'd be sub-imperialists at best. If the tool of imperialists to actually transfer capital across the globe is denied to them then how are the part of the imperialist camp in any meaningful sense?
I mean he’s arguing that they are part of a separate, but also (to a lesser extent) imperialist faction and that this is therefore imperialist infighting. He’s wrong about that and his arguments for Russia being imperialist are trash, but he isn’t saying that they are part of a unified “camp” with the US and other imperialist nations. He’s saying that they’re adversarial to that “camp”, but also that their camp is imperialist too lol. Basically he’s living in WW1 times and not understanding the real world implications of what Russias opposition to US hegemony could be.
It's shocking the amount of people who compare this to WWI. The two World Wars basically destroyed the concept of warring imperialist powers.