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this may induce :some-controversy: but we can all agree his accent is :chefs-kiss:
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.
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.