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this may induce :some-controversy: but we can all agree his accent is :chefs-kiss:
Thank you for being honest. My stance is very simple: Ukraine, Russia and the US are right wing, Conservative, reactionary nationalist regimes dominated by imperialism and a slavish devotion to neoliberal practices. All have categorically rejected communism in its entirety. There is no solidarity to be found for their governments. Russia has rejected the class struggle, as has Ukraine and the USA. There is no question that NATO had a hand in restarting hostilities beyond what had been agreed by the Minsk treaty.
I do not see a grand repolarization and damage to the US's reputation from this. Hell, NATO just expanded a little bit more with Sweden and Finland joining. Russia has no clear path for "liberation" of Ukraine, they do not have the military means to institute a capitulation of the Ukrainian state, let alone an occupation, let alone "denazification" for fucks sake. They can't even occupy the country, they sure as shit aren't gonna go house to house dragging them out of their beds. They lost the momentum, and the most they can do right now is hold on to their gains, and inch across while suing for peace. Ukraine has chosen the maximalist, revanchist, irredentist line, at the behest of NATO, because if they don't Zelensky is probably as good as dead. In the meantime, I assure you that an invasion by a foreign power is the guaranteed surefire way to breed at least two to three generations of even more rabid nazis than what where created in 2014. Russia has no plan for dealing with that. So they've actually helped increase the already very large number of nazis, killed a couple in Mariupol, and in the meantime helped engineer another economic and food crisis in the global south by affecting Ukrainian food exports. I'm sure Yemen will also be a necessary casualty for the grand realignment.
Sweden and Finland haven't yet joined, they are being vetoed by Turkey who is making extreme nationalist demands and causing fractures within NATO. The Western economies are near collapse, with skyrocketing food and energy prices, an incoming recession, supply chain shortages & record breaking inflation all occurring at once. The US core will fair slightly better as European capital is going to flee to the US and European enterprise will be scrapped and sold for cheap. What's left of European social democracies will be slurped up by the US to compensate for capitalist crisis noted before.
Your idealist, moralist categorizations are naive and non pragmatic. Who cares if Russia is rightwing internally if their global actions are that of an ally to all AES states & a counter to the single monopoly imperialist, the anglo-American empire that has dominated freely the last 40 years. China agrees with me. DPRK agrees with me. Venezuela agrees with me. None of them sanction or denounce Russia, all support or quietly back them as they smash the NATO advance. Just like they smashed the NATO jihadist insurgency in Syria. Deal with it imperialist, Russia is acting anti-imperialistically and however your emotions make you squeamish they are the only ally China has got and if Russia falters then China will too.|
The world will only free itself from US dollar dominance, the IMF & other anglo-american imperiaist forces by violent struggle. It's not going to be morally clean, it never is. But I fully support an ally to all socialists destroying fascists who are put in power to attack them by imperialists, don't you?
Thank you for being honest. My stance is very simple: Ukraine, Russia and the US are right wing, Conservative, reactionary nationalist regimes dominated by imperialism and a slavish devotion to neoliberal practices. All have categorically rejected communism in its entirety. There is no solidarity to be found for their governments. Russia has rejected the class struggle, as has Ukraine and the USA. There is no question that NATO had a hand in restarting hostilities beyond what had been agreed by the Minsk treaty.
I do not see a grand repolarization and damage to the US's reputation from this. Hell, NATO just expanded a little bit more with Sweden and Finland joining. Russia has no clear path for "liberation" of Ukraine, they do not have the military means to institute a capitulation of the Ukrainian state, let alone an occupation, let alone "denazification" for fucks sake. They can't even occupy the country, they sure as shit aren't gonna go house to house dragging them out of their beds. They lost the momentum, and the most they can do right now is hold on to their gains, and inch across while suing for peace. Ukraine has chosen the maximalist, revanchist, irredentist line, at the behest of NATO, because if they don't Zelensky is probably as good as dead. In the meantime, I assure you that an invasion by a foreign power is the guaranteed surefire way to breed at least two to three generations of even more rabid nazis than what where created in 2014. Russia has no plan for dealing with that. So they've actually helped increase the already very large number of nazis, killed a couple in Mariupol, and in the meantime helped engineer another economic and food crisis in the global south by affecting Ukrainian food exports. I'm sure Yemen will also be a necessary casualty for the grand realignment.
Sweden and Finland haven't yet joined, they are being vetoed by Turkey who is making extreme nationalist demands and causing fractures within NATO. The Western economies are near collapse, with skyrocketing food and energy prices, an incoming recession, supply chain shortages & record breaking inflation all occurring at once. The US core will fair slightly better as European capital is going to flee to the US and European enterprise will be scrapped and sold for cheap. What's left of European social democracies will be slurped up by the US to compensate for capitalist crisis noted before.
Your idealist, moralist categorizations are naive and non pragmatic. Who cares if Russia is rightwing internally if their global actions are that of an ally to all AES states & a counter to the single monopoly imperialist, the anglo-American empire that has dominated freely the last 40 years. China agrees with me. DPRK agrees with me. Venezuela agrees with me. None of them sanction or denounce Russia, all support or quietly back them as they smash the NATO advance. Just like they smashed the NATO jihadist insurgency in Syria. Deal with it imperialist, Russia is acting anti-imperialistically and however your emotions make you squeamish they are the only ally China has got and if Russia falters then China will too.|
The world will only free itself from US dollar dominance, the IMF & other anglo-american imperiaist forces by violent struggle. It's not going to be morally clean, it never is. But I fully support an ally to all socialists destroying fascists who are put in power to attack them by imperialists, don't you?