Pretty gross. Comments every bit as awful as you're thinking. Just a reminder of the abysmal state of non-cishet rights and acceptance in Russia.
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T1: Putin on accusations against Russia in the energy crisis: "European countries are big specialists in non-traditional relationships and themselves abandoned traditional energy sources in favor of non-traditional ones"
T2: ("non-traditional relationships" is the legal term in Russia for all things "LGBT")
Undermining American hegemony by...destabilizing a region that America benefits from being unstable? Not really the same situation. Russia is actually doing real harm to our ability to maintain a global stranglehold. That is a good thing, even if Putin is otherwise a shitty reactionary capitalist.
But that’s my point, he is a reactionary. A meteor isn’t anti-imperialist if it lands in the north atlantic. Anti-imperialism is a coherent political project that Putin isn’t taking part in. There might be overlapping goals/methods, but Putin’s political project is a just a competing imperial power. There’s no victory for the left in Russia’s victory as much as there absolutely is one in America’s defeat
You are forcing your conclusion with your chosen analogy. That meteor would be anti-imperialist IF it was forced into hitting the North Atlantic because the North Atlantic cornered it and was antagonizing it. Russia against the US isn’t random
Anti-imperialism means you fight against the hegemonic empire. Period, that is it. Intention is not relevant
Marx failed to consider that the meteor is, in fact, anti-imperialist
from Vol II of The German Ideology