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")
Revolutionary defeatism means opposing your own nation. If you are a westerner that means supporting the downfall of the western imperialist bloc. It does NOT mean sitting on the fence or both sidesing the situation, it means taking material actions to hinder NATO war effort and support its enemies
WW1 was a world of competing imperialist powers. That world is gone. The current reality is a single monopoly hegemony, there are no competing imperialist powers of note. So not only is it the revolutionary duty of every Western socialist to try to throw a wrench in their own war machines, it is also the duty of every anti-imperialist on Earth to oppose the Anglo-American Atlantic empire.
An impure ally who raises a gun against colonizers is more of an anti-imperialist than the pure transcendent Western leftist unstained by conflict or blood. So yes, that does mean the correct stance is critical support for Russia and the destruction of the Ukrainian junta - and any communist party that does not have this line is sus