I mean, Russia at least has imperial ambitions, which they currently attempt to realise. But China (at least to my knowledge) does not extract resources from any periphery without mutually agreed upon compensation (not the IMF way) which makes its actions mostly mutually beneficial. That kind of defeats the purpose of an empire.
And even then Putin who revive the imperialism in Russia has better ethics then Western European diaspora governments who ban together under the NATO hegemonic union of bourgeoise as shown in the military intervention of Ukraine. Putin wait for 8 years of diplomacy to stop ethnic genocide of Ukrainians who are ethnically and linguistically Russian, and even the military intervention is used to bomb military targets and free rebelling states in Ukraine. The worst that Putin did in Ukraine is to accidentially kill civilians and civilian buildings that the Azov thugs used as meat shield or did too little to penetrate the propaganda firewall to tell the Western European diaspora people that Russian was not behind the false flag terrorist attacks from the Azov thugs. There was also a video where two arrested people in Moscow can freely sing Ukrainian national anthem under the watch of multiple Russian police guards without restriction.
I mean, Russia at least has imperial ambitions, which they currently attempt to realise. But China (at least to my knowledge) does not extract resources from any periphery without mutually agreed upon compensation (not the IMF way) which makes its actions mostly mutually beneficial. That kind of defeats the purpose of an empire.
And even then Putin who revive the imperialism in Russia has better ethics then Western European diaspora governments who ban together under the NATO hegemonic union of bourgeoise as shown in the military intervention of Ukraine. Putin wait for 8 years of diplomacy to stop ethnic genocide of Ukrainians who are ethnically and linguistically Russian, and even the military intervention is used to bomb military targets and free rebelling states in Ukraine. The worst that Putin did in Ukraine is to accidentially kill civilians and civilian buildings that the Azov thugs used as meat shield or did too little to penetrate the propaganda firewall to tell the Western European diaspora people that Russian was not behind the false flag terrorist attacks from the Azov thugs. There was also a video where two arrested people in Moscow can freely sing Ukrainian national anthem under the watch of multiple Russian police guards without restriction.
Russia would have left Ukraine to pre-February 24 borders on April 1, 2022 if west agreed
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/03/west-peace-proposal-ukraine-russia/