Is he actually a threat to Putin? Is he actually as bad as Putin or is he worse? I assume the CIA wants to do a color revolution on his behalf

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    4 years ago

    Extreme Neoliberal with Russian Ethnonationalist characteristics. For the people of Russia? Probably a coin flip between the two. For the World? Probably friendlier to the USA, so I would say "maybe Putin is kind of better?" Really Russia is a hell that the USA is aspiring to be so who knows.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      4 years ago

      For the people of Russia? Probably a coin flip between the two.

      No, he'd probably be significantly worse.

    • Bedandsofa [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Probably friendlier to the USA, so I would say “maybe Putin is kind of better?”

      We really gotta resist the urge to do these sorts of shades-of-gray comparisons of representatives of the enemy class.

      From the perspective of the working class, neither is a way forward.

      • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Reducing everything down to "absolutely good" and "absolutely bad" is bad, actually

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        4 years ago

        Hence the ambivalent question mark. Its like choosing between two turds for a meal.

      • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
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        4 years ago

        I've noticed a bit of a tendency for some kinds of leftists to excessively binary thinking, where everything under the sun is part of a dichotomy of "Good, Pro-Socialism Anti-Capitalism" or "Bad, Pro-Capitalism, Anti-Socialism", and that these sides neatly divided and by nature always allies to their kind and enemies to the other. I know that "You have 5 seconds, pick a side" meme shitpost trend a few weeks back wasn't serious, but it had some showcase examples of this. Logically following from such views are ideas like "Any enemy of America is my ally", which would imply supporting ISIS and other far-right fundamentalist theocratic oppressive groups... Now obviously I don't think I've ever seen someone doing that here, but I have seen some ironic shitposting that comes awfully close to that, and I think we all know what often eventually comes of forums full of ironic shitposting pretending to support awful ideas.. Maybe I'm way off my rocker here, but I just wanted to identify and name something in case others felt the same way.

    • Gosplan14 [any]
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      4 years ago

      Really Russia is a hell that the USA is aspiring to be so who knows.

      Russia is such a hellhole, because of the USA. Like even Putin wouldn't have come to power were it not for Clinton giving shady campaign aid to Yeltsin in 1996, to not mention everything that happened before that and Gorbachev's election to the post of General Secretary of the CPSU.