so they should just allow the hegemonic capitalist empire to spread nazism and install puppet governments in all the nations around them and slowly balkanize and rip their country apart for a 2nd looting?
The US has attempted to throw coups in almost every nation bordering Russia in the last decade. Russia stopped them in Syria, Kazakhstan and Belarus but failed to stop them in Ukraine. The current Ukrainian government are Maidanite fascist putschists and puppets of America. They are being used as proxies to destroy russia, doing ethnic cleansing on the borders to provoke russia. Their state is illegitimate. Their borders don't matter and aren't sacred. Those regions want to leave after being oppressed by the Galician fash for 8 years while the western world looked on and did nothing except perfidiously buy time to give more tanks to nazis
I don't exactly want Russia's current particular brand of ideology to be spread either. I just don't see how you can look at this conflict and think either side are the "good" guys. Or how either result will be better than the other.
I don't exactly want Russia's current particular brand of ideology to be spread either.
This is America's brand of ideology injected into them by force after the collapse of the USSR. The USA is the #1 source of reaction on Earth, spreading it far and wide with their coups and actions. They are the blackest reaction, the source of all fucking evil and the hegemonic empire. They turned Ukraine into a Nazi cesspit. I don't want America's current particular brand of fascism to KEEP SPREADING LIKE IT HAS FOR 80 YEARS
If the Russian ideology and the American ideology are the same, and Ukraine's getting one of them either way, how can you feel like there's a side that's worthy of support?
It's already happened. Ukraine's military is decimated, they've lost 90% of their men and can't mount any further attacks. They were built up from 2014-2022 to be the largest military in Europe, they were destroyed, they were re-built with massive donations from NATO and now they have been destroyed again. NATO has no more juice to squeeze. Russia has destroyed a massive portion of NATO's munitions and have broken apart the largest military in Europe twice. Nobody else could have done this.
De-dollarization and multipolarity has already made massive strides in just the last few years, as the rest of the world moves away from the west after seeing it's actions in this conflict. America bought a few more years for itself by cannibalizing and destroying the industrial base of Europe and especially Germany, but in the long run their western bloc is breaking down and weakening. This is unlike Iraq, with those we didn't see massive moves towards de-dollarization and multipolarity. And unlike the cold war, there seems to be only 2 camps instead of 3 - the golden billion and the other 6 outside the garden walls. The westoids and restofus
Were there massive moves away from the USD due to the collapse of the South Vietnamese Army? Was the industrial base of Europe de-industrialized when America lost in Vietnam? No, unfortunately not. Things are moving now.
I'd say moves away from the USD have more to do with the economic moves that China is making rather than the war in Ukraine. India's new right-wing nationalist government moving away from a non-Trump US was kind of a given, too.
This stuff all seems like it could have been happening without thousands of people dying at war.
So this all started rapidly moving in February 2022 coincidentally? Right after Russia's reserves were seized and massive sanctions were imposed on the biggest resource and energy exporters on earth? India and China were backing up Russia and gave them assurances they would not sanction. This started the shift as massive amounts of cheap energy flowed into China/India while the EU began to disintegrate economically without cheap energy. This changes the global calculus, it moves everyone away from the US except for the EU. Saudi Arabia and OPEC nations were alienated by sanction attempts by the EU to control gas prices, and also by Russian reserves being illegally seized. This started the shift in the middle east away from Israel and towards Iran, as Saudi Arabia turned neutral and spurned Israel/The US.
Now we have an Iran-China-Russia bloc, with India and Saudi Arabia and Brazil following quietly behind, torn between them and the west. It will no longer be a US dominated world in a few short decades at this rate. Their web of global policing unraveled and contained.
They're killing Nazis and Americans. That makes them the good guys by definition. DPRK and China support them. How do you look at the situation and see it as "both sides are the same" when all AES are on one side in opposition to all western imperialists on the other?
Not a nation-state by their own admission, and they don't really do anything anti-imperialist or materially support any other cause
Russia is now rising to the sacred struggle to defend its state sovereignty and protect its security. We have always supported and stand by all decisions of President Putin and the Russian government. I hope that we will always stand together in the fight against imperialism.
-Kim Jong Un, from one of the all time anti-imperialism MVP AES, the DPRK
Ok, address my other point that they don't really do anything with other socialist nations or involve themselves outside their region. They are entirely disconnected from the people involved here, whereas the nations on Asia and in Europe are not. It's easier to get idealist and both-sides the further away you are from the nazis
How so? You're a traitor to NATO and russian bot according to libs then right? You're on our side already if you do that, so just sit back and enjoy the party and crack open a cold Z
Out of curiosity, do you think it was acceptable for leftists to give critical verbal support to Britain and France in 1939 in their fight against Nazi Germany?
I think that was absolutely correct, but other people here are telling me Lenin says the correct position is to always root for your imperial nation to lose no matter what because it will bring about communism.