That’s why it’s important to read about imperialism and how it functions. An extreme oversimplification is that finance capital allows the country with the largest finance capital to dominate the global south, and push out other countries with hard power. The US is the empire. Russia’s ruling class can’t oppress the global south in the same manner, and is kept out of doing so by NATO. That’s why countries throwing off imperialism like the Sahel states align with Russia and China, since neither participates in unequal exchange. It isn’t because Russia is more moral, it’s because they’re not in position to be imperialist in the first place.
That’s why it’s important to read about imperialism and how it functions. An extreme oversimplification is that finance capital allows the country with the largest finance capital to dominate the global south, and push out other countries with hard power. The US is the empire. Russia’s ruling class can’t oppress the global south in the same manner, and is kept out of doing so by NATO. That’s why countries throwing off imperialism like the Sahel states align with Russia and China, since neither participates in unequal exchange. It isn’t because Russia is more moral, it’s because they’re not in position to be imperialist in the first place.