The working class in Russia is rallying around the CPRF, desiring a return to socialism. This isn’t yet dominant, but is a rising trend. The working classes in Ukraine support an end to the war. It’s mostly supported by the nationalists in Ukraine to continue, rather than surrender the four Oblasts that already want to be a part of Russia anyways.
The war itself isn’t about “Russian expansion,” but even if it was, the US is the world hegemon and therefore Russia could never even hope to be as bad. Calling it “problematic all the same” is disingenuous and erases the fact that the US Empire is the one that is plundering the global south, and is the one with hundreds of overseas millitary bases, not Russia.
Atrocities committed by Kiev and Russia aren’t good, I agree. I have never once said “war crimes good” in this entire conversation. I don’t want a world with war crimes. The best course to stop it is for Kiev to cede the 4 oblasts and agree to neutrality with NATO. That way the people of Donetsk and Luhansk are protected from the Banderites, and the Ukrainian conscripts aren’t sent to die for wealthy capitalists in the US Empire.
I repeat that Russia wants not simply to dismantle US imperialism, but also would establish itself as hegemon at any opportunity, however absurdly remote such possibility may seem. Thus, defending Russia is an error.
I agree that NATO and the US carry tremendous responsibility, and that the best outcome from the present would be territorial concession as a condition for both sides concluding belligerence.
Even if you’re correct in saying Russia wants to establish itself as a new hegemon, it currently has a paltry share of the world’s financial capital, and no colonies nor neocolonies. It doesn’t have hundreds of millitary bases overseas. It could not simply replace the US Empire, and as a consequence it is better to critically support Russia over the US Empire.
The working class in Russia is rallying around the CPRF, desiring a return to socialism. This isn’t yet dominant, but is a rising trend. The working classes in Ukraine support an end to the war. It’s mostly supported by the nationalists in Ukraine to continue, rather than surrender the four Oblasts that already want to be a part of Russia anyways.
The war itself isn’t about “Russian expansion,” but even if it was, the US is the world hegemon and therefore Russia could never even hope to be as bad. Calling it “problematic all the same” is disingenuous and erases the fact that the US Empire is the one that is plundering the global south, and is the one with hundreds of overseas millitary bases, not Russia.
Atrocities committed by Kiev and Russia aren’t good, I agree. I have never once said “war crimes good” in this entire conversation. I don’t want a world with war crimes. The best course to stop it is for Kiev to cede the 4 oblasts and agree to neutrality with NATO. That way the people of Donetsk and Luhansk are protected from the Banderites, and the Ukrainian conscripts aren’t sent to die for wealthy capitalists in the US Empire.
I repeat that Russia wants not simply to dismantle US imperialism, but also would establish itself as hegemon at any opportunity, however absurdly remote such possibility may seem. Thus, defending Russia is an error.
I agree that NATO and the US carry tremendous responsibility, and that the best outcome from the present would be territorial concession as a condition for both sides concluding belligerence.
Even if you’re correct in saying Russia wants to establish itself as a new hegemon, it currently has a paltry share of the world’s financial capital, and no colonies nor neocolonies. It doesn’t have hundreds of millitary bases overseas. It could not simply replace the US Empire, and as a consequence it is better to critically support Russia over the US Empire.