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Racism is seen in western media all the time, especially in ways you’re doing right now. Slavic people aren’t seen as human by Euronationalists. Muslims are also heavily discriminated against in Europe, especially Palestinians as European states continue to support Israel’s genocide. You’re just racist, lol.
I’m talking about your very specific racism right now. Russians as a people are not racist, some are for sure but certainly not all. You in particular are racist, and defending your right to be.
You used racist terms like calling Russians “hordes, bacteria, and viruses.” You aren’t attacking shit, you’re revealing that you’re a Euronationalist.
Defending your own racism isn’t the own you think it is.
The people of Donetsk and Luhansk, who voted to join the Russian Federation, seem to be happy with the way the war is going. Kiev was ethnically cleansing them since 2014, after all, so that checks out. As for Ukraine being a glorified millitary outpost, again, it’s similar to Israel. Ukraine gets arms from NATO, is cozy with NATO, and is in general a highly millitarized country. Poland is also governed by the far-right, this isn’t the grand own you think it is. Europe since the end of World War II has been subservient to the US Empire, that isn’t new. What’s new is Europe’s demotion from vassal to periphery, which is an ongoing process accelerated in recent years.
It’s incredibly easy to not be racist, you should give it a try sometime.
The US empire is already dying, but it still has hard power. Europe has very little hard power and very little soft power, and as such their relevance on the world stage is vanishing. Cutting their ties with the US like that would result in essentially them getting rid of their support system.
You can call them invaders if you really want to use that analogy. You don’t need to rely on racism and dehumanization, but Euronationalists always reach for those as y’all have done for centuries.
Ukraine is supported by the western empire for the same reason Israel is, it’s a glorified US millitary base in the region surrounded by geopolitical adversaries. Russia will not stop their advance while they are clearly winning, and the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics already voted to join the Russian Federation. The idea that there will be guerilla resistance is just unfounded, Kiev has been at war with the Donbass region for a decade.
Europe is increasingly being demoted from imperialist vassals of the US Empire to periphery countries. Europe has very little hard power compared to the major players in the world stage and is utterly dependent on the US Empire’s hard power. The soft power Europe has is slipping as well. No amount of your homophobic pejoratives will change the fact that Europe doesn’t bring much to the table despite being the loudest ones there, and that’s why they are in fewer and fewer international talks where major powers are involved.
You repeated literal Nazi rhetoric about “Russian hordes” and spouted Eurochauvanism, then went on to accuse people of being “brainwashed,” which itself is a fantasy idea used to terminate discussion.
The difference is that nationalists seek internal development for production, whereas imperialists seek underdevelopment to keep wages low and out of the higher “value add” parts of supply chains (that are really only “value add” because the west historically had a monopoly on them). The system isn’t working for everyone though, and as such communists are rising in quantity and the nationalists are forced into trying to claim soviet heritage. This isn’t really working, though, and the CPRF has been rising in support. Modern internal armies aren’t ominpotent, nor does it need to look like the Russian Civil War of the past.
They’d accelerate their demotion from imperial vassals to periphery countries. That’s it.
You do break rule 1 a lot, correct. Ever consider that your behavior might be the problem?
Secondly, I’m clearly not in an echo chamber, even on Lemmy, we’re talking right now. Even if all right-wing viewpoints got removed before I could ever see them, the fact that Lemmy is only one part of a much larger variety of what I see and interact with means the echo chamber wouldn’t even be effective.
No socialist country has ever been brought about peacefully with the exception of Allende’s Chile, and that was overthrown by fascists because of that. Violence against capitalists is fine, the overwhelming majority of the world is working class, not capitalists.
The data on popular support for the government and socialist system in China is gathered by western orgs. Chinese citizens support their system because it works for them, same as the USSR. This is just cope on your end.
Brainwashing does not exist. China does not have magical news networks infecting my brain, I consume far more western news and media than anything coming out of China. I have a far better idea of how China functions because I study its system, theory, and keep up with the news, there’s no “brainwashing” going on. You’re just using it as an excuse to dismiss all of my points without engaging with them. Again, big MAGA uncle energy on your part, next thing I know you’ll be talking about vaccines and globalists.
Russia wants the four oblasts, which they have been accelerating their advance in in the last few months. Cheap and deadly FPV drones force slow movement in general, but in the last few months strings of Kiev-held strongholds are falling left and right. Ukraine can’t field the war much longer either, and the war is becoming increasingly unpopular. What’s likely is that the four oblasts go to Russia, Kiev is forced into NATO neutrality, and their millitary is severely crippled. That’s absolutely a Russian victory.
Which of these do you think Russia will have to compromise on, and why would you consider the compromise to be a loss?
United Russia is the nationalist bourgeoisie, not the imperialist western bourgeoisie that were looting the country. The nationalists stopped the foreign looting and solidified their power base. The CPRF’s support, as well as broader support for socialism in general, is something that UR can’t “eliminate,” it’s far too big of a movement for that. They can try, but it’s an accelerating movement as capitalism isn’t what it was sold as.
China and Russia are not imperialist, they are closer to global south countries in their position with respect to imperialism as a global phenomenon. In order to fight the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, capital either seeks new markets, ie new inventions to flood with capital or geographically new markets, or it seeks to establish monopoly. The former allows for greater profits in absolute terms, the latter temporarily raises the rate of profit. The natural consequence is imperialism, where this is combined by having financial capital dominate the global south, super-exploiting labor for super-profits, and via unequal exchange, where technology and tech development is kept in the global north and thus monopoly prices are charged.
This is also why south-south trade is the path to escape underdevelopment, and is why China in particular has been a progressive force for the global south, as they don’t withold tech knowledge but instead share it through cooperation and trade. China also doesn’t charge the same monopoly prices for tech, which is why global south countries are seeing huge electrification, expansions in EVs, etc.
The west used to have a monopoly on cutting edge tech, they witheld the technology used for creating firearms from African countries for hundreds of years while selectively trading firearms in limited quantities for huge amounts of slaves, as an example. The west forces the global south to rely on them, and forces them into remaining at lower levels of industrial development and refinement. It’s also why countries like the Sahel States are working towards cutting unrefined gold exports and upping refined gold exports, ie moving from unfinished raw materials into more finished goods or ancillary materials, and why porkie is terrified of them.
It isn’t that goods further along in the commodity production process have more valuable labor time at the higher end, it’s that the upper end of the production chain is easier to keep a tech and skill monopoly on. This is what liberals mean by “higher value add” industries, made more naked through Marxist analysis.
Before you start making bets, what do you count as a Russian victory? It’s almost certainly going to end favorably to Russia, so I’m not sure why you’d take this bet.
The “3 day war” idea was not an official millitary or government statement, Lukashenko and an RT editor both said it and the west has been using it as a way to obscure the fact that Russia has been steadily achieving its actually stated goals. I know you’ve read Lenin, have you read Imperialism, the Current Highest Stage of Capitalism? The Russian Federation is governed by nationalists, not finance capital, and Russia doesn’t have a stake in the global financial monopoly. It’s the west that has that. Russia doesn’t really meet the Marxist understanding of imperialism, nor is it acting how we would expect imperialist powers to act.
I can point right to you being racist, openly. European states are funding genocide in Palestine right this second.