Read up on local decolonial movements, and listen to what they have to say and are advocating for. Read up on settler-colonialism, Fanon is an excellent writer.

No problem!

Just a tip, “way” sounds the same as “weigh,” but “way” refers more to form or path, while “weigh” refers to weight, as in this instance. Fuck english, it’s terrible.

Example:

I am on my way to your house.

It’s the way I did things.

I weighed the stone, it is 2 kilograms.

Also, feel free to tell me to shut the fuck up, lol.

Putin tried to join NATO, and be closer to the west. The west said no, and that they wanted to imperialize Russia. Post-Putin, it seems demographics are trending more towards the communists, which is opposed to the EU.

Being better at producing goods is evil?

This is called a “skill issue” on the hand of western imperialists that can’t compete. Stop framing doing better as being evil.

Geographically, yes, but not in the sense of the commonly referred to “global north,” ie the US Empire and its vassals in Europe, etc. Russia has no colonies nor neocolonies, the last time it did was when it was Tsarist. The soviet union was anti-imperialist, and thus the Russian Federation inhereted no colonies.

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You’re continuing to frame the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, that have been fighting for their lives against the Banderites in Kiev, as “Russian-backed forces.” Kiev is murdering civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk, because the citizens of the Donbass have been resisting the fascist Kiev regime.

It isn’t at all slander to call the far-right coup government Banderites. From @[email protected]

• Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA151VA/
• Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE | transcript
• Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/us-imperialism-and-the-ukraine-coup/
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/
• Monthly Review Online, 2021: The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations https://mronline.org/2021/12/11/the-maidan-massacre-in-ukraine/
• Maidan coup thread https://archive.ph/BAxYc
• Coup details https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/evidence-of-us-backed-coup-in-kiev/
• Don’t Get it Wrong: Ukraine and “Israel” are Both Tools of US-EU Imperialism
• An article from August 2021 advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine to subjugate it and draw it away from China https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137
• An important piece that reveals Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war against Russia in the Donbas since, it’s implied, 2014. https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-secret-cia-training-program-in-ukraine-helped-kyiv-prepare-for-russian-invasion-090052743.html
• NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
• Nordstream US involvement evidence https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/27/evidence-nord-stream-underwater-expedition/
• The US harvesting Ukraine for minerals https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-us-rare-earth-minerals-deal-8566241ea0e121a30437d845357055d8

Yanukovich wasn’t overthrown by anyone

Bullshit, he was coup’d in the Euromaidan coup.

The Ukrainian people are suing for peace. The problem is that every peace agreement proposed by Russia demands that Ukraine disarms, and that NATO countries are not allowed to give security guarantees. That opens the door for Russia to immediately violate the peace agreement like they have done dozens of times already since 2014.

Ukraine has broken the Minsk agreements every time, which is why Russia doesn’t honor them once broken.

What gives Russia the right to own the 5 oblasts, on what grounds should Ukraine cede them?

The fact that they want to be a part of the Russian Federation, not the Banderite regime.

This is a leftist, anti-imperialist perspective. Any party in the European Left Alliance would agree with my assessment.

I find it difficult to believe that this is a leftist, anti-imperialist perspective if it minimizes the role of imperialism in the conflict, and how the western imperialists provoked it.

There are other sources, but many are on twitter, Telegram, etc due to the internet blockade.

Definitely, that’s what I was implying with that but I probably should have spelled it out, rather than expecting them to realize nuclear depends likely on Russia.

No, you’re aiding fascists by siding with Israel and the US Empire. There’s no organized, working class movement in Iran that was behind the protests, and in such conditions spontaneity gets swept up behind whatever is actively stirring the pot. Further, it’s factually proven that Israel and the US have been arming rioters and offering reward money for kills.

This is why reading theory is necessary for anyone on the left, otherwise you make fundamental errors and end up supporting fascists that would be far worse for Iranians than their current theocracy.

Calling the ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine “Russian-backed forces” in order to minimize the fact that the Banderite regime in Kiev has been murdering them for over a decade is making excuses for ethnic cleansing. The RF certainly is pro-LPR and DPR, because they seceded in the context of the western-backed Euromaidan coup, where Yanukovych, popular in Eastern Ukraine, was overthrown by Banderites:

Kiev needs to cede the 4 oblasts, agree to NATO neutrality, and sue for peace. The war isn’t popular, 200,000 Kiev conscripts fled Ukraine to countries like Belarus. The Donbass wants to join the Russian Federation. Russia is not committing genocide, but Kiev certainly was murdering civilians all over the Donbass region for a decade, and still is.

I implore you to take a leftist, anti-imperialist perspective, not one that tries to cape for neo-Nazis.

Europe still practices neocolonialism and imperialism. Hell, Australia and other European settler-colonies still exist.

100%, of course there’s a perfectly fitting Malcolm X quote. Fantastic addition, practical examples of the empire murdering organizers in democrat admins really drives the point home. When you stand to change the system, and play outside its rules, both ruling parties will kill you.

Then you should read about who really blew up Nordstream.

I’m not sure what you mean, Human Rights Watch reported on unguided rockets from Kiev-regime forces killing civilians in the Donbass region since 2014. Further, data from the OSCE shows that shelling from Kiev ramped up dramatically right before Russia accepted the DPR and LPR request for aid.

Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli says that Iranian protesters are organized, trained, and guided by foreign intelligence agencies (Mossad / CIA) He emphasized that Iran’s ethnic diversity provides a suitable environment for intelligence activities.

The US Empire and its vassals clearly want regime change in Iran. It’s a key strategic area for the Belt and Road Initiative, has lots of oil, and is the biggest regional supporter of the Palestinian resistance and the biggest threat to Israel. You’re letting yourself get swept up in a western-backed regime change operation on the side of Israel and the US, ie you’re projecting with your claims of fascism.

Mostly due to the PRC and its incredible increase in solar and other renewables.

Russia is the 4th largest economy by GDP, adjusted to PPP, and isn’t as heavily reliant on finance capital as the EU is. Moreover, Russia has no colonies nor neocolonies, and doesn’t run their economy based on export of capital and plundering the surplus value of the global south, like the US and EU do.

Imperialism is characterized by the following:

-The presence of monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.

-The merging of bank capital with industrial capital into finance capital controlled by a financial oligarchy.

-The export of capital as distinguished from the simple export of commodities.

-The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations (cartels) and multinational corporations.

-The domination and exploitation of other countries by militaristic imperialist powers, now through neocolonialism.

-The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers.

The global north, Europe included, uses this export of capital to super-exploit foreign labor for super-profits. It also engages in unequal exchange, where the global south is prevented from moving up the value chain in production, allowing the global north to charge monopoly prices for commodities produced in the same labor hours. Russia does not do this, it has a paltry sum of the world’s finance capital, and this is proven by just how low their nominal GDP is compared to it’s GDP adjusted to PPP.

The Russian Federation and the EU are both right-wing, but the EU is actively imperialist. The fact that progressive nationalist movements like the Alliance of Sahel States are kicking out European plunderers, and the PRC is presenting as an alternative to western domination, is exactly why conditions within the imperialist west are declining and causing a shift to the far-right. Austerity politics are enforced due to capitalist decay.