OccamsTeapot

I see where you’re coming from now. I think if you define imperialism in that way, it makes sense that you would consider all of those countries imperialist.

When markets are fully saturated domestically, capital expands outward. Once industrial and bank capital grow, they merge and dominate the entire economy, resulting in the dominance of finance capital in the economy …

But this whole description seems weird to me. Are there any powerful capitalist countries that could avoid this?

And I still don’t think Russia could possibly escape this definition. They have BRICS and are a major oil trader. They physically are trying to occupy another country right now. They use Russian language and state media to influence Eastern European countries in particular.

The EU is a coaliton of right-wing imperialist states, this is true.

Not really all right wing but perhaps compared to your politics. Or mine tbh

Russia isn’t imperialist

I’m confused about this. I checked to see if I had the right definition, just in case, and this is wikipedia’s:

imperialism is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power and soft power.

How does this not perfectly describe what Russia is doing in Ukraine?

Do you have an alternative definition you’re working with?

“Many of them”

“Either in power or coming to power”

“Rely on”

The claims have changed so much it seems that you also disagree with the meme at this point.

If you felt the need to add all those qualifiers (not wrong, btw), then it’s clear that you wouldn’t describe the EU as an “imperialist nazi state” either.

And that’s before we ask other things, eg why Ukraine and not Russia?

Because it’s dumb propaganda

“Nazi state”

Looks inside

Contains 27 states, most of which are not nazi-run

Completely and utterly stupid.

Clearly the EU is an imperialist nazi state made up of multiple different independent nations generally not following fascism and being members on a purely voluntary basis. Did you not receive your shipment of tankie crack this week, comrade?