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Man is just fucking with Euro brains with every statement.
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Russia is, and always will be, America's enemy. They can provide all the resources and services America can to the rest of Europe at much cheaper and efficient rates. This is why even after the USSR collapsed instead of absorbing them into NATO they continued to be seen as the enemy, its why Nordstream was blown up and its why the proxy war in Ukraine is happening right now. America has to keep the rest of Europe separated from Russia whether they are capitalists or not.
This will also, I believe, potentially blowback on the US. Unlike the rest of the Eastern bloc they could not simply pour in and wipe the last 80 years of history away. Russia today still holds the muscle memory of the practicalities of a communist state and when Putin goes there will be the possibility for a return to it. See my below comment for clarification.
Absolutely fucking not. The material conditions in Russia couldn't be further from socialist revolution
I am merely stating that the historical knowledge of the practicalities remain and that the sort of fanatical anti-communism that infested the rest of Eastern Europe when NATO swept in has not taken strong roots. The truth is most of our theory and all of our historical analysis is based on societies that have always been capitalist before being overthrown by a revolution. We dont have any sort of precedent for a former socialist society that is now capitalist returning to socialism.
I don't have any answers. All I am saying is that the reason that a peaceful revolution is impossible in most societies is because the forces of capital would not allow it. But in Russia the unbroken chain of capital that exists in most countries does not exist, their forced opposition to capital forces from the west have isolated and weakened them. Putin brought them back from the brink, and he will remain in power for as long as he wishes. But once he is gone then who knows. Probably Nothing Happens(TM), but maybe something does.
I agree with you that we mess with Russia for no sensible reason and that does gutted American hegemony. It isn't because of a specter haunting Russia though. It is all our own brainworms