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please god this would be so fucking funny
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It's not currently doing so because it doesn't have the power to do so. The economic and political system that Russia defends is fundamentally identical to that of the NATO block, and it would lead to the same imperialism in other countries if Russia had the upper hand in geopolitics. The same can't be said of, for example, China, or the former USSR. I will support those two countries in their struggles against US imperialism, I won't defend Russia because the result if it wins will be the same but on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
Obviously. The point is that Russia is forced to it both by the NATO block, and by the economic system it espouses. It's the same as a bigger, more powerful company, forcing a smaller competing company into harsh competition. The smaller one clearly loses from it, but it's the dynamic of the system and that doesn't make me want to defend the smaller one or to give any resources to it.
The only way I can understand defense of the Russian government as it is now, is to claim that a multipolar imperialist world is better than a unipolar imperialist world with the NATO block leading. If that's your point, I partially agree, but from there to saying "actually becoming a soldier in Russia is based", there's a huge jump. Btw, I suppose that the talks for negotiation of peace that China is proposing are equally eurolib as I am?
Yes, that's sadly been the tendency of the state of affairs since the fall of the USSR. I wish there were plenty more communist countries in the world right now. What's your point, that the lack of communist allies means I need to lend my support to 90% Hitler?
Crazy that you looked for my nationality on other comments on my post history just to have a leg to stand on to call me a "eurolib" or to doubt my feelings towards the Spanish Empire tbh. If I were American you'd be calling me a US imperialist, because at the end of the day you're not looking for a discussion in the safe space that Hexbear is supposed to be, you're just looking to score some extra points being a debatelord.
And yet it doesn't, and it is actively working against the destruction of the present world imperialist order of the west because it has recognized its common cause- with AES nations, but also with an overwhelming number of capitalist nations of all stripes across the global south (with which it is among the leading actors in creating a system of multipolarity and win-win cooperation whereby the highest form of capital, imperialism, will be truly and utterly defunct). Funny isn't that- is it really so "fundamentally identical," or is that just easier to believe rather than realizing that imperialism is a devil in and of itself in its own right (evolved from and the highest form of capital, but also clinging on to and threatening the world as the system of capital it built around itself crumbles and abandons it)?
China and the other AES states (and the overwhelming majority of the global south, or even the non-white western world) aren't going around playing the "both sides" card, they understand exactly what this is and what the necessary stance is. That they are trying to present options for peace doesn't change that.
Among many things, my point is that your false equation is disgusting and hideous, to the extent that I can only assume it fills a certain need within the white western psyche to be able to project all their nations' collective crimes of imperialism on others. Putin is a shitlib, but he isn't 90% Hitler or even 25-50% comparable to Klanmala, Genocide Joe, Genocide Drumpf, or the leaders of any western regime- he is actively working against the imperialist world order (out of self-preservation) and actively working in cooperation with the rest of humanity specifically to break free from the global western system of debt enslavement, resource theft, and worldwide destabilization and forever wars. And to describe the resistance of a nation from imperialism (as you can recognize, to your credit) as the resistance of "90% Hitler from 99% Hitler" is hideous and characteristically European and liberal (Eurolib). Was the conflict between the Aztecs and the conquistadors a fight between "90% Hitler and 99% Hitler?" What about the resistance of Ethiopia, of Qing China, of Nasser's Egypt or of the ROC (and the united second front) against the Japanese? Are Hamas, Iran, or the other factions of the resistance "90% Hitler up against the 99% Hitler" of the NATO-Zionist imperialist world order?