this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2023
0 points (NaN% liked)
Comradeship // Freechat
2161 readers
32 users here now
Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.
A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It’s because you misunderstand our support for Russia. We don’t think Russia is communist, we just think the US is our greatest enemy in building socialism, so any country resisting our (I’m American) hegemony (and thus a part of the anti-imperialist block) gets our critical support.
America has constantly expanded nato since the collapse of the ussr, breaking agreements left and right, and tbh it gets really tiring arguing basic facts like that which helped lead to this war (as just one example) so many communists do away with the nuance when arguing with liberals. Why waste all our time writing out the actual nuanced reasons we support russia in this horrible conflict when liberals are just going to dismiss it out of hand because an “evil tankie” wrote it you know?
Ahh so it's not really about communism at all but anti-american imperialism. I don't know what mental gymnastics you have to go through supporting an invasion on an neighbouring country by a fascist regime as a communist
NATO has murdered millions of civilians since their inception as an anti-communist bloc, and Russia even under Putin has been there at every turn to prevent that (Syria, South America, Iran just in recent years). The US admitted shortly after the beginning of the war that Ukraine was never going to be in NATO, and Merkel admitted late last year that Minsk I and II were only made to gain time and prepare Ukraine against Russia (i.e. giving them equipment and weapons so they can keep the grinder going to the last Ukrainian).
If the "international rules-based order" thinks they can ignore those rules and interfere in foreign affairs as if they're the world police, what do you think is going to happen at some point? Strong words clearly brought Russia nowhere, who participated in the peace talks of Minsk I and II and who received an agreement that NATO would not expand east of their 1991 member countries.
Yes yes everything you don't like is fascism 😴
I take it you are completely fine with the current state of Russia's leadership, or how would you describe it?
It's not about what we like or don't like. It's about the situation we have. We live in the material world, not in our escapist fantasies. But liberals don't understand that, you would rather keep fantasizing that you lived in a perfect world rather than do anything to actually make that world a reality.
No matter how much you wish the war didn't happen, it did and that's not gonna change. The question now is how to move forward from this situation we are dealt. Keep sending Ukrainians into the meat grinder until there are no more Ukrainians left?
You assume a lot of things from the people you speak to.