• butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world
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      You comment on your post about how an imperialist colonizer who is attempting to annex their neighbor against their will is threatening to use nukes for the millionth time, which they got from that neighbor in exchange for promising not to invade them. Fuck off you imperialist lapdog goon.

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        The 4 oblasts, which is what Russia is trying to annex, voted to join Russia. The Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (not socialist, despite the name) both requested Russia to come in and help them against Kiev’s shelling of them.

        Russia has no colonies, not since the Tsar. As the USSR, it was anti-imperialist and anti-colonial, and as the modern Russian Federation, it is too poor to practice imperialism, it lacks the financial capital necessary to plunder the global south. The dissolution of the USSR was devatating for their economy, even though they are capitalist now and thus would logically benefit from imperialism, they can’t actually practice it as the western Empire is already set up and fully saturates the global south.

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            None of this is backbreaking, it’s well-established history even outlets like the New York Times were reporting on. Further, annexation isn’t imperialism by itself, the goal of the war isn’t plunder or expropriation of wealth, it’s to establish a buffer zone so the west can’t as easily invade by land. My stance is similar to communist orgs like PSL and FRSO. I’m a communist.

            The gymnastics you’re displaying in avoiding the hard details of what’s going on, on the other hand, is more back breaking. Why are you batting so hard for the Banderites and the US Empire? Why not support the people of Donetsk and Luhansk?

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                  Are you seriously standing with Russian capital and oligarchs over the working people of Ukraine? Based on your above comments you don’t seem to have a problem with the USSR using military occupation to stop satellite states from leaving their orbit. Surprise surprise, you suddenly oppose it when anyone other than Russia does it. In any event, nobody except Russia considers those referenda results even remotely credible. You’re just another pro-imperial campist.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        The US and NATO are literally fighting a proxy war against Russia as we speak. This has been openly stated now by no lesser person than the US Secretary of State.

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          So what does that have to do with Russia?

          Did Nato threaten to use nukes? No Nato also doesnt attack, its a defense pact, so stop spreading russian propaganda.

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            NATO destroyed Libya and Yugoslavia, it’s as much a “defensive” pact as the Israeli “Defense” Force is. And yes, NATO does threaten with nukes, that was the entire reason why the USSR sent Cuba nukes through project Anadyr, as a response to the Jupiter missiles stationed in Turkey and the overextension of NATO into East German territory. This practice hasn’t stopped, NATO encircles countries and threatens them with obliteration if they don’t capitulate and free up their markets for western plunder.

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              Yeye so.you spew a lot of shit good job.

              This is about russia threatening the use of nuclear bombs im the ukraine conflict, be free to post links about whatever other issue you feel.

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                What “shit” did I spew? Which of these do you disagree with:

                1. The west is imperialist

                2. NATO destroyed Libya

                3. NATO destroyed Yugoslavia

                4. NATO placed the Jupiter missiles in Turkey and directly aimed them at the USSR, prompting the USSR to send nukes to Cuba

                5. The IDF is an offensive force for settler-colonialism, not a defensive force

                6. NATO over-extended into East German territory

                7. NATO encircles countries to open them up for foreign plunder

                All of these are well-established facts. In light of this, the Russian Federation is indeed under constant threat from NATO, a legacy of conflict that began in the Cold War against the Soviets and continues today against the RF. Russia’s survival as a country against NATO lies on nuclear deterrance, if they stop reminding NATO, then NATO will of course be more likely to cross red lines.

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                  All of them are at least partially wrong.

                  Is russia trying to annex territory that doesnt belong to them right now or not? Yes or no answer please.

                  Let me know how the west is annexing other countries making them imperalist.

                  Nobody ever wanted or needed to attack Russia. Nato is not a country nor is it annexing territory nor is it forcing people to join it. That is straight up russian propaganda to supress the real problems within the country and to distract. You have a fucking monarch up there with more wealth than he would ever need and yet this guy decides to attack a country minding its own business.

                  Btw, Ukraine used to rely on nuclear deterrance but it was Russia (and not nato) attacking it after signing multiple deals that it wouldnt.

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                    None of them are wrong at all, and you didn’t elaborate on any of that. The mere fact that you deny western imperialism is proof enough that you have a fundamentally lacking understanding of what’s going on in the world. Imperialism isn’t “annexation,” it’s a process of extraction and plunder. the West exports large amounts of financial capital to super-exploit for super-profits, and uses immense millitary force to protect that system. NATO is the means to protect this.

                    Same with you denying that the IDF is a terrorist army for settler-colonialism, this is pure Zionism. I only hope that you were speaking irrationally out of an emotional response and do not genuinely see the IOF as defensive.

                    As for Ukraine, it broke both Minsk agreements, admitted to never intending on following them, and continued slaughtering ethnic Russians in the Donbass region.