Cowbee

I can't ban anyone, lol, and I'm absolutely correct here. The communists, as usual, are correct.

Ukraine's government isn't innocent, they have been ethnically cleansing ethnic Russians post-Euromaidan coup. Ukraine is not all Nazi, the Nazis in Ukraine are largely in the government of Ukraine and in fascist groups now folded into the government and millitary officially. I'm not wrong here at all, you still haven't explained how Nazis committing ethnic cleansing is okay.

Saying that Muslims can only run theocracies is racist. The original commenter didn't say "theocracy bad," but instead "Muslims only capable of theocracy." Further, they were wrong to claim the US Empire is more trustworthy than anyone else.

Commie reporting for duty ☭

Incredible racism, holy shit.

The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, Or Sympathy for the Monster is an excellent essay on the importance of trans rights and communism.

Believe it or not, Crimeans supported being in the Russian Federation and not in a government run by Nazis post-coup. You yourself said Russia was being imperialist, annexation isn't imperialism, imperialism is a specific form of international extractionism. Annexing territory can happen for a variety of reasons, only some of which is indicative of imperialism.

There is no evidence of Russia continuing beyond the 4 oblasts in Ukraine that isn't NATO manufacturing consent for protracted war with Russia. Russia has no reason to continue beyond, but NATO has very good reason to want people to think they will.

Deny reality all you like.

You can't separate imperialism from its economic basis. The ability for a country to take on the mantle of empire post-US is extremely mitigated. Imperialism isn't a magical force but a material process.

The US Empire has a small chance of Balkanizing, which the map drawers would love. The global south would develop far more rapidly, though this process has already started thanks to countries like the PRC. Europe will be forced into working with Russia and/or China. Countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and the DPRK that are heavily sanctioned will do a lot better with the US Empire out of the way, and Korea may even reunify down the road. Countries with strong socialist sentiment in the populace will better be able to become socialist and rapidly develop.

Taking land isn't necessarily imperialism. Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk all voted to join the Russian Federation, and Russia is annexing them not for resource extraction but to resolve the ethnic cleansing Kiev has levied against the Donbass region, and to create a buffer zone against NATO encirclement. Imperialism is a form of international extraction that functions by maintaining financial domination and monopoly, and using that to super-exploit the global south for super-profits.

There is no evidence whatsoever that Russia is trying to "grab Poland, the Baltics, and the rest of Ukraine." This is entirely fabricated on your end, Russia has no reason to do so nor is there any information on that.

I'm not saying Ukraine is majority Nazi. I said the leadership is full of Nazis, because the Nazis took power during the Euromaidan coup. The people aren't all Nazis, just like Statesians aren't all MAGA, but just like pro-America rallies are almost all MAGA, nationalist rallies in Ukraine draw out the neo-Nazis. The difference between Nazis in Russia and Ukraine is that in Ukraine they actually control the government, in Russia there are just small pockets.

I don't miss that Russia is ruled by nationalists, I quite openly said that they are. Kiev is run by neo-Nazis and is a puppet of western imperialists. Russia isn't imperialist, it lacks the finance capital necessary to be so, it's western countries that are imperialist and using Ukraine like they do Israel, to secure their interests in the region. It isn't at all "insane" to have a grounded and consistent understanding.

You have this incredibly simplistic "good vs evil" thing going on here, and it's clouding your judgement entirely.

The leadership in Kiev is neo-Nazi, it isn't just a small group. Ukrainian citizens are suffering under the Banderite regime. Russia has neo-Nazis too, but they aren't infesting the leadership, who are mostly nationalists supported by the majority of people for kicking out foreign imperialists that were plundering the country in the 90s. What radicalized me against western imperialism is living in a dying capitalist empire. I consume plenty of media from the west, there's no tunnel vision nor blinders on. Being a communist and being anti-US Empire isn't "insane."