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I'd say all capitalists are imperialist so yeah
Wrong. It does not meet Lenin's definition of imperialist and importantly in action and practice we can see it clearly aids and acts de-facto as an anti-imperialist counterweight to the US-led NATO imperialist order.
https://mronline.org/2019/01/02/is-russia-imperialist/
On god? I'll look into it.
I was aware that russia acted as oppsition to american/western hegemony but figured it was only as an alternative imperialist force but imperialist none the less. I admit to not knowing that much about russian foreign policy but figured that a capitalist country would be bound for imperialism because imperialism is profitable
While it is true that capitalism tends towards imperialism, it doesn't mean that all capitalist nations are imperialist automatically. Imperialism requires a developed M->M' circuit (finance capitalism) which necessitates the export of investments abroad to maintain rate of profit, which is why it is the final stage of capitalism. Only Western nations have achieved this, just take a look at where the biggest asset management firms are located (London, New York). Saying that all capitalist nations are imperialist is akin to saying that all socialist nations have already reached communism. That is just not how stages of development work.