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Defending yourself against an aggressor should only ever be focussed against the agressor, not against civillians not taking part in the war and no person ever should be forced to fight in any war.
I agree. Ukraine shouldn't do this.
The OP's insinuation, however was not :
But:
When you go this route, you side with the oppressor.
Equating the people of Ukraine with the western backed regime is the height of idiocy.
I am far from equating. Liberation of Ukrainian people must culminate in the destruction of the Ukrainian state, be it western- or Russian-backed, as is the case for all other peoples and states.
On the other hand, destruction of only Ukraine serves only their imperialist oppressor - Russia.
It's so funny when a liberal crying about "western values" is lecturing me on what constitutes idiocy.
Yogthos is not defending Western/liberal values, he is pointing out the hypocrisy of liberalism.
Yes.
Russia is not predominantly an imperialist state at the moment, though it is a capitalist state which should ultimately be destroyed. And being a capitalist state, in time it may well develop into a full-throated imperialist state. To elaborate I’ll copypasta myself:
Appeal to hypocrisy is one of the lowest, filthiest of arguments, used by trolls, propagandists and hacks of all allegiances. You didn't make him look much better.
Russian war against Ukraine is a textbook example of an imperialist war - a plunderous attempt to cut up and consume, annex a smaller neighbor in order to expand the sphere of influence of Russian capital, to turn back the losses of the 2010s, when Ukraine escaped, though not unscathed, the clutches of the Russian bourgeoisie in favor of apparently more appealing clutches of the US and EU capital.
Russia is also a colonial power, which you seem to disregard in favor of the following:
Positioning the victory of Russian owning class in the act of class warfare which was the shock therapy, calling it and the following consolidation of power by the national bourgeoisie a "liberation" is just disgusting. It was class war, first and foremost. It could give birth to a neocolonial relationship, if it "succeeded" - but it did not. It was a boost for the capital class, which then metastasized into the current liberal turned fascist regime.
It's also funny to me how you completely disregard oppressor part, which is as important as the imperialist part.
So, lesser evilism? Russia is definitely a smaller evil, but I'm not sure how it's a lesser one. I might be biased though, given Russia's desire to eradicate me.
There were 25 civilian deaths on both sides during the whole of 2021; large portion of them due to mines and other wartime remains. The claims of genocide in Donbas are some of the most blatant lies there, and you should be ashamed of yourself for ever uttering them.
By ignoring the imperialist nature of the invasion, by repeating the position of Russian capital - "the genocide, the aggression, the protection of the motherland against foreign interests" - you inadvertently serve as their lackey.
Oh I see, this conversation would just be a repeat of eight months ago, where no successful communist states have ever existed, the USSR was an ethnic cleanser, and Russia today is a fascist state. You also seemed to downplay Ukraine’s Nazi problem.
You were right on at least one account, though: Haz, Maupin, and Hinkle are patsocs and/or nazbol pieces of shit. But I don’t know why you thought anyone on Lemmy/Lemmygrad/Hexbear would give them the time of day. Where did you get that idea?
As for Ukraine’s Nazi problem:
If you think you can just dump on me a bunch of articles and leave me to piece together what your argument might be or not be, you're wrong.
You said Ukraine is/was doing a genocide. You did not provide any evidence, while ignoring that cries of "national integrity" and "national security" are barely something more than legitimization mechanism for imperialist conflicts and has been such since imperialism existed.
You said Russia is not imperialist, or that Russian invasion is not imperialist, and chose to ignore my actual stated argument.
The Nazis - please make a statement I can argue with.
It's either an oxymoron, or you're begging the question. Also no argument again.
Don't be a lazy fuck and actually argue.
No one here seems interested in our opinion, and no one’s going to click on more replies in a three day old post, so
What a lame reply.
So you know the genocide story is a lie and keep spreading it? That's fucked up.
Thanks for plainly admitting that what you actually care about is preserving western hegemony.
They think western hegemony will fall anytime now if only Russia can "win" the war. Also, they think somehow a multi polar world order with Russia on the stage is going to be a step towards freeing the people of the earth.