cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26476469
The corporate media says Putin wants to take over the world, and Trump says Zelenskyy somehow managed to trick the US into supporting him — but the reality is that NATO’s long-term strategy of expansion towards Russia’s borders made war inevitable.
The only REAL path towards peace is the abolition of NATO!
Look, I hate NATO and the European Union, but Russia is not "defending against NATO". Capitalism IN RUSSIA caused this. It was the fall of the USSR that made Russia ultra-capitalist, and then ultra-imperialist. Russia is not a bastion of Socialism. It has a mercenary army, an entire military-industrial complex, and a barbaric mistreatment of actual workers. A lot of western politicians believe that Russia is communist, but that's just because they're idiots.
Nobody believes Russia is Communist right now except for random conservatives. Russia trying to secure a buffer zone against a hostile millitary alliance hell-bent on intimidating them into opening up their industry for foreign plundering, just like what happened during the fall of the USSR, is certainly an action a Capitalist country can take.
Morality is a separate matter from what caused the war initially, and given the peace deals offered by Russia towards the beggining of the conflict that were denied by the UK and US all had to do with NATO membership, I think it's a valid explanation.
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Not sure what your point is, I'm openly a Marxist-Leninist on a Socialist community whose icon is that of Marxism-Leninism.
Ever heard of nuland the nato imperialist who couped ukraine