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There are certainly people who go out of their way to defend Russia, but for fuck's sake, Ukraine literally was attempting an ethnic cleansing campaign while also violating multiple treaties
If it were any other country, the libs would gladly be in favor of retaliatory action
No tbh
Liberals talk negatively about South Africa ,not conservatives ,not Neo Nazis ,not Nazis ,liberals ,the Biden ,Hillary ,and bill Clinton types
South Africa is by all means a liberal democracy ,but if you look at discussions about it be it from presidents or so called liberal people on Internet forums you would think it’s a dictatorship when in fact it’s a liberal democrat and is even recognized as a liberal democracy by the most right wing of think tanks
we, as educated communists, should go out of our way to dispel western misconceptions about Russia and the rest of our "enemies" and spread understanding. It is our duty to disillusion these chauvinists of their fake notions and correct them. We must counter-signal to the entire western dominated narrative that is always pro-chauvinistic and anti-"enemy of the day" in every way that we can.
Okay but Putin has banned being gay in public, he was part of the regime that killed the soviet union and he fucking sucks.
He's a sick mafioso who wields reaction at his convenience, but what would you guess to be Contra's stance on Navalny was to anyone who didn't bring up Navalny's actual politics? My guess is that she'd to like the other libs and call him a hero who was too brave for this world.
That's why it's critical support of them in their anti-imperialist struggle and not uncritical support of their domestic policies
However if I see someone being overly critical of an official “enemy” at a crucial time like a coup attempt or imperialist invasion, and talking about nothing else, I see that person as an enemy.
the only countries i uncritically support is DPRK and Cuba. Pretty much every other AES has major flaws or foreign policy problems. Russia has better foreign policy than China does, which is very cringe and pathetic for China.
I hear that, and looking at how he helped to illegally dissolve the soviet union as a Yeltsin protege, it's super-true. It also means unless the US falls, there's no way to reliably replace him; the West introduced Putin to the world in the first place.
We should recognize that the West wants a further-right figurehead and they only support rebellion to that end; if we don't defend the people of the world from the USA, there will be very few global gay liberation wins.
gotta be real that it's about nato, but why on earth would i defend the right of nazi-collaborator-curious nation to join fucking nato, if not for cheaper soldiers to send to (apparently) iran