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How are they a bad guy? They are defending themselves against imperialist encroachment and fighting against a murderous Nazi regime.
For the first time since the end of the USSR a non-Western power is openly confronting the collective West and winning, both militarily and economically. They have shown the entire world what a paper tiger NATO is, which in turn emboldens others to stand up to the imperialists instead of cowering in fear.
They are liberating an oppressed people from fascism while at the same time depleting NATO arsenals that would otherwise be used to murder people all across the global south, costing the West billions and trapping them in a losing quagmire from which they cannot escape. And last but not least they are keeping the US distracted and buying China time to be even better prepared for any future confrontation in the Pacific.
All of these things are objectively good from an anti-imperialist perspective.
Ah yes, the sterling and unassailable anti-imperialism of... checks notes ...Vladimir Putin's Russia. I am sorry man but what?
Most sides in most wars are bad. Just because they are fighting your current enemy doesn't make them good. It makes them, at best, a lesser evil and an ally of convenience. If todays Russia had the global position to do so, they would create their own version of Nato and it would be just as imperialist as Nato is. Just because they used to be cool 40 years ago, doesn't make them cool now.
"If Russia's historical and material conditions were different, it would be different."
Yea and if I had wheels I'd be a wagon.
Look at WW2. France and the UK fought the Nazis and that's a good thing. Does it excuse the clearly evil shit they did as colonial powers before WW2, during or after? Fuck no. No need to carry water for them, no need to carry water for post USSR Russia.
WW2 and modern day are two completely different world dynamics. You can’t just compare Russia in 2025 to the UK 80 years ago.