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But how is Russia trying to take Ukraine for their oil against their will not imperialism? What they're doing is the exact definition of imperialism.
Your definition of imperialism is taken from an imperialist source, interested in obfuscating it.
Here, some reading: https://arkansasworker.com/is-russia-imperialist/
And how the entire war came to be:
https://archive.ph/2ppei
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/the-buildup-to-war-in-ukraine-february-15-2022.html
So, in theory, I don't know a lot about modern day Russia. They are capitalist, and maybe they are practicing some imperialism, or would if the had the chance. But my focus has been elsewhere.
But I have learne a bit about this current conflict, and it goes back to 2014. There's more reasons for Russia to get involved. Such as Ukraine shelling their own people who didn't support the wests military coup, and those people being Russia-friendly, speak Russian, and possibly wanting to leave for Russia. There's a lot more nuance. I recommend checking more info out.
Now me personally, I don't care about Russia or Putin. I'm not a fan of the country, but I get why China, Africa, and others might partner with them. The wests military coups to oppress governments into handing over raw materials for poverty wages is just too consistent. For a modern example: niger and uranium and gold exports to France.
Everyone not in the imperial core have come to realize that NATO is not their friends, they are their oppressors. Partnering with Russia is a strategic choice.
My 2c, I don't represent all opinions here of course.
I want to learn more about the thoughts of the people in this instance. Where would be the best place to make a post asking about it?
lemmygrad has a couple ask communities, c/asklemmygrad and c/askcomrades is a good place to ask open questions about this instance/communism in general. If you have more specific questions, there are region specific communities for china/north korea, etc. and some places to learn more about the history of the USSR and GDR and whatnot. Also you can peruse c/informedtankie and if you are really open to learning more about our perspective, the prolewiki is a great place to learn a lot very quickly: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Main_page (And if you think that a wiki called 'prolewiki' would be biased against capitalism, you can google how the CIA has been moderating wikipedia since it's inception, a story told by a co-founder of wikipedia: https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/cia-moderating-wikipedia-former-editor/%7Cazerbaycan24, lots of media outlets have this story as well, so no bias here, just facts).
Last but not least, the c/comradeship (also called freechat) is where a lot of people spend their time, and you can ask questions there as well.
Hope this helps! I hope you learn we aren't scary people, we have some memes/dunking communities, but when people ask real honest questions, we tend to respond in kind with real honest answers.