WideningGyro [any]

How dare they disrespect the time-honored European tradition of racism!?

They used to use racism to drive a wedge between different groups of the proletariat. They still do, but they used to too.

Completely dogmatic way of thinking. I should remind you that you just said “Cuba and Vietnam are not engaged in combat with Nazis and imperialists currently.” to the suggestion that materially supporting those socialist countries would be more than/equally as productive materially supporting Russia. So which is it? Are there alternatives, or is “die for a country marginally less fascist than the country they’re fighting because Lenin said so”?

I support DPRK, again critically, that doesn’t mean I think it’s a good idea for young DPRK men to die in this conflict. There are again, thousands of better ways to support socialism than to throw your life away shoulder to shoulder with reactionaries. That’s my two cents. Probably going to stop responding to you once you call me a chauvinist again.

Russia being the aggressor who wants to take all the territory

Fucking quote me on that. Why are you putting words in people’s mouth and ascribing them intentions you know nothing about?

I said “territorial ambitions”, and Russia is completely transparent about having designs on Crimea, and parts of east Ukraine. That it is part of a fight against NATO encroachment doesn’t suddenly change the fucking material facts of what the war is. If you go fight for Russia, you’re going to risk your life in a trench to take or hold some tiny village or hill. That’s a fact. That’s a completely coherent position to take without having to “fall back on the western narrative”.

I am, as are just about everyone else I have ever talked to on this site, happy to call Russia’s fight a fight against NATO and imperialism. It’s your insane leap from that fact to “it’s your duty as a communist to die for Russia” that everyone is reacting against.

I find the fact that you find dying in a ditch for Russia, a country that at most deserves critical support, for the reasons many others have stated here (capitalist society, persecution of minorities etc.) somehow more important or pressing than joining the fight against fascism by moving to and helping build a nation with actual, existing socialism to be an absurd set of priorities.

What the fuck. Cuba, Vietnam, China, DPRK and Laos are all fighting fascism all the time. Are you seriously suggesting that fighting on the frontlines of a deeply reactionary capitalist country is the only way to combat fascism and imperialism. Because that is delusional.

Since when does “critically supporting” Russia mean die on the front lines for their territorial ambitions?

I was about to ask why anyone would suspect foul play this long after his death, then clicked the link and immediately realized I’m dumb and that prince Andrew is very much still alive.

Just curious, why do you see NATO expansion as an overstated factor in the war? You say yourself that the war is about control of spheres of influence, and what is NATO but part of the US’s power projection?

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