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Thoughts?

Don’t agree with his assessment at all pretty much, but still interested what yous think about that stance, because really I’ve not seen much theory based discussion on the topic since the early days of the conflict.

  • @SaddamHussein24
    15•2 years ago

    I agree. My personal opinion on why Russia is antiimperialist is because of NATO aggression against Russia. I think Putin would have been more than happy to be a NATO imperialist ally. The problem was that Putin destroyed the crazy uncontrolled neoliberalism of Yeltsin, and actually served the russian bourgeoisie, not the american one. The west didnt like this, so they decided to do regime change and attack Russia. Putin was extremely patient with them, which is why he allowed several of his allies to be destroyed by the US (Iraq and Libya). He tried to appease the west. But the west never had enough. I think the breaking point was the imperialist aggression against Syria and Euromaidan in 2014. I think that after that Putin understood that there was no way he could be friends with NATO as he wanted to. So he was forced to look for allies to cope with western aggression. And he found them. China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc. The antiimperialist bloc was born.