• WithoutFurtherDelay
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    At risk of coming across as a lib, I am super skeptical of Russia, but more in an Imposter Amongus sense than a “Russia bad!” sense.

    Like their desire to attack NATO is based asf, but I don’t trust a capitalist country to be a good member of an international socialist coalition for long

    So this is good, but North Korea should probably watch their back in electrical

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      What has helped me frame these ideas is the concept of primary vs secondary (and tertiary and so on) contradictions.

      Imperialism, specifically US led imperialism as there are no other imperialist forces at the moment, is the primary contradiction of our time. Russia, along with other capitalist nations such as India and Brazil as a part of BRICS, are contributing to the coming end of the imperialist contradiction. The ruling classes of these countries are our allies on this today, even though they are our class enemy tomorrow.

      Once the primary contradiction is dealt with, a formerly secondary contradiction becomes primary. That will likely be the monopoly phase of capitalism. In that phase the capitalist nature of states such as Russia, India, and Brazil (just to name the examples from above) will be challenged and brought to an end.

      And then we focus the struggle on to the next primary contradiction and so on. Such is the practice of a communist. I think that the struggle against dealing with contradictions is asymptotic, as in always approaching but never reaching a finished state, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth fighting to make people’s lives better.

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      bro we need a broader coalition against US and the Europe . Its the 3rd world vs them . Anything positive is good for the 3rd world.

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        Us vs Them mindsets are always horrible frames of reference to take. Especially when every actor here has their own unique goals, motivations, and reasons for acting. Russia is not the Soviet Union anymore, they are a liberal capitalist disaster that is a shadow of the Soviet Union. It makes sense to be wary.

        We can only hope that this leads to good outcomes, but again, until we see actions and results, we don’t have much to go off of.

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        Yes but Russia is still sussus amongus Just because there is no choice but to accept the sussus imposter as part of the group doesn’t mean they’re not a sussus amongus

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          and is it because you are from US ? because I am not feeling it I am from a 3rd world country

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            I mean maybe? I guess what im saying is pretty irrelevant. Nobody trusts each other in global politics anyways. I wouldn’t expect it to be that controversial, though. I mean we’re talking about the country that was instated as a coup by the US.

            Like, I wholeheartedly support their opposition of NATO and the US, none of this changes that

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              Are you talking about Ukraine or Russia?

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                Russia? But Ukraine is way more of a puppet state than Russia is. Russia was created as a U.S.-backed coup, which makes me suspicious of it, but it isn’t an active puppet like Ukraine is. Russia has somewhat broken free of those strings. It doesn’t really change it’s roots as the country that existed because of Y*ltsin and the cold blooded murder of the USSR though. Just means it’s opposing the right country for once, now.