Keep in mind, I am not Russian, and that I do not consider Russia to be imperialist. I do have this one question however.
Considering that the Russian communist party originally disagreed with going beyond Donbas and invading the rest of Ukraine too (and also because in WW1, it was the communists who decided against continuing to fight in the war, but that is distant history), I have to ask, is this truly a fight for Russia’s survival, that absolutely necessitates drafting regular people, at this point in the conflict?
The draft, despite being partial and applicable to ex-soldiers only, still affects some people that have nothing to do with the army - this is happening because there are quotas that need to be fulfilled. Some privileged people also seem to have been given immunity from it, and some protesters were also drafted:
https://zona.media/chronicle/211#49874
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/russia-mobilisation-ukraine-war-army-drive
Assuming that all of these stories are true, what should regular Russians do about it? Should they do anything, should they oppose it? And, if these stories are not true, should they still do something? Even if it’s true that only ex-soldiers are being drafted, that still carries a similar weight with it - because they are still just regular people, who could have joined the army for a variety of reasons, voluntarily or otherwise.
I know next to nothing about Russia, the true state of the Ukraine conflict, and the present threat level that NATO poses. All I know is that multipolarity is preferable to unipolarity, but is this the only correct path forward towards that goal?
I believe that Russia should get fully involved to deal with the situation once and for all. Drastic measures have to be taken for this war to come to a satisfactory end in the foreseeable future.
When Ukraine did their offensive and managed to take territory due to weak Russian resistance, many here were being deeply critical of the decision to evacuate. The Ukrainian state has to be denazified in it’s entirety, otherwise death and suffering will keep piling up even if the war ends.
I disagree with the partial mobilization, because it is not enough. It is the Russian state’s duty to make the necessary decisions for the war to come to an end relatively quickly. Leaving the eastern territories in those fascists’ hands would be unforgivable. This would leave untold hundreds of thousands to suffer under fascist rule.
The Kiev regime has to go for peace to be an option. The morality of conscription is a silly question and shouldn’t even be discussed. What matters now is victory, while not whatever the cost, it is unlikely that Russia and it’s people will lose more from this mobilization than what they and the entire world are to gain from victory.
Even with western help, this terrorist state will be unable to survive long when facing the entire might of the Russian federation. The latter’s cautious approach and lack of political will is the only reason this war is still going on.
I fear that I might have appeared overly Jingoistic here, but you have to understand that there is no such thing as a moral middle ground with fascists. We have to destroy them while we can. If Russia accepts peace now, Ukraine will undoubtedly effectively enter NATO, which will put the fascists there out of reach from the righteous peoples of the world. We have to make the dominoes fall wherever we can, whenever we can. This is the only way we can hope to defeat imperialism and eventually capitalism.