Let me start off with the fact that NATO is most definitely to blame for this mess. From the moment they staged their coup in Ukraine, they began the path to this war. That however does not mean we should support Russia. Lenin’s principle of Revolutionary Defeatism should be our guide. The working class has nothing to gain from a war between capitalist powers. And Russia is a capitalist power. It is us who do the fighting, us who bear the brunt of the economic impacts. This can be seen in the sanctions on Russia. The rich only get richer, the poor only get poorer. This war helps neither the Russian proletariat nor the Ukrainian. The only solution is deescalation. We should still support the independence of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, but that doesn’t mean we have to support Russia’s actions. They are not invading with good intentions. Putin is not trying to denazify Ukraine out of the goodwill of his heart. Russia is pursuing its own nationalist aimes. Nothing about this war in anyways moves us towards revolution. In a war between imperialist countries, the only result will be more devastation. This is not both sideism. It’s opposing lesser evilism. The initial moderator statement was closer to what it should be. It was approved by every moderator except RedstarXtreme. The biggest error of the statement was implying that the Reddit admins were justified in quarantining this community. They were not. I like the statement by r/sendinthetanks better so be sure to check that out. I’m open to discussion.
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/sendinthetanks/comments/tls07q/on_russia/
Again, in what way is a world with more imperialists better? All that causes is more conflict between such powers that only hurts the working class in both countries. The dollar is losing its value for reasons other than this war. If anything, the Russian Ruble is suffering far, far more.
Russia isn’t imperialist in the Marxist sense of the word. Not saying it never will be, but it has not yet reached that stage of capitalism. That said, Russia is aligning itself strongly with China, who is very much socialist. And the working class everywhere will benefit from the creation of an international bloc that opposes the US.
That’s what you’re looking for isn’t it? By a multipolar world you mean a world with multiple imperial cores.
By a multipolar world, I just mean a world with multiple cores. I agree that this isn’t strictly a good thing (the early 20th century was multipolar and we all know how that worked out) but one of those cores is led by a socialist country. The character of this core is incomparable to the one led by the US.