I often notice people discussing the (supposedly only potential) existence of chemical weapons in Ukraine. I’ve learned not to trust everything I see in front of me, so I want some concrete proof of such a bold claim.

Speaking of bold claims about Ukraine, does anyone have a “masterpost” for the Russia-Ukraine conflict? I just wanna read more about it through a Marxist-Leninist perspective.

  • lil_tank
    71·
    3 years ago

    I just watched the Loner Box video and it’s so western apologetic. Painting US funding as “just foreign aid” when foreign aid has a history of being weaponised was very sketchy. Also the whole “Kremlin manipulating the media!!!” with absolutely zero perspective on how the western media is accusing Russia of doing exactly what they do all the fucking time. Also it uses this broad liberal idea of imperialism being “big country builds influence” and not the stricter, more useful analysis of Lenin.

    • Tsskyx
      23·
      3 years ago

      But that just sounds like shifting the blame now. Both sides can be guilty of the same thing, and just because that one side is heavily biased doesn’t mean that their own sources that they present are bunk too. By all means, we can investigate these claims ourselves, there’s no need for Vice to spoon-feed us a prepared narrative.

      Also yeah, its not imperialism per se, but it still has a strategic / economical motive, ie. a motive beneficial to Russia. Why would Russia launch a war, if it had nothing to gain? And for the record, I don’t buy the idea that they’re just trying to level the odds. No one is automatically this nice and polite, especially not bourgeois nation-states. When Russia becomes a communist state again, then perhaps it will become more believable.

      For now, I don’t think the evidence for biological warfare research in Ukraine amounts to anything. Though if a secret facility does exist somewhere that no one has discovered yet, then that would be quite the coincidence.

      • lil_tank
        3·
        3 years ago

        I don’t really understand your response because I generally agree with you I was just pointing how pro-west the videos is, doesn’t mean russia is free from propaganda or economic interests in war (for the matter I’m really not well researched enough so I don’t want to affirm anything)