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To anybody reading this who is confused about Hexbear’s opinion on the Ukraine war, I will simplify it as much as possible in terms of increasing badness:
And so:
⬆️ Russia is doing this and we don’t like that.
⬆️ America is doing this and we don’t like that even more.
Stoking these kinds of ethnonationalist conflicts is one of the signature tactics of US foreign policy over the last century. Russia and Ukraine is just one example of how imperialism intensifies ethnonationalism. If you don't like national chauvinists then kill it at the root.
Exactly my point and why I made the flowchart. Russia engaging in ethnonationalist conflict does not mean it is not resisting US imperialism OR that Russia started the ethnonationalist conflict. What I mean is that the ethnonationalist conflict was forced on Russia by the US as one of its only means available to resist US imperialism.
The other method is that Russia relies far more heavily on its close ties with China, but it isn’t relevant for this post