It's an anti-imperial war from Russia's perspective, they are fighting NATO encroachment and resisting imperialism as they did in Syria
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How do you not know about the looting of the former Soviet Union? Do you know literally anything? Why do you feel qualified to talk at all on this subject when you are so insanely ignorant
Actually the draft made the composition of the army much more poor/diverse in racial backgrounds. The enlisted army being entirely or primarily poor people in America is a myth and complete pro-soldier cope. American soldiers are richer than the average American, and they primarily come from a caste of upper middle class career warriors from career warrior families.
Why is that relevant to counting bodies?
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Where did I say the Republicans were innocent? I said they're slightly less bad on imperialism and worse on domestic issues so it's a wash since I'm not going to weigh lives against each other. The neocons absolutely switched parties during Trump/Biden and to deny this is the actual load of bullshit.
The entire Ukraine coup and Ukraine war project that's been ongoing for a decade has been almost entirely Democrats + John McCain. They are the ones who escalated the largest conflict on Earth currently. Ukraine began escalating dramatically as soon as Biden was elected, and Biden is knee deep in Ukrainian corruption personally and heavily invested. Obama destroyed Libya. Obama destroyed Syria. Obama created ISIS.
The GOP of the Bush years was controlled by Neocons, all of which have moved to the Democratic party.
It's really a wash between dems being extra imperialist vs. republicans being hateful chuds domestically
Not all national projects are equal, they have specific characters. As I have pointed out, national projects can be comprador in nature (South Korea or Taiwan), they can be settler-colonial in nature (USA and Israel) or they can be fascistic and anti-communist historically (Ukraine). "Ukraine" as a project has proven its character many times over in my opinion. I'm already pretty hardline anti-nationalist, but I'll make an exception for nations with progressive or socialist or anti-imperialist character (Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, China, etc) insofar as they retain these characters (ie, insofar as they are useful to the communist movement and the proletariat).
"Self determination" manifested through a nation state IS a Liberal idea inherently. It is. I'm sorry. It was invented by Liberals at the advent of Liberalism, perhaps its defining feature outside of defending the interests of Capital. If you have to have a nation state in a transitory period, democratic decision structures are good to have! But that doesn't have anything to do with nationhood or nationalism or drawing borders arbitrarily around certain ethnic groups. You could have all of the USSR under one nation and have it be a democracy still where everyone is represented, without any discrete "nation states" comprising it.
It's one thing to break things down into regional administrative zones so that those living in that area have more control of their surroundings, that's again different than a specific national project where you create a Liberal nation state for "self determination" via projecting your ethnic identity onto an ethnostate and declaring hard unequal borders based on ethnicity and culture.
I guess since you are threatening your “I win button” I cannot comment further, I will only point out that Stalin was wrong on the National Question in regards to Zionism and thus I don’t find him a convincing or compelling source when he made the largest mistake on this topic in the last century. I will only point to the writings of Marx and Engels that outline the role of nations much more clearly
You’ve seen me posting around here for months surely, and you know I am not a reactionary. Are you going to ban me for having a more hardline anti-revisionist Marxist view on nationhood than you? Seems a bit like sectarianism when nothing I have said here is actually reactionary and is instead a disagreement in theoretical views among Marxists
I am not at all arguing that there was a dictatorial benevolent tyranny by Stalin and the Soviets, I’m saying there should have been.
Stalin made a mistake supporting Zionism and Lenin made a very similar mistake supporting Ukrainianism. Both got wrapped up in liberal ideals of “self-determination” and nationhood which led them off the communist Marxist path which eschews all nationalism apart from that which is useful for decolonization and fighting imperialism. Nations are a tool, which should be used if they are helpful in bringing about communism and should be tossed aside and disregarded if they get in our way. It was a mistake in both cases to err down the side of nationalism for its own sake. Lenin gave far too much power and independence to the Ukrainian nationalists, and in thanks for it he got a century of black reaction. Never does kindness go unpunished
NATO kill count: Tens of Millions
Russia kill count: Tens of Thousands
Some libs in here really require perspective