what exactly is ur take here? this is a bad thing, its fucked up that Russia targets civilians sometimes, worse things happening elsewhere doesnt mean that this is ok or that we shouldn’t care, or that we should be disrespectful of civilians dying.
this is a disturbing thing to post, as in its disturbing that ur reaction to 26 civilians being murdered in a war is to laugh at it, that is psychopath shit.
I think … maybe…
Civilians injured in Ukraine gets the US Ambassador to say, “Hey, support Ukraine!”
Civilians injured in the Palestinian territories but there are no US Ambassador’s tweeting, 'Hey support Palestine!"
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What kind of “they go low we go high” bullshit is this? 🤣
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I’m sure most actual ukrainians are fine,
Mmmmmmmm that’s highly dependent. I follow the axiom of “where one nazi sits at a table with a dozen people, if the people there stay seated, there’s now thirteen nazis in the room”. I never saw any meaningful attempt to get away from that table from large swathes of Ukranian civilians save the ones that actually deserted.
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it’s not “stooping” to remark that racist favoritist hypocrites are racist and favoritist (which is what the OP is doing)
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No war but class war.
Settler talk that ignores the intersectionalities necessary for you to have your ‘class war’. While you may not be wrong about innocent blood being shed, “no war but class war” is honestly just as bad to me as right-winger anti-Black dogwhistling because it says to me that the settlers and their descendants can never be put in a position of actually having to pay for all they’ve done. Can never be made to feel uncomfy, can never have support withheld from them due to a historically-earned lack of trust. This is not the way.
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It’s a proto-fascist dictatorship
If Russia is that then so is every single western “liberal democracy”. With the crucial difference that Russia is not a part of the imperial core, it is a semi-peripheral country and at the moment one of the main antagonists of the empire.
And while the Russian Federation is indeed a bourgeois regime, it would be un-marxist to look at the country in isolation and to close one’s eyes to its position in the context of the larger global conflict between the imperial core and the periphery (or what could be called the global class struggle).
It is a fact that Russia, with its numerous internal contradictions that we as Marxists are acutely aware of, plays a pivotal role in the new multipolar world that is taking shape. They continue (if not to the same degree as their Soviet predecessors) to be involved in aiding anti-colonial struggles and helping global south countries that have found themselves in the crosshairs of the empire to defend themselves: from Syria and Iran to Mali and Burkina Faso, and even Venezuela and Nicaragua.
It is not only incorrect, it is downright lazy to blindly parrot the liberal line about Russia being a “proto-fascist dictatorship”. This “neither Moscow nor Washington” type of fencesitting is not helpful and not appropriate to the current phase of global struggle that we find ourselves in.
