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to my comment about the NED. Directly bringing up the omparuson of Russian and US hybrid warfare. You claimed Russian operations dwarf American ones. When confronted with the facts of the matter from the NSA to the WMD lie, you pivot to say we are not discussing that. Please at least try stay consistent.
Ukraine deserves sovereignty. Absolutely. But sovereignty is material, not abstract. In 2014, an elected government was removed under threat of violence. The constitutional order broke. US-backed forces took power and immediately positioned Ukraine as a spearhead against Russia. Sovereignty for Ukraine was ended in that moment and it wasn't by Russian hands.
You call Russia imperialist. Materially, it is not. Imperialism requires export of capital, enforced unequal exchange, subordinated peripheral economies to a core. Russia does not command the IMF. It does not control SWIFT. It does not own global platforms or academic gatekeeping. It is an oligarchic kleptocracy with regional ambitions and security concerns. Conflating it with US hegemony serves Western propaganda.
I stand with the Ukrainian people, not the Banderite government in Kyiv. That government has banned opposition parties, consolidated media control, and committed its population to a war of attrition directed from abroad. Fighting to the last Ukrainian is not liberation. It is sacrifice for US strategic interests.
Since 2014, the population of the Donbas has resisted Kyiv. They have endured shelling, blockade, marginalization. Their preference for association with Russia has been tested under fire for nearly a decade. When this is over they should be given the right to choose who they associate with.
The position that serves Ukrainian workers is not escalation. It is negotiation. It is ending the war, not prolonging it for geopolitical gain. That is not Russian propaganda. That is the only position that centers the lives of the people you claim to support.
Expansions with military conquest is imperialism. Imperialism may use economic coercion but it is not required. Ukrainian people support their current government. Russia does not want to negotiate anything short of full surrender. There is nothing else to add
Got any actual evidence for any of those claims?
You can call millitant expansion imperialism, but Marxists don't have a problem with the word, but the actual, material process of what we call imperialism. Millitant expansion can be done for progressive reasons, like when the Statesian north liberated the slaves in the Statesian south. The actual economic form of international extraction as a special, necessary part of late-stage capitalism is what Marxists are trying to dismantle, due to it being the biggest obstacle to global socialism.
As for Ukrainians supporting their government, you're half-right. Western Ukrainians tend to support their government, while those in the Donbass seceded from it after the Euromaidan coup, and voted to join the Russian Federation.
Overall, we aren't arguing about words, but processes. If you insist on calling millitant expansion "imperialism," then we have to agree to what we call the Marxist understanding of late-stage capitalist imperialism as a special term as well, so that we don't get mixed up on terms.
You define imperialism as military conquest alone. That renders the term useless. By that logic, every war in history is imperialist. The distinction collapses. Materially, imperialism is the export of capital, the enforcement of unequal exchange, the structural subordination of peripheral economies. That framework explains why the US has 800 military bases globally. Why they can sanction the entire world. Why they support Israel and the constant destabilisation of the periphery.
You claim the Ukrainian people support their current government. Under martial law, with opposition parties banned, media consolidated, dissent criminalized, what does that support actually measure? Polls in a war zone with no free press are not evidence. They are propaganda tools.
You say Russia wants full surrender. That is false. Russia has offered terms: neutrality, demilitarization, recognition of Crimea, self-determination for the Donbas. That is not surrender. That is negotiation. The Donbas has resisted Kyiv since 2014. They have endured shelling, blockade, political erasure. Their preference is not fabricated. It has been tested under fire for nearly a decade. To deny them the right to choose is not solidarity. It is imposition.
You ignored the core of my last message because you have no rebuttal. You cannot refute the NED funding. You cannot explain away the Nulands-Pyatt call. You cannot reconcile your definition of imperialism with the material reality of global capital. You cannot reckon with the fact that US-backed forces shattered Ukrainian sovereignty in 2014, or that fighting to the last Ukrainian for US strategic interests is not in the interest of the average Ukrainian worker. So you retreat to cheap slogans.
If you really stood with the Ukrainian people, you would stand for ending this war. Not prolonging it for US strategic gain. Not fighting to the last Ukrainian. Not sacrificing a generation so Washington can weaken a rival. The position that serves Ukrainian workers is peace, sovereignty, and the right to determine their own future, free from Western patrons. That is the only position that centers human life over geopolitical abstraction.
Not true. I will use wikipedia definition: "Imperialism is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism)."
This perfectly matches both the behaviour of the US and the behaviour of Russia. This does not matches every war in history. It was coined in the 19th century to describe Napoleon III's attempts to gain political support by invasion.
You are getting confused with Russia. Free press is allowed in Ukraine. According to Reporters without Borders, Ukraine ranked 62nd out of 180 countries, one of the strongest performance since it's independence.
You are forgetting also all territories currently occupied, the entirety of of Donbas and Luhansk they do not control. Neutrality and demilitarization with an imperialistic power at the border that has attached and conquered their neighbor since it was born as country means letting the door open for further conquest down the line. With no guarantee this is surrender. Russia is not willing to give anything for peace.
Because it is irrelevant and a waste of time. US meddle with external country as it is an imperialistic nation. Russia meddle with external countries as it is an imperialistic nation. So what is there to discuss? Who does it more globally? The answer is the US. Who does it more in Ukraine? The answer is Russia. Now that we have this out of the way let's focus on the core of my first message.
And the only way we saw this can be achieved for countries that border Russia is join the EU or NATO. Poland is now free, Czechia is now free, Romania is now free, Slovakia is now free, the Baltic states are now free, Hungary is now free (but we need to wait for next election to know if this will remain true).
They're free alright, freely exploited by Western-backed capitalists and now are vassals.
You continue to demonstrate how you've fallen for imperialist propaganda. As has been explained above, the Donbas and its people have been under attack by the Ukrainian government and the AFU for more than a decade now. You are ignoring hard evidence of what really has happened since 2014. The notion that the fighting in the Donbas is only the result of Russian support is a delusion, and you seem also oblivious (likely willfully so) to the fact the Ukrainian government is openly fascist.
The solution for Ukraine that serves its populace the most is peace, sovereignty, and the right to determine their own future, which NATO and EU membership will not give them.