> After watching it I assume China will be invading Taiwan in the next year.
I'm not watching it to find out whether you mean that, or whether that's sarcasm. But Russia talked very similarly to how China is talking, and it turned out that Russia meant it.
The run up to that was conservatives constantly claiming Russia was going to instantly defeat Ukraine's "gay they/them army", which of course they haven't done, because being macho and heterosexual doesn't actually help you survive drone bombings.
These snipes don’t matter when it comes to war. Conservatives and mainstream dems are in full support of wasting billions of dollars to blow stuff up in other countries. What they say may be slightly different, but the end goal is full support of the imperialist stance and the gleeful military complex.
"Anti-imperialism" is like half leftover Soviet Union propaganda, which is why "anti-imperialists" are opposed to defending against Russian invasions, because they think Russia is actually the USSR in disguise.
Most of us anti-imperialists condemn both Russia for invading and NATO for the constant threats, proxy warfare and helping Ukrainian fascists coup the government in 2014.
When two imperialist forces fight, the working classes of either should refuse to fight each other.
The working class of Russia has been busy genociding entire Ukrainian villages and looting their washing machines to take home to their wives. Remember, they don't have class consciousness, because they're not secretly communists.
And yet plenty of Russians do refuse to fight, just like plenty of Ukrainians. There are trade unionists and communists in both countries, but without state power in either. The latter can change.
The 2014 uprising was a popular movement. Come on. Don’t feed me the Kremlin propaganda that all those thousands of Ukrainians getting beaten and arrested by government goons were paid US stooges. It’s possible for the US to support a movement and for it to also be a genuine popular indigenous movement.
She didn’t dictate anything, we was advising and negotiating. That’s what diplomats do. It’s literally their job. Did they have a lot of influence? Sure. Did the Russians have a lot of influence with the previous lot? Absolutely. At the end of the day though the Americans think the Ukrainian people should have a say, and the Russians don’t.
The reason the Russians took over Crimea wasn’t because of anything the US did, it’s because of what the Ukrainian people chose to do.
I'm not watching it to find out whether you mean that, or whether that's sarcasm. But Russia talked very similarly to how China is talking, and it turned out that Russia meant it.