I just cant say that Russia (and obviously the US is worse) is a force of good in the world. They both display all hallmarks of oppression. I recognize the same social, economic, and political conditions that concentrate power in the hands of the few. Both the US and Russia actively pursue objectives that are a benefit to their ruling class but not their people. they’re so similar a country within their own borders. We won’t even get into the fact how each of “the big three” have their own small nations they each bully around consistently.
That’s why it’s important to read about imperialism and how it functions. An extreme oversimplification is that finance capital allows the country with the largest finance capital to dominate the global south, and push out other countries using its hard power. The US is the empire. Russia’s ruling class can’t oppress the global south in the same manner, and is kept out of doing so by NATO. That’s why countries throwing off imperialism like the Sahel states align with Russia and China, since neither participates in unequal exchange. It isn’t because Russia is more moral, it’s because they’re not in position to be imperialist in the first place.
I just cant say that Russia (and obviously the US is worse) is a force of good in the world. They both display all hallmarks of oppression. I recognize the same social, economic, and political conditions that concentrate power in the hands of the few. Both the US and Russia actively pursue objectives that are a benefit to their ruling class but not their people. they’re so similar a country within their own borders. We won’t even get into the fact how each of “the big three” have their own small nations they each bully around consistently.
That’s why it’s important to read about imperialism and how it functions. An extreme oversimplification is that finance capital allows the country with the largest finance capital to dominate the global south, and push out other countries using its hard power. The US is the empire. Russia’s ruling class can’t oppress the global south in the same manner, and is kept out of doing so by NATO. That’s why countries throwing off imperialism like the Sahel states align with Russia and China, since neither participates in unequal exchange. It isn’t because Russia is more moral, it’s because they’re not in position to be imperialist in the first place.