Pretty gross. Comments every bit as awful as you’re thinking. Just a reminder of the abysmal state of non-cishet rights and acceptance in Russia.
Edit: can’t get my screenshot to load properly so text:
T1: Putin on accusations against Russia in the energy crisis: “European countries are big specialists in non-traditional relationships and themselves abandoned traditional energy sources in favor of non-traditional ones”
T2: (“non-traditional relationships” is the legal term in Russia for all things “LGBT”)
It’s not an anti imperialist stance if you’re just trying to contest imperial hegemony on behalf of your own imperial ambitions. That’s still just imperialism
Anyone on this site who genuinely believes Vladimir Putin does “anti-imperialism” out of any motive other than supremely cynical, convenient, competing imperialist interest seriously needs to re-evaluate their stances and sources. Or, otherwise, go join the fucking Maupinite/Hazite clowns who are basically doing the most cringe reactionary shit imaginable, because they are your people.
I say this as someone who has for a while tried to stay out of the dogmatic factionalist bullshit in favor of just shitposting when it comes to this site. If you’ve been suckered into believing a siloviki-dominated hyper-capitalist kleptocracy like Russia is a genuine force for “anti-imperialism”, you’ve been fucking had in the worst way possible. Even the most mindless simping for modern Dengist China has a more rational basis.
I can’t believe that I need to reiterate that we shit on Ukraine here because they’re filled with nazoids, not because capitalist Russia is “good”.
You do not, under almost any circumstances, gotta hand it to post-downfall Russia
Literally no one here is arguing that Ukraine is good, but the actual leftists (as opposed to national chauvinists) here are arguing that this is unmistakably an inter-imperialist war and not some convoluted “the invasion of Ukraine is anti-imperialist because Russia is on the imperial periphery of a super-imperialist bloc” bullshit argument.
I’m someone who can absolutely advance arguments that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was caused by outside imperialist circumstances. But now that it has happened, and is actual fact? There is zero “critical support” of Russian aggression here. The only legitimate communist position in this scenario is for Ukrainian and Russian soldiers alike to turn their guns on their own generals. Will that happen? No. But that’s the fucking position the Bolsheviks themselves took from the start, not some ridiculous stance about how actually the Kaiser was right to resist all along and criticizing the German war effort is bad.