@Omar del Sur
You are starting to sound like a Tankie who isn’t nuanced and who’s politics is strictly motivated by anything Anti American/West. There isn’t going to be a multi-polar world, Russia and the United States are two sides of the same coin, both of whom want to take over the world. Russia has an interest in re-creating the soviet Union and swallowing up all it’s former territories (which includes central-Asian Muslim countries) and let’s not forget the atrocities they have committed against Syrian Muslims on behalf of Bashar al-Assad and how they are allies to Iran (the biggest enemy of the Arab and Muslim world).
well I mean.... I don't know, I don't want to completely dismiss what you're saying. I don't think you're totally off the mark.
am I anti-the-West geopolitically... well... yeah. that's been pretty blatantly the case for quite a while, it's not anything new.
I am fed with the West trying to make me think atheists and homos are anything normal and I'm staunchly and rightfully opposed to Western imperialism. I am tired of the West pushing its satanic agenda.
I am resolutely hostile to this satanic agenda.
am I a tankie???? I mean.... in a certain way, I respect the old-school Soviet, Fidel, Che sort of Marxism-Leninism more than this garbage homo version of communism being pushed by the West. but ummm.... I'm definitely not on board with the whole genociding religious people aspect of Stalin type ideology. so that part no.
and I don't believe in Marx and I literally am sympathetic to Pinochet and have defended Cold War-era cleansings of commies....
no way does any argument hold up that I'm a Communist. for example, I was very staunchly against Pedro Castillo and Lula.
but am I anti-the-West geopolitically? Yes. Yes. Yes. I don't deny that. I don't apologize for it.
everything that you point to Russia having done, the US has done pretty much the same stuff. but I think the US has done the same stuff and then more. I think if you put both on the scales, the US crimes will be heavier in total.
but that's sort of besides the point. I want Russia to take an anti-the-West line and I feel Putin is insufficiently hardline. sort of like Khruschev was seen as too soft towards the West and Mao wanted him to take a harder line. I think the Wagner guy represents a harder line. I want Russia to take a harder line against the West. I want Ukraine to be crushed.
I want an even balance of power between Russia and the West. right now I think the balance is tilted more in favor of the West and I want that balance to be even.
balance of power theory is an ancient concept and it isn't some concept cooked up Stalin or Putin. it is very ancient and it is what I'm in favor of.
obviously I think my view is the correct one but I think your opinion is valid and I think my opinion is valid as well. I don't think there's any sort of obligation on me to lean more in favor of Ukraine and the West. I think it's a valid opinion if that is what you hold but I don't think it's correct and I don't think there's any sort of binding obligation on me to lean more towards the West.
manufactures using them for cheap labor. Whereas russia has battle hardened generals and soldiers from decades of battles. I would say superior military tech that they actually produced in-house. There missile defense systems and nuclear weapons up there with best of them. Before this war Russia was second in most military ranking.
