Donetsk and Luhansk broke away from Kiev, and requested Russian support, then voted to join Russia. Kiev has been at war with Donetsk and Luhansk for over a decade, and are majority pro-Russian. Imperialism isn’t sinply annexing territory.
Sure, imperialist countries do that too, but Russia isn’t an imperialist country. It holds a tiny amount of global financial capital compared to the west, has no colonies nor neocolonies, and does not function by exporting capital to super-exploit the global south.
People correctly attack imperialist countries for plundering the global south, setting up comprador regimes, bombing and destroying anyone that tries to go against that. Russia doesn’t do that, though. Russia is sticking to the areas in Ukraine that seceded and voted to join Russia, the Donbass region, after a decade of Kiev murdering ethnic Russians in said region. Russia isn’t plundering the global south because it can’t, and isn’t in a position to do so.
Now Russian imperialism doesn’t count as imperialism because most of Russia’s hostility and imperialism is happening too close to their borders. Amazing.
I posted two very common definitions above and it’s imperialism because it fits the definition. It shouldn’t matter if you support it, it’s not a reason to not consider it imperialism.
Russia is invading countries, annexing land, creating buffer zones. That’s like run of the mill imperialism.
There’s no colonization going on. You’re confusing the measures imperialist countries use with the actual process of imperialism. Imperialist and non-imperialist countries annex territory, that doesn’t mean all annexation is imperialism.
Donetsk and Luhansk broke away from Kiev, and requested Russian support, then voted to join Russia. Kiev has been at war with Donetsk and Luhansk for over a decade, and are majority pro-Russian. Imperialism isn’t sinply annexing territory.
Invading, annexing, creating buffer states, that’s pretty much the typical shit imperilaist countries do
Sure, imperialist countries do that too, but Russia isn’t an imperialist country. It holds a tiny amount of global financial capital compared to the west, has no colonies nor neocolonies, and does not function by exporting capital to super-exploit the global south.
Russia of course does what people complain about imperialist countries do, but you see, Russia is too poor to count. It’s just sparkling hostility.
People correctly attack imperialist countries for plundering the global south, setting up comprador regimes, bombing and destroying anyone that tries to go against that. Russia doesn’t do that, though. Russia is sticking to the areas in Ukraine that seceded and voted to join Russia, the Donbass region, after a decade of Kiev murdering ethnic Russians in said region. Russia isn’t plundering the global south because it can’t, and isn’t in a position to do so.
Now Russian imperialism doesn’t count as imperialism because most of Russia’s hostility and imperialism is happening too close to their borders. Amazing.
You haven’t once explained how it’s imperialism, though. Annexation isn’t imperialism.
I posted two very common definitions above and it’s imperialism because it fits the definition. It shouldn’t matter if you support it, it’s not a reason to not consider it imperialism.
Russia is invading countries, annexing land, creating buffer zones. That’s like run of the mill imperialism.
There’s no colonization going on. You’re confusing the measures imperialist countries use with the actual process of imperialism. Imperialist and non-imperialist countries annex territory, that doesn’t mean all annexation is imperialism.