Cowbee [he/they]

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Marxist-Leninist ☭

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Cake day: December 31st, 2023
  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Almost 100,000 young men flee Ukraine in two months
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    2 hours ago

    There isn’t a strong argument that China is “steadfast in becoming imperialist.” There’s projection from western countries that have imperialized and colonized the global south for centuries. The liberal, western definition of imperialism you give is meant to makw any influence seem to be imperialism, it’s vibes-based. A much better definition is one of extraction via export of capital, ie outsourcing and using millitary domination to force austerity on the global south (exactly the role of the IMF).

    China and Russia are not imperialist by this definition, one that is materialist, and accepted by the majority of the world and not just the west.

    The west provoked the war with Russia, sabotaged peace talks, and give aid in exchange for steep loans and rare earths. They are forcing Ukraine into an unwinnable war so that they can fleece Ukraine for everything.

    As for Putin, generally the people and land in Eastern Ukraine are Russian, that’s why the divide exists. Western Ukraine is Ukrainian. Putin’s words often get morphed through a game of telephone, exaggerated, or taken out of context. He’s certainly no saint, but he’s also not Hitler 2 like liberals claim.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Almost 100,000 young men flee Ukraine in two months
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    1 day ago

    Russia is capitalist, but doesn’t have the immense imperialist infrastructure to plunder the world that the west has. China isn’t imperialist, nor is BRI. China doesn’t loot and plunder the global south like the west does, there’s mutual development.

    When you say “the people wanted X,” and I showed how that was not at all consistent, you then try to minimize that there was not a consensus at all as I pointed out.

    Russia is indeed not communist, nor is Ukraine, but the western imperialists provoked the war and are carving up Ukraine for it. I don’t believe everything Russia says, and I don’t believe everything Ukraine says. I even gave you a mountain of western sources backing up my points.

    Palestine isn’t communist but I support them too. Me being a communist helps me analyze why this conflict is happening in the first place without just reducing everything to a battle of good vs evil like right-wingers do. Again, as I showed, my analysis is the most common communist analysis, you dehumanizing me and calling me a bot or a shill just because you can’t actually accept that communists disagree with your pro-western, pro-NATO viewpoint is absurd.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Almost 100,000 young men flee Ukraine in two months
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    2 days ago

    I trust Russian sources more than you do and distrust Ukrainian sources more than you do. I don’t blindly accept either. Russia isn’t indiscriminately firing missiles and drones at cities, and neither is Ukraine. Both have at times targeted civilians, and both have at times unintentionally hit civilian targets. Russia isn’t acting as an evil empire, it’s trying to grab the four oblasts and demillitarize Ukraine after a decade of deescalation talks failed following the far-right Euromaidan coup.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Almost 100,000 young men flee Ukraine in two months
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    2 days ago

    Ukraine will cede the 4 oblasts and will likely be neutral to NATO at the end of the war, crippled and battered, vs the same results without the devastation of years of conflict had they surrendered months in when they had the chance. Ukraine has taken far less civilian casualties than they’ve claimed, and has dealt far more than they’ve claimed. Russia isn’t some evil empire of villians, it’s a country at war. It isn’t Israel.

    I do agree that pasting tons of sources isn’t going to do anything, that was the reason I posted so many (though you can feel free to check them, as I’ve already done for your sources). I do think it’s funny that my sources are largely things like bbc and OHCR, just presenting a narrative that concedes basic material reality.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Almost 100,000 young men flee Ukraine in two months
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    2 days ago

    I’m repeating analysis even agreed upon by western sources, you’re repeating far-right propaganda and talking points. The difference between the settler-colonial genocide of Palestine and the Russo-Ukrainian War is that Israel intends to exterminate all of Palestine, and must to complete their settler-colonial project, while Russia only wants the 4 oblasts, which are already pro-Russian (that’s why Kiev has been bombing them for a decade). If Palestine surrenders, they die, if Ukraine surrenders then the war ends and the Donbass region joins Russia like they want to.