I might have stripped out a bit too much propaganda I’ll change the paragraph in the summary

Hamas doesn’t care about Palestinians!

We will collectively punish Palestinians to put pressure on Hamas

Israel in a nutshell.

Don’t they plunder resources though? https://apnews.com/article/central-african-republic-russia-wagner-d955ae10660d8dc5efdb258dd067be13

Yes some break free from the West but Russia is backing full on “bad guys” which, just like what the West does, provide Russia with their resources. Hell they’re backing both sides in Sudan, of which the RSF is objectively awful and mostly on the side of the West.

I guess the “positive” is that because Russia provides an alternative for opposition, it becomes far more costly for the Western hegemony to maintain the colonies.

The problem with Communist literature is that it keeps referencing unfamiliar terms in every single article and it seems to wholly reject using common language it would be possible to do so. Meaning it’s impossible for anyone who hasn’t read all other literature to understand what’s being said. Previously I tried reading Communist pieces, which I believe you linked, and ended up at descriptions of what elite circles were after 30 minutes of heavy literature. Which is why I urge Communists to stop using French terms like “proletariat” and “bourgeousie” (and especially “petit bourgeousie” that’s just the stupidest term).

That tangent aside, I don’t think Russia and China are comparable in Africa. China arguably benefits the local population by building infrastructure, whereas Russia doesn’t do much more than extract resources.

The Roman empire did a lot of imperialism and they predated capitalism quite a bit.

It makes sense that moving beyond the profit motive means you are no longer beholden to the drives of the profit motive, and lack the financial incentive to practice imperialism.

I’m not familiar with the MC P C M circuit but Russia is getting a lot of money out of Sudan which is not going to the Sudanese people And Russia does dominate Sudan. So much so in fact, that America made their own South Sudan. With blackjack and hookers. And a big concentration camp for ICE.

Would it be so that America would colonize all of Sudan if Russia wasn’t backing the current Sudanese government? Yes. But Russia isn’t exactly delivering much value to the Sudanese people either. And they’re getting a lot of gold out of it. This is not altruism.

Sudan is in “civil war” (more like proxy war between imperialist powers) and

Sudan war: Russia hedges bets by aiding both sides in conflict

Russia is moving to develop and secure its strategic interests in Sudan, offering the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) weapons while continuing to help supply the SAF’s enemy, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary, through the Wagner Group.

The definition on your page excludes Russia from anything by literally excluding Communists from being able to do imperialism.

The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers. This expansion to Marx’s analysis of capitalist development was one of Lenin’s most important theoretical contributions to political economy.

Not that I would classify Russia as Communist anyway since the fall of the USSR. Though Russia does have a lot of billionaires falling out of windows lately so maybe the transition is ongoing.

We might indeed be talking past eachother. I read your page before writing my response but from what I understand it seems to just add arbitrary requirements to the word “imperialism” so that it can only encompass the West.

Imperialism for me is meddling in the politics of foreign countries for the benefit of the home country and heavily against the interest of the foreign country. Especially when people are put in power whom the population dislike but cannot get rid of because of the foreign backing.

So Russia is helping the Sudanese government from the bottom of their heart and not for monetary gains of gold? I call them proxies because they would fall apart without foreign backing since they don’t have the support of the population.

Sure Russia can “back the good guys”. In fact since the Western empire is the colonizer of Africa, it means that whatever Russia backs is by default “fighting imperialism”. But Russia isn’t helping countries out of goodwill. They also want natural resources in return.

China on the other hand is a lot better because they don’t get involved militarily.

Russia not being as massive and having far less influence doesn’t discard if from doing imperialism. There can be multiple empires.

But are you saying that nothing in my linked article is true? I know NYT regularly makes stuff up but Russia definitely backs the Sudanese government militarily.

The Western backed UAE is currently trying to overthrow the Russian backed government in Sudan with the RSF. The gold flow from Sudan to Russia isn’t much of a conspiracy.

As part of an investigation that sheds further light on Russian involvement in Sudan’s gold mining operations, the former official said that on 23 June 2021, a Sudanese general, acting on an order from Burhan, prevented the search of a plane operated by the Russian military.

Sudanese officials, who were part of an anti-corruption body that was dismantled after last year’s military coup, at the time suspected that the plane was one of a number of Russian military aircraft involved in smuggling gold directly from Sudan to Moscow.

The revelation comes as details of the involvement of the Wagner Group, a private military contractor with close links to the Kremlin, in gold mining across Sudan and its neighbouring countries continue to emerge. In Sudan, records show that the Russian mercenary network has secured lucrative Sudanese mining concessions that produce a stream of gold.

It’s not “conflicts” though. It’s backing a government or militant group, often in the Global South, in exchange for their own benefit

Russia’s Wagner Group ‘getting rich in Sudan’ from gold mines and government

No he’s right. Wagner was basically created to help Russian proxies in power in Africa, and Russia arm(ed) many militias and fueled plenty of conflict.

Besides the Western empire it’s pretty much only Russia who actively participates in armed conflict around the globe. Albeit on a far smaller scale and more concentrated around their own interests.

Nice. Syria has recently fell in the hands of Israel. If the current Western client states want to rise up now is a pretty good time to do so.

Turkey the gas transit of all the Western proxy states.

The starvation is two years old. With Netanyahu and Gallant personally announcing it and getting an ICC arrest warrant for it. Yet you’d think it started last month with how Western media is covering it.

Good job aussies

Nice. That looks great.

They do not care about other people, only themselves. They despise things like social programs.

I get to see answer this question every month.

“The Palestinians need to die for our sins” - Germans.

Not really. Their price to performance ratio is usually terrible and the maintenance cost extremely high.