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I think this one is my favorite answer so far, besides the ones people have already posted by Monkey_DDD_Luffy:

The primary contradiction in the world is imperialism vs anti-imperialism.

Socialists come down on the side of anti-imperialism.

A lot of the soft-left has an incorrect analysis that Russia is imperialist, this is not correct. It is aspirationally imperialist but the imperialist bloc in the world is the nato block led by the US. Russia in its opposition to this bloc also provides arms and helps in the defence of all the other opponents to the imperialist bloc.

It doesn't do this out of goodness. It is aspirationally imperialist. But this does not matter. The primary contradiction in the world is imperialism vs anti-imperialism. Everything that harms the imperialists increases the sovereignty in the rest of the world. Increasing the sovereignty increases the potential for revolution unimpeded by the mass genocide that the imperialists have carried out dozens of times against communists.

Another way to look at this problem is to do a thought experiment:

Tomorrow, let's say a EU country has a socialist revolution. Who are its enemies? Who are its potential allies? The first thing this new socialist country needs is the capability to defend itself from counter-revolution, they are immediately about to be attacked. Ask yourself who is going to do that attacking, and who and where this new socialist nation is going to get weapons, supplies, logistics and allies from. Is the nato block going to be nice to this new communist-led country? Or is it immediately going to throw it out and start attacking it? Are the nato countries going to arm it or sanction it? Is Russia going to view it as useful to support or as an enemy? China? DPRK? Iran? The global south? This thought experiment will lead you to making the correct analysis about who our potential friends are and who our real enemies are. I don't need to point out what the correct answers are, they are self-evident realities of the current time. Your enemies will become the nato countries, you will need weapons and you will be getting them from russia, and you will need many other things that are going to come from iran, china, potentially the dprk among others.

This is the reality of the world and a lot of the soft-left has never performed this thought experiment to come to the conclusion that while Russia is absolutely not a good country, it is a strategic necessity to socialists and anti-imperialists in the current moment.

Does that mean everyone should become loud mouths about it? Also no. That would be a tactical mistake.

NATO leftists being NATO leftists. My favorite take from that sub was during the hyping of CECOT when some armchair strategist suggested that Venezuela should let migrants loose into Central America and then the governments of Central America would somehow be convinced to elect leftists lmao

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine meets the core definitions of settler colonialism, imperialism, and arguably genocide.

• how?
• no
• lmao

Some leftists claim Russia was just reacting to NATO expansion. But: Ukraine offered to stay neutral before the 2022 full-scale invasion. They were willing to discuss security guarantees without joining NATO. Russia invaded anyway. Why? Because the issue wasn’t NATO. It was Ukraine’s independence.

This is just selectively ignoring all the important events that led up to Russia’s invasion:

1. The Ukrainian civil war erupted in 2014 when the new fascist coup regime repealed the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko Law that granted the status of regional languages to minority languages including Russian, on the very first day of taking power. This was seen as the beginning of Ukrainian ultranationalist move to ethnically cleanse the Russian minorities and hence the Donbass separatist uprising.
2. After the civil war, both Minsk Agreements explicitly planned the return of both Donbass oblasts to Ukraine, under the condition that the local governments will be given more autonomy on cultural rights such that minority rights cannot simply be repealed by the central authority, which we all know is ultimately to ethnically cleanse the Russians from the lands of Ukraine. Crimea, however, will not be returned for obvious reasons.
3. Ukraine rejected the implementation of both Minsk Agreements (because then they will not be allowed to ethnically cleanse the Russians), and instead, over the next 7 years, allowed NATO to openly train and arm its military.
4. After Biden came into office in 2021, Zelensky (overwhelmingly elected as the peace president) went to the White House and met with Biden, and came out with a completely different, much more aggressive stance, including openly flirting with joining NATO, overturning the Budapest Memorandum for non-nuclear proliferation etc.
5. Alarmed by the development, Russia called for an immediate security meeting with the US, which culminated in the US-Russia Summit in Geneva in June 2021. Russia proposed resolving their security concerns but was ignored by the US side.
6. Not two months after the Geneva “peace” summit, the Biden administration began sending Javelins and Stingers to Ukraine under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) in August 2021, then again in December 2021. A clear provocation to the Russians for attempting to deescalate.
7. By February 2022, artillery shelling against the pro-Russian Donbass provinces had increased in intensity by an order of magnitude. Peace would not hold. The rest is history.

You should ask yourself why it is that the countries that are arming Ukraine are the exact same countries that are arming Israel. You think it's just a coincidence or something?

The ideology of just opposing everything the western bloc supports is continually vindicated

I made multiple comments and had a feeling they were invisible.

Yup, if I view the thread in an incognito tab, my comments don’t appear. Shadow banning, another reason Reddit is a dead end

But what Russian forces did to civilians in Bucha and in Mariupol and in many other places was a genocide too.

Pretty sure there's more to the definition of genocide than when you kill a bunch of people.

someone deployed maoist standard english and they are not happy about it lol

Responses have been pretty good atm