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It costs more to build in the US than it does in Russia, because the US has a lack of industrialization. Capital utilization for the war economy can’t revive the last century of declining industrialization. Russia is steadily achieving their goals, and when the dust settles liberals will look back and act like they always said Ukraine should’ve conceded rather than drag out their defeat for no gain whatsoever.
To a very dissimilar extent. The capitalists are in charge of the Russian state, and private ownership is the principle aspect of the economy. Russia has more state-owned firms than some other capitalist countries, but that’s about it, capitalists are thoroughly in control and private ownership is dominant.
Russia is steadily achieving their aims, they don’t need to rapidly advance because they aren’t trying to take all of Ukraine. They have the industrial capacity to be steady and thorough. Ukraine is putting up a fight, but can’t actually last for much longer.
Secondly, regarding the profit motive, it will always result in less efficient investment. Industry is hollowed out, and can’t be built overnight. Missiles, drones, etc cost far more to produce in the US than in Russia for comparable results.
In China, the large firms and key industries are overwhelmingly publicly owned and planned, and the working class is in control of the state. I never once said capitalism is “when rich people” or that socialism is “when the government does stuff.”
No, the definition of imperialism as a system of international extraction is consistent and is the most widely used. The west is not the world.
Secondly, it’s not about absolute proximity, but the terrain and capability of moving troops and materiel through. You keep relying on metrics that don’t actually matter nearly as much, you did it earlier too when you thought socialism was a ratio thing.
No problem! If you want something like that, Hexbear is like at least half queer and is overtly leftist.
The MIC runs on the profit motive, it’s far more expensive to develop comparable tools than compared to state-run industry, and the west has already holowed out its own industry.
No, Russia has tools like Oreshnik that just don’t make sense to use against Ukraine at scale.
Capitalism and socialism are determined by what’s principle. All economies have elements of private and public property, what matters is which is principle, and which class is in control. The US is capitalist, “purity” has nothing to do with that.
-Selling commodities is not imperialism. I said export of capital. Commodities can function as capital, but in selling them through export these are not exported as capital.
-The IMF wanted Ukraine to destroy its safety nets for loans, Ukraine’s ousted president went with the Russian loan that didn’t. It’s as simple as that.
-Russia is achieving its goals with respect to the SMO. Crimea was in Ukraine, but voted to join Russia.
-Ukraine has been at war with the Donbass region for a decade. This is fact.
-I’ve never said Russia was socialist, or a model to emulate. I’m aware of the wealth disparity.
-The USSR had stable food supply. It was a remarkably effective system, and capitalism has been devastating for it.
-I don’t support imperialism. I’m a Marxist-Leninist, and my opinions are in line with that.
All in all, none of your points are worth responding to in any greater depth than that. They’re all coated in doublespeak and anecdote.
China is socialist, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and the working class is in contril. It’s left wing. They have markets, but that doesn’t make them a “hybrid,” it just means they are at the developing stage of socialism.
The EU is a cabal of imperialist countries. All of the niceties in the EU are founded primarily off the backs of exploiting the global south. Taking a firm stance against imperialism requires that the EU essentially give up its super-profits.
So you don’t actually have a reason, just that they’re Russian?
It wouldn’t. Russia is right wing, and so is the EU.
I think that boxes them in a bit more, being very queer and protective of queer users is related to being leftists. They are also heavily vegan, which is also informed by politics. I think everyone that’s pro-queer rights, and is a part of the queer community, kind of has to be engaged in politics as a matter of survival. Queer instances have to take anti-bigotry stances, which includes exclusion of the right-wing.
I do understand what you mean better now, though.
Definitionally, yes. The EU and NATO are right-wing, imperialist coalitions that expropriate vast sums of wealth from the global south. All of them are dictatorships of capital.
Yes, it’s a pro-EU, pro-NATO source.
If Ukraine concedes, why would Russia continue? Why do you compare them with a genocidal settler-colony that needs to expand to continue their settler-colonial project?
Russia isn’t going to do whatever you personally want them to, especially when they are on track to get all of their stated goals accomplished. “Should” doesn’t mean anything.
Further, more sources on the west sabotaging peace talks:
Linking a right-wing website trying to depict everything as kremlin propaganda doesn’t overtake the facts.
Ukraine is losing, they aren’t stopping Russia. Right now, Pokrovsk is encircled and about to fall to Russia. It is in Ukraine’s best interests to concede and stop the bloodshed.
No, lol. Russia is steadily advancing and achieving its goals. Calling me a Nazi because I can recognize that basic reality, as well as that when the war wraps up it will have been better for everyone, Ukraine included, had they conceded at the first few months when they had the opportunity, is absurd.
You don’t have arguments, just assertions and ad hominem.