Ukraine - Marxist analysis
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2024
- Exposing the underlying forces that govern imperialist wars such as the current one in Ukraine.
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may this war end as soon as possible :( i'm praying for my family to stay alive there
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Try to evacuate them ASAP. No matter where, Russia or West. It will be only worse from now on
Go to Poland or Romania as fast as possible
@@ontheline3077 things are relatively calm! we live in odessa region
@Adolf Hitler You can at least send your loved ones, family, children, elders out of the country
@@leonmegaboss986 glad to hear. Берегите себя
As a Russian living in Serbia, it's great to see a Serb who isn't biased towards Russia and acknowledges Russian corruption and imperialism.
good job keep it up greetings from india
Ukraine is very corrupt itself.......🤨
@@bendietrees So is every Country outside of the Nordics.
Germany might be the only kinda Exception to this rule.
Srbija i Rusija ne treba nam Evropska Unija!
@@cakeisyummy5755 Germans are corupt asf. If you have ever done business with somebody higher on the ladder, you can see that side so out in the open, that it's crazy.
Being anti-war is great, but in the situation Ukraine is in you have to be more specific. When you say anti-war, do you mean end the war now with Russia keeping all of the land it stole. Or do you mean end the war now with russia leaving entirely and giving back all the land it has stolen since 2014?
Maybe end the war mean Ukraine leaving all lands gifted to it by Lenin (modern Eastern Ukraine, always had majority of Russian population and stll have, almost no one speak Ukrainian despite 100 years of trying to make them "proper Ukrainians" from Soviet and then Ukrainian authorities) and Stalin (far western parts, previously belonged to Poland)? How the heck is the land whose population fought for 8 years for independence from Ukraine “stolen”? How can Crimea be “stolen” from Ukraine if the absolute majority voted in a referendum for independence from Ukraine and joining Russia in 2014, including me and all the Crimeans I know? What about the UN chapter on self-determination? Please, can people from the West not teach people in Eastern Europe which state they MUST belong to? And don’t say that the land was “stolen” by those who have been living there for dozens of generations from those who came from Lvov to Kiev in 2013, seized power and began to distort the whole of Ukraine to suit their sick fantasies.
@@AtticusKarpenter Filthy liar. Lenin didn't gift anything, and eastern Ukraine always had ukrainian majority in all censuses from 1897 to 2001. 100 years ago >50% spoke ukrainian as native language, but only due to politics of russification this percentage dropped to ~30%.
>muh referendum
Invalid due to occupation.
>What about the UN chapter on self-determination
Are you talking about qirimtatars, karaimes and krymchaks - the only nations without own nation state?
The rest is nonsense as well.
Not every people who don't like a country get a nation state, minority rights are much better, just as the Scottish are not being colonised they dont need a nation state
No more countries, only people
@@AtticusKarpenter the reality is a bit more complicated, as Russian regular forces did a lot of the fighting for the Donbass.
You are a hidden treasure/gem of this platform man, glad I found you even before you became so good in politics and in politcal analyzation from just making mapping videos!
Just one question: Are you here because of your deep affection for communism, or do you support Russophobic sentiment and biased opinions, founded on personal biases?
I’m not for or against any side , I care more for the people of both countries than their governments as in some way every country is corrupt.
Bro... taking a neutral stance in a war like this is siding absolutely for the aggressor. You cannot “both sides” out of this...
@@raze997 yes I can as I don’t like neither country that much.
@@raze997 what a trash opinion.
@@backtothefutureman1
Well non of thoese countries are doing well in particular, the west are only support europeans heritage and by making them once again independent.
Unless you are not fully european, i suggest you stay neutral, cause i don't think you want a nation that has been ruled by dictatorship by almost 150 years.
@@ordemeprogresso727 I’m an American with European ancestry.
I assumed that you were working on this topic, i just opened UA-cam and guess what... So happy with your content, again. Thumbs up!
Thank you for the support! Got this video done from scratch within 24h...
@@BalkanOdyssey_ can you tell a few leftist that you were referring about at the begging of the video? Who is pro russia?
@@BalkanOdyssey_ who is the older fella talking towards the end in the video`? any youtube link to that specific video?
If Ukraine loses, it will simply need a new national struggle before socialism can be achieved there. I would say preventing de jure or de facto subjugation of Ukraine by *any* power (but mostly Russia) is the number one priority. And yes, even if that means accepting equipment and intelligence from self-serving imperialist powers.
Are Syria or Venezuela wrong to accept Russian support?
Thank you. Regardless of everyone’s reasons, if you don’t support Ukraines goals of defeating Russia militarily you’re essentially allowing imperialist expansion
Great analysis, comrade. No war between nations, no peace between classes!
Are you serious? Comrade? First off this is a horrible time to bring that horrible shit up. Second do you have any idea about the history of Russia AND communism as an ideology? You are undermining an ENITRE NATION of people.
@@Drheims no war is bad? recognizing how one class stomps on the other is bad?
@@kerycktotebag8164 Be abuse they aren’t “nations” There people who are suffering.
What exactly is commendable about this feeble attempt to rationalize deliberate Russophobic sentiment, cloaked in lies, intellectual dishonesty, or sheer ignorance?
@@b.b. if Russia wants to reduce russophobia then stop invading neighbors and trying to annex them.
You can't disappoint. Another great video. Thanks for your work, I will consider supporting you on patreon
Thank you very much for the kind words and support. Further support on Patreon is always much appreciated!
Oh, he's surely disappointed. His analysis resembles that of NAFO-communists on Twitter.
Russia is currently as much of an empire as Serbia.
If he truly intended to equate the uncomparable, he should have put in more effort.
No war but the class war.
Both governments have their own dark villanous shade to them don't they? As a Filipino, I feel the historical pain and scars from that dictatorship (though I was not a total victim of it), in the other side or part of the world, the US government funded the regime in the Philippines (the Marcos dictatorship) that tortured and killed so many people. It lead to becoming the country poor, and now because of that dictatorship supported by a US imperialist mission. The result is thst it lead to the chain reaction of people suddenly voting for the late dictator's son, that might lead the downfall of my cointry yet again. Secret crude evil, and now you've convinced me to always be sus/skeptical of your bigger neighbors. You may never know what's their agendas
Hope for the best for Filipino's. It seems SEA country is the next US target for challenging China. I Heard too about your elections. Makes me remember my own about 30years living in dictator regime backed by west.
Marcos was backed by the US? I was pretty sure they were pro-Aquino, but do tell.
Im sure the next in power after Marcos was a Marxist, thats why US intervened
Marcos was backed by the US until between 1983 (when a popular opposition leader was gunned down in the airport that would later be renamed in his honor) and EDSA Uno in 1986, when Marcos was starting to become a liability.
As a quick rule of thumb, if a country outside Nato is being targeted by countries within Nato, we can be pretty sure it’s not imperialist.
Is russia part of NATO?
The worst thing is that people in most countries tolerate insane leaders and their criminal activities.
Why did you delete your Video 'tragedy of Kosovo'?
did i just watch a communist manifesto?
Yes you did.
And thats why it doesn't work, he gets his ultimate points wrong. It's not about Capital but about geopolitical gamesmanship and territory. But all other points being right
@Tony Benn (Real) it's really not. Russia isn't doing it for or on behalf of Capitalism. He wants to bring back the the Soviet union in a geopolitical sense. It has nothing to do with economics, Russia will take a massive hit economically and already has, which goes against Capitalism. His biggest sore point that he describes himself is that the fall of the Soviet Union was the largest Geopolitical disaster ever to happen. He wants to bring in all the countries & territory that Russia lost with the fall of the S.U.
@@Hamsteak however Putin is no communist. It's more likely that he see himself as Peter the Great than Stalin.
@Tony Benn (Real) geopolitical competition comes with the Soviet Union and also did so with Mao's Communists China. In fact the 2 even had a skirmish and was about to go to war. Geopolitical Competition is a mix bag ranging from any sort, economics, territory, resources....etc...
Both governments are wrong but the ones who are suffering the most are the people who haft to deal with war and see death by soldiers who are killing their own people from both sides I hope the people will be ok at the end of the day 🇺🇦🇷🇺❤️🚩
"As long as countries have great power war is inevitable"
-Albert Einstein
Exactly. It doesn't the ideology of either party, great power warfare will never end as long as countries think they can use it to their own ends, which they always can in the end. Small countries would if they could but can't get away with it like large countries with nobody else lording over them.
Not all of the video is bad, but how is the US responsible for an active war russia started, if there was no direct danger for them?
@Suidian These countries have a free will and if they want to join NATO, because they’re afraid of Russia, that’s their choice. Russia can offer them their own alliance and if they want to join that alliance that’s okay too, no one stops them from joining.
bechase the usa killed the ussr,
Because Russia is treated as as an animal with no agency. It's a tool to absolve them from deserved responsibility.
Western-backed neo nazi coup in 2014 that is for the interest of Western capitalists and subsequently violent racial attacks against minorities by right wing terrorist groups that was flourished by the new Western-backed neo nazi Ukraine, banning of other languages, expansion of NATO to Russia (for comparison, imagine Mexico in a military alliance with China and Chinese troops stationed near the borders of the United States with Chinese weapons pointed at the US)
If you're not so much an illiterate and actually read what we Marxists have to say about the situation (which is that the war in Ukraine is an inter-imperialist struggle for markets and capitalist interests), you would've already known long ago that you're a traitor to your class and support the most regressive and most destructive country in the world,had you read you wouldn't in so much of self-inflicted confusion
Kinda weird for you to forget all about Chechnya, Georgia and Transnistria/Moldova in this analysis. Ukraine is hardly the "first step" in Russian imperialism, this has been going on since the 2000s.
I have been disappointed with a lot of creators I follow after they talked about this war, but Balkan Odyssey fails to disappoint. Russians (Putin, that is) are performing the exact same maneuver that the NATO powers did in 1999 in Yugoslavia. Truly all superpowers are fundamentally the same, influence and power above all is their moto
I am one of Balkan Odyssey's Patrons, and I am very proud of him.
It is sad to see. But you have to keep in mind if 1 super power falls it can change the balance of the world. All 3 of them are important. But we are in the middle of it all.
I'm really glad to hear that the video lived up to your expectations.
What happened in 1999 couldnt be more different from what is happening now
@@a_1389 ok, i would really like to hear why
Nearly a year after the publishing of this video, I found your channel and this video. I have fundamentally a different perspective from you, but I always like to see others point view even if I disagree ( I want to avoid echo chambers ).
Very intersting video and hopefull this conflict can end with out encouraging imperialism from anyone be it russia, us or anyone.
Explain Russian imperialism according to Lenin's definition of imperialism. This should be interesting, russophobic-Spaniard.
@@b.b. Russian Communist Party actually launched this war that we have right now via 2022 vote in State Duma.
This just really finishes the cake on top, it perfectly describes on what situation Ukraine and Russia is in right now.
Everyone will suffer unless anti-war protests or us rise up
For Ukraine anti war protests inside of Ukraine are useless. Ukraine will liberate all lands - 2014 was the start of this war, and Putin was let off scott free. Negotiations failed as can be clearly seen. Full deocupation and deanexation will be the goal of ukrainian citizens.. At least ones who don't want this war to continue in 5-10 years.
@@principleshipcoleoid8095 Are you saying the citizens are brainwashed? Because thats what is sounds like.
@@alekvaso you got attacked. According to your statement the only not brainwashed people are one's who... gave up?
@WorldSpam The "not brainwashed" people are the ones that realise that they won't win in a war of attrition against Russia even with the full support of the West. The comment I replied to is a heavily pro-ukranian stance and frankly delusional, which fails to recognise a very large portion of Russians and Pro-Russian Ukrainians.
It is comments like that which add fuel to the fire of this war rather than helping it come to an end. You can end a war in 2 ways, option 1 is complete capitulation of one side, and option 2 is a fair compromise on each side.
Unfortunately, a compromise will not happen as the West will funnel equipment until the last Ukrainian in the ambitious hopes to weaken Russia. The most likely scenario is Ukraine capitulating and being divided. East to go to Russia, and west to go to Poland and a little corner for Hungary.
So why are there so few self-proclaimed "anti-imperialists" supporting the anti-war movements and anti-Putin opposition in Russia?
Why are they only ever calling for a one-sided cessation of support for Ukraine, never a one-sided cessation of support for Russia?
You people are a joke. Russia is an imperialist regime just like the US, and needs to be overthrown.
Soladarity with the Ukrainian and Russian proletariat! Excellent content, as always!
In what year are you living virgin?
@@gipsybulldog3286 Just cause he’s Slovakian it doesn’t mean he can’t get bitches.
@@elliottfunkhouser4486 yes, they love socks and sandals :D
@@gipsybulldog3286 This is Czech standard... Btw. I'm a Czech :D
Capitalism and communism was created by the same family.. Rothschild. Lenin was a monster
Hello from Ukraine, comrade!
Ви ганьбите нашу країну слухаючи таких дебілів
Question: Will you ever make a Video about Enver Hoxha and Communist Albania?
America's wars and imperialism are unjustifiable but this has nothing to do with the Russia-Ukraine conflict. On the one side you have Putin, who tries to rally Russians with ethno-nationalist arguments and the overblown problem of nazism in Ukraine, and on the other side you have Ukraine - who only want freedom to develop as a nation after centuries of being hampered by Russia. Regardless of what you think on NATO or the EU or USA, choice must always be involved on the matter. We simply can't continue to live like this, forcing Ukraine to be chained to Russia. Russia must get the hell out of Ukraine.
And before sombody calls me a "western shill" or whatever, I am a Russian myself who lives in the west but closely followed this conflict from the very beginning.
Finally, some sense. America's endeavors in the Middle East and prior acts of imperialism have nothing to do with the current situation and are only used as a meaningless counterargument.
Ukraine wanting to join NATO, the US empire club, is one of the main reasons behind the conflict. American natural gas companies trying to tap into Ukrainian resources whilst lobbying for higher tariffs on Russian gas pipelines the other main cause. No matter how you put it, this is a geopolitical tug of war, and US imperialism is absolutely part a of it.
The Ukrainian capitalist class has made it clear they think they would stand to make more profits by collaborating with western capitalists, branding Ukraine as "independent" doesn't mean that it is. Ukrainian people need to free themselves from capitalist agression altogether, be it Russian, American or even Ukrainian.
@@KekusMagnus well but how do you think Ukrainian people can free themselves? To hold Russia they need western weapons but at that time they can't just let russians to take Ukraine.
Ah yes, "closely followed" through Western propaganda, thanks. Problem of nazism is not "overblown", it is critically downplayed, including by the Russian government, which is still trading with these Nazis. I’m from Crimea, I’ve been following the situation since 2014, and I can advise you to watch Anatoly Shariy’s videos for 2018-2021, in which he reveals the topic of Nazism and corruption in Ukraine in full, including how his opposition party was persecuted and humiliation from Nazi groups. Ukrainian media, of course, call Shariy a “Kremlin propagandist”... which is why, apparently, he always called Crimea and Donbass Ukrainian... and criticized Putin... and finally went berserk in anti-Russian hysteria in 2022. Lol. In any case, his journalistic and opposition activities in the years preceding the Russian military operation clearly shatter all the propaganda myths about the “overblown” problem of Ukrainian Nazism. He even submitted materials about this to European official structures, but everything died out there, just as suspicious as the reports of Western newspapers about Nazism in Ukraine, which stopped exactly in 2022, after which these publications pretended that such reports had never happened.
I also advise you to watch the channel of Patrick Lancaster, an independent Western journalist who, since 2014, has been traveling around Eastern Ukraine and filming the events taking place there, and also asking local residents for their opinion. This is literally information from the field of action, it couldn’t be clearer.
But of course, if you are satisfied with your bubble of Western propaganda, do not touch these channels, do not look for any details, believe that the holy Ukrainian democracy is fighting demonic Putin’s totalitarianism and other children’s fairy tales for autists
The point is that american imperialism proves that the difference between the west in this conflict, and the east (specifically Russia) isn't as big as it is being potrayed. Russia is being potrayed as the USSR 2.0, and that they are fundamentaly different than the western interests in this conflict. Yet the differences aren't many.
This point wasn't to justify Russia, but it is relevant to how these sides are potrayed. The west can't claim to be anti-imperalist when they continuesly support imperialist wars, therefore both sides know that there are bigger reasons at hand for why the west took a pro-ukrainian stance. Ukraine is eager to join NATO, NATO allies are not going to let this opportunity pass.
Russia is another imperialist power, who wants to expand into Ukraine and forcefully take over multiple Ukrainian regions, and prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. This video was really not difficult to understand, you just purposly pretend that the topic of Western imperialism was irrelevant. It isn't.
Title should be changed to:
Ukraine - Brainless Analysis
This channel deserves way more subscribers. Good job brother!
Thank you for the kind words!
Good job on spreading lies and misinformation about Russia.
A year later, this shameless self-styled communist keeps the video up and running.
Every politician says how unfair it is for Ukraine, wasn't it unfair for Cyprus? Yugoslavia?Iraq?Syria?
And Afghanistan .
@@wazson3178 And Yemen, and Somalia, and many more my friend...
@@gecko5892 Bsically all the middle and near east has been victim of America's meddling with their politics .
@@wazson3178 yes
Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and Yemem now have Rothschild banks.
I don't agree with this analysis, but lets hope the war ends and doesn't expand to a world war.
Ukraine is now living through what Serbia went through in the 90s and early 2000s.
Only this time the Ukrainians aren't being bombed in residential zones with uranium.
No. These are completely different situations!
@@limbojones9202 And that is how exactly?
@@EagleProductionsMK well, glad you mentioned the second part, but there is a big difference what russia tries to do here and what nato did in serbia..
@@EagleProductionsMK You see, they want to make a sui generis case of Kosovo war.Sui generis in law stands for unique case.
They have to justify themselves somehow.
Not comparable.
I was waiting for this.
this war must end as quickly as possible
So, MAD it is?
On a more serious note, you cannot force ukrainian citizens to let Russia off with lands it occupied and annexed. Letting Russia keep any land means just postponing the conflict. Would you give your grandchildren inevetability of going through a war?
11 months later and it is still going on
Who is the guy that comes in and starts talking at 6:38
Prof. Richard Wolff
By the definitions of imperialism by Lenin him and his cohorts were fervent imperialists.
Also telling Ukrainians to follow the words of Lenin when Lenin is remembered as a conquer and his friend as a exterminator, is tone deaf.
No, it is not tone deaf to Ukranians who actually know the truth.
It's the Capitalists who created propaganda trying to villanize Communists.
It's not "tone deaf" to not conform to parasites who rob the working class.
You're basically saying that we should be careful not to offend slavery defenders.
@@Anti-Parasite2023-pp8uu The Bolsheviks villainized themselves. Bolshevism is a Russian system which should stay in Moscow.
Remembered by neonаzi from Western Ukraine, against whose half of the country rise up in protest, and most of it were drowned in blood, for example, when people were burned in the house of trade unions in Odessa, or when tanks crushed people in Mariupol, when the Azov battalion occupied the city in 2014
Yeees
of course
Let's sympathize with the Nazis, and not with the majority of Ukrainians. Great idea.
What country did the USSR ever export Capital to during Lenin's rule, troll?
@@Supadubya you are confusing empire with colony
I mean this is kind of obvious isn't it
Yes but he narrated it in an interesting way
Not for everyone unfortunately
Education is dumbled down significantly, so not for everyone
Indeed, with this the old roles of the Cold War have been revived for America and Russia.
I'm still politically centrist but I've already been convinced for a time that imperialism of all shapes and from all directions is the root cause of this war and many, many other wars in the past.
yes i agree too
I feel like communism, Imperialism, socialism, and a whole slew of ideologies (maybe even religion) are often scapegoats for simple human evil.
In theory all these things should work just fine. But in practice they become corrupted unless good people keep an eye on each other. This is my opinion.
@@n8zog584 Conclusion: We will never be happy because we are awfull.
You got to wonder how many people will leave Ukraine for Poland or Germany and never comeback.
Brothers shouldn't fight. God bless a Slavic union.
Russians have been oppressive to Ukrainians for centuries. They don't see them much as brothers.
bloody nailed it comrade
shouldn't nowadays' Progressives be seen by Communists the same way Lenin saw the socialists back then?
This is very interesting and I agree, that larger powers than the Russian army and Ukraine are at play. But what do you think is the solution to this madness?
I believe the best option is 1st save innocent people and declare to be a neutral country because you must not allow 1 super power direct access with the other super power. China nad Russia dont like eachother but they know that they cant function normaly without eachother so in the worst of days they decided to cooperate with eachother for the benefits in their country from collapse. 2nd demilitary it so it does not create abother conflict or minor wars in the east or the west, because at some point it will grow and stat to cause problems and will have conseqences like we see them today.
@@francibalanci5617 Ukraine did not start this war, Russia did. Russia is solely responsible for this war.
@@83RhalataShera people like you are the reasons why this video was needed to be made , yet u didnt understand , its started by both sides, not russia alone
@@Madara_Uchiha69420 Moron. Ukraine was neutral, and this didn't bring anything good.
9:16 yes let's go against the right to own pepper spray instead of condeming the murderers.
Im so happy you made a video on this topic. Scince you are one of the smartest people I know on this app
Oh man, my fellow slavs still believe that Lenin can provide any solution... I got my mind blown away by the proposal that the Ukrainians should just start opposing their government and its military activity. I just watched your videos about privatization, differences between germany and and your home country, and as a Pole I have to admit that if your people are going to stick with the "anti-imperialist" stuff, blaming present condition of the Balkans on imperialistic politics and the bad west, you are not going to see any better days any soon. By the way, the guy talking from 6:40 is saying basically the same things that Lukaszenko said about Polish president supporting Ukraine, that Duda needs this war because his polls are not looking good, same kind of rhetoric and whataboutism. Anyway, Slava Ukrainie and I hope soon Ukraine will win and they will be able to start building their better future same as we did after the fall of cursed Soviet Union.
Old guy lost 100% credibility when he called Ukraine "The Ukraine". What year does he think it is?
When did it change its name from The Ukraine?
@@PalkkiTT In 1991 when it ceased to be a part of the Soviet Union.
@@alexhennigh5242 I google and nowdays it is more common (and official) to use "Ukraine" but quite alot of people still use "The Ukraine".
@@PalkkiTT Then quite a lot of people are morons. As someone who is friends with a plethora of Ukrainians from various parts of Ukraine let me tell you, they hate that shit.
I would disagree aswell, since you completely lost the point of Why is the conflict happening, you can partially find your answer of Putin fetishising about Ex USSR, i mean, he said that the fall of the soviet union was the biggest catastrophe in 20. century, he also said that he wants to see Soviet Union reunited. It is absolutely astonishing how every your perspective is being viewed through politics. Why havent you gone to research about the leaders interests, and their actions that they did 10-20 years ago? Connect the dots and you can compose your own answer. Looking back to your video, Lenin’s words are true but not in the current situation.
Putin will be Lynched as Saddam was.
Seeing this war as a clash between two capitalist empires, in addition to being a distraction by UK and US leaders, is an interesting take. But you have to explain the ff.
1) The US and UK did not start this war, Russia did. The war being some grand machination for distracting the public is too much of a conspiracy theory. If they indeed wanted to milk this as a distraction, they would have declared war to Russia by now.
2) What gain does Russian capitalists get from doing this? Didn't Putin try to comfort them by saying this is "necessary".
This isn't a capitalist war, this an old fashioned war of conquest; not done for profit but done for ideology. An absolute rejection of Western liberalism in an attempt to raise Russian Euroasianism with its bizarre mixture of Russian fascist flavor.
Profit is being LOST here by all sides, and industrialists in the West are bitterly complaining but have been shut up by public pressure.
This war is Putin and Russian nationalist ego. Nothing to do with profit.
"support the revolutionary struggles of both countries"
shows fucking CPRF hahahahahahah
Great vid. I saw another comment to this effect, but my one major hope is that this leads to something like 1917. I'm no historian, just taken some world history courses, but I feel like the Bolsheviks and their supporters back in the day had a bit more room to dissent than the Russian people do now, so it will be difficult. But like you and Lenin say, authoritarians have never been truly toppled by other countries, who often simply install a puppet regime that likes them, but by the populist anger of its own citizens.
In some ways I wish the west would send MORE weapons to Ukraine while making less noise. Less beneficial to the western imperialists and more benefit for the national struggle in Ukraine.
I can agree with everything you mentioned in the video but the conflict between Russia and NATO over Ukraine is rather a very complicated situation. Anyways, good work!
It's not complicated at all. Russian govt completely failed to build a sustainable relationships with brotherly neighboring state, as well as failed in building strong pro Russian opposition, and then lost the chance to reverse it without bloodshed in 2014. Now its just a desperate move.
Yeah, thank NATO and the Western politicians and also the Ukrainian ultranationalists for that.
@@comradejakov4528 As much as NATO is the worst, they are not stopping Russian convoys with their own convoys yet, and NATO didn't start those Russian Convoys. This is like blaming Britain for ww2. Sure Britain didn't help the situation, but they weren't the ones who invaded
@@comradejakov4528 >Russia invades and brutalizes neighbors
>"Victims are at fault, shouldn't have worn that dress at night"
@@n8zog584Yes, NATO did not cause this, not by Russia's aggression either, but the Ukrainian ultranationalists, whose coup was supported by the West in 2014 btw, terrorizing distinct minorities in its own territory. This, in fact, caused Russian convoys to move into Ukraine in the first place. This entire Western media is filled with pure Russophobia, which is why you'll always hear news painting Russia in a "very bad light" all the while shoving away the atrocities Ukraine has commited over the course of over 8 years, up to the recent military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, supported again by the West.
8:08 yea how communism will help ukrainian citizens to stop being killed by Russia??? People of Ukraine did not forget horrors of communism. Your universal solutions are not so universal as you might think.
@Balkan Odyssey The socialist/progressive movement in Russia or Ukraine is incapable of changing current situation since it has no power to do so.
We now MUST focus on practical solutions, not politically motivated rhetoric.
@@andyskyfall3891 Yeah, this conflict made it clear which political forces stand for values and which for Kremlin's funding.
In Russia especially.
After I read some of the comments, I remembered an excerpt from a podcast about WWI:
Well, the first, most beloved thesis is to start poking your opponent in the face with the fact that your nation, your country, is more progressive than the country with which there is a war. For example, the German opportunists (former communists, now opportunists) insisted that “although it may seem to you that you have Tsar Nicholas, and we have the Kaiser,
and they seem to be even close relatives, but look, just compare how Czechs live in Austria-Hungary! You can object - yes, not everything is perfect, but nevertheless, compare it with how the Buryats or Bashkirs live in Russia, and wow! Then you will immediately see that there is more freedom. Or let's talk about the parliament - look what it is like in Russia! What on earth is that? It was almost non-existent! But in Germany it existed. And a very good one!
Moreover, what antiquity, it has existed since the 13th century!
In short, “we are progressive”. The French, of course, also use the same pattern: we have a republic, while in Germany the Kaiser still rules! So how can a communist say that we Republicans should not fight the Kaiser! Has he forgotten all communism? Have you forgotten that feudalism must be destroyed, or what? This is exactly what we are going to do.
Well, as if the Russian opportunists have nothing special to say about this, but they got out that “look, France is the freest country in Europe, and we are allies!”
... So everyone needs to be saved from all of you, that's the point! At the same time, we are not going to say that the Germans had no choice but to declare war, since we know that Germany declared war exactly at that moment, because Germany had an advantage in armaments then, so they decided: let's start quickly, before our neighbors managed to do the same cool thing for themselves, as we can do. "Yes, no one saves anyone," Lenin summed up. He wrote somewhere: basically, if it were necessary to avenge Belgium - well, okay. If it had been the real reason, we could have thought about whether to support it ... But why did they decide that this is so? Just because the news said it was all about Belgium, they also started shouting: “Oh, yes, poor Belgium!” And since when does a communist believe in bourgeois news?
The mistake in your analogy is that we are not living in the First World War. The twentieth century has already happened, fascism has already happened. German soldiers in World War I did not profess an ideology of racial superiority. Unlike the Germans in World War II, and the national SS, of which modern Ukraine considers itself a successor. And Donbass not only “lived poorly” under Maidan Ukraine, the authorities carried out genocide against it. The fact that Putin started a military operation not simply because he could no longer tolerate the killing of Russians and ran to their aid from the bottom of his heart (after eight years of lazy negotiations) is of course true, there are a lot of behind-the-scenes games both within the Russian ruling class and between it, the Ukrainian and Western. But this does not cancel the neo-Nazis in Ukraine and the genocide of Donbass. If Putin had attacked Ukraine under Yushchenko (also an extremely anti-Russian politician, but he did not carry out open ethnic cleansing. He tried to partially ban the Russian language, though) I would, without any doubt, go up to an anti-war demonstration. But to do this in, although bourgeois and trying to start imperialist activities, but still a non-Nazi country at war with a Nazi country? No thanks. I will try (as I have been doing for the past year and a half) to prevent Putin’s cult of personality from intensifying amid the military conflict and the bitterness in society in connection with it, but I certainly do not oppose his demolishing the Nazi regime. (In general, huge unrest began to form throughout the country in March 2022 when Putin’s officials almost concluded a strange truce with the Zelensky regime. Considering that he violated the Minsk agreements.. several times... this looked like betrayal and collaboration with the Nazis)
Tovariš i love your videos
Im glad to hear that comrade!
As a ukrainian I don't care about "us bad" at the moment, though I understand and partially agree with your view. On our local level Russia just decided they can take my country by force. Full stop. They must be destroyed. But you get my big disapproval for quoting murderous dictator Lenin. He can have written whatever he want. At the end of the day he and his pals became private owners of a whole empire, with actual workers and farmers having no saying in anything important.
What? Just search how Lenin helped to build Ukraine as a state. Facts are facts
@@γδδγ ukraine is brainwashing people intto thinking was hitler 0.5 lol
@@γδδγ The NatComs made Ukraine, Lenin was against them.
@@γδδγ Lenin along with Stalin, along with Putin, along with Hitler are good example what should never be again.
@@γδδγ He invaded it, dude.
This war is all about the Soyuz pipeline in Ukraine, the Nord stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea and the Sevastopol in the Crimea. Your analysis show someone who has read Marx but can't understand that today we still have a gold backed economy. But it is a "black gold" back economy, known as the petrodollar. Right now, you can trade a US dollar for X amount of oil. The only problem for the US is that it is normally some else oil. That why the US invaded Iraq and has troops on Syria oil fields. It needs other people (non-US country) oil to finance it (US) trade deficit with the EU and People Republic of China.
Even before the US government used a people's coup d'état against the rightly elected government of the Ukraine. The Russian federation was paying 3 billion dollars a year to the Ukraine to use the Soyuz pipeline. Just for context, Turkey payed 12 billion to the Russian federation for about 42 BCM of natural gas. The Soyuz pipeline ships about 110 BCM of natural gas per year. So lets say the Russians make 36 billion with Soyuz pipeline to make it easy for everyone. That about 3 billion out of 36 billion is payed to the Ukraine. That why they made the Nord stream pipeline. The Ukraine produces 19 BCM of the 21 BCM of natural gas that the country needs, but 8 years later the US has a gas reserve in the country 40 BCM. So how did the US produce this natural gas. Well, the same way they do in Syria. They stole it form the pipeline, to my best quess to the amount of 3 billion dollars each year. So that 6 billion out of 36 billion. That why Russian build the Nord stream pipeline 2, which would have replaced Soyuz pipeline. That why the US and the Ukraine panicked just before it went online. The US called it an economic weapon and said that it would put more sanctions on Russian if it opened up and the Ukraine said that it would join Nato if it opened up.
In order to invade Russian for is oil resource you would need the logistical capacity to hold those oil resources. There is only one city that would allow you that logistical capacity, and that is Sevastopol. Which is why Russian annexed the Crimea from the Ukraine.
"coup in Ukraine" alright man
Least shizio commie
Ti si legenda, drago mi je što i dalje snimaš!
Ti si svuda brate
@@pavle1441 poz lizzarde
This is the video everybody in the world should look at, especially because of the conclusion, which is epic and completely accurate. Living in Germany you cannot criticize the interests of German capitalists and politicians without being called a Putin fanatic. A lot of european banks and big companies are profiting with the deaths of ukranians right now, while they assure, that they completely support the ukrainian people... and almost nobody does something about it!
*Ukrainian
I agree, but he should've lighted more upon the western money that was invested in ukraine aka ukrainian government. and all the nato pressure etc-- both sides were shown to be the same in the end of the day, although russia has way more reason to do what they're doing now rather than just "moneh".
That's prolly because if you quack like a duck and walk like a duck, then you're prolly a Putler shill. You use Marxist language to "both sides" this conflict but then go ahead and lose all that nuance when another bad war the West actually starts happens.
It's always convenient how Marxists pick and choose.
@@stephenjenkins7971 Wtf are you talking about?
@@slXD100 yes. open fascism and imperialism. no better than when Germany did it
Odlican video! Moze li nekakva podrobnija analiza nastanka i odrzavanja ovih balkanskih kleptokratija od kraja turkokratije do danas?
8:11 source? At the very least Ukraine has higher living standarts than Russia in places Russia did not destroy.
So happy I found your channel
Amazing video overall. I'll only say that Russia isn't the same capitalistic as the West, because it has blocked the western capital from the time Putin first came to power in the '90s. If you see the numbers, you'll realise that the Russian capital only represents 2% of the global capital and therefore can't be considered as big as the rest. Again, I'll say it's a great video. Well done👍
How strange that you haven't received a single thumbs-up.
I wonder why?
Actually, I know why.
It's because people in the core of the empire are so anti-Russia that even self-proclaimed socialists spread the same misinformation as the corporate media.
This Balkan individual is well aware of this.
Russia is not an empire. If a country outside of NATO is being targeted by countries within NATO, we can be quite certain it's not imperialist.
Made video about Golodomor and than talk about communism.
You: saying the Cold War is over and the spectre of communism no longer exists
China: exists
There is a bit more into it as it seems. If you follow the news and listen between the sentences you´ll realize that there is more into it. For example, the government of the country I live in wants to employ 10 000 Ukrainian refugees until the end of the year, while we have around 265 000 unemployed domestic citizens. They changed some laws so those people have an easier access to the labour market.
Based on my own experience I can see where this things are going. I m working as a locksmith in a huge transport company and we already have a couple of workers, mostly relatives of our Ukrainian drivers, and I have good contacts to some ladies in the office building so I know how much money they are making and where they live. We are already working almost for bills and food but they are working for around 30-35% less. They get less paid and are living in an 100 years old wet house owned by one of our bosses. Some of the owners family "employed" also some women to work in the household.
Now you tell me, does that sound familiar?
But still there is much more behind this whole scenario.
I can't agree with many of these points on an intrinsic basis, but I believe the only way forward after these 8 long months is to support Ukraine by any and all means as long as it is willing. We in the West should not decide their fate. We will give them the tools they request, and let them fight for as long as they believe they should.
I know this is an older video but this quote is absolutely amazing for this vid
"We see, then, that when we are talking of the imperialist war it is absurd to say that one imperialist is guilty and that another is blameless, to say that some imperialists were the aggressors and that others were on the defensive. All such assertions are made only in order to fool the workers. In actual fact, the Powers had all begun with aggressions upon the lesser peoples in whose lands they established their colonies; they all entertained designs of world-wide plunder; in every land alike the capitalists hoped to subject the whole world to the financial capital of their own country."
- Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhensky ABC of Communism
I guess that from a very overall perspective, the explanation of the reason behind the war is not wrong. From a more proximal perspective, I think the Russian oligarchs, who were highly integrated into the western capitalist system, were not benefitting from conquering such a small and undeveloped market as Ukraine at the expense of loosing their links to the West. Perhaps this is an uninteresting topic for you but, after 2+ years of war, I would like to see a more in depth argument.
This video really clarified how I already felt about the war. Good work!
Thank you, Im very glad to hear that!
When you quote Lenin, about capitalism, I see Rothschild Schwab etc
This is a bunch of pie in the sky nonsense. You simplify the resolution of this conflict with obtuse ideas of "supporting the revolutionary anti-imperlialist struggle of ordinary people against capitalist destruction." Whatever the hell that means... could you actually elaborate on this "feasible" strategy that every day people could employ instead of yapping abstract ideas?
Nice, by the way what are you?
Like your political beliefs or what not.
I understand that both sides are politically motivated, but even if we installed another communism we would get the same result. Don’t forget that most people are inherently greedy and we all know what happened to Soviet Union…
The reason Soviet communism fell was the same reason Jugoslavia fell, US capital interests meddling and regime change. So stop blaming "people being naturally greedy" because that has absolutely nothing to do with it.
no communist believes or ever believed you can "install" communism.
it's a process, and no one claimed to have achieved it.
@@mirsad96 bruh stop jugoslavia fell because Milosevic was a bad politician and even a worse diplomat
This guy is a prime example of big mouth small mind and irony in its purest form
That's you projecting yourself. You're dumber than a sack of bricks and you wanna act like you're smart.
You just a parasite who leeches of off the working class.
Leave the world, you thief!
Your videos are great
Is that the point right now?... I'm really sorry for you if thats what you see..
Nup.
This conflict is too complex and nuanced for one geo-pol-economic model to describe it.
All details, interests and nuance must be accounted for to fairly and accurately explain this war.
>While the model of Capitalist/Corporate Imperialism does fit the US/EU/NATO bloc strategic objectives and motivations, it doesn't explain the cliques within the bloc that are competing to leverage this war and their role in starting it. (US pol establishment, Visegard Group, US MIC, NATO MIC, City of London Global Banking, Western Far Right ideological Groups, US/EU Energy Corps and others)
>While the Russian business/political elite are looking to strengthen their positions and grow their wealth and power, they are only a part of the anti-NATO bloc and are largely without say over how this conflict unfolds, despite standing to profit if it succeeds (in terms of RF Gov objectives)
>This incredibly complex complex is a microcosm of the Global Geo-pol-economics. On the strategic level, this conflict represents the end of Globalisation as the Western Unipolar model competes against the emerging PRC led Multipolar model.
This Global battle is being fought through Sanctions and restrictions across Global Markets and in the Forums of Diplomacy like the UN, WTO and G20.
However the actual conflict is being fought locally, with the majority of the war being fought in a relatively small theatre of Eastern and Southern UKR. This military conflict is being fought and suffered predominantly by the people of the region.
>The core of this conflict is a Civil War as the divided nation of UKR (many parallels to Balkans) which has been leveraged by a multitude of parties and interests that only loosely fall into two blocs.
>The largest disagreement I have is that RF Gov primary motivation is economic. It's not, it's security. Both against military attack from the NATO bloc but also of it's fundamental strategic economic and diplomatic participation in the Global economy (not the imperialist motivations to take control of East UKR markets and Resources). RF had no need to wage this war for economic gains. The cost of the war will far outstrip any gains and are tiny compared to the economic gains Russian companies are aiming to make through participation in BRICS and the BRI. RFGov had non military strategies to increase access to foreign resources and markets and this war only damages those plans. RF Gov were pushed into this war and would have preffered not to fight it, as can be evidenced by the fact their justification for the intervention has existed since 2014 and they instead spent 7years pursuing a diplomatic solution.
>RF is fighting for its existence as a nation. It is the stated objective of the NATO bloc to Balkanise the RF and return it to a Yeltsin era condition of weaker and competing small states whose resources and markets are controled by NATO bloc Corporations and Banks.
That doesn't make RF "Good" or heroic but it they are legitimate DEFENSIVE motivations. Compared to the NATOBloc who using UKR to wage a proxy war of aggression against RF to "bleed Russia dry"- Jens Stolenberg and to overthrow the RF Gov -Biden.
> RF is fighting a EXISTENTIAL DEFENSIVE war, if started pre-emptively by the invasion into Ukraine, while the NATO bloc is using this war to continue their Hybrid war to Balkanise the RF that they have been doing since 2008.
> RF is fighting a EXISTENTIAL DEFENSIVE war,
Imbecilic take.
Your watering down of everything to “Le Capital Holder do everything and everything he do bad” is childish and shows a deep misunderstanding of human behaviour. You can’t downgrade everything to outdated 1850’s economic theories. Humans have agency beyond your capitalism buzz word.
@Suidian So much better than it was 200 years ago lmao. Karl Marx was a visionary, but failed to envision the future with his outdated state of mind.
Let's pray that the Ego of both nations will be put aside for accepting the peace that the people of Ukraine and Russia will not have to suffer the war. May we find identity in Christ, who died on the cross while we are sinners.
Thank you very much for the video! That's what I thought when I heard Putin's address here in Russia. It was February 22, 2022, that is, even before the start of the military operation. First, this was his "most anti-communist" speech I could remember. I do not believe in his good intentions. In 2014, there were a million refugees, and the situation in the East of Ukraine, apparently, was much worse, but Donetsk and Luhansk (or Lugansk, it really does not matter) were not recognized. Now, 8 years later (suddenly!) the Russian authorities decided to rescue them. In my opinion, they deliberately decided to escalate, in order to justify everything later with conflict and sanctions. Our economy is export-oriented, and exporters benefit from a cheap ruble: they sell gas for dollars and pay salaries in rubles. Sanctions are far from being so terrible, and with the support of the state, they can be beneficial to some companies, oddly enough. Now it will be easier to explain the causes of inflation. Apparently, they decided that the pandemic is ending, it will not be possible to explain the existence of various problems in the states. The main thing is that all these "leaders" (Putin, Zelensky, Biden) only pretend to avoid conflict. In fact, they are all equally interested in an armed conflict (not in a full-scale war) that they could (as they believe) control. Everyone needs an external threat as an explanation for internal difficulties. "Who started first" is a childish question. It doesn't matter at all.
Ok Balkan Oddessey I have a question and please bear with me as it is very hypothetical.
Imagine a world where Russia is a communist nation, Imagine that Ukraine used to be communist and with a coup, the government was overthrown and is now capitalist. Now, lets suppose that Russias claims are all true (for the sake of argument) and take the following statements as fact.
Prior to February 2022:
There is a large Ethnic Russian population under attack by the Ukraine regime. These people disagree with Ukraine as a whole and want to become part of Russia a communist country. Civilians continue to die every day as their own government continues to suppress the people.
Does Russia as a communist country, have any obligation to help militarily, and annex the territories such as the donbass. Or does Russia leave those people to fight their own fight/revolution? (In which case they lose as Ukraine has more forces and weaponry than the separatist region.)
Im not sure if what I wrote makes sense but if you do get what im saying, im interest in hearing your thoughts.
Why? because Russia wants to take Ukrainian land, if you are at least a little bit educated and know some Russian-Ukrainian history you would understand why
If both share the same roots and origin from that area, who has rights to it?
Why would Russians want a state with population 40mln, who now hate Russians for this war, being incorporated into their political alliance?
It's all insane, there is no benefit, fuc talking about those 4D chess politicians are playing, they've just gone mental
@@jtothed8575 Not both, as simple as that. Those who are called "russians" nowadays are actually velikorosses and their origin is in Moscow principality.
Based, anticringe video. Solidarity brothers and sisters
Great stuff!
La zona de influencia es cómo consigues un trabajo. Entonces, las empresas de los países líderes en tu región geográfico comercian con tu ubicación comprando y vendiendo, y en el eso proceso obtienes un trabajo porque se activa la economía local dónde vives. En el caso de los países bálticos, los balcanes e incluso Ucrania, la situación es grave porque estos países viven en una zona vacía de la Zona de Influencia Económica y liderazgo económico de un país en particular. No hay un país que lidera económicamente esta región que formó parte de la antigua Unión Soviética. Cuando terminó el comunismo, ese fabuloso mercado que iba desde el Báltico hasta Vladivostok simplemente desapareció, creando un vacío de liderazgo económico efectivo de un país donde sus empresas estarían dispuestas a comerciar con esta inmensa región. Los líderes de la región más rica e industrializada de Europa. (Alemania, Bélgica, Holanda, Francia y Suiza) no es lo suficientemente grande para llenar este vacío económico dejado por la antigua Unión Soviética. La principal razón es que las empresas alemanas están más interesados en otras regiones para ganar dinero, dejando así que los países bálticos, los Balcanes e incluso Ucrania no sean de su interés en particular. Así, el área de influencia de Europa de los ricos e industrializados no pueden incorporar esta región como su zona de influencia, ya que tiene dificultades incluso con Grecia, Italia y todo el sur de Europa.
Your analysis seems accurate and insightful, but still, if Ukrainians were to do as you say, wouldn't that mean capitulation to the Russian invasion?
If they did that before Zelensky renewed punitive operation against Donbass in February 2022, then there is would be no Russian invasion
please dont erase from history broken Minsk agreements (which Merkel and Hollande admitted were a fake to give Ukraine time to arm themselves before a new offensive, rather than real agreements to stop a civil war) and constant, repeated warnings from Russia at the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022. And also bragging Zelensky at the beginning of 2022 that he could get nuclear weapons and hit the Russians with them.
That is, literally the entire context before the start of a military operation. Western propaganda loves to ignore it (and in general the entire civil war 2014-2022) and paint the situation as “in the morning Putin woke up and decided to start a war simply because he is evil and literally Stalin-Hitler)
Svaka ti je na mestu brate
The situation is terrible in Ukraine and Russia for ordinary people.
Solution? Communism, I guess.
I'm not disagreeing with this analysis 100%. It's mostly what I believe in my gut. But what I don't really understand is, where is the imperialism? I can see irredentism, but I don't see the net gain. And imperialism is supposed to have a net gain for the rich, which I don't really see here. I don't think Putin cares about East Ukrainians or fascism in Ukraine. I am sure that's just an excuse. But the benefits for him ans his surrounding oligarchs are still unclear to me. What with all the sanctions he must have expected, who in Russia stands to gain from this?
This video does so much better than most east and west media blame game. I have one small nitpick; NATO would not let Ukraine join. After Multiple tries in fact, NATO halted Ukraines membership. I personally think Ukraine was under only mild threat of NATO absorbtion.
It's not a threat. And joining was far from happening.
@@ayararesara6253 exactly. It was not a SMALL nitpick
3:25 also: something something how's the communist track record
@@n8zog584 "Russia has been demonized by the West" is bullshit though, they constantly appeased RF and ignored their faults.
i would disagree. This war like all wars is happening because of human nature. We had all kinds of governments and governing ideologies throughout our history and each of them brings conflicts and wars, sure we had periods of peace but human nature always leads to conflict.
Sorry but that's the laziest possible explaination ever, that justifies eternal conflict and gives those who start it the right to continue doing so indefinitely.
@@BalkanOdyssey_ It's, what I believe, a real explanation. Sure efforts for peace aren't in vain, the periods of peace exist because of people willing to fight for it but the war is inevitable. We will be able to have peace on earth if one of the two happens, entire planet is ruled from one center of power(but even that would last as long as that center of power lasts) or if there is another threat for entire humanity or another common enemy, so either some world ending threat or aliens.
But right now, in our reality wars don't happen because of ideology but because of our nature. I mean most ideologies we had in history wanted peace but none of them achieved it, we as a beings are competitive, tribal, aggressive, power hungry if you will. That's why we became dominant on this planet and managed to get so far but that is why we will always be in conflict.
@@BalkanOdyssey_ ouch, Ratiod.
Yes, this video is very true, but how to speak to people about this? For example here in Poland the pro-war anti-russian hysteria is so rampant when you are anti-war and present this point of view you are instantly designated as "russian agent" even though I'm native Pole born in Warsaw and have lived there my whole life. How to speak to people to make them understand and stop this nonsense? When you are anti-war and against arms race this country you are met with so much hate...
If everyone is wrong, maybe you're the one with a problem
@@9_9876 Yes I have a problem with pro-war hysteria. I am against the war.
@@astrosmonk stopping support for Ukraine will bring war closer to Poland. I'm sorry but poles do not have the choice not to have a war next to them. They either act and have a wannabe empire next to them or way further
@@9_9876 Yes, we have a choice, just not take a part on any sides in this imperialist war. It is not our war.
@@astrosmonk you also "didn't take any sides" in 1939
Really accurate and well said brother. It is exactly what i been saying since the beginnig of the conflict, love your content man
Glad to hear that mate, thank you for the suppor!
Is it accurate?
Are you one of those supporters of the Ukrainian Bandera movement?
Or are you simply aligned with the 'West is the best' narrative?
TL;DR - perhaps communism is the answer?
Can you imagine saying this to Russians or Ukrainians, lol
Russia still has a lot of Communists.
lots of Russians prefer the soviet union over the current bonapartist government
@@zyanego3170 I mean, You're not too wrong.
They're still a Minority, Though.
@@kerycktotebag8164 They do it only because of nostalgia, not because they realized the capitalism is a threat.
@@zyanego3170 As a Russian I find that most communists in Russia today are boomers who went through the USSR collapse and suffered through the massive humanitarian crisis that it was & Yeltsin's period etc. They want the USSR because they think its the solution to Russias problems, but they don't understand that the oligarchy and state monopolies in Russia are really the problem
I just am hoping for my family in Cherkasy. Ukraine is winning defensively at the moment so there’s a chance
This is the only man i trust and want to watch on these type of topics.Stay up with the good content brother
I enjoy and have watched all of your videos. I agree with most (not all) of what you say. However, a large powerful country attacked a small, weak country who itself is trying to navigate a post totalitarian state. An unprovoked military attack. This is the equivalent of America attacking Canada or France attacking Serbia. This is Sudetland 2.0. You can talk all you want about abstract economic and philosophical topics, but the bottom line is thousands of innocent people are dying because an unelected dictator wants to rebuild a lost empire. I have been to Russia (and Ukraine) and I respect their history and culture, but I have a friend hiding with her cat in the Kyiv metro right now because a POS nazi wants to pretend it’s 1939.
Why the communist virtue signaling, just wanted an unbiased opinion