Russia didn’t go to war with Ukraine for resources, Russia has plenty. It went to war with Ukraine because Ukraine was cozying up to NATO and was starting to host missiles pointed directly at Moscow, as a continued part of NATO encirclement. Regime change is definitely a goal of Russia, and there are Russian capitalists who will benefit, but the impetus for the war is that Ukraine was used by NATO the same way NATO uses Israel, as an attack dog against geopolitical adversaries in the region. This makes room for western finance capital to proliferate and extract.
“Global south” does not mean geographic south, it’s a catch-all term for underdeveloped countries that tend to be but aren’t always south of the equator.
I have to ask, what do you believe imperialism is? Are you taking a moral stance, or a materialist stance? I know “read theory” is a bit of a meme, but it is genuinely important, and enormously helpful for analyzing the world. Going off of vibes alone isn’t sufficient to change the world.
Russia didn’t go to war with Ukraine for resources, Russia has plenty. It went to war with Ukraine because Ukraine was cozying up to NATO and was starting to host missiles pointed directly at Moscow, as a continued part of NATO encirclement. Regime change is definitely a goal of Russia, and there are Russian capitalists who will benefit, but the impetus for the war is that Ukraine was used by NATO the same way NATO uses Israel, as an attack dog against geopolitical adversaries in the region. This makes room for western finance capital to proliferate and extract.
“Global south” does not mean geographic south, it’s a catch-all term for underdeveloped countries that tend to be but aren’t always south of the equator.
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I have to ask, what do you believe imperialism is? Are you taking a moral stance, or a materialist stance? I know “read theory” is a bit of a meme, but it is genuinely important, and enormously helpful for analyzing the world. Going off of vibes alone isn’t sufficient to change the world.