Or more lik live long enough to let your true villain colors show ha!
Cool bug fact: many US companies continued to do business in nazi Germany throughout ww2, to the point that allied bombers were briefed specifically to avoid hitting their factories
If you are gonna add musk, at least put the correct flag of South Africa and trump as US. JFC amateurs.
South Africa are part of the allied powers now. They sued Israel for their genocide at the ICC.
Musk is just a former parasite of them.
at least put the correct flag
What do mean? It's right there to the left of the letters USA....
Add Russia instead of NATO and it is correct.
Fuck Russia for promoting fascism!
Why NATO?
I explained more here, but leftists oppose NATO because NATO is the millitary alliance of the world's imperialist powers. This group of countries uses this alliance to prevent the global south from going against it and liberating themselved from foreign plunder via overwhelming financial domination. The way imperialism tends to work in the modern day is countries like the US, France, Germany, UK, etc expropriate vast wealth from countries in the global south, similar to how capitalists steal value created by the working class.
Oh much like china and Russia financially dominate Africa?? I understand now thank you
African nations welcome the investment with open arms. You can say what you like about China and Russia, but western colonialism casts a long shadow and Africans haven't forgotten about it. Beijing and Moscow aren't growing their influence in Africa by the sword. That's the difference.
The PRC and Russian Federation don't financially dominate Africa. For the PRC, it's because they don't have a domination of their econlmy by private financial capital, they have a socialist market economy. The PRC stands to gain more from mutual benefit, especially since developing others improves trade circulation and provides more customers for goods they produce. Even ignoring ideological reasons like being Marxist-Leninists, they lack the economic compulsion.
For Russia, it's because they outright lack the financial capital to participate. Russia, for all of its productive capacity, fell dramatically from their heights as the Soviet Union. Russia needs to offer more favorable trades, as they cannot rely on the sheer overwhelming financial power the west has. As a capitalist country, it has every reason to want to be imperialist, but it can't, and as such it is forced to strategically align itself with socialist countries and against western imperialism. Further, KPRF membership is skyrocketing, meaning a return to socialism is legitimately increasing.
NATO is nothing but a hostile organization to push western imperialism
I'm gonna need more than your word to believe that. Cause I'm not exactly going to believe the same thing Putin spouts as he attacks another neighboring country for their resources.
Provoked the war in Ukraine? Yea.... OK. That source became pretty uncredible with that line.
Why do you think the war in Ukraine started? How could it have been avoided?
Perhaps Russia could have not attacked? Nah, too complicated.
That didn't answer either question, though. Why do you think the war started? How could it have been avoided?
I feel like I've been pretty clear on this. Russia is the aggressor and wants Ukraine's stuff. Russia just needed to not attack. This is obvious because every deal Russia's talked about includes taking/keeping Ukrainian land they occupy.
I'm more curious why you think Russia is justified in their actions.
No, Russia did not invade "because Russia wants Ukraine's stuff." Do you have any idea about the background of the war? About the relationship between the USSR and NATO, the dissolution of the USSR and how that impacted NATO/Russian relations, the 2014 Euromaidan coup, the declaration of secession of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and the ensuing war with Kiev? Of the NATO buildup in Ukraine over the last 2 decades? The sabotage of the Minsk agreements? The rise of Banderites and the takeover of nationalists?
Russia wants full demillitarization of Ukraine, which is why they want the 4 oblasts, where the majority of people are ethnically Russian and support the invasion, as a sort of "buffer-zone," as well as certification that Ukraine won't be allowed into NATO. This entire thing could have been avoided if NATO kept to their word and didn't continue to encircle Russia for the last few decades.
If Russia wants "Ukraine's stuff," why did they invade when they did, why do they specifically want the 4 oblasts, and why only Ukraine? Your narrative makes no coherent sense, yet it's the reason you dismiss other narratives uncritically.
Uncritically? I think you need to read between the lines of what aggressors say. And this is true about the US too. At best they give you half truths and excuses. I suppose you believe Iraq had WMDs too? After all, that's what the US said.
You can't tell me Russia doesn't want parts of Ukraine, then in the same post say that a chunk of Ukraine wants to be invaded (i.e. join Russia), when Russia has also stated that as one of the reasons for invading. Even if they want to join Russia, that doesn't give Russia the right to invade to "liberate" them.
I'm not a historical expert on any of this. I just know what is reported in the media, which is not going to be the entire history. They aren't a history class.
I do read between the lines, and you know what else I do? Study history, and the material basis behind world events, especially war. The US was lying about WMD, it was always a way to privatize oil after creating a failed state. Russia has consistently for decades opposed NATO expansion, to the point of signing the Minsk agreements that Ukraine violated and said they never intended on honoring in the first place.
In the Donbass region, where the majority is ethnically Russian, the Kiev government has been shelling and murdering the breakaway republics for a decade. The reason they broke away was because of language suppression, and the Euromaidan coup that overthrew the president they supported and installed the far-right Banderite government. Russia tried to resolve this peacefully with the Minsk agreements, which ultimately failed, and then decided to invade at the request of the LPR and DPR for foreign support.
Why does Russia want to do this? To stop NATO encirclement! Since the Cold War, NATO has had nukes pointed right at Moscow, and they never let up. Not even after the USSR dissolved and Putin tried to join NATO! How could this have been prevented? By NATO stopping its expansion! Simple as. Russia did not invade "because it wants Ukrainian stuff," it invaded because it wants a secure border, and Ukraine was the path the Nazis took when invading Russia in World War II, as its the easiest path.
You're right, you aren't an expert. Neither am I. The very fact that you only listen to the US-narrative when you admit they lied about WMD means you're in no position to immediately ignore perspectives that conflict with your current understanding.
