• butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Nooooooooo and that artist is more than happy to give you a long list of theory on how Russian imperialism isn’t actually imperialism.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          I mean, there’s a certain amount of eye-rolling you have to do when an American - hands still bloody from Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria - points a finger and shouts “Imperialist!”

          But the most damning indictment of post-Soviet Russia is the degree to which Putin collaborated with Bush Jr and Obama (and Mohammed bin Salman and Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi) decades earlier, during the War On Terror. This nightmarish turf war in Ukraine is just the end result of fascist powers in their inevitable falling out after failing to divide up the spoils. Trying to be “pro-Russian” in 2025 feels a bit like being “pro-France” in 1783.