The US conducted the cold war to force the SU into a spending spiral that collapsed their economy. They then spent billions of dollars to install Yeltsin into power. Putin came up through the FSB and and the connections to leverage the oligarchy and institute mafia control of the country. They then worked with the Americans for decades to sell them space launches, military assistance, natural resources and purchase financial services. When the whims of American empire changed they started to poke at Russian sovereignty over and over with an aim to collapse the nation for profit.

1. Instead of disbanding NATO when the SU fell, they expanded it into former Soviet states and entered them into mutual military purchasing agreements with the US.
2. Funding separatist and terrorist groups throughout the Russian periphery to increase military pressure on Russia (Georgia, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan)
3. Used the CIA and other NGO groups in Ukraine to overthrow their government to one that is friendly to the US/EU and hostile Russia causing a civil war where Russian speaking people live in Ukraine and a decade of fighting.
4. Russia didn’t invade out of nowhere, they were responding to ongoing fighting in Russian majority areas. Do I personally think the “SMO” was a good move? No, but do I understand it and think that Russia poses a structural threat to US/EU interests? Also no.
5. They conducted a massive military build up in countries surrounding Russia.
6. The US took all of the Russian money in US/EU banking institutions and kept it. If you are holding a huge percentage of someones capital/money hostage and they have no recourse to unfreeze their assets under your management, who controls who? Don’t you think that if the Russians had full control over the US government thru illicit means or “kompromat” on Donald Trump that the first course of action would be to unfreeze their assets? People in the US believe Putin was the puppeteer on his meetings with Trump but in reality this person (Putin) was going to their boss and asking for their money back and being told no. The Russian response was to state plainly that Donald Trump is not in control of the US and isn’t worth speaking to and that Americans are “agreement incapable” are these the words and actions of the person with an upper hand?
7. The Anglo empire have wanted to break apart the Russian empire since the 19th century. It is a long term historic objective of US/UK imperial interests going back to the Crimean war and before. It was only interrupted by the challenge of an Imperial Germany. The US/UK empires want Russia to pay for the October Revolution in particular with full collapse and balkanization.
8. The Anglo empire wants to split up Russia into its constituent republics and states and pit every one against each other for their profit. They want to sell weapons to the Tartars, they want to extract the natural resources at a discount.

Saying Hamas and Hezbollah are heroes is garbage. You can support Palestinian rights, oppose Israeli abuses, and still recognize that murdering civilians, taking hostages, repressing opponents, and serving authoritarian religious movements isn’t heroic.

They are the only ones resisting. You are doing nothing. They are heroes.

The China claim is also garbage. Criticizing Western imperialism doesn’t mean pretending China has no imperial ambitions or would somehow be a gentle, democratic world leader. That’s just swapping one form of empire worship for another.

Chinese imperial ambitions are different and not hell bent on global domination. Unlike Europe, China has been a global hegemon for thousands of years. Will they be perfect? No, will they be better and more willing to operate in a multipolar world than the west? I believe that

The claim that all white Americans are class enemies is racist nonsense wearing Marxist vocabulary. A white cashier or warehouse worker doesn’t own capital because they’re white. Racial privilege and economic exploitation can both exist at the same time.

Sorry the truth hurts, white devil. The white cashier in the US supports its empire and imperial systems. The white nurse is part of the settler class that seized native lands and refuses to return or even pay the people you stole it from the money you are legally required to in the treaties you signed. The US is a settler colonial disease and its citizens - white americans - are complicit in its crimes.

“There is no difference between a white American and an Israeli” is also nonsense. Neither group is politically, racially, or morally uniform. An American nurse in Ohio isn’t the same as an armed West Bank settler, and an Israeli peace activist isn’t the same as Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is literally a fucking American. There are no Israeli “peace” activists. If they were a peace activist they would leave Israel. Israel, like the US, has no right to exist. Like Rhodesia, they must be dismantled.

The last claim is mostly conspiracy theory. The US did meddle in post-Soviet Russia and supported disastrous economic policies under Yeltsin. But it didn’t install Putin as a mercenary and then decide to break Russia apart for profit. Putin has his own ideology, power base, ambitions, and responsibility for his actions.

Using the language of the CIA to discount historical facts then misrepresented what I said. I never said the US installed Putin I said they installed Yeltsin, and in another comment I said he came up through the FSB and leveraged his connections in Russia to come to power. He is a mercenary that works for the highest bidder.

The garbage parts are the terrorist hero worship, China worship, racial essentialism, and the claim that every world event is secretly controlled by Washington.

You are a propagandized imperial stooge of the empire you live for. You are the enemy of the free people of the world. It is not racial essentialism to state that White USAmericans are part of a specific petite bourgeois class of settlers. I didn’t claim all white people around the entire world are the same, it is specific to the white USAmericans. I also never made the claim that every world event is secretly controlled by Washington you just made that up because you are discussing in bad faith and from a position of perceived authority granted by your settler colony. I said a handful of specific events were orchestrated by the Empire administrated from Washington.

The US is an oligarchy, not a democracy, which means Trump, an oligarch, isn’t an aberation.

ok but I think you’re delusional