The problem I have with the phrasing on this, particularly the line “much like the US”, is that it implies it’s a symmetrical thing with much the same goals. Last I checked, Russia is not a global capitalist empire with over a thousand military bases across the world and a continuous effort to destabilize/coup/bomb/sanction any country who opposes its will, but maybe I missed the memo.
Same, not all capitalist countries are imperialist, in fact the majority are victims of imperialism, and to equate them with the imperialist capitalist countries like the US strikes of first world ultra-leftism.
If some random capitalist country without the political baggage of Russia (say, Benin for instance), was fighting NATO encroachment and killing NATO footsoldiers only to get called “deranged oligarchies” by first world leftists, we would rightly call this a chauvinist criticism.
Now I’m thinking on it more, I would say it’s also worth noting some pretty substantial differences like that:
There are still people alive in Russia who are old enough to remember the Soviet Union and the rights and quality of life it gave people. In contrast, there are still people alive in the US who are old enough to remember before Civil Rights; a problem that was by no means resolved through it and you can easily find incidents of systemic racism ongoing. Along with the US’s treatment of indigenous peoples. Which even on what it does at home (not even taking into account global stuff) already sets it apart from countries that don’t have such racialized systems developed alongside capital.
The US directly and heavily contributed to the dismantling of the Soviet Union and waged cold war against it, which is a large part of why Russia is an “oligarchy” in the first place.
Russia, as part of the Soviet Union, had a decades long period of being a socialist project. Something the US has never been once in all of its history.
Russia, as part of the Soviet Union, was instrumental as opposition to Nazi Germany and it (the Soviet Union) took great losses to defeat it. The US stepped in late and then later integrated nazis with Operation Paperclip, as well as in NATO. Furthermore, the US was so bad, Nazi Germany took inspiration from Jim Crow laws.
The history of these two countries, the US and Russia, is remarkably different in a number of ways and those differences contribute to the contrasts that linger today.
The federal reserves and the Indian Residential fake schools that secretly continued after 1997 in the British diaspora are the first concentration camps and death camps respectively. The war crimes in the Nazi Holocaust were mere imitation of the war crimes that the British diaspora committed against Indigenous people, and those war crimes still continued after the cold war contrary to the Pax Americana slogan on the opposition to Nazi Holocaust.
Despite the need for post-war recovery from the Russian civil war that the USA prolonged and the lack of industrialized economy compared to Britain and French, Stalin is the first national leader to ask for opposition to Hitler. Britain and French decided to sign alliance packs with Hitler, praise Hitler as the greatest leader of Liberalism, and force Stalin to wage all the war against Hitler. Stalin is aware that the Soviet Union cannot afford a war with Nazi German by itself, signed a non-aggression pack with Hitler to buy time for military preparation, and take half of Poland under the protection of Soviet alliance. When Britain and French realized that they cannot free ride on Stalin, they then framed Stalin for free riding and direct all their slanderous propaganda to transform Stalin into the worst fictional villain mastermind in history.
Although the British diaspora boost that they ideology provided them with economic properity and human rights, their human rights applies mostly to Capitalists and European immigrants while their economic prosperity depends on stolen fertile land that Indigenous people cultivated, rich natural resources from stolen land, good weather of stolen land, stolen strategic trading centers, free child slaves in fake schools, free stolen inheritance from abducted Indigenous children from fake cultural assimilation projects, and favoritism from global empires. The European immigrants justify their savagery and hypocrisy with their disproven claims that their Indigenous population has equal level of savagery which negates the free humanitarian aids that saves Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to America, sharing of high-quality land with everyone that includes the European immigrants, and pacifist war practice of Native Americans in the great plain that replace killing and property destruction with harassment and disarmament as resolution of war. The dependency to Indigenous population and colonial free riding are the reason why the Western European diaspora now need to replace their rural white population with large numbers of new immigrants of color to sustain their civilization.
The problem I have with the phrasing on this, particularly the line “much like the US”, is that it implies it’s a symmetrical thing with much the same goals. Last I checked, Russia is not a global capitalist empire with over a thousand military bases across the world and a continuous effort to destabilize/coup/bomb/sanction any country who opposes its will, but maybe I missed the memo.
Same, not all capitalist countries are imperialist, in fact the majority are victims of imperialism, and to equate them with the imperialist capitalist countries like the US strikes of first world ultra-leftism.
If some random capitalist country without the political baggage of Russia (say, Benin for instance), was fighting NATO encroachment and killing NATO footsoldiers only to get called “deranged oligarchies” by first world leftists, we would rightly call this a chauvinist criticism.
Again, Russia is not imperialist.
Well said!
Now I’m thinking on it more, I would say it’s also worth noting some pretty substantial differences like that:
There are still people alive in Russia who are old enough to remember the Soviet Union and the rights and quality of life it gave people. In contrast, there are still people alive in the US who are old enough to remember before Civil Rights; a problem that was by no means resolved through it and you can easily find incidents of systemic racism ongoing. Along with the US’s treatment of indigenous peoples. Which even on what it does at home (not even taking into account global stuff) already sets it apart from countries that don’t have such racialized systems developed alongside capital.
The US directly and heavily contributed to the dismantling of the Soviet Union and waged cold war against it, which is a large part of why Russia is an “oligarchy” in the first place.
Russia, as part of the Soviet Union, had a decades long period of being a socialist project. Something the US has never been once in all of its history.
Russia, as part of the Soviet Union, was instrumental as opposition to Nazi Germany and it (the Soviet Union) took great losses to defeat it. The US stepped in late and then later integrated nazis with Operation Paperclip, as well as in NATO. Furthermore, the US was so bad, Nazi Germany took inspiration from Jim Crow laws.
The history of these two countries, the US and Russia, is remarkably different in a number of ways and those differences contribute to the contrasts that linger today.
I could provide more details to your claim.
The federal reserves and the Indian Residential fake schools that secretly continued after 1997 in the British diaspora are the first concentration camps and death camps respectively. The war crimes in the Nazi Holocaust were mere imitation of the war crimes that the British diaspora committed against Indigenous people, and those war crimes still continued after the cold war contrary to the Pax Americana slogan on the opposition to Nazi Holocaust.
Despite the need for post-war recovery from the Russian civil war that the USA prolonged and the lack of industrialized economy compared to Britain and French, Stalin is the first national leader to ask for opposition to Hitler. Britain and French decided to sign alliance packs with Hitler, praise Hitler as the greatest leader of Liberalism, and force Stalin to wage all the war against Hitler. Stalin is aware that the Soviet Union cannot afford a war with Nazi German by itself, signed a non-aggression pack with Hitler to buy time for military preparation, and take half of Poland under the protection of Soviet alliance. When Britain and French realized that they cannot free ride on Stalin, they then framed Stalin for free riding and direct all their slanderous propaganda to transform Stalin into the worst fictional villain mastermind in history.
Although the British diaspora boost that they ideology provided them with economic properity and human rights, their human rights applies mostly to Capitalists and European immigrants while their economic prosperity depends on stolen fertile land that Indigenous people cultivated, rich natural resources from stolen land, good weather of stolen land, stolen strategic trading centers, free child slaves in fake schools, free stolen inheritance from abducted Indigenous children from fake cultural assimilation projects, and favoritism from global empires. The European immigrants justify their savagery and hypocrisy with their disproven claims that their Indigenous population has equal level of savagery which negates the free humanitarian aids that saves Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to America, sharing of high-quality land with everyone that includes the European immigrants, and pacifist war practice of Native Americans in the great plain that replace killing and property destruction with harassment and disarmament as resolution of war. The dependency to Indigenous population and colonial free riding are the reason why the Western European diaspora now need to replace their rural white population with large numbers of new immigrants of color to sustain their civilization.
Thanks for adding more context on it!