• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    What exactly are you seeing as pro-russia?

    As communists we’re staunchly anti-NATO and against the US imperialist order. There’s a degree of critical support for the Russian Federations struggle against NATO, but thats not really pro-russia, or at least how we would define being pro-russia.

    Similarly we have critical support for Iran in its struggle against the US led imperial order, and we support when they do things like engaging in trade with AES like Venezuela. Thats not the same as direct support for the theocracy there or all their domestic policies for example

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        How does communism inform your perspective?

        NATO aid and their not allowing Ukraine to negotiate peace is what is prolonging this war. We aren’t arguing for all of Ukraine to become Russian territory, which hasn’t been the position of the Russian Federation either.

        We would like a negotiated peace that alllows the Donbas republics to leave Ukraine and join the Russian Federation as they’ve voted to do, and a promise for Ukraine to not become part of NATO. That senario is not the alternative you’re talking about, or what you’re implying we support.

          • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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            The quickest way to achieve peace is for Putin yo withdraw.

            And then get couped and have the war continue under the leadership of a right wing hardliner

            Please look up critiques of great man theory as it seems relevant to your line of thinking on this matter.

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                No, if he didn’t he would have been couped and the invasion launched anyway. Russia is a dictatorship of capital. Putin answers to the national bourgeoisie of Russia.

                Also hypotheticals like that aren’t really relevant to discussing actual exit strategies. Unless you’ve found a way to hop realities.

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                    Then they deserve defeat at the hands of Ukraine.

                    I disagree, but even if I agreed I’d accept the material reality that is that Ukraine is bleeding people. The have a volksturm going on, it’s a meat grinder, I think they should stop this mindless slaughter

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            I don’t even know what this means because it has no grounding in reality.

            They can’t negotiate peace because they are in a war? How is it possible to resolve this conflict in any realistic way if thats the criteria?

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                Your way of conceptializing this is so childlike as to be useless.

                I want the war in Ukraine to end. I want them to negotiate the best and most obvious solution to this conflict for the parties involved. I want the war to end because then people will not be getting killed.

                You want NATO to keep supporting Ukraine, to keep Ukraine away from negotiating. You want this, because… i don’t know why.

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                    If Putin doesn’t like that, he can pound sand and leave.

                    Or he can keep grinding Ukrainians that are poisoning their own soil with mines, cluster ammo and depleted uranium because I assure you Ukraine isn’t winning this and even their NATO backers are announcing it now that the “spring counter-offensive” has failed.

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                    If someone invades your house, you wouldn’t just given them a room and bath to have them clam down.

                    I sure am glad that libs are aware that international relations are complex issues that cannot be boiled down to household analogies. It sure would be frustrating if they tried to make this into some simple black/white scenario with good guys and bad guys separated from material reality and historical context

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            do you sincerely think Ukraine will be like “it’s all good you were a good sport we’re gonna end the match here, everyone go home” if Russia suddenly decided to up and leave.

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            Even if Russia were to withdraw to pre-war borders, Ukraine would keep fighting because they insist on taking Crimea which is a large majority Russians who want to be part of Russia.

            Crimea has never truly been Ukrainian. It was internally transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in the 1950s, but its population was Russian then and stayed Russian the whole time since. But Ukraine insists on having it back.

            And if they did somehow get it back, they would start ethnically cleansing it of Russians. I hope you understand how that’s a bad thing.

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        Without NATO aid, Ukraine will just plainly be taken over by Purine Russia.

        The war would end, a whole lot of people would stop getting killed, and it would open a sliver of space to organize on class lines instead of nationalist ones.

        As it is, it is basically illegal to be a communist or an anarchist in Ukraine, and the country is under martial law with NATO-armed and trained fascist brigades doling out summary justice. Could it get worse? Why should the left advocate for people to die on the hill of a country which arrests communists, dismantles labor unions, and liquidates public infrastructure on internet auctions for foreign investors?

        If you take the most vulgar Anarchist approach, all states are bad, full stop. Political practice doesn’t even operate on that paradigm. You struggle to undermine oppressive hierarchical systems that you come in direct contact with through direct action. If you take the vulgar Leninist approach, the Proletariat should struggle for the overthrow of their Bourgeoisie (this would include the proletariat of Ukraine and Russia respectively, as well as the proletariat of Western countries which see this conflict only as a means to strengthen their military alliances and diplomatic positions). Of course, the situation is too nuanced to apply such a vulgar approach, but that should be the STARTING POINT for anybody who considers themselves anti-capitalists. You should be able to justify any deviation from those bedrock positions.

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        Im no fan of US imperialism, but you all conveniently leave out the alternative to NATO aid in Ukraine right now.

        Nope it’s mentioned all the time: diplomacy, peace talks, and to make that even possible, establish legitimacy by abiding by your own agreements. The undermining of all of these things has been discussed at length. They don’t really need to be rehashed in our spaces for the benefit of new people that don’t ask questions, though.

        Without NATO aid, Ukraine will just plainly be taken over by Purine Russia.

        lol RF could take over UA any time they wanted to if they took the NATO approach of completely destroying civilian life and essential resources via bombing. Military “aid” to Ukraine just keeps Ukrainian soldiers getting killed en masse, which is characterized by Russia as their compromise version of Denazification.

        As far as Im concerned, Putins expansion is really helping NATOs by giving them a justification to exist

        NATO obviously requires no credible justification to exist. This doesn’t matter.

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            I find it completely unreasonable to request a peace talk whilst in a neighboring sovereign nation invading.

            You have a very funny idea about the realities of war. By your logic most could never end. Wars are resolved through diplomacy or full collapse and loss. Your sociopathic ideas about what is “reasonable” devalues the lives and well-being of Ukrainians living through war.

            This is liberal “moral victory” nonsense that no serious person believes.

            That’s lunacy to think Ukrainians are being the unreasonable ones here in regards to a peace talk.

            Thank you for conceding my point and implicitly retracting the claim I replied to.

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            When in the history of ever did a nation willingly withdraw from its enemy before even holding peace talks?

            Did the US withdraw from Mexico before they started hashing out Guadalupe Hidalgo?

            Did Germany withdraw from Russia before negotiating Brest-Litovsk?

            Even the ‘we do not negotiate with terrorists’ US negotiated with the Taliban before leaving Afghanistan.

            It’s a deal, and withdrawal is one of the terms. You don’t do it before the deal has been made. That gives up all leverage.

            And Ukraine has already demanded they get absolutely everything, including Crimea. If you want a deal to be everything you want and nothing you don’t, you need an unconditional surrender, not peace talks. Good luck getting Ukrainian tanks into Moscow.

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        What if I told you that in March 2022 the Ukrainians and Russians came this close to closing a deal that would end the war… that is, before the Ukrainians decided to accept effectively unlimited NATO aid in exchange for scrapping said deal?

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        Without NATO aid, Ukraine will just plainly be taken over by Purine Russia

        Ah, I think I’ve found the issue. Here at Hexbear we only support Pyrimidine Russia. We hate fuckin’ cytosine, don’t we folks?

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        Without NATO aid, Ukraine will just plainly be taken over by Purine Russia.

        No it wouldn’t. At most they would take the southern half, Novorossiya. The rest they just want a guarantee won’t align with the West.

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        As far as Im concerned, Putins expansion is really helping NATOs by giving them a justification to exist.

        You have that backwards and are welcome to learn about the context behind the conflict, just ask