I mean it’s kinda hard to separate from COVID and the set back in their housing market. Basically in an attempt to meet their GDP quotas local governments loaned out way too much money to keep production. So local governments are in a lot of debt which at some point should have cascading effects on the economy.
The sad thing is that a good amount of these guys aren’t actually working for the state. A lot of them are actually immigrants who left Russia for more opportunities, but are still rampant nationalist attempting to damage the countries that gave them a new home.
Yeah… Because Trump has such a good track record of maintaining nuclear deals. This is just a pretense to allow Israel to invade Iran once they’ve finished their genocide in Gaza.
The whole reason Israel felt comfortable enough to commit to purging Gaza is because Trump ended the original nuclear deal to begin with. Now that Benni feels things are wrapping up in Palestine, he’s going to need another war to keep Israel’s bloodlust going and keep his coalition together.
International law no longer holds any water. Every world power seems hell bent on making geopolitics revolve around hard power. The US backs out of treaties every four years, the Russians haven’t ever made a deal they didn’t pretend never happened, and China is out there pretending a vast swath of the Pacific is there’s because of reasons…
In a time where a level of global cooperation is needed greater than ever before to prevent climate change, we as a species are shitting the bed harder than ever before.
But you gotta hand it to the guy, he took control of the most powerful nation the world has ever known
Eh, that’s kinda feeding into the propaganda surrounding him. In reality the Russian Federation is just run by the people who scammed the most citizens from their ownership rights after the privatization of the Soviet state. Since the fall of the Soviet state, it’s basically been pretending to be a world power by bullying smaller nations with the military it inherited.
His real talent is propagandizing and intimidating his way to the top of basically a government run by a mob.
it’s pretty clear who’s pulling the oompa-lumpas strings)
Again, I think this is exactly what they want you to think. I just think trump wants what Putin has, supreme power to whatever he wants, and a state where his cronies can do whatever they want so long as they are loyal. American oligarchs have been envious of Russian oligarchs for some time now.
This is going to be a hard pill to swallow for the Russian nationalist cosplaying as leftist on Lemmy…
More than likely possible depending on how they came up with valuations on old stock piles from the cold war. Depends on if you value them based on their original cost, or the modern cost to replace them.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that fascist parties all over Europe are gaining traction at the same time, running on the same platforms, and offering the same solutions?
They are going to use the same play book being utilized in America in your country, if you don’t know the playbook you are going to have the same problems.
Yeap, I just think trump went to Russia and liked how they did things. I think American billionaires see the government as a boss, and they think rich people shouldn’t be able to be told no. They think if there is a hierarchy of power they should get to wield it to do the things they want to do, it shouldn’t ever be wielded against them.
I think that’s why he is generally bewildered when he is still told no, or held accountable, and why he’s so vindictive when he’s told no. He doesn’t really understand why people are allowed to say no, in his head he’s boss of America.
So when he sees Putin getting to do whatever he wants without any resistance, it makes sense to him, and he’s jealous. If Putin is boss of Russia, why can’t I be boss of America?
is there a news page that does NOT contain American politics?
I get the sentiment, but politics and news are irrefutably intertwined.
I feel for the victims, but only Americans can do something about it. And they never dealt with the “death penalty for walking on the street while black” problem.
I would argue this is a lot like people in France questioning why they should pay attention to Nazis invading Poland. Nearly all democratic nations are currently being subversively attacked by right winged political parties .
If people in your nation don’t learn from the US’s example, right winged parties will continue to grow in power.
I mean… If your only real accomplishment is inheriting huge sums of wealth, it makes a bunch of sense. I personally don’t really see the need for Trump to be compromised by Russian intelligence, American oligarchs have always been jealous of the federations kleptocracy.
What could be better for someone like Trump and his cronies than a system where as long as you’re loyal you can literally do anything you want?
Have a journalist poking around your business, simply introduce them to the window. A rival business won’t sell you their company for nothing? Make a call and have the government do a “corruption investigation”. Your company is coming under protest for displacing minority groups…off to jail for subversion.
The Russian Federation is just America in ten years of we don’t make a drastic about face. Our oligarchs have been pushing that way for a while, trump is just accelerating the process.
Yep, a lot of people forget that feminism is in fact an important tenet of leftism. Been seeing a lot of male chauvinism across Lemmy on both sides of the political divide, kinda sad really.
think he’s accelerating the decline of the US empire. And I think a new multipolar world with China taking on a leading role will emerge shortly. Within a few years at latest.
Thinking of geopolitics as a polarity is a way to make a complex subject more digestible, however when it’s examined against actual history its highly reductive.
Even when the world was less complicated and communist nations weren’t a hodgepodge of mixed markets, nothing was delineated so cleanly into something as simple as multipolarism.
Democratic capitalist nations still overthrew emerging capitalist democracies, communist nations still went to war with other communist nations. I think it’s a bit optimistic to believe that political and economic instability inexplicably births unity.
I’m sure there will be some takers, but to be honest their real bread and butter is mostly petroleum products which directly compete with American petroleum companies. Sanctions against a competitor are vastly more valuable than the oil itself to American petroleum corporations.
As far as other minerals go, they are valuable… But most of them are going right to the production market in China.
It really doesn’t behoove corporate America to partner with Russian interests, which is kinda surprising why we haven’t really seen a lot of backlash yet. I’m guessing they’re keeping their heads down for now and seeing if the tax cuts are worth all the hassle.
I’m sure that there will be some capital holders who are willing to invest in Russia, however I don’t really think a lot of the big players will be rushing back to Russia.
A large reason Russia has had such an about face since the early 00’s is because a huge amount of western capital pulled out of Moscow after they invaded Georgia in 08. Since then Putin has had to double down in his overtly aggressive pillaging from Russia’s neighbors to maintain his hierarchy of control over the oligarchs in Russia.
The invasion of Ukraine is largely a part of a sunk cost fallacy of his blunder in 08. I don’t think he realized how skittish his power plays made foreign investors, nor did he predict the following sanctions that followed in his attempts to recover his power over the oligarchs.
true, Putin tried to join NATO once, to join the imperialism club, but the US rejected Russia
They never made an official application, Putin wanted to be invited.
because the US wanted (and still wants) Russia Balkanized and re-plundered instead.
“a small but growing lobby in Europe and the United States making the case for the break-up of the Russian Federation. Their main argument is that Putin’s denial of Ukraine’s right to exist proves that the Russian state is irredeemable imperialist”
Kinda an underwhelming theory considering your article is talking about a small group reacting to very modern imperialism, not a scheme from the early 00s to deny Russia NATO membership, especially when they were made a permanent joint council.
Russia has figured out that it’s better off allying with Global South countries than attempting imperialist adventures upon them
Ahh yes, famous liberators like…bashar al-assad.
The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
And notice how none of those “sources” are before 2014, and especially not before 2008. It’s almost like there’s a modern push to reinterpret the dangers of NATO.
NATO is imperialist and I’m not a fan of it, however post Soviet dissolution it wasn’t ever enough of an actual threat to validate invading Ukraine, Georgia, or sponsoring the other break away factions in their neighbors back yard.
I’ll leave it at that, because I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith, and you’ve already said you aren’t a socialist, so I’m guessing by our just a Russian nationalist and I’m wasting my time.
Just the small problem of thousands of murdered eastern Ukrainians, and the Ukrainian state’s efforts to systematically suppress their political representation and their language.
I think this can be covered with one source.
George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
Because discussions between an administration and a head of state is now considered binding geopolitical contracts?
Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
" the 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It…used this time to become stronger as can be seen today. The Ukraine of 2014-2015 is not the modern Ukraine.”
Not a very intellectually honest interpretation from this “journalistic website”
- Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
I don’t see how not following through on the minsk agreement is really provoking a war when Russia has already broken The Budapest Memorandum.
Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
"The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition to not invade Ukraine. Of course, we didn’t sign that.The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second-class membership. We rejected that.So, he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders. He has got the exact opposite.”
Demanding the impossible…that NATO retract to levels back in the 90s and to prevent an invasion that had already happened is a bit far from “NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine”
The NATO chief was just repeating putina claims, not making claims.
This is ridiculous and just a historical and dishonest.
And a lot of that expansion is done while Russia wanted to join NATO , or while they were on a permanent joint council with NATO. Up until recently NATO was just an organization used to give hand outs to the American military industrial complex.
It wasn’t until their invasion of Georgia and the resulting capital pull out from Moscow that Russia even complained about NATO.
Neither the US, Ukraine, nor Russia is even approaching socialism, so I don’t see how campism is relevant. What is relevant is imperialism vs. anti-imperialism.
I would say a socialist defending a violent imperialist nation invading a nation simply because they are at times geopolitically opposed to another violent imperialist nation is a form of campism.
in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.
And what evidence supports the idea that it will be easier to liberate one colonizer state from a second colonizer state located right next door? Seems you are perpetuating a lot of violence based on nothing.
Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US.
In what way have they liberated themselves from shock therapy? Their government is the result of shock therapy, where the vast majority of wealth is tied to an oligarchic control that’s even more hierarchal than just about any other nation in the world.
It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.
Therea no actual evidence to support thwre was a “genocide” happening in donbos. They were just doing the same form of imperialism they didn’t in 08’ in Georgia, where they participated in ethnic cleansing.
The idea that Russia was provoked into invading their neighbors is ridiculous if you actually look at the history Russias relations with their neighbors in the late 00’s. It’s just imperialism…
I mean if that was the entire point of the war wouldn’t it still be a strategic failure considering the invasion prompted Finland to join NATO?