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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You can't take over a country that used to belong to you and is literally at your border and call that imperialism. You are being lied to.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I am being lied to. I have been fed lies my whole life. I was told that Russia is the most just and fair country. That every war waged was in self defence and all the people within its borders joined willingly and were happy.

But I was able to see through it. I have learnd that all territorial expansion was fueled by ruthless wars and genocides. Russian expanse to the east is no better than USA expansion to the west displacing and subjigating all people who lived there. I have learned of the terrible fates of people who lived here. Not only of strangers, but also those in my family tree who lived through the harshest times of oppression during USSR.

But most importantly I learned that countries don't have a right to own other countries. It is the definition of imperialism after all.

And Ukraine is perhaps one of the most deserving countries to exist. Ukrainians have fought for so long to gain sovereignty and indepndence, but were betrayed. First thrown under the bus by Russian empire, then taken over by USSR during the revolution. And now Russia is trying to subjigate Ukraine again. I can only hope that this time this senseless conquest will fail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It is the definition of imperialism after all.

The highest stage of capitalism where finance capital becomes the dominant force and the export of capital the primary contradiction?