• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know why people keep bring up Dugin:

    His right-hand man is Aleksandr Dugin

    Bullshit. Dugin is a Western chauvinist fascist who is ideologically aligned with the Ukrainian coup government and the Ukrainian Nazis who terrorized the Donbas for almost a decade before Russia intervened two years ago. In what universe is he Putin’s “right-hand man”?

    The US would absolutely love to have a regime change that put Dugin in power, because he would invite the American shock therapists back in to finish the plundering that they started in the ’90s under Yeltsin, and that Putin put an end to.

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      7 months ago

      terrorized the Donbas for almost a decade before Russia intervened two years ago

      You mean the Donbas where Ukraine was fighting Russia after they annexed Crimea?

      How can you terroriza your own country that was invaded?

      Are you completely ignoring the fact Russia annexed Crimea just so you can carry water for Putin? What is your agenda?

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        7 months ago

        My agenda is (1) to save the lives & livelihoods of working class people and (2) anti-imperialism. My agenda is not to carry water for Ukraine’s neoliberal government, which has allowed Global North capitalists to neocolonize it to the detriment of its people.

        You mean the Donbas where Ukraine was fighting Russia after they annexed Crimea?

        The Donbas is not Crimea; they don’t even touch.

        In 2014 the US facilitated a coup, installing a far-right comprador government, because the democratically elected government was insufficiently subservient to US interests. In response, Russia annexed Crimea, a region whose history and people were more aligned with Russia. There wasn’t much fighting involved because the people of Crimea largely welcomed this.

        But getting back to the Donbas: how is bombing apartment complexes in one’s own country for nearly a decade “fighting Russia”? That was a neonazi ethnic cleansing project with the support of their own government and the CIA.