There’s been no non-sequitors here, you’ve just failed to prove any of your assertions or disprove mine.

There’s no lie, I already provided a mountain of evidence proving that Banderites run Ukraine. Unless, of course, the BBC is “Russian propaganda.” DPR and LPR are a result of the neo-Nazis taking over Kiev, and couping Yanukovych, who DPR and LPR supported (as shown by the electoral map I provided earlier). Kiev broke the Minsk agreements as well. The elections are legitimate, you’re inserting your fanfiction to continue justifying to yourself that supporting Nazis is okay for you to do.

This is largely the mythology built around the event. The actual decision to go with the Russian loan was absolutely better, as Ukraine is now even more immiserated than before (even pre-2022). This also doesn’t justify letting neo-Nazis run Ukraine and ethnically cleanse Donetsk and Luhansk, who both voted democratically to join Russia.

Incorrect. The west brought war, death, and genocide to Ukraine by couping the democratically elected Yanukovych and placing far-right Banderites in power, who slaughtered civilians in the Maidan Massacre, then murdered 13,000+ civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk for breaking away from the new Neo-Nazi regime. The only genocide in Ukraine is the one committed against ethnic Russians by the Kiev regime.

Yanukovych went for the Russian loan because it didn’t require austerity measures that the IMF loan did. Ukraine is one of the poorest countries in Europe and has been utterly looted by the west. Education has nothing to do with it, it’s the west plundering Ukraine and couping democratically elected presidents.

I’m not whitewashing Russia’s actions, I’m explaining why the war happened. You, in the face of overwhelming evidence of the ethnic cleansing campaign initiated by the Banderites in Kiev, called it “BS propaganda” despite all being from western sources. Russia is not genocidal, and they are not the more progressive side in the war simply because they aren’t the US, but because they are stopping an ethnic cleansing campaign and undermining imperialism.

Then what is? Your comment history is also open to all, and it seems you spend a good deal of time complaining about communists and Lemmy.ml.

I don’t dump irrelevant links nor do I make non-sequitor arguments. My comment history is open to all, and I quite clearly state that I’m a communist that organizes in real life and wishes to create more communists. What are you suspicious of, that I’m not a communist?

China’s wealth has dramatically skyrocketed over time, resulting both in more billionaires and in dramatically improved material conditions for the working classes. China is not in “hard times” either. I suggest reading China Has Billionaires.

The US is the world empire. The vast sums of wealth it has it gains by superexploiting the global south for super profits and through unequal exchange. It uses the IMF, dollar hegemony, and financial institutions to plunder the world. This is by definition an extremely clear empire. Trump isn’t taking it on a death spiral, imperialism is decaying and Trump happens to be president while that happens.

You’ve consistently erased the US Empire’s imperialism and tried to pretend it’s somehow beneficial to the world, which is the key problem with your analysis.

What part of this is “BS propaganda?” Who has “picked it apart?” You gave no sources, I gave plenty. Do you think, say, BBC was lying about its ally having a Nazi problem?

You’ve been caping for the US Empire and trying to pretend it used USAID in a manner that benefits the global south, and now are trying to deny mountains of evidence of Kiev’s Nazi problems.

Billionaires in China are going down over time, and real wages for the working classes have steadily and consistently improved year over year for decades. China does have problems, but it has been improving under Xi. Further, China doesn’t have millitary assertiveness, that would be the US Empire.

This is utter bullshit.

As I explained here, the food aid is a tool of imperialism. It’s a tool to keep the global south linked to the US Empire and remain underdeveloped, resulting in unequal exchange.

As for Ukraine, you’re entirely wrong. In 2014, the west backed the far-right Euromaidan coup because the democratically elected president, Yanukovych, picked a Russian loan over one from the IMF that required austerity measures. The Stepan Bandera-upholding neo-Nazis orchestrated the Maidan Massacre, and began ethnically cleansing the Donbass region. 13,000 civilians were murdered by the Kiev regime over the course of a decade in the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and it was only when Kiev had ammassed a gigantic invasion force that Russia intervened to protect the DPR and LPR per their requests for aid.

Here are even some western government sanctioned sources.

• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• Consortium News, 2022: Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

Groups like Azov have been folded in officially. The Kiev regime upholds Stepan Bandera and uses likeness for propaganda. Nazis infest Ukrainian leadership:

The east supported Yanukovych, and that’s why the far-right Banderites couping him kicked off the war.

USAID was a tool of imperialism, not charity. The food “aid” it gave was specifically to underdevelop food production in the global south to force reliance on the US Empire, which expropriates vast sums of wealth through imperialism. China doesn’t participate in imperialism nor unequal exchange, and as such countries that trade with China and join BRI actually develop, rather than remain underdeveloped and overexploited by the west.

Can you elaborate? Xi has done more to increase socialization and reduce corruption as compared to the 2000s. I really don’t know what you’re talking about.

I doubt it’s rhyming, just adding the -ie to tank to designate a person, like Limey.

Absolutely!

Correct.

Socialism is not “low GINI index.” Socialism is a mode of production characterized by public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy, and the working class in charge of the state. Both are true in China, neither are true in Europe. The European countries you point out achieve lower disparity not through worker control, but through bribing the working class with the spoils of international plunder through imperialism, something China doesn’t do.

Yep, bingo, though Marx never said the peasantry would oppose socialism, just that they would have petite bourgeois ideology, which is true.

There are 2 critical errors you’re making here, and thus why your critique falls flat and lifeless:

1. The Nazis in Ukraine aren’t just emboldened by the state, but in control of it. Russia is governed by nationalists, not by Nazis. Ukraine isn’t simply using Nazis to further their aims, but the west is using Ukrainian Nazis to further their aims.

2. Russia is not imperialist. It has a paltry amount of finance capital, and no colonies nor neo-colonies. Its status as a capitalist nation no longer imperialized by the west like they were in the 90s strategically aligns then with the global south. This is why, say, the Sahel States turned to Russia for support in their national revolution against imperialism. Russia doesn’t participate in unequal exchange, it doesn’t keep tech monopoly nor does it undermine global south development.

I’m not doing imperialist apologia, you’re incorrectly identifying this as an inter-imperialist proxy war and as a consequence misanalyze the situation. This is why reading theory and studying the class components of the states involved, and their positions in world imperialism, are necessary.

No, the point is that we shouldn’t cry because the USSR fell, but instead be happy that the PRC carries the torch.