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    It doesn’t matter what they would do, we can speculate all day about intentions and alternate universes. All that matters is what they are doing right now in the real world that we live in. Russia is allied with China, Iran, the DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mali, Burkina Faso, etc. All targets of US imperialism. They support and are supported by all socialist or socialist adjacent countries.

    The fact is that at the moment Russia is one of the biggest anti-imperialist forces in the world, and certainly the one doing most of the heavy lifting in terms of actually militarily taking on the imperialists and their proxies. They are militarily supporting anti-imperialist governments all over the world. They are killing more fascists each day than anyone else on the planet. And they are second only to China in their contribution to upending US hegemony.

    If February 2022 didn’t happen we would be living in a very different world today, one in which US imperialism would still be in a much stronger position. The SMO has been and continues to be, objectively, a historic game changer and immensely positive contribution to the global anti-imperialist cause. Vladimir Putin’s personal ideological inclinations don’t change these factual realities. He has no choice but to act according to the geopolitical circumstances that Russia finds itself in.

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      I can still stan neither the US, nor Russian, now Ukraine. They can all be bad to a point where I don’t want to cheer for them. I will cheer for China any day though, or the other countries you mentioned. Russia is just a bit too reactionary for me, which is only likely to change once Putin stops leading the place.

      And yes, they happen to be a target of imperialism by the US, mainly because the US is incapable of letting anything go and the average hog still equates russian with communist, which is not Russia’s fault. Them having allied with the block of countries that oppose the US/West globally is a pretty obvious move, since they have no other potential allies. in that sense they are indeed anti-imperialist, but that is like saying Hitler was an Anti-Imperialist for wanting to conquer France and the UK.

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        I will cheer for China any day though, or the other countries you mentioned. Russia is just a bit too reactionary for me

        Iran is objectively more reactionary than Russia and we still critically support them.

        that is like saying Hitler was an Anti-Imperialist for wanting to conquer France and the UK.

        No, it’s the opposite. Nazi Germany was the bigger imperialist threat at the time. At the time we would have expressed, as most communists did, critical support to France and the UK, despite them being imperialist, in the war against the Nazis.