“Authoritarian” is not a meaningful descriptor
Just like the word “terrorist” nowadays - in the vast majority of cases these are not actual terrorists, but those who don’t toe the imperialist line. Cuba and its government, Hamas, whoever - are “terrorists” because the US says so, and they say so because they are enemies of said empire.
Small correction: the author incorrectly claims Elensky has the right to stay president by canceling elections. I know it is besides the point, but he doesn’t. His term expired in May 2024, and the martial law does NOT extend the president’s term. He is a usurper, basically.
How their own soldiers that they are so pointlessly sending to their deaths haven’t turned on them yet i still struggle to understand.
Nazi blocking detachments and mountain loads of anti-Russian propaganda (the latter becoming less and less relevant)
There were reports of Ukrainian soldiers (probably of the kidnapped off the street kind) being tied to one another with rope and forced to march to their positions at night, under the threat of being shot in the back
I think it’s already in Africa
Relatively not European, relatively not civilized anymore
Nah, it is perfectly fine, comrade. Thanks for being open-minded.
I reacted like this because we’ve tackled this question many times and it’s sort of difficult to choose where to even start - so much to unpack (thankfully, others have done it before).
One piece of advice I usually give people is to try not to emotionally invest into the ideas we have in our heads - even Marxism-Leninism - as they are naught but tools to explain (and, hopefully, transform) reality. We’re not born with them, somehow they get into our heads. Sometimes they are deliberately shoved into us by capitalist propaganda press - because they have a material interest in us being misinformed. Liberals, for instance, have a strong tendency to cling to them so much it gets absurd - especially when sources they themselves read start to contradict their own narrative; this is how we end up with libs calling NYT “New Orc Times”.