i want to make a joke about censoring the meat on the OP image but I also don’t want to seem like I’m antagonizing or concern trolling vegan comrades. there are two wolves inside of me, and i ate neither of them (I promise)

(This piece is dedicated to lobstermen across Maine, even though none of them can read.)

unnecessary dig at illiterate people. Kinda classist don’t you think? Also you literally joined today. Seems strange for this to be the very first sentence you publish to a Communist website.

damn, it’s almost like you’re trying to pull people into arguments by making short provocative statements with no thought put behind them

like some sort of… Ogre? Goblin? Orc? I don’t know. I think there’s a word for it.

:trump-anguish: locker room talk, if you will

libs: ukraine is becoming is becoming more progressive because of the war! :so-true:

me: but I thought you said putin was lying when he said he was denazifying

libs: :wojak-nooo:

you have to interrupt yourself with subordinate clauses and nonsequiturs

yea,

ukraine I’d say is being used as a pawn by US/NATO in a proxy war meant to disintegrate and balkanize former soviet nations. The ukrainian “goal” is NATO membership and yet NATO doesn’t really want to let them join. They just used the threat of it to bait the Russians.

Russia also tried to join NATO several times and was similarly told no. US military strategy has long centered around giving money and weapons to fascist, traditionalist, religious, entrepreneurial groups. It is easier to divide and conquer other cultures when reactionaries are busy destabilizing their own nations. It is easier to subordinate periphery markets to core markets when their productive capacity is crippled by civil war.

I say “3 sides” + Russia because while NATO/US/Ukraine form a “bloc” here, each member of that “bloc” is less interested in being “against Russia” than for themselves. US has imperial hegemonic interests, and NATO members want “stability” in a region they consider their “back yard.” Ukraine wants a bunch of things and has a bunch of groups of its own. Some of them want national sovereignty. Some of them want to be less of a satellite to Russia and more of a satellite to NATO. Some of them want total independence from the influence of any regional superpower which sadly isn’t gonna happen. Some of them simply want to ethnically cleanse people on Donetsk and Luhask. It’s a shitty situation. Just today you got Russian speaking people in Mariupol saying they were being used as human shields basically.

all 4 sides you mean

NATO, the US, Ukraine, and Russia.

I wonder how Russia and Ukraine ended up with so many nazis? Surely they weren’t wrecked by a “defensive” military alliance known for rehabilitating and incorporating former nazis. Surely US intelligence wasn’t going around Europe, giving money and weapons to fascists for the past 80 years.

liberatory natioanlism as opposed to chauvinist nationalism. yes.