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So you do support the people of Russia in their ongoing struggle against decades of NATO aggression?
I support the people of Russia and Ukraine in their struggles with war, starvation, loss of home and general suffering caused by the Russian and Ukranian/NATO states, which I do not support because I don't support any state because I am an anarchist.
If you're not supporting Russia's opposition to NATO, then you're supporting the people of Russia being destroyed by NATO again. That's some pretty shitty anarchism. Standard anarcho-natoism to pull out some ultra-left nonsense about how only a spontaneous, unorganized resistance to NATO is acceptable.
It's NATO that had designs on collapsing Russia, not the other way around. It's not Russia's fault that NATO convinced Ukraine (probably through blackmailing Zelensky with threats to prosecute financial crimes) to be the current battleground.
"Not voting for Biden is a vote for Trump!"
Are you a nationalist? Why the fuck should you even care? Two bourgeois states going to war to destroy themselves, and the only ones harmed in the process are the proletarians of both countries. You should be supporting and helping them instead of LARPing state worship on the internet. I don't condemn the Russian state resisting NATO, but I am not going to support capitalists in their shitty capitalist wars. If that makes me some buzzword you feel very angry about, you are free to call me that.
I get it. What's at stake for Russians is mass death and deprivation under NATO dominance, but I failed to consider that this is a conflict between two states, so fuck em. There's a bunch of state worshippers. Gross. People in Russia should simply use some kind of spontaneous and more effective tool.
The comparison to American electoral politics doesn't hold up. Trump, Biden, democrats and republicans are equal partners in maintaining unipolar capitalist hegemony. There's no disagreement there. Russia is capitalist, but it's not a global hegemon.