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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Then why are you talking about it in the same terms as naive nationalists who don't know materialism?

I don't know what you're talking about? All I said was that the Russian state has always seen Crimea as a strategic asset.

continuing to frame it as though people who happen to be born in a certain socially constructed polity are somehow inherently a problem, while arguing pretty unmaterialistically that Russians (not the Russian Federation, just Russians

Lol, that's quite the assumption to jump to based on the use of "Russians". Do you get as pedantic if I were to say "the Americans benefited from chattel slavery"

started the conflict in Ukraine rather than joining a conflict that had been ongoing for nearly a decade. I'm not saying you're not a materialist, but I am saying i detect latent nationalist brainworms.

A conflict they've been perpetuating for nearly a decade...... you are the one trying to interpret the situation through a nationalistic lense. You're literally aping the nationalistic justification for the imperial expansion of a capitalist nation.

Forget about the nationalistic dressing and actually apply some leftist theory..... why does the west support Ukraine, the poorest country in Europe? Why does the US support Turkey, a state run by man who's trying to turn it into a Islamic theocracy?

It's all to control access to the black sea, the same reason the Russian state has always seen Crimea as a strategic asset.