We need to start connecting dots. You see a lot of articles and comment about how Russia is run by authoritarian oligarchs, interferes in elections, fuels conflict in the Sahel, invades other counties because of its belief in a sphere of influence, and it oppresses women and minorities. These are all terrible things.

I can't help but notice that all of the other applies in spades to the US and its allies-cum-proxies in Europe and the Middle East. If we are actually opposed to what Russia is up to, and not just opposed to Russia, we would be attempting to articulate and organise an international movement opposed to oligarchy and empire. That is to say a movement that rejected politics as it is, a revolutionary movement.

There are of course such efforts, the People Want is a good example, https://thepeopleswant.org/. These efforts remain fringe in the imperial core. This makes me think that too many of us are really just opposed to Russia. They are inverse tankies, a co-tankie or tankie־¹

#Pol, #Empire, #ThePeopleWant