There are no "ethnically rus areas".
What you want would be dozens of tiny princedoms endlessly waging wars on each other a-la Africa.
What does Zig Forums think of the situation in Ukraine...
Luis Davis
Connor Torres
Chechnya under Dzokhar Dudayev was basically ba'ath gang. It wasn't until the war started that foreign mujahideen and Saudi funds started leaking over the border, turning it into a jihadi state. No telling what would have happened if it was left alone
Are you saying that decolonization of Africa was a bad thing? (In principle, not in execution)
Levi Bailey
Jeez, I wonder who killed him
Asher Nelson
And this thread SUDDENLY CAME INTO BEING RIGHT BEFORE IT
Hunter Diaz
Of course, since it was even more vulnerable to foreign influence independent Chechnya would've been left alone!
What the hell does this have to do with anything?
Also, there is no "in principle", only "in execution" - real or hypothetical. So clarify what hypothetical execution you are talking about.
Connor Cox
Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. Russia may have legitimate reasons to be involved in Ukraine, but that doesn’t mean they don’t also have imperial ambitions there.
Leo Campbell
Can you explain to me what makes these remittances different from migrants to America and western europe? Are those people "slaves" because they send money back to their home country?
It's an honest question.
Asher Gomez
Of course they have. Just like Kiev oligarchs have imperial ambitions in Donbass (since it is effectively foreign territory now, and they have zero intentions or treating population as citizens of Ukraine). Just like any other capitalists.
That is, however, irrelevant. The only nation that is actually functioning as imperialist is neither Ukraine nor Russia. It is US - which is sacrosanct (in practice, if not in theory) to anti-authoritarian "Left".
David Sanchez
and finnbols knew too
i also get rubel from putin himself for ridiculing you
Gavin Richardson
Nothing. Why do you think that if I criticize Russia I absolve Western countries of doing the same shit? It's a sign of periphery's economic dependence on the capitalist center. It's regrettable and often inhumane whenever it happens.
While decolonization of Africa happened on Western terms and resulted in a fuckton of tribal warfare and imperialism, it was still progressive compared to direct colonialism and spawned some legitimate national liberation movements, like in Burkina Faso. Could've been far better but it's overall a good thing, no question. Why would you oppose a theoretical decolonization of Russia if its people actually demanded it?