celebrating 4.5 years of Jacobin being completely wrong about Ukraine and Russia over and over again

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It straight up drives me mad that that part of the left isn't screaming that this is caused by autocratic capital... Yelling about capital is their whole thing and the place where its most obvious they totally miss it.

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it's extremely funny that putin will sit there and recite imperial history and wrap it up with a "and that is why other ethnicities and nationalities do not exist and ukraine is ours by right" bow and people will still do this. guys no one agrees with you.

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Russia stretches from Europe to the Pacific *because* of imperial expansion, but unlike the US, which achieved coast to coast dominance and was more or less* content with that, Russia is surrounded by ancient kingdoms and peoples with a long and shared history of despising the folks from Moscow

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The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

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