That’s a bold lie to tell.

Lol, that was perhaps the least controversial thing I’ve ever posted that got removed by a mod.

That more North Korean Style. The Chinese are all about saving face which means sweeping problems under the rug.

That would be Zero but Christians sure are convinced it’s all of them.

I mean, Christian teachings are largely Greek Philosophy grafted onto Abrahamic religion. I’m not terribly convinced early church fathers really cared what Jesus thought.

That’s more or less what every Marxist and Marxist-Leninist really needs to hear.

Because he’s the M in ML

Weirdly, none of the 80 books on the reading list will actually be by Marx himself

Can’t say, didn’t bother watching either. Don’t need to see it to know it’s a bunch of lies and delusions, interspersed among an hours long effort to jack off his own ego.

Imperialism refers to a specific stage of capitalism

Then you’ve redefined the term Imperialism.

Russia steals the surplus value for within it’s borders, the US steals surplus value from beyond it’s borders. Like I said, Russia does everything the US does just not as extensively.

but it’s a good starting point to ask ‘is this war for profit or some other reason?’.

Always an important question to ask but if Cowbee does mean that, then they should use the modifier to signify that they are talking about economic imperialism and not about Imperialism Imperialism.

That’s a laugh. Putin and his political machine have expressed a desire to return to the days of the Russian Empire and has engaged in acts of conquest to that effect.

Russia is a mirror image of the US. While Anglo-Saxons were pushing west across North America, conquering indigenous peoples, Russians were pushing east out of Europe into Asia conquering indigenous peoples. They’re both dysfunctional countries with dysfunctional world views.

That’s like an onion, just layers of naive. Russia has had imperial ambitions on Ukraine for a while and thinking that they care at all about the “liberation” of Donetsk and Luhansk is crazy talk.

The inconsistent part is giving a free pass to Russia when they do everything the US does just not as extensively.