This recent thread is pretty insightful on lemmygrad.ml’s position. Their own users repeatedly emphasize that they are critical of the RF, which shouldn’t be a surprise given that it’s a capitalist country with plenty of reactionary domestic policies. (OP didn’t get banned)
Literally the very first comment in that thread I see is the instance admin speaking in support of russia for no other reason than it being opposed to the US.
Just like I said, “critical support”. They’re clear that it’s a capitalist “dictatorship of the owning class” (like other liberal-democracies) and that they’re critical of their domestic policies. If NATO were no longer as powerful as it is now, then they’d move on to calling for the Russian Federation’s fall, but it’s clear which of the two is a more imminent threat to countries around the globe. It’s like voting for Democrats over Republicans in the US election – they’ve both proven themselves to be terrible but voting for the lesser evil might be pragmatically effective, and voting third party or boycotting is debatably an idealistic waste of effort.
As someone else mentioned, this is a campist approach to geopolitics.
the US
I wouldn’t limit “the imperial core” to the US, but basically, yes.
Scrolling through the thread, the keyword in “critical support” seems to be more “support” and less “critical”.
Also, right now US is not the country that’s launching drones to blow up the civilian houses in the city I live in, which, somehow, seems to be presented as a “humanitarian” move in that thread. So you might want to rethink how much evil you can allow your “lesser evil” to be.
Plenty of examples from .ml. Not sure how one 3 year old thread disproves it?
I gave you two links, one which is much newer.
I’m looking at this community you linked I’m not sure I can see how you’re proving that “tankies” admire the modern Russian government.
The part where they ban people for being critical of it?
This recent thread is pretty insightful on lemmygrad.ml’s position. Their own users repeatedly emphasize that they are critical of the RF, which shouldn’t be a surprise given that it’s a capitalist country with plenty of reactionary domestic policies. (OP didn’t get banned)
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7374513?sort=Top
Literally the very first comment in that thread I see is the instance admin speaking in support of russia for no other reason than it being opposed to the US.
Just like I said, “critical support”. They’re clear that it’s a capitalist “dictatorship of the owning class” (like other liberal-democracies) and that they’re critical of their domestic policies. If NATO were no longer as powerful as it is now, then they’d move on to calling for the Russian Federation’s fall, but it’s clear which of the two is a more imminent threat to countries around the globe. It’s like voting for Democrats over Republicans in the US election – they’ve both proven themselves to be terrible but voting for the lesser evil might be pragmatically effective, and voting third party or boycotting is debatably an idealistic waste of effort.
As someone else mentioned, this is a campist approach to geopolitics.
I wouldn’t limit “the imperial core” to the US, but basically, yes.
Scrolling through the thread, the keyword in “critical support” seems to be more “support” and less “critical”.
Also, right now US is not the country that’s launching drones to blow up the civilian houses in the city I live in, which, somehow, seems to be presented as a “humanitarian” move in that thread. So you might want to rethink how much evil you can allow your “lesser evil” to be.