Memes

So the underlying, material reason for why you think Russia invaded Ukraine, was because they wanted to "bully" Ukraine? And that NATO is just an international "anti-bullying" alliance? No, lmao.

NATO is an alliance of imperialist nations. They band together, agreeing to each exploit their own corner. The biggest players are the US Empire, as well as the former hegemons Germany, the UK, and France. The other NATO members play along so that they can ride along on this system of monopoly capitalism expropriating vast wealth from South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and more. If countries go against NATO desires economically, they get bombed, like Yugoslavia, Libya, etc.

NATO promised Gorbachev that they wouldn't expand eastward, decades ago. This is because originally, NATO was an anti-communist alliance. However, with the fall of the USSR, the west needed a new enemy, so they stuck with Russia even after Russia tried to join NATO. With NATO building up in Ukraine, following the Euromaidan coup of 2014 cementing the Ukrainian Nationalists as the leaders of Ukraine, and their relentless shelling of the donbass region, Russia invaded as it didn't feel like it wanted a belligerent neighbor, and decided to take pre-emptive action.

The entire invasion never would have happened without NATO.

Nothing I said was wrong, nor does that make it "Russian propaganda." The RF has been clear, they oppose NATO encirclement. Gorbachev was promised decades ago that NATO wouldn't expand eastward, yet it has over the decades. NATO is used primarily as a threat towards countries that don't let the west economically dominate them, be it the USSR to Iran to Libya to Yugoslavia to the modern Russian Federation.

Joining NATO is indeed voluntary, yes. Russia even tried to join it a couple decades ago, and was denied. Russia was barred entry from the imperialist alliance, as if they were allowed in, NATO could not be used as a threat against them to force them to open up their economy more. The ex-soviet now-NATO states faced immense economic crisis and right-wing takeover due to the chaos that ensued when socialism was ended and the USSR dissolved, making them very western-friendly.

No, I'm not a Trump supporter, I'm a communist. I strongly oppose western imperialism, and based on the evidence we have, there's no proof that Russia intends on taking on all of Europe. This is just scaremongering to fuel the millitary industrial complex and justify the perpetuation of NATO even after the collapse of the USSR, which it was formed to fight.

Either Russia is too weak to take Ukraine and thus NATO isn't even necessary, or it's strong enough but uninterested in total war and is happy with its level of involvement. The former means NATO isn't even needed as Russia would be too weak, the latter means NATO isn't needed as Russia has no plans to expand, nor does it have any economic basis for it.

I think it's very telling that you can't actually dispute any of my points, you just call me Russian and a Trump supporter for stating the standard leftist line on NATO and the Russo-Ukrainian War.