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The source is some random site that adds more than a trillion to the usual estimate because of the “informal economy”. So they claim Russia has a trillion dollar corruption/black market lol.
I understand critical support for Russia, but all this uncritical support with zero critical thinking is lame.
Russia is a fascist reactionary dictatorship. Just because they oppose the US doesn’t mean everything else they do is good as well.
Russian now spends a whole 40% of state expenditure on security and the armed forces. That’s not a good sign for them.
Ticks a lot of the fascist boxes for me, mandatory nationalism and historical revisionism in school, the whole All-Russia “Young Army” National Military Patriotic Social Movement Association, massive internal security rosgvardia, claiming other countries belong to them reminds me of Lebensraum etc.
All countries in Europe have historical revisionism in school and most of them aren’t fascist (yet). The government may have started implying that Ukraine should have remained part of Russia after the escalation in 2022, but in practice, it was very determined for Ukraine to remain intact (including a semi-autonomous Donbass) up until that point, naively believing that Germany and others would actually pressure Ukraine to uphold Minsk 1 and 2. As for nationalism, there are plenty of non-fascist countries with a very nationalistic population
People will now resort to label any country that opposes the west as a dictatorship (and not in the marxist sense), even if it openly celebrates bourgeois elections every 6 years.
Inb4 “but they are rigged!!1!”
So are they everywhere else, either by limiting by design the choices (see: USA) or by limiting the powers that democracy grants to the people. You seem to be Swedish: you cannot even choose your own head of state.
Edit: my country constantly suffers from scandals every election in which governing parties shove thousands of fake votes by mail into the system and no one has ever called it a dictatorship simply because it is part of The West™.
We should be better than the people who swallow western propoganda without every questioning it. Believing everything with lousy sources that is pro Russia just makes you look silly and contrarian. Critical, not uncritical support.
The source is some random site that adds more than a trillion to the usual estimate because of the “informal economy”. So they claim Russia has a trillion dollar corruption/black market lol.
I understand critical support for Russia, but all this uncritical support with zero critical thinking is lame.
Russia is a fascist reactionary dictatorship. Just because they oppose the US doesn’t mean everything else they do is good as well.
Russian now spends a whole 40% of state expenditure on security and the armed forces. That’s not a good sign for them.
how?
yes, unfortunately
every country is a dictatorship of one class over the others
Ticks a lot of the fascist boxes for me, mandatory nationalism and historical revisionism in school, the whole All-Russia “Young Army” National Military Patriotic Social Movement Association, massive internal security rosgvardia, claiming other countries belong to them reminds me of Lebensraum etc.
All countries in Europe have historical revisionism in school and most of them aren’t fascist (yet). The government may have started implying that Ukraine should have remained part of Russia after the escalation in 2022, but in practice, it was very determined for Ukraine to remain intact (including a semi-autonomous Donbass) up until that point, naively believing that Germany and others would actually pressure Ukraine to uphold Minsk 1 and 2. As for nationalism, there are plenty of non-fascist countries with a very nationalistic population
People will now resort to label any country that opposes the west as a dictatorship (and not in the marxist sense), even if it openly celebrates bourgeois elections every 6 years.
Inb4 “but they are rigged!!1!”
So are they everywhere else, either by limiting by design the choices (see: USA) or by limiting the powers that democracy grants to the people. You seem to be Swedish: you cannot even choose your own head of state.
Edit: my country constantly suffers from scandals every election in which governing parties shove thousands of fake votes by mail into the system and no one has ever called it a dictatorship simply because it is part of The West™.
We should be better than the people who swallow western propoganda without every questioning it. Believing everything with lousy sources that is pro Russia just makes you look silly and contrarian. Critical, not uncritical support.