Listen. Do you support the democrats against Trump? Of course you don’t

Trump! What a complex case. First off since you are addressing me personally I will tell you that your assumption is incorrect and I supported Kamala in the general. HOWEVER - assessing Trump’s second term from a materialist perspective has many twists and turns. I would sum it up this way: Trump is clearly the most incompetent and openly fascist president in US history. BUT this is having the effect of RAPIDLY dismantling every single pillar of US imperialism - the Dollar, the alliances, the military, the trade networks, the exploited labor of undocumented immigrants. You know that MLs call him JDPON Don right?

But why, it’s aligning with imperfect allies (neoliberals) against the greater foe (nationalist capitalist conservatives)?

Again speaking personally I have and do align with neoliberals in the very narrow space where they can be trusted (Human rights sometimes? Labor rights sometimes?). They are very imperfect allies and always have been.

I don’t have to support states.

I agree with this principle

I can already see you typing “but what about Ukraine” and my answer is, I don’t support Ukraine. I support the people in their war against an invader

So here is where we are working off different facts I think. Do you believe that Euromaidan was a right-wing coup sponsored by the US? Everyone knows that they banned the use of the Russian language (I know they reversed it after). Do you believe that the Ukrainians were all too happy to send Neo-Nazi paramilitaries like the Azov Brigade against civilians in Eastern Ukraine in the years before 2022?

Do you believe Israel should be allowed to invade Palestine? Of course you don’t, because you’re not that monsterish. But, using your analogy, they should have the right to invade Palestine.

Right so I regard the entire modern history of the “State of Israel” as illegitimate settler colonial oppression. Therefore I support violent and nonviolent resistance to the land theft and ongoing genocide. By contrast, given the history and the context I have “critical support” for the Russians in their goal to halt Eastward NATO expansion and stop the expulsion of ethnic/linguistic Russians from the Donbas. I’m not saying I particularly like the current government of Russia (I don’t) but just like with Trump I support their efforts to dismantle the Western imperial bloc.

The key is, once again, the people. We can be in solidarity with the people as opposed to states. We can support actual grassroots resistance without being simps for the state. It gets clearer once you understand that democracy is a myth. And that countries don’t act out of the people’s word.

I think this is again where we are working from different facts. I happen to believe that actually existing Leninist states can and have improved the lives of the people with universal health care and education, land reform, state-owned industries etc. Even Western sources are forced to concede these points to some extent. Perhaps this is the core of our disagreement. Once again, I’m willing to go source-for-source with you if that is where this is headed.

But I believe you think this has already happened, and I haven’t seen any proof.

Wait do we have to dig in on this one? The Euromaidan coup was literally and plainly funded by NED and the freshly installed parliament literally banned the Russian language - are these disputed facts in this context?

Predicting the US is getting harder each day, but they probably wouldn’t waste hours. IDK here. Canada has already done so much shit to its indigenous nations, so many war crimes that don’t get talked about… Did the US intervene back then? Of course they wouldn’t, the self-determination is not the point of any superpower. Also, the same as above.

I think maybe you are missing the point of this analogy but I think we agree on the end facts? Just going to leave it be.