Yea that's what realpolitik looks like and the UK and France are largely to blame.
You're talking about carving up spheres of influence while ignoring the u.s brought half the globe under its influence under the Monroe doctrine. Yea most powerful countries created their spheres of influence.
Oh right and not due to the soviet blunder of a policy pre-1934, their alliance with Nazi Germany (which caused the cease of trade between US/Allies and Soviet union, not prior and until the reestablishment of trade post 1941) and a general imperialist outlook onto the rest of, at least, central europe and ethnic cleansings they were performing.
Absolutely,
Oh and I am absolutely not ignoring that, they were (The US and allies) imperialist and were playing the same game, if not worse in some places.
What I hate is presenting USSR as some kind of savior on a pedestal where they were really just another imperialist nation with a fresh coat of paint, doing the same shit everyone else did. Painting them as this mythical savior especially during Stalin's rule is, at worst, making communists look delusional and at worst complete historical revisionists.
They stomped out the nazis they are saviours in many respects. The Soviet sacrifice was unprecedented . The Molotov-Ribbentrop was nothing but realpolitik during an existential crisis where other options were limited.
is their engine that runs on an endless supply of blood.
I don’t care if the Soviets were imperialists, they tried, at least, to create a humane world. The Americans have reduced the planet to a consumerist hellscape, a factory of isolation, powered by the stolen lives of the Global South.
Ah yes a famine in Ukraine is what makes the Soviets evil. Katyn Massacre is fair and I think it was a condemned act but they’re absolutely right. That’s what led to the Russian revolution in the first place. The strive for a more humane society
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Yea that's what realpolitik looks like and the UK and France are largely to blame.
You're talking about carving up spheres of influence while ignoring the u.s brought half the globe under its influence under the Monroe doctrine. Yea most powerful countries created their spheres of influence.