Firstly, thank you for accepting me into the community. Within the last few weeks I came to the realisation that there is no such thing as a healthy, stable, capitalist society. I want to learn more about communism because it could be a real alternative to the frankly poor conditions of working class life in the UK (and any other capitalist country).
There is one thing that stands out to me here that I’d like to understand because it’s a little jarring. In a few places (e.g. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9012898/6943775) on the topic of Russia, specifically the war, people seem to believe the invasion was justified and that the Ukraine government is Nazi? Why? From my point of view, which I do admit is going to have inherent Western/NATO bias because I live in the UK, is that this is an example of Russian imperialism. If the US invaded Canada, or the UK invaded France, it would rightly be considered a travesty. Why is Russia not given the same treatment? After all, it is not communist any more and it is working class people being sent to die in this war.
Shouldn’t the modern Russian government receive the same scrutiny as any other capitalist government?
It’s not a bigger deal to the west because the west have always supported Naziism so long as it didn’t harm their own interests. The US supplied Nazi Germany with weapons and didn’t want to get involved in the war until Germany declared war on them. They recruited Nazi scientists into their government after WW2, put Nazi officials in charge of west Germany. Brought on Hitlers Chief of staff to help run NATO. etc. The US also sent military advisers to train Azov, and armed them. They are the allies of the west. Just as the Israeli Fascist Colonial Project is. For the west supporting Nazis is not an exception, but the rule. The exception to the rule was WW2, and only because the German fascists directly threatened the interests of the US, and UK. Prior to Germany attacking them they were singing Hitlers praises.
Just look at the current American government. They aren’t even pretending anymore to not be fascists.