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At the first meeting, the Russians presented a set of harsh conditions, effectively demanding Ukraine’s capitulation. This was a nonstarter. But as Moscow’s position on the battlefield continued to deteriorate, its positions at the negotiating table became less demanding. So on March 3 and March 7, the parties held a second and third round of talks […]
Regarding territorial issues, parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Donbass would remain under Russian control
Moscow ostensibly wanted Kiev to slash the size of its army to 85,000 people, while Ukraine insisted on retaining a strength of 250,000.
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lol. Should’ve known the dastardly Russians were behind everything all along.
I mean they would be stupid not to support radical parties in their oppositional democracies. It just speed runs democracies natural tendencies to decay into fascism.
So you’ve now moved the goal post from supporting far right parties to “radical” parties. Interesting.
The far right isnt a radical party?
No because western Europe and Amerikkka are fascist as fuck. Radical would be outside the norm. But please accuse me of pedantry again.
Are you claiming that all “democratic” nations are inherently fascist nations at any point of their economic/political development?
Did I say all? No I was pretty specific.
And what differentiates a fascist western “democracy” from a non fascist democracy.
Dictatorship of a different class? This is fundamental Marxist theory, states are a dictatorship of one of several classes. You can’t have democracy for the proletariat (vast majority of people) in a state that is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (small, powerful minority). Note: “dictatorship” of a class means that a state is organized to advance the interests of that class, not “dictatorship” as in “opposite to democracy” or “governed by one person”.
Therefore, even in principle liberal “democracies” cannot be democratic. It’s not a decay of democracy, it’s an impossibility for it to have ever existed in those cases.
So you too also enjoy fatalistic idealist framings of issues to skirt away from criticism. I thought I was the only one!
I hear far more about how ”we need to spend all our money on weapons and fuck the poor, because of Russia!” all over European media, and find it much more worrying than any supposed Russian influence. Europeans are capable of being reactionary without scary Russia telling them to it: some of the most Russophobic countries in Europe like Poland, the Baltics and Finland have popular far-right parties.
I’m not arguing they don’t? I’m just saying that it behooves them to support far right parties in these countries just as it benefits the US to support radical parties in places like Cuba or Venezuela.