Putin has done a lot of good, Russia under his leadership may have fundamentally altered world history for the better by choosing to risk their neck and invade Ukraine. Someone had to stand up to the Americans in an immediately tangible and assertive way; Chinese assertion is civil and slow.
That being said, he has plenty to criticize, namely his anticommunism and queerphobia. It’s hard to rationalize away that all as 5D chess, even if I think Putin is an extremely strategic man who has helped both his people and the entire world.
As long as we all agree he is a net good for the world and that Russia was absolutely in the right to invade Ukraine–and not otherwise fall in line with American lies about the Russians–there is no reason good faith ML comrades shouldn’t have room to criticize him a bit.
Putin has done a lot of good, Russia under his leadership may have fundamentally altered world history for the better by choosing to risk their neck and invade Ukraine. Someone had to stand up to the Americans in an immediately tangible and assertive way; Chinese assertion is civil and slow.
That being said, he has plenty to criticize, namely his anticommunism and queerphobia. It’s hard to rationalize away that all as 5D chess, even if I think Putin is an extremely strategic man who has helped both his people and the entire world.
As long as we all agree he is a net good for the world and that Russia was absolutely in the right to invade Ukraine–and not otherwise fall in line with American lies about the Russians–there is no reason good faith ML comrades shouldn’t have room to criticize him a bit.
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