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On 6/25/14 7:26 AM, Greg McDonald via Marxism wrote:
How about a concrete analysis of Russian activities demonstrating its imperialist intent in Ukraine?
This can be summarized briefly in a few sentences. Russia is determined that Ukraine serve as a "buffer state" after the fashion of the rest of Eastern Europe in the Cold War. This means that imperialism is mostly a function of military rather than economic domination analogous to China's grip on Tibet or Xinjiang. There is also an argument from the Russian left (https://therussianreader.wordpress.com/tag/russian-imperialism/) that Russia interfered with Euromaidan because it feared the positive example of a mass movement achieving an anti-oligarchic transformation. This was the sort of conflict seen over Czechoslovakia in 1968, the need to keep the natives in order. In order to justify its interference in Ukraine, the Kremlin uses its fans in the West to go on the offensive about Privy Sektor, Victoria Nuland, NATO, etc. in the same way that much of the left tried to justify the crackdown in Poland against Solidarity, etc.
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