LMAO I love how the new cope is going to be that Russia is being colonized by China. It’s a pretty funny mask off moment since it’s rooted in racism and the idea that Russia should obviously prefer to bend over for the western world order. It’s also pure projection since westies can’t even conceive of two countries having a mutually beneficial relationship where nobody gets exploited.
Wow. Unfunny and racist.
As a person in the Imperial Core, I still can’t comprehend how backwards the logic is here that most Americans would read this meme and think it’s grounded in reality. Even having been the kind of guy who would believe it once, I still don’t understand.
I think it’s just racist indoctrination to believe Russians are evil.
You could’ve joined the west as an equal partner.
…Hey, remember Yeltsin?
The unpleasant reality is, Russians, like the Chinese, have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. Their people are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.
The libs are not ok.
Holy shit this is so ahistorical it hurts.
Russia literally tried lmao.
Liberals and being historically illiterate. Name a more common duo.
What zero political understanding does to mf’er. Russia only reoriented towards China after its attempts joining the west were brutally rebuffed.
Russia really did join China as a last resort.
Likely didn’t want the risk of Russians looking too closely at China and triggering too many fond memories. China owes the people in ex-Soviet countries for the leg up. It was never a perfect relationship and things went sour before it could blossom. But the Soviets did help the Chinese and we’re far enough in the future that mistakes can be overlooked in favour of focusing on the sentiment.
And now? Russian capitalists will try to avoid it. But one option is a relatively peaceful transition back to socialism for Russia. The longer Russia gets closer to China, the more likely this becomes as Russians see that (a) it’s needed for self preservation and (b) the Chinese have resolved many of the problems that weakened the USSR. Meaning it’s both necessary and viable. Due to the CPC’s historic debt and the general internationalism of socialists, it probably won’t be unhappy to facilitate any movement towards socialism in Russia.
If these are the conditions that lead to the Russian Federation going socialist, I welcome it. Not like my opinion matters.
