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Cuz it's :fedposting:

Wouldn’t it make more sense for Ukrainian and Russian anarchists alike to oppose both Ukrainian and Russian war efforts

Sure, but if you live in Russia you can't exactly spike railroad tracks leading in to Lviv. And if you actually want to stop a war from happening eight people with some thermite and tire jacks are going to have a lot more actual effect than a million people with banners and inspirational speeches.

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I think this is very much @Alaskaball's territory; where the position of "In a unjustified war, we must all do our effort to disrupt and destabilize our country's role in that war, and aim for its conclusion so that we can focus on overcoming the bourgeoisie (no war but class war!)" starts butting heads with the position of "Even though our governments may be imperfect - maybe they're even actively bad and doing bad things - it is in our interests to do all we can to destroy fascism when we are at war with it and lend our support, critical or otherwise, behind efforts to do so"

I tend to side with the latter more than the former position but I wouldn't go out of my way to really argue those who are genuinely doing the first option (and not just talking about doing it online). I think it's unlikely that any genuine communist movement will come out of Russia for the foreseeable future that can challenge Putin and his party, and broadly, resistance to the state appears to me to be more of a liberal thing than a socialist or communist thing, currently.

I guess I’m asking in good faith whether actively hindering the Russian government at this moment is the smartest move to make? Seeing as how it’s been made apparent that people in Ukraine and the world over are A-Ok with Nazism in the country. If the current regime is not gotten rid of, domestic repression is going to go into overdrive when peace (whatever that looks like) is achieved.

It is not for the simple reason that absolutely nobody in Russia will buy the Russian anarchists' frantic "We're not being funded by NATO and we haven't been coached by the CIA. The US totally didn't supply us with explosives. We're the real deal." Apparently, they mostly kept a low profile until the start of the invasion, where they immediately began sabotaging the Russian war effort. Like cmon, even if they're the real deal, do they not realize how terrible this looks? No normal person is going to want to associate with people who behave exactly like enemy saboteurs working behind enemy lines.

Assuming they're actually legit and not useful idiots for NATO and/or saboteurs trained by the CIA, they should drop this adventurist bullshit that paints a giant target behind their backs as Ukrainian saboteurs and focus on helping people dodge military service. Why not an underground railroad style organization where people who don't want to fight get ferried to other countries? Why not mutual aid that targets the dependents of men who got drafted?

My guess is that there's already some low level dodging going on that's being facilitated by actual leftists. Obviously, they're not going to blow their cover on social media. So why are we hearing about these knuckleheads instead? Because they're not legit.

Is Russia even pretending that denazification is the true goal of the SMO anymore? Putin spent much of his speech last week focusing on how the operation is an existential struggle against the d*generacy of the West—here are his literal words:

Do we want to have, here, in our country, in Russia, parent number one, number two, number three instead of mom and dad? Have they gone mad out there? Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed on children in our schools from the primary grades? To be drummed into them that there are various supposed genders besides women and men, and to be offered a sex change operation? Do we want all this for our country and our children?”

Putin seems to have strayed quite far from originally justifying the invasion by seeking denazification of Ukraine! I know many users here are openly rooting for Russia to crush Ukraine—and I do believe they will ultimately achieve most if not all of their military objectives—but this isn’t such a black and white conflict. Anecdotally many of the Russians I know in my own life hate the “backwards” socially liberal norms they see as representative of NATO and the West.