Suffice it to say it seems like you already agree with the de facto LML stance: west is evil.
Yep, that’s correct. (btw I definitely do not associate myself with communists, it’s just that we agree on this particular point)
This position seems to divorce Ukrainians of any agency in determining their future.
It doesn’t! Those who want to fight, should definitely fight, and I don’t argue against west supporting those who want to fight with weapons, training, and whatever else. It’s actually the west that is not giving Ukrainians any choice in determining their future (see text below).
Are they not entitled to defending the sovereignty of their nation?
Again, they absolutely are! I totally support right for self-defense.
Who are you (or I) to tell them under what circumstances they should be allowed to push back against an invading force such as Russia?
Absolutely correct again and I totally agree with you, nobody should be able to prevent people from “pushing back against an invading force”.
They are a sovereign nation that agreed to the Budapest memorandum and regardless who supplies them with weapons they can determine for themselves their destiny. It isn’t for us to adjudicate from some kind of moral high ground which parts of Ukraine should be sliced off to the highest bidder even if the bullets they fire are made in capitalist imperialist evil America.
Again, totally agreed.
The thing that I’m trying to say, and the thing that I’m getting called a fascist for, is that it is not “west is supporting brave Ukrainians who want to defend their nation and fight Russia to regain the occupied territories at all cost” it is “west is supporting Zelensky’s regime (which I also consider absolutely illegitimate and authoritarian, their terms have expired, they ban all the opposition, they refuse elections, etc.) which forces people to fight by forbidding people to leave the country (which has already lead to many deaths of people who tried to escape this hell by crossing rivers/mountains and not making it), and kidnapping people on the streets, putting them into vans and sending them to the frontlines to die, and making the rest fear of going out” (you can find footages and sources for all of that if you visit my profile’s comments, but lemme know if you want me to repost it again here).