Oh wow, the situation in Russia is great! Russia is winning the war and nobody feels the sanctions!
Or at least that’s what you’d think if you’d listen to the top tankies on Lemmy. Gee, I wonder why there are no refugees from, say, Canada, in Russia, but lots of Russians are fleeing towards the West?
I feel no joy by saying this. This is a tragedy that needs to stop as early as possible. I deplore the existence of the need for Russians to seek asylum in other countries, despite my open condemnations of the actions of the Russian government.
But this is a call to the actual leftists among tankie ranks: stop defending Russia’s imperialist war. This is a situation of their own design. They can stop anytime. We can still denounce American imperialism and Israel’s ethnic war, it’s not an either/or situation.
By defending a dictator, tankies are siding with the evil they like to proclaim they hate (imperialism), in contradiction of the values they claim to have.