I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to articulate to people that this conflict isn’t just “Russia bad, Ukraine good” and that Ukraine is riddled with Nazis and is a NATO proxy being supported largely by the US.
I’ve gotten a couple of responses, one of them being “I strongly believe Ukraine is currently the best and strongest military in the world, their advances in weaponry are incredible and they were able to defend themselves properly even now that the US has abandoned them”.
I don’t think this is true at all, I think maybe the West is just arming and funding them to continue the pressure on Russia and also tried to explain what Nazis they are, to which I mostly got “this isn’t relevant”.
I would love more credible, proper, Marxist resources that I could read and counter them more properly next time on these matters, the Prolewiki article is nice, but it isn’t enough to de-brainwash these people and doesn’t provide me with enough language.
Had no idea this existed, thanks comrade
There are lot of excellent sources in the comments of that post. If you have the time i definitely recommend going through some of them that address the questions you had.
Unfortunately there are not many talking about the specific military aspects of the war that you were asking about. I find not a lot of leftists/communists are very interested in this subject.
So most of the information you find on that topic gets posted by right wing commentators and sources affiliated with the armed forces in either pro-Ukrainian or pro-Russian spaces.
It’s one of the biggest weaknesses of leftist coverage of this conflict since we mostly prefer looking at the big picture.