Russia’s Communist Party on Ukraine: ‘If We Lose This Conflict, We Will Be Destroyed’

quite correct as mentioned also by Vijay Prashad in his article.

Do you have a link to that?
- https://mronline.org/2023/03/10/eight-contradictions-of-the-imperialist-rules-based-order/
- Search "8 contradictions in the new era" in Tricontinental Institute .

Russia isn't going to lose. The Ukrainian counteroffensive has been a complete failure, and Ukraine's Western patrons are already at the stage of acceptance. Of course, Russia won't agree to freezing the war, like what happened at Korea, because they have all the leverage.

Folks over at hexbear seem displeased with this take

Yeah it's still a bit divided over there on opinions of the big two communist parties over in the RF.
- What's the situation?
It becomes even worse if you point out that a preemptive invasion of a weaker nation due to a fear of attack is the same justification that the USA used for the invasion of Iraq.
- The difference is that in the case of the US that was a lie. And Ukraine being a US proxy is not actually the weaker party in this, Russia is because they don't have the full backing of an alliance like NATO behind them. So Russia was entirely justified in feeling threatened by a militarized russophobic Nazi regime, not on the other side of an ocean but right on their border, wanting to join a hostile military alliance who openly declare that their principal enemy is Russia.
  People who try to draw superficial comparisons between Ukraine and Iraq are lying by omission because literally everything about this is different.
- History, what even is it?

Someone remind me which party isn't the mainly opportunist one?

KPRF is the old-school Marxist-Leninist communist party and the one which is most principled anti-imperialist. It's also by far the biggest one, in fact it's the second biggest political force in Russia behind Putin's liberal United Russia party.
The other "communist parties" that exist in Russia are insignificant fringe groups of Trotskyists and ultra-leftists who hate Putin so much that they would rather side with the imperialists and help them destroy Russia thinking they can do another revolution after this government is toppled kind of like Trotskyists thought that they could have a second revolution if Stalin was defeated by the Nazis. It is no coincidence that some of them are outright funded by the West...
- The KPRF are not old school Marxist Leninists. They are liberal shills and at best a controlled opposition party. They bend to every one of Putin’s whims, (minus a few pointless disagreements for appearances).
  Their leaders receive absurd funding and “gifts” from United Russia, and the higher leadership is so corrupt you would have thought you were in American Congress.
- I just wonder how United Russia works? Yeah that's totally I have observed. There are "leftists" in Russia who were cheering for the bombing of Kerch bridge and who thinks Russia is an imperialist state. Not that I know KPRF that much but it seems they have conservative social views (it's not so much different than in Pakistan/India and many parties in Africa and middle East). Regarding SMO and others, I think they should have their own viewpoint and we shouldn't think it as a similar situation like in Iraq and Afghanistan. KPRF is a coherent party and not some anarchist masturbating for Azov.

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