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The Ukraine conflict unfolds as a typical post WW2 world war, Ukraine is a proxy for the U.S./nato/eu/un/post-neolib capitalist empire, and Russia is of course its own empire. Ukraine apotheosis to 'good' for most U.S./nato/eu/un/post-neolib subjects is prefigured by the propaganda web which already assigns Russia/China/Iran to 'evil'. Obviously Ukraine stands in for every single ideal of U.S. capitalist society propaganda: democracy, freedom, human rights, and so on. Russia is evil because they are imperialists, Ukraine is good because they stand against this with our ideals. Ignoring the fact the Ukraine side is not Ukraine, but it is a paralell empire that realizes one of its appendages in Ukraine. Russia incredibly attempts to legitimize its invasion through appeals to three ideological sectors:
To post-neolibs 'We are invading Ukraine to liberate them from the fascists'. Really this is sort of the least compelling angle they take, it is a completely false pretense and anyone globally with two brain cells to rub together knows this, from the top to the bottom. Azov sympathizers make up probably like 5% of the population at the absolute most and really these are just typical far right jingoist nationalists who seek to refurbish Nazi symbols and imagery as an ideological resource for mobilizing rightists to fight a war on the side of the capitalists (as they always have) whose ideas are only superficially different.
To Rightists many non-Ukrainian rightists lack the ethnic and historical framework to fall for the Azov shit and support Ukraine. It is really not a transnational rightism that Azov nazism represents, but an expression of a specific ethno-nationalist ideology that emerges in response to a military form of imperialism. So they are more likely to support Russia as they conceptualized U.S./nato/eu/un/post-neolib as enemy as far back as 2015 (maybe as far back as 911 for the far rightists) insofar as they act to spread "woke" ideas around the world. Most Russian propaganda (RT, yt shills, social media accs) appeals to these ppl along these lines.
To far leftists Russia does this more implicitly than explicitly, but I think Dugin really gives it concrete expression as the 21st century Heidegger who is intelligent enough to mostly see both sides for what they really are and to understand the direction of history enough to where they put their faith in Russia/China as the only successful bastions of alternative modes of being to the advance of the hegemonic U.S./nato/eu/un/post-neolib culture machine. The truth of the matter is that the difference between U.S./Russia/China/Iran social/economic organization is in fact mostly ideological and peoples lives are mediated by similar structures. And crucially, all societies still work towards the realization of ai/capitalism/productive consumptive singularity/obsolescence of humanity. So I don't really care whats happening in Ukraine except RIP