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well your understanding of history is once again flawed"
Well your misunderstanding of history flows from your deep prejudice and hatred of anything perceived as "Russian".
You can't even bring yourself to admit that the Soviet army defeated Nazi Germany and ended the holocaust.
Now you imagine you know something about Lenin and imperialism.
You are a typical "miseducated, prejudiced fool" but now apparently you're going to "school" me on Lenin. Too funny .
Have you actually read any Lenin on Imperialism ? I sincerely doubt it considering your idiotic opinions on why the USSR kept control over Eastern Europe after WW2, which had nothing whatsoever to do with imperialism.
However the US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine has everything to do with Imperialism.
Lenin - “The more capitalism is developed, the more strongly the shortage of raw materials is felt, the more intense the competition and the hunt for sources of raw materials throughout the whole world, the more desperate the struggle for the acquisition of colonies.”
Lenin placed immense emphasis on the struggle of imperialist powers to secure control of sources of raw material.
For the project of US hegemony to be achieved, unlimited access to the strategic resources of Russia and control of its territory are critical aims.
The actual wealth of Russia’s resources is estimated in the tens of trillions of dollars. In addition to the monetary value of these metals and minerals, many of these resources are classified as strategic materials, essential to advanced twenty-first century industrial economies.
Russia is a virtual treasure trove of valuable natural resources, with vast—and in some cases among the largest—reserves of oil, natural gas, timber, copper, diamonds, gold, silver, platinum, zinc, bauxite, nickel, tin, mercury, manganese, chromium, tungsten, titanium, and phosphates.
Approximately one-sixth of the world’s iron ore deposits are located in the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, close to the border of Ukraine. Other rare metals that exist in substantial quantities in Russia are cobalt, molybdenum, palladium, rhodium, rutherium, iridium and osmium. Russia is also a major source of uranium and rare earths. The latter have become a major source of global geopolitical competition.
The fact that there is an intense conflict over access to these critical resources is well known to experts in global geostrategy.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/19/per1-a19.html
