I am fully aware of the events of things all the way back to Russia being denied NATO membership in the 90s. In my other long post below this one I go over my opinions on the SCO which is the broader NATO equivalent in Eurasia. I agree that the war is probably necessary and the material conditions creating it come from western bourgeoise interests.

My only critique is how we look at the war as communists. As a pro-global-south person it’s both interesting to see how this will develop the BRI to break the shackles of neo-colonies, and terrifying to worry how the global north will react and sow further discord as they’re doing now in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. But as a communist, looking entirely at how this progresses the aims of the proletariate: while it’s likely to improve material conditions for impoverished people around the world, I don’t see it as a harbinger of global communism. And I think we have to be careful not to conflate these things by not immediately adding value judgements to them and simply look at the facts.