Saw a news article about how Ukraine has the second largest oil reserves in Europe, implying that the whole conflict is an “energy heist” especially since most of these reserves lie in and around the Donbass region.

That being said, would this fall under the ML definition of imperialism? An oil war, in this case the Russian government fighting a war for largely private energy interests, would consitute exportation of capital as I see it.

Finally, while I’m not saying Russia comes even slightly close to the greatest perpetrator of state terror since wwii (us/NATO), it’s possible that the conflict may be an imperialist one, and if I’m misunderstanding the ML definition some clarification would be more than welcome.