I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief

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    very simply, by challenging american hegemony. That doesn’t make him a good person or a leftist, but Russia is the reason why the global south feels like you can ignore the US’s wishes and get away with it.

    To make a few examples, Putin (with comrades Xi and Lula) is spearheading the process of de-dollarization of the global economy, which will benefit all of us massively, and he is also the first to draw a line concerning NATO expansion. Moreover, he is an oligarch - but he also prevented Russia from being fully and completely looted by neoliberalism. Russia still has control of its resources, how many countries victim of neoliberalism can say the same?

    Putin has showed the world that you CAN fight NATO, and that most of the world will either be on your side or at least indifferent