Picairn wrote:Khardsland wrote:Imperialism is the ability of a country's capitalist class to exert its influence outside of its borders. Given that Russian oligarchs can barely work within their own country - its productive forces have not been developed enough to initiate imperialism in its occupied territories. Moreover, imperialist states don't support national liberation movements.
Russian oligarchs are exerting plenty of influence in the occupied territories of Ukraine and several African countries under Wagner's thumb.
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