Why Support Russia?
Russia is in essence a non-socialist but anti-imperialist power at this stage; similar to India under Indira Gandhi or Indonesia under Sukarno. It has a pseudo capitalist economy and a national burgeois, but (despite the best efforts of its slavishly pro western national bourgeoise) said capitalists were never accepted as equals by the West who wanted Ukraine or Georgia style compradors who’d let the West own Russia’s resources and extract super profits. This vacillation between western slavishness and reticence to surrender their wealth and sovereignty to the West weakened the national bourgeoise and allowed the Siloviki (security and military elites) and the central bureaucracy gain ultimate control over the country, albeit always in an uneasy coalition with the capitalists. This is the faction that Putin has represented since at the latest 2014, though it may have occurred earlier. The reason why it is clear that the national bourgeoise aren’t the ruling class is straigh...