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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

25/ Because if you can’t, if your so-called internationalist solidarity stops at Berlin, then you’re not building a global left. You’re just continuing to live inside your own delusional echo chambers.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

24/ We need you to see empire even when it wears the symbols you admire and cover yourselves in to try to appear edgy in your suburban American towns.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

23/ If your anti-imperialism only applies when the bombs fall in English, it’s not solidarity. It’s narcissism dressed up as virtue and the very epitome of American exceptionalism. We don’t need your pity. We need your clarity.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

22/ You flatten us into metaphors so your world remains comfortably simple: America the villain, everyone else a backdrop or inconsequential.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

21/ You call for revolution, but what you really want is ownership of the narrative. You quote Lenin or revolutionaries from the global south, but ignore the people living through the kind of struggle you romanticize. You use slogans to ignore and distract from corpses.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

20/ We want you to win your battles against the state, against police, against fascists and billionaires. And we’re happy to do what we can to help. But solidarity cannot be one-way. You expect our empathy; you never learn our history, take our struggles seriously, or even view us as humans.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

19/ We see the fascism rising in your countries, and we care. We know what it looks like when the media lies, when vulnerable groups are targeted, when people disappear, when cruelty becomes national identity, and when truth collapses under dangerous ideology.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

18/ You mistake our geography for privilege, our grief for propaganda. You laugh in our faces and call us “brainwashed” when we try to tell our family stories or explain why Russian imperialism is still imperialism.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

17/ We understand it because many of us have lived it. But when we enter your spaces, when we march beside you or try to organize, we feel the air change. You look at us with suspicion, as though Eastern Europeans couldn’t possibly grasp what colonization means.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

16/ And yet, we still try to meet you halfway or find some common ground. Many of us here stand with Palestine unequivocally. We are disgusted by Israeli apartheid, by the occupation and massacres, by the colonial arrogance that cloaks itself in security and nationalistic nonsense.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

15/ You tell yourselves that solidarity means opposing America at any cost, even if it means siding, in practice, with the people who rape civillians, kidnap children for re-education,and bomb hospitals and call it liberation.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

14/ You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

13/ You just refuse to recognize it, because the dead are speaking a language you don’t care to translate or come from a country you always viewed as “problematic” because it challenged the Soviet-laden theory you desperately cling to and build your personalities around.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

12/ But there is no pure class struggle when factories are shelled, when workers are deported, when trade unionists are executed. The class war you invoke is already happening. It’s taken the form of Ukrainian poor and working class fighting to stay alive.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

11/ And then there’s your slogan: “No war but class war.” Easy to chant from safety, impossible to live under bombardment. You say it like some magical spell, as if your smug rhetoric could stop artillery.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

10/ Some of them were labor organizers, socialists, anarchists, punks, and antifascists. Now they are names etched into memorials, ignored by the very movement they thought would stand with them. Their deaths complicate your theories, so you look away or make the most pathetic of excuses.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

9/ Meanwhile, Ukrainian leftists, anarchists, feminists, and trade unionists are dying on the front lines. They fight not for NATO, but for the right to exist and the basic idea that the working class deserves to live out from under the shadow of Russian imperialism.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

8/ Liberation, in your eyes, is only authentic when it happens against a western entity or the mindless leftist influencers from PSL and meme-makers you follow speak about it.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

7/ You mock our revolutions (1968, 1989, Maidan) as “color revolutions,” CIA plots, or Western spectacles. You refuse to believe that people like us could rise up for our own sake.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

6/ Russian imperialism didn’t vanish with the tsars or the Soviets. It just learned to speak in your vocabulary and you’ve been dumb enough to hang on every word of it.

When we point this out, you call us “Russophobic,” as if memory and historical record were sins.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

5/ But we have lived through Moscow’s “anti-fascist” tanks, through its “fraternal” occupations, through the kind of liberation that ends in prisons and deportations.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

4/ You treat imperialism as if it were an English-only phenomenon, simply a structure built in Washington, maintained by London, and nowhere else.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 15h

3/ You discover nuance only when the empire is draped in Soviet symbolism and aesthetics or is an entity you view as an adversary to American hegemony. It’s limiting and childish. From here in CEE region, it’s like watching a morality play performed in a language that doesn’t have a word for us.