I could be wrong, but isn’t the “not annexing” because he doesn’t recognize it as a separate territory in the first place?

Call him any way you want, he can still hear you.

I’m quite sure you don’t understand how it works.

Just setting up plausible deniability against accusations of helping trump.

it’s not like logical consistency matters to them.

In fact, fascists see the ability to just say whatever gets them the most power in the moment as a strength. They’re not held back by “weaknesses” like truth and facts

All that matters to them is power

Gotcha. Very valid point.

People love looking at the first civil war in conversations like this, but the next civil war is going to be nothing like it. For a likely comparison, you’d have to look at the Spanish Civil War and The Troubles in Ireland.

Americans have no fucking clue what they’re asking for.

It’s very well documented that Lenin returned to Russia from exile with the help of Germany, and made significant use of German money and military supplies during the revolution. He even got shit for it from his own communist party. He kept in their good graces by promising to start a communist revolution in Germany next. Funny how that one never quite got off the ground…

And then the Nazis came to power, arrested all the communists, and eventually broke the alliance with the ussr.

The info’s pretty easy to find, Google will get you some good articles about it.

After all, they were allies before Hitler betrayed Stalin.

You’re using this to support your argument that authleft = authright, but you’re forgetting that Lenin was an agent of Germany. The alliance between Germany and Russia predates both Hitler and Stalin, and had nothing to do with whether their governments were similar in any way.