Even if we don't see another world war, or see the U.S. nuke another city, imperialism's cold war efforts are already having gargantuan human costs. The Ethiopian civil war the imperialists are using their TPLF terrorists to perpetuate is producing one of the world's biggest humanitarian crises, as is the conflict in Yemen that the imperialists perpetuate to counter Iran. Washington is imposing sanctions on Afghanistan, to similarly catastrophic effect, so that it can keep the BRI from expanding into the country. The Ukraine proxy war has displaced millions and cut the country's economy in half, while enabling further neoliberal shock policies within the country. Those who attack Leninism--whether by vilifying the Marxist-Leninist governments, or by calling semi-peripheral countries "imperialist" in opposition to Lenin's analysis on imperialism--are helping perpetuate these horrors. Embracing a Leninist analysis is how to put an end to imperialism's crimes.
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