I mean, that's one of the big questions innit, what that means. To quote from LDC's post earlier:
Like, even if we're not capable of raising vast amounts of money in the grand scheme of things, "we" probably are collectively capable of raising the sort of sums that might make a considerable difference to a scrappy anarchist force. And that's where you can have some actual practical conversations - would people feel comfortable raising money for Resistance Committee/Black Headquarter? What about Operation Solidarity, they seem to be like a civilian/mutual aid kind of thing, but one that is very much affiliated to Resistance Committee?
I mean, I think that's a bit unfair, I think one of the big tensions running through this whole thread is people trying to come to terms with how this tests our principles/hypotheses. For those of us who are anti-war, and usually take that seriously as meaning that you don't take sides in a war between countries, seeing the reaction from Ukrainians is a test to those principles, and now the challenge is working out how to respond in a way that's not just "I'm not listening to you, you should be more like Rosa Luxemburg instead" but also isn't "OK I have abandoned all my previous beliefs and now I'm in favour of NATO invading Russia". It is very much a process of questioning, or at least it is for me anyway.
There is also a big question to be had about "lesser evils" - like, I don't think there's a neat answer to this one, I'm sure we can all agree that there's plenty of times that "lesser evilism" should be fucked off, but then there are also times when you do actually have to pick a lesser evil, I don't think (m)any of us are such pure ultra-lefts that we'd say there was absolutely nothing to choose between the allies and Hitler, I reckon we'd mostly agree that Hong Kong carrying on like it is now would still be shit but also much better than being completely absorbed into China and so on. So like how great does the difference between two evils have to be to matter, and how far will you go in defence of a lesser evil - or at least in fighting the greater one while ignoring the lesser one for the time being - is a live question, I think. Something you can't really say in advance and that has to be answered with an eye to the specifics.