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<Bonus: Ukrainian Politics Deep Dive feat. Peter KorotaevFelix sits down with writer & journalist Peter Korotaev for a wide ranging conversation on the state of the Russo-Ukranian War in the wake of the Trump administration’s spat with Zelensky & attempts at a peace deal, and loads of context on the politics of Ukraine, Russia, various oligarchs, the Atlantic Council, and other non-state actors that have led to this point.
>You can find Peter’s writing on Ukraine here: https://substack.com/@eventsinukraine
>And some other writing of note:
>For al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/23/why-is-ukraine-struggling-to-mobilise-its-citizens-to-fight
>Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2022/07/ukraine-neoliberalism-war-russia-eu-imf
>Canada Files: https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles?author=645e6f082224bb01e8f3f37c
>Arena https://arena.org.au/ukraines-borderline-disorder/Premium feed episode:
https://soundgasm.net/u/ClassWarAndPuppies/Bonus-Ukrainian-Politics-Deep-Dive-feat-Peter-KorotaevDirect link to download:
https://media.soundgasm.net/sounds/61e97c020c75d7878297284a13def99924f4c2ac.m4ahttps://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/will-russia-help-defend-iran-against?
>This is one of the issues that Scott Ritter and I discussed yesterday with Nima (the video has more than 163,000 views as of now). Based on public comments, US and Israeli authorities are assuming that Russia will do nothing, other than issue a strongly worded protest. That is a view shared by most analysts, including Scott. I have a different opinion and decided to elaborate on my thinking.
>Prior to January 17, there was no formal agreement on security cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. That is no longer the case. So let’s examine the particulars of that agreement. I am not a lawyer (and no, I did not stay at a Holiday Inn) and will rely on the commentariat, Judge Napolitano and Alexander Mercouris to correct any errors in my analysis.
>The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran contains 47 article. Six of these are relevant in the event that Trump follows though on his public threats to attack Iran.
>The key paragraph in the agreement is Article 3, paragraph 3:
< In the event that one of the Contracting Parties is subjected to aggression, the other Contracting Party shall not provide any military or other assistance to the aggressor Continuation of aggression, and will help to ensure that the differences that have arisen were settled on the basis of the Charter of the Organization United Nations and other applicable rules of international law.
>The last clause of this paragraph is referring to Article 51 of the UN Charter. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter recognizes the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a UN member state. Here’s what it stipulates:
< “Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defense shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.”
>This is not just boilerplate for the agreement. The Russians have an earned reputation for being sticklers about law, both domestic and international, and I believe they included this language as an explicit promise to help Iran defend itself against an unprovoked attack by the United States or Israel. Note, if Iran launched a preemptive strike on US planes based in Diego Garcia, that would exclude Russia responding. I discount the reports that Iran is planning to launch a missile strike on Diego Garcia because it would leave them without the guarantee of Russia support if the US carried out a retaliatory strike.
>Article 4, paragraph 1, provides further insight into the nature of the support that Russia is prepared. to provide Iran based on the security agreement:
< In order to strengthen national security and counteraction common threats to the intelligence service and the security of the Contracting Parties exchange information and experience and improve the level of cooperation.
>“Exchange information” is a diplomatic euphemism for providing intelligence information. I believe this means that Russia is now supplying Iran with regular updates, based on Russian Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities, as well as human intelligence, to keep abreast of US plans and operations in the region. It also is likely that senior Russian military and intelligence officials are in Iran briefing them on the latest intelligence developments.
>Article 5, paragraph 4, buttresses the cooperation outlined in Article 4, but goes beyond intelligence sharing. If Iran is going to “counter” a US or Israeli military strike, this portion of the security agreement implies the provision of capabilities such as, electronic warfare and air defense. That could mean the deployment of Russian military personnel with expertise in operating those systems:
< The Contracting Parties shall be consulted and cooperate in the field of countering general military threats and threats security of a bilateral and regional nature.
>Apart from providing military assistance to Iran, Russia also made a point of emphasizing diplomatic measures to prevent an attack. Article 9, paragraph 1, stipulates the following:
< Guided by the objectives of the maintenance of international peace and security, the Contracting Parties shall consult and cooperate each other within the framework of international organizations, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies, on global and regional issues that may, directly or indirectly, to challenge the common interests and security of the Contracting Parties.
>The security agreement also addresses, albeit indirectly, the US claim that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. According to Article 10:
< The Contracting Parties shall closely cooperate on arms control, disarmament, non-proliferation and international security within the framework of relevant international Treaties and international organizations to which they are parties, and regularly consult on these issues.
>The key phrase is “non-proliferation.” If Iran proceeds to develop an operational nuclear device, this would invalidate this agreement. The Iranians are not crazed lunatics. They understand that they will have more security with Russia on their side as long as they do not proliferate, than they would if the decided to build a nuclear warhead.
>Finally, there is Article 23, where Russia and Iran commit to work together on projects devoted to the peaceful use of nuclear energy:
< The Contracting Parties promote development long-term and mutually beneficial relations in order to implement joint projects in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy, including the construction of facilities nuclear power.
>What was one of the motivating factors underlying this agreement? I believe the answer lies in Article 21, paragraph 4:
< The Contracting Parties shall actively cooperate in the development of International Transport Corridors Passing through the Territory of the Russian Federation the Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran, in particular the international transport Corridor “North – South”. This interaction includes the promotion of goods, originating from the Contracting Parties to the markets of third countries, and the establishment of conditions for the development of seamless transportation through transport corridors both in bilateral traffic and in transit through its territory.
>This is Russia putting the BRICS strategy into action. Russia does not trust the West and, in the aftermath of Western economic sanctions and military attacks on Russian territory, Russia is serious about developing a transportation route that will relieve them of depending on the Suez Canal and the Dardanelles — i.e., the narrow strait in northwestern Turkey, historically and geographically significant as a waterway connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and forming part of the boundary between Europe and Asia. Russia is thinking about the future. It no longer wants to be at risk of going to war with Turkey or with NATO in order to ship grain and fertilizer from the Black Sea. Instead, it is building a transportation corridor that starts on Iran’s ports on the Arabian Sea, passes through Azerbaijan and terminates in Russia.
>I am not sure that Donald Trump and his national security team understand this. If they are assuming that they can attack Iran and that Russia will sit by and do nothing, I think they are making a grave error. >>2208977>Now, I’m a driver for a drone crew. I have a log showing I went out on a mission, used this much fuel, drove this many kilometers. The car’s rated to burn 10 liters of gas per 100 kilometers [23.5 miles per gallon]. But I drive carefully, and it burns only five or six [about 43 miles per gallon]. My commanding officer says, “Are you screwing with me?” I say, “I’m saving fuel.” He goes, “What the fuck do I care if you’re saving fuel? The numbers don’t match on the paperwork.” “So what should I do?” I ask him. He answers, “Go buy a hose. Don’t tell me you’re too good to siphon diesel like everyone else.”
>This is pure Soviet shit. These people know exactly how to get you off their backs while bending the system to line their own pockets. Our unit tried forever to buy drones. There are several manufacturers in Ukraine, and we went around to their factories to see what they’ve got — and it’s all basically the same thing everywhere. And I watched our colonel tell the director, “Weeelll, if we can come to some sort of agreement…” — and he gave him that “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” look. It wasn’t subtle. They were talking kickbacks — it’s the only way things get done. Picture the face of some drunk, bloated old Soviet boss — that’s what both of them looked like. In the end, we cut a deal with somebody else.Man that has never experienced life in the Soviet Union experiences capitalist corruption for which his county has largely become known for: Getting a lot of Soviet vibes from this.
>>2209021lol this is the first article i clicked after that
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/02/the-man-behind-the-burning-kremlin
>“Take Lenin in the mausoleum — I don’t understand why, in the 21st century, they still keep him there like a mummy of a pharaoh in a pyramid, like some kind of deity. And they still call themselves Orthodox Christians. In Georgia, we call Russians co-religionists, but who else has something like that? Only China, where there’s a cult of Mao Zedong.”Where is King Lear when Russia has been confirmed Maoist?
>>2208910>will-russia-help-defend-iran-againstkek, no.
Russia isn't even going to give them weapons as payback for NATO giving Ukraine weapons.
Putin will sit in his office while contemplating the legal nuances of the attack on Iran, and his contribution will be three or four fine points in Iran's whine letter to the useless UN.
>>2209143???
You think "Assad Must Go running champion" was anything other than shitposting? It's amusing to think you're privy to my world view.
>>2208910>US and Israeli authorities are assuming that Russia will do nothing, other than issue a strongly worded protest. I mean, that's all Russia did to the US when the US directly attacked its OWN territory.
Larry Johnson is injecting some high-grade dope again.
Russia won't do a thing.
>>2209283nta
But IMO Ritter seems doubly held back by being an earnest US liberal. He has to make everything fit to his earnestly retarded ideology, that to everyone else is just a means to an end or a pliable dogma. But Ritter has to stand by all the lessons he didn't learn from the cold war onwards, because he really believes in peaceful liberalism.
>>2209309Define "support."
I predict you'll be wrong. Again.
>>2209309What people don't understand is that Russia is retaliating for the strikes every day, there's a reason westoids are the ones who have to keep saying "y-yeah I support Ukraine". There is no reason to go apeshit on civilians, mostly because the Russian state will push the "they've been manipulated by westoids" angle once this is over and they will push it hard. Any serious retaliation would have to involve a land invasion on American soil and that's just not feasible.
Iran is a different story, not protecting it means certain doom. Providing anti-air and intelligence is quite feasible, especially since they don't have to be declared openly and let's be serious, westoids will whine that Russia is doing it anyway.
>>2209351Yeah, I think we saw with Syria that Russia is active in protecting its interests. Assad threw in the towel, but Iran isn't a hollowed out husk like Syria was.
Johnson above makes a pretty coherent case for why Russia would act to support Iran imo. The only justification for them not is nonsense about Putin not being man enough to nuke Lvov.
>>2209365>The only justification for them not is nonsense about Putin not being man enough to nuke Lvov.False. For instance, one justification is his precedent in performing no conventional retaliation against the US when it directly hit pre-2014 Russian territory and killed a number of Russian civilians. If he's not going to do it for his own territory, why would he do it for Iran?
Another justification can be seen in the wording offered by Johnson himself:
<In the event that one of the Contracting Parties is subjected to aggression, the other Contracting Party shall not provide any military or other assistance to the aggressor Continuation of aggressionThis entails that Russia won't provide support to the US against Iran (as if that was ever a possibility anyway), not that Russia will provide support to Iran against the US.
>>2209376Oh wait, you were serious about the suggestion and not offering a sarcastic strawman? Heh.
I
support Russia and/or China bringing Iran under a nuclear umbrella.
>>2209382We never get any real confirmation of that, tho. It's just a reasonable suspicion whenever Russia hits some hotel full of SBU officers. (And there's obv the reasonable suspicion that many of these foreign "mercs" are actual deployments.)
The Telegrammers who talk about NATO officers being killed are the same ones who once said Zaluzhny and Budanov had been killed, yet they're verifiably still alive.
>>2209391Well, you didn't say every American enemy in the world. You said every country in the world.
And I don't mean to suggest that Iran is the ONLY country that should be brought under a nuclear umbrella. It's just the most urgent right now.
>>2209383Iran has suffered under sanctions, but I haven't seen any evidence to suggest its been hollowed out to the extent Syria has.
Dollars to donuts, there are definitely Western backed elements that would try to capitalize off of the ensuing chaos, but I think the potential is there for the population to rally in the face of naked aggression from nato. Minus western boots on the ground, the potential is there for Iran to purge destabilizing elements and weather the conflict for some time.
The major rubs would be if US/Israel managed to supply such a major shock from the outset that Iranian society just shatters outright, or if Turkey were to get involved in a limited invasion along the lines of Syria, creating a safe zone for rebels which acts like a seeping wound until Iran bleeds out. Israeli psychopathy aside, offensively nuking another country is pretty outrageous even for them. As for Turkey, while I'm sure they'd like nothing more than to see Iran put in its place its hard to see them taking a direct role like that.
>>2209371heh, we're back to dancing to the American tune again…
>b-b-b-b-but the Americans won't like itsmh, leftists never learn…
notice how the americans don't sit around cuck-worrying about whether russia likes nukes in israel
Let me explain Zelenskler.
In 2019, I thought Zelenskler was pretty cool.
He was making the Ukraine better than gulagistan USSR, and I thought he was an ally to economic prosperity worldwide.
After Trump and Ukkkraine had a falling out over corruption in 2020, people had questions about Zelenskler.
When Trump left office in 2021 with Joe Biden's crackhead son selling literally all of the United States secrets to Ukraine, Zelenskler saw it as a golden opportunity to be top dog of shit mountain, meaning he doesnt care if the world sucks, Zelenskler just wants to rule it.
In 2021 he had the Coronahoax spread killing thousands and thousands of Ukrainians under his watch and used it as a power play to become president for life because Zelenskler was a crony and the Ukranian people voted him out.
Ukraine does not have a warm water port, so having a black sea penninsula would help Zelenskler project naval power. So Zelenskler launches operation Barbarrossa and loses 20 million people in the process.
Zelenskler ordered mass murder in Bucha three years ago today in 2022, killing 300 civilians, during the invasion, very well documented.
When Zaluzhnyi took over the war effort, only for him to be purged so Zelenskler could be shadow czar, people noticed and had serious questions about it. Zelenskler and his friends were too powerful, and JD Vance et al. were right to call him out on it.
In 2024, the Ukraine voted against Zelenskler.
He said their votes didnt count.
People all over the country protested. Thousands are still in jail.
Since then, Zelenskler has employed thousands of people to post on 4chan and other sites to propagandize his reign as a good thing. Unsuccessfully.
Good People of Ukraine have continued to protest him, and Gonzalo Lira traveled to the Ukraine to document that opposition.
Zelenskler had Lira locked up and executed for reporting on Zelenskler war crimes.
Gonzalo Lira is dead now because neither he nor anyone else fears Zelenskler.
When Zelenskler is shot dead this year, maybe tomorrow, Ukraine will move forward and become a good country free of shit. And nothing Zelenskler can say about this matters.
>>2209553He wouldn't need to make those reaches if Putin quite plainly signed a mutual defense pact (a la the Belarus pact) rather than a mutual non-aggression pact. All Iran is getting is a promise from Russia not to assist America/Israel against Iran.
Anyone who thinks Putin is going to do for Iran what he won't even do for his own pre-2014 territory is prepping to be disappointed. Putin has no appetite for engaging with the US or Israel.
>>2209602No, just Trump's picked retards.
Previous US regimes up to Biden were very effective at negotiating with the Russians.
>>2209596>>2209602>>2209603This does though sound somewhat like the eager young US diplomats sent into Iraq after the invasion.
I think Cucktin will be saved from his worst instincts by US bungling.
>>2208977>My mom’s in goddamn Russia. We talk on the phone. She knows I went AWOL. She worries, of course, but she’s a vatnik [invasion supporter], so we don’t get into that stuff. I tried talking to her at first, but she just shrugged and said, “I don’t follow politics.” You know — typical Russki stuff. And she’s still working her shift at the Uralvagonzavod factory, cranking out tanksChrist. I have my own stories, but god damn.
This is one of the biggest reasons for the lack of escalation (blowing up dams, chemical weapons, etc.). I don't think people over in the west who lack friends and family on both sides grasp how much this war is fucking with everyone psychologically.
>>2209604He's winning in the most unsatisfying way possible. I never thought it was possible to be annoyed by the way someone is winning - winning is winning, right? - but then I watched Putin.
I'm terminally online and make no apologies for it. I'm so bored of Putin's war that I'm crying out for the China/Taiwan conflict to start. China just dumped 34% retaliation on Trump's fat head. If they handle themselves militarily as impressively as they've handled themselves economically, I won't have to sit around as frustrated as I am watching Putin and his handling of the US.
>>2209703The sheer tactical genius of counter-attacking in a sector you already spent months attacking and which has large concentrations of enemy troops and logistics.
A 100k more dead and Chinese drone manufacturers enriched!
>>2209977>>2209989First three - "strike" you are talking about. Obviously a shrapnel hit on civilians
Last one - actual missile hit on Yavorovsky Poligon early in the war
>>2209977>>22099921st - an actual hit with Iskander missile on Nikolaev
2nd - an obvious anti-air shrapnel, maybe patriot missile doing patriot missile things
>>2209806It would be wild if the stalemate caused by drones becomes a self-correcting problem once all the leftover fiber optic cables make them unusable. Of course then the front would only start moving again far enough for the battlefield to be clear of the cables and we'd be back to square one.
>>2209821>if you could figure out how to efficiently deploy a mesh of fibres over wooded areasYeah m8 it's called a net and they're already being used lmao.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-artillery-ammo-stockpile-triple-us-europe-combined-chris-cavoli-2025-4
>Russia may be losing weapons, tanks, and ammo at a staggering pace in Ukraine, but its defense production is going to easily make up for it, a top US general told Congress on Thursday.
>US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Washington expects Russia to produce 250,000 artillery shells monthly.
>"Which puts it on track to build a stockpile three times greater than the United States and Europe combined," read Cavoli's statement to the committee.
>The four-star general focused his appearance at Capitol Hill on urging lawmakers to strengthen defense ties with allies across the pond, saying they must work closely to contain an increasingly hostile Russia.
>Among Cavoli's key concerns is his assessment that Russia is replenishing its losses in Ukraine swiftly — and becoming even stronger compared to before the war.
>"Despite extensive battlefield losses in Ukraine, the Russian military is reconstituting and growing at a faster rate than most analysts had anticipated," Cavoli wrote.
>He said Moscow is quickly replacing its forces on all fronts, including ammo, armored vehicles, and troops.
>The US now makes about 40,000 155mm artillery shells a month and hopes to reach a monthly production capacity of 90,000 rounds in 2026.
>Meanwhile, the European Union has pledged to hit a manufacturing capacity of 2 million rounds a year, or about 167,000 rounds a month. However, its leaders have estimated it will only reach that level by the end of 2025.
>Many of these rounds are being sent to Ukraine, though NATO countries are also concerned about maintaining their own stockpiles.
>Should Ukraine receive 2 million shells a year, it can fire just under 5,500 a day. Cavoli, meanwhile, said at a defense conference in February 2023 that Russia was expending 20,000 shells a day on average.
>In his statement to Congress on Thursday, Cavoli also warned that Russia is expected to produce more than 10 times the number of tanks that the US manufactures.
>He said Russia would likely make 1,500 tanks every year, while the US makes 135 tanks a year.
>"Russian ground forces in Ukraine have lost an estimated 3,000 tanks, 9,000 armored vehicles, 13,000 artillery systems, and over 400 air defense systems in the past year — but is on pace to replace them all," he wrote. >>2210398 (me)
(A result of waiting until the very last second in the years after 2014…)
>>2210415>Weird then that Russia's putative allies/partners are so silent about it.The only incentive in calling your enemy Nazis (even if they actually unironically are) is if you're trying to remove the off-ramp for yourself in ending the war via any other means than total obliteration of the enemy, it's the "we don't want to be like Chamberlain!" excuse for why even if the war goes tits up and outlasts your leadership, then you've left that little rhetorical bomb that prevents your successor cancelling the war you worked so hard to start.
Therefore it's exclusively used by the western imperialists when asked "Iraq isn't a very powerful country, are you
sure they can't be reasoned with?", it's not used by nations who are going to war over legitimate grievances that can and could always be resolved by diplomacy, in the way the war aim of "that looks good, I want that, give it to me" cannot, thus no need for the rhetorical destroyer of off-ramps that is "we have no choice but to purse total war with lesser nations and scorn anyone who even mentions the word 'diplomacy'… because the enemy are Nazis!".
>>2209977Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
You "people" wouldn't care if these children were Arabs. May all the horrors you have dispensed return upon you. May your nations be ground into dust and forgotten.
>>2210752Just a couple more quick and cheap SMOs to rescue poor innocent persecuted russians and the soviet empire will be restored!!!!!!eleven
The limp-wristed commie intellectuals in bekt eagerly await the next self-inflicted famine. How many millions, who are perverted capitalist kulaks, will perish this time tavarish?
>>2210793iirc, poccnr poster is some weird Polish dude without any obvious presence on 4chins /k/ board or /uhg/ /pol/ general.
He melted down when someone kept asking him Kursk was doing, so that was a sensitive spot.
>>2210827Russia has killed over a million Ukrainian soldiers and lost around ~150K.
>sourceI'm allowed to listen to my preferred sources too. At least they never fooled me with video-game footage and Ghost of Moscow.
>>2210887Westerners barely cared about Bucha when it was first pushed. I don't even hear pro-Ukraine people I know mention it.
The only solid angle I've seen take hold is the relocation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
>>2210887 (me)
Even juicier.
<Finnish President: Getting closer to Russia is Europe's long-term plan, we do not see a military threat from Moscow >>2210887>>2210897Someone finally ran the numbers at how much this was costing the Finnish economy with the Americans dis-engaging.
Finnish elites are less retarded then the Baltish ones.
>>2210750Meanwhile, in reality:
>Every soldier says the same thing: There’s a catastrophic shortage of men at the front. Most units are operating at just 20 percent strength, which means soldiers sit in trenches for weeks or even months with no one to relieve them. >"The Russians are moving fast — like a klick a day sometimes — and our commanders are under orders to hold the line. So they start rushing things and putting guys in danger. The higher-ups lean on our commander, and he ends up pushing the guys too hard. Like, instead of going out during twilight — when the drones can’t see — we’re forced to move at night when thermal can spot you easy. They kept sending out group after group like that, and our whole company got torn apart.>By the time I got wounded, we were down to maybe 40 guys. We never had a full company — only right at the start. After our first mission, a third of the men bailed — and some didn’t even wait for that. We started out with half a company, then a quarter, and now there are maybe 10 guys left. While I was recovering, not a single one of the guys I’d fought with made it.">“They’re just feeding us to the meat grinder while those fuckers keep advancing, taking five new towns a day.”>I head to Donbas to talk to friends who volunteered to fight. These men didn’t enlist at the start of the war; they thought about it before signing up. One of them is Taras, whose very first deployment was as a combat medic in Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive in the Zaporizhzhia region.>“Every inch of the ground was covered in bodies. It was just the smell of gunpowder, your own adrenaline-charged, piss-soaked sweat, and rotting flesh everywhere you turned. Then we moved to Robotyne [a small town in the Zaporizhzhia region] — the highest elevation in the area. If we’d taken it, we could’ve pushed downhill toward Tokmak. We literally had to step over dead bodies out there. It was late November, early December, and insanely cold. The trenches were full of our dead. We tried pulling a few out, but it was pointless — we couldn’t even make a dent. >>2210903Finn realize in a no holds barred war against Russia they're going to get fucked. Especially as Western euroids will be twiddling their thumbs and Turks/Greeks stay out.
If they suffer as many casualties as last time, they're looking at 400-500 thousand dead and wounded out of a population of 5.7 million.
They may not like Moscow but I think deep down they're well aware what would happen in an all out war. Add in their infrastructure being obliterated by long range strikes (EU lacks a Patriot/S-400 counterpart) and Finnish porkies realize that it is in their best interests to avoid escalation.
Balts on the other hand are terminally retarded.
>>2210971Putin isn't a communist and Le Pen and the AfD are actually destablising the Westerm liberal order while the best communist party in Europe can only manage the occasional blockade.
You retards need to just accept we don't give a shit about Putin other then his self-interest (forced by the West) is in destroying the unipolar world order.
I'm cheering for the snake that bites the slave catcher.
>>2210998The bourgeois are not the Kwisatz Haderach seeing all possible futures and choosing the Golden Path. As evidenced in America they are often panicky, greedy, and stupid.
The right populists represent the faction fearful of the workers starting to organise as living standards decline in Europe. They seek to solve this by over-turning the liberal status quo including the question of whether the EU is worth it.
>>2211005Anon you just need to ask yourself two questions.
1. Are Western European economies imperialist, and dependent on the imperialist world order?
2. Are these right populist bourgeois parties going to meaningfully attack the core interests of the bourgeoisie and stay the course in the face of the inevitable bourgeois backlash?
I think the answers are pretty clearly yes and no respectively, and if you answer otherwise you're shifting pretty hard away from any sort of Marxist analysis.
>>2210988The difference between Meloni and Le Pen is the latter doesn't want to tear down social security. While Meloni has been cutting benefits and working on "pension reform".
>>2211005This is part of it too, being a "populist" is okay as long as you do not question EU membership, leave porky alone and mostly stick to fucking over the working class and lumpen.
AfD are not onboard with the anti-Russia agenda. Le Pen is not onboard with austerity. That's why neither can be tolerated for different reason.
>>2211008>Are Western European economies imperialist, and dependent on the imperialist world order?What did the imperialist world order look like before 1939?
>Are these right populist bourgeois parties going to meaningfully attack the core interests of the bourgeoisie and stay the course in the face of the inevitable bourgeois backlash?You just completely ignored what I said. This is the bourgeois backlash. They have two choices: Suck more profit out of the workers as an EU wide project and risk an EU wide worker organisation. Or roll back the clock and start cannibalising the small and periphery EU nations as they realise they can no longer afford the project.
>>2211019No, an asset grab is not the same as cannibalising them. The current issue with the EU for porky is Bulgarians, Romanians, and Greeks can just go to another EU country if conditions in their home country gets too bad. Much better to do away with the EU and continue the imperialism.
They needed a balkanised Russia because that would have been a fresh injection of assets without EU membership.
>>2211008>Are Western European economies imperialist, and dependent on the imperialist world order?Depends on what you mean though.
Hot take but western states primarily benefit from unequal development, not unequal exchange. Obviously imperialism and keeping the global south down does play in the their favor. But it's not the capital flows themselves which keep the lights on.
>>2211019>BalkanizedWhat happened to Czechoslovakia is an especially great example. Where decades later, through some curious alchemy almost every major former state firm is now owned by German porkies.
>>2211029Schengen is the reason why the average Euroid feels there is a EU community and solidarity. Otherwise it is just a trade arrangement.
>>2211031Production has been moving east because when the workers move West they still need to be paid higher wages due to higher cost of living.
Just look at how big Ukraine was in "digital services" even though it was non-EU.
>>2211033>Otherwise it is just a trade arrangement.Okay but it still seems like ending it would be a lot easier and more consistent with porky interests than ending the EU altogether.
>Production has been moving east because when the workers move West they still need to be paid higher wages due to higher cost of living.Doesn't the EU still facilitate this via free trade? Like how NAFTA helped a lot of manufacturers outsource to Mexico?
>>2211035>Okay but it still seems like ending it would be a lot easier and more consistent with porky interests than ending the EU altogether.That's why I said it will start with cannibalising the smaller EU states and rolling back the clock to the old organisation of Europe. Once the loot runs out in the smaller countries then France and Germany will start looking at each other with suspicion.
>Doesn't the EU still facilitate this via free trade? Like how NAFTA helped a lot of manufacturers outsource to Mexico?There is nothing special about the EU here. If you are a country in the EU you can't just make your own trade deals.
>>2211029>>2211035I think some people forget Euroid porkies can still exploit eastern European workers more thoroughly than they do western Europeans regardless of Schengen by abusing certain types of contracts, or by using contractors. Allowing them to hire eastern European workers while paying less taxes, and denying those workers the same social security benefits as locals. Many western EU states have also passed laws allowing "unproductive" migrants to be more easily deported.
This is partially why there is high migration and emigration. And this suit porky; They import workers in their 20s to early 40s, some of whom have finished higher education (thus being essentially "free" in terms of social spending), on short them contracts, and kick them out after a few years, or sometimes within a year.
This is similar to H1B visas in America: They don't want illegals who can simply disappear. They want placid slaves who they can threaten to fire thus risking immediate deportation. With no right to naturalization. No social security. No union membership. And no right to vote. And (if US porkies have their way - though this already applies to many EU states) no birthright citizenship for their children, raising the stakes even further.
>>2211121of course the only reason Russia would move WW2 equipment around, especially as they're preparing for victory day celebrations, is because they've run out of guns in ukraine
your brain must look like that french cheese with maggots in it that has a telegram watermark bouncing around in it
>>2211134That's not a bomber, it's a light aircraft like a Cessna or something, probably used for reconnaissance, which is very common even in Western militaries. I gotta ask tho, why do you bother? I mean all this "the Russians are running out of equipment" shit has got to be getting old doesn't it? Literally everybody involved admits its not actually happening by this point. American officers are saying outright in their intel briefings that Russia's military industry is able to absorb their losses. Ukrainian soldiers at the front admit that the Russians have vast material superiority in every category. Yet you dipshits keep coming back trying to prove both the US and Ukrainian militaries wrong by showing a handful of videos or pics which apparently demonstrate that the Russian army runs on donkeys and round cartoon bombs. It's obvious that you haven't put any thought into any of this shit, because if you did then you'd at the very least know that a few pics and short clips doesn't in any way prove that any of this shit is being done to compensate for a shortage of proper equipment.
Not only that, but you display gross ignorance of the sort of ghetto and low tech solutions every military relies on to solve various problems. Western militaries use pack animals in situations where motorized vehicles are too conspicuous or can't handle the terrain (like say, in a country where the whole ground turns to muddy slop twice a year), they issue manuals on improvised munitions with niche applications, they use light aircraft as recon and artillery spotters, or for commanders to get a direct aerial view of the battlefield. If you were aware of any of this shit then maybe you wouldn't soyface every time you see the Russians doing the same sort of thing. This isn't even getting to the videos which don't necessarily show what you claim they do, like those "Stalin era howitzers." What model of gun are they? Where was the video taken? Where are they going? Those guns could be getting sent to the scrapyard for all you know, just seeing them on a train doesn't mean they're going to the front. You're just relying on this shit to cope with the fact that according to all available
statistical evidence, it is mathematically impossible for Ukraine to win the war.
>>2211174tl;dr
my pictures/videos are worth a thousand words
>>2211174when westoid or westoid-aligned militaries use ad-hoc solutions, it is quirky, resourceful and awesome
when ₚuzzians use ad-hoc solutions, it is because they ran out of everything else and are unga bunga cavemen
see western rags poking fun at "cope cages" then saying it is actually not that bad and even ingenious when ukrainians (and israelis) started using them
if the US army was forced to use anti-drone cages they'd probably make a movie out of it. "Caged In" starring Nicolas Cage as the brooding and misunderstood abrams commander who comes up with an inconventional but masterstroke way to protect his tank against hordes of raghead terrorists
https://sonar21.com/general-cavolis-schizophrenia-on-ukraine/
>I will excerpt a few paragraphs from his statement that illustrate what I mean. Cavoli grudgingly admits, early on in his remarks, that Russia is not on the ropes militarily:
< Russian Reconstitution< Despite extensive battlefield losses in Ukraine, the Russian military is reconstituting and growing at a faster rate than most analysts had anticipated. In fact, the Russian army, which has borne the brunt of combat, is today larger than it was at the beginning of the war—despite suffering an estimated 790,000 casualties. In December 2024, Moscow ordered the military to increase its strength to 1.5 million active service members and is recruiting approximately 30,000 troops per month. Russian forces on the frontlines of Ukraine are now at over 600,000, the highest level over the course of the war and almost double the size of the initial invasion force.
>Despite repeating the canard that Russia has suffered 790,000 casualties, Cavoli concedes that the Russian military is larger today than in 2022 and that the Russians are adding at least 360,000 new soldiers to the ranks annually. I want to remind you that during the past 70 years, the US military has consistently overestimated enemy losses. The most egregious case was the Vietnam War, as I discussed in a previous article. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, CIA and DIA analysts claimed that Russia lost more than 30,000 men. Russia’s official figures were half of that. I do give Cavoli credit for admitting that the “Russian military is reconstituting and growing at a faster rate than most analysts had anticipated.”
>The next paragraph is a real stunner:
< Russia is not just reconstituting service members but is also replacing combat vehicles and munitions at an unprecedented pace. Russian ground forces in Ukraine have lost an estimated 3,000 tanks, 9,000 armored vehicles, 13,000 artillery systems, and over 400 air defense systems in the past year—but is on pace to replace them all. Russia has expanded its industrial production, opened new manufacturing facilities, and converted commercial production lines for military purposes. As a result, the Russian defense industrial base is expected to roll out 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles, and 200 Iskander ballistic and cruise missiles this year. (Comparatively, the United States only produces about 135 tanks per year and no longer produces new Bradley Fighting Vehicles.) Additionally, we anticipate Russia to produce 250,000 artillery shells per month, which puts it on track to build a stockpile three times greater than the United States and Europe combined.
>The key point is not the massive ESTIMATED losses of Russian tanks, vehicles and artillery. Despite the losses, Russia “is on pace to replace them all.” Cavoli also admits that Russia is producing 11 tanks for every one that the US can produce. And that number is misleading. The US tanks Cavoli is referencing are mostly refurbishments of existing frames. The US is not producing brand new tanks. The kicker comes in the final sentence: Russia is producing three times the number of artillery shells than the US and Europe combined. Yet, many delusional Western pundits insist Russia’s economy is struggling, on the verge of collapse. That qualifies as MBE.
>Cavoli’s first sentence in the next paragraph is a real head scratcher, because he implies that some of Russia’s military capability has been degraded. Really? He has just admitted that Russia’s army is growing dramatically and that Russia’s defense industry is firing on all cylinders. I think he is just trying to put some lipstick on the dying pig that is Ukraine.
< Not all of Russia’s military capability has been degraded by the war. Russia continues to hold the largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world. Russia’s nuclear arsenal is composed of an estimated 2,500-3,500 high- and low-yield warheads, which can be tailored for use on the battlefield or employed strategically. Recently, the Kremlin updated its nuclear policy, which is intended to communicate a lower nuclear threshold and outlines the range of contingencies that could justify the use of nuclear weapons. Russia also maintains robust chemical and biological weapons programs and has repeatedly used the chemical weapon chloropicrin and riot control agents as a method of warfare across the frontlines of Ukraine, in violation of its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention. Within its air and maritime capabilities, Russia has sustained only minor losses in Ukraine. The Russian Aerospace Force currently retains over 1,100 combat-capable aircraft that include Su-57 stealth fighters and Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers. Aside from some losses in its Black Sea Fleet, the Russian Navy remains intact, with over 60 submarines and 42 surface vessels capable of launching nuclear-tipped Kalibr cruise missiles.
>Buried in the last few sentences are some bombshell revelations — i.e., the Russian Aerospace Force has suffered only minor losses and the Russian Navy is in very good shape. So, what part of the Russian military has been degraded. How about the performance of the Russian army:
< Russian formations are gaining combat experience. The military has demonstrated its ability to learn from the battlefield, disseminate new concepts across organizations, and counter Ukrainian tactical and technical advantages. It has implemented rapid cycles of adaptation and is developing new capabilities to accelerate force modernization. In November 2024, the Russian military conducted its first strike on a Ukrainian military facility with the new Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile. Russian officials have stated this missile could be equipped with a nuclear warhead. We have seen Russian forces employ new, domestically produced electronic countermeasures against Ukrainian jamming technology to improve strike efficacy. Additionally, Russian ground forces are integrating reconnaissance and one-way attack drones into their offensives on the battlefield. Russia is also expanding its undersea capabilities through the addition of Severodvinsk-II class nuclear- powered cruise missile attack submarines, Dolgorukiy II-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, and other undersea reconnaissance capabilities both in the European and Indo-Pacific theaters. These new capabilities show that the Russian military is intent on gaining tactical and operational advantage for the future battlefield.
>In other words, the Russian military leaders are not a bunch of incompetent dolts and Russian troops are demonstrating an enviable level of sophistication in their operations. I ask again: What degradation? >>2210733This does not unjustify the SMO. This is now a hot war with NATO. Electronic warfare and countermeasures are advancing, missiles are getting parried. They still land somewhere. Russia has a track record of avoiding civilian casualties, the west consistently targets civilians.
It was Ukraine who committed over 8000 OSCE-recorded ceasefire violations in Donbass during the week before February 24th 2022. It is Ukraine that uses innocents as human shields, then films atrocity propaganda. Russia will finish what western imperialism started.
A Russian-led American neo-Nazi group is recruiting individuals to carry out terrorist acts against Ukraine.
<The group, called The Base, is attempting to establish its own base in the mountains of Ukraine. The group is spreading to several European countries, reports The Guardian.
>An American neo-Nazi terrorist group is paying locals to carry out attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure, reports The Guardian newspaper.
<Critical infrastructure refers to, for example, electricity and energy distribution networks and telecommunications. On its Telegram messaging channel, the group also claims to offer money for attacks on Ukrainian politicians, police officers, and soldiers, as well as their vehicles and buildings.
>The terrorist group, called The Base, has ties to Russia. The group was founded in 2018.
<The group's founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro, is a U.S. citizen who currently lives in St. Petersburg.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/the-base-neo-nazi-russia-ukraine >>2211825based Nazi infighting
All our Nazis (Germany) are pro Ukraine.
>>2211825Kind of surprised western media are still trying the
>Hey, Russia has neo-nazis too!three years after it has already been established that libs don't really give a shit if Ukraine and other states are
led by Nazi sympathisers, since they've all agreed fascism is acceptable
in some cases.
>>2211990Even in the realm of propaganda the two of them together weren't even the equivalent of a top ten Telegram channel. Let alone anywhere near the actual state media talking heads.
But Western Intel retards have been obsessing over Dugin since the '00s because he wrote a book about the Russian geopolitical perspective.
>>2211977>Dugin's daughter is the queen and is more important to mention that hundreds of thousands of dead ukrainianswhoever made this image even ironically is genuinely fucked in the head
>>2211825>>2211992>he has a mail.ru account which is owned by a russian businessman (shocking!!!)>this is proof he is working directly for trumputler's kgbfsbare westoids ok?
>>2211986Dugin comes up as western states were caught on the backfoot with Crimea annexation and the war in donbass. These steps were shocking and made the West feel weak or at least vulnerable to those hawks looking to recover from post 9/11 debacles. He was inflated during steps with investigating the referendum, Russia spring, donbass separatists, and those involved with it all. They had to make sense of the return to east west conflict and where it was coming from, it then got its own life after Russiagate and the unfolding e-infowar. We concluded media/political networks and hybrid warfare as we boiled it down to a fragile state doing things, using the decline of liberal democracy to back out of commitments ending the cold war. This is why the politicization and tightening controls on the internet and its giants starts with 2016 reflecting on and blaming foreign events in 2014.
In other words, Dugin is a hybrid war spook filling the void of a link in the chain between the Russian state and any anti-Maidan groundswell. It evolved from there after 2016 as now both the US and EU had mirroring crises the Democrats explicitly linked in collaboration with intel.
What I find amusing is dugin isn't actually well linked to states or popular movements. He's not a good tool of hybrid warfare, but the rapid development of the new concept along with its cousin (disinformation) has some immaturity especially with opaque and foreign Russia (land of sickle and crown/cross - it doesn't make sense rather than we can't make sense of it being neither)
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1908851237677666430▪️Sergeant Vyacheslav Kucheruk was destroyed by an FPV drone strike.
▪️He was a staunch Russophobe and a participant in the “Maidan.”
▪️In 2015-2016, he killed civilians in Donbas as part of the 8th Special Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▪️In 2022, he was seen fighting on the Kharkiv and Kherson fronts.
▪️In spring 2024, he joined the “International Legion” of Ukraine’s military intelligence.
- RVvoenkor
KKKRACKA DOWN >>2212375Ah, yes
>Civil war in Ukraine is impossible, because Putin’s aggression has no support in the east and south of Ukraine. Only 18 percent of people in the east and south think that Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv Oblast should separate from Ukraine and join Russia. This is a very small figure, almost nothing. So there is no large-scale separatism, no civil war. There is a de-facto undeclared war being waged by Putin against Ukraine, and this has to be stopped immediately.>I think the world has understood for a long time, that an authoritarian regime has been created in Russia, along with a closed economy. And rather unhealthy processes are being developed. The world has wondered how to normalise this situation. Putin has now given the world the opportunity to basically destroy the regime in Russia, which threatens world peace. Crimea and Ukraine are traps for Putin and he has walked into them. So I think the countdown has begun for the end of his regime.<01/05/2014Tymoshenko.
Now we get the answer of "What if Treskow's coup succeeded in Germany".
>>2212398Yup. The ""moderate"" Ukrainian nationalist. None of the shit she said will be true. I fully support the slaughter on the frontlines, btw. My historical materialist analysis requires data points.
If a "Stab in the back" myth is being spread, but all the Freikorps are too busy being dead, does it still take root?
>>2211825If true: Good, useful idiots. Ukraine loses harder.
If fake MI6 propaganda: Doesn't matter.
Outcome: Russophobia increases. Doesn't matter.
Russia is winning.
>>2212418Also
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-enemy-withinTl;dr, there's a big foreign reservoir of ukuck nationalists to absorb the butthurt even if Russia is successful at "denazification."
>>2212448>I'm more concerned with Ukraine, not the USA.Well sure, but like I said
>>2212420>there's a big foreign reservoir of ukuck nationalists to absorb the butthurt even if Russia is successful at "denazification."Even if all the nazis get purged from Ukraine, there's a "reservoir population" that can cause reinfection at a later time. Not unlike what happened with Maidan, really. These freikorps flowers have roots that run aerodynamically into the United States, and so threaten to bloom perennially.
>>2212460Yeah, I imagine you're right. Personally I'm anticipating the cia paperclipping as many of their pet nazis from Ukraine asap once the inevitable happens. I think they'll only be too happy to take revenge on the people here that "stabbed them in the back."
But to address your other point, the Soviets had made Ukraine a no-go zone for these people for the better part of a century, and as soon as they were gone all these expats were right back at it, putting up Bandera statues, burning down synagogues, and killing Russians. Just take that mediazona article for instance where hardly a generation later and you've got people blaming Jews for what "they" did to "his" county, which I can't even begin to comprehend the logic there.
>>2212398Tymoshenko doesn't look like a diehard nationalist, though. She just got jailed by Yanukovich, and got elevated into a martyr status with associated responsibilities
But it's a moot point anyway, because talking heads don't matter in the first place. Ukraine is refusing to change Zelensky because Zelensky changing would imply the purge of pro-war elements
>>2213293I wish we had comrade Putin running things over here, but we are stuck with paid actors talking loudly and persuading none.
Now go ahead and update me on the advances and the upcoming collapse of Ukraine any minute now
>>2213291The only reason your troll angle even works is that deep down you expect Putin to be a nice fella and have moderate goals, to stop after N villages instead of continuing across Ukraine.
It's a good bet because Putin is a pretty weak military leader vs. some past Russian leaders, but ultimately you're at the mercy of Putin.
>>2213845Only through realpolitik and great sacrifices in selling labour surplus to the international market could a % be reinvested for the next stage of juche socialist development. The centrally planned DPRK gamer room will enrich the people as western austerity immiserates.
Where before usian unipolarity had the leverage to oppress periphery gamers, now a multipolar velocity provides more leverage to developing nations for the even most truly oppressed class.
>>2213995>Hamish de Bretton-Gordon <see imageParallel to the actual 'escalation game' in the literal conflict. The domestic Atlanticists are in their own, inwards facing, game of escalation as they need to up the ante and attach themselves (in an idealistic sense) to the ukro side to generate any ideological impetus and legitimacy, yet must not actually 'commit' to playing (and inevitably conceding) their weak hand. Odds are a Nixonian 'decent interval' will be the motivation for continuing material support, to manage the decline to be slow enough to acceptably vent the built up political pressure. Through slow years of more concessionary media articles for their own consumption.
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>>2213353Lithium is barely worth extracting unless you have very cheap labour or a vein conducive to heavy machinery.
All this masturbation about “rare earths” is idiotic. They are rare as a % of dirt. You’d be better off finding a good vein of copper.
>>2213879>>2213930>>2213862>to play xbox>mfw>it's>https://www.nknews.org/about-us/Millenial Chaos critique on nknews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp91i2-vb54I implore you to look legit NK sources.
http://kcna.kp/kp/article/q/0b82a16b52e14abcf513877d4de4c890.kcmsfit's rather a commercial center, part of a 50,000 individual houses housing project.
>>2214491third referenced anon/op here, im aware of its actual use as you have evidenced as an integrated section for consumer electronics in a planned housing expansion for Hwasong that's nearing completion, in-of-itself evidence of the increasing pace of improvement in present stage of development. While providing a novel opportunity to explore how to integrate (and moderate) volume and use of modern consumer electronics in a planned/directed environment without market incentives to proliferate and atomise.
I'm just being a tongue in cheek little shit about it because I absolutely adore the contrasting yet earnest aesthetics of uniformed party officials to the backdrop of 2010's gaming architecture and thought it'd make a good flippant shitpost.
Speaking on that front while I will adhere to democratic centralist principles on state leaderships need for blue LED gaming lights, im afraid I cannot adhere to the WPK party line on acquisition of degenerate gaming chairs. If USAID hadn't been defunded I would be establishing a revisionist splinter party with 600billion in foreign funding, to adhere to the clear and self-evident orthodox position of the scientific truth of the office chair and its benefits for the back. State directed gaming is too important of a task to let burgeoning labour aristocrats' infantile, libidinal desires for a manchild booster seats infect party planning decisions. Sadly I can only offer - at best - critical support for juche state directed gaming as an alternative to slur-based market outcomes.
>>2214816ass bandits, they want to stole those sweet cruise missiles tips with their ass cheek.
>>2214919it's Chynah. appealing trump and his hatred for China.
He got aid from the worst korea "convincing" (this probably was arranged before the first claim of Best Korea soldiers) the public opinion of that country that the Best Korea was sending troops.
There's a law that forbids worst korea to send military aid, but only because the idea without evidence thatBest Korea soldiers were in Kursk (RUSSIA) that was enough excuse to send military aid to ukraine.
so that's another manufacturing consent. knowing the characters involved (trump publicly wigging agent z with the cocamaniac fiasco one month ago, because agent z rallied for the democrats on US soil), and knowing the circumstances, my guess it's that agent z wants to appease the orange man.
>>2215139>Remember when Ukraine had encircled Russia's entire army in Toretsk just a week or so ago?No, what happened?
These people with mapautism claim that their is a turbo epic it's so over encirclement that's going to kill a billion ukes and wipe out an army every month or so, only for there not to be.
Russia clearly is operating akin to police kettling, in which they surround from all sides but one, leaving open one route for those in the kettle to condense out.
>>2215912Post cold war crisis is when:
>far right dictator mass murders millions of proles to conquer land and resources.The same ignorance prevents the West from understanding wars its problems, which is how it trapped itself in Ukraine and sheds one incumbent government after another
>>2216624>Zelensky being popped would be a huge blow to that war effort.Doubt.jpg
By this point, I have no doubt the average Ukrainian is praying for military leadership to replace the current actor.
>>2216630>Putin and his advisors rely on an asymmetric approach to achieving their objectives that focuses on creating conditions within the information spaces of target states that causethe leaders of those states to act unwittingly in ways that advance Russia’s interests rather than their own. This approach is an implementation of the Soviet theory known as “reflexive control.”4
Soviets confirmed for masters of Marxist mind manipulation techniques.
>>2216815Honestly, my theory is that Ukraine, for some reason, really enjoys promoting doublethink with the control they've been given over the narrative.
It kind of reminds me back in the early days of the SMO when there was the bizarre situation where western commentators, from mainstream media all the way to Reddit, were parroting the Kievian narrative that Nazism in Ukraine was overblown, it's just Russian propaganda and based Bandera was merely allied with the Nazis out of convenience rather than ideological solidarity, but simultaneously, Ukraine were posting endless photos of their soldiers wearing all manner of patches with Nazi or Fascist iconography with no apparent care or concern for how that contradicts their own narrative.
Perhaps deep down there is some kind of humiliation or insult felt that Ukraine has to be the "good guys" by western standards, that they hate western libs for all manner of ideological reasons and yet support depends on pandering to their sensibilities, when really they had the "revolution of dignity" to attack such people on their own streets. Like, Ukraine thinks itself important enough to say
>Nazis were based>Killing Russian civilians is based>War was always desirable, actually>Nothing should be off the table for Ukraine/War crimes don't apply to Ukraine>NATO needs Ukraine more than Ukraine needs NATOand not have to concern themselves with what the optics of that is for Agent Kochinski and his fanbase or The Guardian and its readers.
Since that's not the world as it exists and Ukraine are expected to at least
pretend to be "the good guys", they content themselves by running the libs they hate oh so much through all kinds of contradictory twists and turns, so they can at least laugh in their faces when their ardent armchair supporters are obediently submitting to the doublethink to keep up appearances, cucking them into being unwilling Neo-Nazis.
>>2216937Sure, but it's not like their nato partners aren't used to recouperating even more contradictory positions. "Don't you see? The poor Ukrainians have had to destroy democracy in order to save it, not unlike the Roman tradition of electing dictators during an emergency."
>As well as antagonize the entire population the second they realize they're not about to end the war, but double down.True. Come to think of it, I wonder how much this ceasefire/peacefire negotiation shit is meant to be a sop for the Ukrainians. "Just keep going a little longer. Wait for Trump, okay? Ceasefire soon fellow patriots."
>>2216949It would deposit Western narrative of "Ukraine can't be Nazi! They have a Jewish President!" in the trash can, too. And the entire pre-2022 Western coverage of Ukraine would be retrieved from the memoryhole.
That's why they were cozying up to Tymoshenko. The "moderate" Ukrainian nationalist.
>>2217351>>2217354I agree Russia's military leadership is retarded I am literally a Cucktin poster lmao. The thing is I'm tired of making minimum wage and being crushed by capitalism, but unfortunately if I assassinate my boss to try to make a political statement it will instead be passed off as a lone act of a psycho or something due to previous events in the past that I don't want to go into, and bring intense scrutiny on all my family members still living in the country, which they don't need, so if I want to get revenge properly I have to fight in a proxy war against NATO somehow and since China doesn't want to invade Taiwan that only leaves Russia/Ukraine as an option. I guess there's also the Middle East but the Ba'athists have been destroyed and socialists have been wiped out and replaced by jiahdists whereas with Russia there's a chance I can still serve in a squad with other socialists and even maybe with the North Koreans assuming Zelensky wasn't making shit up (I noticed that China's state media immediately denied having Chinese troops in Ukraine but North Korea's media still to this day has not denied their troops being there which makes me think there are actually North Korean troops serving in the Russian military).
>>2217353Nah honestly I think they're desperate for recruits. The guy I was talking to instantly became more animated and had his eyes light up when he realized that I wanted to sign a military contract and handed me an email address for further contact and follow up. Unfortunately I also noticed that the embassy entrance room had portraits of Cucktin everywhere on the walls and desks which made me cringe so hard since I don't think Russians really understand just how embarrassing Cucktin is in the eyes of the rest of the world. It's like an American embassy throwing up portraits of Herbert Hoover everywhere.
>>2217361I don't care about dying or going on the front lines. Honestly I think one of the things that would easily get me a contract is the fact that I would only ask for minimum wage or even just no money period and just guaranteed rations for the duration of the fighting. I just need some way of actually GETTING to Russia since I can't afford to fly there.
If all the Western world offers me is working shitty jobs making shitty pay with no hope of social mobility, no hope of buying a home, no hope of any purchases that aren't basic necessity and bare minimum, no hope of even getting married since in order to date you need money, while their rich capitalists feast relentlessly day after day and the population keeps electing the most retarded right wing reactionaries, then I've decided that I'd rather put all my time and energy into killing as many of these pro-Western retards as possible rather than continuing to contribute to their system. The way I see it anyone who unironically sides with NATO in this day and age deserves to die.
>>2217357>bring intense scrutiny on all my family members still living in the country, which they don't needAnd you think joining Russia won't cause that? LMAO
You're better off doing another Luigi, learning from his mistakes to avoid arrest.
>but North Korea's media still to this day has not denied their troops being there which makes me think there are actually North Korean troops serving in the Russian military.The DPRK doesn't have to deny anything. They rarely participate in this media shitflinging to begin with, as South Korea makes up shit about them daily. The burden of proof lies on the Ukronazis, which still haven't delivered.
>>2217353This ^ tbh
Don't be an idiot, the Russian government sends volunteers to the most dangerous zones. Even though, you're much less likely to die than your average Ukrup, I wouldn't risk it. You're more useful alive and in one piece, wherever you are now, don't let adventurism make you a decision you will regret.
>>2217371>And you think joining Russia won't cause that? LMAOIt won't because I'm just going to cut off all contact with all family for a straight month before I join up or just send a mass email feeding people misinformation about finding work in another city.
The glowies won't be able to do jack shit because
A) My family is part of the problem and consistently votes for right wing retards anyways so they are as "loyal" as one can be while living in the West so there are no signs of my radicalization and no way for them to reverse-psychology to try to figure out why I did what I did and
B) I told no one of my plans besides anons on /leftypol/ so far so there's literally no leads they can use.
>You're better off doing another Luigi, learning from his mistakes to avoid arrest. I don't live in a country with lax gun laws and have zero black market connections to source a gun. Also I probably don't even have enough money for one anyways even if I did have connections. My plan to kill my boss was bringing a steak knife to work and trying a stabbing. It would be really messy and in front of multiple eyewitnesses since he's not overweight/fat and would definitely struggle against me, I would not be guaranteed to kill him since medical technology keeps advancing and there are constant stories of people recovering all the time from multiple stab wounds, and there's zero chance of me staying anonymous afterwards.
>>2217378With what skills would they be willing to accept me? You think the China of 2025 is the China of 2005 which was still accepting "english teachers" with zero qualifications besides being born in the West? They want the same skilled labor as any other country: Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, Coders, etc. Not to mention the difficulty of learning Chinese which is even father away and more divorced from English than Russian.
You think if I was some STEMlord making 6 figures with an impressive resume that I would be moved to such desperation as to be willing to fight for a shitty military and leader I despise (Putin) just to get revenge?
>>2217378>>2217378I'll be yet another white brazilian english teacher in china or maybe more realistically work on a factory or sew products on a sweatshop since china doesn't clearly doesn't need foreign programmers
>>2217377>I would not be guaranteed to kill himit would be an omae wa mou shindeiru moment because of blood loss
>>2217377If you're family are shitbrained reactionaries anyway, why do you care about backlash hitting them to begin with?
Regarding the stabbings, most attackers are too stupid to do basic research as to where to stab for maximising the chances of death, only mindlessly hitting the torso in a emotional outburst. But yeah, it's a messy affair, and nigh impossible to avoid imprisonment after.
There are repeatable crossbows (look them up), shooting multiple bolts a minute, which can penetrate the skull easily. Unlike guns, they're silent too, but you still have to make the shot count, as your firerate is comperatively low.
>>2217382>>2217385Did you actually do some research? As long as you don't have a criminal record, you're good. So what, if you work in a factory? You think that would be different if your country turned socialist overnight? The point is it would be much less alienating than in the West, and you would also have more benefits, social mobility, functional infrastructure, healthcare, housing etc.
I know, you're in a tough spot, I'd be lying if I said it will get better on its own, but you should really deeply reconsider. Are there no opportunities to unionise with your fellow workers? You can't be the only one feeling this way. Do you have friends or comrades to start building dual power structures with?
>>2217396>>2217396>As long as you don't have a criminal record, you're good.yep I'm good, just avoid the suspicious looking people
groids and white funk looking people and favelados looking people and poor looking people in general, the homeless are ok though, help them out and you won't be a victim either in brazil
>>2217417Just a strange penchant for fantasing about strangling, stabbing, shooting or otherwise torturing
anyone who stands in the way of NATO expansion.
>>2217442Ukrainians want to take Moscow but can't.
Russians can take Kiev but don't want to.
Ukrainians are definitely the psychological progeny of the Battle of Berlin, and it wouldn't surprise me if they're the genetic progeny either, tbh.
>>2217521All leftist projects have ended in failure, while imperialism has succeeded for many for a long time. even the leftist adopted champion, China, has abandoned their previous revolutionary fervor, and shifted to a union of state capitalism, party-bound oligarchy, topped with a hollow ideology. the USSR should have followed the formula of pretend freedom, with subtly controlled media, promoting individualism, bread and circus, drugs and debauchery, it would be much less hated now, and likely survive. This endless war has shown the failure of the last century of left politics, there will be no big changes in global geopolitical landscape, China's indebted and collapsing population🕳 won't be the salvation many seek. By 2100, humans will become obsolete, as their population declines, and things become cheaper due to automation, the concept of class, inequality, and even communism itself, wil become obsolete. In the end, the west's way was the best one for humanity, reflected not only by the fact the whole world copied it's economic system, but it's clothing/music style, calendar etc… but just as other countries, such as Vietnam, adopted it, they shifted to financial neoliberalism. Either indentured fiefdom to ai, or post-scarcity, whatever the future holds, can't be addressed by outdated theories.
>>2218089It's not gonna end for more three to five years approximately - ending with Russians in Kiev or Ukraine collapsing, probably two million more dead until then.
US negotiations failed, and Europe, as
>>2218093 pointed out, won't allow Ukraine to lose at this point.
>>2218095Not gonna happen. The mentality of the average Ukrainian and Russian soldiers is in no way comparable to 1917, and there is no revolutionary alternative.
>>2218205I guess that's not surprising.
In any event it seems like a lot of the noise coming out of so called Ukrainian socialists is pro nato slop like
https://tempestmag.org/2025/02/ukraine-solidarity-under-the-trump-administration/I was wondering what happened to Taras Bilous though. It seems like he was a loud mouth early on talking about how this is all Russia's fault and anyone that brings up nato is a Kremlin dupe.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/self-determination-and-the-war-in-ukraine/But somehow in a war where regular soldiers can't even get rotated out it seems like Bilous got out and published a book with several others, like other nato shill Michael Karadjis.
https://www.amazon.com/Peace-Ukraine-Solidarity-Authoritarianism-Resistance-ebook/dp/B0CJHZ7GN4I wonder if he's still confident in Ukraine's eventual victory.
>>2218250>Taras Bilouscan't find anything by him past 2023 so he's probably (hopefully) dead
alexa play 10 hours of farting sounds
>>2218250>In many armed conflicts, it is right to call for diplomacy and compromise. Often in the case of ethnic conflicts, internationalists should not take a side. But this war is not such a case. Unlike the 2014 war in Donbas, which was complicated, the nature of the current war is actually simple. I love the Ukrainian Exceptionalism pro-nato leftists always bring out. "Well most conflicts are complicated but luckily not this one." Isn't that the same shit they always say? "Sure the US was doing imperialism when it invaded these other countries but this time it's run by a dictator who's really, REALLY bad."
>Russia is waging an aggressive imperialist war; Ukraine is waging a people’s war of liberation. We cannot know how Ukraine will develop after the war—it depends on a plethora of factors. But we can say for sure that only if Ukraine wins will there be a chance for progressive change. If Russia wins there will be horrible consequences. This is the main reason to support the Ukrainian resistance, including with military aid.Wait, if the horrible consequences of Russia winning are the reason to support Ukraine, then isn't this war itself reason to support Russia? The consequences of the Maidan coup are playing out and graphically illustrating the consequences of being a nato puppet state, to the point that Ukraine has lost a third of its population, had its economic infrastructure devastated, and entire cities devastated. Say what you want about Russia being a "para fascist state" but so far I think the historical record points to Russia being the lesser evil here.
I don't know, it just seems like you can't be a socialist if you're using concepts like self determination and people's war to justify nato intervention.
>>2218310Wishful thinking it seems like. I guess the reasoning is that Putin's evil fascist Russia is going to crack down on and exterminate all the freedom loving Ukarinos, but otherwise the left will be able to REFOORM Democratic Ukraine ™.
Honestly it seems like a big contradictory mess. The far right is influential, but not really. Yes Ukraine is a proxy, but not too much of one so it's okay.
>While people join huge lines to enlist in the Territorial Defense in Ukraine, in the Russian-controlled part of Donbas, men are caught on the streets, forcibly conscripted, and thrown into battle without training, like cannon fodder.lmao
>>2218746You got me. I've been seething that it's Trump and not Putin doing the dedollarization.
It reminds me of how I annoyed I was in high school when my gf kissed my left cheek and not my right cheek.
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