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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nazis (Part 1)<The whitewashing of Azov by New York Times, Washington Post, and The Guardian
>People still often refer to the “Azov Battalion,” which joined the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) in 2014 and became the Azov Regiment, with two battalions. In 2023, this “openly neo-Nazi” unit was upgraded again as the 12th Special Forces Azov Brigade, with nine battalions on paper, including divisions for artillery, tanks, and air defense. And now NGU Azov commander Denys Prokopenko leads the 1st Azov Corps, consisting of five brigades, including the 12th Special Forces unit and another Azovite brigade.
>Meanwhile, the broader Azov movement led by Andriy Biletsky is forming the 3rd Army Corps. There are other Azovite units, and Azov-inspired ones. After three years of war, the “gentle Azovization” of the Ukrainian armed forces is accelerating, but this seems to be met with the quiet approval of western media and officials. Apparently they consider far-right nationalism to be Ukraine’s secret weapon. >>2268784but we're discussing peace talks now, anon
millions must PEACE
>>2268818What
about the Wagner group?
>>2268828russia isnt even fighting ameriKKKa. they fully cucked out now and are an official ameriKKKan colony
4 years of war for this. KEK
>>2268838its easy to keep a communist party around when theyre all glowfag libshits
the USA also allows the DSA around kek
>>2268841…it follows, then, that for a capitalist country, it's harder to ban a communist party than to keep one around?
>DSAReally funny
>>2268825lol
lmao
Thanks, western glowie msm.
>>2268847its easier to keep them around when theyre controlled opposition
the communists in russia are just as much of liberals as the DSA. all corrupt boomers who sold their country off
>>2268860"Wagner" are Russian spec ops that wear badges for memes. They are not Putin's fascist personal guard, they are not a loose network of Russian PMCs, and they are not some rando's catering booj personal army, despite what
CIABellingcat claims. It's a meme. It was always a meme. That's why they appeared fast and disappeared just as quickly.
>>2268899maybe he should focus on not becoming a sellout himself, considering all the liberal policies adopted by the DPRK in recent times
will kim cuck out like putler?
not like it matters, leftypol will still support him >>2268921>leftypol does this>leftypol does thatcan you like… blow it out your ass and shut up?
thanks.
https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/battlefield-conditions-impacting-ukraine-peace-negotiations
>Russia appears to be able to replace its losses and still grow the size of its army. According to Mediazona and BBC’s Russian service, the Russian army appears to have suffered a total of slightly over 98,000 dead. This number only includes killed Russian soldiers identified by name and the real number is likely to be much higher. Mediazona itself estimates that the real number is about 165,000. At the same time they also do not count the losses of pro-Russian separatists, so another 20,000 needs to be added to the number, for a rough total of 120,000. This currently averages to about 3,600 dead per month. Historically, for every dead there are four wounded, so another 452,000 wounded needs to be added to the Russian count, which equates to a monthly loss of 14,400 or 18,000 total. However, the same data indicates that out of these, three quarters usually return to duty (RTD) after treatment. To break it down, Russian forces are suffering 7,200 permanent losses and 10,800 RTD per month. At the same time, Russians are recruiting 30,000 volunteers a month, plus the wounded who have recovered. This translates into growth of 24,000 soldiers every month, including RTD. Even if Russian losses are double what Mediazona was able to count, the Russian army is still expanding. Added to this number is a limited force of about 10,000-12,000 North Korea soldiers, who were deployed to help Russian forces drive Ukrainian forces out of Russia’s Kursk region. Russia also has force generation to its advantage. It still has a mandatory draft at 18. Although conscripts are not allowed to be sent into combat outside Russia’s borders, the system provides a year of basic training to every qualified male in Russia. When a Russian volunteers or is mobilized, he only needs a few months of individual refresher and collective training. Ukrainian soldiers must be trained from scratch. This gives Russia a massive advantage in forming new units. The challenge would come if volunteers ran out, as there is very little political appetite in the country for another round of mobilization.[…]
>Ukraine’s total losses are hard to assess. The Jamestown Foundation estimated that Ukraine had mobilized 2 million men back in July 2023, and the number should be approaching 3 million by now. Most estimates place the Ukrainian fielded army at about 1 million men, while Zelenskyy claimed to be fielding 880,000. The official Ukrainian losses of 43,000 are unrealistic in the light of previous numbers. For a more realistic estimate, the “Antiseptic” Telegram channel has one of the few databases that compare current and prewar satellite photos of select Ukrainian cemeteries. The limited nature of cemeteries may result in undercounting; for example, the city of Kharkiv has multiple cemeteries, but only cemetery #18 was surveyed. Soldiers buried in other city cemeteries are not counted. The chart below averages out the percent of prewar population lost by locality and then compares it to the total population of Ukraine. The final estimate is about 769,000 dead, and based on historical data, likely another 769,000 wounded who will never recover enough to go back to the front.
>This matches the Jamestown Foundation’s estimate. Some 1.5 million are permanent losses, another 400,000-600,000 wounded recovering in hospitals, leaving 1 million to 800,000 still in the field.
>This loss rate means that Ukraine is running out of trained, motivated formations. The problem was exacerbated by the Ukrainian political leadership’s decision to set up new formations instead of replacing losses in existing experienced units. As older formations lost their experienced personnel and combat effectiveness, new formations took extra casualties before they could gain enough experience to be useful. Ukrainians are seeking to change this, but it may be too late. The. experienced soldiers are replaced by men captured on the streets, who have no desire to fight. Last year, 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers deserted. The newly formed 155th Brigade lost over 1,700 of 6,000 men to desertion before it reached the front line. Without a miraculous source of experienced, motivated combat soldiers, the Ukrainian army may collapse in the next six to 12 months. Drafting 18-25 year olds will buy time, but it won’t solve the problem of motivation. >>2268828>Daily reminder that Ziggers are retarded and think is smart to support a imperialist power because is fighting other imperialist power, literally supporting Hitler because his fighting UK imperialism, absolute cucked.Agreed comrade. Former socialist bloc states are among the last in the world to begin integrating into global capitalism, and remain half integrated on the periphery of its most interconnected parts. But they are imperialist and actually subversively achieved the status under unipolarity. But actually, only thanks to Trump. He solved their problem of nonwestern inferiority with his nationalist sympathies for dictators who also hate the gay, so the dictators won through digitalized espionage against the open society and he tore down international capitalism for them. Therefore the inter imperialist war is actually mirrored within the West, so supporting Russia is just like supporting Trump (unless you oppose the war, that is also supporting Trump). But actually, in that case dont oppose the war between empires you need to now voot bloo instead. Also, since it now can't actually be between imperialists anyway (unless you support the other side that is), the camps are just democrats and authoritarians so it's only campist in one case. Campism is, after all, anti western identity politics which you must never support outside the West, only in token libs
>“During the coming spring and summer,” the “Lefts” write in their theses, “the collapse of the imperialist system must begin. In the event of a victory for German imperialism in the present phase of the war this collapse can only be postponed, but it will then express itself in even more acute forms.”
>This formulation is even more childishly inaccurate despite its playing at science. It is natural for children to “understand” science to mean something that can determine in what year, spring, summer, autumn or winter the “collapse must begin”.
>These are ridiculous, vain attempts to ascertain what cannot be ascertained. No serious politician will ever say when this or that collapse of a “system” “must begin” (the more so that the collapse of the system has already begun, and it is now a question of the moment when the outbreak of revolution in particular countries will begin). But an indisputable truth forces its way through this childishly helpless formulation, namely, the outbreaks of revolution in other, more advanced, countries are nearer now, a month since the beginning of the “respite” which followed the conclusion of peace, than they were a month or six weeks ago. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/may/09.htm >>2269167>If the words we have quoted provoke a smile, the following discovery made by the “Left Communists” will provoke nothing short of Homeric laughter. According to them, under the “Bolshevik deviation to the right” the Soviet Republic is threatened with “evolution towards state capitalism”. They have really frightened us this time! And with what gusto these “Left Communists” repeat this threatening revelation in their theses and articles. . . .
>It has not occurred to them that state capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. If in approximately six months’ time state capitalism became established in our Republic, this would be a great success and a sure guarantee that within a year socialism will have gained a permanently firm hold and will have become invincible in our country.
>I can imagine with what noble indignation a “Left Communist” will recoil from these words, and what “devastating criticism” he will make to the workers against the “Bolshevik deviation to the right”. What! Transition to state capitalism in the Soviet Socialist Republic would be a step forward?. . . Isn’t this the betrayal of socialism?
>Here we come to the root of the economic mistake of the “Left Communists”. And that is why we must deal with this point in greater detail.Firstly, the “Left Communists” do not understand what kind of transition it is from capitalism to socialism that gives us the right and the grounds to call our country the Socialist Republic of Soviets.
Secondly, they reveal their petty-bourgeois mentality precisely by not recognising the petty-bourgeois element as the principal enemy of socialism in our country.
Thirdly, in making a bugbear of “state capitalism”, they betray their failure to understand that the Soviet state differs from the bourgeois state economically.
>>2269231Unlikely. But it is seemingly possible.
>>2269236>>2269238Under Ukrainian law, which Zelensky himself passed, Zelensky is committing a crime.
>>2269424seagal movies are proletarian
he is the modern day Brecht
>>2269668Why would Putin go? He never said he was. He is literally under constant threat of being extradited by the ICC. And don't say Turkey is some kind of safe zone, Turkey would drool at the prospect of having something to bargain the EU with.
But make no mistake, Zelensky and the EU will somehow use this to "justify" further actions against Russia and escalating the conflict, much to the delight of "freethinking" "anti war" liberals.
>>2269668it's another dumb stunt by zelensky. talks like this begin with delegations, especially when they're starting from ground zero with nothing agreed and sides far apart. leaders will come in toward the end when there's progress and things are being agreed.
Besides it would be crazy for Putin to go to a NATO country on short notice, particularly one led by a habitual backstabber like Erdogan. If Zelensky wanted talks to go anywhere he would just send a delegation like any normal person.
>>2269772LUKASHENKO IS ALMOST READY TO COUP CUCKTIN
TRUST THE PLAN COMRADES
USSR 2.0 COMING SOON
>I had a good and productive meeting with President of Türkiye @MrFascistMan
in Ankara. It focused on bringing peace closer and guaranteeing security.
I thank President Fascist and all of Türkiye for their support of our state, and for supporting all the real steps toward a full, unconditional ceasefire and true diplomacy. We will continue close coordination to ensure that negotiations are truly resultative. Today, Russia once again demonstrated that it does not intend to end the war, having sent a delegation of rather low-level representatives. Moreover, such a Russian approach is a sign of disrespect — toward the world and all partners. We expect a clear and strong response from partners.
President Fascist and I also discussed cooperation within the Coalition of the Willing, security guarantees, monitoring of the ceasefire, maritime demining, Ukraine’s reconstruction, and the development of partnership between our two states. I am grateful that on most of these issues, we share a common vision.
>>2269773>Today, we need to talk about this using specific examples of our guys who are fighting in the special military operation zone, defending the Fatherland, and also using specific examples of the Second World War, the Great Patriotic War. Then, in this case, it will definitely meet with trust and understanding, and then it will definitely touch the heart and soul of every person who comes into contact with this information. Only when it is transmitted from heart to heart, using personal examples, then it inspires trust. This is the first thing.http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76832Also there's the news that the airport of Volgograd is going to be renamed to Stalingrad:
https://www.tvc.ru/news/315739>At the meeting, Putin was offered to create a memorial in the Kursk region in memory of the SVO volunteers. The president approved the initiative. And after the official part, activists from Volgograd approached the head of state and asked to think about renaming the hero city to Stalingrad, as the local airport had been renamed the day before. >>2270195<we had a meeting about having a meeting where we agreed to continue efforts to have a meeting. the impetuous just isn't there, there's an intuitive reason the more productive part of diplomacy involves preliminary talks through backchannels where concrete boundaries/concessions can be agreed to without public scrutiny, so the actual talks occur with initiative as a choregraphed performance that looks decisive.
My guess is the ukro delegation 'has a different interpretation' of the preliminaries (which is what they exist to solve - meaning they falsely agreed to what they weren't willing to) so the burgers and turks are hashing out a plan to force them to go like parents driving their tantrum dipshit kid to school. sign of the times that even respected social constructs of diplomatic etiquette are fraying under the stress of fiercer competition
This Ukrainian got to the UK and was denied his asylum request. He seeked it due to avoiding conscription
All the redditors on UK reddit tell him he should go back that he has to fight for country that UK made the right choice
Mods removed both threads but they have hundreds of comments you can read them
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1kmp0hl/im_a_ukrainian_who_was_refused_asylum_in_the_uk/https://www.reddit.com/r/uknews/comments/1kmrhmp/im_a_ukrainian_who_was_refused_asylum_in_the_uk/>>2270493They were never serious. They have a law against peace talks until they get 1991 borders and Zelenskyyyyyyyy himself has said they’d never negotiate with Putler. This event served the dual purpose of maybe getting a temporary ceasefire so Ukraine can build more defences, and to show the West that the Russians are being “unreasonable”.
Everything the Kyyyyivan regime does is choreographed theatre.
>>2270557Kind of strangely impressed, because people here absolutely make the accusation for everyone seeking refugee status from war torn states that it’s just cowardice and the would-be-refugees ought to stay home and fight/rebuild, but somehow I was certain that wasn’t going to extend to relatively-European Ukraine and its citizens would absolutely get a more privileged and sympathetic reaction to fleeing war.
Sadly I think it’s just more evidence of how evangelical anti-immigration has gotten over the years, rather than everyone being committed to fairness between Ukrainian and middle-eastern asylum seekers, because despite the “I would 100% definitely stay and fight” posts, the prevailing opinion moreover seems to be annoyance that he chose the UK when he could have “fucked off to Poland or Ireland”, such is the narrative in the UK where everyone and their mother supposedly just assumes the UK will accept anyone for any reason.
Very grim times.
>>2270636Well that is a possibility now you say it.
Guess will just have have to find out first.
>>2270599Well, not
everyone.
>>2270688Everybody defends and watches porn but no one wants their daughter to do the porn
Really meks u fink
>>2270702I think it is exactly the same.
I guess they were on to something when they said
>All is fair in love and warThink of war as Sex.
We fight the same way we have Sex.
Before we used to declare war and get married before having Sex.
Now we fight without declarations of war, and most people have Sex without marriage.
Jesus is very disappointed.
Also, it appears that All is Quiet on the Cucktin Front.
I have also embraced anarcho-primitivism as the only correct path towards communism. >>2270589With friends like these, who needs enemies.
I wish I showed these to 2013 maidan jumpers.
>>2270601>What future does Ukraine even have after the war?The prognosis isn't good.
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/russia-ukraine-war-three-years-on/
>The Ukrainian government is committed to a ‘free market’ solution for the post-war economy that would include further rounds of labour-market deregulation below even EU minimum labour standards i.e sweat shop conditions; and cuts in corporate and income taxes to the bone; along with full privatisation of remaining state assets. However, the pressures of a war economy have forced the government to put these policies on the back burner for now, with military demands dominating.
>The aim of the Ukraine government, the EU, the US government, the multilateral agencies and the American financial institutions now in charge of raising funds and allocating them for reconstruction is to restore the Ukrainian economy as a form of special economic zone, with public money to cover any potential losses for private capital. Ukraine will also be made free of trade unions, severe business tax regimes and regulations and any other major obstacles to profitable investments by Western capital in alliance with former Ukrainian oligarchs.
>Ukrainian sources estimate the cost of restoring infrastructure: financing the war effort (ammunition, weapons, etc.); losses of housing stock, commercial real estate, compensation for death and injury, resettlement costs, income support, etc.) and lost current and future income will reach $1trn, or six years of Ukraine’s previous annual GDP. That’s about 2.0% of EU GDP per year or 1.5% of G7 GDP for six years. By the end of this decade, even if reconstruction goes well and assuming that all the resources of pre-war Ukraine are restored (ie eastern Ukraine’s industry and minerals are in the hands of Russia), then the economy would still be 15% below its pre-war level. If not, recovery will be even longer.[…]
>Last month, Ukraine President Zelenskyy signed a new law expanding the privatisation of state-owned banks in the country. It follows the Ukrainian government’s announcement in July of its ‘Large-Scale Privatisation 2024’ programme that is intended to drive foreign investment into the country and raise money for Ukraine’s struggling national budget. Large assets slated for privatisation currently include the country’s biggest producer of titanium ore, a leading producer of concrete products and a mining and processing plant. Ukraine envisaged privatising the country’s roughly 3,500 state-owned enterprises in a law of 2018, which said foreign citizens and companies could become owners. Hundreds of smaller-scale enterprises are now being privatised, bringing in revenues of UAH 9.6bn (£181m) in the past two years. This involves a seven-year sub-programme called SOERA (state-owned enterprises reform activity in Ukraine), which is funded by USAID with the UK Foreign Office as a junior partner. SOERA works to “advance privatization of selected SOEs [state-owned enterprises], and develop a strategic management model for SOEs remaining in state ownership.”
>British capital is also licking its lips. Recently-published UK Foreign Office documents noted that the war provides “opportunities” for Ukraine delivering on “some hugely important reforms”. “The UK is hoping to reap benefits for UK firms from Ukraine’s reconstruction”, observes a report on British aid to Ukraine earlier this year by the aid watchdog, ICAI.
>Putin’s invasion has driven the Ukrainian people into the hands of a pro free market, anti-labour government that will allow Western capital to take over Ukraine’s assets and exploit its diminished workforce. Maybe that was inevitable – from pro-Russian and pro-West oligarchs before the war, now to Western capital afterwards.
>The war has not only destroyed Ukraine; it has seriously weakened the European economy as the costs of production have rocketed with the loss of cheap energy imports from Russia. But it seems that the European leaders want to continue the war even if Trump pulls out. They are desperately scrambling for funds to do that and to provide more military aid to the beleaguered Ukrainian government. Some leaders are proposing to send troops to Ukraine. So ‘war not peace’. >>2270601My countrymen were dumbed down by soros open society educashun programs.
I guess it's like that video, be Ukrainian, not meat.
>>2270557The funniest thing about this soymaxxed, brainwormed version of fascism that the west seems bent on doing, instead of concessions… is that nobody is willing to
fight for it themselves. They get giddy about the promise of internal violence and war and hold this apocalyptic worldview, but they cannot fathom doing it *themselves*.
>>2270557Unbelievably dire
>>2270588Also never seen that but I don't browse much here anymore. This war was forced on them by the west and ukraine is now a giant gulag surrounded by barbed wire, if there is any war they should be fighting it's in DC, London, or Paris as much as it is in kiev or moscow
>>22710891st US negotiations: how about an unconditional ceasefire?
>no2nd US negotiations: how about that unconditional ceasefire now?
>noZelensky: I insist on an unconditional ceasefire
>no>Europeans: Accept an unconditional ceasefire or else!>no>1st Ukraine negotiations: So how about an unconditional ceasefire>fucking noi wonder if they will get the message at some point.
>>2271091"next time it will be five regions"
god I love Russia and Russians
>>2271279 (me)
forgot to say that i'm zelenskysexual btw, not sure if it matters
>>2270716>Zelensly privatising banks during a fucking warHoly kek fascists are so dumb
<Yes master we will deregulate and handover all power to the wealthyIt's like even in an existential crisis the first reaction of any right winger is to dicksuck millionaires and billionaires even harder
>>22710915 was fake news, it was actually
8i kneel……
>>2271336ATO + NATO means demilitarization + novorossiya
the only way ukraine stays integral is if russia is balkanized and russians in ukraine are isolated or the west somehow stops doing all its global wars
>>2270716>Last month, Ukraine President Zelenskyy signed a new law expanding the privatisation of state-owned banks in the country. It follows the Ukrainian government’s announcement in July of its ‘Large-Scale Privatisation 2024’ programme that is intended to drive foreign investment into the country and raise money for Ukraine’s struggling national budget. Large assets slated for privatisation currently include the country’s biggest producer of titanium ore, a leading producer of concrete products and a mining and processing plant. Ukraine envisaged privatising the country’s roughly 3,500 state-owned enterprises in a law of 2018, which said foreign citizens and companies could become owners. Hundreds of smaller-scale enterprises are now being privatised, bringing in revenues of UAH 9.6bn (£181m) in the past two years. This involves a seven-year sub-programme called SOERA (state-owned enterprises reform activity in Ukraine), which is funded by USAID with the UK Foreign Office as a junior partner. SOERA works to “advance privatization of selected SOEs [state-owned enterprises], and develop a strategic management model for SOEs remaining in state ownership.”ah, no one will surely steal public funds, what is worth the bank, surely the government will reinvest it in their ukranian people needs.
>The Ukrainian government is committed to a ‘free market’ solution for the post-war economyI hope they do it. This will depopulate ukraine, the same way the baltic states depopulated, and send ukraine into the historical, geopolitical, and Slavic cultural irrelevance they deserve for sucking their banderite nazi ideologies dry bone.
>>2270636100% sure this is it.
>>2270557of course liberals will believe this is no persecution, of course fucking imperialist dogs will have him die for whatever 'freedom war' they want.
>>2270601I foresaw a worst end than georgia. I hope Hungary eats a part of it, polelos take some too, Rumania too. and that's it. no more "borderland".
>>2271358i scrolled up there yesterday and shat bricks when i saw a woman that dated someone i knew from university was there, checked socials and yup she's dead
from what i remember she has not into any sort of military stuff, but even if she was why not enlist in the brazilian military? why fly to the other side of the planet to die in a lost war? why? what the fuck is wrong with these people?
>>2271358yeah, last Haitian president was killed by a private merc group composed by Colombians and Americans. they are like the israel of South America, just to control cocaine production for wall street consumption.
Petro is kinda fucked for that reason.
>>2271361some are mostly money. others ideology-driven. if money, they are taught that it's a gif rel adventure.
money man, money. if I hadn't landed a couple of good jobs here in my country, I'd be probably in a trench fighting with the Somali battalion. though I wrote to the military attaché here, and he specifically told me that I need to speak Russian yes or yes. I am sure there must be battalions speaking English, like an international brigade.
>>2271366she was well off and did onlyfans stuff, reading the last posts here gives me the impression that it was almost all ideological
rightoids here are something else, "fuck lula -> i must die for the ukraine" is apparently a thing
The ambassador to Ukraine who is a Victoria nuland tier glowie rage quit now. This is good news. She has been a life long diplomat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_A._BrinkTrump’s Ukraine Policy Pressured ‘the Victim,’ Former Ambassador Says
“I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded and children killed with impunity,” wrote the former ambassador, Bridget A. Brink, in an op-ed published on Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/ukraine-ambassador-brink-trump.htmlAfghanistan and Russia on Friday signed five memoranda of understanding (MoUs) in several areas, including transportation, trade, and gas exploration.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Alexey Overchuk and Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar met on the sidelines of the 16th Kazan Forum in Tatarstan, where they signed the MoUs.
They cover areas of transport and transit and expansion of trade relations between the chambers of commerce of both countries, Taliban interim administration deputy spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said on X.
The two sides also agreed on cooperation in the exploration, extraction, and refining of oil and gas in Afghanistan and the development of regional trade and the establishment of an industrial-logistical complex, said Fitrat.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/afghanistan-russia-sign-deals-on-transportation-trade-gas-exploration/3570965Limitedly fit Ukrainians must re-undergo a military medical examination: the police will forcibly deliver those who do not appear to the TCC
Military-liable citizens who were recognized as partially fit for military service before May 4, 2024, must undergo a repeated military medical examination (MME). Those who do not appear at the MME by June 5 will be searched for by the police and forcibly taken to the Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support (TCC), reports UNN, citing the Ministry of Defense.
https://unn.ua/en/news/limitedly-fit-ukrainians-must-re-undergo-a-military-medical-examination-the-police-will-forcibly-deliver-those-who-do-not-appear-to-the-tcc>>2271453>Can't even defeat Ukraine after 3 years but wants to restore the Czarcuck empire. >Why is America so strong? Zero American soldiers are dead and Russia lost a million people.Bait aside, that point of fighting by proxy only…
How viable is that, when the regional bourgeoisie doesn't fear revolution? Or even worse, they stand to profit more from *not* siding with the USA…
Another way of looking at it, is that it took this big ass war, years in the making, in Europe (and bombing NS) to get Western Europe on board with USA's cold war. They were supposed to the be closest allies the US has. When the rest of the world is faced with similar incentives, it's not gonna be so easy to get them to Ukraine themselves. Especially after the smoke begins to clear and the consequences of the conflict dispel the appetite for war.
According to diplomatic sources cited by Haberturk journalist Sena Alkan, Russia's delegation, led by Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky, outlined four specific conditions during the negotiations:
No foreign military forces stationed in Ukrainian territories
Complete end to weapons supplies to Ukraine
No NATO presence in Ukrainian territories
Elimination of what Russia terms "neo-Nazi groups"
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/conflicts/russia-presents-4-key-demands-at-first-direct-talks-with-ukraine-since-invasion-3201562Syria plans to print a newly-designed currency in the UAE and Germany instead of Russia, three sources said, reflecting rapidly improving ties with Gulf Arab and Western states as a move to loosen U.S. sanctions offers Damascus new opportunities.
In another sign of deepening ties between Syria's new rulers and the UAE, Damascus on Thursday signed an $800 million initial deal with the UAE's DP World to develop Tartus port - the first such deal since President Donald Trump's surprise announcement on Tuesday that U.S. sanctions on Syria would be lifted.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-set-print-currency-uae-and-germany-ends-russia-roleThe World Bank says it will restart operations in Syria following a 14-year pause after the country cleared more than $15m of debt with financial backing from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The United States-based institution announced on Friday that Syria no longer has outstanding obligations to the International Development Association (IDA), its fund dedicated to low-income countries.
Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia and Qatar paid off Syria’s outstanding debts of approximately $15.5m, paving the way for renewed engagement with international financial bodies.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2025/5/16/world-bank-says-syria-eligible-for-new-loans-after-debts-cleared>>2272099Ziggers always have to juggle two competing narratives:
>UKRAINE IS ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSEbut also
<UKRAINE IS SOMEHOW STILL HOLDING THE LINE DESPITE A 10-1 PERSONNEL DISADVANTAGE AND DESPITE LOSING 10 SOLDIERS FOR EVERY 1 RUSSIAN SOLDIERThe rhetoric from ruzzian retards sounds like the rhetoric from Nazi Germany during WW2 bragging about how many Soviets they killed or Americans bragging about Vietnam K/D ratios. Yes, and? K/D does not win wars. It is entirely possible Ukraine can despite supposedly losing a million people or whatever so why the fuck are you bragging about anything you retards?
>>2272138Still one of Cucktin's lowest moments. The RF exchanged what seemed to be pretty high up Azov people, and lots of azovites, after the siege. They should have committed to the great patriotic war larp and hanged at least the higher ups and another few hundreds after trials.
What would happen instead, is that the western media made the same exact stink as if they would have, about Bucha that same April. And Cucktin still signed on to swapping the Azovites later that September. While NATO had already secured Ukraine committing to the war, killed the negotiations after the Kiev rush and was still accusing the RF of genocide.
May as well give the people what they want at that point and hang the lot of the Azovites.
>>2272167>Everyone comparing Ukraine to Nazi Germany vs USSRStalin took Ukraine in less than a year.
So far for Putin: 3 years and counting with no sign of any end in sight.
Russia is a joke.
>>2272201doing well so far, i just bought a new batch of crackers from south africa as slaves, malema himself sold them to me
they get released once they work 1000 hours AND write an essay denouncing white supremacy
>>2272084>>2272080>>2272109The concept of a second order point is beyond you so to spell it out in full Ukraine is relatively holding the front and simultaneously collapsing because to hold the front now its cannibalising its future.
The complete gutting of its future generations; the youth having fled and the remaining conscripted. Its economy reduced to decentralised workshop production, half of it in ruins and the other held geographically occupied with no hope of counteroffensyiv. With delusions of recovery through reparations or western financed reconstruction that's anything more than shock therapy/sweatshop investments. Ukraine has taken out loans collateralised against its own future to hold the front longer in the present.
Take the counterfactual as true that the war ended today this hour as a ceasefire with no other realistic concessions. This ramshakle state would be gutted as a reserve army of labour for the EU market and left to rot and implode.
The length of this war and continued ukrainian wartime capacity is a aberration against rational self preservation, its a suicide pact built on spite uncaring for those that will have to live in the rubble afterwards. Only map-brained troglydytes whose main interest in conflicts is winning internet arguments would analyse this so shallowly as 'russia winning slowly' as if everything else is ceteris paribus. All this because a federalised political economy to manage self consciously distinct regions in a geopolitcal border state was too much.
>>22722171. ukraina not a western country
2. didn't even break quarter million shells last year
>>2272368Ukraine as it exists now is not really much more than the stinking corpse of the SSR though. And the militarization of the conflict between western and eastern neoliberal bandits has only made the "nonaligned" Ukraine less likely. All the lines are already crossed.
So neither side would exercise restrain in dealing with an Ukraine that threatens their interests. That said, the biggest reason for getting here is Ukraine's ruling class already becoming a NATO client state. Restoring the status of NATO aligned vlasovites, even if the RF would tolerate it would scarcely improve things. Especially when their utility to NATO relies on antagonizing the RF and that is largely predicated on rehabilitating fascists to run the place. A NATO aligned Ukraine is also, by itself averse to peace.
>>2272598TOTAL Z
iGGER POWER!
>>2272198>The article explains that Western arms manufacturers only expand production capacity when sufficient orders are placed. This maximizes profit, but at the expense of readiness. Expanding production is a costly process, requiring resources, and more critically, time.
>Russia’s state-owned arms manufacturing enterprises prioritize readiness and maintain excessive capacity regardless of orders, meaning it is capable of ramping up production in a relatively short period of time measured in months versus Western factories which require a year or more.
>If and when the collective West makes serious efforts to expand military industrial production, Russia is already working from a multi-year head start. Collective US-European artillery shell production, for example, is projected to expand to between 2.5 and 3 million shells a year between 2025-2027. This is still less than Russia produces currently. By 2025-2027, Russia will almost certainly have expanded production even further.https://journal-neo.su/2024/06/03/buried-in-steel-military-production-natos-proxy-war-in-ukraine/
>Washington’s problems continue to stem from its private industry-dominated military industrial base, which favors profits over purpose and performance, preferring small numbers of expensive weapon systems over large volumes of simple but effective equipment.
>Because the US military industrial base is dominated by private industry whom Washington serves, industry profits, not actual capabilities, remains the top priority. As long as this equation persists, the US will continue attempting to solve emerging problems by applying the same flawed mindset that is creating these problems in the first place.https://journal-neo.su/2024/03/26/the-growing-weakness-of-western-artillery-capabilities/
>Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine/index.html
>Are inventories getting too low? How long will it take to rebuild those inventories? An earlier CSIS commentary identified those inventories that are at risk as a result of transfers to Ukraine. >“Manufacturing lead time” is the period between when a contract is signed and when the first item arrives. This interval is typically about 24 months but varies by system. “Production time” is how long it would take to produce all the required inventory. “Total time to rebuild” includes both manufacturing lead time and production time.>This could become a crisis. With the front line now mostly stationary, artillery has become the most important combat arm. >At the recent production rate of about 1,000 per year, it will take 149 months (12.5 years) to rebuild the inventory to the pre-conflict level. >One mechanism for coping with low inventories is substitutions. https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-inventories-six-critical-systems
>The U.S. Defense Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China>According to the results of a series of CSIS war games, the United States would likely run out of some munitions—such as long-range, precision-guided munitions.>This would occur in less than one week in a Taiwan Strait conflict.https://features.csis.org/preparing-the-US-industrial-base-to-deter-conflict-with-China/ >>2272645>we are not weak! We are just pretending to fool our adversaries!!1Hypersonics status?
What about the cope that American jet engines are so strong that Russians and Chinese to merely match them have to put two engines? Tell us, how many engines F55 is supposed to have?
>Ukraine has destroyed far more of Russia's infrastructure than Russia hasIf I were to ask where is all of that "Russian" infraestructure that nazikrainians have destroyed
>may I see itis he going to reply
>no>deflect>strawman>actual photoshop evidenceraise your bets.
>>2272744may I see it?
>>2272676One engine is more effecient from a capitalist perspective. Look at commercial planes, they continue to get smaller, pack more people into them, reduce the number of engines (you can save on fuel consumption by providing better service on less number but larger planes) and flying slower.
Of course burgerville could save a ton of jet fuel by actually having rail infrastructure that can compete with flights that only travel between 200 & 600 miles or so.
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