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>>2365703What is the problem. A bit devil's advocate here. Let's say they get a relevant number of "tradishunal" tards from the west and China (Taiwan).
A retard can fabricate a bullet, provided the requisite instruction and equipment, yes?
lol. get loosed, uke cunts.
US halts some weapons shipments to UkraineMissiles for Patriot air defence systems and Hellfire missiles are among items being held back, according to US media.
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/2/us-halts-some-weapons-shipments-to-ukraineRandomly stumbled upon this, dunno where to post. Lushkoff was one of the sources for a claim that Great Purge has happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Lyushkov says:
>However in 1979, Yutaka Takeoka, who was a young intelligence officer and Lyushkov's handler at the end of the war, admitted publicly that he executed Lyushkov on the evening of 19 August 1945.In other words, Japanese "former" glowie tried to prove that the guy existed, and wasn't a random imposter they were using to create "credible" propaganda pieces against USSR, by claiming that the fact that Lyushkoff simply vanished was explained by Japan executing him so that he won't spill Japanese secrets to Soviets, lmao
Also also, 2nd pic, holy shit, I didn't know that USSR DIDN'T RENEW NON-AGGRESSION TREATY WITH JAPAN AND WASN'T EVEN BREAKING ANY DEALS WITH JAPAN BY ATTACKING, LMAO. In other words, USSR suffering 20k losses to kill 198k Japanese was against a prepared enemy who was mobilized and notified in advance
Third pic: sources in
https://2024.sci-hub.st/3426/a902d9b3151ccd2b9cdf1f4d54c9afff/coox1998.pdf source from wiki
>>2365720You know, when you see how Maoists act, you realize that the "Soviet social-imperialists" were right all along. If Deng hadn't marginalized the Gang of Four, there would be no PRC today. Then we'd
really be in the blackest reaction,
>>2365724>Kopeks in comparison to USAID agentsYou know, I honestly wish that I
was paid to do this. I'd at least get to live somewhere fit for human habitation.
>>2366290It’s quite specific over where they’re placing the tires, people suggest it’s somehow anti-drone protection or some way of confusing missiles, but if that was the case then why so accurately placed?
The only guess I can think of is maaaaaybe they’re placed specifically over the fuel tanks and hope is that a drone attack could set fire to the tires which *might* snuff out oxygen and put out the fuel fire and I guess that’s preferable because it won’t fuck the fuel system?
The Latest Trouble In Russian-Azerbaijani Relations Might Be Part Of A Turkish-US Powerplay
https://korybko.substack.com/p/natos-procurement-corruption-scandal
<By Andrew Korybko, a Moscow-based American political analyst who specializes in the global systemic transition to multipolarity in the New Cold War. He has a PhD from MGIMO, which is under the umbrella of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Originally published at his website
>Russian-Azerbaijani relations are in trouble as a result of two scandals. The first concerns the recent police raid against suspected ethnic Azeri criminals in Yekaterinburg, during which time two of them died in circumstances that are now being investigated. That prompted Baku to officially complain to Moscow, after which a vicious infowar campaign was launched on social media and even among some publicly financed outlets as well alleging that Russia is “Islamophobic”, “imperialist”, and “persecuting Azeris”.
>This was shortly thereafter followed by a police raid on Sputnik’s office in Baku, which had been operating in a legal gray zone after the authorities moved to effectively shut it down in February, thus resulting in the detainment of several Russians. That earlier decision was suspected to be connected to Azerbaijan’s displeasure with Russia’s response to late December’s airline tragedy in the North Caucasus that was caused by a Ukrainian drone attack at the time. Readers can learn more about it here and here.
>Before determining who’s responsible for the latest trouble in bilateral ties, it’s important to recall the larger context within which all of this is unfolding. Prior to late December’s incident, Russian-Azerbaijani relations were proceeding along a very positive trajectory in accordance with the strategic partnership pact that President Ilham Aliyev agreed to with Putin on the eve of the special operation in late February 2022. That built upon Russia’s role in mediating an endto the Second Karabakh War in November 2020.
>More recently, Putin visited Baku last August, the significance of which was analyzed here and here. This was followed by Aliyev visiting Moscow in October in connection with the CIS Heads of State Summit. Shortly before late December’s airline tragedy, Aliyev then gave an extended interview to Rossiya Segodnya head Dmitry Kiselyov in Baku, where he elaborated on Azerbaijan’s multi-aligned foreign policy and newfound suspicions of the West’s regional intentions towards the South Caucasus.
>On that topic, the Biden Administration sought to exploit Armenia’s loss in the Second Karabakh War to more radically turn it against Russia and thus transform the country into a joint French-US protectorate for dividing-and-ruling the region, which worsened relations with Azerbaijan. The Trump Administration appears to be reconsidering that, however, and might have even agreed to let Armenia become a joint Azeri-Turkish protectorate instead. It’s this perception that’s driving the latest unrest in Armenia.
>From Russia’s perspective, the French-US protectorate scenario could spark another regional war that might spiral out of control with unpredictable consequences for Moscow if they weaponize the revival of Armenian revanchism. Similarly, the Azeri-Turkish protectorate scenario could turbocharge Turkiye’s rise as a Eurasian Great Power if it leads to an expansion of its influence (especially military) in Central Asia. The ideal scenario is therefore for Armenia to return to its traditional status as a Russian ally.
>Having explained the context within which the latest trouble is unfolding, it’s now time to determine who’s responsible. Objectively speaking, the Azerbaijani authorities overreacted to the recent police raid in Yekaterinburg, which signaled to civil society that it’s acceptable (at least for now) to wage a vicious infowar campaign against Russia. Some officials with an unclear connection to Aliyev then authorized the raid on Sputnik’s office as an escalation under the implied pretext of an asymmetrical response.
>Given the ambiguity about Aliyev’s role in Azerbaijan’s overreactions, it’s premature to conclude that he decided to jeopardize the strategic ties with Russia that he himself cultivated, though he must still take responsibility even if mid-level officials did this on their own. That’s because Baku’s official complaint to Moscow and its raid on Sputnik’s office are state actions, unlike the recent police raid in Yekaterinburg, which is a local action. He’ll thus likely have to talk to Putin sometime soon to resolve everything.
>The abovementioned observation doesn’t explain why mid-level officials might have overreacted to the Yekaterinburg police raid, which can be attributed to the deep-seated resentment that some have against Russia and speculative foreign influence. Regarding the first, some Azerbaijanis (but importantly not all and seemingly not the majority) harbor such sentiments, while the second might be linked to the scenario of the US letting Armenia becoming a joint Azeri-Turkish protectorate.
>To elaborate, the US and France would struggle to turn Armenia into their own joint protectorate due to Georgia successfully repelling several rounds of Biden-era Color Revolution unrest, which aimed to pressure the government into opening up a “second front” against Russia and toppling it if it refused. The military logistics required for turning Armenia into a bastion from which they could then divide-and-rule the region therefore are no longer reliable since they could only realistically run through Georgia.
>Accordingly, the Trump Administration might have decided to cut their predecessor’s strategic losses by “giving” Armenia to Turkiye and Azerbaijan, which would repair the troubled ties that he inherited with both. In exchange, the US might have requested that they take a harder line towards Russia if the opportunity emerges, knowing that neither will sanction it since that would harm their own economies but hoping that a future situation would develop to serve as the pretext for escalating political tensions.
>Mid-level officials wouldn’t be privy to such talks, but the aforesaid speculative request could have trickled down to them from their superiors, some of whom might have implied state approval for overreacting to any forthcoming “opportunity”. This sequence of events could bestow Aliyev with the ability to “plausibly deny” his role in events as part of a de-escalation deal with Putin. The whole purpose of this charade might be to signal to Russia that a new order is forming in the broader region.
>As was earlier explained, that order could be a Turkish-led one upon Ankara and Baku subordinating Armenia as their joint protectorate, after which they’d streamline military logistics across its territory to turn the “Organization of Turkic States” (OTS) into a major force along Russia’s entire southern periphery. To be clear, the OTS isn’t controlled by the West, but its Turkish leader and increasingly equal Azerbaijani partner could still autonomously advance the West’s strategic agenda vis-à-vis Russia in that scenario.
>Just like the US and France have unreliable military logistics to Armenia, so too does Russia, so it could struggle to deter an Azerbaijani(-Turkish?) invasion of its nominal but wayward CSTO ally if Baku (and Ankara?) exploits its latest unrest (such as if Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan falls). Moreover, the most optimal branch of the North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC) runs through Azerbaijan, which could block it if Russia takes decisive action in defense of Armenia (however limited due to the special operation).
>To be clear, Russia has no intention to fight Azerbaijan, but Azerbaijan’s overreaction to the recent police raid in Yekaterinburg might be a ploy to preemptively craft the perception that Russia “backed down” as a result if Moscow doesn’t take decisive action to deter Baku if regional tensions over Armenia worsen. Had it not been for that raid, then perhaps some other pretext would have been exploited or concocted, but the point is that Russia and Azerbaijan have polar opposite visions of Armenia’s geopolitical future.
>That same future is pivotal for the future of the broader region as was written, but Russia has limited means for shaping the course of events due to its complex strategic interdependence with Azerbaijan vis-à-vis the NSTC and its understandable military prioritization of the special operation. The preceding constraints are self-evident, and Aliyev (and Erdogan?) might be preparing to take advantage of them, emboldened as he(/they?) might be by Russia’s perceived setback in Syria after Assad’s downfall.
>Azerbaijan is aware of its irreplaceable role in turbocharging allied Turkiye’s rise as Eurasian Great Power, which is dependent on subordinating Armenia in order to then streamline the OTS’ military logistics between Asia Minor and Central Asia via the South Caucasus. If Aliyev came to believe that his country has a brighter future as part of a Turkish-led regional order instead of a Russian-led one, especially if the US signaled approval of this as speculated, then Baku’s overreaction to recent events makes more sense.
>The Moscow-mediated Armenian-Azerbaijani ceasefire of November 2020 calls for the creation of a Russian-controlled corridor across Armenia’s southern Syunik Province, which Baku calls the “Zangezur Corridor”, for connecting both parts of Azerbaijan. Pashinyan hitherto refused to implement this due to pressure from the West and the Armenian diaspora therein, but if Trump decided to “give” Armenia to Azerbaijan and Turkiye instead, then he might do it but only after squeezing Russia out of this route.
>Russian control would prevent Turkiye from streamlining its military logistics to Central Asia through this corridor for the purpose of replacing Russia’s influence there with its own as part of a grand strategic powerplay that autonomously aligns with the Western agenda in the pivotal Eurasian Heartland. Azerbaijan (and Turkiye?) might therefore invade Syunik if their envisaged client Pashinyan either flip-flops on squeezing Russia out or before Russia is invited into there by a new government if he falls.
>The consequences of Turkiye obtaining unhindered military access to Central Asia through either sequence of events could be disastrous for Russia since its influence there is already being challenged by Turkiye, the EU, and even the UK, which just signed a two-year military agreement with Kazakhstan. That country, with whom Russia shares the longest land border in the world, has been pivoting towards the West as was assessed here in summer 2023 and this troubling trend could easily accelerate in that event.
>Reflecting on all this insight, the latest trouble in Russian-Azerbaijani relations might therefore be part of a Turkish-US powerplay, one which Trump could have agreed to with Erdogan and Aliyev later jumped on board but might still have his doubts. That would account for his “plausibly deniable” role in Azerbaijan’s overreaction to recent events. If taken to its conclusion, this powerplay could risk Azerbaijan becoming Turkiye’s junior partner with time, which he’s thus far sought to avoid through his multi-alignment policy.
>If that’s the case, then it might not be too late for Putin to avert this scenario so long as he can convince Aliyev that Azerbaijan has a brighter future as part of a different regional order, one that would center on Azerbaijan continuing its Russo-Turkish balancing act instead of turbocharging Turkiye’s rise. The NSTC could figure prominently in this paradigm, but the problem is that Azerbaijan’s ties with Iran and India are very strained right now, so he’d have to prospectively mediate a rapprochement for this to happen.
>Anyhow, the point is that it’s premature to assume that the latest trouble in Russian-Azerbaijani relations is the new normal or that it might even precede a seemingly inevitable crisis, though both possibilities are nonetheless credible and should be taken seriously by the Kremlin just in case. The best-case scenario is that Aliyev and Putin soon hold a call to amicably resolve the issues that have abruptly toxified their ties otherwise the worst might be yet to come and it could be disadvantageous for both.>>2367603kazakhstan, georgia, azerbeijan or armenia
maybe belarus depending on how ukrainians fare after war
>>2368029uranium, gas, access to middle east
identity issues
>>2368070to continue upholding their adopted slavic identity russians need to lord over actually slavic people and/or lands where actual slavic people come from
if by any chance ukrainians don't fuck up rebuilding their country their living standard will increase dramatically which will lead belaruses to reevaluate their civilizational orientation which in turn will make it imperative for russia to reign belaus in by any means necessary
>>2368129>>2368128>>I must sow the seeds of a new Sino-Russia splitas long as containment of russia continues this is inevitable: russia is forced to hang onto china and the chinese are not running a charity
it's only eight years between erection of berlin wall and sino-soviet border war meanwhile russia is a lot more isolated than ussr was
>>2368172No because the majority of the economy is run by the state and the bureaucrats in charge constantly cycle out and can be punished repeatedly for corruption or breaking the law (even opposition sites will admit this and report on when state managers get arrested).
Lukashenko took power with Soviet loyalists from the security services and was backed by the workers and peasantry against the liberal intelligentsia and nationalists. He and the KGB had to fight street battles against the BPF and execute bandits and thieves.
Liberal cope ascribing the entire Belarusian economy to Lukashenko's family is wrong. Belarus has one of the lowest income inequality indicators in the entire world (GINI index) and low levels of social stratification. Clearly, heavy levels of redistribution are occurring.
>>2368218>My usual response to why I don't move to China is that there are no white bitches.NGL that may be THE single most retarded reason for refusing to move to a country that I've ever heard anyone admit to in any setting. Especially in the year 2025. Makes me think you've never even dated before.
>Unlike you retarded rootless cosmopolitans I like having cultural and social ties to the country I live in.So do I. No one grows up hating their own homeland. Unfortunately when the neoliberals have so fucked up your nation and no one is protesting, organizing, or waging struggle against the government, but instead jumping on right wing bullshit and arguing for the continued intensification of capitalism, there's nothing left to save. The way I see it my people have to demonstrate that they want socialism and if not then they lose my loyalty for staying as total retards. I tried. I volunteered for socialist orgs, I joined unions, I talked to all of my immediate family members as well as close friends, to try to convince them the country was going to become a complete shithole and I was met with indifference, blank stares, and vehement denials and they all ended up voting for right wingers anyways. Why invest so much time and energy and patience for a retarded people who wouldn't bother to grab a life-jacket even if they were actively drowning? They can enjoy choking on Milton Friedman's dick from now until eternity if they want that so badly.
>>2368329changing country also aint easy, especially if you lack money, dont speak the language, dont know anyone there and dont have a job lined up. And theres what you leave behind, especially family and friends
And finally the point of political activity is to improve things where you are, not fuck off somewhere else like some disconnected globalist porkie evading taxes.
Its an incredibly disingenuous question no matter how you frame it
>>2368456Does the YouTube version work?
This is documentary by PBS. Syria after Assad. Good watch
>>2368207>If Belarus is so nice why dont you go live there? Or why doenst anyone wants to live there?Whenever I hear a question like this I'm hearing about a country we in the West shouldn't extend the international system to, usually on behalf of some diaspora ironically.
Support for Belarus is on the basis it has a legitimate form of statehood in the modern world. It's a political model that makes sense for Belarusian history in the current world, recovering from disastrous Soviet breakup and the entire region living in the shadow of world powers
>>2368647Nah
I will watch it with VPN though
>>2368763Munchkin cats are horrible. That's animal cruelty IMO like those horrible bred dogs. I don't know why you're talking about this in the UKR thread.
On top of that we have every cat breed under the sun in the US it's just that most people aren't getting their cats from breeders.
>>2368765Those protestors were demanding mass privatization and lower taxes on private businesses. The liberals also say lack of covid protection was an additional factor but Svetlana
Tikhanovskaya and her dipshit friends in the Coordination Council were proposing to close hospitals and to decrease the number of doctors and nurses because the Belarusian state forcibly assigns doctors to rural regions to decrease regional inequality but the liberals see it as intolerable oppression that the state forces them to care families in poorer oblasts instead of concentrating all medical care in the capital.
Belarusians treated the protestors too kindly even now Lukashenko is randomly releasing prisoners out of sheer pity. The state should have just run over them with tanks.
>>2365723 (embarrasing)
>>2365687 (embarrasing)
>>2367684>Civil war in 5 years [in Russia]literal hope-projecting redditoid, high on NAFO propaganda
>>2367755>Russia will invade Belarusliteral hope-projecting redditoid, high on NAFO propaganda
>>2368763this is off topic but fucking hilarious
>the slavs, who are largely white chinesekekking hard
>>2369813Yes I know, and the US was bringing democracy defending against authoritarianism.
Ukrainians themselves think they defend themselves from Russian imperialism.
>>2369820Pointless post, the Vietnam war was materially a struggle against imperialism, Russia fighting against NATO expansion is materially a struggle against imperialism.
Idealism is thinking you’ll introduce democracy, where everyone’s voice is heard and considered, by bombing people for not already being democrats. Or larping as Nazis because slaughtering your own citizens fighting NATO’s battles for them, will make you more European circa the 1930s despite it actually being 2025 and Europe having values seemingly despised by most actually doing the fighting.
>>2369786No AA?
huehuehue
Now may be the time to nuke Lvov
>>2369858Well done anon, you’re really securing your place as the “good” zigger? russian? nationalist? communist? leftist? imperialist? random shill?. You may choose!
You keep telling me about NATO but its not NATO that fights there. Its ukrainians who apparently dont care much about what Putin is afraid of and just want to get rid of kremlin even if it means the sell everything to NATO
>>2369870Firstly, that was never said. Secondly
>empireDelusional, but necessary to somehow see a nation of about 150 million people is not the smol bean nation compared to the US of nearly 350 million, with foreign territories and all of the population of its European and Asian vassals, some of whom in turn also have foreign territories.
>>2369867>"Ukrainians want the same thing the NATO puppet regime wants. if ukrainians wanted to fight Russia so much they wouldn't have to be systematically kidnapped off the street and forced to do it against their will.
It's also illegal to publicly disagree with the NATO line about Russia or wanting to fight Russia. Try it and get gonzalo lira'd.
I know what the puppet regime cares about. I don't know much about what "ukrainians" care about because the regime has decreed that no view other than their own can be legally expressed.
>>2369899Tbh it’s doesn’t even matter all that much because anon says
>Its ukrainians who apparently dont care much about what Putin is afraid ofOkay fine, but Russia is put under imperialist pressure by NATO expansion and has the means to oppose it somewhat, thus you can wholeheartedly want to join NATO with the explicit desire of contributing to imperialism and hostility towards Russia without giving a damn about what “Putin” (as though Russians, both proletarian and bourgeois, would be non-plussed about Texaco running the gas station with nukes) thinks of it, but what you cannot do is Pikachu face when the result is conflict with yourself being kidnapped off the street to die for the sole purpose of securing the shit your country has already sold to NATO.
>>2369785nah you're right
face tattoos are a sign of deep mental illness
the longer someone stays a fascist the more tattoos they end up getting
>>2369867>“good” zigger? russian? nationalist? communist? leftist? imperialist?All of the above since your definition of imperialism clearly isn't the same as the communist one, libshit.
In any case, your whining is irrelevant. The dynamics at play are very clear to everyone who isn't trying to deceive themselves, and even among the people who are, most Ukrainians who are supportive of the regime clearly position themselves in "the struggle of the superior civilized world against uppity brown shitholes", you would see this very clearly if you read what they say. You are fooling nobody who has spent as much as an hour acquainting themselves with the conflict. You should get better at gaslighting.
>>2369930Same as in europe (the border between ultra- and simple generic nationalist will become useless)
And Evropa is super(duper) nationalist. They may claim one thing (we are for globalisation and like "peaceful coexistence" or whatever the fuck) and then do another thing.
You see, it's an old trick in politics. Say one thing but actually do a different thing.
>>2369939Icp lol
How embarrassing
Anyway it reminded me of a meme of Putin as Eminem "the ICC won't let me be"
Or I dreamed that
>>2369949sadly the ukrainian communist movement is still very underground currently
literally, they are dead and under the ground after what NATO and their fascist thugs did
>>2369973maybe his wife was cheating on him
but how is this relevant to the war?
>>2369964At this point I'm not even sure Germany's superstructure could be considered to be capitalist. They are pushing for suicide.
Like, wtf, mayne
>>2369973Russian bourgs in the last 10 yrs have been falling from balconies in unprecedented numbers.
Now this might just be me, but I'm getting the impression that the contemporary Russian state isn't exactly aligned with the wishes and goals of Russian national bourgeoisie…
>>2370168I'm talking about WW2, dummy. No European country (except Ukraine with big caveats) can be called fascist
Back then, puppet fascist governments were acting the same lapdoggish way Euroids act now
>>2370171>Remember times when libsRemember times when libs represented ALL MINORITIES, (including but not limited to) sexual, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and so forth?
Remember THAT time?
Well, buddy, that phase is GONE. EU libs today openly CHEER for baltic countries doing an le cultural genocide against minorities… IF said minorities are of Russian ethnicity…….
>>2370195My friend, I've read like 20,000 pages on Eastern Europe's 18th-20th century history, and I deem you a fucking idiot.
Please don't reply to me again. Please STOP 🛑 talking about shit you know (close to) nothing of.
Are you an American?! >>2370201>>2370171This is kind of off topic, but I'm entirely sure that the fucking libs will eventually drop their "pro-LMBTQ+" stance, like how they dropped the protection of (((Russian))) minorities.
I'm also sure that this shut will happen in our lifetimes, bro. Maybe 10yrs, but they will fucking do it for muh voootes.
screencap dis >>2370232>they are racist towards Chinese>They never were in protection of RussiansThis interpretation is entirely untrue. I'm a sufferer of having been brought up in the fucking 90's and I remember all the cultural products of liberalism portraying itself as a kind of universalism: "ALL ethnicities, ALL sexual orientations, ALL languages, etc. etc. are equal, TOLERATED,, and so on…."
You will NOT deny me my lived experiences.
>>2370268Ukraine will be a big Georgia - eternally butthurt,letting all kinds of shits to operate from it's territory against Russia, but not openly hostile and reluctantly aligned with Russia
That is, if Russia isn't getting mogged by "Great Turan" nonsense
>>2370223>like how they dropped the protection of (((Russian))) minorities.They never protected them, lol. The reason why people are learning this is that war on Russia is forcing you to brush up against this aspect of the EU.
Liberals only protect the minorities that are advantageous to protect, or rather they don't protect anyone, they're just pandering and that is being disposed of entirely right now.
>>2370265That was in a period when it was so, so much easier for them to control the media. It may be lost on us now, but the fact that they have to deploy shills at all instead of beaming propaganda down at the people is that the media landscape became so much better and more democratic with the advent of the internet. But that is itself more of a return to the norm since TV and radio are themselves new technology if we look back at history. Even the "I'm not dying for Israel" slogan on the part of poltards almost certainly played a positive role in averting war with Iran for now.
>>2370287Again,
>>2370223>>2370267>>2370273You may call out liberalism's
*false* universality, but you can NOT deny the fact that liberalism provided this
*promise!* <Prime Minister 🇸🇮 dr. Robert Golob:>"The coalition SDS, NSi and SD today confirmed the decision on a new senseless referendum. (refering to a referendum on raising the armament budget to 3%)
>To eliminate any doubt about the true will of the people, Svoboda will next week put its referendum proposal specifically regarding Slovenia's membership in NATO.>Only two ways are possible: but we stay in the relationship, and we pay the membership fee, but then we leave the relationship. Everything else is populist conquest of citizens 🇸🇮."read more here (translate with google)
https://n1info.si/novice/slovenija/velik-udarec-za-goloba-levica-sd-in-opozicija-izglasovali-referendum/ >>2370508Their thesis on decomposition was interesting until they started updating it every time it got refuted.
They're an incredibly miserable bunch which micromanages every branch, extremely bureaucratic, comparable to a corporation.
>>2370571Ya learn something new everyday. I immediately read over it and thought "oh it must be those people". But turns out it was a different, even more irrelevant tendency.
My brain still noticed the "ICC". Ya didn't notice it but your brain did.
>>2370675>All Leftcoms are to be treated as glowies from now on.As if you didn't scream "CIA" all the time before.
>This shit is fucking obvious.More than obvious is your incapacity to distinguish between your critics, since you believe yourself to be ideal like Jesus.
>>2370761Don't need to be ideal. Just better than you or any of my "critics", which isn't difficult.
But it's funny that it's always everyone else that must be criticized and self-crit, not you. Your positions being regurgitated and sloshed around in the mouths of most dedicated enforcers of global blackest reaction causes absolutely zero introspection or self-doubt in your mind. Fucking purgebait.
Former Luhansk mayor taken out by Ukraine's Security Service, sources say
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-s-security-service-eliminates-former-1751553448.html
>The elimination of the former mayor of the temporarily occupied city of Luhansk, Manolis Pilavov, was carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He was killed by an explosion, the sources in the SBU told RBC-Ukraine.
>The SBU noted that Pilavov headed the occupation administration of Luhansk from 2014 to 2023.
>He was one of the ideologists of the so-called Lugansk People’s Republic and an ally of the governor Igor Plotnitsky. Pilavov personally took part in overthrowing the constitutional order.
>Since 2015, the so-called mayor of Luhansk had been wanted under Article 109 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (actions aimed at violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order, seizure of state power), and since 2022, he has been under Ukrainian sanctions.
<The killing of Pilavov
>Earlier, Russian media reported an explosion in the center of temporarily occupied Luhansk.
>The Russians claimed that the former mayor of Luhansk, Manolis Pilavov, was killed as a result of the incident.
>In related news, on June 18, it was reported that the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine eliminated traitor Mykhailo Hrytsai, who tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war.>>2371445ДРУЖБА ДРУЖБОЙ
СЛУЖБА СЛУЖБОЙ
ZА РОДИНУ! ZA РОССИЯ!
Я ZИГА И ДЕЛАТЬ ТВОЮ СТРАНУ В СОСТАВЕ РОССИЯ
>>2370571>>2370548>>2369951>>2369939I actually personally know an ICC guy in Hungary. He runs the only (as far as I know) communist-orie ted bookshop in the country. He's like 62 yrs old, and the nicest, most interesting comrade you could ever meet. Like, when you visit his bookshop, he'll chat you up, meausre you up (ideologically), have a cigar with you, and so on. Bookshopping there is an event of itself.
…however……..
>he is completely unorganized, the bookstore is a fucking MESS, with cockroaches climbing out from below the shelves>he still "sells" (offers) fucking audio casettes in the year of the Lord 2025, and when you question him about it he just says: "I have a buyer for that, some ppl still have audio casette players in their cars" (lol)>he is putrid, zero hygiene - zizek style - and has several diet-related illnesses that could be solved in a jiffy, if he ever cared to solve them>upon asking what kinda books did he sell the most, he reluctantly admits that there was an uptick in ML books (to his chagrain), but nothing elsewhich is kind of giga-based, considering he devoted his entire life shitting on ML, yet he still sellz ("it's only sellz") it because he admits to himself itz a valid communist tendency, even as he despizes it.
Also,
>ICC-fags speak a completely different language, like you could read 20k pages long worth of Marx, but you would not understand half of the ICC jargon, for realWhen the guy first chatted me up via Facebook, my immediate reaction was to ask if he's some kind of honeypot or not, because I literally couldn't understand a single sentence of his jargon-heavy spiel.
They
>run a quarterly updated website>90% of which is masturbatory idiocy, 10% are fucking gems>For example they were COMPLETELY right about "muh Kurds" in Syria, for completely WRONG reasons (not true ancoms enough!)It's just a mixture of sadness and laughter, when I think about these ICC types. Like, look into a mirror, comrades. You do 10% fukken BASED shit mixed in with 90% lame shit, your clientele is buying Lenin, yet your line is out-lenining lenin, bordiga-style.
These people can't get a grip on reality, which is sad, but then again, also quite hilarious….
>>2372230They should do so on the condition that Cucktin gets on national television to do a speech admitting that Lenin was a 100x better leader than he could ever be and that he only criticized Lenin out of envy and jealously.
It's a bit annoying that Cucktin has to rely on basically every Communist country in the world to defend his shitty government but he still allows rightoids and the Orthodox church to constantly criticize Marxism. If Russia wins it will be because of communist super soldiers and Cucktin should just concede that his Tsarist LARP totally failed.
>>2372236Yeah, and even in Russia herself there are red banners everywhere.
Also, funny how Stalin was somewhat rehabilitated officially. Huh, turns out, criticizing Stalin while appeasing China does't work, because China likes Stalin
>>2372253the capitalists are being forced by the powers of populist consciousness to rebuild lots of socialist symbology
which is grand, because that means there will be less to tear down when the russians finally redevelop class consciousness
>>2372270CPRF is a fake party, it pretty much doesn't exist in material reality.
To showcase this, Balayev did a research into how many communists there are in administrative roles under winning CPRF mayors and such. Answer might surprise you: ZERO. 0. NONE. There's NO CPRF administrative staff, all CPRF winner candidates prefer to employ majorily United Russia staff, and even LDPR ones, but NEVER other communists from their own party (if those existed)
>>2368227
> Dating people you barely have a language in common with is cool and normal.Lmao you unsocialized leftoids are so deep in your asian fetish you don't realize most people date within their culture for a reason.
You know all those retarded old immigrants who can barely speak English and need to make their kids do everything for them? That guy assimilated into a culture that was already hegemonic over the entire planet in a country that's made assimilating immigrants a part of its national identity. If you move to another country you're gonna be 1000 times less well adjusted than that guy. Literally some random retard living in a society and culture you can't comprehend. Since you're a westoid you probably wouldn't even try to assimilate because you probably view other cultures as beneath you. You probably won't even be able to get your kids to do everything for you since you people have an almost magical ability to raise your kids in other cultures in a way where they absorb literally none of thr local culture.
>>2372288Wut
Let me explain. Mayor gets elected, and then mayor chooses his team for admin duties. Communist mayors choose for themselves United Russia staff, never communists
>>2372448Probably. Apparently they do annual training exercises with the Russian military. With us/nato increasing antagonisms against brics members, it's not unreasonable to anticipate SEA becoming a conflict zone again. Getting practical military experience in the theater that nato is breaking out its newest tricks seems like a good idea, as we saw with Spider's Web and then the and tactics being used against Iran.
I would bet there's more to it than just "getting experience" though.
>>2372337what would be the point in the age of hypersonic glider missiles
>>2372541>patriots.wingo back
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/mounting-unrest-in-romania-over-austerity-measures/
>BUCHAREST – Romania is facing mounting public unrest after the government presented sweeping austerity measures to curb its budget deficit, now the highest in the European Union.
>On Thursday, trade unions and business groups sharply criticised Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s new austerity package, introduced to reduce the deficit of more than 9% of GDP.
>Bogdan Hossu, president of the Cartel Alfa trade union, said around 600,000 public sector employees will be affected by a new cap on certain bonuses, while a VAT hike will lower living standards. Union leaders had already warned the prime minister that the measures disproportionately target workers and pensioners and could fuel further unrest.
>“There are protests happening across the country right now,” said Vasile Marica, president of the National Federation of Finance Unions Sed Lex, who announced further demonstrations in the coming days.
>Employers also pushed back, arguing the plan unfairly burdens the private sector. Business groups have called for urgent talks to avoid destabilising Romania’s already fragile economy.
>Key measures include raising the main VAT rate from 19% to 21%, and the VAT on food and medicine from 9% to 11%. The dividend tax will rise from 10% to 16%, and fuel duties by 10%, driving up business costs.
>Asked on Thursday why the government did not consider less harmful alternatives – like improving VAT collection, currently the lowest in the EU – Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare said the cabinet had only nine days to devise the package. He added that Romania had lost investor confidence and was struggling to secure international loans.
>Nazare insisted the government had “limited options” and described the plan as necessary to “protect Romania”, adding that it had received positive early feedback from the European Commission. >>2372228Imagine "cucktin" posting in 2025. Embarrassing!
uygha, you lost the war.
>>2372604There's lots of reasons, but in short the West needs access to cheap raw materials to keep their economies competitive. This creates a problem for nato because the reliance on cheap Russian fuel gives them leverage over pretty much the entire EU and draws them from out of US hegemony. The plan was that the war with Ukraine would destsbilize Russia to the extent that a compliant regime could be installed which would a) let them loot Russian resources for nato's benefit b) separate other enemy states (like Syria, Iran, and especially China) from a strong ally and supporter c) neutralize Russia in the eventuality of a conflict with China and d) open up central Asia to western dominance and exploitation.
The significance of nato's failure in Ukraine is that it not only exposes the severe internal rot that has taken place within them since the 90s, but it has also placed the bourgeoisie and their governments in an existential crisis they have no political, economic, social, or military solution to. Cutting themselves off from Russia has damaged the EU's economy, and popular discontent is being quashed with ever more nakedly draconian means. Class warfare is intensifying as bourgeois governments signal shifts in funding from social programs to aggressive rearmament programs. In the US, imo the failure of the democrats to secure victory in Ukraine is one of the key reasons that sections of the bourgeoisie switched allegiance from their traditional Democrat allies to Trump. The profitability crisis and decades of neoliberal reforms have created an economy dominated by massive, powerful, but ultimately fragile monopolies that require constant economic expansion just to survive, but which American domestic and foreign policies can no longer provide. They're facing "hard" limits in the form of military resistance from Russia and Iran as well as "soft" resistance in the form of competition from Chinese corporations. Any one of the problems the US is facing would require significant adaptations and reforms to address, but because of the dominance of these monopolies, individuals that head them, and years of undermining the government’s ability to directly intervene or direct them in any way, the American economic- political structure has become so brittle that the necessary structural changes cannot be made without utterly destroying them, which the bourgeoisie will not allow.
Just to give you an example, Russia is currently vastly outproducing nato in munitions like artillery shells. Though nato has called for expanding production and has increased output since the start of the war, it's still totally insufficient either to fight this current conflict or to recoup already expended stocks. The reasons being that the military contractors the US relies on have been whittled down from some 150 in 1990 to 6 today. The reasons these and other EU producers have given include the expenses in producing all new facilities for their production, which in the US would include not just the facilities themselves but vital infrastructure as well, the absence of the workers with the nevessary training and expertise, and the fact that increasing production would undercut their profits on things like shells which have quintupled or more in price since the war began and their doubt that the current demand would exist by the time they actually got all of this up and running, by which time the war will be over one way or another.
The result is what we're seeing now in the US. The billionaire class, acting through Trump, is assaulting the working class, further hamstringing the government’s ability to reign them in, and in some places seeking the creation of their own personal company-city fiefdoms, all in an attempt to try and desperately catch up to their competitors in Russia and China. If they're not able to effectively intervene in current world processes, the hegemony they need to exist as a class is likely to collapse as they're outcompeted and eventually marginalized. The circumstances that have kept the domestic class war in check will unravel and workers will demand reforms that marginalize or abolish them entirely, which they cannot and will not allow. This is why they continue to fight on in Ukraine in spite of every indication that the effort is vain and wasteful, because otherwise it means confronting and acknowledging what is likely to be the first in a long sequence of ever more humiliating and costly defeats.
>>2372671Denazification of Ukraine, simple as.
>m-muh territoriesDon't care! Denazify Ukraine.
>>2372680>why is the US/Eu not putting boots on the groundThere are nato soldiers operating there. But if you mean "why isn't there a general deployment" it largely has to do with the rot that I mentioned, the brittleness of their economies, and the desire to avoid nuclear war. "Putting boots on the ground" would require disrupting the economy with general mobilizations because the standing troops most nato countries have would be rendered operationally ineffective within hours to a couple weeks of fighting with Russia, not to mention the logistical headaches in coordinating all these military forces and supplying them, when they can't even keep Ukraine alone supplied. Nato directly and overtly entering the war would also expose them to strikes from Russian weapons which as we've seen between iran and Israel, nato AD can't entirely stop.
>giving Ukraine things like Patriot missilesThey have given Ukraine patriot missiles, and there are a lot of problems because of it. Namely that the weapon system wasn't designed for the sort of war it's being made to fight. A single patriot missile costs (iirc) tens of millions of dollars and is being made to try and defend against drones which cost much less and can be made much more quickly, as well as advanced hypersonics which it was never designed to fight.
Currently the patriot c missile is being produced at a rate of 42 a month (iirc), and the battery itself fires 2 for every 1 target it tries to intercept. I don't know what the exact numbers are now but Russia was planning to produce 500 shahed drones a month alone by this year. Now with the war between Israel and Iran exhausting Israel's own ad supplies, there simply aren't enough to go around.
>or putting conditions on Ukraine to not attack things like Russian nuclear power plants or Oil/gas production facilities?I can't say entirely for certain but in the past nato has put restrictions on Ukraine regarding these kinds of targets both to keep Russia from targeting them in kind or in exchange for not hitting other targets, because Russia in the beginning of the war continued to honor its delivery contracts which the eu also wanted to keep in place, and I suspect because nato was entertaining the idea that they could capture their prize intact and the more of Russian infrastructure unharmed the greater their own profits would be. As the fighting has continued more and more of those restrictions have become nominal to the point that now "Ukraine" is attacking Russian infrastructure and even taking major provocative steps like attacking Russian nuclear deterrent capabilities.
The conflict is existential for nato, but there is still only so much they can realistically do about it for a number of reasons. The fact that its a coalition with a bunch of internally conflicting agenda is majorly working against it, as priorities among major members like the USA shift from Ukraine to Israel, or like Turkiye, which has also thwarted nato efforts to intervene by not letting warships enter the Black Sea.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-azerbaijan-russia-relations-are-breaking-pointHow Azerbaijan-Russia relations came to a breaking point
<Baku is leveraging the latest spat with Moscow to reduce Russian influence in the region and potentially strengthen security cooperation with Turkey
>When Azerbaijan defeated Armenia in the second Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged as a powerful mediator.
>The Kremlin helped broker a ceasefire deal that forced Armenia to accept a painful retreat from most of the territories it once controlled within Azerbaijan.
>At the time, Putin could not hide his disdain for Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whose deepening ties with the West unsettled Moscow.
>Despite traditional Russian support for Armenia in its conflict with Baku, by 2020 Moscow clearly favoured Azerbaijan. Russian authorities regularly released official statements that sided with Baku’s position.
>To cement ties further, Putin made history in 2024 by conducting the first-ever Russian presidential visit to Azerbaijan.
>“Our countries continue to act as allies, friends, close partners and neighbours,” said Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev during their landmark meeting.
>Less than a year later, however, the mood has completely shifted.
<'What happened, Mr Putin?'
>“What happened, Mr Putin? Are you so worried that Azerbaijan has become a strong state, has recovered its lands, restored sovereignty, and that President Ilham Aliyev is recognised globally?” asked Azerbaijan’s state TV channel in a broadcast earlier this week.
>“You are used to dominating peoples who were forcibly included in Russia," it continued.
>"Whether in tsarist or Soviet times, Russians considered themselves the master race, while others were second-class citizens. Even though those empires are gone, the mindset remains.”
>Tensions first became apparent after Russia accidentally shot down an Azerbaijani Airlines plane in December, killing 38 people near Grozny.
>At the time, Russian authorities said air defence systems were active to counter potential Ukrainian drone attacks on Chechnya.
>Relations deteriorated further after Russian police, during the course of a murder investigation in Yekaterinburg, raided a house and killed Azerbaijani-born brothers Ziyaddin and Guseyn Safarov, injuring several others on Friday.
>A post-mortem conducted in Azerbaijan found the brothers were actually tortured in police custody.
>Baku responded strongly, first cancelling a visit by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk, then suspending all planned cultural events with Russian state and private institutions.
>Azerbaijani police this week raided the Russian state news agency Sputnik Azerbaijan and arrested its editor-in-chief and director, casting them as spies.
>Media outlets also released footage showing several Russian citizens, accused of drug trafficking and other crimes, being roughly handled by police and publicly ridiculed as they were pushed into a van.
>Some Azerbaijani reports even suggested that Baku could close Russian schools in the country.
<'Azerbaijan has not forgotten the downed civilian aircraft, and Russia’s silence will not be tolerated'– Tural Ganjali, member of the Azerbaijani parliament
<“In today’s Russia, chauvinism, discrimination and Islamophobia are now open and state-enabled,” said Tural Ganjali, a member of the Azerbaijani parliament.
<“Migrants and non-Russians are coerced into war, threatened and blackmailed. This is a widespread policy, orchestrated and encouraged by the Russian government.”
>Rusif Huseynov, director of the Baku-based think tank Topchubashov Center, believes several factors have contributed to the growing crisis between the two countries.
<“While Baku avoids joining anti-Russian coalitions or endorsing western sanctions, it does not hesitate to take a firm stance in bilateral settings, where its rhetoric and actions can be notably bold,” he told MEE.
<“From Moscow’s perspective, Azerbaijan’s independent and balanced foreign policy has often been a source of frustration.”
>Huseynov notes that Baku still expects a full investigation into the downing of its airliner, formal acknowledgment and appropriate compensation, while Moscow insists on handling the matter behind closed doors.
>“Azerbaijan has not forgotten the downed civilian aircraft, and Russia’s silence will not be tolerated,” Ganjali said.
>“From barring Azerbaijani MPs from entering Russia to state-backed cyberattacks, anti-Azerbaijani hostility is growing. These are not isolated incidents; they are part of a broader hostile pattern.”
<Deliberately seeking escalation
>Some western diplomats believe Azerbaijan is deliberately seeking escalation with Russia in order to extract concessions from Moscow on other issues.
>One western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, told MEE that with Iran weakened after Israel’s 12-day war, Baku has more freedom to address Russian demands regarding the peace agreement with Armenia.
<'Azerbaijan’s diversified foreign policy – anchored in alliances with Turkey and Pakistan, strategic partnerships with Israel and China – has reduced its reliance on Moscow' - Rusif Huseynov, Baku-based analyst
>Several Azerbaijani media outlets reported that Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to a deal that would sideline Russia in the so-called Zangezur Corridor, which connects Azerbaijan’s mainland to its exclave of Nakhchivan through Armenia.
>The original 2020 agreement gave Russian FSB officers control over the corridor.
>An Armenian official told MEE that Yerevan’s position remains unchanged: Armenia opposes any foreign control over its sovereign territory and is open to working with other countries to open trade routes, but there is no new deal as reported. The official called such reports "fake".
>Several regional diplomats told MEE that Turkey has been quietly encouraging Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign a peace agreement.
>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted Pashinyan last month in Istanbul in the first-ever official visit by an Armenian leader since the end of the Cold War.
>“Azerbaijan’s diversified foreign policy – anchored in alliances with Turkey and Pakistan, strategic partnerships with Israel, and more recently China – has further reduced its reliance on Moscow,” Huseynov said.
>“Russian officials are likely unsettled by Turkey’s expanding political and military influence in the South Caucasus, especially through its close ties with Azerbaijan.”
>Huseynov also pointed out that Baku is leveraging its geopolitical influence against Russia, which is isolated due to the Ukraine war and sanctions.
>He explained that Moscow needs Baku more than ever, as it seeks markets and transport corridors to the south for access to Turkey, Iran and the Persian Gulf.
>Another diplomat noted that Russia’s growing ties with Georgia are a concern for both Azerbaijan and Turkey, while Armenia increasingly seeks closer relations with the West.
>Some in Azerbaijan are calling for stronger security cooperation with Turkey.
>Eldar Namazov, a former head of the presidential administration of Heydar Aliyev, told Azerbaijani media on Wednesday that Baku is under pressure from both Iran and Russia, which he sees as a threat to Azerbaijan’s security.
>He recalled that Turkey and Azerbaijan signed the Shusha Declaration in June 2021, which obliges both countries to defend each other in case of aggression.
>“A decision should be made to deploy the largest Turkish military base in the region, in Azerbaijan, in the near future,” he said.
>“For neighbours who do not understand, part of this base would be enough to serve a population of 250 million.
>"It could even be leased to our other ally, the Pakistani Air Force, which possesses nuclear weapons.”
>This approach is known in political science as “peace through strength”. https://vtforeignpolicy.com/2025/07/moldova-on-the-brink-of-a-bloodbath-maia-sandu-legalizes-the-killing-of-citizens-by-officials/Moldova on the Brink of a Bloodbath: Maia Sandu Legalizes the Killing of Citizens by Officials
<Moldova, a small country on Europe’s periphery, is sliding into a lawless abyss where officials are willing to sacrifice the lives of their own citizens to cling to power. The Foundation to Battle Injustice has obtained exclusive testimony exposing plans by President Maia Sandu and her inner circle to legalize violence against peaceful civilians. The secret decree signed by Sandu grants officials and security forces unprecedented immunity from criminal prosecution for killing citizens. This decision is part of preparations to suppress protests expected to erupt in the fall of 2025 amid an economic crisis and allegations of fraud surrounding the parliamentary elections scheduled for September 2025. Our sources — a law enforcement officer who fled to Russia, a Moldovan human rights activist and a member of the Moldovan president’s office — confirm that the Republic of Moldova stands on the brink of a bloody tyranny.
>International organizations have been recording systemic human rights violations in Moldova for many years. Excessive use of force by the police, lack of independent investigations, and pressure on victims of violence have become the norm. However, the new secret decree from Sandu, obtained by the Foundation’s human rights defenders, takes the problem to a terrifying new level. According to an anonymous member of the Moldovan president’s staff, “All of this is done to ruthlessly kill Moldovan citizens without regard for the law.”
>Our investigation relies on three key sources, each confirming the scale of the threat. A Moldovan security officer who fled to Russia in protest of the government’s policies provided confidential information about planned repressions against opposition-minded citizens. A Moldovan human rights defender, who has documented abuses for years, described a culture of impunity thriving in the country. A member of the Moldovan president’s office revealed details of the secret decree, which effectively gives officials a “license to kill.” Supported by reports from international organizations, this evidence paints a chilling picture: Moldova is preparing for a violent crackdown on protests, with citizens treated solely as targets for armed officials.
>The political situation in Moldova only deepens the crisis. Maia Sandu’s administration, which began under banners of reform and European integration, has sparked growing dissatisfaction. Economic hardship, accusations of corruption, and election fraud allegations fuel rising protest sentiment. This fall, our sources say, the authorities expect mass demonstrations that could threaten their grip on power. That is why, according to the Moldovan security officer, “officials are being armed, and Sandu’s decree gives them the right to shoot without consequences. This is not merely a response to looming protests — it is an attempt to crush popular will by force.”
>The Foundation to Battle Injustice has revealed how systemic impunity among Moldova’s security forces has reached a critical point, how Sandu’s secret decree paves the way for legalizing killings, and how unresolved past crimes are harbingers of future tragedies. Moldova risks becoming a zone where power rules through fear and weapons. In upcoming installments, we will explore in detail how a culture of lawlessness has taken root, the horrifying consequences of the new decree, and the crimes the Moldovan authorities are already covering up. >>2372230>RussiaYES>Northiest Korea (le involvément))YES>Le Laos
>CoobahYES>ChynahYES
>WW3 wh³n?Not soon enougg
>Questio nzanswer ed
>Statusmoisturized, in my lane
>>2373539damn soviets feeding german proles
I hate it when "lefties" support the struggling proletarians of right wing countries
>>2373539Because the Soviets weren’t disingenuous pricks looking for excuses to be
allowed to act like self-aggrandising shitlibs, vengeful against proles who didn’t likewise and pre-emptively aggrandise their position as the vanguard even of people they’d not yet liberated from western capital.
That is to say, they weren’t western leftists.
>>2373694>>2373700Anon, why are you posting this here?
If you're feeling a way go and have a wank and come back.
>>2373792no on an imageboard everyone is free to viciously launch nonstop personal attacks.
it's like therapy for most people here.
>>2373692what they actually said was "if we were helping russia ukraine would have been destroyed since a long time. We have 0 reason to help you make russia loose because we know you will just attack us after."
not that I expect baiters to actually know anything about the shit they post beyond a headline, but retards like you should indeed be banned
>>2374060Because that would be worthless. They have provided Russia with amble military material aid.
The average communist mindset of this war is that critical support for the separatists is needed but the invasion itself clearly is a battleground for the west and russia for resources beyond just protecting the rights of russian speakers and political minorities. China, the DPRK and now Laos is protecting Russian sovereignty, not the "invasion" per se.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/05/ukraine-war-briefing-power-to-zaporizhzhia-plant-cut-off-as-un-watchdog-warns-nuclear-safety-extremely-precariousUkraine war briefing: Power to Zaporizhzhia plant cut off as UN watchdog warns nuclear safety ‘extremely precarious’
>All external power lines supplying electricity to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine were down for several hours on Friday, the UN nuclear watchdog said, but the station’s management later said power had been restored. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi acknowledged that power had been restored after 3½ hours but added on X that nuclear safety “remains extremely precarious in Ukraine”. The Ukrainian energy minister blamed Russian shelling for severing the last power line to the plant and its six reactors. Ukraine’s power distribution operator said its technicians had taken action to restore it. Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, which is not operating but still requires power to keep its nuclear fuel cool, switched during the outage to running on diesel generators, the IAEA said.
<Ukraine has accused Vladimir Putin of “publicly humiliating” Donald Trump after Russia launched a devastating attack with a record number of drones and ballistic missiles on Kyiv hours after the two leaders spoke by phone. Luke Harding reports that Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the seven-hour raid as a “deliberate act of terror” that “immediately followed the call between Washington and Moscow”. It was one of the most severe assaults of the war and a “clear interpretation of how Moscow interprets diplomacy”, the Ukrainian president added. The attack overnight to Friday involved more than 550 Russian drones and ballistic missiles, with officials saying one person was killed and at least 23 people injured.
>Zelenskyy said interceptor drones had proved effective in downing many Russian drones in the Kyiv assault and issued a new call for their rapid development and production. “We are scaling this up as much as possible,” he said in his nightly video address. “More production of these interceptor drones, more training and more preparation for our drone operators. This is a clear task.”
<Trump spoke with Zelenskyy on Friday as the US president appears increasingly disheartened over his chances of fulfilling a campaign pledge to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Andrew Roth reports. The call with Zelenskyy came after Moscow’s attack on Kyiv and as Washington has halted its latest shipment of military aid to Ukraine. Zelenskyy called the conversation “important and useful” and said he and Trump discussed Ukraine’s air defence capabilities, joint defence production and “mutual purchases and investments”. Trump expressed disappointment after speaking with Putin in a call, saying: “I’m very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin, because I don’t think he’s there. I don’t think he’s there and I’m very disappointed. I’m just saying, I don’t think he’s looking to stop, and that’s too bad.” Asked on Saturday if the US would agree to supply more Patriot missiles to Kyiv, as Zelenskyy requested, Trump said: “They’re going to need them for defence … They’re going to need something because they’re being hit pretty hard.”
>Germany was exploring the possibility of buying more Patriot air defence systems from the US for Ukraine, a government spokesman said, as Russia intensifies its aerial attacks. Asked about reports the government in Berlin had reached out to Washington over a deal for new anti-missile systems, government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said on Friday he could “confirm that more intensive discussions are indeed taking place on this”. Chancellor Friedrich Merz raised the issue in a call with Trump on Thursday, according to reports.
<Russia and Ukraine announced a fresh prisoner swap on Friday as part of agreements reached between them during talks in Istanbul last month. Volodymyr Zelenskyy published photographs of freed Ukrainian troops wrapped in blue and yellow flags. He did not say how many Ukrainians had been returned. Russia’s defence ministry also reported the swap, saying Kyiv handed over a group of its servicemen who were currently in Moscow-allied Belarus, while also not saying how many troops were exchanged.
>Russian air defence units downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in widely dispersed parts of the country, including two near the country’s second-largest city, St Petersburg, officials said on Saturday. Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region surrounding St Petersburg, wrote on Telegram that two drones were downed in different districts south of the city and no injuries or damage was reported. Operations were suspended for a time at St Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport. The governor of Smolensk region in western Russia said anti-aircraft units had downed three drones without any casualties or damage. The governor of Voronezh region, next to Ukraine, said several drones had been destroyed. The Russian defence ministry said a total of 42 drones were destroyed in three hours.
<Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer will co-chair talks with other European leaders on boosting Ukraine’s defences, the Elysee Palace said. “There will certainly be a discussion on how to seriously maintain Ukraine’s combat capability,” it said on Friday, adding that the French president and the British prime minister would co-chair the meeting of Kyiv’s allies by video linkduring the French leader’s visit to the UK next week. >>2374586WOW the whole continent is going to shit…
the fall of the USSR should have never happened
One of the most important concepts to understand when studying history is that nations are not the same as people. Nations rise and fall, but people remain. For most of Ukraine’s history, the people living there would not have seen themselves as Ukrainian. At first, the word Ukraine meant “frontier” or “borderland” and was applied to the land as a description, not a name. To borrow a term from the far right, the “national idea” of Ukraine is an invention of the 1800s. However, people lived in Ukraine long before it was called Ukraine.
This part of the world has been inhabited for so long that it is difficult to say who the native people were. Throughout history, the fertile Pontic Steppe, with its vast grasslands and rich soil, has seen an endless wave of human settlement and migration. The land we now call Ukraine has been conquered and colonized countless times. Greek and Roman historians write about equestrian people they called Scythians who dominated the region for centuries until they were eventually assimilated by early Slavs in the 3rd century BCE. The Greeks and Romans were not just observers, they eventually colonized parts of Crimea and a small area around present-day Odessa. The Byzantines held their Crimean outposts until the mid-15th century.
>>2373692Not Russian, but I feel like nothing but good things could come from the RF growing more explicitly dependent on China. Though, this feels more like pushback against the NATO narrative about the war than Russia.
the EU are making a new "Tribunal" to punish the crime of "Inventing Warfare" that the RF committed that fateful 22 of February of 2022. This is meant to lay the legal justifications for expropriating the RF's foreign assets among other things. And will likely have the most fanfare since Bucha yet. So it cannot go unanswered, because the Eurocucks will likely make it their casus beli to *officially* joining the US cold war on the periphery. And China, of course.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/55248https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_398https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-solidarity-ukraine/holding-russia-accountable_en Unique IPs: 188