/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

First for the latam volunteers

>>2391690
o7

suriyak hasn't updated the map in 4 days
has there been any development? have any of the encirclements closed yet?

Russia Goes on the Offensive Against US Investors in an Odessa Port
https://sonar21.com/russia-goes-on-the-offensive-against-us-investors-in-an-odessa-port/

>On July 14, Volodymyr Zelensky handed over to United States companies, the largest terminal of  the Odessa port, Olimpex, following an international legal dispute. The new owners are the American investment companies, Argentem Creek Partners and Innovatus Capital Partners. The price of the transaction was not disclosed. The most interesting part of the deal is how it came about. The previous owner of this  terminal, Ukrainian businessman Vladimir Naumenko, was arrested in May 2025 and subsequently convicted of fraud in Ukraine, in a case allegedly involving Ukrainian grain and unpaid debt to the State of 100 million dollars. But that was just the tip of the iceberg.

>Volodymyr (Vladimir) Naumenko is a Ukrainian businessman and co-founder of G.N. Terminal Enterprises (GNT), a grain transshipment group that managed the Olimpex and MetalsUkraine terminals in the Port of Odesa. Along with his business partner, Serhiy (Sergei) Groza, Naumenko was a central figure in a major investment dispute involving substantial loans—totaling tens of millions of dollars—provided by US-based investment firms, Innovatus Capital Partners and Argentem Creek Partners.

>Naumenko was arrested by Ukrainian authorities in May 2025 on suspicion of fraud and forgery linked to the unexplained disappearance of over 100,000 tons of grain pledged as collateral for these loans. Prosecutors allege that GNT, under Naumenko’s leadership, misrepresented grain stocks and participated in a scheme that involved simulating the destruction of non-existent or unavailable collateral, especially during the chaos following the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I guess he forgot to grease Zelensky’s palms.

>Months prior to his arrest in Ukraine — October 2024 — Naumenko and Groza were sentenced to 21 months in prison by an English High Court judge for violating a Worldwide Freezing Order meant to protect the creditors’ interests. Subsequent legal actions required them to pay approximately $150 million in outstanding debts to Argentem Creek Partners. It looks like neither Naumenko or Groza dared travel to the UK.

>So who are the proud, new owners of this port terminal in Odessa? Argentem Creek Partners is 100% employee-owned. The firm was founded in 2015 by Daniel Chapman and his former team from Cargill, Inc.’s subsidiary, Black River Asset Management. Daniel Chapman serves as the Founder, CEO, and Co-Chief Investment Officer. Other key leadership includes Maarten Terlouw, who is President and Co-Chief Investment Officer. The firm is based in New York and operates globally, with a presence in Abu Dhabi, Buenos Aires, London and Minneapolis.

>The co-owner, Innovatus Capital Partners, is a privately held investment firm primarily owned and led by its founding partners and key executives. The firm was founded in 2016 by:

<David Schiff — Founding Partner, CEO, and Chairman of the Investment Committee.
<Andrew Dym — Founding Partner, President, and Chief Risk Officer (CRO).

>These two individuals are identified as the founders and principal leaders of Innovatus Capital Partners. Both Schiff and Dym have extensive backgrounds in private equity, credit markets, and asset-based investing. Additional key owners and executives include:

<Andrew Hobson — Partner, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and voting member of the Investment Committee.
<Ravi Bhagavatula — Partner and Head of Lower Middle Market Distressed Strategy

>Innovatus Capital Partners is a privately held investment firm. Its primary sources of investment capital are institutional investors, including pension funds and similar entities that allocate assets to their private equity and private debt funds.
Notable Types of Key Investors include:
<• Public Pension Fund (Chicago, US)
<• Private Sector Pension Fund (Atlanta, US)

>There is some bad news for Messrs. Chapman and Schiff… the Russian Army launched a missile attack on their new port terminal in Odessa on the  night of July 15. Two Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles — each carrying a 1,000 lb-plus of explosives — destroyed warehouses and offices of the new owners at the Olimpex Port terminal. BORZZIKMAN alledges that President Zelensky regularly transfers Ukrainian property to American foundations and companies. I don’t think the pension funds in Chicago and Atlanta are going to be thrilled to hear this news. Prospects for future grain shipments, at least in the near term, appear dim.

Trump Delivers Next Nothingburger To Ukraine
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/07/trump-delivers-next-nothingburger-to-ukraine.html

>On July 3 U.S. President Donald Trump had a phonecall with the Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation:

<President Donald Trump revealed the details of his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.

<Trump told reporters before he boarded Air Force One for an "America 250" rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, "We had a call, it was a pretty long call, we talked about a lot of things, including Iran. We also talked about the war with Ukraine."

<Trump shook his head and said, "I'm not happy about that," as the president remarked about the ongoing war he hoped to quickly end.

<"No, I didn't make any progress with him today," Trump said when asked about a potential deal with Putin to end the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

>Trump wanted to pause the war In Ukraine while Putin sees an advantage for Russian troops in the field and wants to continue the war until its root cause, the NATO march towards Russia, is eliminated.

>Trump could not get his will. He was also under pressure from neoconservative parts of Congress to commit the U.S. to a longer war against Russia. They asked for shipping more weapons to Ukraine and for penalties against countries which continue to buy oil and gas from Russia.

>Yesterday Trump gave in and decided (archived) to give another try to his predecessors failed Ukraine policy :

<President Trump said he would help Europe speed more weapons to Ukraine and warned Russia that if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days, he would impose a new round of punishing sanctions.

<Speaking from the Oval Office, where he met with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte​, Mr. Trump said the weapons would be “quickly distributed to the battlefield.” He also threatened to impose secondary sanctions, which are penalties imposed on other countries or parties that trade with nations under sanctions.

<“I’m disappointed in President Putin, because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago, but it doesn’t seem to get there,” Mr. Trump said.

<“It’s just the way it is,” he added. “I hope we don’t have to do it.”

>Several additional Patriot air defense missile systems are supposed to be given to Ukraine by NATO countries which would buy new ones when the U.S. is able to deliver them (archived):

<Mr. Trump said the United States would sell those arms to European nations, which would ship them to Ukraine or use them to replace weapons they send to the country from their existing stocks.

<But Pentagon officials said later that many details were still being worked out.

>It is doubtful that new Patriot batteries will help against Russian swarm attacks each with several hundreds of drones and missiles. There is also a severe lack of munitions for these system with new production of Patriot missiles per year still being lower than the monthly consumption in Ukraine and elsewhere.

>Trump did not specify what additional weapons and how many of them would be delivered to Ukraine (archived):

<What Trump didn’t talk about is that the military assistance might also include authorization for some powerful new offensive weapons. I’m told by a source involved in the decision that this is likely to include permission to use the 18 long-range ATACMS missiles now in Ukraine at their full range of 300 kilometers (about 190 miles). That wouldn’t reach all the way to Moscow or St. Petersburg, but it would strike military bases, airfields and supply depots deep inside Russia that are now out of range. The package might also include more ATACMS.
…
<Trump also considered sending Tomahawk cruise missiles, the same weapons fired against Iranian targets last month. If fired from Ukraine, these could hit Moscow and St. Petersburg, and they were included in discussion as late as Friday. But the Tomahawks are off the delivery list for now, I’m told. They could be deployed later if Trump wants even more leverage.

<Trump’s determination to squeeze Putin was conveyed in a conversation last week with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a source told me. Trump asked Zelensky why he didn’t hit Moscow. “We can if you give us the weapons,” Zelensky said. Trump said Ukraine needed to put more pressure on Putin, not just Moscow but St. Petersburg, too.

>ATACMS are an old story. In the overall balance these 'wonder weapons' had little effect so far.

>Tomahawks are a no-no because they can be nuclear armed. Russia's strategic defense would have to consider any ongoing Tomahawk attack on Moscow or Petersburg to be a nuclear decapitation strike and act accordingly. The U.S. is unlikely to risk a Russian counterstrike with nuclear weapons.

>Trump's sanction threat against buyers of Russian hydrocarbons is not taken seriously (archived):

<[E]xperts doubted the credibility of Mr. Trump’s threat to impose 100 percent tariffs on Russia’s trading partners if President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia did not agree to a cease-fire within 50 days.

<The scale of China’s mutual trade with Russia — nearly $250 billion per year, including huge oil imports — means that delivering on the threat would throw Mr. Trump into a showdown with Beijing. Analysts said it was unlikely that Mr. Trump would risk a renewed confrontation with the world’s second-largest economy over Ukraine, a country whose fate he has long said is not vital to the United States.

>Mr. Trump is also notorious for setting deadlines that he does not enforce, raising questions about whether he will act if the 50-day timer he has set for Mr. Putin expires.

>The neoconservative editors of the Washington Post are not convinced that the policy change (if this even is one) will lead to significant changes.

>They ask the right questions to then pressure for more measure without regarding the consequences for the U.S. (archived):

<But what if Putin refuses to make peace and sticks with his maximalist demands for a dismembered Ukraine under Russia’s thumb? Is Trump ready to ramp up the pressure? Will he sustain the arms shipments once the stockpiles run dry? Will he seize billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets? Will he try to crack down on the shadow tanker fleet that moves Russian oil? And will he follow through on his secondary sanctions threat, with its potentially vast implications for trade with countries such as China and India?

<The war against Ukraine has already persisted for far too long, with horrific casualty tolls on both sides. It will only end when Putin realizes he has nothing more to gain, and much more to lose, the longer it goes on. The arms shipments to Ukraine might bring that realization closer. More pressure can bring that day closer still. Now that Trump has issued his ultimatum, he needs to make clear to Putin he means what he says.

>In late 2021 Russia issued its demands in form of treaty outlines with the U.S. and NATO. They were disregarded by the U.S.. The war is a consequence of that.

>Russia has the means to continue the war until those demands are met. Meanwhile Ukraine is running out of - not weapons but soldiers.

>How long will it take for the editors to understand that it is Putin who has the trump cards in this game?

>>2391690
Are any of the OGs still alive besides dumbass Girkin

>>2391727
Kerch bridge isn’t even more than a symbolic target anymore now that land corridor infrastructure has been modernized

>>2391748
Blowing it up would completely reverse losses on the twitter front. Which as we all know is the most essential.

Case closed after ‘Russian disinfo’ claims led to persecution of NZ journalist
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/07/12/case-closed-persecution-nz-journalist/

>The manufactured scandal surrounding Mick Hall’s copy edits trace back to New York City, where a lawyer and Democratic party hack named Luppe B. Luppen erupted in outrage at something he happened across on RNZ’s website. 

>In a Twitter/X post, Luppen complained that RNZ had republished a Reuters article authored by the news agency’s Moscow bureau chief Guy Faulconbridge, with “utterly false, Russian propaganda” inserted. Namely, that the February 2014 Maidan “revolution” was in fact a “violent” US-sponsored “colour revolution,” provoking a civil war in eastern and southern Ukraine, during which local “ethnic Russians” were “suppressed.”

I always wondered why every article about the war has the same stock phrases in them. I guess the reason is because if you deviate from the script they'll fucking go after you.

>>2391719
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trumps-weapons-magic-show-is-smoke

Looks like the biggest developments are totally taking Kamyanske, and getting both supply lines for Pokrovsk within fpv drone range. The breakthroughs that have been mentioned seem to come from Ukrainian inability to organize local defense or effective assault groups.

bush era nostalgia
"ukraine is the only non NATO country that has supported every NATO mission"

>>2391999
Ukraine is the NATO intern.

The reason Trump is refusing to force a Ceasefire to end the Kabuki theatre Inter-Imperialist Stalemate Retarded Slavic Border War (if it was up to me, their would be an immediate permanent Ceasefire along the line of contact, Crimea recognized as part of Russia, a neutral Ukraine, and in the future Global USSR, Crimea will be an ASSR in the Russian SFSR, while the Donbas will be an ASSR in the Ukrainian SSR) Between the Fascist U$/Zionist puppet states of Ukraine and Russia, who both controlled by the same cabal of duel citizen Zionist Oligarchs who raped the vestiges of the USSR which was destroyed by the Khrushchevite Social Fascist Revisionist Clique, which culminated in the Gorbachev Capitalist Perestroika/Glasnost “reforms” and the phony 1991 “Project Hammer” Coup attempt which officially dissolved the USSR and put the drunkard degenerate Yelstin in power, who chose as his successor the KGB/CIA/Mossad double agent traitor Putin, who staged the FSB/CIA False Flag 1999 Moscow Apartment Bombing which acted as the casus belli for the Genocidal Russian Imperialist Invasion of Chechnya (just like the CIA/Mossad False Flag 9/11 attacks was both the casus belli for the Genocidal U$ Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, along with the final conclusion of “Project Hammer”, and the Mossad False Flag October 7th attack was the casus belli for the Zionist Genocida of Gaza), is due to the fact that Putin’s Russia is a convenient bogeymen to keep the EuroCucks under U$ occupation, so they can lose whatever is left of their sovereignty through NATO and the fake “European Union” designed to destroy all the Nations of Europe with a fake “European” National Identity (the absurdity of the concept of a single “European” National Identity is elucidated in the Video of the changing Ethnic Map of Europe over the past 2000 years that I posted, which shows that Europe is populated by dozens of Nations/Ethnic groups, divided into several large Ethno-Linguistic groups, most notably the Germanic peoples, Slavic Peoples, Romance Peoples, etc. all of which have been Migrating/Invading, Mixing, Assimilating, and Genociding each other for thousands of years), which will pave the way to them all being fully Americanized into “White” Racist Redneck Evangelical Protestant Euromutts with a massive impoverished underclass of Non-European migrants (mostly Arab Muslims fleeing Genocidal U$ Imperialist /Zionist Wars and Black Africans fleeing Neocolonial Imperialist Poverty/Exploitation/Starvation) who will be brutally exploited by U$/“European” Capitalists and used as a Scapegoat to transform Europe into a Islamophobic Zionist Christian Nationalist Fascist Shithole, which will eventually include Russia as well once their Bogeyman role is no longer needed, and whether the absorption of Russia into this fully Americanized “Europe” which are all officially U$ States, is a peaceful integration or the result of a violent Civil War/Collapse in Russia after Putin’s death is hard to predict, but it is worth noting that all Russian “Nukes” were dismantled during the Nunn-Luger program, so their is absolutely nothing stopping an eventual violent absorption of Russia, though I believe the “Russian” Oligarchs will make sure that the absorption is mostly Peaceful, in order to preserve their ill-gotten fiefdom, 😂🤣🤢🤮!

Additionally, I believe that Trump wants to use the so-called “Secondary Sanctions” on all countries that import Russian Oil/Gas, as a convenient excuse t dramatically escalate the Trade War with China into a full-decoupling of all Trade between the U$ and China, which combined with Trump forcing the ROC/“Taiwan” U$ puppet state to declare “independence” and/or the U$ recognizing them as the “Real China”, will force China to Invade Taiwan, thus giving the U$ a cactus belli to launch World War III against China, which means Trump will have Bipartisan support to use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law, suspend all Elections, and become De Facto President for Life, though this could dramatically backfire as it will either end in with this either ending in a decisive Conventional U$ victory (due to the U$ B-2 Stealth Bomber and Standoff Stealthy JASSMs, LRASMs, and Tomahawks, launched by B-1/2/52 Bombers in the case of JASSM, B-1 Bombers in the case of the LRASM, and Cruisers, Destroyers, and Submarines, in the case of the Tomahawk, destroying most Chinese Air Bases, Naval Bases, Warships, SRBM/MRBM/IRBM/GLCM launchers, and SAM sites, which despite Chinese DF-21/26 MRBMs/IRBMs and CJ-10 cruise Missiles launched by H-6 Bombers and Type 052D/Type 055 Destroyers, severely damaging many U$ air and naval bases in Japan and South Korea and Anti-Ship Missiles launched by H-6 Bombers and Type 052D/Type 055 Destroyers sinking several U$ Destroyers and Cruisers, causes China to suffer a decisive Conventional Defeat and Capitulate) that will lead to the overthrow of the Chinese Communist Party and the Balkanization of China (Tibet and East Turkestan will gain Independence) in a renewed Century of Humiliation, thus enshrining the Global Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist 1000 year Burgereich under the eternal Trump Dynasty, or escalate into a Global Nuclear War (due to a DF-21D, DF-26, or JY-21 ASBM, launched by a TEL in the case of the DF-21/26, or a H-6 Bomber or Type 055 Destroyer in the case of the YJ-21, penetrating the Aegis ABM system and sinking a U$ Aircraft Carrier, thus provoking a U$ Nuclear First Strike on China, and assuming some Chinese ICBMs survive, and that their MIRVed Nuclear Warheads penetrate the U$ ABM system, a Chinese Nuclear Second Strike on the U$) that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR that will Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

after Trump cancelled USAID, the CIA funded propaganda news agencies in Ukraine have turned to Patreon (just like your favorite leftist "content creators" have already has been doing? proletarianization will come for us all one day)
>USAID's closure, which placed nearly all media outlets in Ukraine on the brink of survival, showcases the importance of sustainable funding models. This is why we are developing our Patreon community and commercial partnerships.
https://www.facebook.com/euromaidanpress.en/photos/were-hiring-know-anybody-usaids-closure-which-placed-nearly-all-media-outlets-in/1067862402023116/?_rdr
"I spent months writing articles about the deep state's psyop tentacles, and they just…tweeted it out 😵‍💫"

>>2392004
Getting fucked and it does nothing for their career.
Well, now I am a little sad for them.

>>2392058
Any of my fellow Comrades interested in giving an Intellectual critique of my In-Depth Dialectical Materialist Effort Post on why Trump is refusing to end the Kabuki theatre Inter-Imperialist Stalemated Retarded Slavic Border War between Banderite Fascist Zionist Bourgeois Ukraine and Vlasovite Fascist Zionist Bourgeois Russia, and what this means for the International Communist Movement, 🤔?

>>2392311
Stay out of this thread, you utterly pointless retarded twat
You can shit up isg and the US thread
no one normal/sane goes there anyway
We are going to kill you, is my first and last feedback to you

Also while I am at it
Fix your sleep schedule you fucking amerilard cunt
The reason I go here at these hours is exactly to avoid shit like you

oop
got a little angry there

>>2391679
wtf is that shit