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>>2425347US is still the US, Ukros and the english you can safely ignore. Russia needs at least US silent consent for this war to end in any tidy way for them (wider European security and all that). They of course will not decide anything now, but they still need to keep the channels open for that.
As for provocation, the warhawks in congress and senate can push their sanctions through in the coming week or right after the summit.
>>2425341NATO was thwarted though, not by the 2014 annexation of Crimea, but when actually sitting down for discussions that resulted in the Minsk agreements, something they've revealed that they never intended to honour but instead just used to buy time to turn Ukraine into the militarised state that it is and build fortifications that Russia are still working their way through and continued to assert that Ukraine joining NATO is not something Russia has any say in.
They chimped out because they were brought to the table and thus at least briefly thwarted diplomatically, if they're brought back to the table with a completely destroyed Ukraine and facing decades of expensive re-armament of their stockpiles which few EU members express optimism about achieving, then NATO has been thwarted both diplomatically and militarily.
>Bad copeAt least the level of discussion is about what Ukraine and NATO actually expressed as their goals and attitudes about what victory was (surprise surprise, maximalist goals of all 1991 borders and complete unconditional surrender from Russia), instead of going into my own personal politics and headcanon of what Russia's victory conditions are to flip reality on its head by which actually NATO has nuance to its victory goals and Russia's maximalist goals stupidly made this conflict zero sum for them.
Does de-Nazification in Putin's head mean leaving a big crater in the ground where the Zelenskybunker is, or does it mean destroying the foundations that Ukrainian fascism was built on, I don't know but I think the latter is a more long term solution since in the former case the west will house any residual Banderites and ship them off to Canada anyway. I'll say it would be a bit silly to declare an intent via referrenda to annex Zaporozhye and Kherson, only to then have those two oblasts be negotiable, but anons are already inventing that Odessa was part of that claim.
Ultimately, the point is that by needing to frame the outcome of this conflict as though it's zero-sum for Russia but nuanced for NATO and Ukraine, says a lot more about their confidence in any negotiation than it does for me.
>>2425369But the alternative is to have eliminated them on day one and martyr them just as Bandera himself was, his acolytes got sheltered in Britain and Canada who developed a whole narrative about their movement and the possibilities for Ukrainian nationalism that then got injected into Ukraine the second the Cold War ended, which could have easily happened again if Russia blew up the Rada and re-instated Yankoyvich as leader.
This path, for better or worse, will have the quality of how Nazism played out historically, everyone's aryan and protecting the German people until you're being armed with a stick, marching past streets of hanged "traitors", along side your elderly and child comrades to protect the fuhrerbunker. Although NATO absorbed a lot of second-in-commands from the Nazi leadership, I think broadly Germans post-war understood they'd been duped and that Hitler was not on their side.
>>2425388I assume you haven't been in any TG channel for the last 5 years, right?
protip: Dugin isn't the Russia's public opinion.
>>2425401well, that's assuming that there are some people that mimics the narrative by the "Kremlin". In which, you can continuously see there's no "beliefs" of improvements in those relations, inside the Kremlin. it's quite the opposite, there are some people, with business ties I presume, that wishes all of their business again to make contact with the west, here and there, but it's not even presented as a debate in the public by those same people, because they know they are irrelevant, and irrelevant with their irrelevant wishes.
>>2425388I think it's not about trusting or friendship with the US anymore, hasn't been for years. I don't think Russia thinks Trump can stop the war and negotiate the four regions for Russia bloodlessly or anything. It's about getting into position of relative power, and drawing spheres of influence and iterating Russian critical interests to the Americans and stating of what they will possibly do if they try to violate neither of those. The "friendship" only comes in when they talk about that continuing this war more than necessary really benefits neither's interests. Cooperation between doesn't even require trust if done right.
Plus even if they could trust the Americans they can still only trust this admin. They democrats in few years will start the conflict in a few years if they can. For Russia it’s about getting into position of power and deterrence.
Some funny excerpts from the Reddit Legion of Ukraine
> Khartiia is insane in the sense that just when you think it can't possibly get any worse, it does. Nobody that has ever served in another unit and then came to Khartiia has ever liked it. I regret ever recruiting for this unit but I was naive and thought that maybe if I bring some good soldiers the problems would go away. They didn't.
>Every person there with experience unanimously agree it's the worst brigade they have ever seen. The battalion commanders either are completely dumb and retarded or intentionally lie to their soldiers saying the russians are all dead and they're surrendering and that we cut off their logistics route and that you're gonna be sent to clear trenches when you're actually going on a suicide assault mission. They tell you you're going on a "special reconnaissance mission" but you're actually just walking through friendly territory to try and find a new path (basically demining with your feet), they will always tell you a mission is 10 days but they know it won't be because they don't have the manpower to rotate you out (usually missions are 3 weeks+ with a couple days off where you're not allowed to go Kharkiv anymore). They operate in the SAFEST FRONT in ukraine and still manage to take 50-80% casualty rate. To fix the manpower problems they don't allow people to leave anymore and threaten to send you to what is described as "an isolated room in the forest in Dnipro with nothing except internet".
>To give you a concrete example, when I first came to Khartiia, we were only 5 english speakers. After one week of mediocre training we were told we were going on a trench clearing mission to capture about 40 enemy positions. With 4 men. I assumed there was an element of OPSEC and they didn't want to give us all the details of other forces but no, the commanders are just completely retarded and actually wanted to send 4 people to take 40 positions. In the mission briefing they didn't even talk about mined areas or have them marked on Kropyva, I had to ask at the very end if there's mines only to be told "Oh yeah there is this giant minefield somewhere in this area" while they vaguely point at something with the mouse cursor. Just the fact I was put as a platoon second-in-command with at the time ZERO missions under my belt should have been my fucking warning sign to leave. There were plenty of other good alternatives but I was picked because of "language skills"
>Khartiia is REALLY good at propaganda and hiding this shit, they had a camera crew following us 24/7, camera crew in the command centers, everywhere. But that's it. They suck at everything else. Shit training, they take anybody (hence why I started recruiting myself to try and stop the influx of people with 0 military experience and shit physical conditions who could not do FIVE fucking pushups to save their life), and most importantly, shit command.
Another perspective:
> Had something similar happen in 1st Bat. IL but our squad just flat out refused. They ended up sending a fireteam of Colombians instead (without giving them the full information) you can guess what happened to them. The position was completely lost not so long after and that’s when most of us broke contract or just moved units. That wasn’t a singular instance. Shit like that would happen constantly.
Another in which our good friend head status makes a guest appearance:
> I personally watched a Uki officer send 20-25 marines into an assault that literally every single person that was in that AO told him don't do it. He sends them regardless. Half died in the initial push and the other half died holed up in base-ments and half standing buildings, one of them got fucking decapitated by the Russians on our drone feed and this officer watched this whole thing take place and then just went to the kitchen to stuff his face with food and left for the night.
>>2425427I've seen Russian doomer accounts, that's not the narrative I've seen. They're far more concerned with incompetence leading to pointless deaths and losses than cuckoldry for not nuking. Cucktin posting comes from westerners who are utilising their own hysteria of Russia being this big, cold, unethical, zerg rushing horde to mock the reality that, instead, Russia is proving to be extremely risk averse and even more surgical in their fighting.
It's not that perhaps all our media narratives about Russia were wrong, or that we were projecting being stone cold pragmatists (i.e it's better kill everyone in two weeks of shock and awe than make everyone suffer a drawn out conflict) in war on to Russia and confronting that revelation by shutting it down and claiming no,
RUSSIA IS LIKE THAT, it's just that Putin is a cuck and stopping them from being the 1980s action movie villains we know they really are.
>>2425408>Putin's favorite TV series as an adolescent was The Shield and the Sword<Spyslop where infiltrating, talking, and putting on disguises wins wars No wonder Cucktin is such an unbelievable weakling he should have been watching the Soviet equivalent of Saving Private Ryan instead.
>>2425361Yes I call it the Curtis LeMay Emergency War Plan.
>>2425443>Stalin / KhrushchevReally bizarre to put those names together
Nevertheless, the idea that Stalin was unreasonably ruthless and wasn't willing to engage in any diplomacy that a million red army soldiers couldn't solve is also a Hollywood narrative.
>>2425445It's not bizarre.
One shelled Berlin relentlessly under Germany surrender (notice, no Hollywood) and one actually knew how to engage in nuclear brinkmanship (again, Tsar Bomba wasn't Hollywood).
>>2425452Noooo you see Ukraine relentlessly blowing up Russian infrastructure is a sign of WEAKNESS because…uh….um….anyways ignore that here's 10 photos of Zelensky looking awkward.
God I hate modern Russia.
>>2425447There were various attempts by Stalin to avoid or delay a war with Germany via diplomatic means with Fascist and Imperial states alike, while the Battle of Berlin was 2 weeks preceded by years of no-nonsense fighting and attrition. Thinking Stalin "shelling Berlin relentlessly" was just a choice he made one day that other leaders would just be too gosh darn scared to consider, is a very Hollywood interpretation of Stalin
>Khrushchev made big bomb what a chadHe also reformed the Soviet Union into no longer being a revolutionary project to pathfind ways to a socialist future, but instead just another generic big country that is in competition with the US and the cuck placed the USSR behind the US in his mind.
>>2425462>>2425463don't project, kid. takes yours. your infantile obsession to conflate things of the past with the present without nuancing them, it what makes you delirious.
as if no one knows how to erase the (You)s in each posts by simply switching between VPNs and clear cookies or post from a phone (using mobile network) and then from your local wifi network. duh.
as I said, don't make it too obvious, retard.
>>2425468the fuck?
>and in that knowledge I recognize my victory over your pathetic self.I dunno if you're spurdo, but I've seen this kind of post before announcing that you feel victorious.
>>2425467I'm the one who called Spurdo a druggie in the last thread, but I guess that was a ruse, eh?
And the worst thing anyone can do to convince me that my beliefs about Putin being a cuck are misplaced is to engage in schizo accusations that I know to be false. They may win their little crowd, but do they win in my mind, with my knowledge that they're wrong? No, I just see them as beneath me.
>>2425484As was established at the time (hi btw) I couldn't have been an effective samefag because I am very consistent in my points, never required to be like "omg ur so right Champy" to make my points and opted to use an emoji while the flag was missing when I didn't really need to.
It's all about my commitment to trust and transparency with the thread, when I've cooked, I feel people have a right to know that's not their first time.
>>2425491Yep see that's more like the kind of reaction my flag gets, I don't recall many times where anyone replied to my post to
not throw a hissy fit at me
>For the first time, Ukraine is importing gas from Azerbaijan via the Trans-Balkan route.
>The gas goes to Ukraine via Bulgaria and Romania - the so-called Trans-Balkan corridor.
>Last night, Russia attacked a compressor station of Ukraine's gas transportation system in Odesa region, near the border with Romania. This is the route that this gas was actually going through.
>As soon as Azerbaijan started supplying us with gas, even if the volumes are small now, the Russians immediately attacked the station(no Eng sub, video taken directly from X:
https://nitter.net/GoncharenkoUa/status/1953537648556925158)
>Zelensky's adviser Dmitry Litvin questioned the information of the Polish portal Onet about the US's proposals for Russia.
>"Nothing like that was said during Zelensky's conversation with Trump. Witkoff didn't say anything like that, he said other things," Litvin said.
So even the banderites are dennying the psyops presented by the polelols.
[In reference, this was the silly article posted, (some other anon gave it face of value and posted it, but can't find his post in the older threads):
>The US allegedly offered Russia favorable terms for a ceasefire in Ukraine, the Polish publication Onet claims, citing its own sources.
>The US plan assumes a cessation of hostilities, but not the signing of a peace treaty.
>The issue of the status of new regions of the Russian Federation is postponed for 49 or 99 years, which is equivalent to international recognition of Russia's borders, the publication reports.]
>>2425528I know r/ukraine's population won't, naturally threads like this one explicitly dedicated to the war will end once it's over, but once day looking at the timeline for engagement with r/ukraine will show no traffic, a spike during the war, then back to el ziltcho.
Granted, probably not the thing Ukrainians are most concerned about, but shall be indicative of Ukraine's staying power in the minds of westerners when it's no longer a tragedy to charitably spend time thinking about :-/
>>2425517You were CURIOUSLY sloppy and SUS with how you'd have to be continually reminded to use the replacement emoji while the flag was missing. :-P The only thing in your favor is that, at least as far as I know, you haven't been caught in this behavior whenever the flag has been available, but I obviously can't know either way.
It's tiring, isn't it? Now you know how I feel. In the course of two weeks, across sites elsewhere, I've been accused of being a CCP agent, a DNC astroturfer, a MAGAtard, and even a fucking NVIDIA shill. I'm about ready to discuss nothing at all on the Internet, which is good news for you, because one less person calling Putin a cuck.
>>2425543Just not as intuitive to use the emoji I'm afraid, especially when not phone posting. I'm sure there's a better way of doing it but unironically I was googling "Champagne Emoji" and copy pasting it each time.
>because one less person calling Putin a cuck.Alas, it's more of a shame that the thread in general is dying, cucktin posters are more prevalent now but I'm sure that's because the anons who were anti-NATO all moved on by now to other places to discuss Palestine that has far more engagement. But when the thread hit critical mass for anti-NATOism in around 2023, now those were the days.
>>2425524Yah, but every time I remember Ghost of Kiev, vidya footage, Western Wunderwaffes, etc., I remember spending weeks denying that Russia was going to invade Ukraine, months denying that North Korean Chads were fighting in Kursk, and months (due to recurrent SVR press releases) expecting Zelensky to be shanked, only to be rug-pulled.
As for cucking to a bad deal, what I know is a mix of good and bad things as far as Putin goes, some good things, mostly bad things: He has a history of accepting terrible deals. So far in this conflict he has stood his ground. Previous headlines about Putin cucking didn't manifest. He has a fetish for rapprochement with the West. He treats Ukraine with kid gloves and doesn't respond proportionately to Western attacks. He won't even use the arming of Iran as a bargaining weapon with regard to the arming/funding of Ukraine, taking that completely off the table. Most concerning, he has this oligarch Kirill Dmitriev going around slobbering over US cock daily.
>>2425556There's literally no reason to give Ukraine another energy ceasefire (which it violated repeatedly while Russia stubbornly adhered to it), let alone a rear-targeting ceasefire, which is where Russia is dominant.
I wouldn't go as far as to call it obvious treason, but it's indistinguishable from domestic sabotage.
>>2425601The thing is that Trump is no less afraid to go through with secondary tariffs against China than he is to go through with the primary tariffs. Beyond all the window dressing, they're ultimately equivalent in function, and he chickened out of the primary tariffs the moment the bond market took a hit.
There's no pressure coming from China to cuck negotiate, because China isn't afraid of Trump's economic threats and because, as a matter of self-interest, it's better for China that Ukraine doesn't fizzle down before the grade-B neolib psychopaths replace the grade-A neocon psychopaths.
So this negotiation rigmarole is likely entirely on the Kremlin.
>>2425606for them is simply, they only want to a negotiation under this condition:
>>2425490. that's why they were so excited about the "bone-crushing" sanctions (quoting neocon l. graham).
they want and only want that. but there won't be any bargain this time, I am afraid.
now, the meeting, in my opinion, won't amass to something that will stop the war, nor make Russians to bend.
it was the US who asked for this meeting, it was them to told to the public that there was no precondition for the meeting, denying banderites claims that the meeting was pre-conditioned with a triple meeting between Putin-Trump-Zelensky meeting. that hints you that the Russians have the better hand.
that's why Z is moving
>>2425446 >>2425448 >>2425449 with every US partner (including the IMF) to get that the meeting doesn't threaten the banderites position.
>>2425615Zelensky will remain intractable as territorial concessions are off the table so long as the US cannot foist him from power, due to the parliamentary law stating essentially that Ukraine must fight to its '91 borders.
Everything in there is standard in that regard except the word 'reward'; whether it's just diplomatic bluff (to do with the 'dignity' of the process) or if his negotiating team expect an equal exchange, it makes no sense.
In either case, no headway will be made. Ukraine will not cede territory, Russia will not renege its claims - what incentive drew these fresh talks out, considering the Indian oil tariffs, who knows.
>>2425628Hilarious in that the 'realkpolitik' is visible to all: isolating Zelensky is both favourable to US and Russian interests now.
Is it the US prompting these talks?
>>2425639Why enter into talks then in the first place if the object is to forestall their very purpose? The US have - however insincerely - been pressing for their conclusion since Trump's assumption of power, which suggests a foreign policy differential between the Republicans and the Democrats. But there's no litmus test of favourability within Trump's cabinet for Putin, doubly so given their evident disfavour for Zelensky.
If this is just a political sideshow meant to isolate Ukraine and by extension unseat Zelensky for someone more amenable to US imperial interests, then so be it. Zelensky's team seems to be responding by hammering down with
>>2425612 by aligning his representation and lack of presence in these talks as an issue of national self-determination.
Perhaps this is what is meant by 'reward'.
From an article on David Lammy and JD Vance's meeting:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/lammy-vance-meeting-us-brokered-ukraine-peace-plan>On Friday Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said there could be a “freeze” in the conflict.This might mark a new stage in the conflict, in that the respective powers have now recognised there can be no resolution to the deadlock of the territorial claims made by Russia so long as Ukraine remains at war for them, this being a catch 22 no party can escape.
How long this freeze might last is another thing altogether.
>>2425461>Thinking Stalin "shelling Berlin relentlessly" was just a choice he made one day that other leaders would just be too gosh darn scared to consider, is a very Hollywood interpretation of Stalin On that – I'm not sure Stalin was that much engaged with the military side of things at that point anyways. He was focused on higher-level strategy and diplomacy for the situation after the war. The generals blew the shit out of Berlin because that's what you do when attacking a fortified city.
>>2425554>I remember spending weeks denying that Russia was going to invade Ukraine, months denying that North Korean Chads were fighting in Kursk, and months (due to recurrent SVR press releases) expecting Zelensky to be shanked, only to be rug-pulled. I think one takeaway from that is Russian leaders are masters of bluff. They're masters of pokerface. Nobody comes close. I mean just look at Putin. People don't even know if there's one Putin, there could be a collective Putin with many different sides and you'd never know.
>>2425644Literally kicking the can down the road.
When geopolitical tensions swell as a result of the trillion Euro arms expenditure financed by an ailing ECB, kaboom. The US will continue to funnel javelins as well as long range missile systems to the Banderites, thereby setting the stage for the next era of a more protracted and deadly conflict.
No side is interested in a peaceful resolution to this issue, doubly so the British who wish to just see a continual process of escalation down that merry sled to nuclear war. Perhaps then their new Challengers will finally come in handy!
>>2425649>Why enter into talks then in the first place if the object is to forestall their very purpose?The US could be reasoning that Russia is never going to respond against the US/UK or even against Ukraine proportionately while there's an active negotiation track.
The Kremlin's go-to response this year has been "This is an effort to derail the negotiations," and they pat themselves on the back for defying that "effort" and going through with the negotiations anyway instead of responding proportionately, which is supposedly "giving them what they want."
Under these dynamics, it makes sense for the US to keep the negotiation charade going so that escalations can continue to be explored while Russia timidly frets about losing its dialogue with the US.
>>2425661kek, someone repost that cartoon with Japan calling HR on the Russian simp while swooning over the US nuker.
Nice guys finish last.
Even Armenia and Serbia prefer the asshole over the Kremlin simp.
>>2425360which few EU members express optimism about achieving
Iirc the Bundeswehr projected up to a hundred years to replenish some of its munitions at current rates
>>2425678It projects the appearance of being proactive and relevant instead of impotent and irrelevant, especially as Trump's deadline threatens to go flying past without the Russians giving the littlest bit of a shit.
And I mean, just look at this thread. The mere rumor that Putin was going to settle for Luhansk and Donbas has stirred up every brainlet cucktin poster still on the board. Just the optics of them meeting are enough to keep nafoids from killing themselves.
>>2425688>It projects the appearance of being proactive and relevant instead of impotent and irrelevant, especially as Trump's deadline threatens to go flying past without the Russians giving the littlest bit of a shit.btw:
Graham: "This tariff threat is to get Putin to the table.
Putin: *comes to the table*
hmm…
I woulda preferred the ghosting/silent strategy, but Zelensky's meltdown has been fun too, so whatevs
>>2425750shares on a publicly traded company not necessarily reflects the true operational system of them. at least that I have understood studying American publica trade.
Did Germany finally agree to increase the allowed debt-to-GDP ratio (or suspend it) above the 0.35%?
https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/while-trump-talks-peace-is-the-us
>While not included in the agreement, Armenia reportedly plans to withdraw from CSTO by early 2026. (The CSTO is the Russian founded military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.) Moreover, the US also reportedly secretly promised NATO membership to Armenia and Azerbaijan for signing on to this deal, which would give NATO access to the Caspian Sea by virtue of the Zangezur corridor.
>And here is the kicker (if true): Some telegram channels claim that US troops are set to be deployed in Armenia within the next 48 hours. In other words, rather than ratchet down tensions and reduce the threat of NATO, Trump is signing off on a plan to continue the NATO encirclement of Russia. So yes, Trump is setting the stage for World War 3 if he is serious about adding Armenia and Azerbaijan to NATO. >>2425863In Russia it's very strong; the KPRF is very consistently the leading opposition party.
In the Ukraine it's completely nonexistent. They just get beaten up by Neo-Nazi gangs and kidnapped to fight on the front lines for a few hours before being declared MIA.
>>2426000Right now with the SMO, of course the KPRF and United Russia are supportive of that in particular.
It's worth noting that the SMO was actually a cause championed by the KPRF for years and years before United Russia begrudgingly came to accept their position after the prior Minsk agreements all got ripped up again and again. In that sense United Russia conceded from its position and aligned with the KPRF's position.
>>2426035>>2426044not only that, they see what old Soviets in Ex SSR became. People that rejoiced from the public and state resources, now jumping into full rabid jackals. See for example kaja kallas claiming that she suffered because of the USSR (you can find her Xits still online), and tying whatever nefarious thing was the USSR with Russia, but the reality is that the little fucker lived a pleasant life under the USSR, thanks to her dad who got to work, being a communist party member, as an elected and appointed figure of the communist party:
>finance ministry specialist, director in the savings-bank system, deputy chief editor of the Communist Party daily Rahva Hääl.>Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR.Russians won't be communists again for a long time, at least.
>>2426044>Because the betrayal of the Communists of the CPSU on the Russian masses is still fresh in Russia's collective consciousnessalso, it's interesting how the fuckers got sot besotted, charmed, enamored, with western liberalism. the imbeciles truly thought that the west would come to save them from whatever problem they had, and with that, the USSR would have been "freerer" "democratic" "open".
fuckers, I swear.
>>2426123 (me)
>>2426122also, the 1991 referendum of the USSR proved that people wanted to live under that system.
>>2426123A system that collapsed on itself is a failrue
>>2426124If that failed experiment was so good and people wanted it then why didn't they kept it alive? Either people had absolute not say on what was happening, so it was shitty, or simply they didn't wanted it.
But muh Gorby, but muh this, but muh that. It collapsed. It could not progress. It was a failure.
>>2426158>A system that collapsed on itself is a failrueit didn't collapse, it was dissolved by a bunch of imbeciles. collapse implies that before the moron of garby, there was multitude of protests, seditions, assassinations of leaders, civil unrest, and near-to-a-civil-war events. NONE of that happened. it was a bunch of deluded romantic people that were given the chance to come to power, failing to see through propaganda.
>If that failed experiment was so good and people wanted it then why didn't they kept it alive?because the CIA intervened. the CIA killed a bunch of people protesting nearby the USSR congress, and they organized the arrest of counter-coup military officers.
>>2426169>it was dissolved by a bunch of imbeciles. >. it was a bunch of deluded romantic people that were given the chance to come to power, failing to see through propagandaYes exactly, it was a shitty system that brought these people on power. It's good that we agree.
>because the CIA intervenedIf it was so good, with countless resources against CIA being wasted, why didn't they fail to counter that?
Bro, that experiment brought great things, but we have to stop larping as it was great or something. It failed, miserably. It stagnated and could not change. It collapsed. Now it's time to start thinking of something better…
>>2426158>A system that collapsed on itself is a failrueIt is not a failure when you are still relying on the same infrastructure built by that "failed" system and can't build up your own and no where close to the same efficiency
>If that failed experiment was so good and people wanted it then why didn't they kept it alive1985 USSR was stable and geopolitically still a superpower and in a good position but it needed reforms. Both old politburo members Andropov and Chernenko knew that and prepared for reformations. Andropov envisioned a Ghoulish style socialist system for the Soviet Union and preparing to centralize the USSR. This left for a reformer with Gorbachev who reforms turned into disaster. The people still wanted a socialist system but wanted some changes which Andropov would have delivered but Gorby reforms alongside liberals like Yakovlev destroyed the reform process that the Soviet people trusted and lead to opportunist ceasing an opportunity to get rich fast with backing from the West and the collapsing Warsaw Pact, which is another fault of Gorbachev who changed his foreign policy in 1988-1991 to disastrous results.
>>2426169>it didn't collapse, it was dissolved by a bunch of imbeciles. collapse implies that before the moron of garby, there was multitude of protests, seditions, assassinations of leaders, civil unrest, and near-to-a-civil-war events. NONE of that happened. it was a bunch of deluded romantic people that were given the chance to come to power, failing to see through propaganda.<A system that collapsed on itself is a failrueyou're not disproving his point, you're proving it, a system that allows this kind of thing to happen, for opportunists to just come one day and do away with it instead of following a program is a problem in it of itself.
>>2426175>Yes exactly, it was a shitty system that brought these people on power. It's good that we agree.no, that doesn't mean it's "shitty" or "failed" treasonous people will always be on the look out, always. and when they betrayed, people organized, military forces organized, but it was a bit late, the CIA intervened.
>If it was so good, with countless resources against CIA being wasted, why didn't they fail to counter that?because states change quickly with the support of external states, it doesn't change quickly without the support of external states. there wasn't a secondary communist state capable of provide assistance and support. If China were by that time as strong as it is now, when the USSR was in that point, China could have help to prevent the event.
duh, it's obvious that these changes happen or not with the help of other states.
>>2426185>you're not disproving his point, you're proving it,see:
>>2426186these are not failures. are simply events where no one could have saved the USSR with little CIA intervention because there wasn't any other power playing in favor of communist interests.
this is not a boxing game.
>>2426185>what about ismApparently my sonic geometric proof of Dialectical and Historical Materialism has caused some controversy and confusion in the idiotic "minds" of drones
So yeah sorry gommiecat poster for not replying when you were asking how I'm doing; busy, happy because a proof is a proof and no amount of filibustering by bots or people so stupid they could be replaced by a bot and nobody would notice; can disprove a proof
Like people call the new chat bots stupid, but realistically they're already smarter than your average liberal, in the broad sense including conservatives and fascists etc
>>2426175>Yes exactly, it was a shitty system that brought these people on power. It's good that we agree.That is damn near every system. No system is perfect and has vulnerabilities. If systems were perfect multiple states would not have collapsed.
>If it was so good, with countless resources against CIA being wasted, why didn't they fail to counter that?Almost like the West has an imperialist empire with exploitative relationships to have great funding. Also post 1945 where a devastated USSR had to economically uplift the Warsaw Pact while recovering itself and defending itself from hostile capitalist powers. The Soviet Union wasnt on par with MAD until the late 60s and 70s during the Brezhnev years. You are missing the context how counter intelligence and intelligence funding work
>Bro, that experiment brought great things, but we have to stop larping as it was great or somethingLarping? You do realize there are still a large population who were born and raised in the USSR and millions across the global south educated in the Soviet Union and lived in the world where the USSR existed right? It isn't like a Confederate larp or neo-Nazis larping living in 1936. 1991 is very recent in terms of history and it can be argued that the fall of the USSR led to our modern world problems especially economically
>It stagnated and could not change. It collapsed. Now it's time to start thinking of something betterIt could've changed but mistakes were made that avalanched to collapse. Western intelligence do not even believe that the Soviet Union collapsed due to the system(they said that publicly for propaganda purposes) but due to domestic instability especially due to reforms being done terribly. No one said to not to come up witb something better but there is no need to call it a failure when it wasn't. It is an argument in the same lane as "not muh real socialism".
>>2426196I know you aren't,
I wasn't talking to you; I was commenting on your text
Notice everybody, how their response could be a chat bot or it could be a human, but the style of argumentation, the emotional response is something that can be mechanically replaced by an LLM
In other words; whether the person I am responding to is a chat bot or human is irrelevant because they are only thinking at the level of a chat bot character
>>2426194>Then it was inevitable collapse due to system failureno, because no one can prevent the meddling of party opportunists. and without a third superpower colossal enough to counter the CIA, then there wasn't a chance. the US had the same chances to succumb into the same trap. you can't call "failure" what was a coin-flip.
what? do you expected that the soviets, somehow, in immense paranoia, they had built a vast network of self-exploding devices in the chairs of people betraying the system?
that's not a failure, again. lifting millions out of poverty, eradicating illiteracy, making some diseases go extinct, wining the space race. yes, that's not a failure.
>>2426210>>2426211Yeah this nonsense
So again to gommiecat poster, as you can see I'm dealing with this nonsense, which is why I didn't respond earlier when you asked how I was going
So to sum, busy and amused at furious idiots who still think anybody cares what they think or that what they say matters
>>2426228>>2426226as I said in the morning, anon, don't make it too obvious the samefagging.
so, did you come out from work or something?
>>2426245most likely that vision is already shared by the other parties. the fact that it's global south countries the ones that initiated the ICJ case against zionists, while the west stood doing nothing, more or less clarifies that.
but who know.
>>2425750yes by 2033 the whole eu plus us will reach nearly 70% of russias current production.
pls ignore that the us has to full yreindustrialize by 2027 or china wins by default
>>2426254Not sure why mods don't control 4chan meme posting. All memeshit just distorts the digital news cycle and fuels infowar.
>>2426264>I think part of the problem here is that Russians can often just be passive people who let whatever happen to them whether they want it or not.I think the post cold war period erased any idea of Western free, active populations vs static slave eastern/southern populations
Especially since 2016, when liberalism increasingly realized on emergency powers often laying outside of divided national government altogether. Russiagate exposed these unelected institutions, deep state, cable news, etc.
A big part of the problem is depoliticization and organizing decline being matched by the right successfully competing for liberal internet dominance we entered the Obama era with. Nothing about this process was popular and part of progression towards unity. At one point in time, social media was part of inevitable victory.
All of this points to paralyzed populations not acting for themselves. No one champions issues that unites modern people for modern solutions to modern problems.
But the biggest problem when you zoom out is how globally it's a few countries representing a small percent of world population driving most political framing and change in the last few decades. That's the root of this.
No idea how to solve all these problems
>>2426411I assume it's when the angel is saying in one ear
>Well what's the harm? It's all Russian speaking, there was some kind of referendum, it would end open hostilities a lot more quickly and therefore the part of Ukraine that remains Ukrainian can start to rebuildBut the devil is saying to the other
<Back down to the Russians? Everyone's going to think you're a cuck! Do you think Nixon would back down to this horseshit? Nixon only had the bomb, you've got an entire country willing to commit collective suicide for American glory and you're considering going into the history books as too much of a pansy to use them?Or the angel and devil are various figures in US government and industry who alternately will benefit from either another prolonged conflict or ending the conflict sooner to move on to some other scheme.
Either way, I suspect there is a tug of war going on that is drowning out what Russia's demands actually are.
>>2426525This, people have been trying to frame this as weakness by Putin, but it's the US calling the meeting and Putin is going to enter US territory and then he is going to leave US territory, something unthinkable 12 months ago when the official US narrative was that Putin is a war criminal and should be hauled in front of a tribunal and sentenced to death.
I vaguely remember that for like the first year of this conflict Putin didn't leave Russia and the gloating remarks was that Putin couldn't trust any of his allies to not arrest him and offer him up to the US for a bounty, then he started doing foreign visits again, now he is being invited to the US with diplomatic immunity.
>>2426518Goreposting wasn't even just your run of the mill imageboard edginess, recording as many deaths of Russian soldiers and propagating the imagery as far and as wide as possible was really a concerted tactic by the Ukrainians early in the war, when the assumption was that the Russian military and Russia itself was going to collapse due to an already extreme dissatisfaction with Putin and the Russian government, then exacerbated by the war immediately going wrong and the demoralisation of seeing such imagery was to push Russian society over the edge.
In the end it just removed a lot of the sympathy for Ukrainians that Russians had for their neighbour, but you can kind of see the logic. Nevertheless, anyone trying to assert that pro-Russians are the serial goreposters are just blatantly wrong, they're more sporting and allow Kiev to display demoralising brutality towards their own citizens.
>>2426526more than that the dude meets world leaders constantly, he's at a critical intersection in the international system. now its biggest fracture is being crossed, inside the US no less
this thread is kinda useless, you can just read western MSM and get a more realistic picture lol
>>2426532Indeed, quite possibly the meeting has not been called because there's a deal to be made over Ukraine based on the state of the conflict itself, but because threats towards Russia's trading partners failed to achieve… anything.
It's intriguing that the reaction of cucktin posters ITT is to present the situation like Putin is limping to the US to grovel for a deal by which he will abandon Zapo and Kherson, accept Zelensky's status as president of Ukraine for life and ultimately allow Ukraine to become a super powerful turbo-fascist state that will eventually achieve total victory anyway.
Because tbh it feels like it's kind of the opposite, BRICS not caving to pressure from Trump is quite likely the biggest "oh fuck" moment for anyone in the US still doubting their unassailable power over other nations has waned, the deadline passed and Russia hasn't been immediately abandoned by trade partners, so what now?
My guess is that nothing will come out of the talks, I think the big pitch from the US is have only Donbass and Lugansk but on the condition that they honour the deal the US cut with Ukraine about mining "Ukrainian" resources in the region, which still assumes that Russia is as desperate to end the war as the US is to swiftly move on from this failed attempt to bully global commerce.
>>2426497Despite knowing this picture for years, I still click it hoping to see booba.
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>>2426551no the us doesn't have to do anything. it's not a party to the icc or bound by any of its rules. same with russia.
the us even has laws requiring it to attack the icc if it ever tries to prosecute americans (look up the 'hague invasion act').
if the us tries to do anything to putin in alaska it will only be because they want to.
>>2426559Presumably just booking a hotel room in whichever Alaskan city the talks take place in, it's honestly hilarious how petty that is, as though he's going to be jumping up to try and see through the window what their demeanour is like, or he's going to stand outside the building with a picket sign that says "No Givas to the Invaders!", or that he's going to catch Putin and Trump at the bar after the talks looking for a fist fight.
At least holding some kind of "alternate" peace talks with all of the EU's leaders agreeing to hang out with Zelensky for the day and order takeout in protest has a bit more cachet.
>>2426559best timeline:
Trumps sends ICE to grab Zelensky and send him to CECOT for illegally entering USA without invitation
>>2425759There is no debt limit for defense spending anymore. Needless to say austerity has NOT been lifted for all other sectors though e.g. infrastructure, education, social benefits. All civil sectors are facing severe cuts while the MIC got a free pass to vacuum tax money like crazy.
>>2425778>There will be no increased outputAre you ignorant on purpose or what. Even VW is about to join the MIC, Daimler always had a defense sector.
>>2425801>Iirc Germany's economy has contacted every quarter since the war started.True for everything but defense, which is booming.
>>2426600I know, I've been having a lot of fun implying or outright stating that I find him dumber than a simple well understood machine like an LLM
Admittedly all the maths behind them is beautiful, so I have a slight bias; even so until recently and he started to apply himself a little, I could have tuned a chat bot, replaced him with it and nobody would have noticed, other than that the chat bot would have been smarter
>>2426561My paranoia is kicking in again. Can't shake the thought that Trump and Zelensky are up to something with this Alaska meeting.
Russian security and military forces would be in Alaska too, right?
>>2426611Would it matter? If a Russian presidential guard shoots an arresting US secret service agent on American soil, then that's just as likely to trigger Zelensky's dream result of WW3.
I don't think it's in the US's interest to start WW3, especially not in Alaska which has no cannon fodder between them and Russia, unlike in Europe. If there is a play here (and there may very well be, because someone must have authorised Zelensky entering the US to specifically be in the same city Trump is) then it's surely an attempt to get Putin and Zelensky in the same room by putting the pressure on that it's an opportunity that Zelensky and Putin will be in the same place that shouldn't be missed.
It's not for any real goal though, just to get the optics of Zelensky being able to give Putin a good teling off in front of the cameras.
>>2426579It's not just us, it's the whole fucking EU and NATO, in fact Germany used to get critisized for always being on the brakes in terms of arming up and war mongering by other NATO and EU members (you know who). The entire bourgeois mainstream EU is on drugs right now, you can bet that UK/Eurocrats will try their best to neuter any real step towards peace in UA that Trump and Cucktin might agree to when they meet. I used to believe the burgers are the main driving force behind pitting Europe and Russia against each other, but now it increasingly looks to me like UK and EUrocrat imperialists are far more rabid warmongers.
>I'd think about leaving if I were you tbh.Nah i'm a middle aged man. I'm not going to leave. I'm not the type who would enjoy living as an "expat" in a completely foreign culture anyway.
>>2426621It is for the EU because no one believes open war between NATO and Russia would last long enough via conventional means before the nukes start flying for stockpiles of conventional weaponry to matter. Unless VW are going into the business of producing nuclear weapons, they are projected to produce conventional weaponry at huge expense that will be used for… not war with Russia or China.
Spending billions of Euros for a future war that no one in their right mind wants or thinks tanks and drones will matter in nuclear armageddon, so there is no military purpose to and no return on that investment… unless….
Lot of the world, especially Africa, are now being provided an alternative global economic bloc in the form of BRICS, Dollarites don't want the competition, threatening BRICS to stand down hasn't worked, so the only option remains is to "ensure" the world makes the right choice to refuse BRICS and continue trading with pictures of Benjamin Franklin.
>>2426645There's kind of a big problem with leaving the US's nuclear umbrella but gearing up to try an win an attrition war with Russia, it's bringing a knife to a gun fight.
Germany and none of the EU will leave the protection of the US's nuclear arsenal, no amount of money spent on conventional weaponry would make up for the drastically reduced nuclear deterrent and the US isn't going to pull its nukes from Europe and undo decades of building its military stranglehold over Europe against Russia, the entire legacy of the American Century.
I'm absolutely certain that no politician in Europe genuinely thinks the war in Ukraine means soon there could be Russian and possibly Chinese tanks rolling over their borders, what they likely do anticipate is preventing Russian and Chinese influence spreading. They've already pulled crack teams of drone operators from Ukraine, who presumably really needed them, to see what kind of damage they can achieve in an African conflict. It's also quite convenient that NATO has been cleaned of Soviet weaponry, because now the Poles and Czechs have the logistics to play a much bigger role than they did in the War on Terror, that they are now very, very mentally prepared for if fighting in Africa is in anyway against Russia some how.
>>2426756 (me)
Besides, Agent Z has said NOT ONE PERCENTOVSKY TO PUTINOVSKY
>>2426761I think he's boxed himself in too much.
2022 - formal annexation of all four regions, written into Russian constitution.
2024 - Istanbul 2.0 conditions including Ukraine giving up all four regions.
I don't see how he can survive politically if he cuts his territorial demands in half after all that, especially if in addition to that he leaves the Zelensky/Bandera regime in power.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-infantry-crisis-military-army-war/33497989.htmlWith Desertions, Low Recruitment, Ukraine's Infantry Crisis Deepens
>As Russia presses its offensive, Ukraine faces a crisis that experts say is as critical as its shortages of ammunition and weapons: a dwindling supply of infantry.
>“Drivers, artillerymen, and cooks” are holding the line, says Bohdan Krotevich, an officer formerly with the Azov Brigade's headquarters. “A maximum of 12 fighters hold sections 5-10 kilometers wide.”
>The lack of manpower is allowing Russia to employ what Ukraine’s commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrskiy, recently called “total infiltration” tactics. Small infantry groups make it through Ukrainian lines – including into Pokrovsk, the key city in the Donetsk region that is likely the main target of Russia’s current offensive.Map: Pokrovsk territorial control monthly change (August 7, 2025)
>One of the brigades responsible for defending the area had “run out of infantry,” according to Ukrainian conflict-monitoring group DeepState, allowing the Russians through. A video from July, geolocated to a gas station in the southern part of the city, shows a Ukrainian transport coming under fire from one of the infiltration groups, and other units had to be sent in to attempt to clear the area.
>Footage showed Ukrainian soldiers coming under fire from a Russian infiltration group in the southern part of Pokrovsk.
<The Manpower Gap Flips In Russia’s Favor
>Early in the war, the balance was radically different. In the lead-up to the full-scale invasion in 2022, Russia’s army had about 1 million troops, with some 150,000 - 190,000 concentrated along Ukraine’s borders with Russia and Belarus.
>At the time, Ukraine’s military had some 260,000 in active service, but the country mobilized up to 700,000 men by mid-summer, handing it a manpower advantage over the invading Russian forces, who had by then been expelled from the Kyiv region. Russia was forced to conduct a “partial mobilization” of about 300,000 reservists to stabilize the front line after yielding thousands of square kilometers of territory in eastern Ukraine.Graphic: Most Ukrainians Don't Want To Exchange Territory For Peace
>In 2023, Russian recruitment picked up, introducing thousands of prison inmates to the army as well as mercenary groups like the infamous Wagner private military company and offering significant sign-up bonuses to volunteers. Ukraine, on the other hand, was struggling to find new recruits to replace losses. As analysts from the investigative group, the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) observed, this was the year that momentum shifted in Moscow’s favor, as Russia’s recruitment drive neutralized Ukraine’s manpower advantage while Kyiv faced mounting difficulties replenishing its ranks.
>In 2025, according to The Military Balance, an annual assessment of military capabilities worldwide, Russia’s numbers of active-duty personnel reached over 1.13 million – with Syrskiy claiming that some 640,000 of them were on Ukrainian territory, a figure echoed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. While Ukraine's total troop strength is officially over 1 million, the Warsaw-based Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) says not more than 300,000 of them are deployed on the front lines.Russia Recruiting More Than Ukraine
>According to the OSW, Ukraine needs to recruit some 300,000 soldiers to replenish its brigades, some of which are only at 30 percent strength. Last year, it managed 200,000, a number that “proved insufficient to maintain unit strength at an adequate level” given “the scale of desertions and personnel losses,” the OSW report says. Currently, Ukraine is estimated to recruit 17,000 to 24,000 people per month, or between 204,000 and 288,000 per year.
>While it has had to increase its sign-up bonuses, Russian recruitment is estimated to have increased to a rate of about 30,000 per month –- an advantage of roughly 70-150,000 per year.
<Thousands AWOL
>Beyond the gap in recruitment figures, Ukraine’s army has a desertion problem, with tens of thousands of instances of soldiers going Absent Without Leave (AWOL) recorded per year. According to popular Ukrainian war correspondent Yuri Butusov, the Anne of Kyiv brigade, trained in France, had up to 1,700 soldiers go AWOL between March and November 2024 – a staggering figure, given that Ukraine’s average brigade strength is between 4,000 and 5,000.
>The founder of the Frontelligence Insight group says cases of forced mobilization, where Ukrainian men are taken off the street to a recruitment center, contributes to the desertion problem, with mobilized recruits often less motivated than those who volunteer. A Ukrainian commander told CNN that “the majority” of these recruits leave their positions. “They go to the positions once and if they survive, they never return. They either leave their positions, refuse to go into battle, or try to find a way to leave the army.”
<Can Ukraine Close The Gap?
>Ukraine has adopted several policies to address the recruitment and desertion issues. Soldiers who went AWOL have been allowed to avoid prosecution by voluntarily returning to their units. Tens of thousands have done so – although the numbers of those deserting are still higher.
>Despite pressure from both the Trump and Biden administrations, Ukraine has so far resisted lowering its draft age to 18 – a move that would be deeply unpopular with the public. Ukrainian men aged 25 and above can be drafted after the age was lowered from 27 in April 2024. However, the military has begun offering monthly salaries of 120,000 hryvna (about $2,900) and other financial incentives to incentivize those aged between 18 and 24 to volunteer.
>Presidential military adviser Pavlo Palysa said in April that the new program had drawn just 500 recruits in the first weeks since it was launched, and it’s unclear whether the figures have picked up since then.
>While US President Donald Trump has recently threatened increased pressure on Moscow if a cease-fire deal is not agreed to soon, analysts haven’t seen a shift in the Kremlin’s policy yet. “I do not observe any substantive change in Russian tactics toward Trump or Ukraine,” Tatyana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, said on X.Ukraine Regions That Russia Says It Has Annexed (Updated daily)
>With no indication that Putin is willing to back down or accept a cease-fire along current lines – his forces have so far failed to take much of the four Ukrainian regions Russia officially claimed to have annexed in 2022 – Ukraine will need to deal with its manpower shortage to hold the line. >>24275415 more years under the trenches KEK
slavoids deserve so much worse
>>2426559This is so funny, they are bringing Zelenskyy along…
to put him in the cuck chair while the actual heads of state negotiate.
>>2427082>“Drivers, artillerymen, and cooks” are holding the line, says Bohdan Krotevich, an officer formerly with the Azov Brigade's headquarters. “A maximum of 12 fighters hold sections 5-10 kilometers wide.”Yup
>The AFU continue to have to defend the entire 1,200-km line of contact. Although the Ukrainian Defence Forces – including police, border guards and other security functions – comprise some 800,000 personnel, most of these are fixed on tasks separate from combat operations. The available combat power of the AFU comprises less than 25% of the force. The need to defend such a broad front means that although in aggregate the force ratio between the AFU and Russian Operational Group of Forces is favourable, the actual force ratio between combat units in any given sector is between 1:2 and 1:6. This is because the Russian Operational Group of Forces does not include the security and whole support structure for the Russian Armed Forces, so a higher proportion consists of combat troops. In many sectors, the greatest challenge for the AFU is the shortage of combat troops. Although Ukraine is suffering heavy casualties, it does have reserves of manpower that can address this challenge. The biggest problems in achieving this, aside from equipment and armaments shortages, are training, personnel management and morale among troops who have been engaged in heavy fighting for three years and perceive a deteriorating tactical situation.
>[…]
>Ukrainian tactics are premised upon extending the depth of their fires and dispersing their force to avoid casualties … One brigade reported holding a 27 km-frontage with just four battalions … The low density across the unit’s frontage is partly made up for in depth, with an infantry company arrayed over 3 km of depth under a battalion in approximately 7 km of depth.
>[…]
>Tactical UAVs have significant limitations. Between 60 and 80% of Ukrainian FPVs fail to reach their target, depending on the part of the front and the skill of the operators. Of those that do strike their targets, a majority fail to destroy the target system when striking armoured vehicles. The success rate in wounding infantry is high. Furthermore, there are long periods where either EW or the weather significantly degrades UAV operations. With FPVs that are remotely piloted by radio frequency, it is also difficult to concentrate multiple drones in time and space because they can interfere with one another’s guidance systems. Despite these limitations, tactical UAVs currently account for 60–70% of damaged and destroyed Russian systems.
>[…]
>During extended discussions with Ukrainian officers on multiple axes and from multiple brigades – two of which had an exceptionally high rates of efficiency with FPVs – the officers repeatedly reiterated that they needed artillery. They emphasised that UAVs alone were inadequate and that they were most effective when used in combination with artillery.
>[…]
>One of the main reasons for such a high proportion of kills being caused by FPVs is the relative lack of artillery in Ukrainian units. A brigade responsible for defending 18 km of front noted that it had four working howitzers. 152mm- and 122mm-howitzer rounds are in very short supply
>[…]
>Tactical resupply has become a major challenge for the same reasons as medical evacuation. Ukrainian brigades report that approximately 50% of their casualties are taken in the rear from Russian FPVs, artillery and glide bombs. Rotation of troops, pushing supplies forward and recovering damaged equipment all lead to personnel moving in the open and are risky endeavoursturns out the body exchange disparity isn't exactly due to russia advancing and recovering ukrainian bodies
>[…]
>The greatest risk to the AFU in the short term is a collapse in morale among the veterans of the core brigades. Currently, morale is low. There are four primary contributing factors to this.
>[…]
>The scale of [NATO] IFV and APC production is severely limited by an over-emphasis on quality over quantityhttps://static.rusi.org/tactical-developments-third-year-russo-ukrainian-war-february-2205.pdf
>Ukraine has suffered throughout this period from a shortage of troops, with recruitment still below the level needed to maintain the force. But Russia’s ability to inflict casualties on the Armed Forces of Ukraine was not matched by an ability to take ground.
>April and early May of 2025 saw a reduction in the intensity of Russian operations, partly as a result of performative ‘ceasefires’ around Easter and Victory Day, and the redeployment of forces following the collapse of Ukrainian positions in Kursk. Russian recruitment, however, has exceeded Kremlin targets for every month of 2025. Having shuffled commanders and built-up reserves of equipment, Russia is now set to increase the tempo and scale of attacks.https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/ukraine-prepares-russian-summer-offensive >>2426761>gloves still onDo Russian imperialist bootlickers really believe this bollocks?
Russia is so weak and poor that it can't dominate Ukraine's air nor produce long range missiles at scale to rain ordnance a la strategic bombing. It's just economics.
You're correct to say that this war is a disaster for the imperialist entity. Russia will die and nations will be free
>>2427916My apologies for replacing your fantasy scenario with a slightly more realistic one
Before we continue this conversation, could you look up the term "Full Communism" for me please?
>>2427921I have, and I'm telling you those lords in your fantasy scenario don't have the skills or abilities to be feudal lords
What actually happens in the scenario you envision is a lot of former billionares suiciding in their bunkers
>>2427924The "cloud" is a marketing term for other people's servers
Who keeps those running physically?
>>2427933Right
So why wouldn't they and/or the security guards around our technology oligarchs just take over?
>>2427945Data isn't actually as useful as people think, what you want is information and intelligence
You have, an asymmetric advantage here, in that more of both information and intelligence on yourself than can ever be extracted from the data
The data collection isn't very good either, what you think, and what they want you to think is that they're tracking everybody;
What is actually going on the Algorithm now thinks you're a grandma because you looked up some fancy tea
>>2427952*in that
you have more of both information and intelligence on yourself than can ever be extracted from the data
>>2427952>they're tracking everybodyhave you been living under a rock?
>How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Didthis article is 13 years old. Data is KING
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/Data used to be worthless. They had to invent a way for data to have value. Now its sold on the market just like any other commodity. It's not the Data itself that's important per se, its the control of the flow of valuable data that is important and creates a new class that is distinct from the capitalist. Yes its distinct from Capitalism as there are neither profits nor markets
>>2427958Sure, sometimes it can be spot on
Most of the time it isn't, and remember even in this case where the algorithm was spot on, nobody in the system knew it happened until after it was reported in the news
Putting this simply, you're in a feedback loop with the algorithm which means
you are the operator, everybody else is out of the loop
Fair warning: This of course is only true if you're not under active surveillance
>>2427978What experience do you have in the tech field to make this assertion?
Nothing identifying, I'm just trying to save myself some typing by finding out what level I should be explaining this at
>>2427563how? by stating that they were going to impose sanctions, and then not imposing them?
by telling to Russia that pretty please let's go for a meeting?
>>2428091Needing to invest money into expanding production capacity is bearish, because they could go to the expense of hiring workers and opening new productions lines or even entire new factories but if the war ends before any of their investments pay off then they’re left with now surplus capacity and/or supply with suddenly no demand.
It’s why production capacity has been allowed to dwindle so much in the past 30 years, Rheinmetall was probably making fucking bank just cyclically refurbing and modernising the Leopard 2s that were produced during the late Cold War or while production was winding down with a skeleton crew.
>>2427982>>2427982Ive read ukrops drone team do have a system of points gained by killing soldiers and destroying equipment, which is used to prioritize resupply and equipment to the 'best' teams
so yeah, we have gamified warfare now, where killing, blowing up surrendering people and civilians is actively incentivized
>>2427982>>2428014cargo 200
also gore all goreposters by means of goat
>>2428121>Trump just said that that Ukraine and Russia are planing a land swapIt's clear that the land swap is as follows, as per Trump:
The US gives Russia Alaska, Russia gives some fucks.
>>2428124>gulags two million back at home for refusing mobilisation and surrendering their assets to the stateBased.
>>2428121It will mainly be about Zaporizhizhya NPP being transfered to some American Atom company, no more Russians around Sumy and Kharkov but Ukraine giving the rest of Donetsk oblast
Shortly after the Zman will drive angrily to Pokrovsk to take a selfie but will get assassinated by some American puppet
>>2428091"buy the dip"
>>2426652>no politician in Europe genuinely thinks the war in Ukraine means soon there could be Russian and possibly Chinese tanks rolling over their bordersNATO top staff probably not, however there are always nazi zealots who eat their own propaganda and get gullible people to believe in their shit. I reckon a lot of those smug academic neolibs are actually proper stupid and so are people who only consume MSM.
>knife vs gun Depends on a number of factors. Time, terrain/environment, ranged vs. close combat, strength ratios and so on and so forth. For example attacking infantry using superior in strength might easily overwhelm an artillery battery using bayonets. I hope you get my point: A MASSIVE conventional force right at the doorstep is still a massive security threat, even for the world's top nuclear power. Now my fear is that NATO staffers who are high on all the money and warmongering they get now do not consider or neglect that such a strategy must inevitably push the Russians further towards the red nuke button. Trump fortunately seems to be more aware of this danger given his recent exchange with Medvedev.
>>2428121The most difficult part of any deal and probably one of the points where this once again fails
Ukraine remains a black hole in the international system that tugs on its stability. Diplomacy continues outside of and around Ukraine as well as Europe. Russia, BRICS in general, and the US are the relations that matter. The pace of their evolution will leave this conflict behind to the loss of those who gambled everything on victory
>>2428165Based Belarusian KGB stirring up internal tensions and making Belarusian emigres look like scumbags to native Poles.
Operation депортация беженцев continues to work its magic.
>>2428308"Europe", whoever this is, wants to prevent ANY peace deal and continue the slaughter. And "Europe" doesn't even hide it anymore.
>How the Chancellor wants to prevent Trump from concluding a hasty Ukraine dealMerz and the other Europeans want to prevent Trump from concluding a hasty Ukraine deal with Putin. A last-minute virtual summit is planned for Wednesday. What might it achieve?
source: SPIEGEL
>>2428391Also the tragedy of this is because communists on leftypol care more about the Ukraine war in a deep way than gardenoids or Ukrainians due to deep historical affinity
So basically we only have each other to talk to. Lmao
>>2428391>Minor land swap is a victoryRetarded. All or nothing. Cucktin needs to take 100% of Ukraine or he is a
CUCKIf China attacked Taiwan and only took 20% and couldn't even secure the capital, everyone would regard it as a failure, including the Chinese who are not dishonest dipshits like Slavs who think 20/100 is a passing grade. Cucktin does this in Ukraine and you all celebrate? Kill yourself.
>>2428386they wont agree. even if trump agree zelensky wont and then trump gets to say its not his fault and pivot to iran. then next negotiation russia will agree to withdraw for ukr to withdraw from odessa and mykolaiv. if they still say no this pattern continues
>>2428398>couldn't even secure the capitalwhy do people think symbolic victory matter at all? ru could wipe out troops elsewhere and then force surrender of capital without physically being there. even nato generals are hoi brain, why?
>>2427571Based Take Comrade, it is very tragic and embarrassing to admit this, especially considering that I am of partially Slavic ancestry myself, but it is quite ironic that the Real Communist leaders of the USSR who launched the Russian Revolution, won the Russian Civil War, constructed the Socialist Mode of production, and defeated the Nazis in World War II, thus saving all the Slavic Nations from Genocide in Generalplan Ost, were all Non-Slavic (Lenin was of German, Swedish, Jewish, Chuvash Turkic, and Kalmyk Mongolian descent, while Stalin was an ethnic Georgian, though I do realize that the vast majority of CPSU members and Red Army soldiers were obviously ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, or Belarusians, but it seems that the Politburo skewed towards Non-Slavs), while the Khrushchevite Revisionist Social Fascist Capitalist Roaders that slowly dismantled the Socialist Mode of Production, and eventually completely dissolved the USSR, thus dooming all the Slavic Nations to the extreme Poverty and Capitalist-Imperialist exploitation they face today, with both Russia and Ukraine now being Fascist Shitholes (one Vlasovite and one Banderite) waging a dumb Border conflict with each other which has slaughtered Hundreds of Thousands of young men in the trenches for absolutely nothing but enriching the Haute Bourgeois Zionist Oligarchs that run both U$ Puppet States, were all Slavic (ie. Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev, were all either Ethnic Russians or Ukrainians, though I do understand that many Russians and Ukrainians were Anti-Revisionists who upheld the legacy of Lenin and Stalin, but it is quite damning that their was so little pushback against the Revisionist Coup), so it is really quite sad to think about what the Slavic Nations have squandered, as they could have been the Global Vanguard leading the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism in a Global USSR, instead the mostly Slavic Khrushchevite Revisionist Social Fascist Capitalist Roaders gave it all up for “pornography, jeans, and ACDC”, as you so pointedly stated Comrade, 😂🤣🤢🤮!
>>2428503There's no way Kiev isn't aware of what's happening. It's just that their firefighting brigades are in Sumy and they can't do anything about it.
Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll send Azov in out of cold, hard necessity and all that nazi scum will be turned to mulch.
>>2428492Comrade, there is nothing wrong with the fact that Lenin’s Maternal grandfather was a Jew who converted to the Russian Orthodox Church, unless you are a Nazi Anti-Semitic Retard, and Lenin was not a Slav, his Mother was of German, Swedish, and Jewish descent, and his Father was of Chuvash Turkic and Kalmyk Mongolian descent, as explained in these Wikipedia articles citing multiple Primary Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ulyanov and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Vladimir_Lenin , and their is nothing wrong with Lenin’s diverse heritage, unless you are a Retarded Russian Nationalist who is triggered by the fact that the Best Soviet leaders were not Ethnic Russians (Lenin had the diverse ancestry I just listed, while Stalin was an Ethnic Georgian), and that Lenin created the principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSRs, as Retarded Russian Nationalist Vlasovites like Putin are still butthurt by this Marxist-Leninist principle, as seen by his rants about how Lenin stole Ukraine from “Muh Mother Russia” (to be fair, I will say that Putin has a point that Ukrainians, especially the Braindead Banderite Fascists, should be much more appreciative of the fact that Lenin gave them Self-Determination in their own Ukrainian SSR, and if it wasn’t for the Bolshevik Revolution, Ukrainians probably would have been slowly Assimilated/Culturally Genocided into the Russian Nation/Ethnic group under the Russian Empire, that Lenin called a Prison House of Nations, which is obviously what the likes of the Vlasovite Fascist Putin would of wanted), 😂🤣✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
>>2428475>Acknowledges anglo/saxon imperialism>Brings no proof of Russian imperialism…
<He has no idea that the Marxist definition of imperialism is based on economy<He really thinks that the raw-resource exporting Russian economy is the same as capital-exporting USA…read the fucking book, maybe?!
>>2428377>Holy fucking shit land swaps?I still believe there's no way Putin can survive politically if he drops any of the four oblasts enshrined in the constitution.
So it probably means that tiny pocket in Sumy and whatever's been happening in Kharkov. We could be seeing another Kharkov retreat a la 2022, which is fine if the juice is worth the squeeze, but he'd better not make the same fucking mistake of trusting Ukraine too much that he made multiple times in 2022. The Banderites must visibly be leaving the four oblasts FIRST.
>>2428503Russian and Ukrainian Telegrammers were talking about an upcoming push in the Donetsk region some days back.
I
hope this isn't some way of strengthening the negotiating position for Donetsk and Luhansk while dropping everything else. :-/
>>2428800The thing here, I guess (not gonna even look for that dross, tbh) is that the FT is mad at DADDY because his approach to the tariffs is not orthodox ECON 101 and they expected the EU to stand up to DADDY and show him no appeasement, while they kept doing austerity, monetarism, deindustrialisation, dismantling of all remaining welfare protections in the really dignified way only the Europeans are capable off, without all the bluster and bravado that DADDY on the other hand loves so much. But no, in the the end Eurocucks are just that: Eurocucks. Who even is this "Gressani" guy? Is he some kind of MENSA guy, with 199 autism score? No one would have figured out earlier what he says now, absolutely no one!
>>2428814Sweet Jesus! If even him has a thumbnail with a sad face, it means UKR is getting btfo'd really bad right now. But to be fair he should have written:
>It iZ Getting WorZe>DenyZ >>2428763Armenia has voted for its national suicide re-electing this demented clown. That said, didn't he want to show his penis to the Patriarch of the Armenian Church who accused him of being a crypto-muslim, so he would have had proof he wasn't circumcised and therefore not a muslim?
And he's not president, he's prime minister.
>>2428862This is why l like territory spectacles more than boring meat grinders. I love feeding on the demoralization of my enemy.
MMMMMMMMMM.
>>2428871 (me)
I mean, I've seen reports indicating Bryansk efforts, but I haven't seen anything connecting the sudden hollowing of the Donbas to that.
>>2428909>The peace plan allegedly floated by Zelensky would freeze the front line at current positions, leaving parts of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson – along with all of Luhansk and Crimea – under Russian control, the source said.
>“The plan can only be related to the current positions held by the militaries,” the official told The Telegraph.Lmao
>>2428893>3 hours long video.to only state across ALL the video this:
>Over 150,000 Russian troops are trapped in these areas, hidden from Ukrainian drone and artillery attacks. According to soldiers on the ground, the situation is no longer simple. There is pressure from all sides. But wherever you look, there is more suffering.ah, yes, the unequivocal infallible unnamed people. kek.
literally, only two times mentioned the number of "deserted people", here I download all the subtitles to show the nonsense. no mentions of live UA map or deepstate map projects either.
>>2428594If you're not familiar with history, Central Powers
lost the war on the ground. They just signed armistices before it became undeniable.
>>2429119>premier imperialist on the continentThat's still the UK though and i'm not sure whether they are a mere US lapdog. All German mainstream politicians Right or Left end up cucking to British, Israeli and American interests even if it goes against the interests of the German bourgeoisie. Rightoids believe it's due to Germany secretely still being occupied, which might be true as well, however i reckon it might be due to bourgeois politicians working preferably for whoever comes knocking with the biggest bribes. That's where probably the Rothschild or Rockefeller families come in, because them are by far the richest and most influential haute bourgeois in the west since a long time. Israel came into existence literally as a pet project of the British Rothschild family.
>Its primarily a fight over who will get to exploit RussiaExactly. They also might fear that the Chinese are going to take it before them.
>>2429128…It's a phenomenon in no way hidden and in no way difficult to discern
It's not like you have to be a communist or super special to see a trajectory so clear.
Well, that's war for you. Supercharged propaganda and delusion.
>>2429230Honestly the NAFO (literally NAFO) vibe online feels like it has taken a lot from other recent internet hype bandwagons like cryptocurrency, NFTs and meme stocks, because like those the understanding of its followers is that they’re not lying to themselves or anyone else when generating hype, it’s that with enough hype everything they want to happen will happen.
In the same way the process for sending a cryptocurrency “to the moon” is to recruit people via memes, toxic positive and pre-emptive damage control that failure doesn’t matter because the present reality already sucks, NAFO as a movement has taken on Ukraine’s lead for hyping up their military achievements explicitly for the purpose of convincing Russian citizens and soldiers that they’re losing badly and should just give up (a standard propaganda practice in war), but NAFOids seem to treat that as though, like sending a cryptocurrency to the moon, you can just will a total Ukrainian victory into being with enough hype.
>>2429256Cannot be said with certainty right now.
Or I do not care what happens to him personally.
I am however immediately struck by the 180° turn by NATO and puppets. They've gone from "no negotiation (about territory)" to "we are ready to be reasonable now" at lightning speed. Of course you can never trust NATO or NATO-adjacent, hangers-on.
The fact is, all wars ultimately end in negotiation.
>>2429200That makes sense.
>>2429244I heard a great majority of Brits *actually* believe that they are in fact NOT Europeans but rather distinguished subjects of the British Empire (where the sun never sets). Perhaps they prefer to see Britain as the centre of said empire rather than an island located at the westernmost geography of a continent called Europe. However, the Bri'ish imperialist bourgeoisie and mighty MI6 likes to meddle in European affairs, it is said that Bri'ish imperialists never abandoned a geopolitics doctrine called "Balance of Power" (Bri'ish for "Divide & Conquer), which commands to pit other European powers against each other in order to make sure that Great Britain remains the premier imperialist power on the European continent.
>>2429254>substantial military aid and a path to NATO membership.I mean, it sounds like a non-starter.
BUT… what can Russia really do about it anyway? Even if it's put on paper that Ukraine won't get built up for another proxy war… that won't stop NATO and Russia, unlike NATO has no means for enforcing their side the deal once the hostilities are over. Once the conflict is relaxed, it becomes a great effort for either side to resume large scale military conflict. And if it doesn't, if the state is forced to keep in tension, that's still a passive drain and a win for the other side. Which unlike the RF, is a hollowed out client state with no qualms about self-preservation.
And not joining NATO? THat's performative at best,by now. That may have been a issue before having an actual war over it. But now Ukraine won't be joining NATO for the same reason Israel or Taiwan or Japan or SKorea will never join NATO. They are too useful a proxy with war in it's future. Ukraine will always be a proxy, no matter the legalese by which it is achieved.
>>2429291>Once the conflict is relaxedThe EU is going to have its work cut out for them just to stabilise the Ukrainian state in its current form, let alone rearming them up to being even MORE militarised than they were by 2022.
Again, the EU aren’t presenting this as a real offer for a deal, the only thing that works in their favour is a ceasefire but no peace agreement, because they then can fixate on trying to rearm Ukraine without needing to stabilise a peace time Ukraine as a pre-requisite.
>>2429326the "interimperiast war" shills are either magical thinking leftists or nato empire supporters pretending to be leftists to disrupt the thread and sow division.
in the case of the former they define anyone who's strong enough to resist the empire as imperialist, because imperialism means "tanks crossing border" or "big country small country". so if you have the power to resist the empire and you do so, you're an imperialist. the only genuine leftists are people who are too weak to resist and therefore always lose, but maintain their virtue in defeat and can righteously complain about getting btfo by the imperialists.
for these guys being a leftist means being pure in defeat. And a leftist world is going to emerge once the left has achieved total purity so that it will be so undeniable that the empire will turn red-faced with embarrasment and will slink away in shame, at which point the righteous will take over and there won't be war anymore.
>>2429342i never considered assad leftist, but he was a secularist who wanted to hold the country together and was better than the alternatives (as should be undeniable now). and even though he eventually lost he fought and held out for a long time, which puts him far above all the other slave-minded collaborators in the region who went after him.
>>2429343>straw manthe unipolar order led by the US is a rabidly anti-communist global order, and nato is basically an anti-communist international. The unipolar order is effectively the order of communism vanquished and forbidden. The collapse of that order will not guarantee socialism, but it will make it possible again. A stance of neutrality toward the king and his opponents is effectively just support for the continued rule of the king.
>>2429357Naive. BRICS is not an equivalent of NATO+. It's an emerging and loosely held together economic partnership, with some shared economic goals but without shared foreign or military policy, and a lot of disagreements and divisions. NATO is a military alliance with a command structure led by the global hegemon. It systematically destabilizes and overthrows other countries and wages wars collectively to advance the unipolar order.
At present the unipolar order is under strain and in a bit of a panic, losing Ukraine will be a big blow to it, but it's trying to find compensation by taking over Syria, genociding the Palestinians to create Greater Israel, taking down Iran, capturing Armenia/Azerbaijan, etc. And it will never stop until all its opponents either submit or fall and the entire globe is absorbed into the unipolar order. They may well fail, but BRICS is not remotely comparable, not yet anyway.
>>2429333The meek shall inherit the earth as JC said. Which is to say, all I read is (mildly) repurposed Christianity.
But he also said: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword."
He was a complicated man, a man of many contrasts.
>>2429386I don't have to imagine, we're living in it right now. The dollar is still the world's reserve currency, oil prices are expressed in dollars, the world financial system is organized through American made or alligned monetary institutions like the IMF and the world bank which have a stranglehold over basically all developing economies in the world, americas military monopoly is still larger than the next top 10 countries combined, largest and most advanced military in world history and has spread itself through military bases and occupations all throughout the world
Other anon already explained why that's completely different than BRICS, which is an unstable loosely alligned economic agreement between a few countries, but you just handwaved that away because you're an actual fucking retard
>>2429245I think NAFO is just a counter troll movement astroturfed and based on actual ones after 2016, as well as mythical ones like Russia. It provided clarity after 2022 that Western soft power was integral and therefore the crisis of liberal democracy has nothing to do with foreign disinformation in the media heart of the world.
But like institutions and parties trying to hold international capitalism together, it became wildly divorced from the people living in the empire. And proxies like Ukraine/Taiwan/Israel. They have a pro Western zealotry that just doesn't reflect any of the populations they want to fight geopolitical battles for
It all points to how everyone who thought issues after 2008 were a matter of opposition to liberalization of the world has egg on their face. They're carrying water for a historical force reduced to eroding barriers to global capital, which has stake in anymore due to middle class decline at home and reactionary wars abroad. Why would younger generations of Westerners or modern Russia/China continue to support globalization as it unfolded after the cold war? Old bargains and compromises are failing
>>2429412We are in an interregnum. Insert gramsci quote. Gutierrez captured it well
>Nor do we have a unipolar world. We are moving to a multipolar world, but we are not there yet. We are in a purgatory of polarityhttps://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/united-nations-reform-biden-guterres-unga-speech-09242024115205.htmlFrom the perspective of the US and realists, who care about security, we live in a multipolar world. This means balance of power returned. But from a political economy perspective like ours the world remains unipolar. There's no basis for the international system except global capital, which is concentrated in a few advanced countries. In the rest of the world, the bourgeoisie is weak and nations rely heavily on state power and/or foreign capital. However, they have a growing share of world population and GDP thanks to the historic flow of capital from advanced countries
>>2429412retired US General Mark Milley is not the US. Some people in the US might say things like this, others wouldn't. Biden started talking about "an inflection point" (iow, his people were talking about that), which means the US establishment believes the unipolar order is under serious challenge right now, but I don't believe they think it's lost. They are working hard to reassert it. The two big hurdles are Russia and China, and they're unsure what to do. Some want to keep going hard at Russia in Ukraine and think eventually Russia's economy and political system could crack. Some think they should move on from Russia and pivot to China (come back to Russia later). But they are also trying to reassert in the Middle East and elsewhere, and having some success. And the challengers also have their difficulties. If the US succeeds in taking out Iran that would be a big blow. And it's trying hard to figure out ways to tank the economies of any disobedient actors.
As other anon said, the US still has global advantages over its challengers, there's not parity yet. The unipolar order is in crisis at the moment but it's not out nor given up.
>>2429438>fighting to preserve Socialismthat was the crime that needed to be punished/extinguished. no remnant of socialism can be allowed to survive in europe (or ultimately anywhere else either).
that is what US/NATO does, everywhere, always. It isn't what Russia does. It isn't what China does. The 'inter-imperialist' both-siders who can't see that can fuck right off.
>>2429475Spring 2022: optimism era
Summer 2022: fizzle era
Autumn 2022: doomer arc
Winter 2022-Spring 2023: Wagnercore/Buck moot is Stalin
Summer 2023: the Great Counteroinkfensyiv and the End of Prighonvelion
Autumn 2023: /ukraine/ goes global
Winter 2023-Spring 2024: Avdeevka is Stalin and the great breakthroughs that never were
Summer 2024: Stalemate Core
Autumn 2024-Winter 2025: Kursk 2: Electric Boogaloo, or North Korea nukes the Nazis
Spring 2025: Armchair invasion and le interimperialist war
Will Autumn 2025 be the end of 2014?
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