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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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>>2489747>Imagine sitting there reading russian news all day and going online to gloat about random accidents happening.they have like a year or so, saying that everything weird happening in Russia, even up to Kamchatka, it's their doing.
they can't hold the front line, but they can miraculously
travel all the way until the other side of the globe and do something.
>>2489941>honestly didnt know what i expected coming back to this threadthey'll always be here, they'll always love to get exposed as intellectual frauds. they have a masochist compulsion to get publicly humiliated, this thread is their masochist soirée masquée and "Anonymous" is just their masque domino. we are the cagoule wearers, lashing our martinet and cat-o’-nine-tails to their insidious backs, as their moan for more humiliation with each scarring scourge.
either enjoy the party, or get nauseated, but this is the closest we'll be to the elite-snob gathering.
>>2489993I'm TIRED of all these fake red lines and blue lines, fam. I just want someone, ANYONE, to DO something. FFS.
I sit here wasting my whole day tracking Xitter/Telegram accounts, flight monitors, NOTAM reports, camera feeds, etc.
>>2490007Russia is absolutely imperialist, it's just her bourgeoisie is also entirely dependant on importing capital from the west and sanctions causing a pivot towards developing indigenous industries funded by investments from the Russian taxpayer is a court martial offence as far as the Russian bourgeoisie are concerned.
>>2489828Also by this stage, there's nothing happening in Russia that isn't also happening in the garden. There was a scandal in the UK last year because it was discovered that schools built in the 1970s were built with cheap subpar concrete and it was allegedly corruption that caused this and many schools were either at risk of collapsing or already had.
It's just the UK is in the garden, so it's just a whoopsie fucky wucky mistake, should that be taken as evidence that our country is as corrupt as any other recipient of IMF loans? No sir!
>>2489926if you listen to "rabid russian chauvinists" you only have yourself to blame
>>2490032>Russia is absolutely imperialist<it just isnt imperialist by any marxist metriclol
https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-ukrainian-ambassador-to-poland
<The combination of many Ukrainians remaining adherents of Bandera’s ideology, their ultra-nationalists’ claims to parts of Poland, and their Ambassador to Poland’s confirmation that his co-ethnics don’t want to assimilate understandably constitute a latent national security threat to Poland.
>Polish-Ukrainian relations have been increasingly strained over the past few years due to the former grain dispute, the ongoing Volhynia Genocide dispute, and the influx of Ukrainian refugees into Poland. It’s this last element that’s arguably the most sensitive since it’s become a part of daily life for most Poles. Not only do a growing number of them object to state benefits being provided to this community, but they’re also displeased with many of them refusing to assimilate into Polish society.
>Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasily Bodnar inadvertently made matters much worse in a recent Facebook post where he confirmed that his co-ethnics don’t want to assimilate. The context concerns the state’s decision over the summer to allow Ukrainian to be taught as the second foreign language in schools if parents request it, the human resources are available, and the school gives its approval. Some Poles are concerned that this move will exacerbate existing societal divisions if implemented at scale.
>Bodnar was responding to these concerns, referencing the abovementioned law and Ukrainian refugees’ contribution to the Polish economy among other points, when he misguidedly added that “We want to help our children preserve our identity, contribute to their return home to Ukraine when the security situation allows it. We are for socialization and integration, but it is clear that we are not for assimilation. Most of our refugees are not here of their own will but because of an ongoing terrible war.”
>While also writing how “grateful” they are, the above post suggested that they’re not “grateful” enough to only learn Polish and thus fully assimilate. Post-WWII Poland became one of the world’s most homogenous societies, which was the first time in this over-millennium-old civilization-state’s history that it was almost exclusively ethnic Polish and Roman Catholic since it began incorporating East Slavs and Orthodox Christians in the late 10th century, only for this to abruptly change from 2022 onwards.
>Even though Bodnar insisted that “we have no intentions of interfering in the internal affairs of Poland”, leader of the “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” (OUN) Bogdan Chervak ominously warned last fall that “Poles are playing with fire” in response to a shitpost map of Greater Poland on social media. That scandal was analyzed here and included a warning about how Ukrainian ultra-nationalists inspired by former OUN chief Stepan Bandera might resort to terrorism to advance their own claims to Poland.
>Last month’s Bandera flag scandal in Warsaw’s largest stadium prompted President Karol Nawrocki to propose a law that would criminalize Bandera’s anti-Polish ideologywhose adherents carried out the Volhynia Genocide of over 100,000 Poles. The combination of this ideology’s continued prevalence among Ukrainians, their ultra-nationalists’ claims to parts of Poland, and Bodnar’s confirmation that his co-ethnics don’t want to assimilate understandably constitute a latent national security threat.
>Therefore, while Ukrainian can legally be taught as the second foreign language in Polish schools, Nawrocki and his allies would do well to discourage them from approving such requests on national security grounds. It would be best if the law was changed, but the ruling liberal-globalist coalition might not support such an initiative from the conservative opposition. One way or another, Poland must ensure that all Ukrainians assimilate, otherwise they might one day threaten its territorial integrity. >>2490326High quality posts invite no response at all. Fuckwits don't have the attention span to read through them, nevermind understand them.
Nice gaslight attempt, though. Everybody who ever bothered putting effort into their posts has long joined my side.
>>2490104>Was the sarcasm really that subtle?I knew it was sarcasm but only because I'm terminally online in /ukr/ and terminally familiar with your sarcasm, having sparred with you more times than I count lmao.
Kampuchea has obviously become a life-having traitor who's oblivious to what's going on here, so you're well within your rights to scrap him as your /ukr/ BFF and come sit on my lap.
>>2490325There's absolutely no reason anyone should take ChampSoc saying "Russia is absolutely imperialist" as being serious. You're on here more than I am, and you're not aware of his constant mocking of anti-campist and cucktin-poster talking points? It's literally 90% of his activity here!
Don't be surprised if you've hurt his feelings so much that he starts wearing a "PUTIN IS A CUCKOLD" T-shirt.
https://gordonhahn.com/2025/09/05/ukrainian-neofascism-war-time-developments-part-1-azov-and-part-2-right-sector/UKRAINIAN NEOFASCISM – War Time Developments: Part 1 ‘Azov’ and Part 2 ‘Right Sector’
>Neo-fascism and ultranationalism may not have been the most powerful element in Ukraine or even among Ukrainian nationalists before the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War, but they are almost certainly so now, and they are becoming increasingly powerful military-politically, culturally, and ideologically. Ukraine’s neofascists have never been satisfied with the Maidan revolt, despite their pivotal role in overthrowing the previous oligarch-dominated order, which the Maidan revolt only replaced in part. They have always looked tot he future and completion of the ‚nationalist revolution‘, as they call it. A few years ago, Dmitro Yarosh, founder and then leader or “coordinator’ of Ukraine’s neofascist Right Sector (RS) and later advisor to now fired Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, who is now Kiev’s ambassador to the UK, promised there would be a ‘second phase of the nationalist revolution’ of which the February 2014 Maidan revolt was supposedly but the first. The second phase is to sweep away the liberal and oligarchic remnants of the pre-Maidan democratic order brought into the Maidan regime, in Yarosh’s view. Yarosh recently repeated his call for the completion of the neofascist revolution on his Facebook page: “As it turned out, during the Dignity Revolution and the Russian-Ukrainian War, Ukrainian nationalists became the main factor in the Ukrainian national-liberation struggle in the 21st century… I am a Ukrainian Nationalist – sounds proud both in Ukraine and across the world. The next power after the War for Independence should be nationalist. Otherwise, we will once again be led down an unbreakable cycle of national humiliation, corruption, degeneracy, moral degradation, economic decline, inferiority and defeat… Therefore, after the War for Independence, the wise, courageous and noble should rule in Ukraine. Glory to the Nation!”
>Similar views are held by Ukraine’s many other ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist groups and their leaders, and they have been waiting for the moment to complete their revolution. The catastrophe of the war, its outcome, and consequences are bringing their dream ever closer to reality. These factors alone could assist the neo-fascist’s rise to power, even if only temporarily. >>2490509>It's literally 90% of his activity here!This.
Ah thread, I think this parasocial relationship isn't working out and we need to start seeing other threads, because…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTcu7MCtuTs&list=RDzTcu7MCtuTs&start_radio=1 >>2490775The trukes
>Russia didn't have a problem with Ukrainian Nazis and their attacks on Russian speakers until they suddenly invaded>Finland and Sweden were die hard advocates for neutrality until they suddenly did a 180 and joined NATO>European NATO states and other puppet states aren't indemnified by the American nuclear umbrella, they'd be just as aggressive towards Russia without it and Russia just as vulnerableSo ultimately the truth hydrogen bomb here is that situations don't develop, shit just suddenly happens one day and we have to assume it's all the result of cynical snap decisions.
>>2490775didn't read
here are the only relevant facts:
>ukrainians deserved being bombed by aspiring to join NATO>ukraine is backed by every single western government and transnational corporation, therefore their side losing is preferablethe motivation of the russian government is immaterial at this point
>>2490509I understand that a lot of people pick and stick with flags. Unfortunately, I do not assume every every post under a ChampSoc flag is made by the same person. Just like you shouldn't take the tank flag for granted, either.
That's what regular forums are for.
>>2490775The war was started to just take parts of Ukraine as imperial plunder, while also guaranteeing the existence of a buffer state against NATO. If the war actually went as planned, everyone would immediately recognize this and hail Putin as a genius.
But it didn't go as planned. The ruling classes are capable of making mistakes, they're human after all. So now you have the campists making up all kinds of bullshit copium about what the REAL reason for the war is, and some of them just say Ukrainians deserve the suffering with tears of rage in their eyes. Meanwhile the rest of the world is just laughing about this war, and some even profiting from it.
Ukrainian authorities, 15 of September:
>Forced evacuation has been announced from 18 settlements in the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
civilian evacuation
>The local regional military administration has addressed this call to residents of the village of Pokrovskoe and neighboring settlements: Andreevka, Bogodarovka, Bratskoye, Otradnoye, Volnoye, Vodyanoye, Gai, Dobropasovoye, Levadnoye, Novoaleksandrovka, Novoskelevatoye, Aleksandrovka, Otrishki, Pisansky, Skotovatoe, Starokasyanovskoe, Chernenkovo.
>Zelensky: "Europe and the US need to stop thinking about themselves and their future relations with Russia and start thinking more about Ukraine.
>Every day of their negotiations about what sanctions to impose costs us many lives. It is unfair."GIVAS>>2491329 (me)
vidrel
First
>At a closed meeting with Servant of the People deputies, Zelenskyy made it clear that he intends to fight to the last, but "with someone else's hands."
>MP Mazurashu, who was present at the meeting, stated this.
>According to Zelenskyy, $120 billion is needed for the war next year. Where to get half of that amount is unclear.
GIVAS
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>At the closed meeting with "Servant of the People" members, Zelensky stated that he will not surrender Donbas to Russia and is confident of a Ukrainian Armed Forces victory.
>MP Zheleznyak stated this.
>Zelenskyy is confident that Russia wants to retake Donbas within three months.
>The president said he will not give them anything and, overall, everything is going well for them—in short, the enemy will be defeated, Zheleznyak recounts.
>Zelensky also mentioned that there are constant complaints about him being made to Western embassies, which then relay these grievances back to him.
>The United States and Ukraine have each contributed $75 million to the Recovery Investment Fund, created as part of the resource deal between the countries, Prime Minister Svyridenko announced.
>The United States is represented by the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).
>Projects in energy, infrastructure, and critical minerals will be considered first.
>The first three projects are planned for implementation by the end of 2026.>>2491341 (me)
unrelated founds, just in case.
>inb4 the funds disappear magically >Webcam model wins tender for anti-drone nets for Kherson.
On Prozorro, it has been published that Kherson OVA purchased 317 thousand m² of nets from Nataliya Borshevich for 6.3 million UAH.
>Before Nataliya Borshevich became a famous net producer, she was engaged in the production and distribution of pornography, as qualified by the local police.
>Head of the military administration appointed by Zelenskyy, Oleksandr Prokudin. The Cyber Police and SBU, controlled by Zelenskyy, took Borshevich under their wing, threatening her with criminal cases.
>The SBU, prosecutor's office, and cyber police have their own network of porn models and their pages.
>Now, through these girls, they are stealing money intended for the army.
>>2491400 (me)
Speaking about Yushchenko:
>Former Ukrainian President Yushchenko called for an offensive on Moscow.
>Someone says, "Go [storm] the village of Mykhailivs'koye [in the Sumy region]." And I say, "Is that it? You're leaving the biggest problem for your children and grandchildren. [March] on Moscow!" Yushchenko said.this was the chvd who gained power through a coup, and declared bandera the national hero of ukraine.
>>2491465would it be the same person that got his mind broken by the nazis killing a Russian communist defector and getting rewarded by zelya?
I've never seen someone rambling so much after that
KEK >>2491545well, you can participate.
>>2491524go to the matrix, and ask them.
>>2491550I'm convinced that Ukraine is behind anything drone-related and that the only purpose of the seething about the slightly off course Russian planes was to sell the drone shit more plausibly (or maybe it was simply overly reactive paranoia on Estonia's part based on the Ukrainian drone shit).
Something is happening with those drones electronically. Belarus says it's been reporting this.
>>2491555 (me)
This appears to have started around the time of that drone flying into the Kiev government building some weeks back. Ukraine tried a full-court press of whining over that but didn't receive much interest.
>>2491612It's also completely in line with Ukraine's past actions.
Przewodów, Poland, 2022: two people killed by a "Russian missile." Ukraine blamed Russia. Poland's own investigation revealed it was a Ukrainian defense missile.
>>2491612>Or you know since it's completely in line with Russia's past actions and hybrid warfare to do this kind of stuff and deny itlike the Nord Stream I & II pipelines sabotages or the ruZZhia missile that landed in house in Poland?
gooby, pls.
>>2491612Anyone who unironically uses “hybrid warfare” is not worth talking to. That has been the default mode of warfare for over a century and can be argued to have occurred thousands of years ago. The whole Cold War was “hybrid warfare”. The popularisation of the term itself is “hybrid warfare” done to promote the idea that the Russians are tricky and sneaky and using media influence and political operations unlike the Democratic West.
I hope Trump goes mask off like he did with the Department of War and brings back a propaganda agency so dumb libs can’t try and pretend the West doesn’t do MASKIROVKA.
>>2491550>>2491555This is most likely Europeans themselves. The polish thing might have been coordinated with Ukraine however. In general it's connected to Trump not caring about EUrope anymore. More specifically it's probably about the military aid cut to baltic states like two weeks ago.
It's in Norway too now btw. Sweden has given shoot on sights orders to it's Airforce and AA. What a load of theater.
>>2491545This war has been going on for 3.5 years, its become tiring/boring. when it first started, I thought it would end in May, then Dec., then may 2025, but here we are. But, talking about the war, it's interesting how many old stalled fronts are reactivated now, there's been a slowdown in the rate of advance, partly due to Kupyansk/Pokrovsk, once they completely fall, Slovyansk will be the last key city left onthe eastern front. By then, Ukrainian military will be vastly depleted, and Ukrainian defensive lines been mostly overcome, so I'd hope we'll see an inexorably quicker wave of advance, culminating on the siege of Kiev about 1 year from now. Hopefully, by christmas 2026, this war will be history.
>>2491925It’s actually three words.
Two More Weeks
>>2492106And? Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW were also imperialist but that didn't stop Bordiga from supporting them against the even bigger imperialists (America and the British Empire).
Truth is that every sane rational socialist figurehead has always supported the weaker bourgeoisie over the stronger bourgeoisie to weaken the system as whole.
>>2492106Pointless. The US-NATO ghoul is the sole master in this unipolar world and as such, anything and anyone who fights their interests must be supported by communists.
It is for the same reason Islamist Hamas must be supported. Not because we like Sharia, but because they are fighting the Westoid imperialists.
>>2492115do it
You’ve been threatening to do it for decades and we’re still waiting. Deal with Tel Avov first. If and when you succeed, our whores will be ready for you.
>>2492336 (le me)
Useless as in superfluous.
>>2492336Russia's economy has literally never been better aside from Soviet days. The SMO forced away the western rentiers and made sure that the economy is reliant upon real production.
By the way, the socialist organization the economy has even made quite a resurgence as a result of the RF needing to sacrifice their anti-Soviet ideology for the sake of the real need to use the most efficient means to have production. It's no coincidence that veneration for the Soviet past has never been more prominent.
>>2492237>muh taking land is imperialism.wait until you hear that the residents got Russian citizenship, indistinctively of their beliefs.
ask Iraqis, Afghanis, Libyans, and Syrians if they got any from nato, without being a gusano for the occupation forces.
>>2492369>They are building infrastructure in former ukrainian terriotoriesthe horror.
>and creating jobs and exploiting natural resources to fuel the economy.THE HORROR
>They are literally colonisingyou don't know what colonization is.
>and doing primitive accumulationso they are doing capitalism?
good. better that live under the nazi regime.
>>2492385They claimed it was due to the threat from Zapad-2025 (the Russian-Belarusian military exercise) as well as recent drone incursions, but those were such blatantly retarded lies because even before the exercise Lukashenko moved the exercise deeper into Belarus away from the border so as to not give any other country the excuse to hyperventilate, and as for the drone incursion Poland's own Ministry of Defense admitted that Belarusians gave them a heads-up when they saw drones heading over into Poland (probably because they were diverted away from Ukraine due to electronic warfare) so it was clearly not a Russian attack on Poland.
But holy fuck the Polish government is 100% retarded and all of them deserve to be shot for their constant bullshit.
>>2492384>"muh Chynah"enjoy your neolib hellscape, lib.
>inb4 I live in langley, goo-goo, for that reason neoliberalism doesn't affect me.STFU, LIB.
>>2492388the Russian government held a referendum election in 2022 to see the self-determination of those people.
>inb4 fake elections, stage elections, corrupt elections.the Russians invited all the observers of the world. NATO socialists and communists rejected the invitation, non-NATO members communists and socialists accepted the invitation:
>Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Syria, some African and Latin American statesso, "self-determination" for my balkanizing my enemies, but not to reunite my enemies, is that it?
>>2492341>imagine just 1 to 1 trying to impose Lenin's analysis literally word for word from over a hundred years ago and pretending it has any meaningful authority in the modern era of, as Hudson calls it, Superimperialism.I don't think that's even the biggest issue
Imperialism changed a lot during the lifetime of the Soviet union but it's really the spread of international capitalism to the former USSR becoming based on national division
It's incompatible not just with the structure of the region but globalization in general. There's no good reasons, besides crisis and decline, that neoliberalism should be spreading via ethnic supremacy in Ukraine. That's a problem with Europe and Ukraine after 2008, but it's refigured into an expansionist Russian conspiracy since the 90s.
>>2492483>>2492483😩😩😩
so forgivin' (picrel)
it's a shame, they have free money to ukraine, by the hundred and more of billions, but couldn't spare the Greeks mere $28billion.
>>2492483>the EU is building the productive forces WHERE IS THE PROOF YOU UYGHUR
WHERE IS IT
I'M GOING TO FUCKING RAPE YOU TO DEATH
>>2491923Thanks for CMANO (can you play as warsaw pact?), but I know for a fact I don't have autism. I just admire being in the eye of the hurricane of things. I like chaos all around me while I sit back and relax. I work when everyone doesn't and the vice versa because it's less hectic. Also when I am overloaded with information, I decide to create systems that will handle redundancies for me.
I find beauty in the ocean of mathematics and I am captain Sinbad.
>>2492526EU is not a version of USSR. EU from the get go is a scaled up version of liberal democracy, with extra tiers of removing proletarians from power.
Imagine a greek democracy - a democracy for slaveowners - but modern; a democracy of the rich who steer the state towards their collective - and private as well - capitalst goals.
>>2492612>>2492614Russia sucks so bad at geopolitics.
Is there a materialist explanation for all this? How are the alumni of soviet institutions so bad at this while western elites who never studied materialism are running circles around the russians?
>>2492615>>2492646>Russia sucks so bad at geopolitics.>we blame on Russian nationalism everything around Russia>except the neighborhoods nationalismreminder that the silly ass retarded Azerbaijani president blamed KBG infiltration on the country for everything bad happening to doubledown on their anti-Russian nationalism, and Russia had to show that his father in fact was a KGB agent.
Russia
doesn't suck at geopolitics. Russia simply doesn't have the IMF two blocks away of the Kremlin.
>>2492661>Russia feuds with Azerbaijan>somehow manages to lose Armenia to NATO influence That is particularly bad, broseph :)
Timid leadership doesn't inspire confidence.
Logic says that the entire Bundestag cannot stupefy into complete unconsciousness and methodically kill its economy, led by the chancellor.
But if you look at the details, everything is very logical, although sad.
it turned out that the system of selection and motives [ of the Bundestag] is much more cynical and rational than it seems from the outside.
1. The majority of deputies do not read or write laws — they are written by party headquarters and factional "assistants", and those, in turn, copy the text sent by lobbyists in 70% of cases.:
- energy concerns (RWE, E.ON) for the stages of the "green transition";
- large car brands and suppliers of "green" components (Siemens Energy, Nordex) for subsidies;
- agricultural associations for "bio" quotas;
- defense holdings — for the Zeitenwende Funds, the legacy of Olaf's Liver Sausage.
Amendments that have not passed through this filter are not even submitted to the plenary hall.
2. The mechanism of "control committees" — parliament can almost not repeal a law that has already entered into force if it is related to EU obligations or a coalition agreement (clause on "Europarechtsfreundlichkeit"). Therefore, voting turns into a ritual: there is no alternative, and responsibility is "blurred" between 3-4 parties.
3. Personal motivation
The average salary of a deputy is 10.2 thousand euros per month, plus non-tax "parliamentary" allowances.;
The mandate guarantees a seat on the supervisory boards (Deutsche Bahn, KfW, legacy banks) after leaving politics - from 30 to 150 thousand euros per annum for "party loyalty";
Lobby contributions officially through "party funds" (CDU/CSU — 37 million euros in 2023, "Greens" - 18 million) are 6-8 times more than government funding.
That is, to deviate from the line is to lose your position and income for life.
4. The debt brake and the "investment fund" — an illustration of cynicism:
In 2009, the CDU/CSU and the FDP introduced the Schuldenbrem (this is a balanced budget rule established in Germany in 2009, which limits the structural deficit of the federal budget to 0.35% of GDP and limits the issuance of government bonds. It is enshrined in Articles 109 and 115 of the German Basic Law and requires governments to balance their spending primarily with income rather than loans) in order to "avoid paying for southern Europe.";
In 2020-2025, the same CDU/CSU votes for 500 billion euros of off—balance sheet funds, because the money goes to the defense industry and the infrastructure of their sponsors - Rheinmetall, Siemens, Bosch.
The fundamental difference? No, it's just that the food supply has changed, and the slogans have been adjusted to it.
5. The electorate is the last link.
The AfD and Linke are the only factions that openly voted against energy sanctions and the debt brake, but they are beyond any coalitions and beyond access to leverage. The system of a 5% barrier and a "split ticket" of voting (leader party + electoral district) does not allow economically oriented small parties to pass.
Therefore, alternatives do not reach the hall — and the Bundestag looks "monolithic" every time, although in reality it is just a well-paid "autopilot".
Bottom line: most MPs are not idiots, they are quite rational agents who are satisfied with the current flow of post-parliamentary income and lobbying bonuses. It is unprofitable for them to break the system, and the voter is deprived of the tools to remove them from the trough without reassembling the entire architecture of party financing and European obligations.
Systemic "autopilots" in the Bundestag:
Schuldenbremse ( 2009)
Energiewende-Laws (2011-2023) - oblige to close nuclear power plants and coal on schedule, regardless of gas prices and the availability of substitution.
The European Green Deal (Green Deal) - CO2 tariffs and quotas that make the German energy-intensive industry not competitive, but the way out of them is fines from Brussels
The EU sanctions Package (2014-2022) is automatically copied into German law; a refusal is equal to a violation of EU law, the procedure under Article 258 of the TFEU (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) will follow.
All these levers work without a daily vote in the Bundestag — they are sewn into the coalition agreements and the code of laws. Therefore, the chancellor already comes with a handbrake, which he cannot remove himself, even if he wants to.
Can AfD, BSW and Linke create an alliance to change the situation? But it doesn't. The option of blocking the Federal Budget and Schuldenbremse is unlikely to work due to a lack of votes (2/3 is necessary). And they will be banally outbid by TNCs, with populists it always goes away, they will banally redistribute the doses in the trough and everything will go on.
There will be a banal change of shoes in the jump.
Hence, Merz's bellicose rhetoric is understandable, it's not just geopolitics, but a classic mechanism for redistributing the trough.
He is not "fighting Russia", but is switching money flows from green energy (dominated by Siemens Energy, Nordex) to the military-industrial complex (where Rheinmetall is the No. 1 lobbyist, followed by BMW, Thyssen, Hensoldt).
Germany is dead, they haven't been told about it on TV yet.
>>2492604Why the fuck should a communist "debate" Fuentes at all?
>muh white people>muh brown peopleFunny though how refusing to debate him prompts him to spew a long tirade of insults.
>>2492743It only took… nine months.
>Gasoline linesWhere the fuck did this come from?
>>2492743well its sad for all the ukrainians and russians that are sent to the meat grinder, but at least putin wont be able to cuck
trump once again proving that the US empire geopolitical interest and actions stay mostly the same whatever the figurehead and all the spectacle shit is overrated.
>>2492782If ever he did uncuck he could demonstrate it within a few hours, just launch a nuke on Lvov.
>>2492781It's sad for the Russians that victory will take a little while longer, but the Ukrainians have had the opportunity to free to the open arms of the entire EU for so many years at this point that really any military-aged man that chooses to remain in Ukraine at this point is explicitly doing so because they don't see conscription as all that bad. They are fine with being mobilized into the fascist army. Fuck them.
>>2492799 (me)
The "ruzzian orc" and eastern horde thing is the same bullshit btw before you what about me
>>2492799???
It's only murder if it's against civilians, which soldiers aren't, and several "Cucktin" posters complain Russia refuses to fuck on civilians.
>>2492807>>2492829What people don't know is that Ukraine is being ruled by a small gang that is enormously corrupt, operates by martial law, and like the United States has no relationship with the needs of the people of Ukraine or public opinion, which wants to overwhelmingly stop the war.
The NATO gangsters want the war to continue by supplying Ukraine instead of coming up with a resolution or truce.
Zelensky's messed up.
>>2492807So what's the "anti-Cucktin" response here? Does 200,000 dead Russians mean nothing to you?
This war could've genuinely been over in a week if Russia did decapitation strikes and assassinated the ruling capitalists of Ukraine.
Instead they decided to sacrifice thousands of proles…for what exactly????
>>2492850>which wants to overwhelmingly stop the war.By defeating and repelling nazi invaders or surrendering and accepting genocide?
Every self-respecting Ukrainian wants the war to end and for the Ukrainian people to be free from Muscovite nazi terror.
>>2492728yeah. specially after Goergia.
>>2492743good. kirill dmitriev deserves to get prighozin'd for displaying so many shameful displays of nosebrowing for nothing.
>>2492884By all accounts, Russia should not be trusted. But Zelensky's messed up by not agreeing to let NATO in.
The reality is that you supported this genocide. It's not about defending it anymore. All is lost, and Russia got what it wanted because the U.S. tricked them into a war they didn't want to begin with.
>>2492873refutations: none.
>>2492879You mean, the leaders of the successors to the CPSU? Oh they're just "radlibs" because they don't support NATO arming Ukraine! They're "radlibs" because they're proud of their civilizational history. Famously, the Soviets hated Russian history and Russian culture.
>>2492934Putin expected it to be a quick operation. Hence the whole special military operation name. But it seems Russia historically does not do well in small focused swift operations. They are however masters at long, drawn out large scale warfare.
So all in all, Russia stronk
>>2492934>why would you invade Ukraine if that wasn't your goal?Russia was forced to invade Ukraine because the U.S promised Ukrainian entry to NATO. Russia did not want U.S military presence in their door step.
In other words no ever trust the U.S
>>2492972Russia's objective was never to occupy all of Ukraine. Therefore, they continued to play defense. Relocating to a specific location, Ukraine would advance, and then Russia would relentlessly bombard it.
And yes, Russia did offer Zelenkys a chance to stand done was pressured to play ball with the U.S big fucking mistake.
>>2492941The only reason I support the Retarded Monke Up in the Kremlin is because we live in a fully Yankee cucked world.
But man, that retard makes it so unnerving… An imbecilic Cuck par excellence
>>2492939They didn't lose WWI because of a lack of fight, they were sabotaged by the incompetence of liberals failing to establish a functional government. Thus the Bolsheviks had to take charge in order to resume a functional state, and they would try to defend the Russian lands against German encroachment even though the position was doomed to large extent from the Kerensky "administration". This is why the patriots of WWI like Brusilov joined the Red Army. Brusilov was literally the hero of the Brusilov Offensive btw.
Nowadays those liberals are firmly out of power, the government is steady and is infused with proper patriotism. There's no risk of some Provisional Government-style failure to have a proper administration of the state.
>>2492997 maybe the intent was not to offer a chance to Ukraine itself
No, actually, Russia did offer a meeting with Zelensky several times, all denied. NATO offered full support, and Zelensky's team told him to take that deal. He fucked up.
Congratulations, you keep lying to yourself.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-06/the-story-behind-2022s-secret-ukraine-russia-peace-negotiations >>2492934/tinfoil vibes
I think that Russia underestimated NATO's will to do the large scale land war thing. From april2022 and the negotiations onwards, they were surprised though not entirely unprepared to actually commit to such big war. I think they may have expected the confrontation with NATO to be less close and less intense, spread over MENA and Africa and Ukraine rather than mostly betting all on Ukraine then and there. By the time the RF invaded Russia and China had been preparing for years for the eventual new cold war in the open.
But otherwise, they are in class solidarity with the other burgeois since they intend to benefit from the receding US hegemony, as liberals. And since they cannot control the escalation, they went for overextending the EU from the intended result of being vassals while undermining control of their neocolonies in Africa for the RF.
Either way, if you ask me, this could have ended very quickly with a few precision strikes into NATO assets inside Ukraine, using the good stuff, and still saved millions of lives and misery for just about anyone who isn't bourgeois. Then the tables would be reversed and it would be on NATO to further escalate and intervene directly.
>>2493040Ideal for EU/Nato/brussels and little doggies in the baltics is a forever low boiling conflict that also keeps US in Europe. That way they don't have to do anything, they can justify every euro spent and every expansion of their power and control and kill every opposition to them by saying it's Putin propaganda.
In Brussels or in Washington they are not accepting or even recognizing that American hegemony is in decline. For US the goal is China, despite the dems saying that they can do Russia the same time or agitate doing Russia first to get to China. In Brussels it's wish to stay or return to maybe not to the 90s but to a pre Trumpian era where US is and staying in Europe to keep their shit together and giving them legitimacy and giving money and secure good paying jobs to all the retarded liberal intelligentsia that has infested the leadership positions throughout the whole continent. You must understand that while these people in Brussels like to think they are smart, these people are not very bright and are driven by basically psychology or scared incompetent retards who lack any kinds of conviction or vision beside keeping themselves where they are. If they were any stupider they might have actually thought that they could actually win against Russia, then we would have had a war in 2022. Now it's just sailing from one "cunning plan" to the next hoping to keep themselves and zelensky afloat, the narrative in them winning and keep Trump invested in Ukraine and Europe and hope that dems win the next round of Us bourgeoisie suffle.
>>2493040>>2493048I think the biggest factor was just the ferocity of Ukrainian resistance and just shooting at Russian soldiers and blowing them up. This isn't a game. You can't fake playing a piano forever, eventually someone is going to ask you to play live and not just pretend to do it with a recording playing in the background to use an analogy to military exercises.
Another factor was Ukrainian experience from years of fighting in Donbass. A lot of Ukrainian soldiers had cycled through that relatively limited conflict so they had some experience with artillery shells flying around, but not in a way that was too dangerous. Just a month of that is worth years of rehearsals. So the Russian army that invaded the country in 2022 was not prepared, and not experienced, and there wasn't enough of them, although the Russian army did have success in the south and taking Mariupol. I would add that the Russian army of 2025 is not the same as the Russian army of 2022 because they've been in a war over that timeframe and there's learning and adaptation that takes place very rapidly.
>>2493070>I think the biggest factor was just the ferocity of Ukrainian resistance Yes and no. I'd contend it was due to the substantial funds and arms that the U.S. provided that they were able to endure this long. It's clear they are struggling since Zelensky continually returns to the U.S. for additional support. Without the U.S., they would have lost that stuff a long time ago.
You give them too much credit.
>>2493087>Wait-For-Trump Kremlintardsvs.
>Trumpf-Is-A-Russian-Asset RedditardsBoth gangs explaining away his post today lmao.
>>2492934>still being this clueless in 2025the goal was to force Ukraine to finally accept neutrality and Minsk 2, maybe with some minor adjustments in Russia's favor, but that was it. Look at the settlement Russia was offering in the first months, and the scale of forces (as Mearsheimer mentions).
Russia did underestimate Ukraine and the West, they didn't think they could be so crazy as to actually want a war to the death. They thought they'd cave and accept neutrality and Minsk 2 rather than destroy Ukraine in a total war, so Russia just needed to create some facts on the ground and make the threat of military force real.
This was the miscalculation. The West actually did want a war to the death and the cabal of usurpers in Kiev were actually crazy enough to jump off that cliff for them.
So then Russia does a long term regrouping, the partial mobilization, and then we get the attrition grind, always giving the West and Ukraine the chance to come to their senses, but they never did and never will. At this point there is probably no alternative but to take over all of Ukraine or force a regime change, but that wasn't the expectation in 2022.
>>2493090no. Ukraine doesn't have the manpower to sustain it "forever". If it's going to continue for very long it would have to expand to WW3 and bring in US-NATO, which is what the Euro-elites and Kiev want.
>>2492807I don't think this means any significant departure from their policy of fighting to the last Ukrainian, nazyfying and cannibalizing the EU's industry. Or racketeering allies with tariffs,cold war tributes or threatening to withdraw support from the NGO complex that keeps the ruling class stable.
The USA is IMO, simply validating the retarded excuse the EU is giving it's members to subsidize NATO(but mostly the USA) militarily. Another :
<WE HAVE BEEN ABANDONED BY THE AMERICANS REEEE (while the troops and joint military projects are increasing)<ANOTHER TRILLION € TO THE AMERICANS<WE MUST MAN THE BARRICADES THE AMERICANS ARE LEAVING! <ASIA HUNGERS! LEARN RUSSIAN! LEARN CHINESE! PACK YOUR EMERGENCY BACKPACKS!! AIR RAID DRILL!!! WAR WAR WAR And so on
>>2493170 (me)
The EU will
cunningly suck Trump's dick, sternly defeat his migrant narrative with "western values" or whatever.
And then they'll convene a meeting, approve another century of US vassalage. Approve another round of self sanctioning to keep the local burgeois interests from being incentivized contrary to the USA's interests and compromise to train every proxy warrior and join every proxy war and forever back each other's regimes while building up a fascist international the way one builds a suicide vest.
Then tweets will continue to be tweets
>>2493212Technically it's an IRBM/MRBM.
It's also never gonna be used again.
>>2493007One of the reasons why Russia failed to oppose German imperialism overall in WWI was because of the Bolsheviks forcing a Dual Power situation where the Duma couldn't exercise the necessary authority considering it was a war situation.
Lenin showed that he lacked patriotism for Russia when she was most in need. Thankfully he wasn't in charge during the Great Patriotic War, who knows what bs he would have pulled. There's a reason why the pro-German saboteur Trotskyites, who were national-nihilists and haters of Russia, called themselves "Bolshevik-Leninists". They did indeed carry this degenerate tendency from Lenin. Stalin was the one who established a Soviet Union proud of its Russian character, a Soviet Union that acted as a defender of Russian culture and civilization as opposed to the Soviet Union destroying it.
>>2493240Lmao, did you watch that breadtube video about Civil War and came out to show *your* knowledge of the topic now?
Libs and socdems in charge of 1917-1918 Russia were fighting German imperialism and have even renamed imperial Russian army into a revolutionary Russian army, all in order to justify the continued fight against Germany
>>2493245>that breadtube video about Civil War???
Do you only know history from YouTube? You're exposing yourself more than me bruv.
>>2493255 (me)
So that's why Russia sends hundreds of thousands of proletarians to the meatgrinder while the capitalist class of Ukraine continues to eat caviar in their mansion.
Fuck all you retards who keep supporting capitalist wars. The absolute best thing you people can contribute to the communist movement is to hang yourselves.
>>2492617finally something I can agree with kirill
>Trump walks like a king because he has a royal bloodlinehe's indeed nero's lost lineage.
>>2493269Trump enjoys trying to win the favor of people who despise him. Hence why Never Trumper Republicans have done so well career-wise in his administrations. Hence why he's forever gifting Maggie Haberman at the NYT with long interviews.
The Kremlin misread was that Trump's narcissism can be managed with flattery and bootlicking. That's not how it works. It just makes Trump take ya for granted. He needed to be treated with disdain.
>>2492934>Mearsheimer says that it's absurd that Russia wanted to conquer Ukraine (or at least change the government) because they didn't commit enough forces, and that would be stupid, but what if it was that stupid and the Russian government way overestimated their own military strength and underestimated Ukraine?That wouldn't explain why they entered the north with a paltry amount of forces too small to occupy a large city like Kiev. Also, no matter how weak UA would've been thought, a force almost as low as 1/5 its size wouldn't sweep the country.
It makes more sense that Russian actions were a scaled up form of its behavior in other frozen conflicts, like 2008 Georgia. In this case, it didn't underestimate Ukraine so much as the West and how much decline was forcing it into confrontation with China and Russia, which threaten the energy and manufacturing base for the West's financialized, consumption driven economic bubble. Without it, no middle class and therefore no liberal hegemony. Polarization of left and right in the West as globalization presented issues was a sign of the end of democratic peace and incoming imperialist war.
>>2493293I like how you blame the West for Russian retardation. Of course the West is going to support Ukraine from an invasion of Russonazis. Russia would do the same if Poland invaded Belarus. They didn't do it out of "decline and desperation". And the polarization of left and right is just internal meme politics to divide the working class. All of your analyses are total dogshit.
And I like how at the end you basically admit that all this is part of the imperialist wars related to capitalist competition, but one-sidedly claim it's only the West that wants to fight this, as if Russia didn't start it.
>>2493302Russia didn't start it. Russia has inherited oil and gas trade with Europe from USSR. Back then in the 90s, trade went through pipelines through former Soviet bloc countries; after decades of rampant russophobia, Russia was forced to go around Poland; then Ukraine; by 2020, Russia was pumping gas and oil underneath the seas, because no amount of Russia cuckolding itself to appease Poland and Ukraine were they ever interested in a compromise
Historical perspective cleanly shows that Russia isn't the aggressor here
>>2493305Is trade some kind of inalienable human right? Is stopping trade with a country and act of aggression? One that deserves invasion and the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the displacement of millions?
Why do you people even pretend to be commies at this point.
>>2493280>Trump enjoys trying to win the favor of people who despise himno, he does love bronwnosers. the reason john bolton got raided by the FBI, or put in high ranking positions people that questioned the russiagate hoax since 2016 and onwards, like tulsi or rfk jr.
>the Kremlin misread was that Trump's narcissism can be managed with flattery and bootlicking.kirill isn't the Kremlin. I assume it was a nuanced team to see what sticked to the wall.
>He needed to be treated with disdain.not sure about that.
he knows he can't touch the structure of the state against his own and his buddies interests, but I don't think he personally like hillary or obama.
>>2493333Post that reads like it came from Axel Spring
>Europe has much incentive to invest in renewable energy to reduce reliance on Russia's natural gas reservesThe EU itself is cucking itself and became uncompetitive due the switch to "western" gas, you are unironically buying into their own propaganda. Hint from a yuroid: it's not true lol
>>2493333It's worse but there is some chance. Even if there is demand for oil in the future, Russia doesn't have a lot left to last them the rest of the century. Well not a lot left which is profitable to extract.
Estimates of Russian reserves are about 20-30 years. 20 if they maintain their elevated wartime pumping. And most of these reserves are the low hanging fruit of reserves which are cheap to drill oil from at about $10-20 per barrel depending on the season.
Other reserves Russia has can be up to $40-50 per barrel making profit margins much tighter but still viable.
It's believed that all the easy cheap exploitable reserves are discovered and quickly on their way to being exhausted. Any new ones found in the coming decades will be of the more expensive variety.
It's not the end of the world if Russia's cheap oil runs out. It's obviously good to have energy reserves than not to have them even if it's expensive. But it won't be a big revenue generator for the government budget 3 decades from now and that is a major strategic concern.
>>2493400The whole "le multipolar world will bring peace and happiness" narrative is rapidly breaking down. Great, the non-Westerns finally have some freedom to do stuff. What do they do? Iran and it's proxies launch a retarded suicidal attack. Russia starts and botches a dumbass invasion. Venezuela makes noises about invading Guyana which brings Guyana, and it's massive oil reserves, into US hands. China invades India and ends any possibility of BRICS being a meaningful thing. Mexico puts tariffs on China. SK and Arabs pay tribute to USA and reaffirm their allegiance after seeing all this shitshow.
And this is really just the first decade of multipolarity. On top of all this we have global warming, nuclear proliferation and the threat of AI on the horizon, and the le multipolar Global South only seems to make everything worse rather than provide actual stability and solutions to these world ending problems.
>>2493433 (me)
Forgot to add some things. Africa is on fire - multiple genocides, famines and civil wars going on. Thailand and Cambodia war. Right wing turn in South America. Islamic countries continue to be hostile to communism.
wow such multipolarity much Global South peace and cooperation lmao
>>2493437See this is the fundamental delusion that needs to be fixed. The loss of an Empire is not the same thing as the destruction of a nation/society. Last I checked former empires like Rome or Britain or Persians or Ottomans still have their country and society.
Americans might even end up living better lives after the end of their empire, like how British standard of living improved massively after WW2.
>>2493433>le multipolar world will bring peace and happinessit has never been the narrative, so you're simply a strawmanning retard running propaganda for nato hegemony
>Iran and it's proxies launch a retarded suicidal attackah, a straight up false israeli narrative, everything indicates hamas launched the attack on its own, precisely because it is not a proxy but simply the local government and resistance movement
>Venezuela makes noises about invading Guyana which brings Guyana, and it's massive oil reserves, into US handslove how nafoid always reverse the cause and effect to justify their imperialist narrative
>China invades India now we're straight up fan fiction territory
>ends any possibility of BRICS being a meaningful thingyou wish
>Mexico is on the border of the us and completely economically shackled to them, their possibilities are limited
>SK and Arabs pay tribute to USA so nothing changed
>reaffirm their allegiance lel nah, they're actively pursuing alternatives
>the first decade of multipolaritywe're not even in multipolarity yet, theres just movement towards it
>multipolar Global South only seems to make everything worse for the pro imperial westoid fucks like you? sure
and china are the only ones meaningfully fighting climate change
fuck off glowie
>>2493412>russia isnt imperialist thoughYeah, tell that to the Germans, Turks, Poles, Armenians, Azerbaijani, Georgians, Chinese, Finns, Hungarians, Moldovans, Czechs, Afghans, Chechens, Belarusians, and Ukrainians.
>>2493442Notice how I never actually defended Western imperialism? Criticizing A doesn't necessarily mean support of B.
>>2493446Ok then give me some examples of actually positive developments happening directly as a result of multipolarity.
Don't give me examples of GDP growth or shit like that, that's just capitalism.
>>2493455>Ok then give me some examples of actually positive developments happening directly as a result of multipolarity.Ukraine getting wrecked
Europe going broke as a result of its own stupidity
BRICS and related countries increasing cooperation and herd immunity against sanctions.
The main advantage to multipolarity will be the freedom of the world to develop without the empire's permission.
>>2493455>Ok then give me some examples of actually positive developments happening directly as a result of multipolarity. Non-power states (which is most of the world) can now make decisions in trade, defence etc with more choices. Multipolarity is confused with anti-American. No, multipolarity is against American unipolarity. But multipolarity, if successful, will have America as one of the poles. America, China, EU (independent, not as a vassal of USA), Russia, hopefully India (though unlikely), hopefully a United Africa (though unlikely) will be the big daddies of the world.
So Malaysia for example, can bilaterally make agreements with other countries regardless of a single world-power’s desire. They can align with US for agriculture, but align with China on industry, and India on national defence, if they see fit.
Multipolarity is not socialism or communism, it is just breaking up the unipolar imperialist dictatorship of Burgerland. Even pre-WW1 imperialism was not unipolar. Brits, French, Germans, Americans, Russians kept each other in check.
Multipolarity is not the end of history which brings about eternal joy under communism. Multipolarity is just breaking the Burger shackles around one’s cock.
>>2493504I don’t kink shame Putin.
Hopefully chad Xi is here to set things in order.
>>2493530>and not everything can solely be blamed on American hegemony.Unfettered western imperialism can be blamed entirely on American hegemony and that's what the thread is discussing, absolutely no reason to make the point therefore it won't cure cancer or whatever the still as yet unspecified cock cages are.
If people don't understand that domestic development (where development is the solution to most problems) is actually impossible via imported dollars because the generated profits are not theirs to reinvest, then that'll explain the devil may care attitude western leftists seem to have in just letting the US rule the world as the least evil of all who had previously attempted it, because it's pretty nice to them as civilians living on the patch of land where all the capital and resources extracted from the world are taken to.
>>2493554I'll revalidate it by pointing out China is treated by the US as the biggest threat to
their hegemony the world, despite being reminded daily on leftypol that China does absolutely nothing to even rock the boat in geopolitics, let alone use its relative regional influence to support communist movements or otherwise fuck with US geopolitical manoeuvring.
That China is not subject to American hegemony and does not experience the usually resulting chaos, is the exception that causes Americans to openly fret about the possibility of WW3 with China.
>>2493545just a bit of good faith trolling with da boys
Nothing serious
>>2493584No. During USSR's dissolution, there was an agreement between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus that nuclear arsenal remains under united - meaning Russian - control. There were also agreements on lack of trade barriers, continued industrial cooperation, etc etc. Russia wasn't the one who violated those, Ukraine did the steps to break agreements first through trying to IMMEDIATELY sell off Russia's property on, as per agreements, on it's territory. It also went to implement trade barriers, as well.
Then, when Russian officers in charge of that property have refused to sign an oath to Ukraine, Ukraine bitched hard and called for USA to punish Russia; USA took Russia's side, though.
Slightly O/T as not strictly related to Ukraine but does involve Russia.
August:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y23lvm05noSeptember:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-train-niger-army-fight-militant-groupsIs Niger cutting ties with Russia after just forming them? Maybe after realising that Russia is so tied up in Ukraine they aren't able to send troops or other support? Or are they playing both sides? If that's true, I wonder what overlap there is with Turkish and Russian foreign policy in the Sahel given their opposition in other conflicts including Ukraine, Syria, and Libya
>>2493641Enriching plutonium even for like 5 nukes takes a long time.
This war ends if either side is conventionally exhausted or it ends diplomatically. Given what people are in charge of international politics in Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Kiyyiijjv etc. a diplomatic solution seems rather unrealistic in the near future.
>>2493809America can't be put at the center of global problems but Russia caused every problem with liberal democracy
While also being weak and the 2nd strongest army in ukraine but also provoked by our weakness into invading Europe
And of course isolated in the world but in cahoots with the US president
>>2494029Yea, because it doesn't exist. The many years leading up to this war were of capitalism's expansion into a vacuum. We had unipolarity exactly because there were no imperialist divisions, just absorption of peripheral parts of the world and endless regime change wars there.
This bears little resemblance to Europe's exploding antagonisms as the continent came to absorb and become the center of the world by the end of the 19th century. The comparison to that era is their joint invasion of China in 1900. What changed, however, is the barriers to capitalism are not feudalism, they're actually not much of a social relation at all. It's just Russians existing in Ukraine. That's the great enemy of modernity, or what is left of it. Lmao
Apparently all the pictures and videos of empty petrol stations are "fake news"
https://www.kp.ru/online/news/6587574/This is sovok tier lmfao
>>2492115>after we kick out the Zionists Idk man whenever you're kicking anybody there's a 99,5% chance it's some arab neighbour and not "zionists"
Unless you're from Iran, Syria or Yemen
>>2493376>Where are the barbarians of the coming century!?!?!– Nietzsche probably
>>2493433>The whole "le multipolar world will bring peace and happiness" narrative is rapidly breaking down. Well, I think some leftists have a romantic image of the non-Western world that's inherited from the 1960s when there was a lot of Marxist-Leninists and Maoists taking part in national liberation movements to the point of it approaching a common language. I've seen those kinds attitudes out there. Maybe not here. But the reality is that most countries nowadays have just as much horrible politics as the first world / global north / garden etc. Just look at India. But I don't mean that as an indictment of BRICS or the actions of any particular government.
The other plot twist is that I think the relative strength of smaller and middling countries is growing in relative terms to other "big" non-U.S. countries. Like Turkey and… Ukraine. There are other countries too. Azerbaijan. Many countries. People only think about U.S./Russia/China/India and not the other guys. Think about the proliferation of drone technology. This is a paradox that hasn't worked out that well for stronk Russian army. Ukraine doesn't have a navy but it can manufacture small, single-use suicide drone boats and threaten Russia's coast along the Black Sea.
>>2493545>Les NationalistesM'lady…
>>2493608>Le interimperialist conflict*tips hat*
>>2493612My pride compels me to offer a warning every time this NAFO guy uses
my patented flag. I care nothing about ideological argumentation. I care about only the JUICY spectacles. I'll keep you all updated.
>>2493142>War is the use of military force to achieve poltiical objectives (politics by other means). Objectives vary and a lot of wars don't end in total defeat / national extinction for one or other side. Many end in negotiated settlements, which is what Russia was initially after.The "other means" includes violence which involves killing. But not only that. I just need to emphasize this because the Russian government attempted to do that to Ukraine by sending its army into the country and launching missiles at Ukrainian targets and engaging in pre-sighted artillery bombardments of Ukrainian positions, which kills people. It might seem crazy that those Ukrainians would shoot back because the choice is to capitulate and surrender or die (and it is crazy) but it's not surprising. If you were surprised, you underestimated them. It's okay. I did too.
I think Putin should negotiate BTW because the most important thing is to end the war so people stop dying.
Speaking of drones again, I saw this video of a drone attack on a Russian position (and people die in it), and I'm not sure how it's possible to continue the war other than as a statemate when this kind of thing is going on and no real simple counter for it as has been invented yet. It's like the introduction of the machine gun in World War I, and it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. I can see small groups taking a position, but the Ukrainians claim they can make 2-3 million of these things per year now. Not sure what the numbers are on the Russian side but I'm sure it's considerable. Is anyone here going to run out there and try to push a position with these things flying around? For most people, it's because they don't have a choice and they're under orders to do it by other men with guns, but it just looks like certain death. Apparently vehicles cannot even get within 20-30 kilometers of the front line on EITHER side because they just get blown up. Nothing can move in that environment, and you don't move any faster when you're loaded down with equipment including a heavy piece of jamming equipment in a backpack that doesn't work 100% of the time.
>>2494207>Renewed great power competition and third world development simply create conditions more conducive to revolution precisely because its LESS stable than a unipolar world.Well, I have to say this interpretation of the theory seems to be bearing out. But maybe we haven't had enough war yet, and we need some more of it, and BIGGER ones.
>>2494244>eventually Putin is going to have to make the tough call to eliminate the Zelensky regime.Well we'll see what happens.
>>2494245>"Drones are like that other historical development of weapon technology that ended all wars forever"It's similar. The machine gun concentrated firepower so much that armies could annihilate frontal assaults without much trouble which strengthened the defender in battle. That's why front lines stalemated, and it wasn't until the invention of the tank and combined arms (aircraft) that worked together could achieve offensive breakthroughs in World War II. But then people come up with new tricks, like the Soviet army at the Battle of Kursk in 1943 which constructed a deep defense with lots of mines and anti-tank guns to defeat the German tank attack.
A similar thing happened with the introduction of the English longbow in the Middle Ages which ended badly for French knights. Then knights stopped recklessly charging forward on horseback after that and switched up their tactics. It didn't end wars but advances in technology change the form of warfare. I think we're seeing something like happen in Ukraine because there are so many drones that it's very difficult to maneuver. And both sides are trying to come up new tactics to counter this (and this is inevitable), but nobody has quite figured it out yet, so that's why we're here. But if you want Putin to make all these "tough calls," you can do that, but you're asking a lot of soldiers to throw themselves out there. There are physical limits to what the human body is capable of doing especially when stacked up against swarms of exploding robots.
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>>2494272And so happened with MANPADs and MPATS and smart artillery munitions. And drone surveillance and bombing. As well as all manner of new forms of artillery and radars and decoys and guidance systems.
And as we know today, nobody uses aircraft, armored land vehicles, infantry, conventional artillery or trenches anymore. As they are totally outclassed by the concept of those other technologies existing. And no landmines either. I mean, submarines? Boats? Fucko there are unstoppable weapons which could destroy all of them while a shit eating grinning operator controls them from their safe bunker with an X-Box controller. Nobody has navies anymore!
Actually, war? Completely useless, anybody could just nuke the opposition! Gone, no wars. Nobody does warfare anymore.
It is known.
>>2494272>Russia started it>Putin should accept a frozen conflict because people are dying!>it's a stalemateyou are such an obtuse uygha. and you sound like trump.
>omg we have to stop this bc people are dying.First of all you nafoid nazi fuck, Ukraine was killing people in Donbas. They were violating the Minsk accords, UNSC resolutions and killing people, and they were only escalating and were never going to stop. Ukraine "started it".
And you don't think Putin should negotiate. He has, the whole time. What you think is that he should capitulate to Ukraine because you are a nafoid nazi fuck who wants Ukraine to "win".
Instead of that, you should go fuck yourself.
>>2494350Interpretation?
Is Cucktin advancing or stalling?
>>2494355Cucktin is back in Russia limping and shaking in a palace surrounded by the only working air defences in the country.
Ru proles are advancing in Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts while Ukr proles are tied up in Pokrovsk.
>>2494394Why are you so pressed about the messenger nazi bootlicker?
Ru proles should organise in labour unions and go on strike. They have nothing to lose they aren't getting paid anyway.
>>2494272Tanks and combined arms (aircraft) isn’t what broke the German trench lines. It was small scale “storm trooper” tactics supported by improved mass artillery tactics. Early tanks were of limited utility, and if available in 1914 would not have stopped the trench warfare developing.
The other real defensive advantage was the steam train and telegraph/phone. Which allowed defenders to concentrate forces for a counter-attack faster then attackers could move or coordinate.
Drone warfare is symmetrical, unlike the trenches of WWI. The defenders only advantage is if they have a bunker strong enough to survive precision strikes.
>>2494561The kievan regime already had access to that technology and doesn't seem to be helping them
that much
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/russia-accuses-eu-of-intentions-to-occupy-moldova/3695890
>The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) on Tuesday accused the EU of intentions "to occupy Moldova" and deploy a NATO "task force" in Ukraine's Odesa region "to intimidate Transnistria."
>The EU and NATO are "determined to keep Moldova in line with their Russophobic policy," Russian state news agency TASS said, citing the press bureau of the SVR.
>"They plan to do this at any cost, including by introducing troops and de facto occupying the country. At this stage, a concentration of armed forces units from NATO countries is being carried out in Romania near the Moldovan borders," the agency said.
>It added that a NATO "task force" is being prepared for deployment to the Odesa region with the aim of intimidating Transnistria.
>"The first group of career military personnel from France and Britain is already in place," it said.
>Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is a breakaway state located on a narrow strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern border of Moldova with Ukraine's Odesa region.
>It is internationally recognized as part of Moldova. However, since a brief war in 1992, it has functioned as a de facto independent state with its own government, military, currency, and passport system.
>Its strategic location and the presence of a large, aging Soviet-era weapons depot make it a potential flashpoint, especially in the context of the war in Ukraine. Moldova arrests 74 over ‘Russian plan to incite mass riots’https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/moldova-elections-2025-news-p97tw7wvl
>Moldova has arrested scores of suspected saboteurs it claims were trained by Russia to provoke rioting before key elections this weekend.
>Maia Sandu, the president, accused Moscow of spending “hundreds of millions of euros to buy hundreds of thousands of votes” for pro-Russian parties ahead of the vote.
>The parliamentary election on Sunday will either accelerate Moldova’s entry to the European Union or see it forge ties with Moscow.
>Police carried out 250 raids and arrested 74 people “trained in Serbia by Russian instructors in violent tactics against police and the use of firearms”, Stanislav Secrieru, Moldova’s national security adviser, said on Monday.
>“Russia’s election meddling in Moldova is not just disinformation, cyberattacks, or vote-buying. Moscow is also training and directing violence,” he added.
>Radu Marian, an MP for Sandu’s pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), said: “The stakes are high and the Russians are throwing everything they’ve got at this election. They know Moldova could be four years away from EU membership but they want the country as a corridor to Odesa in Ukraine.”
>Polls suggest Sandu’s parliamentary majority is under threat from pro-Russian parties.
>“The PAS party needs 40 per cent of the vote to retain its majority and we are close to that according to the polls, but there is concern that many are not responding to pollsters,” Marian said.
>“People are afraid of being prosecuted for taking electoral bribes. Thirty thousand people were fined for that after the presidential election, out of a total of 140,000 who received payment, which amounts to about eight per cent of the electorate.”
>Andrian Cheptonar, a PAS MP and former Moldovan intelligence officer, said he was not surprised Russia was training Moldovans in Serbia.
>“This is an escalation after Russia trained Moldovans in Bosnia to fight the police ahead of last year’s presidential election,” he said. Sandu narrowly won that election.
>Cheptonar said the Moldovans sent to Serbia were invited to visit religious sites by an organisation tied to Ilan Shor, a Moldovan-Israeli oligarch and convicted fraudster who runs a pro-Moscow party. His party has also been linked to cash payments to voters.
>“Once they got to Serbia they were recruited for the Russian training,” said Cheptonar.
>In 2023, Moldovan security forces claimed Moscow had trained election saboteurs in Turkey.
>Igor Dodon, the former president and pro-Russian opposition leader, accused the PAS party of “intimidation” after he claimed some of the raids targeted the offices of his Socialist party. “They know they are going to lose these elections,” he said.
>On Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said the EU was backing Sandu in an attempt “to occupy Moldova” and send in Nato troops to threaten Transnistria, a strip of land on Moldova’s Ukrainian border, which claims autonomy from Moldova and allegiance to Moscow.
>Cheptonar said: “Moscow would like to see a pro-Russian government in Moldova so it can send in civilian flights ferrying people who could get into Transnistria to access the old Soviet stash of weapons there and build up local forces.”
>Authorities have tried to counter Russian online propaganda, which Marian said included 100,000 AI-generated TikTok accounts that the platform has now shut down.
>Sandu said on Monday: “People are intoxicated daily with lies.” >>2494638It is completely sensible though. Same reason the Zionists had to re-create Hebrew. An ethno-nation needs a common language.
This is similar to why there was a push in the early Soviet Union to use Esperanto instead of a national language.
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