>>2503664Or using it for domestic investment to stop the Chinese pulling ahead economically.
But like, none of that fruity elitist shit, invest in mom and pop.
>>2503664Canadian independence is unjustified. In practice they are already part of the United States.
As for Mexico, the Mexicans will not have to cross the border anymore.
MAGA is correct.
>>2503678Legions = fascist
Brigades = communist
>>2503684Labour vouchers dawg
Read Cockshott
>>2503807Based cucktin poster. I agree with you. I recently watched Thirteen Days about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Jesus Christ, I honestly felt like JFK was cucktin. Maybe russian elites also watched these movies and thought, let's help americans by not provoking them like corn lord. Still, what a fucking cuckening.
Guys, let's be real, the reason all this cuckening is happening is because russia is a fucking weak country and most of its functional, socially useful citizens are bigger treatlerites than westoids.
>>2503825 (me)
Shouldnt have mentioned russian women, because there is no such thing since women have no nationality.
>>2503825That's just the Soviet superstructure bleeding through the generations. If Russia continues to live long enough under capitalism they'll become just as bad as the Americans. Everything depends on the next generation of youth. It's been reported that they have strong socialist sympathies but if they do not succeed in pushing for a left turn Russia is screwed and Dugin and his fascist buddies get free reign.
>>2503830Nickname for Medvedev I think
>>2503828Press X to doubt. May I remind you it was Dimon who invited westerners to parade in red square 2010?
>>2503830Dmitry (Dimon) Medvedev
>>2503836I will never forgive Haz and Jackson Hinkle (less so on Jackson Hinkle because it's obvious Jackson is a pure grifter who doesn't know anything about anyone and just goes along with whatever Haz does) for platforming Dugin and trying to rehabilitate him.
If you are the leader of a movement, any movement, it doesn't matter if it's a movement as stupid as the ACP, it is YOUR responsibility to vet and do background checks on the people you ally with. Haz completely failed on this front to hold Dugin to account. Fucking Lukashenko pushed back harder against Dugin (saying that Marxism was better than anything anyone else ever came up with) than Haz ever did.
>>2503847counter counterpoint: turning yourself in is a hacky deus ex machina that moves the hacky plot towards hacky catharsis and an even hackier redempion through suffering
eastern people love their suffering
>>2503843>failedZigga, this is the same guy who PRAISED
<LaRouche<Nick Land<Dugin<HeidiggerHaz didnt fail shit. He already agreed with dugin.
>>2504015 (me)
Though I must admit he has a terribly difficult task: it's next to impossible to use social media without immediately losing all mystique. What made Rasputin so captivating was his "in the world but not of it" aura, his long absences, his few words. Hard to pull that off in the treatlerite economy.
>>2504073nta.
My wishful thinking: Dugin has no influence on the Kremlin but is hopefully within grapevine range to hear about changes in policy.
Maybe also noteworthy: "There's a war going on. Yes, the 'special military operation' is one thing, but what’s happening around us is a war. Right now, it’s at its sharpest stage, and it’s quite fateful. We need to win it for the sake of our children, our grandchildren, for their future." – Peskov
>>2504128Carl Schmitt is a staple of modern political thought. Was Marx a monarchist for praising Hegel?
>fight for regional hegemonyRussia is simply fighting for its natural regional influence. Every region needs a center of development, why should regions that have only known development under Russian tutelage have the fucking USA as their center of development? Its only natural that Russia would demand the right to act as the center of the development for lands that were historically within the Russian civilization.
>>2504128>Ah he just praised Carl Schmitt and called for Russia to fight for regional hegemony by accident I guess, those pomo are very clumsyNo, he's right. Dugin rejects all modernist ideologies, he's that reactionary. He just rehashed it for some postmodernist thing I don't understand. I suspect it's no coincidence he piggybacks on the decline of modern forces in the wake of Soviet collapse and liberal decline, coming out as some prophet of the return of traditional civilizations especially outside the west and Europe
The Chinese also read Carl Schmitt. He's an influence on international relations, believe it or not. I had to read him for my degree.
>>2504087I'm not sure I'd count on him having some insider knowledge. I've read he's a minor professor at some uni and years ago his book was read at some military academy. But this isn't why he's on the Western radar, it's because he was suspected in the hybrid warfare buzz of being a sort of Russian soft power orchestrator of a euro nationalist international. This began with the Ukraine crisis, because Dugin talked to some separatists and organized some far right European volunteers for election monitoring in Crimea. His relation to the Kremlin, events in Europe, and forces in Ukraine consistently proved fleeting though, he's not much of a driver of events or connected to those that are. More like hype man on the side, eager to see that he was right and act as a herald in his mind
Ironically, he was as wrong as libs after 2022. Libs believed Russia wanted to split Germany from the west and would clash with China, as did Dugin. The opposite happened
>>2504533britain's former mi6 chief also made a statement last week saying it was at war with russia. although it was not a conventional war, rather an unseen one via spies, drones, and cyber attacks.
it sounds like this is part of some coordinated media messaging
>>2504533Retaliation over a tanker seizure seems really extreme. That's the kind of thing that gets handled in the courts, and if they aren't willing to seize that $300b in Russian assets it seems really unlikely they're gonna go to the mat over a tanker.
There has been talk about some kind of false flag in the works, and all the recent shit with "drone incursions," gps spoofing, jets crossing into eez, etc, does seem like it's building up to it, but so much of this stuff seems like such small potatoes.
The only thing I can think of that would be not totally insane would be nato and Ukraine moving on Transnistria. With the recent, eh, "vote" in Moldova winning the nato party a win, they need to sort this breakaway region shit out. There's been rumors that UK and French forces landed in Odessa, ostensibly towards that end.
I don't know much about the politics of Moldova, but it's hard to imagine that going well if it does. It would also mean attacking the Russian troops stationed there, which might be the trip wire nato is planning to step on. I remember last year I think there was talk of Ukraine attacking Transnistria to try and seize the weapons depots there, but I couldn't tell you more than that.
>>2504553Prelude To Nuclear War: Why Trump Will Be Forced To Enter Ukraine War To Back Europe
Part 2 of my latest discussion with Jamarl Thomas 29/09/25
https://www.intellinews.com/russia-s-military-production-goes-into-surplus-403631/?source=russiaRussia's military production goes into surplus
>After more than three years of heavy investment, Russia’s military production has gone into surplus, producing more arms and ammo than it needs to perpetrate the war in Ukraine, the Kiel Institute reported.
>All the main arms categories – tanks, military vehicles, artillery, and drones – have seen production increase by almost 200% or more since the war began in 2022. Before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it had planned to deliver about 400 armoured vehicles the following year. It’s now shipping ten-times that.
>Sanctions were designed to starve the Russian budget of the means to fund its war against Ukraine, but the latest production numbers show that effort has decisively failed.
>“Russia has dramatically scaled military output since late 2022, doubling or tripling production in most categories despite sanctions. Annual figures include 1,776 main battle tanks, 6,564 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and 672 self-propelled howitzers, with monthly peaks of 150 tanks and 550 armoured vehicles. Artillery shell production reaches 10,000 daily, supported by 7% GDP defence spending (comparable to EU+UK combined in PPP terms),” the report found. “However, output has plateaued since the first quarter 2024, relying on Soviet stockpiles and allies like North Korea. By 2030, Russia could add 12-16 brigades, totalling 1.5mn active troops. Production has doubled across the board or increased even further, as in the case of tanks.”
<Arms race
>Russia has just released its latest 2026-2028 budget that keeps military spending at around 8% of GDP after Russian President Vladimir Putin put the entire economy on a war footing as soon as invasion happened over three years ago.
>Ukraine is, however, entirely dependent on external funding from its allies: it is short some $8bn-$19bn (depending on if there is a ceasefire) for 2025 and the unfunded gap in next year’s budget was just increased to $65bn by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), all of which will have to come from European partners this year, after the US sent no money to Ukraine since US President Donald Trump took office. Ukraine is standing on a financial cliff the IMF reported on September 12 and faces a possible macroeconomic collapse if its allies cannot find more money to fund its war effort.
>While Russia suffered from shortages and the lack of access to technology in the first years of the war, those problems have been solved in the meantime. Factories in Russia’s hinterland are working three shifts 24/7 to churn out the materiel that the Armed Forces of Russia (AFR) needs.
>Ukraine has also been investing heavily into its domestic defence sector with the help of Western allies under the so-called Danish model. Earlier this month Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) now sources some 60% of all it needs from its own factories, up from 40% at the start of this year. Ukraine has also become entirely self-sufficient in the production of drones, the determining factor in the war, and more recently has started making its own Flamingo cruise missiles, which could prove to be a game changer.
>However, the AFU remains under pressure as Russia is outproducing it in terms of arms and ammo to the point where it has started to restock Soviet-era stockpiles depleted by years of war. The Kremlin has a long-term plan to rebuild its military over the next decade and even if a ceasefire were called tomorrow, analysts say the Kremlin will continue its heavy spending on its military-industrial complex, in a throwback to the Cold War-era.
>And it's not just the volume of production that has improved: Russian engineers have innovated and the Kremlin’s partners have supplied it with new technology.
>At the start of the war, Russia imported thousands of Iranian-made Shahed drones, but in the meantime it has built factories to manufacture the Gerad-2 attack drones, based on Iran’s Shahed 136 design, most recently adding a jet engine to the drone to improve its speed and range. Having initially imported 140,000 drones in 2023, it made 1.5mn last year and is on course to double that number this year.
>Ukraine made an estimated 2mn drones in 2024 and plans to raise that number to 4mn this year, if it can find the funding to expand. Zelenskiy said last week that up to 60% of Ukraine’s drone production capacity is currently idle for lack of investment. There is talk of easing export controls on arms to attract investment and Kyiv is in talks with Warsaw about supplying it to create a drone wall to improve Europe’s eastern flank defences.
>At the same time a decoy drone was found on the battlefield in Ukraine that was filled with Chinese technology; previously Russian drones and missiles were entirely dependent on imported or smuggled Western chips and tech.
>In other areas like electronic warfare (EW), the advantage has swing back and forth in the drone war between Kyiv and Moscow, but Russia is believed to have the upper-hand at the moment and was also the one that introduced the idea of fibre optic-controlled drones that are impervious to EW counter measures; Ukraine initially belittled the innovation, but before widely adopting it for its own drones.
<Guns and butter
>Russia continues to spend heavily on defence, but the latest budget cuts military spending for the first time since the war began as Russia pulls ahead of Ukraine in the arms race and is devoting more money to the social sector and reconstruction of the Ukrainian regions it controls. Defence outlays between 2022 and 2024 were at least RUB22 trillion ($263bn), according to the Ministry of Finance (MinFin).
>For the first time since the war started in 2022, Russia's defence spending in 2026 will be modestly reduced, according to data cited by Reuters, from RUB13.5 trillion to RUB12.6 trillion ($153.7bn, 5.8% of GDP) from a total spend of around RUB48 trillion. Moreover, it will be slightly lower than the 2026 plans set when the previous budget was approved a year ago (RUB12.8 trillion).
>The Russian surplus means that it is also returning to the international arms market and intends to restart arms exports, previously a major earner for the Russian economy. Russian President Vladimir Putin is in active talks for sales of things like the SS-400 surface-to-air defence system with India and Russian companies are reappearing at major international arms fairs in India, China, the Middle East and Africa, reports Bloomberg. State arms exporter Rosoboronexport, which handles about 85% of foreign sales, says pent-up demand has sent its pipeline of orders to a record $60bn. Russia could export $17bn to $19bn of military kit annually in the first four years after the war in Ukraine, the Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade estimates. Nevertheless, Rosoboronexport’s order book is still only half of what the Kremlin is spending on defence.
>Putin is well aware of the dangers of overspending on the military-industrial sector and ignoring the civilian sector. In his “guns and butter” speech to the assembled heads of Russia’s six military districts he said that military investment should be directed to both parts of the economy. In a related move he appointed his top economic advisor Andrei Belousov as Defence Minister, who has no military experience whatsoever, but is a leading advisor to Putin on the management of the Russian economy. The focus is on dual-use production, which should already be possible for components in sectors such as shipbuilding, aviation, electronics, medical equipment and agriculture, according to Putin.
<Europe lagging behind
>The Kiel report compared Russia’s production to Europe’s and found it wanting. Europe's rearmament progress, while accelerated since 2022 (defence spending up to over 2% of GDP), remains inadequate for 2030 readiness. Russia's production surge outpaces Europe's in key areas, and procurement delays (averaging 3-4 years) exacerbate Europe’s vulnerabilities. Europe must procure equipment for 25-50 brigade-equivalent units to counter Russia, but reliance on US systems and bureaucratic hurdles are going to make this very difficult, the authors conclude. The €800bn EU ReArm programme may suffice in nominal terms but not at inflated wartime prices, requiring a focus on cost-effectiveness and R&D, the authors conclude.
>"We show that the situation today is even more concerning if Europe aims to be fit for war by 2030," the authors said. "Production must increase by a factor of around five to tilt the balance decisively in Europe’s favour."
>European stockpiles have declined since the Cold War, with no significant replenishment despite procurement rises, the report found.
>The current annual production lags Russia’s by a large margin: 50 tanks, 214 IFVs, and 202 howitzers, while artillery shell production will hit 1.95mn by 2027, surpassing US but still trailing Russia and its allies’ output.
>European procurement is still tied up in red tape and lack of funds. Delivery delays average 3 years, with over half of the existing orders still undated. Technological shortfalls also abound, including a lack of next-generation tanks plans or sixth-generation jets by 2045 that China, a close Russian ally, is already producing. Currently Europe is entirely dependent on imports of advanced air defence from the US. >>2504571Russia TBH should plan to import J-35s, which should be superior to older and current (but not future) F-35s, with Russian core avionics and potential integration with Indian CCAs.
Given the Chinese interest in air superiority, it's perfectly possible for Russia to gain and keep air superiority in Europe, putting NATO on the back foot; 600 J-35s for 30 billion would match NATO's F-35s, backed by Su-57 and supplemented by Su-75.
More importantly, having J-35s in service and the logistics trains to support them would allow the PLAAF to fly to Europe quickly and go to town on NATO if it comes to that.
Potentially, we can Finlandize the EU, as much as the PLA's Finlandizing China's own region.
>>2504611They ultimately broke through Iranian air defense though, no?
The deal with the J-35 is that it out-Americans the Americans, i.e, while stealth materials are likely poorer in endurance, the J-35 has better shaping and likely better frontal stealth, and if Chinese GaO radar is used, more powerful radar.
Then you have TVC and A2A design, and you have what amounts to a purpose-built F-35 killer.
I mean all of this is post-war, the Chinese won't sell unless the shit hits the fan this war, but it'll help Finlandize Europe.
Next time we do this, use drones to hold the front and aircraft and hypersonics to destroy EU infrastructure. Only 1500 km or so from Amsterdam to Moscow, hold ASML at risk.
>>2504628The problem with Ukraine is that they're dirt poor and have no infrastructure. The cost of reconstruction is going to be in the 500 billion range. Doing it to Europe, on the other hand, I can easily see 40-60 trillion.
You don't need the EU to submit, just to lose their infrastructure.
>>2504144>Carl Schmitt is a staple of modern political thought. Was Marx a monarchist for praising Hegel?Marx also despised Russia at one point because it was a reactionary imperial bulwark and supported a liberal bourgeois war against it to chase "the descendants of Slavicized Mongol Invaders" back across the Dnieper.
>>2504171>Dugin rejects all modernist ideologies, he's that reactionary. He just rehashed it for some postmodernist thing I don't understand.Well a lot of postmodernism can dovetail into reactionary thought. Like this whole idea that the Russians have some "different regime of truth" that's so mysterious or whatever.
>The Chinese also read Carl Schmitt. He's an influence on international relations, believe it or not. I had to read him for my degree. I corresponded with someone who studied under Schmitt scholars who had traveled to China for conferences on him. He had some interesting things to say about it, but the main thing is that a lot of Schmitt's work has to do with liberalism and some of the problems it has, so Chinese scholars were interested in that at a time when China was opening up and experimenting with liberalism a bit. He definitely had a "moment" there but I also think it's a bit overstated because Schmitt was a Nazi and that got some attention in the Western press, mainly The Atlantic if I recall.
>But this isn't why [Dugin is] on the Western radar, it's because he was suspected in the hybrid warfare buzz of being a sort of Russian soft power orchestrator of a euro nationalist international … More like hype man on the side, eager to see that he was right and act as a herald in his mind Yeah. I was listening to an episode of Radio War Nerd talking about him, and they described him as a self-promotional type having run into him in Russia in the 1990s showing up at weird counter-cultural art things giving talks to bored goth chicks.
>>2504659In a jammed environment? There are all sorts of countermeasures to stealth, but good luck getting a weapons grade track at actionable ranges.
And the entire point of J-35 vs F-35 is that the only thing the J-35 isn't better at than the F-35 is strike. That, and notorious belly flips while taxi-ing.
https://old.reddit.com/user/Read-Moishe-PostoneI was checking out one of the pro-Ukraine marxist posters (r/stupidpol) and he has this website pinned on his profile.
https://marxisthumanistinitiative.orgA few searches later, behind the walls of theory, turns out that they supported the "revolutions" in Syria, Lybia, Ukraine, while tokenly denouncing the western intervention in otherwise progressive democratic revolutions. They also validate pretty much every other point of the USSD about China, from genociding uyghurs to oppressing Taiwan and being very bad expansionist imperialists and other things that aged very badly such as COVID propaganda about China's terrible terrible lockdowns (what impeded the Shanghai port traffic, the selfish asians!).
Onviously Hezbollah is just a terrible terroristic influence on the otherwise progressive government of Lebanon. Russia's imperialism is just the worsest thing since the Nazis.
THey even have an episode(
https://marxisthumanistinitiative.org/episode-139-the-israel-hamas-war-and-national-self-determination) I stumbled upon of their hilariously named podcast (picrel) what denounces aligning at all with Hamas or other resistance factions in the name of never aligning with any "bourgeois faction". And so the quickest path to peace is for Hamas to be deposed.
This was back in June when the Zionist media was touting the "anti Hamas protests" and so it tracks it was a major propaganda point for NATOids at the time. Before Israel dropping the point entirely and buying themselves in local mercenaries collaborators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_Strip_anti-Hamas_protests It seems like you can search for any conflict caused by NATO and they'll be taking NATO's side "from the left" or at least gatekeeping the left's opposition to nATO's policy, by minimizing it's participation and denouncing some manner or another of campism or "tankies" or "authoritarians" as the reason one may not be totally on board with, say, the civil wars in Libya and Syria. Or pointing out NATO's pervasive meddling as, if not the origin, the main reason for the resulting escalation and general destruction of entire states.
I may have stumbled onto an actual glowie op wtf
>>2504703>>2504701As in, USA could maybe strike a couple of cities and lose all their bombers in the process. We've seen how USA stopped bombing North Vietnam after a couple of bombing runs because of unmaintainable losses; flying over much better defended USSR would have been literally defanging for USA's airforce
So no, lack of hits on Washington was entirely due to Stalin's benevolence
>>2504711>>2504710>Contrary to common belief, the Hungarian uprising of October 1956 was not anti-communist in nature. It started out as a reformist movement. As shown by the sixteen demands of leading revolutionaries, and the spontaneous setting up of workers’ councils, it was a rallying cry against the perversion of communist thought by Stalinist ideas, with many of its participants calling for the establishment of a democratic socialist government. Brutally crushed a few weeks later by an invading Soviet-backed army, the hopes for a ‘socialism with a human face’ were put to an end in the Eastern Bloc for the first time.Oh fuck ahahaha it's one of those "i'm from eastern europe so i know the horrors of communism" kind of people
>In the late 1980s, both the WP and the CPI received financial support from Eastern Europe’s most brutal state-capitalist dictatorship,[3] the Soviet satellite state of the German Democratic Republic.GDR - the most brutal? What the hell are they smoking lmao
>This does not seem to be the case for our movement today. In fact, the observable trend is that as the youth radicalize into Marxists, the leftist student scene is increasingly being taken over by the same ideas that dominated the far left in the past century.Indeed, it is the same old shit. That's why learning history is so important to dismiss anticommunist behaviour outright
>While Cuba’s healthcare system is impressive and its local-level decision-making is community-based, its ‘democracy’ overall isn’t something to look up to.Why are they admitting that not democracy gives better results than a democracy? That's a very dangerous thing to say! People might think that they don't need bourgeois democracy at all at this rate!
>The comments under this post speak of shock and disappointment that an organization which considers itself to represent the people would turn its back on workers protesting an oppressive government. Anyone who has seen what leaders of that "worker" uprising wanted would defend Lukashenko.
Honestly, what do NAFOids picture pro-capitalist revolts as? Show me protests that have no worker participation, lmao. What next? Are those far left retards going to claim that Nazi Germany's invasion of USSR was justified and good because Nazi Germany's workers were fed up with illusions of communism in the East and were bringing to the Eeast real democracy and socialism? pffft
Russian oil product finds unexpected top buyer – NGO>Taiwan has imported nearly $5 billion worth of naphtha from the sanctioned country while supporting Ukraine, report claims<Taiwan imported 1.9 million metric tonnes of the hydrocarbon liquid between January and June, valued at $1.3 billion. Monthly volumes averaged six times higher than in the same period three years ago. Naphtha is primarily used in petrochemical and semiconductor production.https://swentr.site/business/625718-russia-taiwan-oil-exports/So narratively it makes sense why Ukraine is targeting oil facilities, but the part that is being missed out of that narrative is it being necessary because supporters of Ukraine can't help themselves when it comes to buying oil products off of Russia despite sanctions. Likewise, if they can't help themselves from buying Russian oil, are already stealing it from tankers in international waters, can they help trying to collapse Russia to get it for free? Probably not, thus demonstrating the threat NATO poses to Russia.
I can only imagine these particular attacks against Russian oil infrastructure are supported by nations that are still buying despite being pro-Ukrainian, is that making it as expensive or more so than American oil is the only way to ween the west off of dependency on Russian oil that they're not confident will fall into their hands anymore.
However, the profit motive doesn't have a brain, it's purely reactive. If Russian oil is "cheap" and cheap becomes expensive, then expensive is the new cheap and American oil is hardly going to accept their place at the bottom of the barrel next to Russia and China as a cheap source of oil, they have more than just a gas station and nukes to maintain after all.
>>2503591>le parody face of LavrovThis man unironically deserves the Nobel peace prize more than Obama, Trump, or whoms'tever third world NGO-funded third world fucker the CIA comes up with.
FACT.
>>2504858FACT: commodity production exists in Venezuela
Fire away, Chairman Trump!
>>2504870>of doing decap strikes.It hasn't won the conflict for Israel in Gaza yet, nor did it result in victory in the War on Terror.
The US and Israel do "decap strikes" on insurgency orgs because the political and military leadership are one and the same, they didn't do a decap strike on neither Saddam, Assad or Gaddafi because they're only political leaders and wiping them out in a single strike doesn't wipe out military leadership, merely the only people whose authority to negotiate a surrender exceeds that of the military itself and has concerns that likewise exceed those of the military.
"decap strikes" make sense solely in the context of nuclear warfare, because the utilisation of nooks have strategically not been made the sole concern of military leadership, authorisation for their use must first come from the political leadership with the assumption that without that swift authorisation to retaliate, the military will hesitate for long enough to allow a first strike to then destroy military leadership before retaliation can come.
"decap strikes" are retarded in the context of conventional warfare because you have to assume, for example, the US Military doesn't breathe without Trump authorising each breath, that destroying the White House and the Senate with everyone in it, the US Military would be lost without their valuable guidance and they wouldn't actually love for the only concerns in conflict to be reduced to simply their own military concerns, free from politicians listening to campaign advisers and economists questioning shit.
In conventional warfare, political leaders don't enable military leaders, they're an obstacle for the military and one with the authority to order them to stand down completely, killing all the political leaders removes that authority to order a stand down.
>>2504890well, it's mercouris, but I believe he's right about this, as he usually is when he uses his brain instead of relying on "trust me, bro" sources from russia.
trump will absolutely do decap strikes without hesitation.
>>2504917I mean, as a finance minister, he should surely know better than anyone that NATO states have infinite money while Russia has a smaller geedeepeepee than Texas, why would youths have to stop being educated to the fullest to give Ukraine the money to keep paying bus'd conscripts
as they absolutely do?
>>2504916you think they would
two three front war on purpose?
ok yeah they probably would
>>2504936>Daily reminder Russia is not fighting NATO, Yes it is
>it's fighting Ukraine (and losing). it's not
>Both sides are getting aidThey're not
>and its irrelevant anyway. It's not
>I'm seeing too much premature celebrations here don't care what you're seeing. you seem to be blind, and have your head full of shit anyway. You should consider going somewhere else.
>>2504956Do you see NATO as a partner of Russia providing earnest counsel?
Where do you see "invade" in that post?
Anyway, have fun.
>>2504936>aid They trained and equipped an army to standard from nothing then coordinated it from Europe, including in the 2023 counter offensive
I'm curious what more you exactly want lol
>>2504960ME
Victim countries = Iran, Venezuela
Partners = Russia, China
Counsel le epic restraint = Don't do anything significant to address the assassinations and strat bombing sprees
YOU
Victim country = Russia
Partner = NATO (???)
Not showing le epic restraint = invasion (only one possibility, other possibilities being reciprocal assassinations of strat bombing against significant targets such as Dimona / water desalination plants)
HTH!
>>2504986>YOUThe point is that it’s a case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
What you seem to think is that Russia and China ought to simply replace the US and NATO as the world police, rather than the world working towards doing away with a world police all together.
Which results in this bizarre take (if I’m understanding it correctly) where Russia are the bad guys for opposing NATO’s continued expansion to their own borders but are also the bad guy for not policing NATO elsewhere. The “correct” thing for Russia to have done is exhibit restraint with NATO moving nuclear capable launchers to cover more of Russia’s border, but they should have shown no restraint in moving a expeditionary force to Venezuela to deter the US from invading.
Again, if I *am* interpreting you correctly, I hope you now see the obvious flaw in your logic.
>>2504994?????
Consult the Hague criminals list - it's either African people or Slavs
>>2504993>Which results in this bizarre take (if I’m understanding it correctly) where Russia are the bad guys for opposing NATO’s continued expansion to their own borders The only way I can make sense of your logic is if you think that I, as someone who's obviously (I would think) not a fan of too much restraint (having described it so mockingly as le epic restraint), was against Russia's invasion. Then maybe
>>2504956 works as some kind of gotcha by pointing out that I'm two-faced and criticized Russia's lack of restraint. This isn't true. I wanted the invasion, and if anything, I'm disgusted that le epic restraint prevented it from happening in 2014.
>>2505001Okay then I don’t know what you’re complaining about, because you must therefore know there’s no conceivable way that Russia and China can police NATO on the global stage when both have US military assets littered around their borders while the US has nothing on its borders.
China and Russia not exhibiting le epic restraint over Venezuela is going to be complicated by the fact that’s still very much a foreign conflict for the US as is military aggression towards Russia and China on or near their respective borders, while Multipolarista intervention against US imperialism is only going to to be a foreign conflict for a few seconds before immediately reaching their own borders.
>>2505004>>2505005It seems that with this "ru nazi" and "russian fascist" poster running amok having been banned only once and the mods not responding to reports, you're too readily assuming everyone here who's mildly critical of the status quo (such as what I believe to be excessive restraint) believes nonsense like "Russia are the bad guys for opposing NATO’s continued expansion to their own borders," because I don't see how anything I've said would allow one to infer that. Hence why I often get more annoyed by the regulars than by the trolls during raids.
Anyway, I absolutely believe that Iran should have reciprocated in a proportionate manner when Israel was offing its leaders, nuclear scientists, very likely the PM, etc. And that Dimona and the desalination plants were legitimate targets when Iran had its nuclear infra attacked.
>>2505022>I just don’t buy itSo it’s more plausible to you that Russia and China convinced Iran into inaction? As my earlier post states, perhaps it’s just not a good idea against political leaders anyway, but more generally you’re just downplaying the capacity of the CIA/Mossad/BND/MI6, etc, in a unipolar world.
The reason why if I’d have understood your point from the get-go, I wouldn’t have bothered replying, is that it can only be via either consciously concern trolling or more likely the genuine disbelief that unipolarity provides the CIA and friends capabilities that any aren’t equally available to the intelligence agencies of independent states.
If that’s genuinely your opinion of the matter
>”Mossad” can orchestrate the mass procurement of pagers to install explosives into and distribute them across Gaza into the hands of their targets and detonate them without ever being discovered during that process or really made a fuss of when inevitably a bunch of civilians also get killed, so why can’t Russia’s, China’s, Iran’s, Venezuela’s own intelligence agencies?Then you catastrophically underestimate how powerful unipolarity actually is.
We do know that Putin has talks with Iran on restraint.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/16/russias-putin-urges-restraint-in-call-with-irans-raisi-as-tensions-soarWhat we don't know is what Putin understands by "reasonable restraint," but we can make some guesses given what he does (or doesn't do) when NATO attacks his soil.
>>2505031>Putin urges restraint on a phone callLmao okay then, of course Iran had to obey that request from Putin and of course none of the Imperialist states ever urge restraint over escalations of their own making.
Forget about my effort posting, that there was a phone call where Putin diplomatically asks Iran to show restraint is why Iran now just chooses to not use its equal capabilities to the collective west’s intelligence agencies to solve its conflict with Israel, just blows everything I’ve said out of the water.
>>2505086What about incognito anti-camping to make the anti-campists look dumber than they are? Cuz I refuse to believe there are sincerely stupid anti-campists who can operate on an imageboard but who respond like
Campist: Why don't you ever hate on Ukraine and NATO? Why only Russia?
Anti-Campist: Why don't you ever hate on Russia?
Campist: oO(Uh, because I'm a campist? Are the lights on upstairs?)
>>2505094 (me)
In conclusion, calling Putin a cuck makes as much sense as calling Hitler or Hirohito a cuck. They are not "cucking out", they are the ones initiating an opportunistic war of robbery and genocide. Simply starting the war in the first place is the opposite of "cuckery". The only cuck here is Zelensky for not secretly securing nukes and nuking Moscow and St Petersburg.
>>2505098 (me)
In further conclusion, I guess you can call me a Zigger, but the Z stands for Zelensky instead.
>>2505138even as an anti-Z guy i have to admit that Gaza is legitimizing Russia's war. what disturbs me more than anything is the pure hell that both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers have to go through. the frontline is reduced to something medieval and ancient. soldiers spend most of their time hiding from and evading drones. Ukrainian troops in the trenches are largely mobilized proles and ethnic Russians while the Russian assault troopers are poor ass guys down on their luck while the elite youth of both countries still go out to the nightclubs and flaunt their parents' wealth. it's disgusting and only strengthens my hatred for industrial warfare.
but the funny thing is that Israel doesn't give a single shit about Ukraine and would gladly suck up if possible all the munitions and systems that were originally intended for Kiev.
>>2505149Will the real ChampSoc please stand up
But it seems attempt #9001 at a seething at Russia alternative to /ukr/ just got deleted by the mods, which had a link to an article from the Moscow Times about striking
The Moscow Times being a primarily English-language news outlet.
>>2505131not enough info. what are they demanding? some workers are full of shit
>>2505138the USA and its allies do that stuff way more than Russia, not even close. And the death and destruction of this war are primarily their fault anyway. They had peace in the Minsk agreements and wanted war instead, so wouldn't stop attacking Donbas and provoking Russia. Then they kept escalating afterwards despite plenty of obvious off-ramps. If you want a war don't pretend to be the victim afterward or pretend only the other guy is responsible for the carnage that results. Ukraine and US-NATO wanted the carnage, they're just not happy that they're losing failed to achieve their goals.
And most western leftists don't understand geopolitics and just want free healthcare and liberal social policies. Broad leftism is also a kind of cult of losing. You're only worthy of support if you're getting btfo (like the Gazans). If you're standing up and fighting and, god forbid, winning, you're suspect and probably doing something wrong and unrighteous. To most leftsts what you're supposed to do is get completely btfo and lose with dignity. Then their good and evil narrative can remain uncomplicated.
Things seem to be heating up way too quickly.
Gildbert "lolcow" Doctorow doesn't have good predictive power (what will happen), but he does have good descriptive power (what is happening, from which we can draw our own interpretations), and he's saying that Russian TV has suddenly started criticizing Putin's soft approach to the war – not just that usual boomer who does this (his name begins with 'S') but even Kremlin-friendly broadcasts as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80RIa_KHCR0It's a shame he starts talking about a "palace hardliner coup" because there's a point he mentions but glosses over, which is that Putin himself could be okay with the broadcasts, prepping the Russian public for tougher moves. In any event, the domestic pressure is building.
>>2505213So being an internet tough guy? I have to say I prefer the sarcasm
Oh! There I go again!
>>2505229Level 3.
>>2505230Something has you guys rattled. I'm terminally online and haven't seen this class of activity since the days before Surovikin went ham on electrical infrastructure for the first time in 2022 or the days leading up to Mr. Oreshnik last year.
>>2505176>Ru workers go on strike over poor paywhy aren't you screeching about these ones?
maybe you are deeply pessimistic, and know you can't expect one gram of revolutionary potential on the working class of the west?
>>2505307answer this
>question why aren't you screeching about these ones?>maybe you are deeply pessimistic, and know you can't expect one gram of revolutionary potential on the working class of the west?or you are the one and only dumb person ITT
Following Lenin’s Legacy: Putin Plans Major Seizure of Property>The Kremlin intends to nationalize the assets of Western companies in Russia if Brussels starts seizing frozen Russian central bank reserves to aid Ukraine, reports Bloomberg.<Companies at risk include UniCredit, Raiffeisen, PepsiCo, Mondelez, and others still operating in Russia.The EU has already transferred €4 billion of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, half of which will be used for drone production.
https://nitter.net/nexta_tv/status/1973476762723164212#mWow Putin is being compared to Lenin, no wonder the imperialism understanders were getting rowdy today
>>2505322>>2505323>>2505332This is literally just Russian ha
zbara, kill yourselves
>>2505396The white one looks nice
Id wear this
>>2505423>Still very measured activity with limited impact.I have to dispute that on the basis we don't know what has been impacted, because
>We need Kiev and Lvov blacked out.is buying into the narrative that Russia is trying to win by committing the same war crime Israel commits in attacking civilian infrastructure but is failing, as evidenced by Ukrainians still being able to enjoy a hot shower and a night out on the town, hence why Ukraine/Zelensky openly stating it's their intent to starve Russians into a "hunger strike" is acceptable.
Whereas I'm willing to wager all the AA radars, radios, drones, starlink terminals, etc require a shit load of 'leccy and the infrastructure for military electronics are not just the same infrastructure for general civilian electric.
>>2505436lol if he really said that.
> the elite is not fightingHe's so close!
>>2505138>I think there is a reason that 99% of leftoids pivoted to screeching about Gaza while maintaining radio silence on this war. The average leftoid has understood that even attempting to justify this war is losing them credibility.Most people are not talking about Ukraine anymore.
The SMO isn't hard to justify and there is little to be silent about given the decades of Western interventions the war is built on. The latter is intuitively understood. NATO was not disbanded after the cold war and after becoming the enforcer of globalization like the US, it came after Russians in Ukraine that opposed neoliberalism after Russia itself turned against it. Western decline made it necessary to thaw how Russia froze the conflict and continue expansion. This is because the collapse of communism briefly alleviated problems with capitalism.
>>2505439I remember at one point we decided that it would be funnier to deleg him so that he's hopping around on those foot-long metal rods.
>>2504894I don't see anything to fault in there exactly, yet why does the Zelensky case feel somehow different from the Bibi case? I see Israel managing just fine, carrying on just fine after a Bibi decap strike, yet in the Zelensky case, something feels different. Why? I dunno. Stronger cult of personality? Insecurity about every little Russian accomplishment?
>>2504894>"decap strikes" are retarded in the context of conventional warfare because you have to assume, for example, the US Military doesn't breathe without Trump authorising each breath, that destroying the White House and the Senate with everyone in it, the US Military would be lost without their valuable guidanceRight lol
>In conventional warfare, political leaders don't enable military leaders, they're an obstacle for the military and one with the authority to order them to stand down completely, killing all the political leaders removes that authority to order a stand down.I think this is not so much of a danger because high-ranking military officers very much think "politically" as well. They like to read Clausewitz and try to consider how war is guided by political objectives, and while there are different ways that civil-military regimes are constructed, it's not like the Argentinian generals who ordered the invasion of the Falklands weren't thinking politically and as political leaders. Maybe the fact that it was a military junta made the invasion more likely, that is possible. But I don't think it's the case that there's no stand-down authority in the absence of civilians or the generals would be paralyzed and unable to deescalate.
Now that reminds me of that Hegseth speech (in front of that stupid flag like he's Patton). One thing to remember is that Hegseth left the military as a major, which is an NCO rank and during a war would place him in charge of a battalion of 500 soldiers or so. He said a bunch of stuff about working out and getting haircuts and those things, but that was the kind of thing a battalion commander might say to some scruffy sergeants. Those are the kinds of things a battalion XO has to worry about. Of course now he's in a position to "lay down the law" in front of all the superior officers he resented when he was in the military eating buckets of shit everyday as a major/captain/etc. but those flag officers have other things to concern themselves with even if they probably don't disagree with what he was saying.
>>2505018>It’s just not very likely that Iran has got loyal or blackmailed agents in Mossad to whom they can promise protection from their former employers. >>2505022>I just don't buy it that someone like, say, Bibi is walking out there completely invulnerable to the capabilities of a state like Iran or that Iran has no way to target facilities such as Dimona. Some redneck kid got within an inch of Trump's head.It might be harder to take a shot at Bibi. Like not only is he not standing in the middle of a stinky cow field giving a speech on a platform, there's just way more security there and it's much more pervasive throughout the society, and there are security checkpoints and metal detectors all over the place. It's like how when you go to the airport and they tell you to never leave a bag unattended because it's a security issue. In Israel, it's like that everywhere and that's normal, and all that "if you see something, say something" is something people actually do. Like take that guy who shot Charlie Kirk, he was spotted beforehand and some guy was like "huh that's a little weird, just saying." But he didn't want to overreact or whatever or call the cops for whatever reason. But I'm not sure people would react that way in Israel to seeing someone shimmy up onto a rooftop in Israel armed with a rifle who wasn't clearly part of a squad of police or military.
>>2505028>So it’s more plausible to you that Russia and China convinced Iran into inaction? As my earlier post states, perhaps it’s just not a good idea against political leaders anyway, but more generally you’re just downplaying the capacity of the CIA/Mossad/BND/MI6, etc, in a unipolar world.Yeah, well I think they don't want to be targeted for assassination in return by other state leaders. The Israelis don't care but I think there are some unwritten norms among intelligence agencies, like the U.S. and Russian intelligence agencies. It's the same reason we don't nuke each other. There are gray areas and so forth, but for example I don't think they like to carry out bloody, violent operations on each other's core territory (at least directly, un-obscured by layers of deniability, proxies, and groomed Discord psychos who might be able to be prodded into taking a shot at someone). But poisoning someone or blowing up a warehouse in a third country is something they both do. Or you have Russia and Ukraine carrying out assassinations on each other's territory, but Zelensky and Putin have an unwritten understanding that one of them being killed means the other is fair game, and they haven't reached that point. Or like the U.S. and Russia will groom edge cases in each other's territory (look up the neo-Nazi group "The Base"), but they're not doing things like the SBU does in Russia and practically gloats about it, and vice-versa.
>>2505464Zelensky has indeed exiled people throughout this conflict with figures like Zaluzhny, Arestovich, Kuleba, etc being pretty high profile figures in Ukraine's leadership who have fallen out of favour within Kiev but not necessarily with pro-Ukrainians, he arrested his former backers, the Poroshenko faction are still fucked off about his election and prior to the conflict has had the military disobey him openly.
So, considering the fact he is still in place despite the enemies he has made and the lack of respect he had from his own military prior to the war, it would seem that his continuance is evidence of his importance and thus his elimination would be fruitful.
But alas, I suspect the chaos of different figures fighting in the resulting Radabowl would be over quickly and the faction to succeed would be… the military, considering the conflict is still ongoing and there is all hope to be had that Ukraine's situation might not be so dire if they had a military man running the country rather than a TV comic actor.
If Ukraine does overthrow Zelensky without that causing enough fracture and internal conflict to remain collected enough to continue ordering men to
certain death battle, then I believe we might see a situation where the political and military leadership are one and the same and thus Russia attacks the "government" itself since there's no longer a distinct difference between it and the military it is leading, but who knows, I'm not going to make guesses and predictions about what conditions would lead to Putin "taking off the gloves", I merely have a big think about what already is.
>>2505480>I think this is not so much of a danger because high-ranking military officers very much think "politically" as well. They like to read Clausewitz and try to consider how war is guided by political objectivesI won't argue that, but I would suggest that the resultant politics of men who wear medals and men who wear suits differ significantly and in contradiction of each other.
>Maybe the fact that it was a military junta made the invasion more likely, that is possible. But I don't think it's the case that there's no stand-down authority in the absence of civilians or the generals would be paralyzed and unable to deescalate.For sure, removing the political class doesn't preclude surrender because it can go the other way, like (and I hate to participate in the cliche) in WW2, there was a certain point where the military realised their best bet for political survival was in surrender at some point while the Nazi politicians-cum-military high command ordered them not to.
Nevertheless, I still think generally speaking, the reason why decap strikes aren't really pursued is on the basis that your primary enemy is the military leadership acting on the orders to "fight" and not necessarily the political leadership issuing the order "fight, but like, in a way that makes me look good mkay?"
>>2505401it was the ukies and the west who coined and championed the words
until the last ukrainianso cope.
>>2505547Honestly the Baltics are a bit like the western leftists who have a slapped arse over Russia and China not doing more confrontational shit on the global stage with their power
relative to western leftism. It mainly comes down to those who think ideologies and treaties entitle the powerless to true power at their command, then stamping their feet when the reality transpires that treaties and ideologies can't change the material reality that NATO aren't going to end the world at the whim of Baltic leaders who represent 6 million people and Russia/China isn't for people who represent a vanishingly small portion of western leftists who would probably still call them red fash after fighting their battles for them
>>2505584Focusing on*
Well, I'm still pretty bad in it, sorry.
>>2505584Greetings comrade
Is Putin seen as a cuck in Donbass?
>>2505584check out breakthrough news
only english speaking yt news channel I sometimes watch (listen to, more accurately)
if you're fine with listening, radio war nerd is a must
>>2505588>>2505603Have never been there, sorry.
I live in Kiev-controlled region.
People here are mostly depressed and are about to hide or run seeing themselves more like victims of corrupted dictators then as real power.
And yes, most of them willing to stay under Kiev, cause life in Donetsk People Republic was the greatest Putin's fail in soft power. I don't think he could worse.
>>2505590Politics/news/culture.
Something independent.
>>2505618Thank you!
>>2505650>>2505644Sure thing illegal.
Post-maidan regime made all it could to make communist look like eternal enemy of Ukraine looking for any opportunity to enslave or kill ukrainians. And 90% of ukrainians got no brain, so they won.
>>2505636Thank you!
>>2505650And you!
>>2505647There will be no regional political parties in russian controlled part.
They killed all independent figures including communists back in 2014-2016.
Most of this men have been killed for their views and political ambitions.
Don't fool yourself about Russia.
>>2505664Lieutenant Colonel A. A. Bednov, Chief of Staff of the 4th LPR Brigade, was killed on January 1, 2015, at the entrance to the town of Lutugine in an attack on a convoy of the "Batman" rapid response team. As they turned toward the town, the convoy was attacked with automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and rocket-propelled grenades. Bednov's body was found in an armored minibus; five of his escorts were also killed.
The press service of the LPR Prosecutor General's Office stated that Alexander Bednov refused to comply with demands from LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs special forces to disarm and offered fierce armed resistance. Previously, on December 30, 2014, a criminal case was opened against him. He and his associates were accused of kidnapping and torturing 13 people. The deceased were also suspected of extortion and robbery.
>>2505663Well… I can understand that, there's a war going right now and people want to pick a side. Nazi shithole which Ukaraine became after maidan is not an option. But… You can assume I'm NAFO (frankly I had to google it cause I never been here, I'm from russian imageboard), but let me pass the word to Igor Strelkov, the commander of the first brigade that started organized armed resistance at the Eastern Ukraine:
https://youtu.be/LiW8yC4IacU"Instead of building a showcase for the 'Russian world,' they built some kind of shit sanctuary there, putting swindlers in charge… and creating conditions where people in Donbass lived worse than in Russia and much worse than in Ukraine."
>>2505680 (me)
Also i am sorry you are in Kiev, can you escape to france or germany or uk, or is it still too difficult for most?
>>2505694yeah, 2ch (sosach I'd say)
>>2505691Average ukrainian got 2 ways:
1. Pay to cross the border. Prices starting from 10.000$
2. Can try to cross the border. About 2 weeks in forests, swamps, hills.
And it's not camping, there are thousands of armed ukrainian soldiers with drones and dogs. And guns.
There is one very dark theme that is used as source of jokes for so called patiots in Ukraine: "Drowned in the Tisza".
Tisza is very shallow river at Romanian border. But every month people are drowing there. Drowing with a bullets in their backs.
>>2505698We got only 2ch, other boards are dead.
>>2505769The asiatic horde
is coming.
>>2505772if only Putin could get a division of Tuvans and Mongolians to finish the job
As an ode to the past
>>2505780How soon? 2035? NATO MIC isn't very fast.
Keep posting more seethe, shitlib.
>>2505782Cope nazi
Did you hear? Your nazi vermin are bandaging themselves, if they're lucky enough to survive, with med kits from the 1950s.
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