>>2550294He was legitimately pushed around a bit by Chinese students at his first protest. The university then made him a martyr by trying to expel him under mostly false pretenses. Because he's a serial attention seeker he continually pushed the envelope further and caused more and more drama. It was a truly beautiful thing.
>>2550292lmao, doing the lord's work
<The war in Ukraine was intended to strengthen the government’s position and prove Russia’s power, but it has exposed the system’s weaknesses. The conflict has drained resources, isolated the country, and delivered no real gains.
<Despite this, the system has not collapsed. It survives by shifting the economic and social burden to its population and eliminating opposition. This keeps the government intact but prevents renewal or modernization.
<Russia now faces a strategic deadlock. Continuing the war will worsen economic and demographic problems. Ending it would undermine the leadership’s authority. Either choice weakens the state further. Real change is likely to come from within the ruling elite, not from public protests or elections, once those in power decide that maintaining the status quo costs more than changing it.
<Three main outcomes are possible. The first is stagnation, with Russia stuck in ongoing mobilization and tension but without clear victory or peace. The second is growing dependence on China, leaving Russia formally independent but increasingly subordinate. The third is a limited withdrawal from the war’s logic to reduce vulnerability and recover some strategic freedom, without major political reforms.
<Russia’s current stability hides steady decline. The government remains in control, but its power is eroding internally, and the system’s survival depends on managing weakness rather than overcoming it.
>>2551518>The war in Ukraine was intended to strengthen the government’s position and prove Russia’s power, but it has exposed the system’s weaknesses.Pure projection lmao
>>2551518AI slop.
Mods, please ban
>>2551062The return of TankAnon's "malicious mod troll" theory? :-o Doesn't hold water. The lead mods used to punish anti-campist 'glowposting' in /ukr/ and have no sympathy toward it. Plus, notice how there's never any banning of Z posters - surely we'd expect such a covert mod to melt down occasionally and twist words around to issue a ban or something, no? Not saying this is definitely the explanation, but everything we see is consistent with the Unified Slacker Theory of the Internet, which predicts an exponential drop in active moderation over time on any Internet forum or board when there is low mod churn.
>>2551076remember when he stated that Assad privatized Syria strategic companies, being a contrarian to the fact that Syrian Ba'ath party kept the socialist policies from the 20th century?
and remember when I asked him to name
one of those companies?
and he never replied back?
pepperidge farm remembers.
unfortunately, I didn't keep the receipts, from the Syrian thread.
>>2551074>asserting this thread simps for Putin/Russian Nationalismwhy are you so upset about this extremely accurate notion? why can't you just admit the discourse here is downstream of Russian nationalist Telegram channels or, even worse, Alexander Mercouris Youtube videos LMFAO! it's okay to admit you're not as interested in Marxism or leftist politics now but that your main thing is Russian nationalism, people change and that's okay!
>>2550166you can report the occasional nazi apologist nafoid that comes in saying stuff like
even if hitler himself came back to life and becomes president of ukraine it'd be a 1/100th of how nazi ruZZia is.
I chuckled when I saw the ban.
>>2550734oh, no, no, no that point flies over their head. in an interview she'll defend what ukies did.
war is peace is their motto.
>>2551641Because that also means you have to assume that this thread’s shitposters are downstream from unironic Azov telegram channels, but funnily enough, they’ll refute that.
>>2551083It's just autistic westoidism. Or westoidism as characterised chiefly by being disconnected to the point of autism. Seemingly irreparably.
Yeah, anyway I don't really hear it.
It's just the background noise of all majority english-speaking places.
>>2551644i'm sure a lot of them are, but they're not the thread "regulars" per se. like it or not, posters like you drive the so-called leftist opinions on this board for the Donbass war and it gets tiring having those opinions just be downstream of extremely bloodthirsty Russian monarchists and conservatives on Telegram or elsewhere.
you can add all the Marxian fluff you want to the news slop but it doesn't change its character. out of all the conflicts right now, from Donbass to the Levant to Latin America and the South China Sea, the war in Donbass is BY FAR the most incoherent ideologically speaking.
>>2546985>70k views>500 likesOof
Porkroast has fallen, btw.
>>2551653>i'm sure a lot of them are, but they're not the thread "regulars" per se.Oh okay, it's just irrelevant if they are in fact down stream of open fascists.
>like it or not, posters like you drive the so-called leftist opinions on this board for the Donbass warI really doubt I've managed to convince anyone who didn't already intuitively see it the same way I did from the start of the conflict. As mentioned previously, the only anon we know that changed their minds in this conflict was Sabo and that was IntBrig's achievement.
>it gets tiring having those opinions just be downstream of extremely bloodthirsty Russian monarchists and conservatives on Telegram or elsewhere.Well two things, firstly if it's tiring for you then you can surely find rest and relaxation in 99% of the heavily moderated, english-speaking internet that will ban any opinion that doesn't promote Zelensky to the level of being the sun god. Secondly, there's really nothing that supports reducing my opinions to merely downstream of Z telegram beyond your personal desire to do so. If there were any comparisons to be made, they'd no doubt be forthcoming from yourself.
>the war in Donbass is BY FAR the most incoherent ideologically speaking.It's actually tragically similar to Palestine. Ironically you have to do a lot of spluttering and shitposting to even
begin to muddy the waters over whether it's a "big deal" that Ukrainian fascists installed by western imperialists to wage a race war against a minority because they're getting in the way of world domination.
Frankly, the only reason you don't feel instantly humiliated by claiming this thread represents "bloodthirsty conservatives" is because it's the one place on the internet that isn't *constantly* a parade of celebrations for Azov fighters, FPV drone footage of wounded Russian soldiers being finished off as entertainment, promotions of fascism being a spectrum where the moderate end has some profound ideas about being a country at war, fantasising about how many more currently-Russians could be killed if race wars were sparked across the federation, etc
>>2551520gotta keep that decline narrative alive, even as the west declines
nato expansion was part of managing soviet collapse and russian decline. it's now in crisis and is dragging down an international system with it
>>2551641>why are you so upset about this extremely accurate notion? why can't you just admit the discourse here is downstream of Russian nationalist Telegram channels or, even worse, Alexander Mercouris Youtube videos LMFAO! it's okay to admit you're not as interested in Marxism or leftist politics now but that your main thing is Russian nationalism, people change and that's okay!if everyone else thinks the war was provoked by NATO maybe you're the problem kek
>>2548924The TPLF and the Tigrayans have strong connections with the Western NGO complex and lobbying. I don't think that this is a coincidence. No matter how neoliberal is the current leadership of Ethiopia or how flawed the Derg was, at least they didn't try deepen ethnic conflict within Ethiopia on purpose. The TPLF was originally a Maoist group opposed to the pro-Soviet Derg, but at its core they were an ethnicity based organization. When they seized power, claiming Amhara oppression, they instituted a retarded policy that divided Ethiopia into ethnic homelands and disposessed farmers that were born into the wrong homeland. Obviously in such a diverse and ancient country as Ethiopia this is beyond insane. The first thing that comes to my mind that is similar to this is when the British only allowed political representation for Indians if it was divided into two paralell systems: one Muslim and one Hindu. And of course when the TPLF got a hold of the state apparatus, they filled every important position with their own. Even if the Derg was Amhara chauvinism, at least it didn't try to destroy Ethiopia. Ever since people chased them away, they have been frequently launching uprisings against the Ethiopian governmnent.
It's obvious why they are so adamant about cosying up to the West: they are just like Ukrainians or the Taiwanese: they are one part of a great nation and have been for hundreds and thousands of years, but due to ethnic nationalist brainrot they start claiming that the entirety of their history is just one big oppression and they have probably been oppressed since the crust of the Earth solidified.
It doesn't matter how capitalist is the Ethiopian government at any particular moment, because if the government is unable to control its own territory, it will definitely never be able to control its own resources, industry, etc. Supporting an ethnic group like the Tigrayans is a form of pre-emptive counterrevolution for the US and it is imperative that no matter the region, context or underlying historical causes, it must divide and balkanize any nation it can (except Spain and the UK, probably because they are white). Fortunately they don't seem to be getting much direct support, but the West-facing NGOs and Western diplomatic statements I have seen are already concerning on their own.
>>2551703It can only come from an awareness that no one in the West
really expects the truth nor even consistency in the narrative with Ukraine, so long as it is pro-Ukrainian, to go from openly supporting the disregarding of Russian protests against NATO expansion into Ukraine in the knowledge that could or would provoke invasion on the basis Russia "obviously" has a rotten economy that will collapse instantly under sanctions and pressure from a united world against them, to then claiming that Russia started out economically strong as expected and NATOist Ukraine stumbling on the battlefield wasn't ideal but a good cover for Plan B to gradually, slowly, covertly weaken the economic and industrial titan Moscow famously built over the decades since the end of the cold war.
>>2551658But muh stalemate
>>2551735>It can only come from an awareness that no one in the West really expects the truth nor even consistency in the narrative with UkraineThat's been my experience, yeah. It doesn't really matter what the facts are, because the only thing that matters is that Russia is evil and at fault for everything.
>>2551735Actually now that I think of it, we've already blown past Plan B of stealth Russian economic decline by just hodling for as long as possible, into Plan C of directly attacking Russian oil and gas facilities as a top priority because rotten economies and functioning economies get levelled by explosives all the same.
And that's where anons go wrong by trying to assert to me that I'm the secret third member of Russians With Attitude and I ought to kill myself in humiliation over attacks on Russia, I can't doom over seeing NATO essentially admit year after
..unexpected year after
okay now actually quite concerning year that their initial confidence was entirely, completely unfounded and that actually unipolarity and the end of the cold war does not in fact mark the end for us as Communists.
>>2548912>What level of nationalism are you on?<I dunno Somaliland and Catalonia I guess>You're a little baby watch this>>2549275By doing picrel
>>2549275Sickens me the same people calling this an imperialist war and doing the "waiter waiter more dead proles please!" shtick were frothing at the mouth when there was a chance for this to end in March 2022.
>>2548480>Look mom! I posted it again!https://www.foxnews.com/us/gen-milley-says-kyiv-could-fall-within-72-hours-if-russia-decides-to-invade-ukraine-sources >>2551789What do lines on these maps even mean anymore? Is it supposed to be drawn between where soldiers on either side actually are? So what does limited control mean here?
Does it mean there are Ukrainian soldiers in the area? Is it drone cover? (Doubtful as drones can reach up to 25km behind the zero line). Does it represent fighting in the vicinity? Infantry weapon range? Unobstructed line of sight?
Seems to me it makes more sense to drop the lines unless they have access to real time (classified) maps from both sides, and do the detailed wikipedia map thing instead where settlements are represented only as dots.
But I imagine that's not as politically convenient and doesn't make for interesting clickbait. It reminds me of how recently people have been bringing up how much territory Russia "controlled" in 2022 (heavily exaggerated), and contrasting it with their current gains. But then you check the maps used back then, and you notice they minimized Russian control, reducing the invasion to a spiderweb of corridors.
In reality maps like these are bs. If there are Russian soldiers in the striped, yellow or red areas, it means everything between that and the rest of the map (in the area depicted) should also be in the "gray zone" owing to FPV drone and artillery range. Which also means that if the colored area represents Russian troop presence Mirnograd is effectively encircled. Ergo the UAF fucked up.
This war is irrelevant. This is just capitalism in decline or something.
>this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
Who is making these threads?
Geopolitics is bourgeois politics
Le interimperialist conflict.
>>2551641if I repeat my strawman often enough, it will become true!
fuck off nafotard, we know your "main thing" is the thousand year burgerreich
>>2551653>the war in Donbass is BY FAR the most incoherent ideologically speaking.just because you dont understand whats happening doesnt mean its incoherent, I find it extremely coherent
NATO troops to the front lines, baby! Bring American, British, French and German boys to the grinder! They'll certainly crush the Russian untermenschen with their psionic Aryan / Rainbow drone-swatting death beams!
>>2551885The mods put that in because of asshurt
Telling NAFOids that you support a militant NATO response is the best way to get them to shut up. Ukraine has been very painful to Russia, but it's basically the West stuffing its hand into a wood chipper. Make them keep pushing.
American troops at the front lines now!
>>2552045I doubt they actually want that tbh, because it would be admitting that Russia is a worthy enough power to warrant it. Even with all of the support to Ukraine given hitherto, it’s framed primarily as economic rather than strictly military support, as though sending missiles, tanks and planes are just another form of flexing NATO’s wealth relative to Russia.
They’re basically always doubling down on the idea that NATO can simply purchase victory, because that’s what the attitude was, is and will be. And when you think of it, nafoids do have a shocking resemblance to the spoiled kid in 80s kids movies.
>>2552045Russians are killing themselves already, why would NATO need to do anything more?
>>2550586He done did the antisemitism
>>2551789Why not just mark whole russian controlle donbass as no man's land. I bet they could cope enough to make that claim.
>>2551641Literally every Zigga here is honest about supporting Russia against Ukraine, typically as a means to an end.
That's not the case with the vast
majority of the "anti-campists" and "true" leftists, who are
not honest about the fact that they're
actually supporting Ukraine against Russia. This is evident from at least two facts: (1) their commentary is completely lopsided against Russia to the point of
never saying a harsh word about Ukraine; (2) their activity in /ukr/ is disproportionately centered about moments of high-grade Ukro hopium, whereas a genuine anti-campist with no dog in the race would have more uniform temporal behavior, posting during both moments of Ukro hopium and Ukro doom, for the simple reason that such moments don't motivate his or her ideological stance.
>>2552266 (me)
…oh, and (3):
some of them don't even bother to change their /uhg/ filenames.
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