/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

This is an interimperialist conflict.

US military carries out large-scale strikes against ISIS across Syria

https://news.sky.com/story/us-military-carries-out-large-scale-strikes-against-isis-across-syria-13491264

UK commits £200m to prepare British troops for Ukraine deployment
The money will pay for upgrades to vehicles and communications systems, counter-drone protection and other equipment.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/ukraine-john-healey-defence-secretary-kyiv-government-b2897877.html

le pooptin would never

Anything new on the map or bogged?

>>2639607
Russia does not have an imperialist economy. You are not consuming Russian Hollywood kinos, you are not listening to Russian Britney Spears, you are not drinking Russian coca cola, you are not riding Russian cars, you are not working in Russian owned factories, you are not working on Russian owned farms, you are nat paying your rent to Russian firms, Russia did not export capital to the wast majority of global countries and doesn't have a military industrial complex complete with intelligence agencies to secure exported capital. You'd merely be consuming cheap Russian gas if your American overlords would allow it, but alas they didn't and now your economy is collapsing and your heating bills rise.

Russia does not have an imperialist economy. Therefore, by any meaningful Marxist definition this can not be called an inter-imperialist war.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

>>2640276
None of this matters to the leftcom. They disregard anti-imperialist struggles, they disregard the concrete realities in specific countries etc as non-communist.
Sudan? Support the proles. They care not that proles are maybe 5% of the population there. There will be magic unity between the few thousand Sudanese proles, the hundred millions Chinese proles and the American 'prole' spontaneously across thousands of miles because such is the invariant dharma of the historic sangha.

>>2640279
>They disregard anti-imperialist struggles
These exist but they aren't proletariat, but rather petty-bourg nationalist sentiments

cope

>>2640280
And the Emir of Russia is more progressive than the parliament of Europe.

cope

>>2640283
lol
lmao, even

>>2640280
Who said the anti-imperialist struggles are proletarian?
You erect imaginary arguments which you then strike down triumphantly and finish with a smug 'cope'.
You are either illiterate or retarded.

>>2640285
It's true. The USA-EU-NATO is naked fascism.

>>2640280
>they aren't 'proletariat'
You know, for a smug know-it-all leftcom, the least you can do is write properly.

>>2640294
I don't support petty bourg nationalism and neither should you
>>2640295
fascism is capitalism in decay

>>2640314
>fascism is capitalism in decay
literal sloganeering lmao

>>2640280
>anti-imperialism is… bourgeois
>imperialism is… proletarian
We've gone full circle.

>>2640338
imagine having the same reading comprehension as a baby

"Yuri Gagarin flew with this": Soviet gyroscope and lamp found in Putin's "newest" rocket

The Oreshnik missile, which Russia used for the second time on Friday night to send a threatening signal to the West, was made using old Soviet components. Ukrainian experts found a lamp and a gyroscope among the debris of the rocket used to strike the Dnieper River in November 2024, said the head of the military research laboratory of the Kiev Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Examinations (KNISE). Andrey Kulchitsky in an interview with CNN.

Details. "Here's the gyroscope from the Oreshnik. Yura Gagarin also flew with such a thing," said Volchitsky.

When asked by a CNN reporter if Putin was right when he said that the Oreshnik was a new stage in armaments, the scientist replied in the negative.

Quote: "His task is to say something, and we must listen carefully. The people are listening. We found lamps, Soviet lamps," he said, showing one of the lamps.

Sergey, a laboratory employee, showed a CNN journalist the microchips found in the rocket, noting at the same time: "Junk. Everything is old. And everything is Russian."

The context. Vladimir Putin said in November 2024 that Russia had used "one of the latest Russian medium-range missile systems" with an Oreshnik nuclear-free hypersonic ballistic missile during a strike on the industrial complex in Dnipro. He noted that there are no means of countering such weapons in the world.

However, almost immediately, Ukrainian experts discovered that the newest missile was made using components for older missiles. In particular, a part that was produced for the Bulava rocket and elements released in 2016 and 2017 were discovered.

Independent observers and the Pentagon believe that the Oreshnik is a modification of the RS—26 Rubezh missile system, a modification of the RS-24 Yars system (first launched in 2007). Work on the "Frontier" was stopped in 2018.

On the night of January 9, Russia used the Oreshnik for the second time, this time to strike the Lviv region. The target of the attack was the Sknilov airfield and the Lviv Aviation Repair Plant, the Ukrainian edition of Insider reported.ua and independent OSINT analysts. A senior Ukrainian official confirmed to Reuters that the missile hit the workshop of a state-owned enterprise in Lviv. However, it did not carry a live charge, but was used only to demonstrate force, the source said.

The use of the Oreshnik to strike western Ukraine near the border with Poland was Putin's "warning" to Europe amid peace talks in which Europe supports Kiev, The New York Times wrote.

>>2640280
>These exist but they aren't proletariat
that's untrue. and before you run to say no, you have to provide undeniable evidence that in places where there are workers, as in south-Yemen, where the Houthis are, these don't actively provide support to the state with unions, with class-solidarity exchange with other workers across the region, etc.
and also anti-historical, looking some processes, very quickly, the USSR was one, very clear, the German revolution in 1919, Vietnam, the Cuban revolution. workers leaving factories in all the processes to support the movements, sabotaging the bourgeoisie state, and looking for fair treatment in the eyes of the imperialist powers, etc.
>>2640279
in various places like Sudan, there can't be 100% workers, when 90% of the population are displaced refugees. it can be anti-imperialist, but it's nonsensical to not rally behind whatever there is.
>>2640358
press to me x doubt!
>implying the rockets impacting with the kinetic speed that produces the energy of a bomb leaves anything behind.
what are they trying to imply? that the ballistic missile is made out of washing machine parts now?

>>2640358
russian can produce unstoppable missiles out of 40 year old components
here's how zelenskyyy can win

>>2640366
Perhaps they found the parts from an earlier stage that dropped on Ukrainian territory. But finding old parts in the MIRV container doesn't really say much since it's just the carrier for the warheads who would have their own internal systems.

>>2640371
gotta say superintendent chalmers now:
>Ah- Soviet gyroscopealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your reach!?
Annnd, not enough for me. I have to put this face: >>2640363 (nta)

>>2640358
Intentionally using old tech can be a very efficient way to protect against modern counter-measures. Nuke codes on floppy disks, etc.

>>2640358
If it works, it works.
>NATO vehicles use wheels. lmao! It's what the ancient Romans used!
would be a response if pro-RU were as retarded as pro-NATO.

Nazi does some math

>>2640612
Rusich are fighting against nazis.

>>2640358
This is like saying the US army is hopelessly outdated because they use rifles designed in the 1950s. If those components are effective then there's no need to invent something new just for the sake of it.

cuck warfare apologists are traitors to the SMO

>>2640366
>these don't actively provide support to the state with unions, with class-solidarity exchange with other workers across the region
That doesn't really follow. Just because workers support something doesn't make it proletariat in character, at least not in the objective Marxist sense. Leftcom is correct to point out that most anti-imperialist struggles today are of a national-bourgeois character. He's jusy incorrect to believe that these have no progressive content or that their victory isn't beneficial to socialism.

>>2640612
I like how Rusich are taken to be a credible source because they are assumed to be Putin loyalists.
Nazi's math is also retarded, there are rotations and not every single Russian soldier goes straight to the front, Russia still has a huge military inside its borders, contingents in Belarus and elsewhere etc

Russia Prepares Biggest Ukraine Strike Duma Wants Reserve Armies Committed; Trump Restarts Iran War

>>2640358
>A senior Ukrainian official confirmed to Reuters that the missile hit the workshop of a state-owned enterprise in Lviv. However, it did not carry a live charge, but was used only to demonstrate force, the source said.
<However, it did not carry a live charge, but was used only to demonstrate force, the source said.

Would any Cucktin defender like to try to defend this bullshit?

>Haha we can totally destroy this military production facility…but we will avoid hitting it with a real armed missile just to PROVE that we could have totally blown it up…but chose not to out of our mercy..

And now Ukraine is totally free to move the factory somewhere else and continue production. Go on Champ or FARC poster. Let's hear your excuses as to why demilitarization is ackshually a bad thing in this case.

What will we do if China, Iran, and Russia fall or got subjugated by the west?

>>2640736
It's been known since day 1 that it carried a kinetic payload and not a nuclear one (the "live charge" in question) seeing how Lvov still exists. What are you talking about?

>>2640744
the world will become like that mat damon film where the whole world has turned into a favela while the bourgousie live on a spaceship

>>2640744
try to get in good with some local regime official so you get a good Musk-pod near your local mine

>>2640736
A conventional warhead doesn't add anything significant because of the amount of kinetic energy. The only way to add anything significant is to add a nuclear warhead.

The criticism Cuckler is receiving from unimpressed Telegrammers is choice of target.

>>2640802 (me)
The reason we're unlikely ever to see some kind of decapitation strike with the Oreshnik is that Russia informs the US before using it so that it's not mistaken for a nuclear first strike. So there won't be any element of surprise with it. Even though it's an unstoppable missile and you could argue there's nowhere to hide (which may or may not be true), Russia has more accurate, non-reportable weapons for a decapitation strike. Arguably even a drone is better.

>dutch reddit warrior goes to Ukraine
>gets into a fight with colombian mercs, they threaten to stab him in his sleep
>ukrainian officer punishes him for making a scene
>decides to leave, goes to the commander's office to pick up his docs, sees swastikas and banderas all over the walls
>says several other foreign fighters left after seeing ukrainians sieg heiling every morning
lol

>>2640870
hendrink will be arrested on his return for reapeating kremlin talking points

>>2640870
Okay but, heh, did it ever occur to you that Russia has nazis in it too?

You're a Russian general in charge of the SMO against Finland.
Your task is to completely liberate Finland from nazis and NATO LGBT sex instructors.
What do? How you avoid lakes, swamps and forests?

forgot pic

>>2641034
>>2641035
Do SEAD, destroy electrical infrastructure, drop VDV directly in Helsinki

>>2641034
>Your task is to completely liberate Finland from nazis and NATO LGBT sex instructors.
Why would I care? I'll just send a spetznaz group to extract Finnish Bolshevik

>>2641034
Leadership elimination won't destroy the Finnish war effort the way it would destroy the Ukrainian meme/spectacle war effort. The war Russia is fighting against Ukraine now would actually work extremely well against Finland.

>>2640736
>>2640736
>Would any Cucktin defender like to try to defend this bullshit?
for exercise.
E​=(1/2)​mv^2
>E=kinetic energy in joules (J)
>m=mass in kilograms (kg)
>v=speed in metres per second (m/s)

1 kg TNT~4.184×10^6 J

Oreshnik kinetic warheads:
150 kg
probable impact speed (considering atmospheric drag, if it's very low, values can be higher, i.e. low atmospheric drag implies lower atmospheric density, higher altitudes):
1.5–1.8 km/s or 1,500–1,800 m/s.
Lower bound:
K=(1/2)mv^2=21​×150×(1,500)^2≈1.69×10^8J
Upper bound:
K= (1/2)×150×(1,800)^2 ≈2.43×10^8J

Each kinetic payload:
~50 kgTNT

It has six kinetic payloads, total weight 900kg.

TOTAL ENERGY
~300kg of TNT.

>>2640621
>named eugene
>glasses
>wears a goddamn bowtie
why was he such a nerd
really like how that suppressor sits flush with the front sight post tho, dissipators are really cool

>>2640730
Conscription?

im increasingly thinking ukraine will fall soon as badly as south vietnam did soon.
Give it time

>>2641730
how so?

>>2641730
Can't see it happening unless you have something

>>2640279
>muh anti imperialism
The fight against imperialism is a sham and a humbug.
Lenin, Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism

>>2641765
>>2641778
Because the ukraine regime has a lot of the same issues south vietnam had during the latter stage of the war. Mass corruption, loss of morale, decaying economy, running out of manpower, problematic logistics, slow loss of western support, etc etc.
Meanwhile russia while still having problems, still has the manpower, economy, and etc to maintain the war for a way longer while. It just feels like the final stages of the vietnam war where south vietnam was pretty much close to collapse and north vietnam just launched this one last offensive which kicked the whole thing down

>>2640314
>capitalism
>decay
Mods, ban this falsifier.

>>2641800
Welcome back Karl Kautsky.

>>2640736
>And now Ukraine is totally free to move the factory somewhere else and continue production.
It's just like lego I assume, especially when deconstructed by hypersonic munitions.

You simply have to get over lvov not being nooked.

Also, for what it's worth, the Wikipedia page for the Oreshnik, in essentially every paragraph, makes the claim the "senior Ukrainian official" made that it's not a "real" missile anyone has to worry about and its use is just about intimidation, simply because Russia hasn't chosen to strap nooks to the MIRVs despite accepting that is a possibility for the system.

There's one mention of its kinetic potential
>A director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said that Oreshnik's warheads, even inert, can cause "a lot of damage" because of the kinetic energy created by their hypersonic speed.
but immediately disagreed with
>Satellite images later revealed minimal damage to the roofs of Pivdenmash buildings and to the nearby private sector.
and it just swiftly changes topic back to claiming its of no tactical use and just for intimidation, completely confident the "entry wound" is the entirety of the damage caused.

>>2641832
That itself is being superseded by a new iteration of globalised specialisation. While intentionally successful in permitting the imperial core to transition to a full white collar economy and rid itself of the constant friction with internal industrial labour. It has unintentionally empowered periphery states that were outsourced to (in manufacturing or recourse supply) with enough leverage to outcompete the atrophied military industry of the core.
The post cold war market economies of the periphery are not a regression to a previous stage of capitalism as they are novel in their disproportionate hard power leverage relative to their economic size vis a vis the financial engines of western gdp.

>>2640870
>Hendrik … asked if the music could be turned off … they threated to give him a "warm Colombian welcome" while he slept. A knife between the ribs.
Lesson learned, when hanging out with right-wing AUC death squad guys, don't tell them to turn the music down.

The mayor of Lvov said the Oreshnik damage was "terrible."
If the damage were minimal, Ukraine wouldn't miss the chance to show it, but instead we get lame pictures of vintage parts, which tells me the damage is significant.

I assume that Russia trusts NATO intel to draw the correct conclusions from satellite/drone surveillance and on-site inspection and that Russia doesn't care what the public thinks, otherwise we'd get some footage of damage from Russian testing grounds.

>>2641992
>united24
So what does that make Ukraine in that comparison?

>>2641992
Zhukov: We captured Berlin.
Gerasimov: We expect to capture Donbass this year or next.
Zhukov: …

>1991 borders and nothing less! Just one more counteroffsyiv and it’s beach parties in Crimea! It’s a stalemate that will be broken by busification!
<lol Russia has been trying to capture Donbass for how long?
United24 doesn’t have much respect for its readers

>>2640314
>fascism is capitalism in decay
Are you implying that the US and EU aren't decaying? Because they pretty clearly are.

>>2641617
The virgin nerd Eugene vs the chad Nazi-killer Mikhail.

>>2642187
>Putin: Not one step forward
Corrected it for you.

>>2641841
Yeah they have to cope. I heard that all the underground complexes of Yuzhmash were destroyed because those warheads are dense and strike deep underground. I wonder if we will ever see what's left of the underground.

>>2642268
A Xitterer seemingly got satellite imagery of the plant and demonstrates roofs had collapsed which is hardly minimal, with craters visible underneath.
https://www.amerikanets.com/p/yuzhmash-and-oreshnik-demystified?utm_source=publication-search

But what the Wikipedia article, the "senior Ukrainian official" and resident cucktinist are doing, is jumping to the conclusion that because there doesn't appear to be even a conventional explosive charge in the MIRVs, that means they're inert as in they're intentionally non-destructive.
However, the article comes to the conclusion that each "inert" MIRV probably packs the punch of a 250kg charge which is common for cruise missiles, and that has me thinking that's probably more power than you'd likely fit with conventional explosives into a hypersonic MIRV, which I assume must be pretty slim for aerodynamics.

>>2642301
>The British government has identified a legal mechanism for the seizures
How very hyper-legalist of them, is the legal mechanism for seizing ships in international waters and therefore outside of their sanctions regime that we did it all the time in the 1700s?

>>2642301
And what are the countries of the workers in those fleet going to do? What about the countries who are supposed to receive that oil?

>>2641034
>NATO LGBT sex instructors.
you must be secretly gay

Oreshnik strike disabled Ukrainian warplane plant – Moscow
>The facility in Lviv was servicing F-16s and MiG-29s, and producing drones for strikes on civilian targets inside Russia, the Defense Ministry has said
<In a statement on Monday, the ministry said, citing several independent sources, that the attack successfully hit a facility which supported the operations of Ukrainian Soviet-era warplanes, including MiG-29 jets, as well as Western-supplied F-16s.
>The plant also produced long- and medium-range strike drones that were “used for strikes against Russian civilian targets deep inside the territory of the Russian Federation,” officials said.
https://swentr.site/russia/630857-oreshnik-targets-ukraine-warplane-factory/

I'm guessing the Oreshnik was therefore used because this will likely be one of the most well defended airspaces in all of Ukraine against drones and cruise missiles, rather than a message to the west. But also I believe initially it was claimed that this was "retaliation" for the attempt at droning the Putin Palace, which if it's where long-range drones are being built, you would hope the retaliation could have come much, much sooner. In fact not even retaliation, it's just a pretty basic military target in general but likely Ukraine's most prolific.

>>2642398
And now that I think of it, it's probably also the plant where MiGs get rigged up with Storm Shadows, so yeah it's a strange target to claim was attacked in "retaliation" rather than just common sense.

>>2642262
Mirnograd status?
Pokrovsk status?
Huliapole status?
Siversk status?
Lyman status?
Kostiantynivka status?
Etc etc

>>2642398
>>2642409
There was an official MoD statement that it was retaliation. Rybar has been complaining for a long time that the retaliation targets are either (A) targets that would've been hit anyway, in which case why call them retaliation targets, or (B) targets that should've been hit anyway but wouldn't have been, in which case why not. It's been an ongoing communications problem from the beginning.

amogus

LIVE: UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine

>>2642637
Is this history's goofiest war? Between turtle and hedgehog tanks and now this idk how much more silliness we can take.

Typically what kind of children grow up to be military drone operators?

>>2642614
I suppose it's a testament to how unfazed the Russian state is towards Ukraine's peremogas, that they just pass off whatever they were going to do anyway as retaliation, but I think a better narrative is just the truth; Ukraine does shit out of desperation, no one now in hindsight thinks the revenge bombing of Dresden was worthwhile, taking out Bin Laden did not solve the US' issue with radical ideologies in Afghanistan.

I think that's probably more conducive to keeping civilians satisfied than claiming stuff you ought to already be doing is a retaliation, because the apparent takeaway (based on doomer telegrams and cucktinists) is that revenge attacks are impossible rather than just undesirable and/or undesirable.

and/or an irrelevancy*

>>2642332
they'll get very offended when the sailors launch lethal counter-measures.

>>2642398
I don't think the Russian ministry of defense said that it was on retaliation.

>>2642262
this is just materialistically cope. you can look at the maps, and know it's not true.

tfw

>Ukrainian kid tried to carry out a school stabbing while wearing a "Hitler Kaput" shirt
probably had his heart in the right place, but too stupid or too desperate to just quietly cooperate with SVR and provide some kalibr targets instead

i thought the oreshnik hit the largest gas storage facility? did it actually hit the aircraft plant?

>>2642757
Russia said: "we hit drone production facilities, energy infrastructure (the gas field) and other military-related facilities with a strike that included oreshnik". Go figure
Ukraine said: "they probably hit the aircraft plant, but even if they did it did nothing, look at this old vacuum tube lmao
Another thing we'll never know for sure until X years from now

zelya chiming in about Iran's protests. stating very obviously that Iran's fall, it's a victory for their banderism.
>>2642738
>>2642738
>Сегодня ночью в ответ на террористическую атаку киевского режима по резиденции Президента Российской Федерации в Новгородской области, предпринятую в ночь на 29 декабря 2025 г., Вооруженные Силы России нанесли массированный удар (https://t.me/mod_russia/60186) высокоточным оружием большой дальности наземного и морского базирования, в том числе подвижным грунтовым ракетным комплексом средней дальности «Орешник», а также ударными БПЛА по критически важным объектам на территории Украины. Цели удара достигнуты.
>Tonight, in response to the Kyiv regime's terrorist attack on the residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Novgorod region on the night of December 29, 2025, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike (https://t.me/mod_russia/60186) with long-range land- and sea-based precision weapons, including the Oreshnik medium-range ground-mobile missile system, as well as attack UAVs, against critical targets in Ukraine. The strike's objectives were achieved.
https://t.me/mod_russia/60204
more exactly.
ok, I retract my I don't think.

>>2642769
I wonder why can't Ukraine find a decent ghost writer for Agent Z who actually knows english. Or maybe it's some 5d chess where him typing in abysmal runglish is supposed to serve as proof that he's authentic or something?

>>2642769
>Everything can be different
Including your position on NATO membership

>>2642772
that's Shariy, he's being ironic, but that's how many other ukrainians actually think

>>2642769
all the imperial wars are connected. the imperialists have one goal (world domination) and ukraine has chosen its side. He is a junior partner in the global imperial project playing his role and Iran is on the wrong side.

vid loosely related: some based individuals sing bella ciao (old italian anti-fascist song) during a speech by their fash-lite president (and also junior parter of the global imperial project) to her visible annoyance.

>Ukrainians install flag in Kupyansk, showing video evidence of how they walked there (not installation though)
vs
<Russians showing video of Ukrainian drone flying there and installing a flag

Well then, who's lying?

Russians are once again doing the historically needful, protecting Europe from Nazism.

>>2643179
>Well then, who's lying?
The same side that has been lying from the start. Even if the flag was planted by Ukrainian soldiers, that just means they sent busified conscripts on a PR suicide mission. The blocking "assault" brigades use TDF conscripts for shit like that.

>>2642769
What "evil" has Iran brought to Ukraine? On the other hand Ukraine invaded Iraq and brought instability to Iran's region. So who is really bringing evil where?

you ever notice when there is something happening this thread stops getting spammed

>>2643193
slow russian bureaucracy. The shills need to get the new material which needs to be approved by the propaganda officials which needs to be approved by the army which needs to be approved by kremlin…And if you are just a second class shill, you have to wait for some youtube video to come out first

funniest thing is to ask champagne to comment on really recent events. Instead of replying the next second as usually, he takes hours or days and he posts mixed stuff to mud the waters and be safe. when the official propaganda is out, he goes full spam.

>>2643195
no i mean iran, venezuela

>>2643195
Damn. You can stop projecting any time.

>>2643195
>the flag whisperer
I post when I can, granted I spend far too much of my life arguing with bad faith posters who at this point seem more motivated by an obsession with myself more than trying to sneeki breeki make the thread less anti-NATO/anti-Ukraine.
I think it's pretty healthy to take a couple of days away from that, regardless of whether actual happenings are happening or merely peremoga/Xitter drama/or whatever else cucktinists think is important.

>>2643187
iran is blamed for giving shaeed drones to russia.

>>2642007
Not believable, post source

Kiev awards major mining project to Trump-linked investors
>One of Ukraine’s largest lithium reserves will serve as a test project under a minerals deal with the US, Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko has said
<The New York Times first reported that development rights for the Dobra deposit in Kirovograd Region – one of Ukraine’s largest lithium reserves – were awarded to a US-linked consortium last week. Sviridenko confirmed the decision in a Telegram post on Monday.
https://www.rt.com/russia/630878-ukraine-mining-project-trump-investors/
Seems like the givas Trump secured last year is starting to move again, is the recent drive to collapse Venezuela and Iran another push to isolate and demoralise Russia into peace, so that resource extraction can begin? Who can say.

Lmao, check out the ownership- / oversight-structure of this "deal": https://swentr.site/russia/630878-ukraine-mining-project-trump-investors/

Basically the US gets everything and the Ukrainian "state" nothing. Pax Trumpfana.

>>2643308
>>2643316
Oh, sorry for sameposting.

I think squealing about war crimes over acts that were tearfully rejoiced about when Ukraine was doing it unilaterally, has to be one of the most pathetic aspects of this conflict. Not so much of the hypocrisy of it, more that a lot of the actual NAFO crowd online went into this with the attitude of
>Ukraine can do whatever it likes, because it's so based, strong and morally correct
to
>Ukraine can do whatever it likes, because it's the victim, suffering and Russia is morally incorrect
and I can understand the hype-induced "silence orc!" attitude, I can't understand the grief-induced "Silence orc.. *sniff*, pls stahp!" attitude.

>>2643383
Also
>civilian vessels
I think he means the Ukrainian shadow fleet, so erm, free game for the military I think?

>>2643216
The Gerans Russia is using now are very different than the original Shahed drone. Now they have jet engines, starlink terminals, carry different bombs. Sending a couple shaheds that Russia used as a starting point is hardly bringing "evil" to Ukraine. If Russia hadn't gotten shaheds they would have developed something else. It's a stupid argument.

Also I've just seen the performative lol'ing about vacuum tubes supposedly being used by the Oreshnik, if true then I don't understand the retardation to not see the ingenuity of that but I assume it's the same kind of wehrboos that think frequent breakdowns of Panther tanks is just evidence of how exquisitely engineered it is, while T-34 was caveman technology because they could be (and were) welded together by anyone of any skill and it would still work. You know what I mean?

Of course the US couldn't have possibly fielded their own hypersonic missile, they're still in the stage of mobilising the entire globe's R&D institutes and manufacturing infrastructure (including that of China) to devise how to utilise the most expensive possible rare earth minerals to be used in its one-chip solution only producible in Taiwan!

>>2643388
It's a stupid argument, but it helps Ukrainian propaganda.
>see, Ukraine is fighting against the whole Axis of Evil rather than Russia alone (please givas)
>see, Russia can't produce anything by itself and has to rely on drones made by dumb inferior low ICQ brownoids
>also gives Ukraine the pretext to put some diplomatic pressure on Iran as the loyal lapdog of USA that it is

This is deep…

>>2643396
I wonder if there is also recognition that the givas is a double edge sword, because unless NATO commits to opening new factories to work 24/7 to produce various weapons for Ukraine at “total-war” economics (which they haven’t), then that already predicts quite convincingly that the conflict ends when NATO runs out of shit to send and Russia is celebrating their 12,000,000 Geran produced.

I suspect therefore that’s why there’s so much PR thrown around about the Flamingo project, because as far as anyone can tell, the only other thing Ukraine produces are their long-range “Lituyi” drones or whatever they’re called (and after the other day, quite possibly not even that) which is far more frequently reported as shot down than successfully targeting apartment blocks in Voronezh military targets.

>>2643431
2022 and Trump reelection broke euroliberals so much that some of them will kill themselves if Ukraine or Taiwan dies

>>2643431
Mental illness is strong in this one

>>2643431
we need to kill anyone who still uses polandballs(USER WAS TURNED INTO A POLANDBALL)

>>2643477
FUCK YOU

>>2643477
But did you know Russia has tigers?

>>2643431
These are the mfs that vote for Volt. Insufferable even to libs.

>>2641730
>ukraine collapse

soon getting soon lel

>>2643477
picardias can be good.

>>2643540
Unless the EU can come up with the equivalent capital that stealing Russia assets were going to provide, then yeah, we will probably see that swift political collapse as salaries in all crucial sectors simply just go unpaid.

So, the ukes are sending the Jihadi gangs drones?

Ukrainian Ambassador: We did not provide drones to HTS and Syria
Erbil (Rawwad) - Ukrainian Ambassador to Iraq Ivan Dovhanich denies that his country has provided any type of drone to Syrian armed groups or the Damascus government.

"We have dedicated all our military capabilities to defending our territory and we have no ability to deploy," Ivan Dovhanich said.
The Ukrainian ambassador responded via email to rumors that Kiev has provided drones to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to strike Russian interests.

On the 10th of this month, a drone attack was carried out on the Aleppo provincial building.
It was claimed on social media that the drone was Ukrainian and had previously been given to HTS, which currently controls most of the government institutions in Damascus, to confront Russian forces.

Ivan Dovhanich told Rudaw that the rumors were baseless and said:
"Although Ukraine produces various types of drones, our country is currently focused solely on defending its territory against Russian attacks.
"Under these circumstances, we have neither the ability nor the desire to export them."

The Ukrainian ambassador sees Russia as the source of this news and said, "It is interesting that just four years ago Moscow was saying that Ukraine did not exist, but now the Russians are dreaming of Ukraine everywhere, even in Syria."

Ivan Dovhanich also made it clear about the rumors of providing drones to HTS:
"Ukraine has not provided, does not provide, and has no plans to provide any weapons or military equipment to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham or any similar organization."
"We have no connection with the HSD"

This refusal by the Ukrainian Ambassador comes at a time when, according to the American newspaper Washington Post, Ukraine provided at least 150 drones to HTS in 2024, a month before the fall of Bashar Assad.
Regarding Kiev's relations with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Ivan Dovhanich also noted that his country only has official diplomatic relations with the Syrian state as an internationally recognized power.
The Ukrainian ambassador said, "Ukraine does not have direct dialogue or official relations with non-state groups and armed formations in the Syrian conflict," and stressed that his country supports the territorial integrity of Syria.

>>2643439
Funny thing is Flamingos and other "Ukraine-produced" missiles, which are just assembled in Ukraine from Western+Chinese parts, are massive scams.
>The deadly new Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missile, with a range of up to 3,000 kilometers, costs less than €1 million.
https://ukrainetoday.org/the-economist-ukrainian-flamingo-cruise-missile-costs-less-than-one-million-euros/
>Valeriy Romanenko, an aviation expert and senior researcher at the State Aviation Museum, expressed hope in an interview with Radio NV on Aug. 19 that Ukraine will immediately produce 50 Flamingo missiles per month and gradually increase this number.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-to-immediately-produce-50-flamingo-missiles-per-month-expert-hopes-50538676.html
<Ukraine’s Flamingo missile has been used nine times in real combat operations – Zelenskyy
https://english.nv.ua/nation/zelenskyy-ukraine-s-flamingo-cruise-missile-used-nine-times-in-real-combat-operations-50557116.html
Shouldn't they have over a hundred between August and October 31? Wikipedia is even more insane.
>The missile, similar in appearance to the Milanion Group FP-5 cruise missile, is in serial production, targeting 210 units a month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-5_Flamingo
210 per month!!!
>On 23 December 2025, President Zelenskyy referred to undated use of the Flamingo missile: "The Flamingo percentage has now improved. There was a recent use, it was that they used five missiles: one destroyed the target, four were shot down by Russian air defense".[52]
14 Flamingos used between August and December, yet they are producing 210 a month! It's such a blatant scam. lmao

>>2643549
what are you even talking about? they already did. Did you miss the memo?

>>2643195
Champagne isn't a Kremlin shill lol. He's a Brit who doesn't know enough about the basic geography of the war to be a Kremlin shill.

Now that the dust has settled, what was the fucking point of the Westoid-driven NABU cases? They didn't do anything to Zelensky, and he didn't have to change his mind about anything.

>>2643614
What is a NABU

>>2643562
Absolutely but ultimately Ukraine has to believe that Flamingos can be
>Available immediately
>Cheap to produce
>Endlessly manufactured in underground-drone proof factories
>Comparable to Tomahawks
because otherwise it becomes obvious this conflict ends when the givas stops, they've targeted a cruise missile specifically because they failed to receive Tomahawks as givas
And the need to believe is desperate, as evidenced by the cognitive dissonance between claiming the Flamingo using an out-of-production Soviet engine is clever because they're cheap and disposable, and not drawing a similar conclusion to the one they have when they claim that Oreshniks use presumably also out-of-production Soviet vacuum tubes and so Russia can't win an arms race with an inherently limited supply of parts.

They have a particular love of jerry-rigged FPV drone footage because that's the only thing Ukraine produces that can be depended on even if all NATO support runs out, China will never be able to ensure consumer drones won't reach Ukraine (if they're even attempting to prevent that) and presumably they've still got millions of RPG-7 grenades in stock. The issue is that Russia is advancing, so the woo of FPV drones forcing a stalemate becomes questionable and thus Ukraine is reduced to finding homegrown replacements for NATO stuff Zelensky is now failing to secure as givas.

>>2642637
Ukrainian drones can be modified to have thermal imaging. Not to mention how NATO and Starlink would easily see groups of these people coming in to the line of contact and mark them out for destruction. This is basically sending out soldiers to die with no protection for zero gain because that shit won't fool anyone. Hence why I called for Russia to blow up Starlink satellites as early as 2 years ago but clearly Cucktin enjoys the meat grind.

>>2643562
worth to mention that mike pompeo is one of the key members of that scam.
>Shouldn't they have over a hundred between August and October 31?
they can only produce as much of the jet engines they got in stock after the USSR dissolution. Ukraine stated in the past they only had less than 100 (if I recall correctly) or so of the engines. and they are not particularly good to adapt to a cruise missile.
>>2643617
labubu but eastern european.

>>2643662
You still here?

>>2643617
Ukrainian anti-corruption agency run by Westoid spooks. It's knocked out some of Zelensky's closest allies in recent months.
One of the theories was that the West wanted to replace Zelensky with Zaluzhny, but there hasn't been enough energy in that direction. Another theory was that the West wanted to pressure Zelensky to make concessions to Russia, but he's made no concessions whatsoever. Yet another theory was that it was to force Zelensky to do a mobilization, but that hasn't happened either.
Then there's my schizo theory that it was an attempt to fool Russia into thinking that Zelensky's regime was on the verge of collapse and therefore Russia could make concessions. This comes from my more general schizo theory that the West is never going to do anything that harms Ukraine, so if it looks like Ukraine is being harmed, it's a ruse directed at Russia.

>>2643706
I think there's a genuine desire for Ukrainian corruption to not pilfer from western investments and that's the origin of the NABU, but the NABU is neutered by the desire to see a return on the investments that weren't stolen.

>>2643614
the west used those raids to remove Zelensky's long time business partner and power broker Andriy Yermak which was ultimately successful. he was getting too big for his britches and had to go

what is putin doing in this moment?

>>2643843
Sitting in his cuck chair in the cuck bunker.

>>2643843
Sitting in his win chair at the win bunker playing sony wincstation.

KYIV, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Ukrainian lawmakers on Tuesday failed to approve outgoing defence chief Denys Shmyhal as energy minister, a surprise wartime rebuke of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as he attempts to shake up key sectors at a critical moment in the war.
Shmyhal, who served as prime minister for five years until he was shifted to the defence ministry last year, had been tapped by Zelenskiy to steer an energy sector hobbled by corruption allegations and Russian attacks on infrastructure.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-parliament-votes-against-appointing-denys-shmyhal-energy-minister-2026-01-13/

>>2644132
44 absent upset the vote, half of them 22 from the Z party. It looks like no one cares anymore, it's just warlordism under a flagging dictatorship from here on.

meanwhile the bread head woman is going to jail

>>2644159
Is that the first imprisonment NABU has achieved?

>ukrainian military brand
>P1G
goddamn it

>>2644166
she aint in jail yet, so no, they still got literally nobody

>>2643540
You have to be blind if you can't see how Ukraine is rapidly falling apart at the seams.

>>2644159
Did someone say bread head?

>>2644159
let the maidanites eat each other. hopefully they jail Klitch Co. and Poroshenko next

>>2644296
Poroshenko realized things smell rotten for him and has bent the knee

>>2644357
If Russia nuked Kiev the number of human casualties would be 0.

>>2644357
>Homosexual Poroshenko
i didn't realise he was

>>2644159
why does she look like a star wars villain lol

>>2644159
mmm… what were they voting there?
>>2644159
>it was her.
didn't know that mindich was part of the batkivschchyna party, lmao.

>>2644193
P1G.
they what?

>>2644258
Any minute now bro

>>2644534
crimea beach party status?

zelya again:
>We support the position on Iran: A regime that has lasted so many years and killed so many people does not deserve to exist. Changes are needed. Changes are also needed in Europe—the bloodshed that Russia started and is the only one still prolonging must come to an end.
https://nitter.net/ZelenskyyUa/status/2011168504792432790

>>2644550
I actually think at this point the “deep state” don’t want Russian aggression gone because it would remove the excuse for the changes they need to make to European society to deal with climate change and economic protestors.

One of the reasons there was so much social progress in the ‘90s was they no longer had the boogeyman of communism as an excuse.

>>2643391
Vacuum tubes are immune to radiation and EMP. Making a “hardened” transistor is much more expensive.

The downside is they are bulky, consume more electricity, and produce more heat. But if you only need a simple device they are suited for such militarily use.

>>2642767
Ukraine is just jealous that they used to be the centre of USSR military industry and now can’t even make a vacuum tube.

>>2644159
Prior to Maidan, she was a person negotiating with Russians for gas prices. She already went through jail for that under Yanukovich, was released during Maidan, and now she'll get to experience the jail cell again, but now she'll get jailed by maidanites lol

>>2644623
>One of the reasons there was so much social progress
I am sure the re-privatization of industries accelerated after the USSR dissolution. Spain specifically, I remember that many strategic state companies (oil, gas, utilities, telecom) were privatized. what kept many of the social programs in Europe was the USSR. people were anti-communist ideologically, not materialistically stupid, seeing and knowing what the Soviets had.

>>2644753
Socdems thought they won hard-earned victories. In reality, they got piggybacked by the struggle of workers outside of imperial core

Le interimperialist conflict

>>2644854
with cucktin characteristics

>The talk is about a special representative who will conduct a dialogue with Russia on behalf of the European Union on the Ukrainian conflict. The initiative is being promoted by Macron and Italian Prime Minister Meloni, calling for opening communication channels with Moscow amid the stagnation of negotiations mediated by the US.
>In Brussels, it is emphasized that such a representative will address signals not only to Russia, but also to Washington, as some issues directly affect Europe's security.
>As possible candidates, Italian politician Mario Draghi and Finnish President Stubb are unofficially mentioned, but sources note that the discussion of personalities is premature for now.

apparently kaja is too useless.

>>2644868
Or they've realised having Kallas being like
>behead those who insult internationally recognised borders
with Russia, but
>I'm sure something peaceful can be negotiated!
with the US over Greenland is too revealing of the double standards.

If you delegate calling for Democratic Jihad against Russia to Stubb, then it makes it seem like that's just his opinion/style and therefore so too is Kallas' soft touch with the US demanding a vassal hand over territory.

What's the nazigger cope for why the 3 day SVO is longer than all of WWII? Not enough lend-lease from China?

>>2644974
Total battlefield surveillance and precision strikes by drones has turned modern warfare into a complete slow trudge of infiltration tactics by small groups of infantry compared to LE BIG ARROWS offensives of yesterday.

>>2644868
She is in the midst of her own corruption scandal too

Will Zelensky manage to save Denmark?

>>2644992
Wtf. That hellhole of a state cant collapse soon enough. Oh, but there are nazi orgs with weapons and shit. Ukrainians are fucked. There is nothing to be done. This is their inescapable fate.

Kekekekekek

guys im scared

>>2645088
>ukraine
>red and yellow flag
good to know they take their beach safety seriously

>>2645088
>no UK
Fuck man, all that money spent and we get dropped JUST because of Brexit.

>>2645088
Where is Belgium?

>>2645092
Its germany blindy…

>>2644623
>One of the reasons there was so much social progress in the ‘90s
Uyghur the 90s were when Scandinavians went completely mask off and privatized their fucking hospitals and schools because the USSR was finally defeated.

https://www.capital.gr/diethni/3967251/poutin-oukrania-ti-minuma-stelnei-o-oreshnik/


…
This latest point, however, also shows us the peculiar asymmetry of the conflict being waged between the United States and Russia (as well as China). Donald Trump’s country has the luxury of acting flexibly and unpredictably almost anywhere in the world, whereas its Eurasian rivals fight in their immediate neighborhood using costly means, with a major commitment of forces, and with the risk of uncontrolled escalation—something they do not want to take on.

They want to patiently build an alternative order of affairs, at a time when the occupant of the White House is satisfied simply with immediate and quick moves of disruption.

>>2644623
>One of the reasons there was so much social progress in the ‘90s was they no longer had the boogeyman of communism as an excuse.
Zigger gem

>>2645303
Nonsense. The only reason USA acts like it does is because it's a paper tiger that has to make sure to choose it's opponents

>>2645296
vid makes me laugh every time

Most popular Ukrainian dish atm

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was charged on Wednesday amid an anti-corruption investigation for allegedly offering bribes to members of the Ukrainian parliament

https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/14/former-ukrainian-pm-yulia-tymoshenko-charged-amid-anti-corruption-investigation

>Letter of Imam Khomeini,

>The Great Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran,

>To President Mikhail Gorbachev, Leader of the Soviet Union

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Your Excellency Mr. Gorbachev1, Chairman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

With due wishes for the happiness and prosperity of Your Excellency and the people of the Soviet Union.

Since your assumption of office there has been the impression that Your Excellency, in analyzing world political events, particularly those pertaining to the Soviet Union, have found yourself in a new era of reassessment, change, and confrontation; and your boldness and initiative in dealing with the realities of the world is quite likely to bring about changes that would result in upsetting the equations of power dominating the world. I have therefore found it necessary to bring certain matters to your attention.

Even if your new approach and decisions are merely used as a means to overcome the party crisis, and to solve some of the problems confronting your people, your courage in reappraising a school of thought that has for decades enchained the revolutionary youth of the world behind its iron curtain is indeed worthy of praise. If, however, you are considering taking a further step forward, the first thing that will ensure your success is that you re-evaluate your predecessors’ policy of obliterating God and religion from society2, a policy that has no doubt given the heaviest blow to the Soviet people. Rest assured that this is the only way whereby world problems can be dealt with realistically.

Viewing Islam as a remnant of the pre-socialist stage, Marxists took two major approaches to confront it: to wipe out Islam as an alien element from the scene of public life by openly challenging it, and to assimilate Islam into Russian society by Russianizing Muslims. Stalin, the most notorious of all communist leaders, persecuted Muslims on a large scale by banishing certain Muslim peoples collectively to Siberia and Asia Minor. The astonishing number of Russian anti- religious publications distributed in Islamic countries is part of the Soviet government’s universal struggle against Islam. The occupation of Afghanistan was the Soviet Union’s last attempt to penetrate the Islamic world.

Of course it is possible that as a result of wrong economic policies of former communist authorities, the Western world, an illusory heaven, will appear to be fascinating; but the truth lies elsewhere. If you hope, at this juncture, to cut the economic Gordian knots of socialism and communism by appealing to the center of Western capitalism, you will, far from remedying any ill of your society, commit a mistake which those to come will have to erase. For, if Marxism has come to a deadlock in its social and economic policies, capitalism has also bogged down, in this as well as in other respects though in a different form.

Mr. Gorbachev,

Reality must be faced. The main problem confronting your country is not one of private ownership, freedom and economy; your problem is the absence of true faith in God, the very problem that has dragged, or will drag, the West to vulgarism and an impasse. Your main problem is the prolonged and futile war you have waged against God, the source of existence and creation.

Mr. Gorbachev,

It is clear to everybody that from now on communism will only have to be found in the museums of world political history, for Marxism cannot meet any of the real needs of mankind. Marxism is a materialistic ideology and materialism cannot bring humanity out of the crisis caused by a lack of belief in spirituality—the prime affliction of the human society in the East and the West alike.

Mr. Gorbachev,

You may have not in theory turned your back on certain aspects of Marxism—and may continue to profess your heartfelt loyalty to it in interviews—but you know that, in practice, the reality is not so. The leader of China3 struck the first blow to communism and you have
struck the second and, apparently, final blow. Today we have no such thing as communism in the world.

I earnestly call on you, however, not to get trapped, while tearing down the walls of Marxist illusions, in the prison of the West and the Great Satan.4 I hope you will attain the honor of removing the decayed layers of 70-year communist aberration from the face of history and of your country. Today those allies of yours that are genuinely concerned about their homelands and people are no longer willing to sacrifice their subterranean and surface resources to keep alive the myth of the success of communism—an ideology whose din of collapse has already reached the ears of their children.

Mr. Gorbachev,

When after 70 years the call, “Allah is Great” and the testimony to the prophethood of the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him and his posterity) were heard from the minarets of the mosques in some of your Republics, all the followers of the pure Muhammadan Islam were moved to tears out of ecstasy.

Therefore, I have found it necessary to remind you to reflect once again on the materialistic and theistic worldviews. Materialists consider sense to be the sole criterion of knowledge and are of the opinion that whatever cannot be known through the senses falls outside the realm of knowledge. They identify existence with matter and consider as nonexistent anything that has no material body. Inevitably, they regard the world of the unseen—God Almighty, Divine Revelation, Prophethood, and the Resurrection—as mere fiction.

On the other hand, theists consider both sense and reason to be the criteria of knowledge, and maintain that whatever can be known through reason lies within the realm of knowledge, although it is not perceptible. To theists, therefore, existence is inclusive of both the unseen and the manifest. For a thing to exist it is not necessary to have a material body. In the same way that a material thing depends on an incorporeal thing,5 sensory perception is dependent on rational perception.6

The Holy Qur’an reprobates the fundamentals of materialistic thought and, addressing those who say:

“We shall never believe in thee until we see God manifestly,”7

proclaims:

“Vision comprehends Him not, and He comprehends all vision; and He is the Knower of subtleties, the Aware.”8

I should not like to present here Qur’anic arguments concerning Divine Revelation, Prophethood and the Resurrection which from your point of view are debatable. In fact, I do not wish to entangle you in the twists and turns of philosophical arguments, particularly those of Islamic philosophy. I will content myself by presenting one or two simple, intuitive examples of which even politicians can avail themselves.

It is self-evident that matter, whatever its nature, has no awareness of self. Consider a stone statue: each side is ignorant of the other side. Whereas human beings and animals clearly observe and are aware of their surroundings. They know where they are and are aware of what goes on around them. There must be, then, an element in men and animals that transcends matter and is separate from it, living beyond the life of matter.

Intrinsically, man seeks to attain absolute perfection. He strives, as you well know, for absolute power over the world; he is not attached to any power that is defective. If he has the entire world at his command, he naturally feels inclined to have command of another world once he is informed of its existence. No matter how learned a person may be if he learns of some other branch of knowledge, he naturally feels inclined to attain mastery of that branch of knowledge as well.

Therefore, there must be some Absolute Power and Absolute Knowledge to which man is attached. It is God we all seek although we may not be aware of it. Man strives to attain Absolute Truth, so that he may be annihilated in God. Basically, the desire for eternal life that is inherent in every individual is proof of the existence of an Eternal World to which destruction cannot find its way.

Should Your Excellency desire further information on these matters, you may command those scholars of yours who are well-versed in this field to study, in addition to the works of Western philosophers, the writings of Peripatetic philosophers9, al-Farabi10 and Avicenna,11

peace be upon them. It will then become clear that the law of causation on which all knowledge depends is a rational, not sensible law. Likewise, perception of general laws and concepts on which all reasoning rests is reached not by means of sensory experience but through rational argument.12 Your scholars may further refer to the Ishraqi13 theosophy of Suhrawardi,14 and explain to you that the flesh, as well as any other material thing, is in need of Pure Light which has no material entity, that man’s witnessing of his own truth does not take place by means of any sense organ.15 You may also have the scholars familiarize themselves with Transcendental philosophy16 of Mulla Sadra 17(may Allah be pleased with him and resurrect him with the prophets and the pious), so that it may become clear that the nature of knowledge is different from the nature of matter and that intellect, far removed from matter, cannot be restricted by the laws governing matter.

I won’t tire you further by mentioning the works of mystics, in particular Muhyi’d-Din ibn al-‘Arabi.18 If you wish to make yourself acquainted with the doctrines of this celebrated mystic, send a number of your brilliant scholars, who are well-versed in this field, to Qum19 so that, by reliance on God, they may, after a couple of years, glimpse the depth of the delicate stages of gnosis,20 which will be impossible for them to acquire without making such a journey.

Mr. Gorbachev,

After mentioning these problems and preliminary points, let me call on you to study Islam earnestly, not because Islam and the Muslims may need you but because Islam has exalted universal values which can bring comfort and salvation to all nations and remove the basic problems of mankind. A true understanding of Islam may forever release you from the problem of Afghanistan21 and other similar involvements. We treat Muslims of the world as Muslims of our own country and will ever share in their destiny.

By granting certain liberties to some of your Republics in matters pertaining to religious practices, you have shown that you no longer consider religion as the “opium of the people.”22 Indeed, how can Islam be the opium of the people—the religion that has made Iranians as firm as a mountain against superpowers? Is the religion that seeks the administration of justice in the world and man’s freedom from material and spiritual shackles, the opium of the people? Only that religion is the opium of the people that causes the material and spiritual resources of Islamic and non-Islamic countries to pass into the clutches of super and lesser powers and that preaches that religion is separate from politics. This, however, cannot be called a true religion; it is what our people call “an American religion.”

In conclusion, I declare outright that the Islamic Republic of Iran as the greatest and most powerful base of the Islamic world can easily fill the vacuum of religious faith in your society. In any case, our country, as in the past, honors good neighborhood and bilateral relations.

Peace be upon those who follow the guidance.23

Ruhullah al-Musawi al-Khomeini
67/10/11 AHS
[January 1, 1989

Letter

>>2645299
>Uyghur the 90s were when Scandinavians went completely mask off
True
>privatized their fucking hospitals and schools
Not true.

>>2645094
Everybody knows that if there is a scenario where Europeans are defending greenland against US, bongs would shoot any European alliance in the back.

Are you ready for annexation of Iceland next?

>>2645673
And after this transgression I'm all fucking for it, why does Finland and Germany get two!?

>>2644868
Kaja has proven that there really can be such thing as an anti-diplomat. She has spent all her time cursing 1/3 of the world and sucking up another third. The result of her work is that 1/3 of the world thinks Europe as a collection of incompetent unbending agreement incapable fanatical children out to get them. The another ignored third has just gotten alienated from Europe all together just by listening EU demands to also curse the EU's designated untouchables. The one third she spent suck up just have no remaining respect for EU, and now know that they can ignore or do whatever they want to it and know that EU wont protest nor will anybody else help Europe.

>>2645664
>Not true.
…

>>2645792
They're obviously not so retarded they can't figure out why transporting military cargo using civilian vehicles is considered illegal. They must therefore be enlightened enough to know their audience are wilfully ignorant or have the attention span of fruit-flies and quite possibly both.

>>2645796
Allowing private clinics or schools isn't same as privatizing public schools and hospitals. Also I'm pretty sure private schools and medical practices have been a thing way before since the 90s. Most of them also taking government money.

Although, saying that…

>>2645812
You're an idiot.

>>2644623
>One of the reasons there was so much social progress in the ‘90s was they no longer had the boogeyman of communism as an excuse.
the reality is exactly inverse
all europeans socdem gains started to get reversed starting from ussr fall

>>2644992
that'd be hysterical lol.
>>2644760
be that as it may, it was a move backwards anyway. they plundered, and plunder after and before, but inequality in Europe, and almost every developed country/OECD country accelerated its increase in inequality, as a general trend.

>>2645833
this guy looks british

>>2645958
Oh? What gave it away?

Kiev attacked Kazakh-commissioned tanker – Russian military
>Two Ukrainian drones hit the ship on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry has reported
<The incident involving the crude oil tanker Matilda was reported by the Kazakh state-owned oil company KazMunayGas (KMG), whose subsidiary commissioned the ship to pick up cargo at the Russian port of Novorossiysk.
https://swentr.site/russia/630949-black-sea-tanker-ukraine/

But Kazakhstan gave Ukraine airspace (possibly even launch space) for their drone attacks against Russian oil facilities, this is how they repay them?

>>2644159
Maybe that was the purpose of NABU. Take out some Zelensky minions for the appearance of "fairness" and then take out anyone who could oppose Zelensky.

>>2646521
sorry Kallas, I've been drinking coffee way before the global happenings.

>>2646521
love to see it

>>2646862
That's not a monke, that's a ape.

Shame on u

>>2646870
Monke isn't a taxonomic category, it's a spiritual state of being.

>>2645812
did they do the think that the balts did where they outsource all their school curriculums to that think tank in texas that puts bible quotes and nazi propaganda about the soviets in textbooks and all the top students and future global leaders get scholarships to cia university of liberalism good?

>>2645812
>Allowing private clinics or schools isn't same as privatizing public schools and hospitals
In practice it is (entryism), it wasn't a thing not even in West-Germany before the 1990s and the 1990s wasn't a decade of "social progress" in politics whatsoever, quite the opposite. It was the great purge of everything that was left of AES and the start of the great neoliberal aussault to kill "eurocommunism" and everything communists, socialists, unions and succdems had achieved for the working class since the late 1800s.
You got it all backwards.

>Ukraine are full of nazis!
<Russia are imperialist fascist capitalists!
No, no no, the geniuses are /fascist/ have figured out you're all wrong, because *checks notes* everyone is jewish? Alright then…

>>2646862
420CHAAAAAAAAN!!

>Geran struck the center of Lvov, detonating mere meters away from the Bandera monument
Damn

>>2647552
yeah…the main difference between the empire and the rebels…One can hit the exact floor of a building, the others cant even hit the target.

An optimist may say that in a century or two a new faith shall arise that will take hold by the next millennia…

>>2647552
>>2647627
Putin respects Ukrainian life so much that he doesn't want to disturb memorials to long-dead fascist Ukrainians. His meekness and mercy truly are worthy of Christianity. I know Putin is guaranteed to go to heaven based on how he's waging this "war".

All embassy workers are intelligence people no?

>>2647672
they are high I.Q. people, yes

>>2647647
Outsiders destroying symbols of an in group makes terrible optics. Either the Ukros have a revolution themselves or they perish

>>2647672
Depends on the country. Russia/USSR has traditionally used diplomat cover for their intelligence officers.

6th highest post of the past year on /r/IAmA

https://reddit com/r/IAmA/comments/1o92as2/im_a_combat_medic_of_the_ukrainian_azov_brigade/

Lukashenko status?

>>2647697
On the left.

>>2647221
>No, no no, the geniuses are /fascist/ have figured out you're all wrong, because *checks notes* everyone is jewish? Alright then…
It's just their version of "inter-imperialist" war, lol

>>2647718
>>2647221
that's the banderite mantra, yes? in fact, they don't trust americans for the same reason.
>>2647690

some 'dodgy people are on their side', too.
what an abject thing to say.

>After devastating blows to the energy sector, many Ukrainians agree to give up Donbas to end the war, the New York Times reports.
—————————————–
>US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker believes a deal on Ukraine is closer than ever.

>In football, the last yard in the red zone is the hardest. I think the same applies here. "The last yard will be tough, but I have a good feeling about it," Whitaker said.
—————————————–
>In Ukraine, a legislative decision has been made to update spelling and create a glossary of legal language "free of officialese and Russianisms."

>There are also plans to develop a national font for documents.

>The Verkhovna Rada rejected the abolition of the deferment for male students who began their studies after age 25.
—————————————–
speaking of yulia tymoshenko:
>Ukraine has become a hub of corruption at every level, from the head of state to the lowest official.

>This was stated by Yulia Tymoshenko, who was herself charged with corruption the day before.

>"We have fought, and will continue to fight, against the widespread corruption that has permeated all branches of government in Ukraine," the Batkivshchyna leader assured.
vid #1
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>Zelensky accused Klitschko of Kiev's inadequate preparation for the energy emergency.

>"Much has been done in Kharkov—the local authorities there are prepared. Kiev, unfortunately, has done significantly less. Very little has been done in the capital. Even now, I don't see the necessary intensity. All of this needs to be addressed urgently," he noted.

—————————————–
>Director of the Ukrainian Energy Center, Viktor Kharchenko:

>Kiev has never seen a more difficult situation. Never before in the world has a power grid been attacked at -15°C, destroying a city with central heating.

vid #2

>>2643187
Iran also helped the USA in the Iraq war.

>>2644623
>I actually think at this point the “deep state” don’t want Russian aggression gone because it would remove the excuse for the changes they need to make to European society to deal with climate change and economic protestors
>implying they need a realistic "excuse" to do those things
they'll do it anyway. Russia could pull out of Ukraine, pull all its soldiers from Africa, and other places, retreat from the Arctic, build a massive wall around themselves and Europe/US would still call them a threat. They'd say it was a sign that they are preparing for a big attack. When will you people learn that reality literally doesn't matter to Westoids, they create their own narratives and thus their own "reality". such is the postmodernist condition.

>Former head of Zelensky's Office, Andrey Yermak, who planned to go to the front after his resignation (his words), didn't even contact the TCC.

>The Ministry of Defense reported this in response to a request from MP Zheleznyak
—————————————–
>Personnel changes at the SBU continue.

>Following the alleged voluntary resignation of the head of the service, Malyuk, a murderer and terrorist, Zelensky replaced two deputies, appointing Yaroslav Merezhko and Ivan Rudnytskyi to these positions.

>The last appointee's background is more or less clear and open to me: he worked in the SBU's anti-smuggling and anti-corruption units in the customs agencies in the western regions. This immediately speaks volumes to those in the know – this is the most corrupt line of work within the SBU. People from this line have long been systemically corrupt. Therefore, Rudnytskyi is a systemic player, a classic SBU leader, integrated into the country's corruption schemes as a whole.
>But with Yaroslav Merezhko, things are not so simple.

>The fact is that before joining the Counterintelligence Department, in 2015-2016, then-Lieutenant Colonel Yaroslav Viktorovich Merezhko was an officer in the SBU's Main Directorate for Counterintelligence Protection of the State Economy, which is responsible for economic security. Merezhko served in this unit as an active reserve officer at the state corporation National Atomic Energy Generating Company Energoatom, where he was responsible for nuclear fuel supplies.

>For those unfamiliar with the workings of the intelligence services, let me explain what an active reserve officer (ARO) is. An active reserve officer (ARO) is an intelligence service employee who is either overtly or covertly seconded to work at a state-owned or non-state enterprise, agency, or organization, holding a regular position there, receiving a salary from that organization, but carrying out intelligence service assignments.

>So, Yaroslav Merezhko oversaw nuclear fuel supplies to Ukrainian nuclear power plants on behalf of the SBU. And, as my sources explained to me, Merezhko is directly involved in promoting Westinghouse nuclear fuel to the Ukrainian market.

>As a reminder, after the Maidan, the American corporation, using lobbying by the American government and ordinary corruption within Ukraine, practically captured the Ukrainian nuclear fuel market, replacing Rosatom fuel elements with its own. This despite the fact that using American nuclear fuel in Soviet-made reactors could lead to a man-made disaster.

>After the Maidan, the Ukrainian government, on the one hand, tried to move away from dependence on Russia for fuel supplies, while on the other, actively accepted corrupt offers from the American side. Meanwhile, purchasing American-produced fuel caused colossal damage to the Ukrainian economy and the people themselves.

>Thus, it can be concluded that this individual has been an American agent of influence since 2015. And, in my opinion, it was the American side that lobbied for his career advancement, promoting their man to leadership positions. Now, the appointment of such an employee to the position of Deputy Head of the SBU further strengthens American control
over the Ukrainian Security Service. And Zelensky obediently carries out the orders of his American puppeteers.

a 2023, 35 minutes, video of the Westinghouse corruption scandal in Ukraine that is related to Merezhko promotion:
https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/4751

>>2647737
'help' it's stretched here. by the time the Iran-Contras scandal happened, the Iran-Iraq war was already stalemated for 5 years. and they were not politically free, besides the money the US got for the sales. Iran had to free prisoners, US soldiers, each life worth of 550 tow anti-tank missiles and 8 hawk anti-aricraft missiles. it was in very small scale (not giving Iran decisive victory over Iraq) and often arrived late.
the only thing that could be seen as 'help' was the contras receiving money for the sales after they got their own tap closed.

>>2647690
Reddit supports Nazis. go to r/europe and you'll see people saying quite often that Soviets were worse than Nazis. it's the Poles and the Balts mostly. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania celebrate their Nazi collaborators.

>>2647758
I meant the 2003 Iraq war, Iran's proxies in Iraq actively welcomed the USA's invasions, Iran in general actively cooporated with the USA

>Footage shows huge puddles of oil in Odessa after a Russian air strike.

>Sunflower oil is one of Ukraine's main export products.
—————————————–
>Two million Ukrainians are wanted for evading conscription into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to new Defense Minister Fedorov.

>The number of deserters has reached 200,000.

>The department's debt amounts to 300 billion hryvnias (approximately $7 billion).

>Prime Minister Yulia Svyridenko confirmed that the tender to develop the Dobra lithium deposit in the Kirovograd region was won by a consortium associated with billionaire Ronald Lauder.

>He has known Trump since his student days.

>According to Svyridenko, the winner was Dobra Lithium Holdings JV, LLC, whose shareholders include Techmet and The Rock Holdings.

same guy pushing for the annexation of Greenland, btw.

>>2647844
Talking soap says what?

>>2647892
Fuck CPSU. Fuck the partisans. Fuck the USSR.

copeyansk status?

>>2648056
not even online nafo copes about it. whatever push to recapture the city they had and tried it's now deflating. also, flag wars. >>2643179

>>2647677
According to Events in Ukraine there's a serious fear of them doing just that, if all these deserters ever organize.

"Russian Occupation of Eastern Ukraine" Residents Speakout

>>2648689
ok which lib ALREADY voted russia lol

lfg zbros

>>2647699
Lukashenko is not a Trotskyite who disregards nationalism, Lukashenko understands that nationalism has become a prerequisite to any civilizational development.

>>2648931
May MGE Lukashenko rape you forever.

4 years later, who won?

>>2648931
kill yourself as soon as possible

>killed 1,2 million of his own citizens to own the libs
Why is he like this?

>>2649170
Compared to said libs, who are expending an entire country with violent conscription and massive debts to own the authoritatians.

>>2649180
>an entire country
yes,but none of them live there so ?

>>2649170
gonna need a sauce on your fanfic

>>2649195
So your point wasn’t your hopium number of 1.2 million

>>2649170
Your opinion on the most popular ukrainian dish? >>2645570

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed developments in the Middle East and Iran in a phone call on Friday, the Kremlin said, as diplomatic maneuvering intensified over possible U.S. military action against Tehran.

According to a Kremlin statement, Putin offered Russia’s assistance in mediation efforts related to Iran, outlining his “fundamental stance in favor of stepping up political and diplomatic efforts aimed at ensuring the region’s stability and security.”

Israeli sources confirmed the Netanyahu-Putin call, but provided no further details.

Good stuff!

>>2649170
Wtf with his head? Haven't notice this before.

>>2649170
it was only suppposed to be 2 more weeks…

>>2649845
>coup a relatively neutral government
>install extremely pro-NATO fascists
Yes.

>>2649778
His father dropped him on his head while he was little. Later Putin would ally himself with Yeltsin.

>>2649098
hey, if someone emulated the battle between all the US ground army forces and 4 million monke, and the monke won, you have yourself a very close answer.
>>2649103
Juche necromancy is powerful.
>>2649170
probably 3 billions this weekend.
and next weekend 2 billions more.

>>2647735
>Kiev has never seen a more difficult situation. Never before in the world has a power grid been attacked at -15°C, destroying a city with central heating.
Has there been any statistics about how much damages has the frost done to the pipes and other heating infrastructure in Kiev?

I wonder how many piglets have frozen to death in Kyiyev.

>>2650174
I suspect that housing prices are going to be very down in Kiev

>>2650174
it's extensive. one can see continuous video in ukrainian media in Kiev where people have their pipes broken.

Oh, klitschko is scary. he didn't like zelya's threat:
>"I'm answering you publicly. At least I'm speaking honestly and warning people about the extremely difficult situation. And I don't care about ratings or illusory elections," the mayor wrote.
>>2650218
>>2650174
this is what they do to get the pipes unfrozen. though, I am not sure if everyone has access to gas.

>>2650228
klitschko is scared*, scared from zelya's threats.

>>2650174
A week ago Klitchko said one third of Kiev city is missing heating. Today he said it's one to three hundred apartment complexes, which is probably cope since there were only further attacks since then.

>>2650228
This won't help. You need to insulate pipes throughout whole building, and also heat up, for water to not turn to ice. Besides, you need circulation of hot water, or else there'll be spots where it turns to ice

>A continuation of the Ukrainian production "Elimination of Competitors":

<"The situation in Kiev is particularly difficult – the city authorities have lost time, and now the government will correct what was not done at the city level," Zelensky stated.

>According to him, a permanent headquarters for the capital has already been established, and its work will be overseen at the government level.

<"I expect full cooperation and collaboration from local authorities," Zelensky said.
More news:
>Food prices in Ukraine will rise in 2026 due to strikes on the infrastructure, warned Denis Marchuk, deputy chairman of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council.
—————————————–
>To earn a salary of 100,000 hryvnias, you have to spend 30 days in the trenches, according to a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier.

>Those on the front lines but not participating in combat are paid less than security guards at Kiev supermarkets.
—————————————–
>France now provides two-thirds of Ukraine's intelligence, Macron stated.

>He said France has largely replaced the United States, which suspended intelligence sharing last March.
—————————————–
>Tymoshenko testified in court that she never engaged in the conversations recorded on the NABU audio recordings.

>The Batkivshchyna leader is accused of bribing MPs.
(NABU is saying that the Batkivshchyna party organized a corruption scheme where, under bribes, she ordered how to vote on particular issues).
I haven't heard the audios, but I assume nabu posted them.

>>2649845
Tactical trvth nvke.

>Ukraine agreed to raise taxes in exchange for a new loan from the IMF, said Julie Kozak, the fund's communications director.

>"The authorities agreed to implement a package of important macroeconomic measures… It is necessary to expand the tax base by adopting legislation on taxing income earned through digital platforms and eliminating customs loopholes for consumer goods," Kozak said at a briefing.

>The loan in question is worth approximately $8.2 billion.
there you go, the US won't stop providing them economic assistance. simply, it won't be through a direct line, but instead through the IMF.

>>2649845
>NATO STARTED THE WAR!!!!11! IT WAS NATO
*taps the sign* *shows operation Aerodynamic* *date: 1950; objective: hot war*

>>2650278
Ukraine sacrificing it's future to stick it up to Russia and grovel before the West. This is what a national suicide looks like

Like, I tried to google up with ai how much wealth did Ukraine have total before the war, now that it needs more thna a trillion USD for repairs, and all it could tell me was that Ukraine has 200 billions GDP and their GDP is growing fast and solid lol. How much assets did USSR leave behind for Ukraine? Even overly inflated modern GDP of Ukraine is at least 5 times lower than the value of Soviet assets left behind

rare himmars destruction footage.
usually, these platforms were operating with extreme EW hardware to avoid drone surveillance.

>>2650297
No EW, himars is just shooting from extreme distance, while also hiding immediately afterwards. Russia was resorting to tracking their movements and then blowing up resupply hubs and hiding spots, and FPV drones weren't used for those hits because at the time drones couldn't move so far out. Proof that Russia did, in fact, destroy himarses in hiding is in that himars mentions dropped off significantly somewhere around middle 2024

>>2650289
Ukraine's GDP never recovered above 1991 Ukrainian SSR levels.
Ukraine in 1991 had a population over 50 million, a large share of the USSR's industry and scientific facilities, carrier-capable shipyards etc, all with a densely urbanized population in a temperate climate with some of the most fertile agricultural lands on the planet. Today their shipyards that once built aircraft carriers are making wood-fired stoves, but at least they have "Slava Ukraini" printed on them.
This is definitely the greatest mismanagement of a country in the history of humanity.

>>2650343
Ukraine's GDP is factually higher than Soviet Ukraine's. Problem is, GDP is a shit metric.

>>2650353
>Ukraine's GDP is factually higher than Soviet Ukraine's
I'm seeing conflicting data, either it's lower or somewhat higher but vastly below what it would be if soviet economic growth continued

>>2650311
>extreme distance
that was at 50 km, around the distance of the standard ammo.

>KYIV, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Ukraine's energy system, damaged by Russian drone and missile attacks, is meeting only 60% of the country's electricity needs, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, as the country copes with its coldest and darkest winter of war yet.
>electricity generation capacity was 11 gigawatts on Thursday, with the country needing 18 gigawatts.
>Ukraine has sharply increased electricity imports from EU countries. But the maximum import capacity is only about 2.3 gigawatts, and high prices have meant Kyiv often can take only a fraction of that.
Shit getting bad seems like…

>>2650322
yup. tens of videos from Kiev. I assume other cities have the same problems, but the places have less media outreach.

General winter is planning an attack on Ukraine.

>>2650421
>>2650179
probably many, and many more will. it's a shame that zelya didn't reach to best amicable agreement he could in 2022, and backed down to the west's interests.

>>2650406
For 12 years, Ukrainians and Russian libs laughed "so, did Ukraine freeze yet?" I wonder if they are happy now

>>2650441
Karma is real.
poroshenko_gloating_over_donbass_kids_hiding_in_basements.mp4

>A Ukrainian Armed Forces platoon commander stocked 549 FPV drones. The enterprising soldier stored them at home for resale.

>He was caught trying to sell two machine guns.

>The FPV drones are worth approximately $175,000.

>In addition, a search revealed 80 kg of explosives, 2,500 electric detonators, and $74,000 in cash.

>The man faces up to seven years in prison.
—————————————–
>Until this morning, Ukraine had no missiles for its air defense systems, Zelensky stated.
expect more 90 out of 90 missiles destroyed. also, I guess this Dec 23 2025 report was a lie.

>>2650311
IIRC a lot of them got taken out in the Kursk gamble, they had to get closer to the front than usual to act as the artillery they didn’t have shells for.

>The High Anti-Corruption Court has ordered Yulia Tymoshenko to post bail of 33 million hryvnias ($767,000).

>She is prohibited from leaving the Kiev region without permission from an investigator and must surrender her passport.

>The court has banned her from communicating with 66 members of parliament.

>Tymoshenko plans to appeal the ruling.

first person ever arrested by nabu? seems it's the first person arrested by nabu.
>inb4 she appears photographed in Israel.

>>2650453
They appointed some 34 yo zoomer who is known to have run a phone scam business as the defense minister recently.

remember the meme: if you feel bad about yourself doing something that makes no sense, think that it took to the US 20 years, billions, and many US soldiers killed to replace the Taliban with the Taliban?
well, I got you one better:
>Financial Times: Zelensky will be able to agree to painful compromises in a possible peace deal with Russia—including territorial concessions—only if he can present Ukrainian society with a concrete prospect of joining the European Union.
Ukraine WAS NEVER FORBADE TO JOIN THE EU.

>if you feel bad about yourself doing something that makes no sense, think that it took to Ukraine 3 years of a bloody war, ₴ billions lost, and a huge land lost to replace the the Ascension to the EU with the Ascension to the EU.

>>2650461
Now Russian demands include forbidding EU ascension as well

>>2650461
I unironically support Ukraine joining the EU. Not some weak libtard membership-lite, but full blown membership.
The corruption black hole that is Ukraine will cause the collapse of the EU within a few years by converting trillions of euros into golden toilets.

>>2650466
BS. where, who, when? not snarky, simply, I'm incredulous. maybe Russia advances put new conditions on the table?

>>2650475
Well, no NATO for sure, but also there were demands for rescinding sanctions, and since EU nonsense happened precisely because of Russia demanding new custom rules from Ukraine, which would have banned Ukraine from EU because EU at the time said clearly that Ukraine has to choose to either ascend to Russian custom controls demands, or join EU

>>2650406
https://tass.ru/obschestvo/26172275

100-150.000 Kiev residents may have no heating this winter because of burst pipes

>>2650506
> but also there were demands for rescinding sanctions, and since EU nonsense happened precisely because of Russia demanding new custom rules from Ukraine, which would have banned Ukraine from EU because EU at the time said clearly that Ukraine has to choose to either ascend to Russian custom controls demands, or join EU
naaah, that's a stretch, sorry, no.
Russia doesn't care about the Ukraine joining the EU. in fact Russia already had joined some EU institutions, like the Council of Europe.

>>2650511
>getting hat-tricked by Winter
That's when you tell them to cope, seethe and mald.

>EU-lite membership for Ukraine offered
<Suddenly, new narrative about Russia being equally opposed to EU membership as NATO membership
Standard peremoga

>>2650557
Russia should be equally opposed. The old line about EU being fine but NATO not just doesn't make sense anymore. EU members are increasingly required to follow NATO policy and to pursue NATO integration, or have their voting rights nullified and loyalty and membership questioned.
The EU at this point is just the political arm of NATO, and NATO the military arm of the EU. There's no longer any point in treating them differently, if there ever was.

>>2650598
>it was a Franco-German project to not be so economically dominated by the US or USSR
>had to let UK in
>which DeGaulle vetoed thrice
>now UK left EU
>and EU is just an extension of NATO, which is just US + their bitches
How did it all go so wrong, French imperialists?

>>2650557
and when they join the EU
<UKRAINE UNDEFEATED LOLOLOLOL

>>2644992
>🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇱 Denmark wants to take back the F-16 fighter jets previously donated to Kyiv in order to deploy them in Greenland
Denmark calls, will Kiyv answer?

western media is so trashy with this. it's like they want the war going as much as they can.
headlines everywhere:
>Trump: Zelensky is the main obstacle for peace.
at best trumpedo said:
>We thought that it would be easy to deal with Zelensky, but it's been harder than we thought, but that's ok.

they even title the video that way, with quote marks, implying a direct quote. but he never said that. but all media is doing it, bloomberg, nyt, politico, axios… Ho Lee Sheet.

Top 5 European leaders with the lowest approval ratings ever recorded:

1. 🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron 11% (October-November 2025)

2. 🇬🇧 Keir Starmer 11% (January 2026)

3. 🇫🇷 François Hollande 12% (November 2013)

4. 🇬🇷 George Papandreou 12% (2011)

5. 🇩🇪 Olaf Scholz 17% (2023)

Oh, interesting shift now from Merz:
https://tass.com/world/2071741
>Merz calls Russia 'European country,' hopes to achieve balance in relations
what, no mongo/asiatic horde country?
>"If we manage to bring peace and freedom back to Europe, if we finally find a balance in relations with our largest European neighbor, I'm talking about Russia, if peace reigns, if freedom is ensured - if we succeed in all this, then the EU, then we in Germany will pass this next test and be able to look to the future with confidence after 2026"

>>2651308
lel

>>2651330
Well, that's easy - stop supporting Ukrainian nazis, you don't have the money for that anyway

>>2650510
That's a humanitarian catastrophe in the making. Yet, Zelensky is still claiming to be in a winning position

>USA seized a 6th russian tanker.

At least we can cope that some proles are freezing to death

>>2651308
source?

>>2648931
Nope. Belarus is an explicitly anti-nationalist state. Lukashenko openly brags about fighting against nationalists and capitalists on state TV. The Belarusian conception of the world is more in line with socialist internationalism than retarded nationalist
>muh ancestors from 6000 years ago
cope like how the Baltic States or Ukraine or Russia run things. Which is ironically quite Trotskyist even though the Belarusian communists commit to all the typical Stalinist talking points. The post here >>2647699 was quite accurate.

>>2650867
About time and it's not enough. The burgers apparently want to grab Iceland as well and make it their 52nd state (Greenland is supposed to be #51). They're really fucking nuts.

This is le interimperialist conflict

>>2651622
What happened to Canada being the 51st state

>>2651622
The funniest shit will be, Euroid cucks supporting democrats wholeheartedly after Greenland gets annexed, but then Dem president will say "no refunds" and keep Greenland

>>2651657
Shit that's actually a great point. If Trump does annex Greenland then even if a Dem becomes the next president, giving it back would be political suicide. Unless Europe is willing to fight then we're probably looking at a post-Trump America that's absorbed Greenland, Canada, and probably parts of Mexico as well. American communists like to characterize Trump as fascist but I don't think that's entirely accurate. I see him more as a Chancellor Bruning-type figure who is laying all the necessary institutional and legal groundwork for the actual fascist in the future who will take over. And call me crazy but neither Marco Rubio nor JD Vance have the personality required for that role. The bourgeoisie will pick someone no one expects.

>>2651660
It's more like dems and reps being one and the same

>>2651660
Why the hell would the bourgeoisie wants "fascism"? The left in America is deader than Christianity man. You don't need thugs to prevent a left wing takeover because there won't be a left wing takeover! Maybe if there is going to be a war with China then fascism is needed to organize society into war footing, but that won't happen, because the bourgeoisie loves accumulating capital, and you can't accumulate capital if you are dead from nuclear winter. People are stuck in perpetual 1930, wooo everything is Weimar, everyone is a fascist/bolshevik and China is going to war with Japan etc etc. No that shit wont happen again

>>2651660
>I see him more as a Chancellor Bruning-type figure who is laying all the necessary institutional and legal groundwork for the actual fascist in the future who will take over.
I see it the same way
>>2651697
>the bourgeoisie loves accumulating capital
that's exactly the problem, too much capital + shrinking consumer base = imperialism abroad. read Lenin

>>2651704
Yes, and Lenin is, you know, not right. There has been no decisive study proving a link between monopoly capital and warfare, even Sweezy and Baran despite asserting the trad Marxist claim about military spending absorbing surplus emphasized financialization over actual military spending because there are no clear casual studies proving the latter point! The last 15 years have been a huge case test; and capital, instead of flowing to arms companies (whose production has completely collapse in the last decade, that's why the US is so ass at any warfare that is not flashy spec ops operations) they flow to services and actual money hoarding

>>2651657
>The funniest shit will be, Euroid cucks supporting democrats wholeheartedly after Greenland gets annexed, but then Dem president will say "no refunds" and keep Greenland
then the next republican president will say that the nordic states belong to them because they can't protect their own countries.

>>2651697
Massively increased military budgets and spending across every Western nation makes it clear that American hegemony is going to go out with a final full blown war. All the signs are there. The fascist dictatorship won't be because of a leftist threat because you're right the left is neutered and dead and minuscule. The dictatorship will be to round up all those who won't be willing to fight in the war or who carry out sabotage actions. Think Ukraine bussification but on a massive scale.

>>2651308
don't forget less than 1/5 of the population actually elected them
western "democracy"

>>2650425
good job grandma