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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukrainehttps://archive.ph/44B9Qhttps://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740https://azovlobby.substack.com/https://banderalobby.substack.com/—————————————————–
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>why doesn't Putin….
You don't know better than the Russian state apparatus. Just accept it. At best you are an opinionated shitposter.
EU membership?
NATO membership?
Electricity membership?
Alive membership?
>>2686279The Russian state apparatus let Chubais flee to Israel with millions of embezzled funds. And they're still paying out his pension. A fucking monkey on cocaine is smarter than the "russian state apparatus".
>>2686302this thread in a nutshell
>>2686286wtf are russians smoking bro
>>2686302Why is every Pro-Ukraine poster in here a racist constantly saying outright or subtly implying that Russians are violent black criminals? Aren't you supposed to portray Russians as snow-white 1000% European colonizers who are keeping the Ukrainian PoCs down?
>>2686328They are scratched liberals. Current liberal status quo is better than risking the uncertainty of Russia winning over nato.
>>2686294Finally based ukrainian proletariat will do revolution.
>>2686286Man how did lenin look good while being bald?
You know, I've been watching this shit happen for at least a decade now, since the first uprising in Ukraine. Years ago, i was convinced the world would have ended from the bullshit. In theory, Russia should have won this, hard by now. They haven't.
Ukraine is impressive at this point, and Russia has proven incredibly incompetent for years. Millions dead, millions displaced, and for what, static borders with people throwing drones at trenches.
Ukraine is a sandstone rock on a Russian lake in a desert. Every time the waves smash against it, little bits come off, yet the rock remains and so does the lake.
a pointless spiral of death all for who gets to control a square miles of land, land now filled with lead and blood and wasted and ruined for at least many years where people get turned to minced meat and cameras post the drone footage of it to YouTube.
And everyone keeps buying weapons to keep the fun happening!
>>2686357And? So? What of it?
>>2686360What of it? nothing. I see no hope, no change, just slaughter for the sake of national pride over territorial control. Same thing i see most places with conflicts that last for decades.
There's no attempt at revolution in Ukraine or Russia to stop any of it. And even if there was, I'm not sure the issue would resolve itself if it were to even be successful.
If Ukraine 'wins' the best they have to hope for is survival as a tool for the rest of Europe as a wall of blood and guns. If Russia 'wins', they would still be pretty fucked but now with more territory to try and control as their economic situation worsens as an international pariah state whose only hope for its continued survival is continued conquest of it neighbors to secure an already fragile existence, or balkanization in an attempt to push the blame on Moscow specifically why the rest of the country tries to survive.
I suppose the point is that the whole conflict is an exercise in the pointlessness of nationalism and the continued and inevitable harm it will create for those poor people who happen to be caught up in the never-ending waves of violence for the sake of the ruling people who own them.
It all sad, and stupid and i feel like we would all be much better off as a species if the whole of the Russian and Ukrainian military's killed all of their officers and heads of state at once and made actual efforts toward some kind of peace. But that wont happen.
>>2686376>for the sake of national prideVery materialist. Someone explain to him how campism is a vehicle for bringing about revolutionary conditions.
>>2686379Ive been waiting for a revolution. Let me know when it climbs out of the mountain of Slavic corpses.
>>2686405What of it? Those orthodox priests and churches obey the moscow patriarchate. Its like saying every catholic is a westoid spy.
>>2686385The Donbass revolution was the first time the working class has shown any kind of revolutionary will in Europe since what, the 50s?
>>2686417ukraine civil war was 2 retards fighting
>>2686376>>2686357NothingUnderstander is back
>>2686405>Spy nunsNo nun intended
>>2686417>revolutionary will in Europe since what, the 50s?You mean showed any kind of success of gaining something resembling a country or area for themselves? There was a lot of orgs during the cold war that showed a lot of will, but maybe cause of ability, inclination or circumstances never got any further than some high profile assassinations, major riots and political concessions.
>>2686302Funny comic but it would be more accurate for there to be 100x less blood and for the Ukrainian to be totally fine but the shop/storefront was damaged a little - say, by 20%.
>>2686357>>2686376>Boo hoo it's all LE OVER, all is lost, why can't Russia stop killing the innocent Azoverinos, le interimperialist conflict, stop the war becuase I'm LE BIG SADDGE :((((((How about you Ronnie McNutt yourself?
>>2687204Somewhat ironically the reason why Polish economy really increase rapidly these last few years is because Ukrainian refugees from the war ended up being exploited migrant labour in Poland
This was the case with the Syrian refugee crisis too, even
with the cultural conflict and unrest that came with it. Mass immigration of cheap labour is like an economic version of a steroid injection, especially if the people coming have little cultural friction with yours as in the case of Poland and Ukro refugees
imagine a ukrosimp talking about others having delusions of grandeur. lel
>>2687204>muh GEE DEE PEEVisegrad are already hellbound for supporting the genocide of palestinians. This is just extra cringe for the trip.
>>2687209I hate how the economy always gravitates to everyone trying to be a slaveocrat and outfucking the guy trying to outfuck you. They really hate sharing surplus. Fucking exploiter class.
>>2687204>total export valueHow much of it is gas exports to Ukraine?
>>2686928Le interimperialist conflict
>>2687204>Russian exports collapsedOne of the countries is the most sanctioned country in the world, the other is a member of the sanctioning bloc. That the two economies are comparable isn’t really a flex for Poland, is it?
>Ukranian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych claims the International Olympic Committee has banned his helmet featuring images of people killed in the war in his home country, in a decision that "breaks my heart".
>The 26-year-old wore the helmet during a Winter Olympics training session in Cortina, and had promised before the Games to use the event as a platform to keep attention on the conflict.
Is hohol fatigue finally setting in?
>>2687302Either that or allowing Israel has forced their hand on doubling down on “no politics allowed”, at least in insisting Ukraine doesn’t use the olympics for political stunts.
But I’d like to think it’s fatigue, because the Ukrainians have been treating themselves as exceptional to rules about political sloganeering in sports for longer than this invasion. I believe it was during the Russian World Cup, the Ukrainian team had Banderite slogans of “glory to the heroes” stitched into their uniforms and that causing very minor controversy. Partially because some people found out what Ukrainians mean by “the heroes”, but mainly because who are Ukraine to break the rules?
By now though, the West has made Ukraine exceptional and I don’t think you can tell fascists to go back in the irrelevant country box, whenever the fatigue does kick in.
>>2687302Speaking as an American, it's not fatigue, it's just amnesia. Americans will not remember a war is going on for more than a year or two at most usually. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, wherever. I mean it's not strange, I don't know anyone who follows literally every conflict going on in the world today. I don't know anything about what is happening in Libya. Oh wait I did hear about Gaddafi's son but I still don't know anything about what's going on there.
But yeah, they never mention Ukraine over here on most news programs. Even NPR would barely cover it. I doubt the average American has thought of Ukraine a longtime. It's not like a thing anymore. I do remember a time where I saw a number of houses in my neighborhood flying Ukrainian flags and seeing them out in the wild a fair bit.
>Lavrov:
SPIRIT OF ANCHORAGE status: deceived
Is it just poor English translations that have the Kremlinites seeming to whine about being deceived all the time, or is that what they're actually saying in Russian too?
It's amazing how much a slight change of wording from "they deceived us" to "they tried to deceive us" would improve messaging considerably and not make the Kremlinites sound like a bunch of hapless losers but rather masterminds in detecting Yankee schemes.
>>2687347I dunno geezer, if you ever provided sources we might have a better idea of how fair the translation is intended to be
>>2687349Have you found those sources on Epstein baby cannibalism yet?
>>2687351Sure it’s mentioned in
redacted that was testimony from
redacted as reported to
redacted. You can find it at
you didn’t see nothing dot com >>2687355kek, the MAGAcom losers are having a breakdown over that "=9yo" OCR thing deboonked by the "19yo" second copy.
>>2687358In other words, you saw it in a dream.
>>2687360Is this Maxwell? Are you a mod here as well as Reddit?
>>2687362I can think of a thousand crimes or inconvenient things that would be redacted. I'm just curious what led your Qanon-tier geezer brain to see "baby cannibalism on yachts."
>>2687363Xitter, I think. Whatever crimes were proven and unproven, I think the point still stands that it’s ironic for westoids to claim “nothing ever happens” while plenty, is in fact, happening. Ditto the cope of then claiming “oh everyone knows rich people get up to illegal shit”.
Now please stop clutching your pearls about unfair claims made against Epstein, chud. And post your sources.
>>2687365>Lel, the fucking westoids constantly claiming “nothing ever happens” while baby cannibalism on yachts and other depravities that apparently “everyone already knew about” was happening most days.>>2687365>Xitter, I think.Ah. Lemme guess: MyLordBebo?
>>2687366Yeah? I think that point still stands if you replace baby cannibalism on yachts to sex trafficking young girls to a private island for the influential and wealthy.
>>2687367>“oh everyone knows rich people get up to illegal shit”.Well, aren't they?
>>2687372Yes but that can’t follow “nothing ever happens”
There are slim pickings for pro-SMO folks on Twitter. You get mostly the trad-values/Orthodox chuds like Bebo, RWA Christcucks, Olga, Witte Sergei… vile racists like Gabe… and meatheads like Ayden who spam their quarrels with NAFO nobodies.
>>2687374Anti-NATO anons aren’t shy of posting their sources, if it’s RT I provide the link, if I’m reposting Xitter posts I provide a screenshot with the account.
For some reason pro-Ukrainians get very upset if you ask for sources and start defending Jeffery Epstein’s honour. They much prefer to fill up on CNN and Ukrainian MoD’s Xitter and regurgitate it ITT as though it’s just common knowledge and therefore implicitly factual.
Ironically, the only tolerable commentator on Xitter for me is AMK_Mapping_, who's nominally a pro-Ukrainian but who provides much more detail than the Z gang and who's frequently the target of NAFO hate spam for ruining their copium.
>>2687376The thing about Lavrov saying the US deceived Russia in Alaska comes from Russian sources. Easier to find on Telegram, but I found some on Xitter too:
https://nitter.net/NatasaIvanova9/status/2020812988416958574It's not always obvious whether they're actually using Lavrov's words… or whether they are but the English translation is poor.
>>2687377Because he’s just reporting the facts as he understands them. Most of the commentators on both sides make the mistake of endlessly using conjecture to predict the future of the conflict with enough confidence to even give timelines, then when they’re inevitably wrong, the opposite side pounces on it like they’ve not been wrong themselves.
That being said, that you can *only* find chud accounts that are anti-NATO, is a great shame for the western left.
>>2687337i like black hawk down
>>2687382It's just Twitter, which is unavoidably West-centric.
I also have my (mostly unfounded) suspicions that Musk is doing some shady algorithmic shit with visibility.
Then there's the fact I reported a year or two ago that, comparing a very rough sample of pro-Ukro and pro-Russian Twitter accounts, I found that it was overwhelmingly the pro-Russian ones being spammed with those stock/crypto bots, so it looked like someone was singling them out for spam and maybe trying to play the visibility algorithm like the "negative SEO" dorks do with search engine results to make their competitors look like spammers.
Incidentally, GeromanAT's Twitter account (listed #1 in /ukr/ Twitter sources) was compromised recently by someone who used it to post crypto spam, maybe as a cover.
>>2687377Cyberspec is pretty decent in terms of reporting, however he will still omit some things because he is pro-zigger. Still better than that absolute buffoon called intel slava.
>>2687392Intel Slava was doing fine for a couple of years until he swallowed the Trump slop and also went mask-off chud. Shame.
I even tolerated Bebo until that Ukro girl got stabbed on the train and he posted literally the same post for five days straight and barely anything on the war.
>>2687387I think it’s just a case that “OS”INT is far more prevalent on the NAFO side of Xitter and they utilise it to hack, harass and dox any accounts that deny NATO’s awesomeness. Like that tit who runs the Vatnik Soup xitter account takes credit for it, but I’m certain for all of the hysteria about Russian hacker farms, Langley and Cheltenham are still the INT part of OSINT.
I remember also in 2022 there was more apparently independent Xitter accounts owned by Russians, that were quite interesting as commentary from a fairly civilian perspective rather than of being /isg/brained, but they seemingly all got purged by doxing and mass reporting around early 2023. On the other hand, most of the ones I recall ostensibly belonged to women, so who knows if it was a op seeking sympathy from le prettey ladies.
However I also remember the wild moderation practices of Twitter and Facebook in basically allowing NAFO to post gore all day, while allowing those same accounts to report pro-Russian accounts for “hate speech” and get them banned. It makes sense that you’d just leave, with that kind of egregious bias.
>>2687381It’s surely not difficult to find the communiques from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kremlin, since AFAIK they keep public logs of all official statements. It’s certainly acceptable online for official statements from the Ukrainian government and any government that supports it to be posted online, but for Russia the sources are always what some doomer telegram account claimed or a literal who saying something on TV.
Kirill Dmitriev: "promising restoration of economic relations with America"
Sergey Lavrov: "no bright future for economic ties with the US"
I'm TEAM LAVROV.
>>2687415civil war soon?
I am team CUCKMAXXING
>>2687419Mercouris was speculating that the reason Lavrov is audacious enough to counter-signal Kirill and Peskov is that the movement has shifted within the Russian government toward regarding the US talks as a waste of time.
>59:07 But we see that Peskov on the contrary>59:13 speaking probably for Putin is trying to say, well, let's not give up yet. It's>59:20 in our best interest to conduct these conversations behind closed doors to>59:28 engage and the understandings that we reached with the Americans in Anchorage>59:34 remain the cornerstones. And it is precisely these understandings that can shift the settlement process and allow>59:42 us to achieve a breakthrough. In other words, Putin for the moment continues to>59:48 cling to the idea with which Lavrov>59:55 openly now disagrees that there is still some mileage in this>1:00:04 Anchorage process after all. Now I would not have expected>1:00:10 I would not expect Lavrov to come out and speak so openly and so publicly>1:00:17 unless he was confident that he was speaking for a significant body of>1:00:24 opinion within the Kremlin and within the Russian government. >>2687382>That being said, that you can *only* find chud accounts that are anti-NATOAre you writing from 2019? Chuds fucking adore NATO because it exists to kill Anti-Western Anti-cracker authoritarian Third World orcs. Won't be surprised if by 2030 they'll fall in love with EU and WEF.
The actual people vocally against NATO are still Russians, Chinese, Third Worlders and Western commies.
>>2687442there's still a segment of rightoids or non-coms that are anti-nato and anti-neocon. think the duran, judge nap, thomas massie and people who like or watch them. it's just that these people are in disarray after trump dropped the mask and threw them under the bus in favor of lindsey graham, netanyahu and rubio. they're rudderless and irrelevant right now, like us.
>>2687450If the anti-NATO rightards are irrelevant (I for one have never heard of any of the people you name) and Dotard favors neocons (at least when it comes to PRC and IRI) then the chuds will be NATO warhawks.
Fits their TND fantasies too – if they don't support or sign up for "Crusades for Democracy", how else will they get a kick out of killing blacks?
>>2687455You are correct. The chuds hate the west simply because they feel like they are not getting paid for their support. Leftychuds hate the west because the west is ontologically evil and has predatory behavior at its foundations from property rights to everything else.
>>2687442It’s not that all chuds are anti-NATO, it’s that when you come across anti-NATO accounts on Xitter, they’re always chuds.
Granted, so are the majority NAFO accounts, but despite the obvious prevalence of Fascist leadership, racism, homophobia, human rights abuses, state brutality, corruption, NATO expansion, EU militarisation, ultranationalism and exceptionalism, you won’t find western leftists touching Ukraine with a 10ft pole. Other than to occasionally agree that if what the Ukrainian MoD claims is the truth then Russia Bad and they should lose.
>>2687465>Pro-Russian Finnish guyThat’s a rare GET
EU mulling ‘membership-lite’ for Kiev – Politico>EU officials are considering offering Ukraine a limited formal membership that would bypass the need for Kiev to meet normal entry requirements, Politico has reported.<The EU plan would give Kiev “a seat at the EU table before carrying out the reforms needed for full membership privileges,” Politico wrote on Tuesday>The proposed “membership-lite” model is also intended for Moldova and Albaniahttps://swentr.site/news/632241-ukraine-eu-membership-lite/Euromaidan, the revolution of dignity, saving Europe from Ruzzianism, all for an honorary “lite” membership to the EU that they’re also just going to hand to Moldova and Albania for nish. I don’t think that’s going to work as a consolation prize.
>>2687513>including this board's favorite Rusich.You have to go back
>>2687515I've seen that one third or more posts on 4chan's /uhg/ are made by the same goreposting ancom flag. I barely look in there (or /pol/ in general) to say anything about his posting habits but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same guy spamming here as well lol
>>2687528Yeah there’s definitely at least one anon that projects /chug/ and other pro-Russian spaces on to this thread, presumably because he’s either getting ignored or rekt there also.
>>2687493lel, membership basically sold like a streaming service subscription model, very innovative.
>>2687548Well, it sounds like Ukraine will get the parts of membership that benefits Brussels and the IMF, but not the parts that Ukrainians want (the givas).
If I had to guess, they’ll probably “invest” in dirty and otherwise legally grey industries in Ukraine where EU laws don’t apply and by now little else exists for work, but they will be owned by EU member states, Ukrainians will pay taxes to the EU and there will be freedom of movement for money but not people. Perhaps this mania with building new tank and drone factories in Ukraine will finally come to pass.
>>2687575and look who they hate the most.
funny stuff, hah. The Chinese have said in their social media, that the UAF uses as much of Chinese electronic components, military gadgets, and such, as Russians/ At some point, whe the Russians use something, and a leftover is found on Ukraine by hoholites, the hoholites would call the Chinese manufacturer, and get the replacements in 24 to 48 hours at their doorsteps, and use it for their military services.
>>2687598Lmao what did he do to piss off the Swedes so much?
>>2687601B-but they’re not allowed to do that, Musk switched off Starlink for them! How is this happening!? >:^(
>>2687602Europe is highly racist towards Asia. But with the caviat that the only thing China does is to sell them products of a wide variety of quality.
>>2687575hehehheheh onlyfans hahahahaha
>>2687606>Volvo is now owned by the ChineseAh I think it makes sense now
>>2687598Denmark sisters, it's over
>>2687605because the nafos here are morons. Russia has its own geostationary internet system. 500-800ms for a drone strike isn't troublesome. IRL military combat isn't counter-strike that you need 5ms ping.
the very few posts I see complaining doesn't even describe what particular problem they have that can't be solved with the geostationary satellites, so I would argue that they are lesser battalions with no access granted for that network.
the important ones don't have that issue.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TV BRICS international media network, Moscow, February 9, 2026
https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/foreign-minister-sergey-lavrovs-interview-with-tv-brics-international-media-network-moscow-februa/
<Question: Mr Lavrov, on February 10, Russia marks Diplomatic Worker’s Day, a professional holiday for the personnel of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its missions abroad. You probably celebrate this day at work as usual. How do you find this holiday? How important is it personally for you and your colleagues? What do you consider the most important outcomes of the Ministry’s work?
>Sergey Lavrov: It is perhaps not for us to judge the results. We have the President to whom we report, as established by the Constitution; he defines our foreign policy, including the approval of the Foreign Policy Concept. The most recent one, adopted in March 2023, reflects the profound changes taking place across the globe. Those are long-term, fundamental transformations that will shape the bulk of our practical work.
>It is equally important that we develop action plans tailored for each partner country covering trade and economic cooperation, investment, scientific collaboration, and coordinated activity on the international stage, including at the United Nations and other organisations, based on agreements reached between presidents and prime ministers. Particular attention is devoted to the CIS, the EAEU, the CSTO, and the post-Soviet space at large. This day-to-day work relies on long-term planning and delivers tangible mutual benefits to both Russia and its partners.
>The global arena is undergoing a transformation that began some time ago with the objective transition toward a multipolar world order. This is neither the bipolarity of the Soviet-American era with the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, nor the unipolarity that emerged after the Soviet Union’s collapse. Instead, it is multipolarity that is shaping the trajectory of global development. For many years, the United States functioned as the engine of the global economy and the regulator of international finance, using the role of the dollar to reinforce its dominant position. It is now, objectively, losing economic significance and influence within the global system. Meanwhile, countries such as the People’s Republic of China, India, and Brazil are rising. Significant developments are also taking place across Africa, where nations are increasingly seeking to develop domestic industry rather than simply export natural resources – an effort that the Soviet Union once supported.
>Multiple centres of rapid economic growth, power, and financial and political influence have thus emerged. The world is being reshaped through competition. The West is reluctant to relinquish its formerly dominant positions. Moreover, with the arrival of the Trump administration, this struggle to constrain competitors has become particularly obvious and explicit. Indeed, the Trump administration openly asserts its ambition to dominate in the energy sector and harness their competitors.
>Blatantly unfair methods are being used against us: the operations of Russian oil companies such as Lukoil and Rosneft are being banned, and there are attempts to dictate and restrict Russia’s trade, investment cooperation, and military-technical ties with our major strategic partners, including India as well as other BRICS states.
>A struggle is underway to preserve the old world order, one built around the dominance of the dollar and the rules formulated and enforced by the West through the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organisation. When the new centres of growth, operating under these very rules, began to demonstrate far more substantial economic results and significantly higher growth rates – as is evident across the BRICS countries – the West started seeking ways to block this transition. This cannot succeed, because it is an objective, irreversible process. For several years now, the BRICS countries’ growth rates and GDP volumes have, in terms of purchasing power parity, substantially exceeded the combined GDP of the G7.
>These global economic processes – both the objective emergence of new development centres as well as the subjective efforts by established powers, which are losing their influence, to hinder this natural evolution – form the foundation of our work, which involves not solely global analytical forecasting but also practical bilateral cooperation with each individual country. All of these geopolitical confrontations, along with the attempts to derail the objective course of history, inevitably affect bilateral relations. I am not going to mention them all; those include sanctions, the so-called “shadow fleet” invented by the West, attempts to detain vessels by military force in the open sea in blatant violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and much more. Tariffs imposed for purchasing oil or gas from certain suppliers have now become commonplace.
>So, what lies at the heart of our work? There is a song that actually serves as the anthem of Russia’s Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies, and Disaster Relief, but it is just as applicable to our Ministry – and basically any state institution in our country: “Our concern is simple, our concern is this: that our homeland might live, and there are no other worries.”
>However, in today’s circumstances, this particular goal – “that our homeland may live” – is a challenging one; it encompasses the reliable safeguarding of our security, particularly in a situation where certain figures in Europe, masquerading as politicians, are threatening to “unleash a war” against Russia. Safeguarding security likewise demands sustained action to ensure that the Nazi state established on our borders in Ukraine – and supported by the West as a vehicle for renewed confrontation – cannot continue to exist in its present form.
>Nazi foundations must be eliminated. We will ensure, and I have no doubt about it, our own security interests, by preventing the deployment on Ukrainian territory of any weapons threatening us, and, second, by guaranteeing reliable and full protection for the rights of Russian and Russian-speaking people, who have been living in Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya for centuries, and whom the Kiev regime that came to power after a coup declared subhuman “species” and “terrorists” and unleashed a civil war against.
>This is a most vital task of ensuring “that our homeland may live,” to say nothing of the economy and social matters, which are under the permanent control of President of Russia Vladimir Putin and which are handled by the Government.
>In our case, one of the main tasks of the Ministry and our foreign policy is to create and ensure maximally favourable external conditions for the country’s internal development (in economic, social and industrial terms), and for the growth of the citizens’ well-being.
>It is clear that, given the global war unleashed against us and the feverish attempts of the West to “punish” all our partners by demanding that they stop trading with us and cooperating in the military-technical sphere, it is significantly harder to do our job and to provide maximally favourable conditions for internal development than it was, say, 10 or 15 years ago. But this does not make the tasks less relevant.
>We are doing everything to cope adequately with the tasks entrusted to us by President Putin. It is for Russians to judge.
>I know that Russian citizens are actively interested in the Ministry’s work. We welcome this, but it imposes great additional obligations. Hopefully, as we prepare for and celebrate Diplomatic Worker’s Day on February 10, we will be able to tell you more about our activities, and most importantly, to answer the questions sent to the Ministry from our citizens, which we always try to answer as fully as possible, keeping in touch with our people. It is important for us.
>It is important to understand how they feel about the external problems that Russia is facing. It often gives us good guidance. Public opinion polls and the suggestions sent to us provide useful hints for choosing our practical foreign policy steps.>>2687786<Question: In 2025, the Republic of Indonesia joined BRICS. You have already mentioned India and China. Do I understand it correctly that you are now paying still more attention to international cooperation within BRICS? What development prospects can you see in your work?
>Sergey Lavrov: No doubt.
>Everything that I have said in answer to the first question means that when the West is losing its hegemony but keeps on clinging to the institutions set up to secure that hegemony, which by default can no longer reflect the real situation and the fair nature of interactions at the international level, the establishment of new entities to facilitate international economic, investment, trade, and transport links is inevitable.
>We are not advocating for the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO to cease their existence. For many years since the establishment of BRICS, we have been seeking a reform of these institutions so that the member states (and these were and still are the fastest growing world economies and trading powers) receive votes and rights in all those Bretton Woods institutions commensurate with their real weight in the world economy, trade and logistics.
>The West is trying to oppose it categorically. President Putin has said on many occasions that we are not the ones refusing to use the dollar. The United States under President Joe Biden did everything to make the dollar a weapon against those who are deemed objectionable.
>I would note that, for all the statements from President Donald Trump’s administration to the effect that the war in Ukraine started by President Biden should be ended, that we should come to terms and remove it from the agenda, and that supposedly then we would see bright and clear prospects of Russian-US mutually beneficial investment and other interaction, the administration has not challenged all the laws adopted by Joe Biden to “punish” Russia after the start of the special military operation.
>In April 2025, they extended Executive Order 14024, on the emergency regime, the core of which is the “punishment” of Russia and sanctions against our country, including the freezing of Russia’s gold and currency reserves. That document mentions “harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.” Examples include efforts to undermine the conduct of elections in the United States (something that US President Donald Trump speaks against daily, categorically rejecting all this) and the violation of international law and human rights. You can find anything there!
>This is all pure “Bidenism,” which President Trump and his team reject. Nevertheless, they have easily pushed through the law and sanctions against Russia, which continue to be in effect. They have imposed sanctions against Lukoil and Rosneft. And they did it in the autumn, a couple of weeks after a good meeting between President Putin and President Trump in Anchorage.
>They tell us that the Ukraine problem should be resolved. In Anchorage, we accepted the US proposal. If we regard it “as men,” it means that they proposed it and we agreed, so the problem must be resolved. President Putin has said on many occasions that it is not important for Russia what Ukraine and Europe are going to say; we can clearly see the primitive Russophobia of most regimes in the European Union, with rare exceptions. The US position was important to us. By accepting their proposal, we seem to have completed the task of resolving the Ukrainian issue and moving on to a full-scale, broad-based and mutually beneficial cooperation.
>So far, the reality is quite the opposite: new sanctions are imposed, a ‘war’ against tankers in the open sea is being waged in violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. They are trying to ban India and our other partners from buying cheap, affordable Russian energy resources (Europe has long been banned) and are forcing them to buy US LNG at exorbitant prices. This means that the Americans have set themselves the task of achieving economic domination.
>Furthermore, while they ostensibly made a proposal regarding Ukraine and we were ready to accept it (now they are not), we do not see any bright future in the economic sphere either. The Americans want to take control of all the routes for providing the world’s leading countries and all continents with energy resources. On the European continent, they are eyeing the Nord Streams, which were blown up three years ago, the Ukrainian gas transportation system and the TurkStream.
>This illustrates that the US objective – to dominate the world economy – is being realised using a fairly large number of coercive measures that are incompatible with fair competition. Tariffs, sanctions, direct prohibitions, forbidding some from engaging with others – we have to take all of this into account.
>While remaining open, just like India, China, Indonesia and Brazil, to cooperation with all countries, including a major power such as the United States, we are in a situation where the Americans themselves are creating artificial obstacles along the way. We are forced to look for additional secure ways to develop our financial, economic, integration, logistics and other projects with the BRICS countries.
>Russia chaired this association in 2024. At that time, a summit was held in Kazan, and a number of our initiatives were put into action: alternative payment platforms, payment mechanisms in national currencies, the creation of reinsurance opportunities for trade within BRICS and between the association and its partners, the creation of a grain exchange, and a new investment platform.
>All this is not to spite anyone, especially the United States. This is due to the fact that the United States seeks to bring all processes in the areas I mentioned under its strict control and demands unilateral concessions. Without giving up contacts with them, to the extent that they are willing to engage on a mutually beneficial basis, we are interested, together with our BRICS partners, in creating an architecture that will not be subject to the illegal actions of one or another player from the Western flank. >>2687787<Question: The BRICS principles include equality, openness and mutually beneficial cooperation, which is similar to the principles of the Eurasian Economic Union. It is an integration association. Do you think the Greater Eurasian Partnership project will also facilitate international cooperation as much as the SCO and ASEAN?
>Sergey Lavrov: I firmly believe the Greater Eurasian Partnership was bound to appear on the agenda. Many years ago, at the 2015 Russia – ASEAN Summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested this term which is based on an objective trend of Eurasia becoming the biggest, richest and fastest-growing continent, especially its Pacific part. It is the most heavily-populated continent which, importantly, has seen several great civilisations emerge and continue to exist – the Chinese, Indian, Arab, Persian and Russian civilisations.
>We can hardly find as many historical processes in the history of Africa or Latin America as there were in Eurasia. Africa and Latin America also have a rich and old history, yet it is the Eurasian continent that has such a variety of cultures and civilisations. Eurasia has a number of subregional structures – the EAEU, the CIS, ASEAN as well as the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the Gulf Cooperation Council, and many others. There are many subregional organisations in Africa and Latin America, too, but they also have continent-wide umbrella structures such as the African Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
>Eurasia does not have a similar common “canopy” for everyone. This is largely due to the fact that since the times of colonialism, Europeans were mainly preoccupied with making their own countries more comfortable whereas other territories, including in Eurasia, were used as colonies, be it India, China or any other territory. They were focused on improving the western part of the continent presuming that they are the masters of its remaining part as well.
>This led to the emergence of concepts that reflect Euro-Atlantic approaches to ensuring security after World War II – NATO and the European Union, which currently has become an appendix of the North Atlantic alliance, and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) which is also based on the Euro-Atlantic logic since North America (the US and Canada) are among its active members. All these organisations are nearing their end – both NATO with its unredeemed promises of not expanding eastward, given to the Soviet Union at the time, and the European Union that has completely destroyed the established infrastructure of cooperation with our country, to say nothing about the OSCE which has totally yielded to the West’s unilateral actions and forgotten the foundational principle of consensus of all its members.
>It is for a reason that our initiative on building a common Eurasian security architecture, set forward by President Putin in 2024, is gaining momentum. It is increasingly attracting interest. Essentially, this idea of providing security for all nations on the continent rests on the material foundation, a basis which is the Greater Eurasian Partnership. The stronger the ties between regional and subregional organisations, the sturdier the foundation for building a common security model.
>The Greater Eurasian Partnership process is unfolding. It began through the relations between the EAEU, the SCO and ASEAN. In this context, they also factored in the Belt and Road initiative by the People’s Republic of China. Heads of the executive bodies of these organisations hold regular meetings, exchange information on their current plans and the ones in the making. That allows for taking decisions on a more efficient execution of certain projects, also at a lower cost, by collaborating rather than duplicating. Cooperation is ongoing also within the International North-South Transport Corridor and the projects connecting South Asia with the Russian Far East, as well as projects of joint use of the Northern Sea Route. So, these processes continue.
>Understandably, the Eurasian partnership involves countries and continents. BRICS is a global association that attracts attention across the continents. It unites not only Eurasian nations but also many Latin American and African countries. This development will continue. BRICS is a framework, an “umbrella” for the integration process on particular continents.
>Over the longer term, this association may very well become a platform for harmonising development plans in the economy and infrastructure in Eurasia, Africa and Latin America. The fact that the Eurasian powerhouses like China, India, Russia, and now also Indonesia are in BRICS certainly makes the association potentially efficient and helpful with the establishment of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. >>2687789
<Question: India has assumed the BRICS chairmanship. The country has already revealed its priorities – Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, and Sustainability. How do these priorities resonate with your vision of international cooperation development? What is the role of the global information space? Each of us consumes a lot of information every day. And, looking ahead, what outcomes of India’s chairmanship do you personally anticipate?
>Sergey Lavrov: Every BRICS chairmanship shows an established continuity. I have already mentioned the initiatives launched during our chairmanship in 2024 related to alternative platforms and tools for servicing the global economy. The initiatives are still being discussed and elaborated as it happened in 2025 when Brazil held the chairmanship. The same is happening now when India has assumed the position.
>India pays special attention to fighting terrorism, a problem that, regrettably, remains highly relevant. We see acts of terror in Afghanistan and around it, on the territories between India and Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. There are plenty of such places – the Middle East, including its Asian part. That is the reason this priority matters to us, too. Especially since we, along with India, are actively promoting the initiative at the UN to adopt the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. So far, consensus has not been reached. But it is a different story.
>India is also interested in and has included in its chairmanship programme food and energy security issues. It will be interesting to consider energy security in view of the Trump administration’s actions in global energy. It is also bound to absolutely practical capabilities and outcomes. India puts special emphasis on information and communication technologies security. We actively support it.
>In February, India will host a summit on artificial intelligence. Russia is among the invited parties. Our country has been actively engaged in working out the summit agenda that bears importance considering that standards of international cooperation in AI and AI application standards by each state are so far just in the making. This is a fairly grave diplomatic struggle which also has a direct practical dimension because these standards will regulate (we hope this will be the case) the conduct that security issues depend on.
>You know that some actors are taking extensive action to introduce AI in the military domain. Every country has the right to see how it will unfold. But even now we see some countries’ attempts to subdue others and create a structure under their rule and subjugate everything other countries are doing, can do and have the right to do with AI in the military domain. Clearly, nations such as BRICS countries will not agree to such restrictions on their sovereignty. Nevertheless, transparency in this area is also crucial.
>India’s chairmanship has a relevant and modern programme that reflects today’s objectives and targets tomorrow. We will be supporting it more actively. >coping about orkekniks
the absolute state of ziggers
>>2687786>>2687787>>2687789>>2687791tldr you fucking ass…thank the WEST for chatgpt:
TL;DR
Core framing: Russia’s foreign policy is presented as operating in a long-term shift toward a multipolar world, where Western (especially US) economic and political dominance is declining and BRICS-type groupings are rising.
Russia’s priorities:
Safeguarding national security and what Moscow defines as its vital interests, especially regarding Ukraine.
Creating favorable external conditions for Russia’s internal economic and social development.
Expanding bilateral and multilateral cooperation outside Western-controlled systems.
View of the West/US:
The US and its allies are accused of trying to preserve dominance via sanctions, tariffs, control of energy routes, and use of the dollar as a weapon.
Trump-era rhetoric about improving relations is described as contradicted by continued Biden-era sanctions and executive orders.
Western institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO) are portrayed as outdated and unreformed.
BRICS emphasis:
BRICS is central to Russia’s strategy as an alternative economic and political framework.
Focus on national-currency payments, alternative financial platforms, reinsurance, investment mechanisms, and commodity exchanges.
Expansion (e.g., Indonesia joining) is framed as proof of BRICS’ growing relevance.
Eurasian integration:
Strong support for a Greater Eurasian Partnership, linking EAEU, SCO, ASEAN, and China’s Belt and Road.
Goal: economic integration first, then a continent-wide security architecture independent of NATO/EU structures.
India’s BRICS chairmanship:
Russia supports India’s priorities: counterterrorism, food and energy security, ICT and AI governance.
AI standards and sovereignty are highlighted as a coming major geopolitical struggle.
Bottom line:
Sergey Lavrov argues that Western dominance is ending, coercive pressure on Russia will fail, and BRICS/Eurasian structures are the future vehicles for global governance, economic growth, and security—on terms not controlled by the US or Europe.
okay, so we heard this shit again…we will see how this goes…still not much. yeah yeah it takes time, we know. still not much.
>>2687909bruh if you need Chat GPT to summarize four not long at all posts then your brain is fried and you need to go back to school
>>2687927Why read a lame duck Nazi rambling?
>>2687513Lmfao @ rusichite nazigger seethe
Looks like Russian banks are collapsing. Will Comrade Xi help the workers or nah? China has an obligation to stop Russia from descending into civil war and anarchy
>Busification in Ukraine will not end; the country has enough mobilization resources only for a year and a half of war, stated MP Ruslan Gorbenko of the Servant of the People faction.
>According to him, young men under 22 must serve up to a year in the army before being allowed to travel abroad.
did they tighten the travel rules again?
>"This week, Ukraine will have even less power," Energy Minister Shmygal warned his fellow citizens.
(February 10; today)
>>2688053it's even more delusional
>>2688125>Drones 70% – 80% of Battlefield Casualties>Artillery 15% – 20% of Battlefield CasualtiesMogged
>>2688125People who fanboy drones are usually just sadists who get kicks for watching people die at point blank range while being safe at home watching it happen on video.
>>2688053No water, no heat, no electricity in the country. Still the hopium huffing must go on. Things will certainly get betterin in Kiev when the frost thaws and the cold turns to the smell of shit since all the plumbing is broken.
>>2688342People just aren’t organised to resist, outside of perhaps sporadically fighting the busification.
That’s the irony behind this thread having anons promoting both
>le inter-imperialist war, no war but the class war, waiter waiter more dead proles pleaseand
>le Ukrainian spirit will never be broken, Cucktin has already lost because Ukraine hasn’t surrendered yet and therefore never will, do Russian proles have such conviction hmmm?but never seeing these ostensibly different anons clashing with each other, where le interimperialism anons are chastising the cucktin posters for projecting the Banderites’ obvious desire to never surrender on to the Ukrainian proletariat. You get days where the thread’s detractors are the former and days where they’re the latter.
Perhaps they’ve arranged a schedule with each other, a gentlemen’s agreement to not step on each others’ toes when shitting up the Putinist thread, but who knows?
>>2688353
>Rusich
You have to go back
>>2688358I’m getting a bad feeling that the only likely coup in Kiev is a military one led by Azov. It seems they’re the only group in Ukraine with enough cachet amongst the population to challenge Zelensky’s government like this.
Zelensky turns to the elderly to fix manpower shortages>The Ukrainian leader has signed a decree allowing men over 60 to sign up for the militaryhttps://swentr.site/russia/632297-ukraine-zelensky-elderly-military/Every day is another day closer to Russia accepting Ukraine will never surrender and hand them total victory, Putin, and all their money as compensation.
>>2688365somehow i doubt there is a glut of 60+ boomers who were itching to go to war but weren't allowed to
>>2688366Ah yes, but even fewer who can outrun a 30-something recroooter like the 18-25 yo/s can
Some of those recrooters are tubby tubby mcflubbies. I suspect you get the job for having already been in the military between 2014-2022 and your loyalty for shelling Donbass for those years is rewarded by not having to face those who can now fight back. Their wanton brutality against what was apparently their fellow citizens is better utilised for busification now anyway. The downside being they’re all now in their mid-30s and quite likely haven’t been keeping up with their cardio, already comfortably considered war heroes prior to 2022.
That’s my theory for why 18-22 year olds aren’t currently getting busified. Rate, hate, debate
>>2688365>President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill on July 29 allowing Ukrainian citizens over the age of 60 to voluntarily enlist in the military during martial law, the parliament's website shows.https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-signs-law-allowing-over-60s-to-join-military-during-wartime/They already crossed that road last year.
>>2688370The RT article does mention this expands on that decree, but strangely doesn’t specify how so.
>>2688369>That’s my theory for why 18-22 year olds aren’t currently getting busified. They aren't getting busified because they're going to be relying on them to have a Ukraine after the war. Ukraine is already facing demographic collapse and a lot of the 18-22yos who left probably aren't coming back. Alternatively, they'll need the 18-22yos in a few years when Ukraine decides to attack Europe for stabbing them in the back.
>>2688545>implying they will actually get west ukraine by 2120sure thing bro
>>2688540Ukraine is already dead and destroyed.
>>2688358the banderite media lies, then the commanders have to tell to their people that it was all a lie?
now way!
solution?
they can always snatch more milibloggers from deepstate and UA live map and send them to the fronts.
>>2688365>>2688366>>2688367they can always send them to the
elderly front lines care, with a one way busifying ticket trip.
>>2688362>I’m getting a bad feeling that the only likely coup in Kiev is a military one led by Azov.You're only now thinking this? We've been saying it decades.
STABBED IN THE BACK! STABBED IN THE BACK! >>2688565I bet there will be even more population outflow after the war ends and very few will return if they don't have to. Ukraine is already sold everything and so much shit has gotten destroyed. It will become a self feeding cycle where population is old and life for young people who are suppose to make money and rebuild, and raise the next generation have unbearably shitty prospects if they stay in Ukraine. That then just drives away any western investors and gibs that were suppose to be the lifeline for rebuilding. Like 2/3 of the Ukrainians here in Finland do not plan to ever return to Ukraine.
Ukraine will probably have 2-3 lost generations on top the current 20-30 year olds and already shitty demographics. It will probably never recover, at least not in our lifetimes. That is unless Russia takes it all or smth. I don't think EU or US will either reach out it's hand to help already spent Ukraine.
I think I have a plain and simple answer for why WW1 was repeated. All these shitty risk models used in the planning of military resources rely on the retarded assumption that the enemy will do nothing. As a result of the enemy doing everything, Russia was caught unprepared. I am sure putin is getting briefings along the lines of
>We cannot expand the military industries without communism
>We are not the ussr and we have no stavka
>We can't win this war without mobilizing the population
And guess what?
What does the cuck do?
He tries to get a settlement because he knows he cannot actually win given the present state of things. He also is too weak and cowardly to change anything because he is a low energy boomerfag so we are seeing this stupid shit. I knew russia attacking ukraine was a stupid move which is why I did not believe it was going to happen. Turns out the cuck is stupid and russia sucks at war. It simply cannot compete in the modern world because it never innovates organically. Everything in russia has to be done at the barrel of the gun because nobody likes change and just wants to sit on their laurels. Russia lost this war. No amount of Martyanov cope will fix that russia just sucks at war.
I'm cashing out from russia.
It sucks and the brics are a bunch of cucks.
A real leader would bitchslapp america instead of this bullshit with venezuela. Cuba is next and russia + china won't do shit. America wants the donroe doctrine but is still in ukraine and taiwan. Even lavrov is jumping ship. Cucktin should have never ran in 2012 and instead appointed an anti-western guy like Ivashov or some other schizo as president. God. Cucktinism has been a disaster for russia. Sad, but xi is also suffering from cucktinism since he cannot lose face against the buildup in taiwan and japan.
Brics lost.
It's over.
>>2688723Ukraine will be left with 15ish million people, largely pensioners, invalids and everyone incapable of going abroad, and a similar number of ukrainians living abroad permanently or semi-permanently as "e-residents" of Ukraine. What's left of the real economy and infrastructure will be privatized, scrapped and sold because a "digital state" doesn't need any of it. This will be lauded in the West as extremely forward-thinking and progressive.
>>2688794and what does Russia get? 12 trillion in coal lol
>>2688769Yes, yes, we've heard it all before. Russia sucks and you're a genius and we are lucky to have you in our presence. Great blog post.
>Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Wednesday accused Brussels and several European capitals of attempting to impose sanctions on Georgia, claiming that if they had the opportunity, they would go even further.
>In his remarks, Papuashvili claimed that “if it were up to them, they would even bring tanks here to establish ‘democracy’”.
>“Brussels and some capitals would not only impose sanctions on us - if it were up to them, they would even bring tanks here to establish ‘democracy’”, the Speaker said.
>Papuashvili further stressed that certain actors lack the ability to carry out such actions at the moment, but he suggested that some would not hesitate to do so if given the chance.
>“We have witnessed several years of continuous attacks against the Georgian people in order to install a puppet regime in Georgia. These attacks included economic and political pressure, as well as assaults on our security systems. All of this was orchestrated from abroad, unfortunately from the heart of Europe”, he continued.
I guess special operations work to make people see reason after all
>>2688794>This will be lauded in the West as extremely forward-thinking and progressive.but no givas?
jokes aside, their nationalists will still all claim that they have better toilets than Russia's.
>>2688829Ukros are consistently coping that after the war the West will givas and turn them into a new West Germany or South Korea. Because obviously the Americans did their post-war investments out of the goodness of their hearts and to own the Soviets, and not because they urgently needed captive export markets
>>2688851>out of the goodness of their heartsusually they do this to portray the the countries as more advanced as the Socialist or enemy counter-part.
Puerto Rico - Cuba, for example. Puerto Rico was heavily financed back in the 60-90s after Fidel became a fervent ML USSR communist, just to spite the Cubans and propagandize them in favor of capitalism. when the USSR fell, the US threw under the bus Puerto Rico. Clinton erased the Section 936 which gave Puerto Rico a tremendous financial leverage for investments and economic growth. This was so sordid a Senator named Moynihan demanded to Clinton to stop that:
>Moynihan demanded that Clinton scale back his planned elimination of the Puerto Rico tax credit. He [Moynihan]… raised the specter of revolution in the Caribbean. He said that elimination of the tax program would not only double unemployment in Puerto Rico but could vastly increase migration to New York…. (which it did, now the one the largest communities-populations in NY is the Puerto Ricans, and somehow the burgers get mad about it) [Furthermore] the increase in welfare and other social services costs would outstrip the savings achieved from abolishing the tax.6https://www.teachingforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/936articleCentro.pdfSame thing with the Koreas. The US did
everything to portray South Korea as the 'good Korea', from being 60 to 90% of SK GDP for around 10 years through economic aid, to the point of installing multiple dictators and killing people willing to open to the DPRK. For what? one of the highest wealth inequality there is? wagecucks sleeping in offices, with no capacity of having a family, a home? with the largest poorest elderly base among OECD countries?
Similarly, both Puerto Rico and South Korea are dying, dying and dying.
I wonder if ukienazis will learn a thing or two from that kissinger quote: "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."
>>2688880South Korea is very similar to Ukraine wrt having a schizophrenic culture that replaces national traditions with a cargo cult of America. With the catch that RoK was already colonized by Americans in the first place, while Ukrainians are simply hoping that they will be.
RoK is literally the only country outside the USA, Israel and the muslim world to widely practice circumcision, simply because Americans do it. I wonder if Ukraine will follow suit eventually.
Germany's ambassadors to Moscow:
2014-2019: Rüdiger Werner Hans-Erdmann Freiherr von Fritsch-Seerhausen
2019-2023: Géza Andreas von Geyr
2023-2026: Alexander Sebastian Léonce von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff
From 2026: Clemens Robert Alexander von Goetze
>>2688812Thank you good sir.
>>2688954I wonder if ukies are playing and stalling the negotiations, the pathetic US attempt to end the war, to see if in the midterms trumpedo gets beaten to smithereens.
trumpedo could end the war reasonably fast by sanctioning ukraine and impossing a weapons embargo.
let's see what the future says.
>>2689016>I wonder if ukies are playing and stalling the negotiations, the pathetic US attempt to end the war, to see if in the midterms trumpedo gets beaten to smithereens.Maybe. It's hard to imagine a positive post war scenario for the Ukraine even if things suddenly ended tomorrow. At least with the war going, they have the resources to keep pre-war Ukrainian society in place to an extent. If all the financial and material support were to dry up though, everything starts to fly apart.
https://inter.kke.gr/en/m-article/ON-THE-INTERNATIONAL-COMMUNIST-MOVEMENT/KKE got mindbroken by Big Multipolarista Cock and now says IMCWP/Solidnet is obsolete because it failed to convert communists to their falsifier cult of the "imperialist pyramid". Sad
From ICP
>The war in Ukraine, which pits NATO against Russia, is in fact more a war between the United States and Europe, especially Germany. Washington makes no secret of its satisfaction at having broken the commercial, industrial, and financial ties that united some European countries, Germany foremost among them
Leftypol said it before ICP did
Everyone keeps calling Putin a cuck when it is Europe that has been cucked.
>>2689093good that they're seething. the both-sider take is wrong and pernicious, so its failure is good. those trying to starve cuba and those trying to help it are not the same, and communists trying to equalize the two with leninist jargon should be scolded and made to sit in the corner to think about what they've done.
>>2688769tbqhwyfamlam I think Russia's failure in this war just proves that the Dengists were right to wait for another 100 years for America to collapse on itself before trying anything interventionist
>>2689339It's not even necessary to point out Russia's tacit support for other nations also under threat from US Imperialism, to demonstrate why the both-sider camp is wrong.
The consensus in the US and NATO is that they won the Cold War by "over-extending" the USSR in defence spending by placing any kind of military pressure it can, without openly declaring war. NATO expansion and the choice by the US to pursue conflict in Ukraine is just that same logic applied to modern Russia. If the US and NATO succeed in over-extending Russia into collapse, then they get the gas station, the nukes, 150+ million new labourers and conscripts, all to be utilised against presumably China next, letting the same "over-extension" tactic ride.
Russia crossing the border into Ukraine and seizing some of the Russian speaking parts in an attempt to halt NATO expansion, doesn't compare to that. Russia succeeding in Ukraine doesn't result in an equally destructive change to the course of history, it will be an irrelevancy as NAFOids are swift to point out.
That ANYONE can make the comparison by which the US essentially doubling its nuclear stockpile and aiming their new acquisitions at its primary global competitor, is merely "just" imperialism in the same way as Kiev continuing to speak Russian but now without EU flags and Blood and Soil flags all over the fucking place is… sus.
Russia announces it will send oil to Cuba
https://tass.com/politics/2085601>>2689388What prevents USA from taking over this tanker?
>>2689390Nothing, probably sending empty tankers so they can say they tried when tgey inevitably get captured
>>2689390don't know. we'll see. so far i think they haven't tried to seize formal russian tankers. usual ones from other places playing flag games. so maybe they won't go after a clear russian one, or maybe russia will arm it somehow or send military escort. we'll have to see.
>>2689407It will probably play out as usual. The US will illegally seize civilian owned tankers, citing its sanctions regime against Cuba that apparently only themselves, Ukraine and Israel support. Russia will say it tried to help but point out that’s impossible with the US acting illegally, хочу перемен! Cuba will collapse and we will see “anti-campist” “leftists” telling us how based it was and how cucked it made multipolarista
>>2689414I'm going start war and make the Europeans pay for it!
>>2689410>Champ admitting Cucktin has no way and no intent to protect Russia's oil tankersFinally. Progress. Maybe in another 3 years you will admit this war has been a disaster. Baby steps.
>>2689388>"In the near future, it is planned to deliver oil and oil products to Cuba as humanitarian aid,"it is planned for sometime in the future. Got it. So they'll send in aid after the socialist government collapses.
>>2689417>to protect Russia's oil tankersThat’s not what I said though, I still think the “shadow fleet” narrative is excuses for illegally seizing tankers. I still think ultimately it’s down to Americans to act to prevent their state’s illegal activities and not for some other country to unilaterally police the US.
Like that was kind of the irony to the post, that this is a circumstance that only exists because of the US and the only input we’re going to get from Americans is boasting that crushing Cuba is humiliating for the rest of the world (sans Israel and Ukraine).
>>2689419>shadow fleet” narrative is excuses for illegally seizing tankers.not the anon youre responding to but no shit. Russia should just grow balls and send those tankers with a military escort since otherwise its pure cucking
>>2689417the war was unavoidable.
>>2688908The comments are pure reddit gold thb, "good vs evil" type shit
>>2689431Again, Russia starting open conflict with the US is the only option if you assume Americans can’t do
anything to discourage their own state from such illegal acts.
>inb4 the American government will puss outThey’re currently obsessed with proving to the world that their power is not waning and is in fact absolute. The US “pussing out” is firing on the Russian Navy and fingers crossed they’ll back down.
>Ukraine's Rada Suspended Work — Deputies Massively Poisoned
>Ukraine's parliament could not work at the February 12 session — deputies say they might have been poisoned in the Rada's canteen.
>As "UP" writes, dozens of deputies are involved. The number "up to 30 people's deputies" is mentioned. Most have similar symptoms: high fever, loss of strength, intestinal upset, and diarrhea.
>>2689454It’s gotta be hard to keep up hygiene when you’ve got busted sewerage pipes everywhere. Unless they’re downplaying the symptoms and they’re all dying from anthrax
>>2689443Mate the only reason why Russia is stuck in the mud is because they expected Ukraine to be a pure media spectacle aka what the US did with Vuvuzuela. However the only reason that worked is because Vuvuzuela cucked. If they actually resisted (they should have) the US would have looked unprepared. In other words: yes, Russia absolutely should call the bluff. Trump is also quite a cuck, you think he is gonna go to war over one vessel? The reason why he constantly seems to push ahead with anything is because his opponents are bigger cucks than him. Look at Iran: Iran has seemingly learned their lessons and are not backing down now, something the burgers didnt expect. They are literally crying about how they cant talk to the "real" leader of the country, burgers look now pathetic in comparison. Trump has a huge ego and he hates when he gets exposed for his hypocrisy. War with Iran means his "peace in the middle east" gets exposed as the scam it is. Will also lead to republican infighting which is always good.
In other words: America is a paper tiger, countries should start acting like it.
>>2689465This is actually a tactical concession so they can pretend they are neutral while still banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing. Ukraine gets a slap on the rest and is forced to disavow one racer but the Russians and Belarusians can't even compete under their own flags.
>>2689467Didn’t read most of that tbh, because I saw the last line that suggests the US is a paper tiger but again claiming that’s for
other countries to exploit.
Like at what point do we just admit that the fact is Americans don’t *want* to put a stop to the illegal acts of their state if it would inconvenience them in any way, and leftypol can stop whining about “third worldists” calling them treatler?
>>2689470But in what way is America paper tiger. You all live in a false reality. I don't believe any of your Iranian super-sonic nonsense. Like the shit the USA has is real. Not no fakies, that's where a trillion dollars goes, no make-believe. Like a lot is graft of course, but like, no not none of your Russian, Chinese, especially Iranian tech is anything in comparison. Get a grip.
None of this tech means anything because as has long ago been described as MAD Mutually Assured Destruction. But I mean, in terms of absolute extermination, I would always trust the Americans. The Americans will exterminate more souls of the enemy.
I find it funny how I make a lot of wild country specific, but off-topic, but too the point posts, but you all (y'all) ignor it. Sheeit. Like you are are all so garbage TBH.
Aren't two sparrow sold for a farthing. Hmmm. You are all so garbage people.
>>2689465>🇺🇦 The Olympics PR Stunt Is Already Bearing Fruit>Zelensky awarded skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych the Order of Freedom for what he called “selfless service to the Ukrainian people.”Zrada -> Peremoga
There was never any human safari in Bosnia. Do not believe islamoid propaganda.
>>2689454lack of electricity and the food went bad.
>>2689456anthrax is too exaggerated lel.
>>2689093absolute gibberish. fuckers are indistinguishable from anarchists, trying to appeal communist language.
>muh China and Russia imperialism!uh-huh, how many president have they kidnapped? how many Cubas are they blockading to full starvation?
>muh failed strategies >"the failed line of cooperation with social democracy, the parliamentary road, and similar approaches."so are you proclaiming to take arms, go to the trenches in Greece, and engage in a protracted guerrilla war?
Lenin never abandoned electoralism, and continuously pacted with the socialdemagogery, but somehow these 'true Marxist Leninist' can't engage with it.
they read like the average lpol troll.
these people are senile.
Today F-35 is the most successful fighter jet program in history with the most capable, cheapest per unit mass produced fighters. Russian air defense in Venezuela? lol. Iran's air defense? Lol 😂
Apologize!
>>2689467>they expected Ukraine to be a pure media spectacle aka what the US did with Vuvuzuela>yfw vidrelit was both sides who called to negotiations. but good attempt to historical revisionism.
here, your (You).
>>2689472>iranian supersonicsyou are a fucking retard
>>2689752>Russia being stuck in a meatgrinder that now takes longer than WW2 was actually just part of the plan you seeWhy do you think they tried to take the airfield? Stop coping like a retard, they expected another Georgia, not this. Which was fucking retarded and goes to show how inferior their intelligences capabilities are than to the soviets. Also this just came in from Intel Slava:
>🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦Bloomberg reports that Russia, in the framework of possible negotiations with the US on the Ukrainian settlement, is hoping to return to international payments in dollars.
>The initiative, allegedly, comes from the Russian side.
>I hope this isn't true, because… I don't even want to explain it, everyone understands it anyway.Fucking Intel Slava is now saying this, fucking Intel Slava. Get off Cucktins dick. Him getting couped and replaced with an hardliner would only be an improvement. And he if he keeps doing what he does, it will happen. His power isnt as secure as some retards here suggest.
>>2689821And I think its funny when I literally want Ukropistan to get nuked and Zelenskkky getting hanged upside down in 4k that some anons suggest that I or some other anons, who point out cucktins nature, are somehow pro-ukraine. Like how tf do you reach such a conclusion?
>>2689336everyone still screeching PUTIN CUCK while europe has been the biggest voluntary bitch on the planet since the soviet union got yeeted into the trash bin peak ideology poisoning
putin is a corrupt gas station tsar with nukes and a hardon for orthodox chauvinism yeah we get it hes no based stalin 2.0 but the motherfucker at least doesnt let nato stick its dick right up to his border without trying to break something first
europe tho? holy shit the continent has been deepthroating uncle sams cock nonstop since 91 and thanking him for the privilege
nord stream mysteriously turns into modern art? shrugs shoulders immediately starts slurping expensive american lng like its the nectar of the gods thank you biden-sama very cool very demure
sanctions supposedly own russia? meanwhile german factories close shop entire industries get euthanized grandma in berlin cant afford heat but at least they owned the vatniks right lmao
ukraine meatgrinder proxy war? europe ships all the leopards and storm shadows freezes welfare budgets and energy bills go to the moon while lockheed and exxon print money and plan the kiev real estate flip
thats not partnership thats straight up colonial tribute with rainbow flags and pronouns on top you got cucked so hard you started calling it empowerment
so yeah keep seething about putin being a cuck if it helps you sleep at night but the real gelded sub is the one thats been paying protection money to washington pretending its still a sovereign power
touch some grass read some lenin on imperialism or just keep dilating idc
stay mad eurocuck continent ☭ >>2689821Even if this is true… Thank fuck mutts and Europeans will never allow Russia back into any western institution unless Russia wants to a literally balkanized and work as an western foot stool. The hubris and immovable retardation of western leaders is the glue that keeps the Bricks and third world united.
>>2689835True. Now would be an excellent time to jump ship. Too bad Europe and EU above all has in power retards who never saw WW2, nor much of the cold war and spooky nuclear Armageddon, but very vividly and as their defining life experience remember the fall of the soviet union and what that meant about the future of human society. Nobody can dream an alternative political project or what Europe would look like without US and transatlantism. Even I'm guilty, beside some vague ideas of death to EU and NATO and work on restoring relations with Russia and Eurasia.
>>2689431>otherwise its pure cuckingOnly if you're totally spectacle-brained and happening-addicted and think of the world and politics in childish terms like "cucked."
>>2689832>I literally want Ukropistan to get nuked and Zelenskkky getting hanged upside down in 4k that some anons suggest that I or some other anons, who point out cucktins nature, are somehow pro-ukrainethe SMO was and is never about nuking ukraine and hanging zelya. and changing the goals and pretend they aren't achieved is what nato and the cia stenographers do:
>Any random western media, WSJ, NYT, NYP, the pedoatlantic, etc.: Putin isn't winning because the goal we made up isn't being fulfilled.change the goals of the SMO is exactly what nafo does. you are not clever.
>>268986830 individual missiles or 30 launchers? 30 missiles is worth what? 2 nights?
>>2689890>anti-russian sentiment is just anti-proletarian hatredI've been saying this since forever. Look at Donetsk, Lugansk and Transnistria, everywhere there is strong pro-russian sentiment it's invariably the most industrialized and proletarianized parts of the country where people want to be a part of a large international whole and not some shitty byntystyn. The pan-Russian idea is unironically progressive and internationalist, and has emerged from the proletarian masses with only weak, unwilling and tacit support from the Russian bourgeoisie, while the derussifiers are wholly anti-proletarian and reactionary.
>>2689898Two interceptors are required per one incoming missile so not even that.
>>2689866they found the ghost of kiev for the olympics!
very fitting analogy for the current state of the UAF air forces.
Zelensky attacks the Olympics>Russian athletes should be disqualified despite breaking no rules, the Ukrainian leader has argued<Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of playing “into the hands of aggressors” by banning a Ukrainian athlete while allowing Russians to compete under a neutral flag.>”The Olympic movement should help stop wars, not play into the hands of aggressors. Unfortunately, the decision of the International Olympic Committee to disqualify Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladislav Geraskevich says otherwise. And yet, 13 Russians are currently in Italy competing at the Olympics, they are the ones who deserve disqualification.“https://swentr.site/russia/632384-zelensky-winter-olympics-ban/Givas all gold medali as compensation for war crimeas
>>2689900I am more disgusted for a culture that can't produce profound literature, novels, soap operas, knowledge, poetry, in their own language, and has to rely on a foreign language, flagshipped by the US that would deport them on sight if they dare to speak English poorly, or worse: criticize the US.
absolute and embarrassing gusanos-minded people. one thing is survival, another thing is crawl and shovel, and having a breath reeking like rubber boots.
>>2689912>russians have been banned from the olympics since 2015 on questionable charges that most countries wouldn't passeasy proof that russophobia didn't magically emerge in 2022 and the West in fact has a special geopolitical interest in encircling and humiliating Russia despite what kkke cultists say
>>2689916Yeah it's the dumbest of all possible lies to come out of this conflict, that Russophobia only became a thing in response to the invasion and therefore Russia's own fault.
There's just so much evidence to the contrary.
I'm sure I've posted this example before, but 16 years ago and it hits every target
>NATO expansion is just about annoying Russia but otherwise harmless>The only reason Russians care is because Eastern Europe used to be their sphere of influence>Putin is weird like dictators are, but also Russians love him because they are weird>If WW3 breaks out, it will have been funny to have irked Russia that muchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2u4dlZBHE>>2689472>But in what way is America paper tiger. You all live in a false reality. I don't believe any of your Iranian super-sonic nonsense. Like the shit the USA has is real. Not no fakies, that's where a trillion dollars goes, no make-believe. Like a lot is graft of course, but like, no not none of your Russian, Chinese, especially Iranian tech is anything in comparison. Get a grip.Meanwhile in reality, the F35 is a glorified aircraft streaming service, the Gerald R Ford nearly had to be docked because it couldn't launch aircraft or feed its own crew, and Russia is outproducing it in shells by 10-1.
And that's just off the top of my head.
>>2689868This is why they are seething about Iran. Cause Iran, despite cleric cuckoldry, went full in on building thousands of missiles to saturate any possible air defence. Western supremacy relies on protecting the homeland from attack to prevent popular resistance to their aggressive foreign policy.
>>2688358Ukraine in general is a caricature of anti-Soviet propaganda.
>>2686302Notice how the man being arrested has dropped a knife to the ground while the victim clearly died of gunshot wounds
More than 1,300 European industry organizations have urged Brussels to lower energy prices and carbon costs to save the bloc’s competitiveness.
The plea came on Wednesday as Belgium hosts two days of high-level talks dedicated to industrial revival.
“Bring energy and carbon costs down. The costs of energy in Europe are simply too high to compete and are not only driven by commodity prices but also by regulatory charges,” reads the declaration.
Multiple media outlets have quoted industry executives calling for electricity prices to return to pre-2021 levels of €44 ($52) per MWh from the current €80-100 range.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Industry Summit on Wednesday that the bloc was “well-positioned to lower costs,” citing planned improvements to the electric grid and expansion of offshore wind power projects.
The industry argues, however, that revamping the grid will take time, with the declaration urging the change “today.”
>>2690158Baltics deserve the brutal occupation they hallucinated that existed.
>>2690158When it comes to Israel it's the inhuman gleeful cruelty that gets you. With mutts it's the constant hypocrisy and hubris of their leaders that makes you dislike them. With baltoids it's always the extreme pettiness that grinds your gears.
>>2689882Unironic russian chauvinism should be banned. Also imagine using "smo" unironically. A term cucktin invented because he doesnt want to frighten the stock market. Kill yourself you dumb faggot, the reason this war is a stalemate is because of reality denying dimwits such as you.
>>2690370>also inb4 he posts something about the ukrop side being racist because being a communist means being pro-ukrainefucking retard
https://archive.is/20260213025402/https://www.wsj.com/opinion/nato-has-seen-the-future-and-is-unprepared-887eaf0fRussia and Ukraine have shown the world the future of warfare—and America and its allies aren’t ready for it. That’s the lesson of a major exercise that North Atlantic Treaty Organization members conducted in Estonia last May. What transpired during the exercise, with the details reported here for the first time, exposed serious tactical shortcomings and vulnerabilities in high-intensity drone combat.
The exercise, known as Hedgehog 2025, involved more than 16,000 troops from 12 NATO countries who drilled alongside Ukrainian drone experts, including soldiers borrowed from the front line. It simulated a “contested and congested” battlefield with various kinds of drones, says Lt. Col. Arbo Probal, head of the unmanned systems program for the Estonian Defence Forces. “The aim was really to create friction, the stress for units, and the cognitive overload as soon as possible,” he says. That tests the soldiers’ ability to adapt under fire.
In Ukraine the front line is largely frozen, but Hedgehog envisioned a battlefield where tanks and troops still have some ability to move. During one scenario, a battle group of several thousand troops, including a British brigade and an Estonian division, sought to conduct an attack. As they advanced, they failed to account for how drones have made the battlefield more transparent, several sources say.
The NATO battle group was “just walking around, not using any kind of disguise, parking tents and armored vehicles,” recalls one participant, who played an enemy role. “It was all destroyed.”
During Hedgehog Ukrainians used Delta, their sophisticated battlefield-management system. It collects real-time battlefield intelligence, uses artificial intelligence to analyze huge amounts of data, identifies targets, and coordinates strikes across command and units. That enables a fast “kill chain”: See it, share it, shoot it—all within minutes or less.
A single team of some 10 Ukrainians, acting as the adversary, counterattacked the NATO forces. In about half a day they mock-destroyed 17 armored vehicles and conducted 30 “strikes” on other targets.
Aivar Hanniotti, an Estonian Defense League unmanned aerial systems coordinator, led an adversary unit of about 100 that included Estonians and Ukrainians. Mr. Hanniotti, who has since left the regular military, describes how they deployed more than 30 drones against NATO troops in an area of less than 4 square miles. That’s only about half the drone saturation Ukrainians currently see at the front, though Col. Probal says the Hedgehog umpires sometimes offset that discrepancy by recording the drone strikes as twice as damaging or more. But even with less reconnaissance than in real life, “there was no possibility to hide,” Mr. Hanniotti says. “We quite easily found cars and mechanized units, and we were able to take them out quite fast with strike drones.”
Overall, the results were “horrible” for NATO forces, says Mr. Hanniotti, who now works in the private sector as an unmanned systems expert. The adversary forces were “able to eliminate two battalions in a day,” so that “in an exercise sense, basically, they were not able to fight anymore after that.” The NATO side “didn’t even get our drone teams.”
Credit the Estonians for forcing NATO partners to confront these weak spots. Hedgehog was also an example of how Ukrainians can contribute to overall European security. There’s only so much you can learn from watching online footage or reading about what’s transpiring in Ukraine, says Sten Reimann, a former commander of Estonia’s Military Intelligence Center who helped bring in Ukrainian drone experts for Hedgehog. He said the results of this exercise were “shocking” to military officials and troops on the ground.
Hedgehog didn’t deal with political or strategic issues like drone procurement. Estonia is small, and land-use limitations sometimes constrained how troops could move. No single exercise can reflect how quickly drone technology evolves during an actual war. Still, Hedgehog showed how visible the battlefield has become—and how vulnerable that makes anyone or anything moving on it. NATO will need to adjust its tactics and find better ways to protect its tanks and armored vehicles.
Another lesson is the need for a faster kill chain, which requires more efficient cooperation on strikes. During a future war game, NATO might consider pitting Delta against a similar battlefield-management platform developed by the U.S. to see how they stack up. There’s also room to improve communication and coordination between units. Ukrainians accelerate attacks by sharing large amounts of data between command and units. But that runs counter to NATO’s instinct to restrict sensitive information.
“Lessons are not learned when they are identified,” says retired Gen. David Petraeus. “Rather, they are only learned when you develop new concepts, write new doctrine, change organizational structures, overhaul your training, refine leader development courses, set out new materiel requirements that drive the procurement process, and even make changes to your personnel policies, recruiting, and facilities.”
Estonia is trying to implement such major changes. It has updated its training, tactics and military doctrine for the drone era. It is also increasing defense spending and building deeper relationships with its vibrant private tech industry to work on drones and other military innovations.
Yet too many NATO members continue to show “a fundamental lack of understanding of the modern battlefield” and train their soldiers “based on doctrines and manuals that are not adapted to today’s realities,” says Maria Lemberg of the Ukrainian nonprofit Aerorozvidka, which supported Delta’s development. She helped coordinate Ukraine’s participation in Hedgehog and hopes it can serve as a wake-up call and basis for more knowledge-sharing between Kyiv and its partners.
Multiple sources told the story of one commander, who observed the drill and concluded, “We are f—.” I asked Estonia’s Col. Probal about this reaction. He said that one aim of the exercise was to help participants “think more, to make them critical toward themselves, to make sure they are not complacent in what they are doing right now.” Was it a success? “From my point of view, mission accomplished.”
>>2690431>During Hedgehog Ukrainians used Delta, their sophisticated battlefield-management system. It collects real-time battlefield intelligence, uses artificial intelligence to analyze huge amounts of data, identifies targets, and coordinates strikes across command and units. That enables a fast “kill chain”: See it, share it, shoot it—all within minutes or less.A decade ago this would have been the headline and a cautionary message.
We're all in now. How times change.
>>2690370>Russian chauvinismAgain, I’m going to have to call it sus that’s even considered comparable to Ukraine getting everyone to say “Slava Ukraini” and the US/NATO with their claim the fate of global freedom and democracy essentially depends on their exemption from either in bombing half the world and shaking hands with fascists and/or terrorists they install.
>>2690431The biggest issue after the general industrial decline is that Europe is incapable producing low cost arms en mass and it is also economically and politically incapable of having factories or production lines sitting idle or at bellow capacity. This leads to the memes of western quality over Asiatic quantity and always preparing for a 2 week war where the west is suppose to always win decisively.
Based AWAKENED ukrainian proletariat will hang Zelensky by the balls and mating press all press gangers wives
>>2690436>considered comparable to Ukraine getting everyone to say “Slava Ukraini” and the US/NATO with their claim the fate of global freedom and democracy essentially depends on their exemption from either in bombing half the world and shaking hands with fascists and/or terrorists they install.as predicted, he immediately accuses me of pro-ukrop sympathies because I hold the (correct) position of despising chauvinism, no matter where it comes from. Do I need to call zelenskkky a cokeclown after every fucking sentence calling out russian chauvinism? Only if youre a toddler.
>>2690499Yeah it's that also. Nato is a geopolitical tool to threaten Russia and keep Europe subservient to the unipolar project and also America invested in the affairs of European porkies.
It's also a grift of the military industrial complex on the both sides of the Atlantic and a lucrative career pathway and a revolving door to many European politicians and "expert". It hoovers up taxpayer money with high capital cost and overpriced wunderwaffe nato compatible weapons. They really want to keep their captive market for their high cost, high maintenance, proprietary weapons systems intact, even at the cost of military effectiveness and resiliency.
Peskov confirms Bloomberg report on return to the dollar systemMOSCOW, February 13. /TASS/. Russia is offering the US economic cooperation; this is no secret. This was noted at a briefing by Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on a Bloomberg publication about an alleged economic cooperation plan sent to Washington.
The agency calls the concept “Kirill Dmitriev's plan.” Bloomberg cites arguments about the possibility of creating joint ventures with the US and settlements in dollars, but accompanies them with excessive evaluative comments, primarily of a political nature.
“This is quite obvious from the information provided by Bloomberg,” Peskov noted. “Of course, we are offering cooperation. Of course, companies from both countries are potentially interested in this cooperation — hence the joint ventures.”
The Kremlin spokesman also commented on the possibility of settlements in dollars: he recalled that it was not Moscow that refused to use this currency, but Washington that imposed restrictions. According to Peskov, settlements in US currency are possible, but if the restrictions are lifted, the dollar will have to compete seriously with national and alternative currencies.
https://tass.ru/politika/26439089 >>2690524>Bloomberg cites arguments about the possibility of creating joint ventures with the US and settlements in dollars, but accompanies them with excessive evaluative comments, primarily of a political nature.>settlements in US currency are possible, but if the restrictions are lifted, the dollar will have to compete seriously with national and alternative currencies.So it's just about The Russia-US trade to be conducted in dollars i.e. "national currencies".
>>2690521No, the accusation is Russophobia equating anything Russia does as equally bad as what literal fascists do and what an imperialist bloc is doing. Even when that’s telling NATO to fuck off with its expansionism and disagreeing that Ukrainian ultranationalists are correct to oppress or even murder Russian speakers.
You can’t despise chauvinism if you can’t identify it.
Like okay, here’s ChampSoc’s guide to “what is chauvinism?”
>NATO expanding despite agreements not to, because they claim Europe can only be safe when it’s entirely under their control, because they’re the sole representatives of law, order, freedom and democracy in the world: Chauvinism
>Ukrainian fascists ranting about forcing children to live underground from shelling justified by the language they speak, demanding exceptions be made for them in basically every organisation whether military, economic, political and even sports, encouraging or even demanding non-Ukrainians to glorify Ukraine above their own nations: Chauvinism
<Eventually resorting to military action in self-defence against the aforementioned chauvinists: Not Chauvinism
>>2690431Millenium Challenge 2025
>>2690370>Also imagine using "smo" unironicallyare you telling me that correctly translating words and acronyms is 'unimaginable'?
GASP react face.jpg
wait until you hear that nabu and sapo are correctly translated into English following the meaning in English, instead of the literal conversion of initials.
moron.
>>2690524>confirms Bloomberg report on return to the dollar systemthat's not what it states the note, lol.
ctrl+f 'return to the dollar system'
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>>2690767based lukashenko defending belarusian collective farmers from the evil greedy grasping russian oligarchs
if only luka had suceeded in taking over russia after yeltsin
the ussr would have been revived
>>2690201they deserved 1000 years of USSR.
>>2690431I don't know if this a piece propaganda article pro ukie trying to portray ukies as the next
ubermensch or what.
>>2690436he is a two post to say that there's no Russophobia in the west, precesily when this post was made:
>>2689890lmao
>>2690477>>2690499they simply subsidize these things. but porkies get the money, not the people. also they bully small countries. They will never engage again directly with superpowers.
>>2690895>I don't know if this a piece propaganda article pro ukie trying to portray ukies as the next ubermensch or what.I think there's a bit of that, but there are also genuine problems with western MIC and military leadership preparing for yesterday's war. China and Russia are building vast drone fleets while burgers want a trump battleship from cold war era military fiction.
https://english.news.cn/europe/20260214/430b6a22ba6b462a9729be73301bc8ab/c.htmlChina really wants Russia to just say fuck it and ride the spirit of anchorage, huh. Disappointing
>>2690945i'd presume china would like to see this war drag on at a slow grind for as long as possible because it drains and distracts nato/usa and hinders their "pivot to asia".
this is the reverse of the old line about ukraine being the shield of europe. here russia is the shield of china (and indirectly iran and the rest of the global south), and in return china ensures that russia's economy stays afloat and sanctions don't work, and possibly ensures military help if it ever came to that.
>>2690990I'd like to have your optimism but that piece of news makes me suspect that China has no geopolitical strategy whatsoever and just idly responds to external stimuli. I don't want to see a Russian detente with the West, but with signals from China like this, Russian ruling class might just see no other option.
>>2690990>>2690998To be fair to China, anything more than neutrality in Ukraine is likely to result in retaliatory provocations with regards to Taiwan by the West, possibly to the degree that China would be compelled to do its own SMO.
Currently no one wants this because of the massive ramifications it would have on the global economy, but if it seemed like China was influencing the situation in Europe, then that's a concern for the US/EU/NATO beyond economic.
soygu status?
>>2690945A depopulating, deindustrializing ukraine should only be able to sustain a growing trade volume with china with copious amount of
givas. In the short term this economic leverage has been paid for by the EU taxpayer and in the long run is unsustainable.
While cold comfort for humanity in the short term I consider any real detente to be impractical. Lest the US is willing to recouple EU industries to Russian raw materials. As its the only leveraged commitment (thus proving a degree of necessary good faith) that can be made to the russian booj that isnt the infamously fickle offer of sanction relief. A carrot that is inherently far less appealing to a Russian economy that remains globalised through Asian middlemen.
Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, guided the construction of the Overseas Military Operations Battle Merit Memorial Hall on site on February 13.
Comrade Kim Jong- un was greeted on site by Comrade Ju Chang-il, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea , commanders of military units mobilized for construction, and workers from the design and creative units.
Comrade Kim Jong- un toured the construction site of the memorial hall and learned in detail about the construction status and the creation and installation of sculptures.
Comrade Kim Jong Un highly praised the decorative sculptures on the exterior walls of the memorial hall, saying that they were well done in bringing the thematic characteristics to life, and said that the unparalleled heroism and popular heroism displayed by our soldiers who participated in overseas military operations should be proudly engraved in history as a banner of sure victory.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that the Overseas Military Operations Battle Merit Memorial Hall is not just a building, but the crystallization of the noble respect paid by our Party, country and people to the sacred souls of the heroic warriors who will live on forever, and a statue of dignity and honor that solemnly recalls their valuable lives.
Comrade Kim Jong Un emphasized that every detail must be perfectly conceived ideologically and artistically, and he outlined a series of tasks and methods for correction.
Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed that the People's Army soldiers, designers, and creators who participated in the construction of the Overseas Military Operations Battle Merit Memorial Hall should deeply cherish the noble respect of our Party and people and build the memorial hall into an immortal sacred hall and a grand monument of the times as a symbol of the war martyrs' feats and eternal life. (End)
>>2690998i wouldn't be worried. it's just typical china diplo-speak and i think russia knows that. their position has always been they're not for/against russia or ukraine. they're just for the typical un boilerplate things and diplomacy to resolve it. in the end their trade and relationship with russia is a lot bigger and more important than ukraine, but they'll maintain a relationship with ukraine and keep up appearances for as long as it stays possible to do. i think it's a position consistent with what i said. they'll keep a posture of neutrality and talk in un jargon and approving of peace talks, but behind the scenes i think they're fine with it dragging on like this for years (or even prefer it) and russia knows that.
>>2690920>China and Russia are building vast drone fleets while burgers want a trump battleship from cold war era military fiction.It's not being built to attack Russia or China. EU/US is always about bullying the smaller incapable-to-fire-back countries.
>>2690945you have no idea how much of that angers the hoholites.
>what? why are you telling me that we are mixing with the asiatic horde :frowning face: >>2691509Sorry, have you just misread the top dual national by a considerable margin?
>>2691510So true ziozizter. Because Brits have less dual citizens in Israel than Ukkkraine, they are not reactionary zionists
>>2691512Okay so then the inverse is true, that there are 5000 dual Russian-Israel nationals in the IDF is an irrelevancy in gauging how pro-zionist Russia is.
I know you're a fucking idiot, but could you at least try not to be? For today at least? I'm going to be away for obvious reasons, so I can't cook today.
>>2690945You shouldn't take news from the American or European outlets of Chinese news bureaus seriously. They all end up hiring libtards since they don't know what else to do since they don't have an abundance of culturally-aware English speakers specialized in journalism, so the coverage is retarded as a result.
>>2691558its the statements of the foreign minister wang yi
>>2691577Okay, so next time make that public demonstration legal by notifying the police beforehand. No biggie.
I also fucking LOVE how our resident ultras deviate between
>Russian Communist Party ain't real communism want, they are idiots, I know bettervs.
<OMFG, the Russian communists are opressed, WHAT THE FUCK, PUTNILike, at least be consistent, you little shit.
>>2691582I'm not an ultra and have always consistently supported the KPRF and have never called them "not real communists".
So when Cucktin does reactionary stuff like allowing a regional government to build a plaque honoring an anti-communist fascist who prayed for the Soviets to be nuked and who supported Hitler's invasion, I will not hesitate to call that out as well.
>>2691582>Okay, so next time make that public demonstration legal by notifying the police beforehand. No biggie.spiritual yank
>>2691604>Just inform the police beforehand bro"leftypol" btw. In europe the exact same thing is happening btw. Also I expect Putin to crack down harder on the communists in general because they are rising in popularity. Anti-communism unites europe and russia anyway, with cucktin returning to the dollar, slowly dropping any pretense of multipolarism will also happen.
>>2691609>Also I expect Putin to crack down harder on the communists in general because they are rising in popularityIts interesting and wouldn't be surprised when this backfires by the 2030s with Putin resigning and a swarm of Neo-Bolsheviks taking control
>>2691509😱😱😱 what?? are you telling that a 150 million country has
some zionists?
let me pull better statistics because being a retard doesn't excuse things ITT to let things be obscured by people like you.
1) Ranking — per-capita (largest → smallest)
(Columns: country — TRT count — population (2024 est) — per-100k dual-nationals serving — raw ratio)
Hungary — 885 — pop ≈ 9,630,000 — 9.190 per 100k (0.00009190)
France — 6,127 — pop ≈ 68,551,653 — 8.938 per 100k (0.00008938)
Romania — 1,675 — pop ≈ 19,051,562 — 8.792 per 100k (0.00008792)
Ukraine — 3,210 — pop ≈ 37,860,221 — 8.479 per 100k (0.00008479)
Germany — 3,901 — pop ≈ 83,577,140 — 4.668 per 100k (0.00004668)
Poland — 1,668 — pop ≈ 38,539,201 — 4.328 per 100k (0.00004328)
Austria — 390 — pop ≈ 9,100,000 — 4.286 per 100k (0.00004286)
Switzerland — 373 — pop ≈ 8,800,000 — 4.239 per 100k (0.00004239)
United States — 12,135 — pop ≈ 340,110,988 — 3.568 per 100k (0.00003568)
Russia — 5,067 — pop ≈ 146,000,000 — 3.471 per 100k (0.00003471)
Belgium — 406 — pop ≈ 11,700,000 — 3.470 per 100k (0.00003470)
Netherlands — 559 — pop ≈ 17,750,000 — 3.149 per 100k (0.00003149)
Canada — 1,185 — pop ≈ 40,000,000 — 2.963 per 100k (0.00002963)
Czech — 309 — pop ≈ 10,500,000 — 2.943 per 100k (0.00002943)
United Kingdom — 1,686 — pop ≈ 67,886,011 — 2.484 per 100k (0.00002484)
Netherlands (already listed) — — — — (already above)
Italy — 828 — pop ≈ 59,000,000 — 1.403 per 100k (0.00001403)
Ethiopia — 1,387 — pop ≈ 126,527,060 — 1.096 per 100k (0.00001096)
Argentina — 609 — pop ≈ 46,000,000 — 1.324 per 100k (0.00001324)
Spain — 372 — pop ≈ 47,000,000 — 0.791 per 100k (0.00000791)
Brazil — 505 — pop ≈ 215,000,000 — 0.235 per 100k (0.00000235)
South Africa — 415 — pop ≈ 60,000,000 — 0.692 per 100k (0.00000692)
Australia — 502 — pop ≈ 26,100,000 — 1.922 per 100k (0.00001922)
Now, let me use a corrective factor: the distance between the two capitals (each country and Jerusalem), where the largest distance is 1, the shortest distance is 0.1, the other in between, keeping proportionality and obtained through extrapolation, to create a weighted correction:
United States — 12,135 | 3.568 /100k | 9,496.4 km | weight = 0.6731 → weighted = 2.4015 /100k
France — 6,127 | 8.938 /100k | 3,331.8 km | weight = 0.2248 → weighted = 2.0094 /100k
Australia — 502 | 1.923 /100k | 13,992.2 km | weight = 1.0000 → weighted = 1.9234 /100k
Canada — 1,185 | 2.962 /100k | 8,970.7 km | weight = 0.6349 → weighted = 1.8808 /100k
Hungary — 885 | 9.190 /100k | 2,221.6 km | weight = 0.1441 → weighted = 1.3242 /100k
Argentina — 609 | 1.324 /100k | 12,237.2 km | weight = 0.8724 → weighted = 1.1550 /100k
Ukraine — 3,210 | 8.479 /100k | 2,113.1 km | weight = 0.1362 → weighted = 1.1548 /100k
Germany — 3,901 | 4.668 /100k | 2,901.1 km | weight = 0.1935 → weighted = 0.9032 /100k
Romania — 1,675 | 8.792 /100k | 1,615.2 km | weight = 0.1000 → weighted = 0.8792 /100k
Switzerland — 373 | 4.239 /100k | 2,898.5 km | weight = 0.1933 → weighted = 0.8194 /100k
Belgium — 406 | 3.470 /100k | 3,297.1 km | weight = 0.2223 → weighted = 0.7714 /100k
Poland — 1,668 | 4.328 /100k | 2,549.5 km | weight = 0.1679 → weighted = 0.7268 /100k
Netherlands — 559 | 3.149 /100k | 3,347.5 km | weight = 0.2260 → weighted = 0.7116 /100k
Austria — 390 | 4.286 /100k | 2,419.3 km | weight = 0.1585 → weighted = 0.6791 /100k
Russia — 5,067 | 3.471 /100k | 2,673.9 km | weight = 0.1770 → weighted = 0.6142 /100k
United Kingdom — 1,686 | 2.484 /100k | 3,609.9 km | weight = 0.2450 → weighted = 0.6086 /100k
Czech — 309 | 2.943 /100k | 2,663.0 km | weight = 0.1762 → weighted = 0.5185 /100k
South Africa — 415 | 0.692 /100k | 6,438.3 km | weight = 0.4507 → weighted = 0.3117 /100k
Italy — 828 | 1.403 /100k | 2,304.2 km | weight = 0.1501 → weighted = 0.2106 /100k
Spain — 372 | 0.791 /100k | 3,595.1 km | weight = 0.2440 → weighted = 0.1931 /100k
Ethiopia — 1,387 | 1.096 /100k | 2,560.2 km | weight = 0.1687 → weighted = 0.1849 /100k
Brazil — 505 | 0.235 /100k | 10,294.1 km | weight = 0.7311 → weighted = 0.1717 /100k
what's that? are you telling me that if you start using better considerations you get a clearer view and you get publicly ridiculed?
and that kids, is how you effectively squeeze AIs for a meaningful practice.
you are free to use other corrective factors. lol, inb4
>REEEEEEEEEEE I WILL PUT HOW MANY SLAVS THERE ARE IN A COUNTRY AS A CORRECTIVE FACTOR! THE LARGEST % WILL HAVE A CORRECTIVE FACTOR OF 1trying to rank Russia in first place, as if
that's important.
distance between capitals is a great corrective factor because shows you the lengths a person wants to travel and how a state foments cultural exchange and brainwashing towards their population in regards to how they each state portrays israel, because the logistics and expenditures for such travel distances are incredibly painful.
now, go be a moron elsewhere.
>>2691782Why do both Ukrainians and Russians constantly accuse each other of being gay? Is attacking someone for being gay the height of Slavic humor? It reminds me of primary school.
>>2691815> Is attacking someone for being gay the height of Slavic humor? Or a woman, yes.
>>2691815They also have a anal fixation. Every russian and pole I interacted always tried to offend someone focusing on anal stuff.
>>2691814shut the fuck up with your gay data and all that shit
>>2691558as best they hire 'dissidents', like RT hired max kaiser, and lee camp, and rick sanchez.
>>2691877>million USD missile vs 50k droneyeah, it's not ukie's own money so why would they care.
>>2691509Every russian israeli I know is a pro-ukraine liberal. Why is Russia responsible for what gusanos do?
>A significant movement developed in defense of refuseniks, and especially "prisoners of Zion" (i.e., arrested refuseniks), in the United States, England, France, Israel, and other countries.>In 1959, Shabtai Beit Zvi founded the Maoz Society in Israel, which was led by Golda Elin from 1968.>In 1964, Jacob Birnbaum founded the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in the United States.[3]>Since 1969, the Jewish Defense League, founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, began an open struggle for the liberation of Soviet Jewry.[4]>Since 1968, Michael Sherbourne joined the struggle for the liberation of Soviet Jews, maintaining telephone contact with hundreds of refuseniks from his office in England.[5] In 1968, Sy Frumkin and Ze'ev Yaroslavsky founded the Southern California Council for Soviet Jewry.[6]>In 1970, the Union of Committees for the Defense of Jews in the Former USSR was founded in Washington, D.C., bringing together several local organizations in the United States.>In 1974, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment was passed in the United States, which sought to pressure the USSR by banning the export of technology, including dual-use (civilian and military) technology. Presidents Carter and, especially, Reagan played a significant personal role in implementing sanctions against the USSR.Thank your masters for promoting and facilitating the migration of anti-Soviet jews to Israel.
>>2691815I remember when twitteratis learned the meaning of the word "pidor" that ukrainians almost universally used to call russians, and ukros were quick to claim that it's no longer homophobic because they use it to call le occupier or some shit.
>>2691797>backfires by the 2030s with Putin resigning and a swarm of Neo-Bolsheviksbest case scenario tbh
Везде и всегда будем из стали и гранита.
>>2691887he only likes the data where he can accuse Russia of being worst than or equal as ukraine.
you post a better breakdown to illustrate things:
>>2691814 and immediately is shunned with a "shut the fuck up with your gay data and all that shit" some cognitive dissonance there with dunning kruger mixture. it's like a reactionary cocktail of ignorance and pretentiousness, but only him gets harmed when it explodes.
>>2691840Made that pic like 6 years ago
Still here
Still hate this place
Fml
>>2691947>Dengism vs MaoismFake shit. Dengism is Maoism. Maoism is Dengism.
>>2692217They talk about Navalny as if he was just one last PR stunt from becoming (elected)czar of Russia. I don't get that impression , skimming his wikipedia though.
>>2692217Do bare in mind that this is a claim coming from his wife, who says she was able to smuggle bits and pieces of her husband out of Russia for analysis in Europe. AFAIK the British government are just taking that claim at face value, because evidence and proof wasn’t important for the Skirpal affair either.
>>2692240He was very flexible in his convictions it seems. I believe at some points he was generic social liberal and other times calling foreigners cockroaches while looking for an audience that would thrust him into the Kremlin, exactly the kind of guy they want running Russia.
>>2692217UK media needs to distract the public with whatever. After showing that their political and economic classes were touring on the pedo island.
lol, lmao
>>2692320The Labour party are also currently being destroyed by a chud party, whom only have support because the Labour party themselves crushed Corbynism, and their solution is… any guesses? To accuse the chud party leader of being a Russian sympathiser or agent.
Can YOU vote for someone who did interviews on RT and therefore tacitly supports Putin, even though he is clearly a bad guy from James Bond?
>>2692433NATO liberals will never beat the Reddit allegations
>Ukrainian military disabled two NATO battalions in a drill in Estonia within half a day - WSJ
>During the NATO "Hedgehog 2025" drill, which took place in Estonia last year, a group of ten Ukrainian soldiers conditionally destroyed two NATO battalions and 17 units of armored vehicles in just a few hours. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing its own sources. According to the publication, the Ukrainian military used a tactic of mass drone deployment, which NATO units were unable to counter.
>One of the participants in the maneuvers told the newspaper that NATO units "simply moved around the area without camouflage, leaving their equipment and tents unprotected".
>"We very easily located the equipment and mechanized units and quickly disabled them with drone strikes. There was no chance to hide," said Aivar Hanniotte, a drone expert who led part of the Ukrainian team.
>According to WSJ, about 30 drones were deployed in an area of approximately 10 square kilometers during this part of the drill.
>As the publication notes, the drill took place from May 5 to 23, 2025, with about 16,000 military personnel from Estonia and other NATO countries participating. One of the alliance's commanders, according to WSJ sources, summed up the episode with a harsh phrase: "We're in a mess."
Ukraine supremacy.
>>2692594Ukraiyiniyy übersoldaten
>>2692610Or maybe NATO just sucks and is lagging behind countries that are actually engaged in next generation warfare while wasting billions on preparing for tomorrow's war.
>>2692594Are you a redditard or something? You could write the same article about a NATO inf/mech battalion being destroyed by a squadron of aircraft.
You can currently only fight drones with drones or other air power.
>>2692610The Russians use drones and glide bombs to deal with the drone operators. Drones against unsupported inf/mech is a dumb a matchup as inf/mech vs bombers at 50k ft.
Why NATO haven’t already integrated drones fully as a weapon system is the only mystery.
>>2692610>Russia >>> Ukraine >NatoThat is how it goes.
>>2692594>NATO can stop the great Russo-Ukrainian army!They'd be stopped on their tracks by none of their employers paying them to wage such war lel
>>2692594>Ukraine Stronk, Actually.Just being good hosts to their guests and letting Ukrainians know that NATO membership wouldn’t necessarily save them anyway.
>>2692939There’s a lot of hype around the FPV drones in claiming the conflict has been rendered slow, static, stalemated because of them. But tbh, the conflict already looked like this from the start, before FPV drones were even a thing.
The tactic for Ukraine from day one has been to stall for time, originally with the expectation that Western Sanctions were going to crush the Russian economy and in recent years with the hope that Russian society will eventually tire of the conflict.
It has been Ukraine’s tactic, therefore, to turn any settlements they can into garrisons, where they send all of the “Volkssturm” troops to squat in, while keeping the more capable soldiers in smaller and more mobile groups spread out thinly across the open front where few bombs are big enough to take them out en masse.
The FPV drones are primarily useful as ambush weapons to slow the Russians from encircling the settlements that Ukraine has garrisoned. Forcing the Russian military into either expending unsustainable amounts of artillery shells on destroying enough of the settlement that the Ukrainians would need to retreat (who then never do, see Bakhmut), or entering the settlement and forced into urban fighting where Russia loses a lot of its technical advantages like tanks and missiles, while Ukraine’s advantage of bussing more and more conscripts into the fewer and fewer blocks they control is to their advantage (when you’re stalling for time).
Whatever ends up being Ukraine’s peak strength in this conflict, they’ve chosen to expend most of it in maintaining the current line, as Russian society getting bored and fed up with sanctions, terror attacks and military casualties for a conflict that isn’t “going anywhere” ideally results in Putin getting overthrown. I believe most of the “big arrows” people desire, historically, comes from the losing side retreating to whatever natural defences might exist behind them, which can be quite far away. Ukraine cannot do this (despite the obvious natural defence of the Dneipr) because abandoning everything east of the river is to prove the conflict is not in a stalemate, even if a river crossing is more difficult for the Russian military than their current operations, thus their plan to tire Russian society into submission is blown.
That being said, I suspect few in Russia feel like giving up now is likely to result in sanctions being lifted, the Ukrainian spooks ceasing operations and leaving their country, or that Russia’s military operations can be reduced in defending places like Kursk and Belgorod now Ukraine has been given the means to strike those places.
The FPV drones are targeted by Ukrainian propaganda because it’s the one thing they plausibly build themselves, albeit with supplies of the drones coming from China via consumer means. It’s far better for now to suggest via goreposting that le effpeevee drones stump everyone including the greatest military alliance in history, than when the conflict is over and it’s no doubt revealed the vast majority of Ukrainian casualties were a result of conscripts being bused into places already under heavy attack and refusing to perform any kind of evacuation until settlements are completely lost.
I don’t think FPV drones are much use when you’re not targeting stragglers. The big 2023 Counteroffsyiv was stopped via traditional means, the Ukrainians drove straight into Russian defences having underestimated how much they’d built. That being everyone driving into minefields and getting caught in artillery kill zones, resulting in them failing to reach and overwhelm Russian positions. If I recall correctly, Russian FPV drones did little in resisting the counteroffensyiv in comparison.
>>2691814Ayo Australia and the United Kingdom are anti imperialist and based, Ziozisters?
STAB IN THE BACK
>President Vladimir Putin has given instructions to accept the Trump Administration’s demand that in exchange for lifting sanctions against Russia, US capital must return to Russia on preferential terms as soon as possible.>For the new round of negotiations in Geneva later this week, Putin has replaced Admiral Igor Kostyukov, the military intelligence chief, as head of the Russian negotiating team with Vladimir Medinsky, a lower ranking Kremlin official. Medinsky’s instructions are that the military terms of settlement on the Ukraine battlefield, insisted on by Kostyukov at the Abu Dhabi talks, be subordinated to the terms negotiated by Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s principal negotiator with the White House.The change in the Kremlin line is reported in the Russian media as the “Anchorage formula” and the “Dmitriev plan”.
>In advance of the Bloomberg disclosure of the Dmitriev plan, there has been sharp reaction to Putin’s concessions to the US from Russia’s strategic allies – China, India, and Iran. The first signal of disagreement with Putin came from President Xi Jinping following their video conference on February 4. According to the readout from Putin’s national security adviser Yury Ushakov, “Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping also exchanged views on their countries’ relations with the United States. Their approaches almost fully coincide.” This is diplo-speak for its opposite: it means Xi and Putin are unhappy with each other’s separate deal with Trump.>A well-informed source in Delhi said in anonymity: “So while [Indian] nationalists are calling out the Modi government out for betrayal of multipolarity by agreeing to Trump’s demand not to buy oil from Russia or from the pirate fleet, Putin has quietly surrendered to the Americans himself.”
>A Dubai source engaged in trade payment arbitrage adds: “Even after the [Russian] Central Bank made the renminbi a reserve currency, the trade in renminbi has carried heavy costs for Russians, and many Chinese exporters simply refuse to do settlements in RMB. With India, the Central Bank never looked at Indian rupees as a reserve currency and has been very lukewarm. Russian Big Business more so. Their only interest with India has been in making large profits in trade and nothing else. No investment, no joint production. So Putin’s backing for Nabiullina and Dmitriev means fixation on the US dollar and submission to US hegemony. By the way, this is egg on the face of every podcaster talking of BRICS currency and Russia’s Eastern Pivot as gamechangers in multipolarity.”https://johnhelmer.net/stab-in-the-back/ Money motivates poor people to the Ukrainian front.
<The Russian Armed Forces' massive losses on the Ukrainian front are unlikely to cause a systemic collapse in Russia, estimates Alexander Kolyandr, a researcher at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).
<A report published in January by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimated that Russia has lost up to 325,000 soldiers killed and nearly 900,000 wounded, the greatest losses for any major power since World War II.
<"But this alone is unlikely to trigger a systemic collapse. As long as the economy remains weak and the war continues, economic incentives will attract volunteers," Kolyandr states in his article.
<"Opinion polls suggest that most Russians believe new soldiers join the armed forces primarily for the money," he says.
<Following the unpopular partial mobilization of 300,000 men in September 2022, authorities shifted to "voluntary" recruitment featuring high salaries and large one-time bonuses.
<Russia's war is largely fought by poor people from remote, economically weak regions, many of which have large ethnic minorities.
<"The Kremlin appears to be protecting politically sensitive areas such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, and parts of the North Caucasus," Kolyandr says.
<"Russia's poorest people face a grim choice, either living in grinding poverty or sacrificing their own lives and limbs for the regime's imperialist adventure."https://cepa.org/article/death-without-glory-russias-message-to-the-frontline-soldier/ >>2693244>Cant accept the fact that cucktin immediately cucked out when he saw the dollar signsCope, as you guys coped with Venezuela. Cucktin is an anti-communist comprador porky lapdog, the talk about "le multipolarity" was always opportunist.
>>2693268Also another sign that comprador porky needs to be taken care off if communist come to power after cucktin.
>>2693270Also:
❗️🇷🇺The leader of "Fair Russia", Sergei Mironov, specially for the channel "Military Observer" commented on the results of the Munich Security Conference.
"The 'Munich Conspiracy' shows that the West does not want peace with Russia."
The Munich Security Conference confirmed the West's course of confrontation with Russia and documented the failure of the US administration's peacekeeping efforts to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
"At the conference, I did not hear a single hint that they want to reach a peaceful agreement with us and take our interests into account. The idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia has not gone away, and the money for continuing the war with Russia has already been allocated to the Kiev regime. For good measure, the British threw out another fake about the poisoning of Navalny with some frog poison," Mironov stated.
He recalled that a year ago, the US tried to force Europeans to change their approaches to ensuring security, which shocked them. Now the Americans have returned to where they started - they will not abandon their NATO allies, but will help them in the confrontation with Russia.
"I don't know if the US has preserved any 'Anchorage spirit', but there was none of it in Munich," the politician noted.
The leader of "Fair Russia" drew attention to the enthusiastic reception of Volodymyr Zelensky at the conference.
"For the West, he remains a key figure in the military confrontation with Russia no matter what. The legitimacy of his status, compromising materials, and the corruption scandal have been successfully flushed down the same golden toilet as Mindich - for the sake of killing Russians, Zelensky is ready to forgive almost anything. He knows this, and therefore behaves even more unscrupulously, rudely, having lost all shame and fear," Sergei Mironov noted.
"On the eve of the next round of peace talks in Geneva, I have bad news for the 'waiters' in Russia: no one is going to agree with us and make any compromises - they want to force us to accept what is beneficial to the West and Zelensky. In these conditions, we are simply forced and obliged to continue the special military operation to ensure Russia's security. For its success, we need to shift the main burden of the war from citizens, who are already paying in the form of taxes and high inflation, to big business and the super-rich," Sergei Mironov concluded.
👉🏻None of this is a surprise but it is worth reiterating.
copied from cyperspec, the mood is definitely changing. I already said that Putin is not that untouchable and that Dimitri constantly sucks Trump cock is probably not going to leave a good impression on alot of soldiers who are fighting also against american weapons. The "spirit of anchorage" is slowly being replaced with the "spirit of Prigozhin" lmao
>>2693274Mironov has been saying some surprisingly hardliner stuff lately. Probably because of the elections in autumn
>>2693268A big reason this conflict is a thing is that America decided to take the European gas market from Russia. It's impossible to give Russian porky more money than they lost. I doubt the government on many issues but your demoralization attempts are weak, so just go ahead with the ukrainian potuzhnost won line already.
>>2693258Where else is this different? Taking the king’s shilling has always been the primary motivation in joining the military in either times of war or peace.
>>2693283>Where else is this different?In Ukraine ;)
>>2693278Interimperialist conflict
Le interimperialist conflict
>>2693268Again, a primary desire for Washington was to politically and economically isolate Russia. Overtures towards reintegrating Russia back into the Western-led political and economic fold is therefore not a failure for Russia and is in fact a victory. That the US wants to reintegrate Russia into the global market against the wishes of the EU and that causing tension between them that was unthinkable pre-SMO, is amazing quite frankly.
It wouldn’t make any sense for the West to try and unilaterally divide the globe between themselves and Russia, where Russia only gets itself while the West gets the rest of the world, but upon failing at that goal Russia decides to isolate itself anyway out of… spite?
So, try as you might, you’re not going to convince Russians that Coca-Cola coming back to Russia, cap in hand asking for its factories and access to the Russian market back, is humiliating for them and they should do to themselves what the US failed to do as a bit of a nationalistic spectacle.
>>2693290What markets will russia get access to? European gas (gas lol) market is now murica's bitch, so what now?
>>2693293The goal was to isolate Russia from their existing trade partners, that goal wasn’t achieved.
Also the chances are the US will exploit the EU’s ban on Russian energy imports the same way India did. I wouldn’t be surprised if the global oil baron saw this and figured that should be their operation, and that’s why the US is willing to open up trade with the “gas station with nukes” just as their special relationship partners just signed off on banning themselves from ever buying Russian energy again.
>>2693294So, europe will buy russia gas now?
When westoids export capital into russia again the BASED russian proletariat will do a general strike on those western factories and the BASED russian state will do nothing about it and win by doing nothing like china did
>>2693296You think European leaders can admit their mistakes?
>>2693296No, of course not, they will buy American gas and oil.. albeit sourced from places that aren’t America. But it will be served in the good ‘ol American way, on tankers with American flags and for American prices.
>>2693300>>2693302Whats stoping yurpoids from buying russian gas again? Russia not selling?
>>2693303Isolating themselves from Russian energy out of spite and/or for a bit of a nationalistic spectacle.
>>2693290Your entire analysis is literally just vibes.
>Ehm actually Russia becoming subordinate to murica again is a victory for Russiaread the room, you probably dont even follow zigger telegram
>>2693307It’s not vibes. The US tried to isolate Russia, failed and are now walking it back because the EU has opened up a fantastic business opportunity for them.
>>2693307when even intel slava (a zigger with pro-israel views) is saying that this bullshit than you pretty much know you fucked up. These guys are also pretty influential, the telegram restriction has been mostly overturned because they complained.
>>2693305You mean nordstream is destroyed and now they cant get it?
>>2693309>strengthening us hegemony is good actuallySure thing retard.
>>2693313How does bringing coca cola factories back to russia strenghtens usa? Usa did same with china and look how that turned out. China won.
>>2693312Not directly from Russia as they under cut US prices in Europe.
I don’t think the US is precious about being merely a middle-man between Russian energy and European consumers, so long as they’re taking the lion’s share.
Loading up the tankers in Sevastopol and sailing a short distance across the Black Sea to Varna will be a valuable service the US will provide to the EU lmao
>>2693313If I’m correct and the US’ cannot resist the profit motive in doing the obvious thing and buying Russian energy at the rates they always offered to the EU, then selling it to the EU at enough of a markup to bring it in line with US prices, then that may empower the US but at the expense of the EU.
>>2693317US is going to sail in black sea and sell russian gas to yurop?
>>2693323It’s only as ridiculous as kidnapping the head of a oil rich state and announcing you and your oil industry is going to run the country, or suggesting your allies’ Atlantic mineral rich territory doesn’t really belong to them because of colonialism so can I haz it?
>>2693327You mean it is probable that it will be so?
>>2693330I think it’s a possibility
>>2693331Right. Russia will get money from usa for gas and so will usa. So in a way russia is back to selling gas to yurop.
>>2693335That’s about the size of it.
Was yurop cucked because everyone realised they are a paper tiger and are not united as this conflict has shown?
>>2693303They were roped into this war, to their own and their countries collective loss. They however believed that with US committed, they could not lose. Now that US is backing down they realize they are trapped, they see no way out or a way to explain this disaster to their populace. Their only plan is total victory over Russia. Sanctions will stay, there will be no negotiations and the great hope is that Ukraine will hold on and a Russiahawk democrat will win the next US presidency and whit that they will escalate this into a full blown war and win over Putler and recoup all their costs by sacking russian resources, companies and state property by the aid of some new Yeltsin.
>>2693343The war in Ukraine, cutting of energy and trade links was never in Europe's own benefit. Americans, Brits and hardliners within Europe were the only ones pushing for this. Am I the only one who remembers how reluctant Scholz's Germany was in 2022 to escalate? They needed to pop-nordstream so that Germany would have less to lose by cutting ties with Russia. When they finally got the ball rolling with Germany most of Europe went quite nicely in lockstep behind the Ukraina war project. Now everybody is compromised by slava Ukraini and can't abandon it even if it's going to shit and Europe and Ukraine are left holding the bag.
Ukrainian figure skater Kirill Marsak blamed the Russian for his fall during the short program at the Olympics in Italy.
Russian athlete Pyotr Gumennik knocked Marsak out of the rut by his mere presence.
After the fall, the Ukrainian dropped in the protocol beyond the top 15 and finished in 19th place.
"There was pressure on me that we were skating behind each other with a "neutral" athlete. It was hard. We did not cope with this. But we fall in order to get up later; we make mistakes in order to learn from them… But, unfortunately, it happened that way, there were such events," said Marsak, quoted by "Время.иа ".
https://eadaily.com/en/news/2026/02/14/the-ukrainian-figure-skater-blamed-the-russian-for-his-fall>>2693338Nah it’s just the US tried to radically change the political conditions in Europe to benefit themselves economically, but the reality is that the EU economically depended on Russian oil for both its cost and ease of supply.
The US failed to change the material conditions (that being Russia existing, having a load of oil and the infrastructure to supply it to Europe in large quantities) by force and so inevitably it must be accepted. The US couldn’t change Russia’s existence and couldn’t change EU dependency on plentiful Russian energy, but at the very least, it has been able to make that reality profitable for them.
If all had gone to plan and I’m sure the US whole heartedly desired it would have, Shell and BP and other Euro energy corporations could have been cut in on the bounty, but as it stands, the US can still have a win out of this at the EU’s expense and there’s little the EU can do about it.
But as NAFOids say, it sucks to suck.
>Dugin: Russia was closer to achieving its war aims in the opening weeks of the SMO than it is today, but stopping now and declaring a false victory would be both impossible and criminal.
Naziggers on suicide watch xaxaxaxa
Zisters, how are you coping?
>>2693368>DuginYou have to go back
>>2693268ah, you are the same retard that goes around citing unironically western media without an ounce of critical thinking.
don't worry, chuddy, the west is full of democracy, freedom, rule of law, and civilized values.
sources familiar with matter told you so in reuters.
>>2693264mine looks better:
>>2692320look like a KGB operative in the Amazon forests.
MEANWHILELook at the beauty of the
minister of education and sciend, oksen lisovyi
>"If someone doesn't correlate the missile strikes with the Russian language, then they have certain problems with cause-and-effect relationships"do you speak Russian in Europe? missiles will fly over your head because you do!
the guy by the way, was proven of plagiarizing his doctoral thesis in 2023.
>>2693382by this resounding logic, the world should stop speaking English. Now.
=US seizes oil tanker for ‘defying Trump’s quarantine’==
>The Panama-flagged vessel was intercepted as part of Washington’s effort to redirect sanctioned Venezuelan oil flows to new buyers<US military forces intercepted and boarded a tanker that was sanctioned for carrying Venezuelan oil in the Indian Ocean overnight on Sunday, the Pentagon has announced.>The blockade has continued as part of Washington’s push to redirect Venezuelan oil toward new international buyers. Last week, Israel received its first crude oil shipment from the South American nation, according to Bloomberg.https://swentr.site/news/632610-us-intercept-oil-tanker/Of course the first beneficiary of the US pirating Venezuelan oil was going to be Israel and their genocide of Palestinians. But don’t let this drive American anons to any kind of action, by all means continue shitting up this thread with stats about dual Israeli-Russian nationals and reminders that Russia sells oil on the open market that Israel can buy from.
>>2693386>Last week, Israel received its first crude oil shipment from the South American nationit wasn't 'from Venezuela' lmao. it was from valero and another US company who bought the oil shipment. in 2020 happened similar. probably to get a swap.
israel doesn't process sour heavy crudes.
>>2693258>Money motivates poor people to the Ukrainian front.no shit.
specially when there is no general mobilization in Russia.
the rest of the article is nonsense.
at least Russia pays. how many ukrainians are snatched on the street on a daily basis? and why? don't they have only accepted losses of 50k KIA and 70k MIA? by those numbers they shouldn't be requiring street snatching. and if they are not publishing the real figures is because they don't intent to pay to their families.
>>2693395The US military manages to dwarf most conscription based militaries around the world, because they’ve specifically structured their society around making the military the only viable way for poor people to get higher education/in-demand skills.. or a Camaro.. depending on their personal priorities.
>>2693260>sources who once touched that chair where Putin was sitting on.>>2693368and I thought using SMO unironically in 2026 was a term form cookteens:
>>2690370 get your stories straight.
>>2693284>In Ukraine ;)lmao, my thoughts exactly.
>>2693290one imporatant aspect is that Russian survived an economic collapse from the sanctions. while Europe eroded their economic integrity. giving back Russian access to western markets is on itself an admission of defeat. something that is not happening, tbh (like in Venezuela, Russia has no sanction lifted).
that they are spinning this defeat as 'Russia carved' is laughable.
>>2693403They’ve strawmanned the shit out of this thread with every kind of “useful idiot” takes that have been cooked up by MSM Kremlinologists, NAFO Xitter, “Late Night with Some-Liberal” shows, etc. Some days we are misguided tankies thinking Putin is a Marxist revolutionary mobilising the new USSR he is building towards the goal of smashing US imperialism, other days we’re open rightoids who support Rusich, Dugin and that guy with the SS tattoos claimed to be Utkin and are pro-Russia for being superior at Nazism to Ukrainians.
>>2693244>>A Dubai source engaged in trade payment arbitrage adds…Yep, this one goes to my list:
>APPARENTLY>INDEPENDENT RUSSIAN OUTLET VODKA MEDIA WITH AN ANOUNYMOUSLY-SOURCED ACCOUNT>PENTAGON PROJECTS>U.K SPY CHIEF INFORMS>UNCONFIRMED BUT REALISTIC REPORTS>ACCORDING TO ANALYSTS>THE UKRANIAN SECURITY SERVICE HAS ANNOUNCED>RUSSIAN DISSIDENT PREDICTS>PUBLIC SENTIMENT SUGGESTS>MULTIPLE REPORTS FROM BOTH SIDES>UNNAMED SOURCES CITED>CREATIVE BUT MOSTLY RELIABLE SOURCES>ORYX>CONFIRMED BY VISUAL EVIDENCE>AUDIO REPORTS DETAIL>UKRANIAN MEDIA REPORTS>POST BY IGOR STRELKOV>RESPECTABLE SOURCES CLAIMED>ACCORDING TO REPUTABLE SOURCES>NUMEROUS REPORTS ARE NOW CIRCULATING>THE UKRANIAN SECURITY SERVICE HAS ANNOUNCED>THE NUMBER THREE PENTAGON OFFICIAL SAYS>A UKRANIAN FRIEND LIVING IN KIEV CLAIMS>MORNING SUMMARY BY GEN. STAFF OF UAF>UKRANIAN INTELLIGENCE CLAIM>BELLINCUNT CONFIRMS>ACCORDING TO UNNAMED OFFICIALS>CITING UNNAMED WESTERN OFFICIALS>A SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH RUSSIAN THINKING>A SOURCE WHO SPOKE ON CONDITION OF ANONYMITY>US INTELLIGENCE REVEALS>UK INTELLIGENCE CONFIRMS>NEXTA SAYS>>REUTERS SAYS>/k/ TOLD ME>I MADE IT UP>US OFFICIALS SAY>PENTAGON SAYS>DOD BELIEVES>GENERAL MILLEY CONFIRMS>FBI AGREES>DIPLOMATS SURMISE>EU PROMISES>CNN BELIEVES>MSNBC HAS FOUND>PFIZER PROMISES>ZELENSKY TESTIFIED BEFORE THE COURT>MODERNA GUARANTEES>STUDIES SHOW>EXPERTS SAY>EX-NATIONAL SECURITY CHIEF WARNS>TWITTER BLUEMARK SAID>UNCONFIRMED BUT REALISTIC REPORTS>BASED ON RELIABLE SIMULATIONS>A SOURCE FROM UKRAINE>NATO ESTIMATES>ARESTOVICH SAID>INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATION>INTERCEPTED PHONE CALLS>AZOV COMMANDER SAID>A US OFFICIAL WHO SPOKE ON CONDITION OF ANONYMITY ASSERTED>PENTAGON OFFICIALS>AN UNDERCOVER AGENT CONFIRMED>IT WAS REVEALED TO ME IN A DREAM>AN OLIGARCH IN EXILE CONFIRMS>ON CONDITION OF ANONYMITY>IN A CLOSED BRIEFING>A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE KREMLIN SAID>INSIDERS TELL OF>PEOPLE CLOSE TO PUTIN'S INNER CIRCLE CLAIM >>2693425I'm surprised they haven't trained an LLM model on everything Putin has stated to consult every time they need to write a piece.
>ANONYMOUS SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH PUTIN AI OUTPUTS would you look at that. EU liberal media isn't giving fucks anymore.
>>2693412they can't comprehend what they don't want to study. critical thinking? nah, that's for 'commies'.
and the sad part is that because of that, there's no room to discuss in civilized terms.
recently I was reading a couple of interesting articles, but I can't bring them here, because I'll get people with 0 literacy skills to tell me, soyfacing, that the conclusive idea of each article is that
coooookteeeen did some coooooked shit.
sad state of affairs.
but that's what happens when they run out of arguments. the notion of challenging their sets of beliefs is too traumatic to them.
>>2693425that's a good list.
>>2693428isn't that the same as "BASED ON RELIABLE SIMULATIONS"?
>>2693307You're talking to Champ. Ukraine could push all the way into Moscow and he would still be thinking up some way to justify it. So if these rumors are true and Cucktin is indeed seeking to sign some sort of truce to end the war before he even accomplishes his stated goals then yes that is a defeat. Hell I'm certain that it would be a defeat even if all 4 oblasts were taken because like Syria and Venezuela showed, America can just come back in 10 years later and turn a defeat into a victory.
>>2693437>Hypothetical about myself>Hypothetical about Russia abandoning its war aims>Statement about yourself considering Russia losing even if it achieves its goals… based on a hypotheticalI really should have saved the “Russia lost simulator” meme at some point
>>2693307>you probably dont even follow zigger telegramthey all 🤡 every posts where the US media talks about that. all posts where the US is mentioned towards Russia is always replied back with 🤡 whenever it's possible.
I do. In fact, not only all Russian media, also nafo/ukie nazi scum media to know what they are up to. what are you going to say now?
>>2693474Another hero volunteer! slava ukraini!
>>2693662He's great, would highly recommend. Also translated a longer documentary on his channel worth watching.
Bit of a miserable bastard, but ukrainian so understandable.
>>2693313It is if Russia benefits from it.
>>2693788>THEY WEREN'T SCREAMING ABOUT INVASIONyes they were, lol
>>2693368Easy, the only thing I care about is seeing dead Nazis get posted on r/ukraine.
Russia needs to do a General Mobilization, not this partial shit, there is no forward with this, supply lines prevent breakthrough and forces are matched. But what now? Cucktin doesn't want to call it a war?
>>2693802And all these loopholes taking in volunteers because there can't be a bigger mobilization that's still not total, this is ridiciolus. Belarus can suck a cock, it woudl've been progress if they at least gave partial on their end.
>>2693806Ukorps would not be able to handle two fronts, expenses will become too burdensome for the west. Fuck Belarus. Who are they defending? Their citizens? By preventing partial mobilization that doesn't draft citizens? What are they saving reserves for?
>>2693807Lukashenko is scared of landmines on his border? Keep 1/3rd of reserve behind and move the rest through Russia, fucking cocksucker is scared of instability so he hogs his army, thats what he gets for having autonomy.
lmao good meltdown
>>2693892Woah I'm soyfacing over 2 kilometers of gained frontline!!! Woaaaaah dude, Cucktin lmao. Thanks maaan.
That's like almost Kiev if you squint your eyes really hard at a map. Wooooow.
>>2693807>>2693802>>2693806>>2693810>>2693823Porkies are scared of BASED russian belarussian chinese csto proletariat doing revolution, thats why
>>2693823
Why would CSTO members help Russia in their invasion when Russia doesn't help CSTO countries when they get invaded?
>>2694059Russia helped tho
>>2694059they're not going to fight for a country that engineers its own invasion and has no intent to fight itself.
>>2694062By sending thoughts and prayers?
>>2694100By preventing regime change for example. In 2022 it sent troops to kazakhstan
Zelensky launches F-bomb-laden rant in Munich>The Ukrainian leader urged the West to expel Russian nationals<“Europeans still didn’t put sanctions on nuclear energy of Russians, on [the state-run energy company] Rosatom, on people, on their relatives, on their children which live in Europe, which live in the United States, which study in the universities of Europe, which have real estate in the United States, So, they have a lot of real estate, they have children, relatives everywhere. F**k away to Russia. Go home”https://swentr.site/russia/632637-zelensky-f-bomb-rant-munich/Sanction the children, deport the children, roundhouse kick the children. The Ukrainian nation demands it!
>>2694062Russia did not, in fact, help Armenia when they were attacked. Since they thought Azerbaijan was the more important ally to keep. If the CTSO cannot even resolve the Armenian/Azerbaijani conflict in a fair manner there's no reason to think it can be effective anywhere else.
>>2694177Armenia did not deserve help. And CSTO can't be expected to "resolve" a conflict one of its own members is inviting.
>>2694193armenia is being attacked by a turkish proxy with top tier armaments, i'd argue any valuable ally would do literally anything, suspend azerbaijan from csto, offering a gurantee of some kind, instead the russians did what amounted to nothing
>>2694199nonsense. pashinyan renounced armenia's claim to nk and said he wouldn't defend it, so az came and took it, mostly without a fight. he all but invited them to take it and they did.
pahinyan then played a double game of blaming russia for not stepping in to fight az and defend a territory on behalf of armenia, and without armenia's help, that he had just given away.
this was all part of pashinyan's game at that time to cozy up to eu/nato while gambling that russia would be defeated in ukraine. first he needed to get rid of the nk "problem" because having a disputed territory prohibits eu/nato membership, so he engineered a way to get rid of it. then he blamed the problem he created on russia, which is a win/win: if russia does come to fight to defend it, then he's opened a second front against russia and distracted it from ukraine, which would get him approval from eu/nato. Or, if russia doesn't come to fight on armenia's behalf (and without armenia's help), he can denounce russia as being an ureliable ally and distance armenia from russia (so it can cozy up to eu/nato). And of course he also gets to whitewash his own culpability by shifting blame onto russia.
the entire thing was pashinyan's fault. it was a game he was playing and russia chose to stop being played.
>>2694177>Since they thought Azerbaijan was the more important ally to keepArmenia had also gone over to nato at that point.
>>2694216Yeah I saw that on wikipedia. So supposedly if Armenia and Azerbaijan were at war, why didn't they seize this territory?
>The village had a present population of 151, and a permanent population of 154 in 2011.[1] Bunch of silly nonsense I can't find it in me to care about. Seems like Armenia didn't care either about NK either when it happened like the other anons mentioned.
>>2694217I mean I guess it is defacto under Armenian control and it is mostly Armenians living there. So this is all about the UN said this village of 150 people belongs to Azerbaijan or something? But NK didn't officially right? But this one is officially Azerbaijan soil even though it's not in reality? Out of all the conflicts going on in the world this is one of the ones I think is the least important.
I’ve no doubt the new two-tier EU membership plan can accommodate border disputes, they’ve not been a problem within the current expanded EU despite how much the borders changed during WW2 and the Cold War.
If the EU and NATO hadn’t expanded, there would have almost certainly been a war between Eastern Euros over borders as defined by le imperial stalinists, well before Ukraine. It’s probably as much of a reason as any other for their rapid expansion, as inevitably European wars invite Russia to back a side and retain influence, as seen in Yugoslavia.
In other Nagorno news.
https://oc-media.org/ruben-vardanyan-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison/>17 February 2026
>The Baku Military Court has sentenced former State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan to 20 years in prison. Vardanyan was convicted of crimes against peace and humanity, war crimes, terrorism, and the financing of terrorism.
>Vardanyan’s case had been separated from those of 15 other Armenian prisoners, who similarly attended hearings for over a year. The 15 defendants were accused of committing a total of 2,548 crimes, including genocide, slavery, enforced disappearances, torture, financing terrorism and creating a criminal association. Unlike other detainees, Vardanyan’s defence team included an international lawyer.
>On 5 February, the Baku Military Court sentenced five former Nagorno-Karabakh officials to life imprisonment, while two former presidents received 20 years in prison due to their age. Seven other defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 19 years. Vardanyan was the last to be sentenced.
>Vardanyan had been captured as he tried to leave Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia following the final Azerbaijani offensive into the region in September 2023 and subsequent Armenian surrender.
>Vardanyan gave his closing statement to the court on 10 February, the last hearing prior to Tuesday’s verdict. He also recited the text in full to his family members, who later shared his audio message, in which Vardanyan said he refused ‘to participate in the imitation of justice’.
>During his speech, Vardanyan discussed Armenia–Azerbaijan relations and the prospect for peace. Currently, the two countries are closer than ever before to finally signing a peace treaty, which was initialled in August 2025.
<‘What I said, and what I want to say again, is that we must understand that we have a long road ahead of us to peace, and it’s very difficult. We will need to undergo a major internal rebirth, to restore ourselves, first and foremost, because peace can only exist, I repeat, when there are two equal neighbours’, Vardanyan said.
>He highlighted that nothing will work if one humiliates themselves before the other, emphasising that in such a case, peace could not exist.
<‘I hope we recognise this and understand that everything depends solely on ourselves, on the extent to which we can restore our self-respect and restore ourselves while maintaining the rationality of truly living in a region at peace’.
>Hand-in-hand with his focus on peace, Vardanyan also focused on the surrender of Nagorno-Karabakh, stating that ‘Artsakh was, Artsakh is, and Artsakh will be, existentially speaking. That it was, is, and will be’.
<‘The question isn’t about legal form, but rather that no one can simply erase this. And I am deeply convinced of this’, he stated.
>He added, however, that he would do everything possible in his lifetime to ensure that the ‘three leaders of the three parties to the conflict lay flowers at the graves of the fallen, of any nationality, any religion, and apologise to all the mothers for their children’s deaths’.
<‘Instead, they staged an incomprehensible, unprofessional show that, unfortunately, brought no benefit to anyone, least of all to the Azerbaijani state. I’m certain’, he concluded.>>2694239Poles have done magnificent work in making the world forget that they helped Germany with annexation of Czechoslovakia and Poland too were just a another run on the mill European fascist state in the 30s.
>>2694241Or that the Soviet part of the partition of Poland was literally just liberating parts of Belarus and Ukraine that poles conquered and attempted to ethnically cleanse less than two decades ago
>>2694243Is there a map showing this?
>>2694252https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Soviet_WarThe exciting part of the map is the Soviets reaching Warsaw
>>2694301>i will own the ziggers by reminding them of ukraine getting btfo of kursknice job
>>2694301Remember when the only proof of that was an asian-looking guy who allegedly couldn't speak because his jaw was broken, and footage of russians doing something in the snow that was interpreted as burning north koreans' faces off?
>>2694301>remember when leftypol INSISTED dprk troops weren't fighting ukrainians and that any mention of it was Yank Propaganda?Yes, and i'll do it again.
>>2694239Russia should just partition poland again.
>>2694301Yeah I remember. I still don't understand what was the problem with admitting north koreans were getting battle experience.
>>2692217How the hell would they know?
>samples of navalny's bodyHow?
>>2694239Russia should gift them the stalin pipe as reparation
>>2694211> I know Paradox players like to complain about bordergore, but those are the most ridiculous borders imaginable. Just let it go bro.>>2694212>This is just unsightly.It's unfortunate but the secret to pretty borders is a secret for a reason
the secret is ethnic cleansing >>2694353>I still don't understand what was the problem with admitting north koreans were getting battle experience.Think of it as more like a social phenomenon. People are virtually fighting "the war" on the internet, and their side hadn't acknowledged it yet, while the other side was saying it was happening, but that cannot be accepted because they're the enemy.
>>2694425>what, you dont trust nato media without any proof? thats just because youre a cheerleader of ruzzia!lol fuck off retard, the position was always "would be good, but wont believe it without evidence". and the reason they had no evidence is because they were only in kursk (so not in ukraine, which was indeed a propaganda lie) where they were getting completely btfo
>>2686353>Man how did lenin look good while being bald?it's called aura, bruh
>>2694484I remember at one point even the nyt admitted that there was no evidence they were there.
People seem to forget that DPRK troops simply being involved wasn’t the full extent of the claims being made. They were part and parcel with claims such as DPRK troops accessing the internet for the first time in their lives resulting in a mass wanking epidemic. Or Ukrainians claiming they’ve gotten proof of DPRK participation, in the form of captured tins of dog meat (the labels of which being written in the southern dialect).
I think it’s fair to have considered, therefore, that the claim was dubious in its entirety.
>>2694446yeah, the 'ukrainian recaptured territories' are the equivalent distance between copenhagen and seethehagen.
retard.
>>2693759quick, check his wrist to see if he has a banderite tattoo.
>>2693759>When you returnThey haven’t turned him into Jesus have they?
>>2694575Why so upset boy?
>>2694659upset? I find you hilarious. do you know what do have in common ukrainian nationalist commanders and Russians? they hate both, nafo.
Evidence:
>>2694575 >>2694571There were all kinds of crazy claims, dubious evidence, and things that just didn't make any sense, like
- the number of nk troops growing exponentially every time the subject was brought up
- the video evidence just being a bunch of East Asians somewhere in Russia at some time
- reports of Russian commanders marching them into machine gun fire
- the claim coming from south Korea's spooks, with the evidence being satellite photos of a bunch of people standing on a dock and "trust me bro they're going to Russia to fight for Putin"
- Buryat passports being issued to nk troops for some reason
- ukie claims that to cover up evidence of their existence nk soldiers would blow themselves up with grenades or drones would burn their faces off
- bigfoot level stills depicting "evidence of north koreans" in one of the most heavily surveiled regions on the planet
All with the Russians refusing to confirm or deny, and even the nato side begrudgingly admitting they have no real evidence of it happening.
So there was plenty of doubt, and plenty of reason for doubt, and opinions ranging from "don't believe nato's lies" to "i dunno man they might be there and it's based if true" to "Putin is planning to gift kiev to kim and rename rump ukraine to west korea."
>>2694702I'm surprised they haven't set up a website that lets you remote operate drones from home. With so many bloodthirsty nafoids chomping at the bit for rushoid blood, it seems like an easy fix.
>>2694696Honestly, my take on it is that initially it was a lie, as in they didn’t actually know. I’m sure it was just extrapolated from evidenced claims that the DPRK sending shells and then self-propelled artillery, that the next step was sending actual troops.
There’s always a fanciful element to lies, like the recent one with Navalny and the dart frog poison and all the complications and uncertainty of trying to kill him via that method, rather than just shooting him like a normal state would.
On John Helmer's recent reporting about rapprochement between Moscow and Washington:
Dear John…https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/dear-john
>…Bloomberg News is infamous. You should assume that almost anything you read there with geopolitical implications is:
<inaccurate
<biased
<based on propaganda
>As I said, the provenance for this memo seems to be Ukraine. That should set off alarms for an experienced journalist – but Helmer does not appear to care.
>Sadly, this is what happens sometimes to well-known journalists, analysts and public commentators who rely on “trusted sources” – usually old friends. Ex-pats are especially vulnerable. That’s one reason why I quit the Foreign Correspondent’s Club in Tokyo.
>But Helmer is pumping Bloomberg, suggesting he has insider access to Kremlin “factions”, as though the Kremlin was factionalized just like the US is.
>The fact is that Putin’s administrations welcomes debate and dialectic – but not “factions”. Once decisions are made, people in power are expected to just do their job. More important is public opinion, which wants to see the war prosecuted (65%) to the Polish border…>>2694806The latest Russian delegation has Medinsky instead of Dmitriev which is probably a sign that the spirit of anchorage is on thin ice
>>2694832He's been a kremlin propagandist since forever, probably the 2023 counteroffensyiv
>>2694770why is westoid propaganda so crude and disgusting when it comes to DPRK?
Usually their slander is more sophisticated, appealing to some vague liberal humanist / moral / intellectual spooks about how the enemy is obviously wrong but it is only because our system is so much better, yadda yadda
but anti-dprk propaganda is straight out of barnum freak shows where euroids krakkas would gawk and throw pebbles at african children
>>2694846Because there is a massive language and information barrier, I guess. Average westerner can't exactly just check what's actually going on in the DPRK, so you can just say whatever.
What's weird is that propaganda against Russia is barely any less unhinged than the propaganda against China or DPRK. There's much less of a barrier in place, you can literally go on vk, use a basic browser translator and see that most people are just vibing and not eating roadkill under totalitarian oppression.
>>2694851I think it comes down to whether the claims the MSM are making are scandalous. In that no one in the West is (openly) from the DPRK and most Russians in the West are either quiet about or supportive of any kind of ludicrous claims made. The MSM can’t get away with it for any other nations, because enough people from those nations will kick up a scandal and correctly point out the racism and xenophobia.
>>2695004Got any deep analysis why nafoids are so deeply obsessed with Putin the person to a perverse degree? And why his will is the only cause and his death/humiliation/overthrow will be the only way to end this war. To me it goes deeper than to just making narrative dead simple for propaganda sake.
It's almost never Zelensky who is resisting, it's Ukraine. But who is attacking Ukraine is always Putin, not really Russia or russians.
>>2694770Javelins are excellent weapons tbf, the only problem is that they're absurdly expensive and slow to produce.
>>2695081I'm a firm opponent of all forms of national chauvinism, but I make exceptions for Balts and Israelis. For Israelis the reasons are obvious, but in the case of Balts I've never seen such delusions of grandeur and bloodthirsty hatred coming from countries so tiny, toothless, and irrelevant as these dipshits. It honestly led me to rethink the value of bothering to recognize or preserve the existence if nations with the population of a large city. Sorry guys, but being a bunch of country bumpkins with a hick dialect doesn't make you a proud and sovereign people.
>>2695082Why sinle out israel, the mini-me, over its dr. evil, the US?
>>2695086Because I don't think the US government or its actions represents the interests of even conscience of the majority of American workers. This isn't the case in Israel.
>>2695089Talk to more workers
>>2695080Even reddit shit on this guy for wanting to go against long accepted practice when it comes to historical states.
>>2695012It’s simple Great Man theory. They see Putin as a Bad Evil Dictator and therefore come to the simple conclusion that everything would be solved by assassinating him.
>>2695093Israel also has internal left and right wings that fight bitterly about how to best butcher the baby.
I heard "netanyahu" (benjamin mielikowsky) is alsoquite unpopular there, just like drumpf!
>>2694727The issue isn’t really FPV operators, it is moving the drones up to the front and maintaining the control infrastructure without getting FAB’d.
>>2695104>Great Man theoryit's not applied to zelensky to same degree though.
>>2695093People might surprise you. I've heard well paid white boomers in a steel plant (perhaps the epitome of the 20th century labour aristocracy) going full /nightgang/ on anti-ICE riots, general anti-Americanism, shitting on Israel, etc.
>>2695082The worst chauvinists are in nations where the consensus of their own history, is primarily one of victimhood.
Their attitudes are not justified by some image of greatness that can scrutinised, it’s that they’re only ever acting in the capacity of self-defence and any scrutiny is victim blaming. Thus the onus is on no one to justify Israel, Estonia, Ukraine, etc being fascists. There are victims and there are people who need to shut up and listen to their stories.
It seems like (according to Xitter) Ukraine has tried to perform a counter-offensyiv of sorts, coinciding with switching off Starlink, the Munich Security Conference and the trilateral negotiations. Interestingly though, Ukrainian military telegram had been hitherto denying any sort of advancement by Ukraine over the past few weeks, but are apparently now “admitting” successful advancements.
Not really a big surprise in general, Ukraine usually seeks some kind of win they can take with them to conferences where they ask for givas, or to negotiations with Russia so it doesn’t look like they’re going to surrender (optics more for their own confidence rather than weakening Russia’s). But it’s kind of a change that this time we haven’t seen any AI slop advertising this offensyiv.
https://nitter.net/AMK_Mapping_/status/2023923482774675642#m>>2695442>Champ switches from bragging about Ukraine offensives being nonexistent to admitting that they were successful once too much evidence has accumulatedkek
>>2695448I swear you people just suffer from delusions.
>>2695133It is when certain Anons complain ITT that Zelensky is still alive.
That being said, I’ve no doubt plenty would be pleased to see Russia wound up enough with accusations of cuckoldry to kill an actor and allow him to be replaced with someone with more competency for leadership, be that military or political.
>>2694446>Russians are somehow losing territory to piggies Territory that copestate didn't mark as Russian, so they couldn't celebrate that they took something that they never lost. lmao The grey zone in this war is huge, Ukraine just lost a settlement near Dobropilia. These are just DRGs going in and out of empty hamlets. Ukraine had to scrape the bottom of the barrel (read: turn TDF brigades into assault brigades) and then send them "attached" to Assault battalions (read: blocking battalions) to attack in broad daylight. Just so NAFO faggots (read: you) could get an endorphine boost and think Ukraine is winning.
Meanwhile, Zelensky is begging for a ceasefire anywhere he can, saying shit like "This time we'll respect an energy ceasefire" because the "kinetic sanctions" didn't work and Russia turned of Ukraine's electricity.
But don't talk about what's happening in Sumy, Kharkov and Zaporizhe. Or did you get a script for that too from the NAFO discord?
This war ends with Ukraine's unconditional surrender, recognition of annexed territories as Russian, Zelenskyy and his gang escaping to Israel and what's left of Ukraine ruled by fascists who'll have a "civilised" veneer like the HTS/Al-Qaeda/ISIS Jabloni ruling Syria now.
>>2695643Russian liberal is a strange creature. Despised by all and yet loves ideology that more or less wants to see him as a subhuman.
>>2695692It’s buyers remorse
>>2695420>The worst chauvinists are in nations where the consensus of their own history, is primarily one of victimhood.I think it's more an issue of imagined victimhood. The Irish have a similar mentality but I don't see them behaving so reprehensibly.
>>2696057What Israelis and butthurt belters have in common is counterposing themselves to a perceived civilizational lesser, whether it's "le only democracy in the middle east vs. dirty moslems" or "enlightened europeans vs. asiatic gommunism"
Russian Navy will break any blockade if West continues detaining country's tankers:<Official Head of Russia's Maritime Board says Russia is building a 'balanced fleet' to counter Western 'corsairs' in updated naval program to 2050https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/russian-navy-will-break-any-blockade-if-west-continues-detaining-countrys-tankers-official/3833028
>The Russian Navy will thwart any attempt by the West to impose a naval blockade on the country, a senior official said Tuesday.
>In an interview with the Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, Russian Presidential Aide and Chairman of the Maritime Board Nikolay Patrushev described the recent detention of Russian oil tankers as "piratical, in essence, attacks."
>On Jan. 22, the French Navy intercepted and detained the oil tanker Grinch in the Western Mediterranean, which was traveling from Murmansk.
>Authorities suspected the tanker was part of Russia's "shadow fleet" used to evade international sanctions.
>Since late 2025, Ukraine has intensified attacks on Russian tankers using Sea Baby naval drones. The vessels Kairos, Virat, Dashan, Elbus and others were struck in the Black Sea, and in December, Ukraine attacked the tanker Qendil with drones in the Mediterranean Sea.
>The UK, Baltic countries and Scandinavian nations discussed the possibility of systematic detentions of vessels from Russia's shadow fleet at the Munich Security Conference this month. More than 600 such vessels have already been sanctioned by the European Union, the UK and the US.
>According to Patrushev, such actions indicate that Western opponents have decided to strike at one of the most important sectors of the Russian economy – foreign trade – with the intent to paralyze it.
>He expects such actions to intensify, with attacks on vessels and cargo becoming more frequent.
>"If we do not give them a firm rebuff, then soon the British, French, and even the Balts will become so brazen that they will try to completely block our country's access to the seas, at least in the Atlantic Basin," he said.
>Patrushev emphasized that measures to respond to Western attacks are being developed, including through the Maritime Board.
>"We believe that, as in all times, the best guarantor of the safety of navigation is the navy," he said.
>He argued that "impressive forces" must be permanently present on the main sea routes, including in regions remote from Russia, "ready to cool the ardor of Western corsairs."
>Patrushev acknowledged however that the Russian Navy is currently carrying out tasks to protect maritime trade "with a fairly high level of strain."
>"We need significantly more ships for the far sea and ocean zone, capable of operating autonomously for a long time at a considerable distance from their bases," he said.
>The current situation shows that of all the branches of the armed forces, the navy is the most powerful and simultaneously flexible geopolitical tool, suitable for active use both in peacetime and during armed conflict, Patrushev noted.
>"The existence of a navy, the ability to protect our economic activities at sea, to export our oil, grain and fertilizers, is a condition for the normal functioning of the state," he emphasized.
>In this regard, the Maritime Board is incorporating the corresponding requirements for the development of the navy into the updated shipbuilding program for the navy up to 2050, he said.
>"Russia needs a balanced fleet, capable of solving all pressing tasks and meeting the demands of the time, primarily technological ones," he noted.
>In his assessment, a difficult situation is developing in the Baltic Sea, where NATO is "effectively creating a multinational grouping oriented towards offensive actions."
>"Among other things, NATO plans imply the blockade of the Kaliningrad region, the seizure of merchant ships, and sabotage on underwater communications, for which they will then cynically blame us," he said.
>As a first step, Russia will utilize universally recognized political-diplomatic and legal mechanisms, he noted.
>"If this situation cannot be resolved peacefully, then the blockade will be broken and eliminated by the navy. We should not forget that many ships sail the seas under European flags. We might also become interested in what they are carrying and where to," Patrushev said.
>According to him, "the facts indicate that the sea is again becoming a staging ground for military aggression, and the old practice of 'gunboat diplomacy' is returning, as evidenced by events in Venezuela or around Iran."
>"But one should not judge solely by the actions of Western countries. The West dominated the seas for a long time, right up until the beginning of this century, but now its hegemony is largely a thing of the past," he said.
>Currently, the key task is to build a multipolar world order in the world ocean, and Russia, together with its like-minded partners, is actively working on this, Patrushev added. >>2696057I suppose the difference for Ireland is there are fewer external nations invested in agitating, funding and supporting their ultra-nationalists against their neighbour, as there are for the other examples.
But tbh, there probably isn't a nation out there that doesn't have some sect of nationalism that is based in victimhood (real or imagined) that couldn't be exploited with enough soft power.
>>2696124I said exactly the same thing and this guy
>>2696144 was saying that it's literally nuclear war to ever respond in a military manner
>>2696148>As a first step, Russia will utilize universally recognized political-diplomatic and legal mechanisms, he noted.>then the blockade will be broken and eliminated by the navy. We should not forget that many ships sail the seas under European flags. We might also become interested in what they are carrying and where toIf your primary motivation wasn't fucking seething at me every day, you'd just be calling this cucked and not real military action
just use a sub to fucking torpedo the next fucker trying to arrest your tanker and we would immediately see how much westoids are paper tigers, its just that nobody has both the means, balls and the incentive to do it
>>2696148>it's literally nuclear war to ever respond in a military mannerYeah, probably. You'd have to be some kind of dimwit not to see that that's the likely culmination of a serious military conflict between NATO and Russia.
The entire point of this conflict is to destroy Russia as it is, because without such the US can't continue its world domination. Picking off a handful of transport ships is just an annoyance considering there are hundreds more. Much less substantial is the Russian fleet. How long do you reckon that would last in shooting conflict with the US, even if it was just limited to naval engagements? It's not a calculus that comes out in Russia's favor.
More significant though is that Russia's nuclear submarines would also be at risk. We've already seen nuclear warning and delivery systems have been targeted during this conflict, and imo that would be the priority in any naval contest between Russia and NATO.
Like, what do you really expect to happen if Russia were to just start sinking NATO ships? Archangel, Petersburg, Sevastopol, Vladivostok– all Russia's major naval bases are surrounded by NATO or their allies. How do you see Moscow walking away from such a conflict on top, especially when this article is describing a modernization program that's apparently going to happen over the course of 25 years?
>>2696142Will we enter into a world where every cargo container on a ship can be a surprise AA-gun, or anti ship missile.
We already have pretty much driven past the point where freedom of navigation and trade is a thing. Everybody relied on US policing the seas from, idk Somalian fishermen who were driven back by couple of ARs on board anyway. Now it's the Americans and pirates of the butthurt-bay who need to be deterred with heavy weaponry to that trade may flow.
>>2695643Look it’s just that Russians are congenitally evil due to being zhido-mongols.
>>2695442That the Russian army had any kind of operational reliance on Starlink is just embarrassing.
>>2696446Well they probably didn't. What they really lost was access to netflix and their second rate telegram propaganda channels and frontline updates to zigger infospace. Russian side updates just went dark and ukrops of course saw an opportunity to spin up some peremoga on twitter. i really can't say if anything came about the claimed coutneroffensiyvs or if they were ever real to being with.
>>2696331Too bad russains are weak pussies. i will see how the iran fiasco develops before i put tryst in putinoids armada. Spineless cucktin.
>>2688241This is your brain on nafo
>>2689093My fucking God, it's 2016, whenever a supposedly modern communist party utters the word "imperialist," I demand economic data to back it up.
>>2689388Not just that, but Russia is proposing BRICS to have an anti-piracy (read: anti-US) fleet on the Oceans.
History be habbenings
>>2696790You Ziggers take the entirely wrong message from these articles. Rather than going
>ZOMG THESE EUROS ARE DELULUyou should realize that if Russia had carried out a successful campaign and was already shelling Lvov and had captured Kiev by now, all of these retarded Westoids would be writing articles screaming about the need to make an immediate peace deal and how reasonable Putin is and please don't hurt us etc. The fact that they continue to be so gung-ho is the ultimate proof that Ukraine can continue fighting on for years and Ruzzia has zero idea of how to achieve its goals other than asking Donald-senpai to force Ukraine to give up territory it can't take by itself.
>>2696801>The fact that they continue to be so gung-ho is the ultimate proof that Ukraine can continue fighting on for years and Ruzzia has zero idea of how to achieve its goals Cope. Ukraine is on its last legs. Kidnapping people off the street, keeping them locked in a barracks until they can be sent to the front where some neo-nazi is going to tell them to assault a position or get executed. Literal volkssturm.
>the fact that Germany hasn't surrendered yet means the Soviets don't know how to achieve their goals!You also need to learn dialectics, small quantitative changes lead to qualitative change. All these little breakthroughs and gains of Russia coupled with the failed Ukrainian assaults will lead to a collapse of the front. Russia just needs to continue doing what it is doing. The fact that Russian negotiators are pushing for maximalist demands while asking Ukraine to accept their premises on why the war started means they see themselves in a comfortable position that can continue for a long while.
>Russian economy grew by 1-2% in 2025<German and EU economies have been stagnating>Russia recruits 30.000 volunteers per month<Ukraine is literally running out of men>Russia's missile and drone stockpiles are growing<Germany is out of patriot missiles to send>Russia makes 50-200 BUKs per year<Germany plans to make 16 IRIS-T launchers per year starting in 2027If you truly believe what you wrote and aren't just LARPing as a "Cucktin cucked out!!" fag then you haven't been paying close attention to this war and have been fooled by Western propaganda and cope mappers.
tl;dr: It is a war of attrition and Russia has no reason to stop doing what they are doing because they are winning.
>>2696801>Gung-hoYeah in expending Ukraine.
The only goal for the west at this point, having failed their initial goal of collapsing the Russian economy and forcing them to sell their oil field to Western Big Oil (their expectation being this should have happened already in the 90s), is just to make victory in Russia as difficult and as expensive as possible.
Random European client journalists demanding more dead proles on both sides with faux moral righteousness, is entirely motivated by that reality.
Even if Russia had reduced Ukraine’s territory to a Lvov strip, the client journos wouldn’t let up. Because stretching the Russian military across the entirety of Ukraine would open up even more vulnerabilities that could be exploited and therefore even more hopium that Ukraine can in the 11th hour turn the situation around and claim total victory.
looks like Iran might be attacked soon, if Iran becomes another cuck state like syria its pretty much over. cuba next, then north korea. its gonna be even a blacker reaction than it already was. unless china and russia do some funny things. huge doubt on that part. China should stop this pretense of "peaceful coexistence" with nations like japan and south korea, these are fundamentally hostile reactionary states build for the sole purpose of a war against China. righoids only appreciate strength, the rest they see as weakness. in other words: we have to, uhh, kill the americans and their lapdogs
>>2696801Please put on the proper flag. This one
>>2696842What I don't understand is why all of these states have shit air defense and invest far more into their armies than their air force.
>Serbia couldn't beat NATO in the air and had to watch as their forces got pummeled by airstrikes>Assad couldn't beat Israel in the air and had to watch as his troops got blown up whenever Israel wanted them to die>Iran couldn't beat Israel in the air and their entire AA grid got disabled so America and Israel can blow whatever they want >Russia is totally incapable of stopping Ukraine from sending infinite drones to murder their troops or to blow up their refineries Where is the Iron Dome equivalent for our guys? Is China just staying out of everything until they are 100% certain they can establish air superiority over NATO because they don't want to have to deal with air force bullshit?
>>2696850>Where is the Iron Dome equivalent for our guys?uhhhh…
>>2696850>Russia is totally incapable of stopping Ukraine from sending infinite drones to murder their troops or to blow up their refineries Any fighter or helicopter that close to contact line would get blown up. Both sides are incapable of establishing aerial dominance because USSR war inventory was heavily focused on SAM-capabilities.
>>2696850because their armies are not made for actual combat, but for parades and to oppress their enemies
>>2696850>Russia is totally incapable of stopping Ukraine from sending infinite drones to murder their troops or to blow up their refineries I can see it’s not yet 2026 in your part of the world, still in September of last year I guess?
>Der Spiegel reports that the CIA was informed in advance about Ukraine's plans to blow up the "Nord Stream" pipeline.
>According to the publication, in the spring of 2022, a meeting of Ukrainian specialists with CIA employees took place in Kyiv, at which this idea was discussed. The Americans, according to the source, approved the plan, calling it "appropriate".
>Later, another meeting was held to discuss technical details. At it, representatives of the CIA, as claimed, gave the Ukrainians the green light, creating the impression that the US might take on the financing.
>However, the Americans changed their position and warned against the implementation of the plan. As a result, the operation was allegedly financed by a private individual, who allocated $300 thousand.
Scholz, absolute retard.
>>2696790>the tragedy is that its allies won’t provide the means to do so. lmao. they started from, 'just uniforms, bro, that's all they need', then the bayraktar, to then 'ukies just need javelin, st. javelin patron bring up 10,000 units!' to then nlaws, then the M113s, then then the then leopards, then jdam, then f-16s, then
insert new wnuderwaffen here.
>>2687495Russians are white though
>>2697193Bulbastan (""""Belarus""") ain't a state, just an oblast of the Multinational Pidor Federation. they better start acting like the union state they supposedly are :)
(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST) >>2696850Small guys choose humiliation over war over shooting down American jets, as simple as. Drones are a separate case, you need specialized air defences for this kind of a threat
>>2697623>Drones are a separate case, you need specialized air defences for this kind of a threatYou have a drone problem -> try to fix your drone problem with better defense systems. -> Drones swarm those defenses with pure numbers -> Drones can once again do what ever they want.
When swarm and targeting AI gets good enough and removes the option of disrupting the signal. Then cheap enough mass drones will eventually beat any defense system that isn't like a literal marvel capeshit force field. Even microwave weapons can be largely countered with a tinfoil wrap on the electronics. Wars will literally be their drone swarm vs our drone swarm and who first loses their drones and ability to control and produce drones goes down first will lose the war.
I got permaed from the chinz by glowie mods for wanting Total MAGA Death but the fall of America doesn't change my stance on Russia. America being a fascist empire does not and will never justify Russia attacking Ukraine and until they stop doing so, Ukraine is justified in killing every Russian they can get their hands on. TZD.
>>2697512It's basically the German language edition of The Economist/NYT. They have been exposed lying and fabricating stuff so many times it's not even funny. It's good practice to automatically consider the opposite of what they want their readers to believe to be true. If these bourgeois arch-neoliberal pricks would claim that Biden/the CIA destroyed Nordstream i'd assume that the burgers had nothing to do with it.
>>2697758what justified ukraine attacking donetsk?
>>2697781You think they are at this point just not trying to get caught in the lie themselves by lying more, or are they trying to protect the "transatlantic alliance" to the bitter end?
>>2697781>>2697781>If these bourgeois arch-neoliberal pricks would claim that Biden/the CIA destroyed Nordstream i'd assume that the burgers had nothing to do with it.could it be a set up to appease trumpedo, who will use this to get the biden clan and democrats fully arrested?
>>2697758>Larping as ciaOh look a nafo faggot out in the open
>>2697872What does it say?
>>2697880glory to the AFU
>>2697882>glory to Autism funding in the Province of British Columbiawholesome
You have to wonder what the aim is behind threads like >>2697357 because the only conclusion anyone can surely draw is that they’re butthurt.
>>2697910these threads get left up indefinitely while if you made one strawmanning ultras or euroleftists it would get nuked instantly, really makes you think
>>2697916Make a strawman of them here then, if you have the funniness to do it that is
>>2697918>if you have the funniness to do it that isFailing to defend SocDem’ism at home but remaining inexplicably undeterred in feeling like its vanguard abroad against “reactionaries”, who all just happen to reside in the nations attacked by their failed SocDem’ist leaders, resulting in making the argument that throwing out Nazi salutes and wearing SS insignia
can be acceptable for “critical support” provided it’s against Ziggers/Tankies/Stalinists/Authoritarians and other buzzwords transcends satire.
>>2697787Trumpedo is the literal anti-christ for our liberal/neocon mainstream and that won't change as long as he's not hating Putin as much as they do. They don't care about anything else really. They would be happy to officially humiliate themselves in front of King Trump I's throne if only he would support their warmongering against Russia as much as Biden did. Their transatlantic allegiance is with the most rabid american neocon warmongers e.g. Kagan, Bolton, Clinton, McCain, Obomba. From Trump's cabinet they only like Rubio.
The story is most likely a deflection from the obvious Democrat/Deep state/CIA involvement with the narrative being that Ukraine had a reason to do it because Russia so it's not a problem they deserved it now stop asking questions.
Hersh's version is much more plausible for the fact alone that Biden announced it beforehand. Also, Poland's main warmonger applauding the USA on Xitter and our Nordic friends doing their utmost to thwart even Scholz' unmotivated investigations fit well with Hersh's version.
>>2697512so hersh was right again?
>>2698208yep, apparently he was.
The crimes of the US do not change the fact Ukraine does not deserve to be destroyed for it. It's why as much as I respect guys like Yanis Varoufakis and Jeffrey Sachs, until they stop calling for Ukraine to surrender to Putin just to prove them right about the Americans I will continue to call for Bundanov to have them killed as enemy assets.
>>2698236Deserve has nothing to do with it. This is a question of outcomes and which one would be best for socialism.
>>2698238Well, the Russian oligarchy is even worse than the Ukrainian one, largely because there is 0 check on it because Putin can't be voted out of office. So Russia winning will just subject more people to the mafistate that is modern Russia.
>>2698260Typical thirdie anti-democratic slop. You will never free anyone if the public has no say in who is in charge, the incentive structure simply won't exist. The actual issue is preventing the proles form being psyoped into supporting capitalists and fascists, not that the proles have a say at all.
>>2698266Every single party in the Rada is some variation of
>centre-right pro-european ukrainian nationalistand they vote in perfect unison 90% of the time, even more often compared to the Duma where at least KPRF dissents sometimes. It's the biggest sham "multiparty democracy" on the planet.
took the bait award >>2698273Conveniently avoiding the fact that Ukraine actually changes leaders through voting unlike Russia where every single election is rigged to ensure Putin wins.
>A Ukrainian F-16 squadron is flown by veteran American and Dutch pilots, Intelligence Online reports.
>The squadron was formed several weeks ago. The unit plays a key role in the Kiev region's air defense system.
>The squadron includes American pilots with combat experience in Afghanistan. One of them recently participated in operations in the Middle East.
>The Dutch pilots trained at elite air combat schools in Europe.
>The Western pilots signed temporary contracts with six-month rotations. They are not officially part of the Ukrainian Air Force.https://www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russia/2026/02/16/us-dutch-veterans-bolster-ukraine-air-force-s-f-16s-in-skies-above-kyiv,110628200-artat this point, just send the soldiers, nato.
P.S.: The report was later denied by Yurii Ignat, head of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' communications department.
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>The Ukrainian economy will require 300,000-400,000 migrant workers annually, despite nearly 2 million unemployed.
>This was stated by Oleg Pendzin, a member of the Economic Discussion Club.
>The greatest shortage is of workers, design engineers, and heavy-duty truck drivers.
>Around 4 million workers will be needed to rebuild Ukraine after the end of hostilities.
>According to Pendzin, 6.8 million people have left Ukraine since the war began.—————————————-
>The trial of former Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko took place yesterday evening.
>He is accused of money laundering and participating in a criminal organization.First high-ranking officer ever convicted by corruption schemes since the western values arrived to Ukraine after the maidan?
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>"Sixty days of complete silence is the main condition for holding elections," stated First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Aleksandr Kornienko.
>No, that's not how it works. Elections—from the beginning of the electoral process to the counting—must be held in silence, not under the scorching heat of drones and gunfire. he stated.———————
>Ukrainian Armed Forces Captain Daniil Yakovlev proposed conducting an audit of vacant apartments, houses, and service stations and giving them over to Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.<1st vidrel———————–
>"One day of war costs Ukraine more than 5 billion hryvnias," Ukrainian MP Dmitri Razumkov stated with concern.———————————–
>(na)ZILUZHNY'S SCANDALOUS INTERVIEW, KIEV-STYLE CORRUPTION, AND WHY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE TURNING AWAY FROM UKRAINE
>n his interview with the Associated Press, Valeriy Zaluzhny blamed Zelensky for the failure of the 2023 counteroffensive and effectively outlined his presidential ambitions. Meanwhile, former Minister Herman Galushchenko, arrested in an energy corruption case, added fuel to the fire by stating in court that he had discussed energy issues with the Ukrainian president. And all this against the backdrop of Hungary and Slovakia suspending diesel fuel supplies to Ukraine.———————————–
>A 28-year-old Brazilian volunteer serving in the GUR's "International Legion" died under torture in Kiev, according to Kyiv Independent.
>Bruno Gabriel Leal da Silva got drunk and failed to return to his unit on time.
>He was punished for this. On the night of December 28-29, 2025, the Brazilian was beaten for about 40 minutes by other soldiers.GIVAS some beatin'?
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>The SBU attempted to assassinate former Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny, local journalist Yanina Sokolova reported, citing sources close to Zaluzhny.
>"It was an assassination attempt. And our Western partners, particularly the British, knew about it. The ambassador's appointment was less a political compromise between the president and the then commander-in-chief than a defense of Zaluzhny himself," Sokolova wrote on social media.
>Major Konstantin Sviridov, who supplied the Armed Forces of Ukraine with rotten products, bought an apartment in Bali for 190,000 dollars
>In Dnepropetrovsk, he bought clothes worth 2.5 million hryvnias, the State Bureau of Investigation reports.
>A video of one of the deals has been published by the State Bureau of Investigation.<2nd vidrelpoor major, he didn't know that only zelya and his direct acolytes are allowed to do corruption.
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>Ukrainian social media users are reporting that taxi drivers have begun collaborating with the TCC.
>Users report that in some cases, a military commissariat van may arrive instead of the ordered taxi.
>Sometimes, the taxi driver personally drives the client to the TCC employees.————————–
<FIRST PICRELis a report going around 8 hours ago. it was received so poorly in ukraine, that dmtry litvyn, zelya's officer staffer ran to deny the information:
>Meanwhile, Zelensky's office staffer, Dmitry Litvyn, denied reports that the Kiev regime's leader had instructed his entourage to prepare for war for another three years. >>2698287wasn't brazilian mercs the main forces in kupyansk? who knows what transpires there, tbh.
>>2698280That's because they didn't voooooot hard enough.
I am very intelligent.
>>2698287>There must be some kind of mistake, I joined to become a drone operatorWhatever the circumstances, it seems like it’s frequently the case that people think volunteering in a foreign military means you also get to pick your role and rank. Like you’ve been gracious and charitable enough to volunteer, so they ought to facilitate you writing your own adventure within their conflict.
>>2698313yeah, they don't realize they will be scrubbing the toilets of everyone at night, while during the day are used as b8 and cannon fodder to lure the other side to their trenches.
I volunteered for the Russian side in 2024, and I knew that. It's a shame they are more rigorous than the hoholite armed forces. literally, I can't join if I don't speak Russian. I offered to join in an English-speaking formation, never got back a reply.
>>2698329Still, very based for trying.
I recall some edgy girl from Finland on Xitter trying to join the Ukrainian military as a drone operator, claiming she dreamt of droning Russian soldiers all day, but when she arrived was given some logistical job IIRC, she immediately quit and went home. But I think the worst thing is she described this on Xitter to her followers in a complaining tone for not facilitating her “dreams” before imploring them to not consider her a hero… cucktinists had absolutely nothing on her for pissing me off lmao
Can’t remember the account though
>>2698254>Well, the Russian oligarchy is even worse than the Ukrainian oneI see no evidence of that.
>largely because there is 0 check on it because Putin can't be voted out of officeSorry but this is liberal nonsense. From a materialist perspective the social forces at work in a country are FAR more important than the particular form of its government. It is these forces which determine the actual content of state policy, whereas the question of autocracy vs democracy is simply one of administration and execution. Russia's ruling class is more aligned (for various reasons) with progressive forces and interests than Ukraine's. In the long term they are still class enemies of course, but here and now they are less hostile than Ukraine or the West.
>>2698350Why is that you're generally right on everything but I still feel a strong drive to argue with and be contrarian to you?
>>2698350This argument still doesn't work because Russian society is very obviously more apathetic and has largely already surrendered to their overlords while Ukraine arguably has more anti-establishment resistance than ever.
There is no rational socialist argument for Russia conquering Ukraine, you guys are just stuck on hating the West and therefore Ukraine has to be destroyed for trying to join the West even if that won't actually improve anything.
>>2698369>Ukraine arguably has more anti-establishment resistanceThen show me his body.
>>2698369>while Ukraine arguably has more anti-establishment resistance than everWhat resistance would that be? The only thing I'm aware of has been some opposition to conscription.
>There is no rational socialist argument for Russia conquering UkraineThe argument is that multipolarity is creates better conditions for socialist revolution than unipolarity. NATO expanded eastwards and is prosecuting the war in Ukraine in an effort to preserve unipolarity, and so we should oppose this. On a more local scale, Ukraine is simply far more hostile to socialism than Russia is. Legal socialist organizing is possible in Russia (though of course limited to the degree expected of most bourgeois states). In Ukraine its virtually impossible. This is why Ukraine is closer to fascism than Russia, despite the latter being in practice closer to a one party state and presidential autocracy.
>>2698377>muh ZelenskyZiggers just can't get over him giving you the finger can you
>>2698361You probably just have a crush on me and are tsundere.
>>2698388The US has abandoned Ukraine, so Ukraine trying to join Europe is no longer a fight for unipolarity. If anything, it would simply reinforce a multipolarity where the EU is a pole.
>>2698393That's actually not a bad point. The split between Europe and America, if it proves to be real and lasting, would do a lot to change the calculus around this issue. Funnily enough if that were the case, you might see America get a lot closer to Russia out of a mutual antagonism with Europe. At the very least it would dramatically reduce Russia's progressive content since they are no longer necessary to shatter Western hegemony, which Trump managed to sabotage on his own. However I think it's still a little too early to say whether this will be the case. The real test will come when a Democrat comes back into office and whether they are able to restore the relationship with Europe. Even if the split proves permanent however, there would still be other factors to consider like whether Russia can be considered an imperialist country under the Leninist understanding, the implications for socialist organizing in Russia and Ukraine respectively, etc.
TLDR: if the Euro-American split is legit then we'll have to reassess, but it's too early to say
>>269825495% of Ukrainians would call you a filthy commie and kill you. Just so you know :^
>>2698393>The US has abandoned UkraineThat’s simply not true
Man this war got boring 🥱
Nobody moving, nothing happening…fuck
>>2698486Everything is moving and happening always. you just need a happening-detox so you can start to appreciate things happening again.
>>2686273Somebody should bake
>>2698278>>2698254Ukraine is less democratic than Russia. The current regime seized power illegally in 2014 and then set about banning opposition so that their power would be absolute and voting could only replicate the same faction over and over again. The most voting can do is change from one Maidan movement figure to another and you get the same policy (NATO uber alles) either way.
Russian elections are not rigged to ensure Putin wins. He wins because he's improved Russia in his time in power and because a majority of Russians agree with him about Ukraine. ("Free" bourgeois elections are not the same as democracy and can't change much anyway, but that's another story).
>But muh navalny got b& and woulda won if he wasn't oppressed and wrongly jailed.no he wouldn't. he couldn't even win a mayor election in moscow where he had the most support. he'd would have got routed in a national election that included rurals.
>>2698369anti-establishment resistance is illegal in Ukraine (as is advocating socialism), and the West global schemes being defeated is always an improvement.
>>2698535Russian elections are rigged, any suggestion otherwise is zigger propaganda.
>>2698524I just need the collapse and big arrows both sides promised me years ago
>>2698572>it just is bc i and the msm says so ok!ok, if so they're less rigged than elections in ukraine or europe (romania, moldova)
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