https://www.newsweek.com/ukrainian-man-partially-sinks-yacht-russian-ceo-selling-weapons-1683067?amp=1>A Ukrainian ship crew member reportedly tried to sink a yacht owned by the CEO of a Russian weapons manufacturer in protest over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.>The 55-year-old Ukrainian who was identified as D. Taras O. tried to sink the boat by flooding its engine room by opening a large valve as well as another one in a different part of the boat, the Majorca Daily Bulletin reported.>The yacht, called Lady Anastasia, reportedly belongs to Alexander Mijeev, the Russian CEO of Rosoboronexport—a Russian military weapons company.>The man then shut down the electricity and closed the fuel valves, before asking three Ukrainian crew members to leave the ship. The other crew members, who later reported him to authorities, called him crazy and asked him to close the valve that was causing the leak, according to El País. The yacht was left with a destroyed engine room.>The man's motivation to sink the yacht? Ukraine was being attacked, he said, by missiles manufactured by the owner's company.>When he appeared before a judge on Sunday, the 55-year-old said that he doesn't regret his actions and that he "would do it again." >>542720Make a thread asking this. You wont get a good answer here.
Go! Dont be scared.
Different videos from the same shooting (as requested by >>804748 )
During/immediate aftermath:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/538743.html#q539113YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FNCcxQaKxwWarning: a dying dog is heard crying in the background, a man is seen dying (?) on the pavement
After >>804691
Warning: dead dog, blood on the pavement
Running the title through a translator, we get: "In the Kiev region, Russian invaders killed a father in front of his son. Ivankov region."
Caption says: "Киевский Движ / Kiev Movement"
Ivankov/Ivankiv appears to be a small town of Kiev an 80 minute drive north of Kiev.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IvankivAny thoughts on what happened here?
>>542737This thread moves too quickly.
Just do it.
>>542756There is a "is russia imperialist" thread.
Go there
>>542765Taxes on new
ukrainian russian citizens + extracting the natural resources of Ukraine.
>>542766nukes are a meme
This is the point where we're genuinely seeing a turn toward multipolarity.
>>542735Well, yeah…
>>542741>le meme says Putin said itcope.
>>542743Well given the fact the YT channel is a pro-ukrainian channel.. he's saying something like go "nazad nazad, privyai", "go back, ahead is to die", my video is older, from Telegram today's channel which would be Russian forces arriving at the zone.
The video shows little, but I am convinced it was ukrops executing them for leaving the area or des-obeying a curfew.
>>542779Whoops, quoted wrong anon.
>>542769 was for
>>542753 >>542776I can understand that, but frankly, more and more, waiting for the right moment just seems like the left's equivalent of christians waiting for the second coming of christ.
My own opinion at this pont is that there will be no working class or any suitable anti-systemic movement or party or whatever unless we make it, and make it by inhabiting the most vulnerable cracks in the system
>>542793Yeah, a javelin, she had no opportunity.
Shall her soul rest at loli heaven.
O7
>>542796>>542796All the do is argue what side is jews and globohomo, so far no agreement has emerged
And in here we're just arguing if russia is imperialist or not.
Russia is imperialist btw.
>>542702wtf
Is Anuv a leftypol poster?
>>542817Speaking purely systemically: the "right moment" is when downturns of capitalist cycles at multiple scales align. At that point you're approaching a fundamental crisis in capitalism. Without the left, capitalism will go through another internal revolution and international wars for the top spots, then a new long-term cycle will begin, possibly with a reconfigured world hegemony.
We're at the "right moment" right now, but the left is dead.
>>542766So if NATO starts intervening then yeah. But also, these sanctions are kind of a line for NATO since Russia is forced to join with China (link CISP with their own?) for trade probably dragging with it other ex soviet republics and now a lot of the trade, including Europe to Russia is going to have to done in… Yuan/Rubbles? Definitely not dollars. Whatever the case the US is speeding the end of the dollar as the dominant reserve currency and this can only make the US more warlike.
The more trade power the US loses the more it needs to enforce it's will at gunpoint which means another cold war and eventually nukes since China isn't collapsing any time soon.
https://www.rt.com/russia/548333-putin-meeting-xi-beijing/ >>542863This has been a truly blackpilling experience for me. I'm thinking of legit voting for reactionary conservative in the US, yes to own the libs, yes I know it's vooting, yes I know it's petty and pointless, yes I know the risks that ultra conservatives may ban communism from even being discussed in any spaces but I'm taking on the accelerate position.
I've said before that the left is much better at operating when dealing with reactionaries in power rather than liberals who actually force the left to suck the dick of the liberal order.
>Sabotaging the War - Triggering the International [English-language translation of the editorial from issue 4 of the Italian-language anarchist magazine BEZMOTIVNY]https://raddle.me/f/Anarchism/140891/sabotaging-the-war-triggering-the-international-english
>By the time readers hold these lines in their hands, the crisis in Ukraine may have reached paroxysm and unleashed its dramatic precipitation. Or perhaps not. Some passages may have been overtaken or disproved by facts, or still await verification. We are not concerned about the possible outdatedness of what we are writing, since these words can only be outdated. Faced with war, anarchism has always maintained the same position as Bakunin's since the Franco-Prussian conflict and the Commune. We must therefore start from the obvious.
<Our internationalism translates into an absolutely simple sentiment: the exploited and the exploited, in Russia as in the United States, in the Ukraine as in Italy, are our sisters and brothers, their blood is our blood; the industrialists and the bosses of finance, the generals and the official lords, all the governments, are our eternal enemies. Being moved by feelings of eternal hate and love, our passions cannot but shy away from current events, from their opportunism, from a paracular assessment of the conditions and propaganda of the moment.
>And yet, in order to prevent these lofty sentiments from turning into abstract and harmless intentions, good for clearing one's conscience and, in the end, for finding one's own accommodation, settling into an opportunistic position, by a slightly more tortuous, but for this very reason even more hypocritical, route, another must be added to these intentions: the only practice compatible with internationalist discourse is that which places one's own government, one's own state, one's own imperialist bloc as the main enemy.
<Let us therefore shun any frontist temptation, rejecting both the positions of those who in the name of pluralism and human rights are tempted to close ranks under the liberal Western banner, and those who in the name of anti-Americanism and nostalgic Sovietism are tempted by pro-Russian partisanship.
>The price of war is, as always, paid by the proletariat, and for months now we have been paying it, in advance, with the increase in utility bills, fuel prices, and the inflationary dynamic that is affecting all goods. This process is intertwined with the speculative dynamic set in motion by the economic recovery following the crisis caused by the pandemic. This is the price of speculation, it is the price of Putin's reprisals, it is the price of Biden's adventurism, it is the price of Draghi's servility. These gentlemen are our hungers, none of them are our friends.
<Assuming that the current crisis does not result in a nuclear holocaust (a highly unlikely but not impossible hypothesis), in the "best" hypothesis, at our "privileged" latitudes, the price we will pay for the war in Ukraine will be that of an impoverishment that until a few years ago was unimaginable in the European bamboo we were used to: the current increases in fuel and energy, and with them in all goods, could represent a hint that is not even comparable with what we will have to deal with. Energy continuity itself, with the conditions of comfort that people in this region of the planet have taken for granted for half a century, may not be guaranteed, all the more so in a situation where the energy that does exist has to be used for the higher purposes of the war industry.
>Perhaps the greatest lesson, generally overlooked, of the pandemic event was in the demise of the so-called 'consumer society'. In those days in the spring of 2020 when supermarkets were partially closed, with entire products banned from sale, an unprecedented phenomenon occurred for those, like me, who have always lived in a society where consumerism was almost a religion. The government wanted to send a message that clearly had nothing to do with public health: a message of moral austerity. It's a difficult time, and citizens need to understand this even through a Lenten sacrifice. On the other hand, even then they were telling us "we are at war", anticipating the new sacrifices to come.
<A year later, the president of Confindustria proposed a very interesting analysis. Speaking at the national assembly of the employers' organisation on 23 September, more lucid than many entrepreneurs who invoke the dystopian 'return to the old world', Carlo Bonomi made it clear that 'it will be a long time, unfortunately, before domestic consumer demand can once again become a powerful driver of growth'. Big business knows very well that in this historical period it is not on domestic consumption that growth must be based. More recently, on 12 February, the director of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, declared that a price-wage spiral must be avoided at all costs: "you can't beat inflation by increasing wages", and if prices rise, the exploited must be impoverished, otherwise what's the catch? These gentlemen know that, war or no war, proletarianisation is the key to the social phenomena of the coming years.
>Returning to the war, then, what seems most likely, excluding the most dramatic hypothesis of a real nuclear escalation between the powers (which, however, it must be repeated, is not to be excluded), is that the price that the exploited of this part of the planet will pay will be a further turn of the screw in an austeritarian and authoritarian sense. All this is happening while, like a viper, the poisonous hypothesis of nuclear power, panacea for every ailment of our industry, is lurking. The nuclear siren is not to be underestimated: Especially if things get really bad with Russia definitively shutting off the taps for methane (or the USA forcing Europe to give it up), faced with military and industrial needs and the same discomforts on the population now obsessed with the compulsion to repeat the reactionary dream of "going back to the old way of life" (let's imagine how powerful this pressure will be if people find themselves without electricity and gas), the nuclear hypothesis will become even irresistible.
<On the contrary, an element of counter-tendency to what has happened in recent years lies in the return of 'politics' to the unchallenged dominance of technology, as the events in Ukraine tell us. For once, the war in Ukraine does not look like an economic war, but a war of political and military domination. The methane issue itself is not the phenomenon, but a consequential one, a reprisal in the choices of the political-military risiko. Provoked by NATO's constant and aggressive expansion eastwards, Russia's reaction is not so much aimed at conquering deposits and resources, but is motivated by the all-military claim that it does not have to put up with the presence of American military bases on its borders, as well as by a wholly ideological pride and nostalgia for the good old imperial days. Energy resources are, if anything, a cudgel with which to threaten each other.
>Leaving it to the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian anarchists to report on and analyse what is happening on their side of the frontline, their battles against the authoritarianism of their respective governments, against which they fight at the cost of arrests, torture and death, with that internationalist spirit for which the main enemy for me is always embodied in my government and its allies, we would like briefly to dwell on what is happening on 'our' side of the war front.
<Biden's victory represented a clear acceleration of militaristic dangers. Trump's geopolitical bet was based on the possibility, if not of an alliance, at least of maintaining good relations with Putin in an anti-Chinese key. In this sense, the fearsome Trump has ended up becoming the first US president in many decades not to open new war fronts. In this sense, the political blunder almost unanimously made by the American extreme left is incredible. When a historic militant communist, feminist and black woman like Angela Davis launches her endorsement for Biden and Harris, this does not only indicate the individual betrayal of a bureaucrat of the movement, but a collective lurch of an entire political area (demonstrated for example by the fact that Davis is not kicked out of the militant contexts). It is not only a betrayal of the anarchist rejection of the election (one expects this and more from communist politicians), but the specific analysis is just wrong, as Biden and Harris for world peace were clearly the 'greater evil'.
>One of the mistakes that is blamed on Biden even by a part of the mainstream left (in this sense we have recently read pieces in the manifesto and on Fanpage) is that of "giving" Russia to China. By aggressively squeezing Putin's regime, the Americans are pushing it into an alliance with Xi's regime. The alliance of the world's second military power with the country that is the leading technological power and - for a few more years - the second economic power, could really become the detonating effect for a global military catastrophe. Faced with the possibility that Russian weapons might start to use Chinese technology, some Pentagon executioners might seriously consider that a preventive nuclear attack might be a better option than the possibility of long years of military integration of their most fearful adversaries.
<Turning to Italy, which has always been at the forefront in experimenting with new political regimes, it seems that the government of National Unity will resist and be confirmed in the medium term as the key to political intrigue in this beautiful country, perhaps to be emulated in other European nations in the event of a worsening of the crisis. National Unity is a concept that must be well understood. This form of government may resemble, but it differs essentially from, the classic technical government supported by the unanimity of political forces. National Unity is an eminently political government, a government with a political and social front: in this sense the trade union also adheres to National Unity when it works for the most complete collaboration and internal pacification; in this same sense the technicians also adhere to it, since Technology is today a socio-political power. In a word, the government of National Unity is a government of war.
>As internationalists who have been condemned or privileged - it depends on your point of view - to live at these latitudes, the task that imposes itself on us is that of sabotaging, derailing, and destroying by all means the National Unity and the deadly climate of social peace that it generates. This is the appointment of the coming months that we absolutely cannot miss. In other words, national unity prepares us for internal peace between classes and external war between nations. Our internationalism has always shouted the opposite: no war between peoples and no peace between classes. With Galleani we repeat that we are against war and against peace, but for the social revolution.
<However, internationalism is still only a sentiment. Although corrected by the principle that my government is my main enemy, like every feeling internationalism contains something ineffable. The courageous step we should take is to move from internationalism to the International. That is, to reason and spread concretely an informal, but real, historical conspiracy of revolutionaries all over the world. An 'organisation', however much this term frightens us and attracts the eyes of repression. But what are the alternatives? Hunger, war and death. The organisation of associated human life based on hierarchy and profit has now shown that it cannot govern the complexity it has generated and is dragging us all towards catastrophe - sanitary, ecological and military. Only a world revolution can save us. Let us set to work. >>542857>That NeXT machine in the backgroundWhy did Jobs have to kill NeXT for apple? Why?
Why didn't apple choose the BeOS guy instead?
Oh well, at least I have Window Maker.
>>542868>Why do all ecelebs/breadtubers support imperialism?Is it just shifting class interest, or do they get a visit from the CIA once they hit 100,000 subscribers.
Remember when Trump was in power? And remember how the left was relatively more organized independently? This is my burger example but it's just a simple example to say that at that time liberals had to take on leftist positions, whereas when liberals are in power, leftists have to take liberal positions. This is how I believe this thing goes.
E-celebs had their scapegoat with a face but now that they don't they have to focus outward to enemies outside. It's all petit bourgeois struggle between two wings the liberal and conservative wings of capital. It's a trap and notice how so many politicians are forced to adhere to the liberal standpoint?
>>542817>don't be an opportunist3 posts later
>be an opportunistok
>>542869>I've said before that the left is much better at operating when dealing with reactionaries in power rather than liberals who actually force the left to suck the dick of the liberal order.You're very wrong. Right now the problem in my country is we have a right-wing cuck gov, and the whole opposition is screaming "fascism" and becoming more libtard each day, moving away from an economy-based critique of capitalism as such. The next election is coming soon and it's pretty certain a new cuck with a new face will win, a boring centrist liberal. A leftist party exists, but isn't gaining popularity because it's currently preoccupied with political games in the parliament and representing urban cultural workers and intelligentsia who've been a target of the current gov.
Voting for either right-wingers or liberals won't magically get you out of this cycle in any way. You need to build a party with a strong base by doing work outside of parliament.
>>542892Some*
Sharing some libshit.
>>542894They're putting their cigs out in a dead cat's busted skull. In case anyone doesn't want to see that type of thing.
Anyway, what's the caption say?
>>542898>How blackpilling is it that even fucking /pol/ is split on this.Not at all, tbh.
>We're all getting biden-trumpism gangedok american
>>542916mao was retarded
>>542918Still it is fucking insane how mass media is so pro ukraine. Not even willing to listen to the fact that they are filled with azovites and other militias like it. It's fucking blackpilling as fuck. I have to live here.
>>542920>Still it is fucking insane how mass media is so pro ukraine.are you underageb& or something? How do you not expect the mainstream media to unanimously side against one of the two biggest enemies of the USA, known for being an oligarchic dictatorship.Did you expect differently in Hong Kong, or if/when Taiwan gets CHINA'D?
Anyway, read Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky. It's all about the US media and why they tend to conform (protip: since that book it's become owned by less and less companies) and explicitly talks about the differences between reporting invasions against 'good' and 'bad' countries.
almost already know the answer but is this real?
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/chechen-leader-behind-gay-torture-execution-campaign-killed-ukraine/One of the leaders responsible for the horrific anti-LGBTQ “purge” that has taken place in Chechnya was killed in Ukraine on Saturday.
Magomed Tushayev was a top advisor to the Chechen head of state, Ramzan Kadyrov, who has overseen a horrific “purge” of LGBTQ people. Gay men and transgender people have been tortured and murdered at the hands of authorities.
based if true. the crimes against humanity commited in chechnia deserve a purge too.
>>542936Cool, but I'm not expecting much different under current Russia.
>>542939evidence or gtfo
>>542966>and people looked at me weirdStrange plot twist, I thought everyone would clap, and then Zelenskyy would come in and give you a medal for your courageous efforts against evil
slav russian transphobes.
>>542968Russia is commiting war crimes against…
anime? NATO pls intervene
>>542873>Let us therefore shun any frontist temptation, rejecting both the positions of those who in the name of pluralism and human rights are tempted to close ranks under the liberal Western banner, and those who in the name of anti-Americanism and nostalgic Sovietism are tempted by pro-Russian partisanship.
>
>The price of war is, as always, paid by the proletariat, and for months now we have been paying it, in advance, with the increase in utility bills, fuel prices, and the inflationary dynamic that is affecting all goods. This process is intertwined with the speculative dynamic set in motion by the economic recovery following the crisis caused by the pandemic. This is the price of speculation, it is the price of Putin's reprisals, it is the price of Biden's adventurism, it is the price of Draghi's servility. These gentlemen are our hungers, none of them are our friends.
>>As internationalists who have been condemned or privileged - it depends on your point of view - to live at these latitudes, the task that imposes itself on us is that of sabotaging, derailing, and destroying by all means the National Unity and the deadly climate of social peace that it generates. This is the appointment of the coming months that we absolutely cannot miss. In other words, national unity prepares us for internal peace between classes and external war between nations. Our internationalism has always shouted the opposite: no war between peoples and no peace between classes. With Galleani we repeat that we are against war and against peace, but for the social revolution.Absolutely Based >>542997NTA
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-28-22/h_dc2e4a6029cd8a1ad6033b9cb70eda10White House closely monitoring Russian convoy now reported to be more than 40 miles longFrom CNN's Kaitlan Collins
<The White House is closely monitoring the Russian military convoy that, according to new satellite images released by Maxar, has reached the outskirts of Kyiv and appears to be more than 40 miles long.
>Multiple officials told CNN they are not only concerned by the size of the convoy, but also by the increase in violence, civilian casualties and indiscriminate killings in recent days.
>Officials who were surprised by the fierce Ukrainian resistance when Russia invaded now fear the situation is becoming “a lot more challenging” for them.
>In recent days, US President Joe Biden instructed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to release up to $350 million in immediate support for Ukraine's defense, but officials have also acknowledged privately that getting new aid to Ukraine will be more difficult than it was previously when it could be flown directly to Kyiv. >>542959>what's his endgame?They tried to overthrow the Belarus government, this is a consequence of that.
>>542970>>542975>what is wrong with hohols, can't wait until this fag diesThis is bluster, in reality they are scared, because the only reason they aren't already dead is because Russia is trying to minimize casualties and material destruction in Ukraine. The Russians could at any time say fuck it and just level the place. And Russia could have a novel tactic for urban warfare as well.
>>543011non-Asian otaku culture is most influenced by Asian otaku culture. shocking, i know
nobody fucking knows what a 4chan or a yaoi paddle or a hot topic is in the rest of the world
>>543004 (me)
Could this convoy be the supplies before the ultimatum in the negotiations?
"Surrender or Kiev gets razed with you inside, we are ready and supplied to flatten the city."
The ICT reacts:
Neither NATO nor Putin! No War but the Class War!>Why has the more than 30 year old struggle for control of Ukraine burst into outright war across the whole territory now? For the same reason the cost of living is going through the roof around the world. The stagnation of the capitalist system means its economic crisis is deepening (and this is not just due to the pandemic).
>For over 30 years Ukraine has seen a power struggle between the two main linguistic groupings via the 40 or so oligarchs who control most of the country’s declining wealth. And behind the struggling factions stand both Western and Russian imperialism. After the collapse of the USSR, NATO has expanded from 17 to 30 states and has already parked its tanks on Russia’s front door in the Baltic states. Since 2004 both NATO and the EU have been attempting to bring Ukraine into their sphere of influence. After the Maidan protests, supported by the West, overthrew the pro-Russian President in 2014, Putin acted. He helped Russian separatists in the Donbass and “re-took” the Crimea. His intention was to keep Ukraine weak but NATO arms supplies have given new force to its army. Hence the troop build-up which led to the current crisis.
>Western demands that Russia remove the troops were matched by Putin’s counter-demand that Ukraine stay out of NATO. The failure of either side to concede resulted in Putin’s decision to invade. The citizens of Ukraine are the “collateral damage” of a capitalist system in crisis. No side has any more room for concessions. We are on the cusp of a new phase in the crisis and in history. This is not a new “Cold War” but the precursor of something far more dangerous. Putin has already reminded the West that Russia is a nuclear power and snarled on the first day of the invasion that any Western attempt to intervene would have consequences “the like of which the world has never seen”.
>The crisis in Ukraine also underlines the consolidation of the imperialist line-ups which have been going on rapidly since 2020. In this crisis the US has been able to force Europe to (reluctantly) toe its line. The German announcement that Nord Stream 2 would not be licensed being one triumph for the US. On the other side China and Russia have signed trade agreements and Russia is China’s main fuel supplier. Significantly, Russia-China trade is now 89% in euros and not dollars, a blow to US leverage over them. This economic decoupling paves the way for more rivalry. In 2020 Russia and China engaged in joint military manoeuvres for the first time which took in much of the Eastern Pacific close to Japan. The stage is being set for a wider imperialist war which threatens the future of humanity even more sharply than climate change.
>How can workers stop the plunge into the abyss? Seemingly not by demonstrations alone, despite the bravery of many “No War” demonstrators in Russia. The 2003 demonstration against the war in Iraq was the biggest in UK history but it went ahead all the same. At least they show that millions did not accept the official lies. We have to have a movement which can move millions to take strike action to undermine state power. This will not come any time soon but the continuing capitalist crisis means more misery for workers everywhere. Fighting against this deterioration has to give birth to a movement which recognises that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds but in one which offers penury today and imperialist war tomorrow. Already workers around the world from Iran to the US are beginning to find their own way to struggle and independent forms of coordination. This is a start. What is needed though is an anti-capitalist political compass which unites and organises those workers who can see that capitalism is finished internationally. This will not come about quickly, and faces many obstacles, but the capitalist crisis that has now lasted decades has no solution. Only the working class world wide can pose an alternative society without states, nationalism, exploitation and war.No war but the class war! We have a world to win!http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-02-25/ukraine-neither-nato-nor-putin-no-war-but-the-class-warLol redditors are so fucking stupid
They are all calling Texas a white nationalist and maga
Guy constantly calls himself a communist.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/t3tuda/texan_fighting_alongside_the_russians_and_filming/>>543019Redditiods will call people fatphobic for questioning the health of a 500kg landwhale, but when someone disagrees with their retarded consensus they will resort to physical insults.
What an absolute bunch of subhuman drooling retards.
>>543054They think he's going to be hurt by his passport being taken away so he can't come back to America.
He already said he has no plans to leave his new home, kek. They literally don't understand the concept of emigrating to another country that isn't just being a sexpat in Asia.
>>543019HOHOHOHOHO
There is an article form 2018 about him too!
War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin<In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine—and a foot soldier in Russia’s information war.https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking/Selected snippet:
Bentley, like a growing number who harbor a skeptical view of America and the West, has found a savior of sorts in Putin. Though the global economy has partly recovered since the Great Recession, Putin has continued to appeal to globalization’s discontents on both the far right and far left in the U.S. and Europe, lending credence to the idea that politics isn’t a spectrum, it’s a circle: taken to their extremes, the left and right converge.
Bentley’s main critiques of American society, from flat wage growth to the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, largely mirror the party line for progressive American Democrats. But he goes far beyond that. Like the Austin-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Bentley believes that the world is run by a shadowy cabal of oligarchs who control everything from the Western media to the appointment of the next U.S. president.
>>543066GROWING NUMBER MY ASS
PEOPLE ARE MORE PRO NATO THAN EVER
>>543073Bluff until proven real. Official Ukranian sources have been making wild claims for years. At this point they might not have enough pilots, other than the few that escaped to Romania.
>>543051Good reminder that liberals are not any more amenable to socialism than right-liberals lol
>>543082Redditors parroting the well-documented glowie astroturf on the front page of their site makes it an awful source for anything related to Eastern Europe or the US's perceived enemies.
Here's a paper about Eglin Airforce base being used as part of a program testing the power of online astroturfing/propaganda
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf
<Reddit has removed their blog post identifying Eglin Air Force Base as the most reddit-addicted "city" - Eglin is often cited as the source of some government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programshttps://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html >>543113Hi /pol/
They do this to the russians too, while simultaneously talking about them like untermentschen
>>543099They'll go back to whining on reddit and saying "the correct opinion" for upvotes and clout based on an an already rigged algortihm as opposed to genuinely coming to their own opinions.
If there's one thing I know, for all their targeted harassment and bullying, the only meaningful impact they have are on corporations and consumer products- that is the pinnacle of their activism. They'll never actually go after meaningful political change and their online opinions have little to no influence on IRL politics.
They'll go after celebs, your average worker, maybe even a company, but they only change the aesthetics of the structure, not the actual structure itself.
>>543070what
have you heard of something called the fucking Cold War
>>543151i was not meant to have a life. i'm not sure why i'm still alive because i think i was meant to be sacrificed when i was young but my parents, who were satanists, decided not to kill me. anyway this past few months ive been spending most of my time rotting in my room wishing for death
>>543152hi
>>543147Yes, which is different to what you said.
Ones like bad_cop_no_donut (unless it changed in the past 5 years) are actually a gateway into political stuff, exposing sheltered kids into a piece of the wider world. I see some small value in that.
Many of the others, yeah, I agree. Cringebait crap.
Unfortunately, I think that's what almost the entire ring of big anti-capitalist subreddits are, just twitter screencaps, and the same ones in each sub. /r/latestagecapitalism, /r/antiwork, /r/eattherich, /r/aboringdystopia, all just blending into the exact same thing.
>>543161>nice to see you're still here,thank you, im glad you didn't get sick of me. i know a lot of people are sick of me but i dont really have anything else to do but scroll leftypol most days
>have things become any better in your life?no
>>543158would it really be worth it to claim that texan communism was actually associated with confederate bolshevist national liberation movements and that russell bentley is my hero? and thank you for saying my book is worth reading
>>543170I like your post here and appreciate them. You have a unique way at looking at things
Keep posting
>>543164Hell yeah, I certainly wouldn't if they were.
>>543168ideology moment
>>543170>thank you, im glad you didn't get sick of me. i know a lot of people are sick of me but i dont really have anything else to do but scroll leftypol most daysShay is a very good and welcome presence on this board. I for one am glad you're here.
>>542697I mean did you expect anything more from extremely online fuckwits?
At least, thank god, not all MLs are like this.
>Indeed, the history of the Crimean Tatar national elites provides ample proof for Leon Trotsky’s assessment, elaborated in the theory of permanent revolution, that the national bourgeoisies of backward countries, including the many different national elites of the peoples of Tsarist Russia, were incapable of playing a historically progressive role. Their efforts to carve out an ethnic Crimean Tatar mini-state on the peninsula always relied first, on the support of the imperialist powers and, second, the promotion of extreme nationalism and religious obscurantismhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/07/19/tat2-j19.html>Ever since then, bourgeois nationalism in Ukraine has been characterised by virulent anti-communism, pogroms against revolutionary workers and Jews, and attempts to win the support of imperialist powers.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/06/09/fasc-j09.htmlWhere do I find more on this view of the comprador nature of the national bourgeoisie? And I guess in contrast, the progressive national bourgeoisie that has an antagonism with imperialism
Stopping movement by obscuring vision: While the outside of an MRAP varies greatly from a normal car, sitting in the driver’s seat is fairly similar to driving a U-Haul truck. The driver looks over the steering wheel and through the windshield to the street. If the driver cannot see past the windshield, the vehicle ceases to move because it either crashes or the driver stops it. Any sticky liquid substance that can be pumped into water balloons or packed into a glass container will stop an MRAP. If the balloon bursts or the glass container breaks open on the windows, the driver is forced to stop and the occupants are forced to exit the vehicle to clean off the windshield. The effect is enhanced if three different types of substances are mixed: a sticky liquid to obscure vision and defeat the windshield wipers and sprayers, a thin liquid to increase the splatter from the impact, and a granular substance to further obscure vision. Examples: Combination one: Syrup, milk, and sugar (Warning: Container not to be left around diabetics, small children, or people who bake) Combination two: Heavy weight motor oil, lighter fluid, and aluminum or magnesium flakes (Warning: Extremely flammable) Combination three: Elmer’s glue and glitter (Warning: Possibly too fabulous for many people) The person that is in fear for their life from the threat of the armored vehicle is only limited by their imagination in this case. Latex paint and honey have also been used as base liquids in the past with success. While these may seem silly or too simple to work, I challenge anyone to try it on their own vehicle. The glitter isn’t a joke either; it reflects light which further obscures vision. Historical note: The first armored troop transports that were deployed in large numbers were open on the top. When German troops deployed the “halftrack” in urban areas, resistance fighters would drop Molotov cocktails or hot tar from rooftops. While modern armored vehicles are closed on top, an elevated position can still be used to deliver vision obscuring material. Stopping movement by stopping the engine: Most modern armored vehicles have air intakes for the engine that are armored and have multiple grates to protect the engine from rifle fire. This presents another unique method of stopping the vehicle: clogging the air intake. The safest method is using spray foam insulation which can be sprayed at the vehicle from a relatively safe distance. Without air, the engine will either cease to run or will overheat. Some have suggested simply clogging the exhaust. However, the location of the exhaust makes anyone willing to stick a banana in the tail pipe of an MRAP much braver than I am because they are exposed to the gun ports, and are literally inches from the back door. Stopping movement by pit or tip: Both of these methods require prior planning and a rudimentary understanding of funneling tactics (the process of sending your opposition down the route that you want them to go). “Tank pits” are highly-effective against all forms of armored vehicles. It is exactly what it sounds like: a pit dug in the intended path of the vehicle that is deep enough to put the vehicle at an angle that it can’t maneuver out of. The pit is covered by plywood and camouflaged to match the surrounding area. A pit for an MRAP would need to be about four feet deep, about six feet long, and as wide as it can be made across the intended path. “Tipping” an armored vehicle uses the same principle of placing it in a situation that it can’t drive away from, but instead of using a prepared trap it utilizes the existing landscape. It’s a little bit of a misnomer because it doesn’t actually require the vehicle to tip over. Examples would be roads that have extremely weak bridges. A typical MRAP weighs in at about 36,000lbs with occupants. Removal of warning signs about the load capacity of the bridge can aid in this tactic. Other options are forcing the vehicle down a route that ends in an area too narrow to turn around. Alternatively, in urban areas, Egyptian dissidents lead armored cars down alleys and then ducked through side alleyways too small for the vehicle to move through. While the occupants were wondering whether or not to pursue on foot, a stolen bulldozer was placed at the entrance to the alley. Stolen bulldozers have also been used to flip armored vehicles down hills after impacting them from the side. Using Flame: The ubiquitous Molotov cocktail has two purposes when dealing with armored vehicles. The first is to obscure vision. Fire is very hard to see through. A true Molotov cocktail will burn for some time; and, if the flame is just below the windows, the driver will be unable to see and likely panic because well… fire is scary. The second purpose is to force the occupants out of the vehicle. Contrary to popular belief and what is often portrayed in movies, the best location for the flame is on the wheel wells and running boards of the vehicle, not the roof. Heat rises. A Molotov cocktail that is burning on the roof of an armored vehicle may not even be noticed by the occupants. However, one that is heating up the metal around them and the floor underneath them will be noticed very quickly and will cause them to exit the vehicle. Molotov cocktails also tend to interfere with the advanced optics on tanks. “Heat seeking” optics don’t react well to a flame burning in front of the sensor.
>>543200>Is putin progressive national bourgeoisie?Those can only exist in a feudal or colonial context. Russia is neither.
>Or is it inter imperialist conflict?Yes.
>Or is it contradiction of liberalism and autocracy? Liberalism and autocracy? No contradiction!
>>543200I would say definitely a national bourgeoisie, out to not get fucking balkanized. I expect conflict with domestic bourgeoisie faction next.
I'm actually not sure what's in store for Russia next besides Peronism.
>>543202lol, didn't notice the david star, sorry, not meant to be a anti-semitic post.
>>543205Yeah, this video is fresh:
>>543180 >>543215mmk but you can't take a video
>>543216its kino
>>542973– They shelled a school and killed (
https://t.me/gramotyyaroslava/634) two teachers in Horlivka
– They tried to drown (
https://t.me/epoddubny/8097) a civilian cargo ship
– Mined (
https://t.me/readovkanews/26595) beaches in Odessa without warning civilians
– They shot their own people in the back (
https://t.me/marochkolive/21916) while trying to surrender
– In a panic, they crushed (
https://t.me/dvachannel/87053) a car with a pensioner and tried to blame the Russians
– Killed (
https://t.me/swodki/23823) a child in the Belgorod region
– Accidentally slammed (
https://t.me/RVvoenkor/1665) an air defense missile into a residential building in Kyiv and tried to blame the Russians
- They got smarter to place artillery in residential areas (
https://t.me/vladlentatarsky/11169) to hide behind (
https://t.me/readovkanews/26703) from retaliation by their own citizens
– Made a lot of the most ridiculous (
https://t.me/madam_secretar/6991) fakes (
https://t.me/grey_zone/12642)
– They blew up (
https://t.me/mig41/13257) an unfinished copy of a unique aircraft
– Several tens of thousands of machine guns were handed out to random civilians and criminals (
https://t.me/readovkanews/26714), after which shootings immediately began in Kyiv (
https://t.me/DailyWar/7976) between Ukrainians and Ukrainians and robberies
(
https://t.me/czartv/2237) – Massively and tastefully began to kill (
https://t.me/OpenUkraine/6697) and maim (
https://t.me/DmitriySteshin/4042) each other in the process of paranoid search for "paratroopers" and "saboteurs"
>>543222The West has been transparent that it wants Russia and China to go the way of Yugoslavia. That's a hard
pass from most national bourgeoisie.
>>543222>Why would the bourgeoisie of a modern, developed country oppose integration into the imperialist world system? It makes them rich.Because imperialism makes their nation a dependent nation in orbit of the core. National bourgeoisie fights the exploitation of the whole of the nation.
Is that not why we support anti imperialism in Latin America? We tell them, liberate nation. Then organize as international worker.
>>543255Use VPN
Set it to Czech Republic
Spam their news sites with Pro-Russian shit
>>543254The phrase "Slava Ukraini!" (Glory to Ukraine!) first appeared in different military formations during the Ukrainian War of Independence (from 1917 to 1921).[10] It became part of the lexicon of Ukrainian nationalists in the 1920s.[10][nb 1]
The modern response "Heroiam slava!" (Glory to the heroes!) appeared in the 1930s among members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) who started using this slogan[10] to commemorate veterans of the 1918 to 1921 Ukrainian-Soviet War, including leader of the OUN Yevhen Konovalets. The greeting "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" became an official slogan of Stepan Bandera's Nazi-allied OUN-B in April 1941.[11][10] During World War II, Ukrainian nationalists often used it in addition to a roman salute.[12] "Glory to the heroes!" was also used by the Kuban Cossacks during the same period.[13]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s the slogan began to be heard at rallies and demonstrations.[10] After Ukraine declared independence in 1991, the phrase "Glory to Ukraine" became a common patriotic slogan. In 1995, President of the United States Bill Clinton used the phrase in his speech in Kyiv (together with "God bless America").[2]
Looks like second part is
>>543224>Only if the country resists becoming a comprador regimeYes, and once it does that and develops the need to seek profits beyond its borders, it develops rival imperialist tendencies. If Russia had a progressive national bourgeoisie that prevented it from becoming a colony of the West, then this task was already accomplished in the 2000s. Since then they have begun to invest abroad, especially in Central Asia, and develop imperialist interests and tendencies. They are now in a position where they have the means and motive to establish a hegemonic sphere and seek profits within it. Ie, the "progressive national bourgeoisie" has followed the natural path of evolution into a rival imperialist bloc.
This is the real crux of Lenin's theory of imperialism that everybody seems to miss. All bourgeois states develop imperialistic tendencies, and if capable will act on them. These have begun to appear in Russia, and are running up against the new geopolitical reality ushered in by the collapse of the USSR (US/EU domination of Eastern Europe). As I said, none of this is mutually exclusive with the pursuit of very real security interests in Ukraine, on the contrary they complement one another quite well. It just so happens that this site of inter-imperial competition is also of vital security interests to Russia, hence them taking such a dangerous gamble by invading. But make no mistake, just because this conflict is taking place in a region imperative to Russia's security doesn't mean that it isn't also a struggle to redivide the world.
>>543250Hope they squash all the Banderite bugs.
>>543187>the comprador nature of the national bourgeoisie??? These are two opposed terms.
National bourgeoisie will be against foreign bourgeoisie, obviously, it's their competitor, and will use the state to protect itself.
While compradors precisely work for foreign bourgeoisie in countries where national bourgeoisie is lacking.
>>543280this announcement seems to come after the reports of the countries denying this, so who the fuck knows at this point.
ukrops are probably lying, they seem to have a pattern (zelensky too) of putting ideas out into the mediasphere that aren't true and hoping that the powers that be will make them come true. probably a case of that
>>543250>are they imperialists.Yes.
>Are they oligarchs?Yes
>Are they seeking to expand their hegemony Yes.
>And removing fascist shit makes them based?Well it certainly doesn't make them cringe.
what a roller coaster of emotion, lads >>543267This
>>543280 I clearly remembered they will not send shit, even the autistic retard polands had to do u-turn.
>US President Biden says Americans shouldn't worry about nuclear war>>543312See? win-win de-nazification.
>>543314It's like Russians haven't mastered piracy.
http://www.monkrus.ws/ this guy for example will update immediately mane western products in design and graphical CAD/vector programs.
>>543320This is a term very peddled by king skitzo about Russia.
Guess now they are not a comprador bourgeoisie, so I will wait for him to praise based Russia anti-imperialist.
>>543326
>mfw >>543339>>543338Yea but the south and east formed Soviet republics
Would they be part of Ukraine without the ussr in 1922? Or would it be part of a Russian republic that was never overthrown
>>543344someone should start a viral campaign to post online message of public support for Russia's actions (regardless of your actual opinion on those actions), to stand up for Free Speech and against authoritarianism.
We are all Russia Supporters, now
>>543344FFS, central European post-soc countries are on another level.
In the Balkans propaganda against Russia is as mad as elsewhere, but people are not censored when expressing support of Russia. And quite a few people do that online, although they're a loud minority.
>>543354 (me)
ignore the flag, forgot to remove it
>>543352The West doesn't care about what reasons are used to hate Russia.
>>543353And this will not happen. Cap this.
If the Ukrainians manage to retreat in an organized manner to the Dnieper and Kamensky, avoiding defeat, they can gain a foothold there and create an insurmountable defensive knot, it will not be possible to bypass this city like Kharkov or Kherson, Russia will have to force not just the Dnieper, but the Kamenskoye or Zaporizhzhya reservoirs, which is very hard. The defenders will have to protect their rear, because the invasion forces have already crossed the Dnieper in the Kherson region, but in this case the task is to disrupt the blitzkrieg but to halt it. The transition to a protracted war for the Russian Federation is death. Not because the Ukrainians will arrange a Stalingrad for Putin's invaders, but because any protracted war requires the concentration of effort on the part of the entire country and society, and the population of the Russian Federation, does not want to bear the bloody costs of a proper war.
The situation for the invaders is extremely dangerous, they run the risk of simply dissolving in space, which, if they are unable to control the occupied, or rather, simply traversed, territory, can end as badly as the first British invasion of Afghanistan, when they easily entered there without meeting resistance, but were slaughtered by the rebels, while being completely isolated in hostile territory. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian forces are not yet able to offer this kind of resistance with death by a thousand cuts and therefore the Russians continue to get bogged down in the Ukrainian swamp. The Ukrainians ought to break up in small guerrilla units and attack and harass these large columns of Russian forces slowly bleeding them.
As long as they can keep up the pace, there is a chance to complete the blitzkrieg victoriously and force Kyiv to unconditional surrender on the Kremlin's terms. 200,000 (as many were involved in the reconquest of Chechnya with a population 30 times smaller than Ukraine) are clearly not enough to hold the front and control the occupied territories and they invaded with even less than that, apparently
>>543373Holy fuck this war…
Was he right about everything? Because at this point i'm not even sure there's a war going on
>>543382As based as Baudrillard can occasionally be, this is a different situation.
I recommend picking up his last texts, like the Agony of Power and The Intelligence of Evil, where he talks about Western hegemony and moralism, and how all this will fall on its face eventually.
>>543386It's pretty obvious that the only chance Ukraine had was righting off everything East of Dnieper, moving command to Lviv and turning all five cities on it into frontline cities. And you fucking hold.
This is precisely why Belarus was involved and Odessa got vibe checked - to bypass this Hoholnot Line bullshit.
uh, Hillary is out warmongering again.
>"Remember, the Russians invaded Afghanistan back in 1980," Hillary Clinton says. "It didn't end well for the Russians…but the fact is, that a very motivated, and then funded, and armed insurgency basically drove the Russians out of Afghanistan.">"Tnere were other unintended consequences as we know, but…."https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1498490752065757184same thing always comes from hillary's warmonging: millions of dead and displaced, a bunch of blowback and other wars down the road, and usually some kind of rise in right wing reaction in the west.
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