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Russian SSO special forces took some losses. Location unknown.

>>544730
>this is a no fly zone over american airspace, not ukranian airspace, can any air travel bros tell me what the impact of this is actually going to be
Yeah I know it's just Europe and Canada already did this like 4-5 days ago while America waited until today.

>>544732
When Canada did it Russia just flew planes over anyways.

>>544730
Everybody already announced this days ago. this is meaningless.

>>544730
de-facto sanctioning of russian air travel
but really
>>544732
>>544734

>>544733
because no one cares about canada

>>544726
first in 1918, then in 1941-44 and finally from 1991-present

I follow a random Ukrainian from years ago on Instagram.
I wanted to share what he is saying but I don't want to dox myself so I'll summarize here the machine translation. I'm basically his only western follower lol.

He's calling Russians enemies.
He's saying that they are destroying cities and killing people indiscriminately.
He mentions the Chechen war, and how people had their heads on sticks.

He says that for Russian invaders everyone is an enemy, regardless of language, "pizdit nashij halasuet" (my transliteration). No idea what he's referring to.

Then the middle part is illegible due to translation error.

Then he says that Ukrainians need to be prepared to die. He claims Russia dropped 2 vacuum bombs and might drop more. (Maybe this is the MOABs we saw earlier, what is a vacuum bomb?) He says that everyone who pretended nothing was happening is complicit and should consider being on the front lines.

He says he can't get in touch with Kharkiv family. Hopes everyone survives.

And he says that Russia might destroy them but they will be undefeated because its their [Ukrainian's] land.


I know this looks like a glow post but it's 100% real. I don't know where he lives to be honest.

So my take away is that people are very scared. Lots of disinformation going around. This particular person doesn't seem to want to surrender, which makes me think he hasn't seen any battles. Communication is patchy (or maybe his family members died, idk).

I think he's gay fwiw. A very urban fellow too.

As an outsider, I get why he has this brave shit of "we're going to be undefeated", but my cry if I were him would be "why the fuck are we arming citizens, we need to surrender immediately, this fucking government will get us all killed, what the fuck is wrong with Zelensky".

Lib shit. Idk. Thought maybe someone would find it interesting.

>>544676
if i pretend to be trolled will you go away

Mods seem to have decycled this thread. Someone make a new one!

>>544738
yeah it's strategically a lost war, it's kinda crazy how folks on the ground are buying the idea of fighting to the death as if russia was trying to annex ukraine in its entirety (and even then)

>>544726
Europe ends in lwow

>>544740
based mods

>>544666
check

One more last round (the tipping)
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>Removal of the Ukrainian flag at the checkpoint on Volnovakha

>In the video, the DPR army removes the Ukrainian flag at the checkpoint on Volnovakha (Donetsk region): a cleansing operation is already underway in the city.
Take screen captures because is a .MOV file, and our chan is potato with file diversities. still love it
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> 🇬🇧 Major and General 🌍:
>The bar association from Grozny sends warm greetings to Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko, who promised four days ago "to show a video of Kadyrovites on their knees very soon," but has still not fulfilled his promise. Dear Oleksiy! You are being brought a pre-trial claim under a personal signature (pic related, Chechens in Verkhovna.

So this is what news during Yugoslavian War felt like, when Serbians were made the villains while Ustashe Croatians, ethnic cleansing of Serbians from Kajina and organ trafficking of Kosovo terrorist groups was shoved under the rug?

next thread?

>>544564
Germany was disinterested in colonies
>>544591
>Inter imperialist wars happen wherever the ambitions of imperialist powers clash. It's not accurate to suggest that Russia has no ability to engage in imperialism, as if the presence of NATO or Western domination prevent Russian capital from being invested abroad. Russia does make such investments, and Russia does act to protect those investments. This is the essence of imperialism.

My understanding is imperialism is a world system defined by the advanced countries entering crisis and exploiting, thus perpetuating, the uneven development of capitalism to restore the rate of profit. As their financial monopolies control markets and create dependents, the blocs suggested fight each other.

Russia doesn't fit in this scenario at all. Bolsheviks literally had to carry out the democratic revolution that unleashes capitalist development in the first place. Russia is on the wrong side of uneven development. Like eastern and southern Europe, the Middle East and east asia minus Japan, or Africa and Latin america, it is an exploited nation. We literally call it a gas station! What place on the value chain does that suggest?

>>544746 (me)

Translate mistake* not -in Verkhovna, closing in* to Verkhovna



By the way, how's v4ush coping the war?

>>544747
>So this is what news during Yugoslavian War felt like, when Serbians were made the villains while Ustashe Croatians, ethnic cleansing of Serbians from Kajina and organ trafficking of Kosovo terrorist groups was shoved under the rug?
You have to go back.

>>544738
It's sad that many of them are so radicalized, I can't blame them for feeling that way but it will get them killed. 'Vacuum bomb' is a thermobaric missile, it is really brutal, fills your lungs with lava, US has used them before iirc

The reddit army has arrived BITCHES!

What would child of a Moskal and Hohol be called?
1. Moshol
2. Hokal

>>544751
>You have to go back.
Why and where?

>>544753
>mil.gov.ua
heh

The virgin russian MBT vs the chad Ukrainian molotov thrower

Biden is doing the SOTU (State Of The Ukraine) if anyone is interested

>>544758
no posadas today sadly

UNCUCK ME

>>544754

Moloko

Russia lost

putin btfo biden is gonna inject some FREEDOM into ukraine

Kherson allegedly taken over
https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1498843111228940291/photo/1

>>544761
Open the mouth.

>>544749
>Russia doesn't fit in this scenario at all.
They export capital and thus extract wealth from the countries in which they invest. They use military force and other methods to protect these investments. This is imperialism. Uneven development and such are features which are common to imperialism, but are not the thing itself.

>>544765
lmao ukrops having a hitler learns moment over there

>>544738
Nationalism can be a hell of a drug.

It will be interesting how this all plays out. Will the average Ukrainian realize that their government sold them out and sentenced them to death and war?

>>544767
Is Vatican imperialist?

Make a new thread NOW

>>544767
But all capitalist countries have some form of capital export and value extraction through unequal exchange.

Imperialism as something driven by the crisis in rate of profit and the quest to restore it, that only applies to a few countries who can achieve that extent of bourgeois development. That, in turn, means it's something found on the right side of uneven development. Thus core, periphery, subaltern. We don't see imperialism outside of the first division.

The antagonisms Russia is involved in are not imperialist in nature. They are national antagonisms, they precede fighting over divisions of the capitalist world system of the advanced countries. They are instead fruit of the national question, which goes *unanswered* outside the core. Again, Bolshevism is defined by trying to catch up and deal with this!

блицпиздец

>>544738
>what is a vacuum bomb?
Thermobaric bomb. They've been spotted on Russian vehicles in Ukraine.

>>544767
>They use military force and other methods to protect these investments. This is imperialism.

u takin the piss m8?

make a new goddamn thread

>>544775
It seems like a very reduced theory of imperialism

I think it's an attempt to update it to the era of globalization, but kinda hollows it out to mean just how capitalist states have conflicting interests that nationality is used to rationalize

>>544771
Do it yourself fag.

new thread
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