>>549382>>549384This thing is a beast. What it does is shoot out huge cables of detenation cord that lays out on the ground for a long distance out of that huge cannon on the back.
It blows the cable and creates a safe passage forward. Its pretty slick. Never actually seen one in the field before. Looks brand new.
I saw a "study" that was cited in media: Russia spends 20 billion EUR a day on this invasion.
The original source is this:
https://en.calameo.com/read/005151365f835f7261566The Center for Economic Recovery, sponsored by "Civitta" and "EasyBusiness". Who are they? They say they are Ukrainian citizens "deciding to unite [their] analytical skills to stop the war started by Russia". Then they admit that they work to provide the Ukrainian government with "cutting-edge policy advise" while also trying to influential the "international community".
Now on page 10, you see their study. Picture attached. Yes, this is the entire study that is being cited in mass media.
First off - what are the average costs of these weapons? How can you even say what a fighter jet is worth? It's like saying "a car is worth X amounts of euros", completely ignoring that different types of cars exist, not to mention that they presumably use US-contractor rates and not Russian arms industry prices.
Then: How do they know how many military vehicles Russia actually uses here?
Furthermore: How do they know how many vehicles were destroyed? I doubt even the Ukrainian military knows the true number.
All these think tanks just exist to manufacture consent, their "studies" are not worth the paper they are printed on.
>>549415they scuttled it in harbour it's not really a big deal whoever retains control of odessa can pull it up if they wish.
it does show that they're anticipating russia to capture odessa though
>>818106the only country under similar amount of sanctions as Russia right now is Iran, and while the people are suffering I don't see any regime change yet.
Meanwhile Russia has infinitely more leverage. Can any economist weigh in on this? I listened to Ezra Klein and Adam Tooze podcast today about the situation and they were definitely giving credence to the idea that this could be the beginning of multi-polarity etc etc despite being libs.
>>549418also the entire middle east that is almost completely dependent on Russian (and Ukrainian) wheat exports
>>549391Of course they will
Nexta which was crucial in the august 2020 overthrow of Belarus was based out of Poland (probably run by cia)
>>549464Race mixed women are hot as fuck
Race mixed men always look autistic (and I'm saying this as a race mixed man so don't lose your britches, jannies)
>>549456>Nations are a material realitySpook. Many of these "nations" were entirely artificial (Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) or had only existed as independent bourgeois (puppet) states prior
>TrotskyiteIt is Luxemburgist and shared with Bolsheviks like Dzerzhinsky actually
>They doI can make up any concept and pretend it matters. The same logic can be used to uphold the "importance" of race
>SyriaI couldn't care less that Syria had it's "sovereignty" trampled upon, that's not the reason for opposing western interventionism
What matters is the class struggle, and what benefits the international socialist movement. Even if that means trampling on the "sovereignty" of states, be it feudal central asia khanates and emirates, the second polish republic, or modern Ukraine
>Give up their languageI don't care either, let people speak whatever they want. It's fascists in Ukraine throwing a fit over people speaking Russian in public, not socialists (where did I even mention forcing people to give up their language?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X14cRHLb-bUEnglish language stream
ITS HAPPENING REACTOR BUILDING ON FIRE. Looks like we're getting Stalker 2 after all
>>549495What happens when you shoot a nuclear plant?
Asking for a friend.
>>549495C'mon that's a nothingburger. The dangers of core meltdowns are really overrated.
Gamma rays are photons. You do literally the same thing when you use a flashlight.
>>549506Amazing image
>>549505Stalker 2 IRL
>>549515STALIN
STALIN WAS RIGHT
WHY WAS STALIN RIGHT
1976 worst year of life
1989 worst year of life
1991 worst year of life
1996 worst year of life
1997 worst year of life
2000 wors year of life -
>>549521 (me)
Apparently the fire comes from the administrative offices.
WEW >>549543>It's the propaganda piece du jour, le evil Russians shelling a nuclear power plantAlready happening:
>>549547"Russia attacks the biggest nuclear plant in Europe".
>>549439>"It combines identity politics with egoism. Everything that happens is viewed through the prism of what it means for westerners — only white men have the power to make history"<The tankies tend to be correctly critical and probing about U.S. empire but don’t apply these critical faculties to Russia. They become gullible and naïve when dealing with Russian officials and their narrative. It would be tempting simply to ignore the tankies, but we must repudiate them. If we don’t, they will continue to give the left a bad name, especially among people fighting repressive regimes, who often assume tankies speak for the rest of us and thus feel betrayed by Western leftists.Show me the lie.
>inb4 there's cringe stuff in the rest of the articleI know, doesn't make the true bits any less true.
>>549554 You know they deserve to go to a gulag, but not the one that Stalin dreamed off, but the one they deserve (pic rel)
>>549557 Indeed, built (pic rel)
>>549530YARR HARR,
FIGGELDY DEE,
THE BEST SHIT IN LIFE IS THE STUFF THAT IS FREE,
NO DOLLARS, NO EUROS, DONT GIVE THEM MONEY
YOU ARE A PIRATE
YAR HAR,
FIGGELDY DENT,
DON'T GIVE THESE FUCKERS A DOLLAR OR CENT,
YOU NEED ALL THE MONEY YOU CAN FOR YOUR RENT,
YOU ARE A PIRATE
>>549548For their sake, I hope they're volunteering with the Anarchists.
If not, may god have mercy on their soul.
>>549560To be extreme is to advocate for change. To advocate for change means seeking power to enact that change, and wreak destruction with it.
Those who do not seek power, do not seek change. Those who do not call for destruction, are not extremists, they are useless LARPers.
>>549530THe fuckers ran with the cyberpunk money after delivering a barely functional
alpha at best cobbled together with the scraps they had from their catastrophic development. THe studio is hollowed out of talent. They are irrelevant and they will fully die when their next game is the analogous to FO76.
>>549584 (noi)
>>549582Oh you beat me by some minutes, anon.
>>549599>>549594You WILL beat the shit out of me
You WILL insult me and call me a reactionary
You WILL force me to undergo brainwashing
You WILL force me to undress and then rape me while choking me
I WILL lose teeth
AND I WILL LIKE IT!!!!
>>549596true, but right wingers have had the habbit of projecting their hopes on other nations to have them "return to tradition". The thing is, they think that these "based nationalists" will extend them the same courtesy because they supposedly have the same line of conservative values. They completely forget that regardless of race, so long as the nation has a capitalist MOP with a state, you'll either have these entities act in the interest of the bourgoise class or the statist machine in order to preserve themselves, mostly at the expense of these so called "western values".
>>549610>implying installing internationalist globohomo to make rightoids seethe wouldn't be slightly based. For gods sake anon, it's a joke don't get your panties in a twist.
A WH official says the President and President Zelensky spoke about the fire at the Zaporizhzhia NPP on the phone call they just wrapped up.
CBS, 3 MINS AGO
>https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1499560806928855067?s=20&t=sbz5eXsBzH94n8n75CVgkg>>549645I've been largely ignoring the conversation about insisting that Russia is not imperialist. Did I miss anything good?
Remember, we do not have a social credit system, and this isn't a fucking pageant. Your support or condemnation of Russia or NATO are irrelevant, making rationalizations clown behaviour.
>>549645>>549651I'm not making a statement on whether or not Russia is an imperialist country: merely whether this special operation in Ukraine is imperialist.
The Moscow Index has been plummeting even since before the invasion: in an imperialist endeavor finances would not receive this negative blowback. The financial sector is improved by imperialist invasions by definition of them being imperialist.
>>549670National security concerns of the national bourgeoisie are part of the nation-state, the only form of organization bourgeoisie are capable of.
While capital itself is global and seeks to bypass national borders. Which runs in opposition to national concerns.
It sounds like an inherent contradiction, baked into the crust of capitalism. Have you heard about this?
>>549651>>549680NEW ANALYSIS FROM MIKE "BIG MAC" MACNAIR OFFICIALLY CONFIRMS THAT RUSSIA IS NOT IMPERIALISThttps://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1385/neither-1914-nor-1940/
<We do, nonetheless, need a theory of capitalist imperialism, as opposed to the empires of antiquity (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Roman, Chinese …) and to both the ‘imperialism’ and the expansionism of the Middle Ages. Essentially, the point is that capitalist imperialism produces the economic subordination of the colonised economy to the metropolitan economy. The colonised economy becomes - as I have already indicated - dominated by low-value-added activities, especially agricultural and extractive. The imperial economy shifts towards high-value-added activities.
<It is to secure this international division of labour that the colonised economy is held also in military subordination - whether by direct colonialism or by dependence on supplies of arms and military matériel from the imperial country, which can be cut off at will…
<Is Russia today engaged in capitalist imperialism? The answer is contradictory. In the first place, the answer is a plain no. Callinicos wants to call only the ‘top six’ countries imperialist; it is then wholly artificial for him to include Russia among them. More fundamentally, the Russian economy is primarily agricultural and extractive, with significant secondary line in arms exports; and there is not - yet - a fully-autonomous banking sector. On the contrary, Russian ‘foreign direct investments’ consist of individual oligarchs pulling cash out of the Russian domestic economy and putting it into prestige objects like Chelsea FC or real estate. It is not investment of capital: that is, money put to work as investments, which return a profit through the application of capital and labour in combination. If the US wins this proxy war, Russia will more or less rapidly become a semi-colony.
<Today, again, the left has small and divided forces. But we can raise our voices against our own state’s wars: and by doing so take a stand which in the long term can rally forces for unequivocal opposition to the warmongering imperialist regime under which we live. >>549685>contradicts the established definition of imperialismIf you read the article, you'll see that both the established definition by Lenin and Macnair's own world systems analysis don't view Russia today as an imperialist power
>satiate his bloodlust for innocent ukrainiansHe is not calling for a Russian victory, he is calling for revolutionary defeatism (again, Leninist credentials). Even if Russia is not an imperialist power, Russians should still oppose the war drive of their own government.
>>818427 see >>549521 >>549524>>549572Oh, I struck a sensitive nerve. What's the matter, too pure white race for a black guy? or sympathize too much with nazi azovites so they can't racemix?
MEANWHILE:
A huge bunch of ukrainian POWs.
>>549697This whole thing has been a rollercoaster of info. One minute it's "OH FUCK" and the next it's "oh ok"
I just want this to be over with as few casualties as possible. I know many here want a "Happening" but I like being alive and also hate seeing destruction like this.
>>549695keeek mfw
>>549698lol, of course not. See picrels how they actually treat their "military lead intervention". + One is a britbong, so you can grasp is a doctrine to humiliate the defeated, it is something very rooted in the west. Spaniards did the same over the natives, the iberian jews, and the iberian muslims 500 years ago.
>>549702>can't read the handler >The US Treasury Department has sanctioned multiple Russian news outlets for "propagating Russian intelligence services-directed content"Targets:
-"GRU-Directed InfoRos"
-"FSB-Directed NewsFront"
-"FSB-Directed SouthFront"
-several "SVR-Directed" outlets
https://t.co/fjT0x1Jle8 Lindsey graham just posted this. An American senator
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1499574209567199235?s=20&t=ZWwPwbAyF7FeA2JsNXBwNQ
>Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
You would be doing your country - and the world - a great service.
The only people who can fix this are the Russian people.
Easy to say, hard to do.
Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate.
U.S SECRETARY OF ENERGY
I just spoke with Ukraine’s energy minister about the situation at the Zaphorizhizia nuclear plant. Russian military operations near the plant are reckless and must cease. 1/
@ENERGY
has activated its Nuclear Incident Response Team and is monitoring events in consultation with
@DeptofDefense
,
@NRCgov
and the White House. We have seen no elevated radiation readings near the facility. 2/
The plant’s reactors are protected by robust containment structures and reactors are being safely shut down. 3/3
https://twitter.com/SecGranholm/status/1499577621163626496?s=20&t=zgUJ5M7hN1KpuqjNlWyQrA>>549737Big deal if nuclear plant gets yeeted. This war will affect burgerstanis even less than Afghanistan did–and that only affected soldiers + their families.
This war affects no one here
>>549755Yes, for the average normies it's easier to think that everything is because
PUTIN IS SHO CRAZY DUDE! than go into complex geopolitics.
>>549760Get banned for shitposting.
I will confess a cynical thought: Every time some entity stops selling advertising in Russia, I wonder: Why not continue selling advertising, but not actually put it up?
Yes, it's stealing, but no first world court will convict you and you can pocket a bit of cash.
More socially, if Google really wanted the war to end, why not replace every ad in Russia with one imploring people to protest the war or something, rather than blessing them with the adblock experience for free?
in both cases, but particularly the latter, it's quite obvious it's because Google probably fears the precedent of being banned by a large country. But then with that in mind, it becomes clear they're just acting self-interestedly. One suspects the main reasons they've stopped selling advertising are domestic US politics and because financial sanctions have left them with a risk of getting a bunch of accounts receivable they can't actually receive.
>>549777If this happened and the perpetrator is found to be in contact with the west is a justified casus belli and nuclear war would follow.
This should stop with this shit.
Good Citations Needed episode about The Economist:
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-98-the-refined-sociopathy-of-the-economist
<From its inception as agriculture trade paper in 1843 to the present day, The Economist has provided a gateway into the mind of the banking class. Something of an anomaly in the publishing industry, The Economist is not quite a magazine, not quite a newspaper; aspirational in its branding but bleakly limited in political ambitions; brazenly transparent in its capitalist ideology, yet inscrutable in its favorably spinning for American and British imperialism and racism.
<It is publication owned by the wealthy for the wealthy and advertises itself as such. Its only moral pretense: a long history of championing what it calls “liberalism, ”a notoriously slippery term that, in The Economist’s world, views freedom to profit and exploit labor as interchangeable with the freedom of religion, press and speech.
<As such, examining The Economist’s history, its connection to British and American banking interests and intelligence services, can tell us a great deal about the narrow focus of Western, and specifically British notions of “liberalism.” The promotion of capital flows over justice, enlightened imperialism over self-determination, abhors overt racism while promoting more subtle forms of race science and colonialism, all along easing the conscience of wealthy white readers that want to feign concern about human suffering but who have everything to gain by doing absolutely nothing about it.
<On this episode, we are joined by Alexander Zevin, author of Liberalism at Large: The World According to The Economist.>>549554>>549548I hope all these people fucking die horribly tbh
I try and let go of these thoughts of wishing harm on other, but liberals and nazis make my blood boil equally.
>>549839>>549840Almost the entirety of leftypol's activity is concentrated on these threads, a new board would make the different discussions going on easier to follow instead of this fbi.gov-like thing we got going.
At least do not make these threads cyclical, jfc.
>>5498362ch is like the primary language chan for Russians
/leftypol/ is a splinter/survivor of 8chan
>>549841for the record i'm against having them cyclical
(unless the /leftypol/ archive prunes threads, which would be a ludicrous oversight.)
but equally: in fairness, nothing particularly novel is happening in the war at the moment (nuclear plant only counts if it actually starts spewing radiation tbh), so we're hardly going to lament not having this particular moment in time archived either. well, unless the board pivots to uncritical support for Ukraine if Russia loses (or wins, you never can be sure with the dynamic of contrarianism these days.) and wants to deny it was previously pro-Russia, I suppose. But already-archived threads evidence that.
>>549833>Because this is important? The war is important yes. Leftypols shitposting about it isn't.
>>549838Oh right, I can get behind this then.
>>549859libshits whining in the replies lol
w-were already in ww3! nato should attack NOW!
>>549846unpaywalled:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/03/05/when-vladimir-putin-escalates-his-war-the-world-must-meet-himJesus, they're demanding the world does what they say. "Arresst this man at once!", they say as they angrily adjust their bowties.
Unique IPs: 123