No.1782098[Last 50 Posts]
Remember!!: A new thread?? I thought mods were just lazy. God hoping new threads are a recurring thing again.
>have 700k+ army>mobilize non-stop for two years>quickly, we need 500k more!>"uuuuhm easy, just triple the number of active soldiers!"
<Perseus did nothing wrong. Zakhaev did nothing wrong. Barkov did nothing wrong.
>I'm going to renounce socialism because intbriganon got pussy and became a liberal.
<What next? Are they going to say that a slave doesn't really want liberation but rather wants to enslave his masters? I hate romaboos btw
>Attempt to criticize the horrors of Soviet totalitarianism>Police break into your house and throw you into a van to never be seen again<You tankies are mentally ill.
>Guys i am kinda of a RadLib faggot, and don't quite understand the arguments to support Russia in the ongoing conflict. What are like, the best facts for me to convince someone to stop supporting Ukraine?
<Shut up retard nobody in the global south gives a fuck about Galloway or Hinkle and their war on Hamas, George Floyd, and little kids' private parts. Please kill yourself
>Luka almost 70 years old>Belarussian life expectancy 72 years<Oh nononononononononono!
>I want to invade her borders from two directions and denazify her state if you know what I mean.—————————————————–
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#1323740—————————————————–
ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLYDevelopments of multipolarity timelinehttps://www.pacemaker.global/multipolar-transition-timeline (
Note: Dead link. Update with new link, por favor.)
Live maps and updatesDeepStateMap:
https://deepstatemap.liveEvents in Ukraine:
https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/SouthFront:
https://southfront.org/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/Watch Together📺
News/events:
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash📺
Hangout/chill:
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcastWatch By Yourself>Video Essays / Historical Background📺
Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8📺
America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q📺
Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0📺
The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZN1KK9Mzuo
<Current Happenings 📺
Defense Politics Asia:
https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia📺
The Duran:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w📺
The News Atlas:
https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas📺
Military Summary:
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary—————————————————–
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No.1794836
>>1794834Pretty good. Though, the jets move way too fast and would cause the loudest sonic booms at that speed.
No.1794837
/k/bros, you told me that Russia's nuclear arsenal is no match for America's…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhoOoFclRWM No.1794838
>>1794822well the good guys are going to win in the ukraine, but it looks like Gaza is going to be genocided
No.1794840
>>1794818You're probably too young for Macron anyway. The litmus test is whether you carry a piss bag around with you.
No.1794844
>>1794840He…He shares my tastes…He shares my taste in women…I…Thank you.
No.1794846
>>1794841gods punishment for the French will be much worse
No.1794848
>>1794837I still don't know how Hindustan Times manages to fly past the Great Gardenwall.
No.1794851
>>1794847Addressing Senator Cotton. The simulation has a twisted sense of humor.
No.1794853
>>1794837we did? look man don't bother, we're saying all kinds of shit lately, some cultists on /k/ still believe in a secret underground resistance inside Bakhmut
anyhow, since this is the francaise hate thread now, can we shit on this motherfucker, toaster briefcase looking ass piece of shit that the french armed forces itself wants removed of its arsenal and shipped to loyal ecowas governments
No.1794856
>>1794349But there must still be plenty of people that remember the Soviet Union. What happened to them? They just let this happen?
No.1794857
>>1794851wtf. just saw it
No.1794859
>>1794855i could kiss you, i have forgot where i saved this image on my hard drive for a long time
No.1794867
>>1794863You need to let go of archives being fake cope, it's not healthy.
No.1794873
>>1794833Escalation bros, we got too cocky.
You win this round, smurfhat. Congratulations.
No.1794874
>>1794871Damn I was lit just playing this on the rerelease
No.1794876
>>1794871Nostalgic. This was such a good game.
Never finished the Allies campaign tho.
Worth replaying or better left to memory?
No.1794878
>>1794876play the vietnam mod
No.1794879
>>1794877All
brands of Swedes nordicucks are the same
No.1794881
>>1794867No, I am saying that gardeners are the real zerg, the horde was always the elite.
I do not like the west
No.1794882
>>1794873In all honesty, you might get the last laugh, as long as the war continues, there is room for escalation. After all, it started with the West only giving helmets, now we're talking about fighter jets and long range missiles. Troops in Ukraine is the final step, and while I don't believe they would be able to actually turn the tide (unless hundred of thousands of them are sent), there's no knowing how desperate the Western leaders might get.
No.1794883
>>1794878That sounds fun, I think I will after bored of learning Shadow Empire. Thanks.
No.1794884
>>1794876 Worth the replay. Still a solid game.
No.1794886
>>1794885The Petersen memes especially.
No.1794887
>>1794885well I remember the Russians made the Soviet march canon despite the fact that it is completely broken russian
No.1794888
>>1794873tbh, I'm still trying to figure out how I got punked into believing Macron was giving an urgent address rather than some nothingburger interview.
No.1794893
>JVPITER spoils Novarussia to Odessa and Transnistrea
It's so over
No.1794894
>>1794890are we going to become schizophrenic everytime we see a bald man with a fat chin?
what makes this worse is the interior of that bus looks similar to some Italian buses in roma, so the chances of this bus going from/to the Vatican aren't low, this could be Agent Prigo after removing his holy robe and zucchetto.
No.1794896
>>1794894thats a train, not a bus.
No.1794909
>>1794894Transvestigation for Russiaboos lel
No.1794910
>>1794887Kek
Made canon how
No.1794914
>>1794909>Transvestigationwhat in the mother of an Armenian terrorist's makeshift tampon is a Transvestigation? i search that and i get some article about respecting lgbt people, speak 20 century English goddamit
No.1794916
>>1794914Schizos using physigonomy to prove every person of even mild media interest is secretly trans
No.1794930
>>1794882Part of me hopes NATO gets in to get Kalibrated at the border and FABed at the front. The body bags could cause instability inside Evropa and accelerate the downfall of NATO.
On the other hand, it would mean the war goes on for longer, which would cost even more innocent Russian lives (I'm including the soldiers here), and if things get really bad nuclear war.
No.1794933
>>1794293>how did nato get control of all these former soviet countries anywayOne sentence question: one sentence answer. Unlimited intel slush funds.
No.1794936
>>1794910Russian units use it a lot in their kino posts
No.1794947
>>1794933That seems like an oversimplification. Soviet brutality didn't play any role in the shift?
No.1794948
>>1794947No, Putin was only a child at that time.
No.1794951
>>1794947it did but the soviet union didn't even exist at that time and there was no organised russian faction to align with
No.1794952
>>1794947if Soviet brutality actually existed, the world would be a better place
No.1794954
>>1794930I'm Russian and I'd rather keep shitposting instead of being drafted, so keep hoping in silence.
No.1794961
>>1794947You mean not enough Soviet brutality.
>>1794952This ^
We would have materialised the world from the Soviet time capsules if they had executed all the liberals.
Seriously, we need to use much more terror than past socialist projects.
>>1794954Don't worry, Cucktin wouldn't expand mobilisation anyway as a gesture of goodwill. /j
No.1794969
wtf are the hohols doing? apparently they have been suicide charging against the russian border for three days now? they're not even using russian fash like they claim, those uyghas are making tiktoks in lvov while ukrainians are getting ploinked. What a bunch of retards, no joke
No.1794975
>>1794974sorry
>>1794969didn't mean to tag you
No.1794979
>>1793625Anybody had the chance to watch this? I'm assuming it's pure ideology.
No.1794983
>>1794979Why would you even want to watch this trash?
No.1794986
>>1794983Sometimes you have to study propaganda to combat it
No.1795004
http://infobrics.org/post/40687/
>Tensions in the post-Soviet space are escalating. Moldova recently signed an important military cooperation agreement with France, which tends to generate serious consequences for the stability of regional security, considering Paris' interest in fomenting war against Moscow. In this context, many analysts fear that new violence could emerge in the pro-Russian separatist region of Transnistria, as Russia would be forced to intervene in such a conflict.
>On March 7, Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed a military pact with France during a visit to Paris. On the occasion, French President Emmanuel Macron promised “unwavering support” on security and defense issues. Both sides agree that increased defense cooperation is a necessary step to confront what they call the "Russian advance." According to them, if Moscow is not contained in Ukraine, the Russian government will launch new military actions in neighboring countries to gain more territories and zones of influence. In this sense, increasing French military would be a way of ensuring that the war "does not spread" towards Moldova.
>The agreement establishes military cooperation in several sectors, mainly in arms supply contracts. Furthermore, French troops are expected to train the Moldovan armed forces. Moldovan officials have said recently that the country needs immediate help to reform its military structure to be ready for a possible conflict. Alone, Moldova is unable to overcome its current military weakness, which is why it is seeking Western help.
>In parallel to this, Macron's France has been marked by the constant attempt to further militarize the post-Soviet space and foment destabilization in the Russian strategic environment. Paris has been the main agent of disruption in Russian-Western relations recently, mobilizing "war preparation" efforts against Moscow in Europe. This is part of President Macron's personal project to designate himself internationally as a "leader of all of Europe", but it is also a reflection of the strategic irrationality that has today become a central aspect of Western foreign policy.
>Previously, France had already started a similar project to fuel conflict in the post-Soviet space through Armenia. Paris has been endorsing the Pashinyan regime and stimulating anti-Russian sentiments in the Caucasus. The French government is playing a fundamental role in NATO's plan to control both sides of the Armenia-Azerbaijan crisis, creating both an alliance between the US, EU and Yerevan and an alliance between Turkey and Baku. The aim of all this is simply to increase NATO's presence in the Caucasus and generate military pressure on the Russian strategic environment.
>Now, by encouraging Moldova to militarize, France is taking a step further in its anti-Russian destabilization project. Moldova has an extremely fragile domestic security architecture, as since 1992 the country has faced a separatist problem in the Transnistria region. Civil conflict has been frozen for decades - largely due to the presence of Russian peacekeepers in the region, dissuading the Moldovan government from launching a military offensive. However, like any other frozen conflict, hostilities could resume at any time if relations between the sides continue to deteriorate.
>Moscow never recognized Transnistria as an independent country. For the Russians, it belongs to Moldovan territory, but both sides are required to reach a common agreement. As a region with a strong presence of ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, where the Russian language is considered native by citizens, the region deserves a special status in Moldovan politics, as well as autonomy rights must be created for the local people. Moscow has already stated that if such peace conditions are established, Russian troops will leave the region. More than that, Russia has also made it clear that it is even willing to destroy the Soviet-era weapons depots that remain in Transnistria, advancing regional demilitarization.
>However, instead of seeking demilitarization, pro-Western sectors in Moldova prefer to increase ties with NATO and create even more problems with Russia. For Moldovan elites, Russia is an enemy country that must be approached with hostility. For this reason, since 2022, the West has tacitly encouraged Moldova to seek a military solution in Transnistria. The calculation is simple: the hope is to force Moscow to send troops to protect the Transnistrian people, creating a new proxy conflict and opening yet another flank for Russia.
>There has been an internal balance in Moldova. Some political sectors continue to object to considering Russia and Transnistria as "threats", but the rapprochement with France indicates that pro-war groups are gaining momentum in national politics. It is important for Moldovans to remember that they are not part of NATO, and are therefore not protected by the American military umbrella - which means that, if there really is a conflict, they will be abandoned by the West and used as mere cannon fodder, precisely as happened with Ukraine. No.1795070
https://www.euronews.com/2024/03/14/vice-president-of-russian-energy-company-dies-suddenly-of-suicide
>Russian news media reported on Thursday the sudden death of Vitaly Robertus, Vice President of the country’s oil and gas giant Lukoil, writing that the manager died from suicide in his office this week.
>Just before his death, local media wrote that Robertus had complained of suffering headaches and asking for medications before going to his office.
>He was later found hanged in the room.
>"He didn't leave for several hours and didn’t answer his phone. The employees decided to go into his office and found his body. The top manager died by suicide of asphyxia. He had worked at the company for about 30 years,” Baza wrote on Telegram reporting the manager’s death.
>According to the publication, Lukoil announced the death of Robertus on March 12.
>In March 2022, the board of the privately owned company called for an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
>They expressed “empathy for all victims who are affected by this tragedy” and urged a “settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy
>Robertus is the fourth Lukoil’s manager and the latest in a long list of tycoons and billionaires to suddenly die under mysterious circumstances since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022.
>Former Lukoil’s top manager Alexander Subbotin, 43, was found dead in May 2022 in the basement of a house in the town of Mytishchi of an alleged drug-induced heart attack.
>Lukoil’s former chairman Ravil Maganov, 67, died in September 2022 after falling from a window of Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital.
>In late October 2023, Vladimir Nekrasov, chairman of Lukoil’s board, died of what the company said was heart failure at the age of 66. No.1795099
>>1795070Crazy how nature do that
No.1795181
Oh how times have changed
https://archive.ph/a0NKt
>I left my meeting with a senior French officer feeling that the west is so weak it scarcely exists any more. “The West”, a longtime object of obsession for anti-westerners from Egypt’s President Nasser to Vladimir Putin, has shrivelled to a small rump of countries squabbling with each other.
>I share the emotional impulse to keep intoning that Ukraine will win. But Panglossian war propaganda is becoming counterproductive. We need to see a possible defeat coming so that we can turn the wheel and avoid it. We can if we want to.
>I met the officer days after Emmanuel Macron suggested that Nato troops could be sent to Ukraine. As usual with France’s attempts to lead, most of its so-called allies responded by saying, in essence: “Shut up, France.”
>Western countries are weak firstly because they lack allies. Non-aligned states in Asia, Africa and the Gulf never cared much about Ukraine’s struggle. They have been further alienated by western double standards over Israel’s killing of 30,000 Palestinians. If western countries support human rights in Ukraine but not in Palestine, then they don’t support human rights. Huh
>Meanwhile, the US seems to be abandoning “The West” like a sinking ship leaving the rats.
>The French long dreamt of Europe running its own military affairs without the US butting in. Now the dream is coming true, and it’s terrifying. Europeans cannot even agree whether this is an existential war for them (as eastern Europeans believe), a war of choice (as western countries seem to think) or a war to ignore (Olaf Scholz of Germany’s view).
>Western powers have often labelled wars existential — in Algeria, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq — only to abandon them after realising they were, in fact, wars of choice. European pacifists hope Ukraine’s war will remain similarly self-contained. Perhaps Putin might stop once he’s swallowed the country. After all, western domino theories proved wrong about Vietnam, too.
>It’s not merely that our countries are disunited. France itself — the one western military with much fighting experience this past decade, albeit in the Sahel — is disunited. A contingent of Putinist French officers still admires Russia and would rather fight what it considers the “Islamic peril” inside France. And in 2027, Putin’s longtime admirer Marine Le Pen could become French president.Heh
>Putin has another military advantage over us: his willingness to sacrifice his people. Russia might have suffered more casualties taking the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka than all western European deaths in combat put together in the past 50 years. The French officer told me apologetically: “We’re an old continent, no longer used to making war.”
>This is a backhanded tribute to the success of European societies. Much though western Europeans like to whine, their region may be the safest and most liveable in history. It’s the apotheosis of the humanistic project. But Putin suspects we treasure life too much to defend it. and the hopium
>Happily, we can change course. Russia has a poorly trained army and a Canada-sized economy. “This should be feasible, easily,” says Steven Everts of the EU Institute for Security Studies. Victory would require western countries to send non-combat troops such as de-miners, trainers and vehicle engineers. Countries would need to follow Denmark in giving every shell in their cupboards to Ukraine. Germany would have to send Taurus missiles. Replacing American support for Ukraine would cost the other Nato states about €65 per citizen per year. We could choose to let Ukraine win. No.1795217
>>1795181I wouldn’t even accept €65 if it meant Ukraine still exists
No.1795248
>>1795181>Russia has a poorly trained army and a Canada-sized economyMaple syrup and banking ftw
No.1795251
>At least 13,387 foreign mercenaries have traveled to Ukraine to fight for Kiev, according to figures released by the ministry, with some 5,962 of these confirmed killed.
- Russian Defense Ministry
No.1795256
>>1795248Siri, please pull up shell production statistics for Canada and the Russian Federation
No.1795274
>>1795266>no StalinNever opening this link
No.1795286
>>1795274Love Stalin, but I don't think he would have put himself up there with MEL. They were thinking uyghas and he was a doing uygha
No.1795368
>>1795181>Europeans cannot even agree whether this is an existential war for them (as eastern Europeans believe), a war of choice (as western countries seem to think) This is interesting. It might actually be existential for the Butthurt Belt fascists in power. Their internal legitimacy may collapse if Russia wins. They still have large Soviet and socialist nostalgia within their populations as polls show.
NATO's proxy war defeat in Banderaland could cause instability inside Butthurts, which benefits Russia. I'm not talking about communist revolutions or anything (LMAO even), but rather Russian-friendly factions getting into power.
No.1795372
Theory and practice are inseparable, and Stalin has been guiding a new kind of practice - building and maintaining socialism as the basis of the entire society. NEP ended (and socialism won entirely) only after Lenin died.
Putting Stalin's head next to the rest is entirely justified, but if someone doesn't - it doesn't automatically mean they're against Stalin.
No.1795378
>>1795181>This is a backhanded tribute to the success of European societies. Much though western Europeans like to whine, their region may be the safest and most liveable in history. It’s the apotheosis of the humanistic project. But Putin suspects we treasure life too much to defend it. <we are too rich and privileged to be good at war Wow such democracy
No.1795400
What commodities in Ukraine are most important to the west?
No.1795401
>>1794876definitely worth replaying
No.1795402
>>1795400grain obviously.
No.1795408
>>1795400the most fertile wheatfields in eurasia
an abundance of iron ore
an easy access to a rich labour pool of workers
the aryan mail bussy needed to lift up the huwhite birthrates in europe
No.1795415
>>1795408>an easy access to a rich labour pool of workersall 7 million of them
No.1795416
>>1795414Alexey Navalny, obviously. Every single Russian is against the putinleriniist regime and for Yolanda Vanalny, or at least MSM and all the people who moved to Israel say so
No.1795421
>>1795400The foot soldiers willing to die for Western hegemony.
No.1795429
>>1795274He's there on the logo in the first seconds of the video
No.1795430
>>1795414geandy the cockroach
No.1795437
riddle me this, filthy putinists
if NATO is anti-third world, why did it have the biggest country in africa, Algeria as a member while the WARSAW pact had no african members?
checkmate
No.1795438
>>1795437But…literally the number one people say about 20th century Marxism is
>isn't it funny how revolution happened in the places Marx didn't predict? No.1795472
>>1795433Arewethebaddies.jpeg
No.1795499
>>1795181Vampires beware.
No.1795512
>>1795414Colonel of Soviet Army Lukashenko
No.1795514
>>1795437>while the WARSAW pact had no african members?Libya tried to join.
No.1795521
>>1795514fr fr no cap? why weren't they let in?
No.1795524
>>1795514Warsaw pact didn't invite Mongolia or China either.
No.1795550
Has Putin won re-election yet? I'm tired of seeing feverish Redditcore attempts to infl00ence the outcome with the massive uptick in cringe information attacks.
No.1795555
>>1795550Voting ends on 17th
There's a lot of victims of internet blackmail attacking voting booths in some way
No.1795598
>>1795569>a single cop casually walks up and lets her finishRuZZia is truly a totalitarian hell
No.1795603
>>1795569>Russians so cucked by medieval chivalry code that they have to treat women with kid gloves even if they behave like liberals and retarded animalscucktin bros…it's over….
No.1795604
>>1795603o putler… harden your heart
No.1795609
>>1795604I wonder how they're doing right now…
No.1795621
>>1795616Probably get killed by their own comrades when there's a threat of getting POWed
No.1795624
>>1795616Mercenaries are people who dont realize or dont care the implications of their employer not needing to pay if they die.
No.1795631
>>1795368>This is interesting. It might actually be existential for the Butthurt Belt fascists in power.It's a massive point. You could apply this to ruling atlanticist factions all across western europe also. Their wealth, legitimacy and cultural credibility always depended on EU US gibs and they've been in power for decades. They're willing, like the US with the globe, to shatter the edifice if they get to rule the remains.
No.1795645
>>1795635sorry slavs but i can't with your cyrillic, people give arabs a hard time for their spaghet lines and the chinese a harder time for their tattoo runes, but yours? looks like if latin alphabet was invented by martians.
No.1795648
>In World War One, the aggressors demanded geopolitical status and defended the honour of client states, rather than pursuing economic goals—though German rulers hoped to acquire more profitable colonies. Many calculations were made, but war resulted from a cascade of diplomatic misunderstandings and incoherent policy formation.footnote8 A plethora of political and diplomatic initiatives produced unpredictability, resulting in a brinkmanship which meant, perversely, that no one would back down. Most rulers were confident of victory, but they also mistakenly believed that the war would be short since their economies could not support it for long. How wrong they were. The rulers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and the Ottoman Empire secured not only their own defeat but the fall of their monarchies as well. Some courtiers had warned of this, but they had lost the domestic power struggles—again: power, not reason. All the players lost heavily, except for the two outsiders who picked up the pieces, the Americans and the Bolsheviks. The war was irrational for everyone else.
>In World War Two, rationality was disrupted by ideology. Had France and Britain allied with the Soviet Union to deter Hitler, the conflict might have been delayed or even prevented. But the rulers of these countries feared communism more than fascism and so, in 1939, an isolated Stalin signed the Non-Aggression Pact. In the Far East, Japanese rulers underestimated the strength of Chinese nationalism, while in the Pacific both Japanese and American rulers miscalculated each other’s reactions. War, in each case, was initiated by German and Italian fascists or by Japanese semi-fascists; in each case this was suicidal. What drove them to it? The Axis rulers were outnumbered militarily by technologically superior rivals, but nevertheless believed that martial spirit would overcome daunting odds of success. Economic motives were subordinate to the goal of imperial conquest in these regimes, each believing themselves superior to decadent liberal Europeans, communist powers and China. For Axis rulers, this war embodied Weber’s ‘value rationality’, where commitment to ultimate values overrides instrumental rationality.
>In the Korean War, too, American, Chinese and North Korean rulers all underestimated their enemies, blinkered by ideology. The only possible result was a bloody stalemate, in which none of their objectives was achieved and which created a bitter divide across Korea that still poisons East Asia today. In Vietnam, us defeat was a result of underestimating the opponent’s ideological solidarity. The recent spate of wars against Muslim countries has seen battlefield victories for the us and its allies, yet neglect of political-power relations has predictably thwarted the achievement of American goals—as it will for the Israelis in Palestine. American intervention inflicted enormous damage on Afghanistan and Iraq, and contributed to the chaos rending Libya, Syria and Yemen. The Cold War aside, the United States has failed to fulfil its objectives in any significant war since 1945—an unimpressive record for a solo superpower.[…]
>Putin also seems far from attaining his ambitious goals. The normal blend of fear and over-confidence fuelled the build-up to his invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The understandable part of Russian fears derived from the eastward expansion of NATO, begun in 1999 as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic joined, with seven more countries acceding in the early 2000s—nearly all wanting to join because they feared Russia, and all but Slovenia ex-members of the Soviet bloc. During this period, the us and NATO took full advantage of Russia’s inability to mount more than verbal protests. By late 2021 there were NATO missile sites in Romania and Poland, NATO exercises in the Baltic states and Black Sea, and us military aid going to ex-Soviet states in Central Asia. In November 2021, Washington signed a Charter on Strategic Partnership with Kiev that called for Ukraine to join NATO, and the us promised ‘unwavering support’ for Ukraine’s reincorporation of Crimea. Blowback came in February 2022 when Russian troops, massed along Ukraine’s border, invaded across three fronts.
>If Russian fears of NATO partly explain Putin’s warmongering, four further, less rational factors played important roles. The first was ideological: a sense of ‘grandeur’, emotionally supercharged by the humiliation of the post-Soviet collapse, combined with belief in the irreversible decline of Western hegemony. The second was military: Russia had become over-confident due to its successes in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria against much weaker forces. The third was political: support for his regime was beginning to flag and playing the nationalist card was popular. Fourth was Putin’s contempt for Ukrainians, intensified by growing divergences between the two regimes; like many aggressors before him, he despised his enemies and disparaged their powers. But Ukrainans, equipped with modern weapons and fuelled by the emotional power of defending their homeland, fought with skill, courage and tenacity. Initial Russian setbacks lasted long enough for anger to grow abroad. Putin had unintentionally strengthened the solidarity of his foes and the West’s response was stronger and more united than he had expected. But it should not have surprised him, for the us could now seize the opportunity to cut Russia down to size without committing its own troops. Biden was able to fight a proxy war, Putin was not. Caught in the middle of their irrational struggle were mangled Ukrainian bodies and devastated cities—the normal horrors of war, but affecting Westerners in a way that the wartime sufferings of non-white people in Africa and Asia had not.[…]
>At the heart of both realist and Marxist theories of war is the idea of combined economic and military power—seizing material resources through war. This is sometimes rational for the winners, although as we have seen it is overwhelmingly zero-sum: for some to benefit, others must suffer. But since greed, a status-honour-glory triad and love of domination are all clearly important motives for rulers, rationality cannot be said to dominate war decisions. Moreover, miscalculation has occurred too often for a rational-choice model to hold. The offensive wars that go according to plan are mostly those in which ‘sharks attack minnows’, or when wars among the sharks are deflected onto the minnows, as in the Cold War. The military superiority of sharks means they do not need much calculation of odds, for they can bank on winning. And since they write history, victory in war is seen as more likely, more profitable, more rational and more glorious than it really is.https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii145/articles/michael-mann-explaining-the-irrationality-of-war No.1795651
>>1795648>But the rulers of these countries feared communism more than fascism and so, in 1939, an isolated Stalin signed the Non-Aggression Pact.Wow, person writing this is a cunt
No.1795658
>>1795648>Putin had unintentionally strengthened the solidarity of his foes and the West’s response was stronger and more united than he had expected.Oh wow, I just had to read a bit further
<le Putin is revanchist!<le Putin thought everyone is Chechnya!<le Putin is losing electorate!<le Putin hates Ukrainians!Who let this retard into leftist press
>But since greed, a status-honour-glory triad and love of domination are all clearly important motives for rulers, rationality cannot be said to dominate war decisions. Moreover, miscalculation has occurred too often for a rational-choice model to hold.Uh-huh, this describes the West, who were already begun drawing balkanization maps and even seized Russian dollar reserves
No.1795662
>>1795434Which solution to the quest gave the most XP?
No.1795671
>>1795648>newleftScratch a westoid left and see it glows inside.
No.1795673
>>1795648>Initial Russian setbacks lasted long enough for anger to grow abroad. Putin had unintentionally strengthened the solidarity of his foes and the West’s response was stronger and more united than he had expected. Not sure how someone can get things so completely backwards without being actually retarded or a glowie.
The most international outrage over this even among periphery libs was within the first year. And even if the war still isnt seen as totally legitimate, time passing has only increased apathy or even support.
No.1795678
>>1795673The whole idea that increasing Western aid was caused by "anger" over le hequin illegitimate invasion outs the author as clueless.
No.1795685
>>1795648This article sux
No.1795689
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/15/the-german-american-strategic-depth-clown-show/When the transcript of the Taurus leak was published by RT, everyone was able to hear Brigadier General Frank Gräfe – head of operations of the German Air Force – speaking with Lieutenant Colonel Fenske from the German Space Command Air Operations on the plan to deploy Taurus systems in Ukraine.
A key point is that during the plotting, these two mention that plans were already discussed “four months ago” with “Schneider”, the successor of “Wilsbach”.
Well, these are German names, of course. Thus it did not dawn on anyone that (Kevin) Schneider and (Kenneth) Wilsbach could instead be… Americans.
Yet that did raise the eyebrows of German investigative journalist Dirk Pohlmann – who I had the pleasure to meet in Berlin years ago – and his fellow researcher Tobias Augenbraun.
They found out that the German-sounding names did identify Americans. Not only that: none less than the former and the current Commanders of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces.
The Four (actually Six) Stooges element gets an extra boost when it is established that Liver Sausage Chancellor Scholz and his Totalenkrieg Minister Pistorius learned about the Taurus plan no less than four months later.
So here apparently we have a clear cut case of top German military officers taking direct orders regarding an attack on Crimea – part of the Russian Federation – directly from American officers in the Pacific Air Forces.
No.1795692
>>1795662Don't remember, always helped Gecko tho
No.1795697
>>1795689holy fucking shit
No.1795699
>>1795689>So here apparently we have a clear cut case of top German military officers taking direct orders regarding an attack on Crimea – part of the Russian Federation – directly from American officers in the Pacific Air Forces.germany is a puppet state
No.1795700
>>1795699Like fucking marionettes
No.1795714
>>1794913what happened to 'discretion is the better part of valor'?
No.1795722
>>1795714They honestly thought Russia would crumble because of their sanctions, so they went for it.
No.1795727
patrick lancaster in the trenches again.
russian officer: "khokhol drones have spotted us. we need to move, NOW!"
patrick: "okay, PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, GO TO PATREON IF YOU WANT TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT JOURNALI-"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTN121PaCMYthis guy man…
No.1795733
>>1793576where's this from?
No.1795737
Been away for a few days, did I miss much?
No.1795743
>>1795738Seriously, where did the unironic neoliberal NATO stan crowd on the internet come from? I am pretty sure 10 years ago everyone on the internet was some kind of libertarian, leftist, or nazi, and openly shilling for the status quo would get you laughed out of the room as a normie. Now you get people like r/noncredibledefence photoshopping cat ears on Kaja Kallas and hanging NATO flags next to anime posters in their parents' basements. This has got to be some kind of massive psyop
No.1795744
>>1795743What if some people are just being contrarians against anti statu-quo stance?
No.1795745
>>17957432016 brought a huge shift in consciousness with it as huge sites like reddit started purging narrative non-compliant users out and shifted to a policy of "combatting fake news." Social media sites have been working hand in glove with the American alphabet agencies ever since to enforce The Narrative™ and liberals especially zealously propagate it.
No.1795746
>>1795744That probably makes sense. It's the best way to troll people on the both ends of the political spectrum, after all
No.1795748
>>1795744Yeah its this basically, and also midwit system-understanders like destiny
>oh you dont know how quantitative easing works bro? Just trust the plan.>oh you want progress but dont know biden just passed a massive bureaucratic bill that is a civil rights breakthrough?>oh you want economic prosperity? They just raised consumption tax on gum that gets invested into private sector stimulationIts over-rationalising the system as this "too big to fail" entity that we're all locked into
No.1795749
>>1795743liberalism entered crisis and emergent states began to rise. questioning the establishment and specifically anything about it being non-democratic became taboo because it meant enabling something ostensibly less democratic. that's really all there is to it, there's a sort of strange blindspot in western consciousness where something reactionary about liberalism can't possibly provoke some non-democratic country or that country can subsequently become more progressive. it's a problem with idealist divisions of politics i think
i saw recently mearsheimer recognizes the world is caught up in a battle between liberalism and nationalism, with the most powerful form coming from developing nations. for some reason we can't process the idea liberalism became endless wars for global capitalism and rich nations as a reactionary conclusion and that this is provoking anti-liberal reaction. but it's either you conclude this or you believe liberal democracy is moving left via globalization and discovered a new post-cold war battle for democracy that reaches across the world including the West itself (also horseshoe theory was right and other neocon beliefs)
No.1795750
>>1795743>>1795744>>1795746It let people start being smug about something. Thats about all it takes.
Also glowies
No.1795751
>>1795743They believe propaganda that Putin IS New Hitler and that this the "war to end all wars", "good against evil" thingy probably
No.1795752
>>1795743Lot of anxiety in the west these days, being anti-establishment is a luxury for people who don't see their privilege provided by said establishment vanishing before their very eyes. At this point the liberals that take their democracy way too seriously and personally aren't even anti-Trump and pro-Biden because of virtuous idpol signalling anymore, it's unironically concerns that Trump is going to abandon enforcing "freedom and democracy" on the world by force.
No.1795753
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/15/europe/russia-elections-protests-dye-intl/index.html
>But videos released Friday from several polling stations across Russia showed protesters pouring what authorities described as dye into ballot boxes to spoil the votes cast.>CCTV video from a polling station in Moscow showed a young woman pouring what appeared to be green dye into a ballot box.<what authorities described as dyeWhat the fuck else would it be? A magic potion that turns authoritarian votes for Putin into democratic votes for Navalny? Westoid MSM duckspeak is incredible
No.1795754
>>1795749giving a (you) because it's quite the analysis
No.1795756
>>1795753>turns authoritarian votes for Putin into democratic votes for Navalny?honestly reminds me of libs calling votes for Donald authoritarian and votes for biden democratic. it's like they believe one side is always shitler incarnate and the other side is always the moderate wholesome hindenburg incarnate
No.1795757
>>1795752A good chunk of right wing anti establishment is exactly people who see their privilege at risk
No.1795758
>>1795743Yeah, whenever I check comments under non-political videos it's scary how many NATO and EU flags I see. In like 2015 the EU did a campaign to increase their popularity with info stands in some German cities, "stand up for Europe" or something, and they were laughed out of the room. Now it's "cool" or something to shill for them, for the
fucking EU let alone for
motherfucking NATO - amongst young people, around that time, you would have been bullied if you were carrying their insignia.
Also, usually the project of the EU was hailed/criticized for their democracy/lack of democracy or whatever. US democracy was mostly regarded as a joke in Europe amongst young people. Now it's not even about democracy or lack thereof, the EU is more and more shilled for as a
military alliance, and fuck the economy anyway, turn off the heater against Putin.
No.1795761
>>1795760what's going on here
No.1795762
>>1795756> it's like they believe one side is always shitler incarnateIt must be so exhausting to interact with these people; functional components in a system of wealth that has driven them into a systemic psychological blindness towards their own ideological hysteria, which has become inescapable for them.
No.1795766
>>1795761another woman tried to dump ink into a ballot box
No.1795768
>>1795757But they see it at risk for entirely different reasons, I think Ushanka anon is asking why it seems to be the
liberal take to stan for NATO now. Not being allowed to have slaves has been a constant for right-wing anti-establishment types
No.1795770
>>1795752Behind all the NAFO shit about Russians being incompetent orcs and Putin being a neanderthal I see lots of fear. If there is the slight chance that Russia might emerge as the victor; and even if the Russians can't do it, or won't do it, to attack Western Europe that is, the slightest chance that there might be a paradime shift towards China and Russia it's such a scary thought for the average European that it literally mindbreaks them. It would be a civilizational break (for them) akin to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Look at old WWI or WWII propaganda, they potrayed the enemy as subhuman, but also beastly and dangerous, today NAFO shit focuses on how pathetic Russia allegedly is, but still apparently they must be stopped with all our might - this is fear.
No.1795772
>>1795763I mean the entire fashion industry is basically another form of proxenetism and grooming.
No.1795776
>>1795770(cont.)
And this is all while Putin is technically a liberal - who has tried to emulate the West for years. He as been pushed into this situation to be one of the protagonists in the forming of a new Eurasian identity for the Russian civilization, even though he might not have wanted that at all.
So even if Eastern and Central Europa were to be occupied by Russia, or under Russian influence, what would actually change if you have dealt with a pre-2014 Putin? Probably nothing. Now, maybe not such much, and European liberals of all tendencies have all but themselves to thank for it.
No.1795781
>>1795779she's KPRF as well.
and yeah who doesn't.
No.1795786
>>1795776For sure, IntBrig Anon has got the correct analysis but the "optics" for liberals is the fact that they've been told since they were young that the west is the most desirable place to live in the world and everyone would LOVE to live here. But there hasn't been a liberal, waving american flags, revolution anywhere since 1991, the only way the west has been able to topple "evil regimes" is not by arming people who want American liberalism, much of the world is perfectly happy with nationalism, it is instead to appeal to people who answer to a higher ideal than nationalism or liberalism, so they arm religious radicals.
They're seeing liberalism fail in the sense that everyone who doesn't live in the garden seemingly
don't want "freedom and democracy" and either *want* despotic dictators or religious radicalism. Could the west be so out of touch? No, it's the third world savages who are wrong.
No.1795798
>>1795768>But they see it at risk for entirely different reasons, I think Ushanka anon is asking why it seems to be the liberal take to stan for NATO now. Not being allowed to have slaves has been a constant for right-wing anti-establishment typesBecause in the West we see a great anti liberal reaction that we think validated our system rather than the opposite, which we were trending to from 2003 to 2016isb
No.1795805
>>1795786I could understand mounting a defence in favour of western society if the institutions and opportunities that it provided had not been ruthlessly hollowed out and handed to their respective nations bourgeoisie.
If public education without debt in universities that were well regarded were still alive and well.
If western journalism were not tied hand and foot to the defence of the state.
If housing, healthcare, and other social goods were not assets and the toys of billionaires.
But that simply is not the case. The world the next generation will grow up in is one in which they will not have families of their own, they will own no major asset, and they will be forced to work well beyond the age at which their bodies have given in.
To anybody who is outside looking in, the party and stability of the 80's and the 90's, which still yet came in exchange for the destitution of the wider world, is well and turly over. It is absolutely comical to see people writing polemics and opinion pieces in defence of 'civilized' society when the only possession they own is their born talent to grift public opinion. You are a slave to those who dominate society, and what is worse you are willing to do their bidding. You own nothing but trinkets compared to what has been on offer throughout the past century.
These people are slaves who have no notion of what freedom means, despite declaring that it is their civil and legal birthright. The freedom to be a slave.
No.1795810
>>1795805>>1795786Imagine defending the right to indebt yourself for hundreds of thousands for the sole opportunity to enjoy what used to be a public right.
It is absolutely ludicrous that people defend a society that has so clearly worn itself through its threads to the very rim of its structure: poverty. Anybody who stands in defence of it either does so because it benefits them or because they have been duped into thinking it does.
No.1795815
>>1795805The really sad thing is when you see pictures of places like Damascus or Pyongyang and they look… liveable. The frantic, robotic cope to reassure each other that it's just the capital city, the rest of the country is definitely the deplorable shithole they've been assured of and besides, it's the capital city so of course only the
elites that get to enjoy such an image of normalcy, unlike the west where frequent visits to Harrods in London or Bloomingdale's in NYC is the norm for everyone, not just the bourgeois elites.
Absolutely pathetic display, the utter breakdowns over streets being clean and tidy
in the third world! No.1795822
>>1795815reminder that Moscow streets and metros being clean is the literal cost of freedumb
No.1795823
>>1795798Yeah, I assume that's why anti-migrant and anti-immigration rhetoric has spiked in acceptance, in 2003 to 2016 it was a pretty fringe and disliked opinion that Europe shouldn't be taking in Afghan refugees (because they just want freedom and democracy and who are you to deny them that!?) but now it's a kinda widespread opinion that people coming from the Middle East and North Africa shouldn't
just be let in because they're fundamentally "not like us" now apparently.
No.1795827
>>1795743The reason it got popular is very simple. People see that "their" country is being attacked, so they start supporting the regime more.
You are very familiar with it as well. Some anons here are voting for an openly bourgeois politician who is in no way, shape or form doing anything "leftist". This is not normal for a supposedly "leftist" website. I myself also got unreasonably supportive of the bourgeois government after SMO started, still am, even if to a lesser degree. People are people, so the same happens in western countries as well.
Meme NATOcore, Macron support, nazcentbol were slowly floating up since about 2020, but they were not unironic positions people held. It was just a "yes and" kind of thing.
It's just that conflicts are much more open today, so people are more willing to say "yes and" today than they were before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVuGP748ZMoRemember when this was just a funny and obviously ironic hoi4 mod meme? Good times.
No.1795835
>>1795753It's leaving open the possibility that they may be mistaken, say, if the dye turned out to be some kind of flammable liquid or poison on further forensics and investigation. Not all reporter language is for propaganda, even if these days only select entities get the benefit of the doubt.
No.1795844
>>1795827I understand a bit of it. But when I personally meme about "ZOV SVO", that is mostly fueled by Russia being a subversive anti-establishment underdog in global terms. Most memes are based on at least perceived idea of "punching up", standing with the underdog, or subverting an ideological hegemony. But pro-NATO memers, they have no "dog" above them. They openly shill for the absolute global authority, and act like it's subversive somehow.
No.1795851
>>1795844Its based on the idea that NATO is the right side of history, having vanquished communism and fascism, and those rising against it arent the spunky Rebellion but rather the remnants of sore losers striking out of spite. Horseshoe theory plays into it.
No.1795852
>>1795756>it's like they believe one side is always shitler incarnate and the other side is always the moderate wholesome hindenburg incarnateWhen both sides are basically the same the only way they can justify voting for them is to say "if you don't literally Hitler will get power and kill all the Xes." It's all the Democrats have to offer any more, just the threat of things getting worse.
No.1795856
>>1795851Yeah, Putin can't be a genuinely popular leader and Russia can't be a real country with good and bad qualities to it, it's got to be one big gulag run by superhitler, who isn't trying to manage his country's interests but actually wants to conquer the world and eat all the grain himself.
No.1795857
>>1795779>swharzenwordheh
No.1795859
>>1795854>wrote a letter to Kim Jong-unWhat's his address? I got a few words to drop to the big man.
No.1795866
>>1795859That is a power only trusted KPRF members have
But you could try your local DPRK embassy
No.1795867
>>1795856I think part of the issue is that they never really looked into or been on the bad side of liberalism so they only understand it as a good system that had some bad moments that got mostly worked out, and the bits that didnt just happen because life isnt always fair. Sure up might have been unfairly bombed but everyone bombed someone else, and they did it while being openly mean to people. They'll hear your complaints but Just Look At The Big Picture, and then just forget about the complaints by dinner. I doubt most them know or care the implications. But you're here trying to seriously argue against liberalism, which saved the world twice over from the big mean regimes that oppressed so badly, and had camps for people, so you're less a person trying to make a serious argument (rhat they will only entertain acadrmically) and more a vile goblin acting out of sadism and resentment.
No.1795872
>>1795746nafo isn't trolling. they're mainstream atlanticist establishment shills who larp as normie npcs. the internet and imageboards weren't a thing for these types for a long time as they had print and tv under firm control. then project chanology showed what memes and "viral" marketing can do for them or against them.
No.1795886
>>1795815Pyongyang could do with a lot more fucking benches and places to sit I'll tell you that much
No.1795888
>>1795844You're talking about a bit of a different phenomenon, imo. It's mostly about the fact that people tend to support the government more when they see a threat. It happens regardless of the government or situation, everyone from early modern kings to the Party in WWII, Americans in 9/11 and Ukraine today benefited from it. When you hear "when I heard that the war started, I went to enlist immediately", this is what is happening.
Also, while there is the narrative of punching up against the vampire ball, that's only a part of it. We are much bigger and stronger than Ukraine, and a lot of people enjoy the punching down part much more. It's ugly, but it's true. Just look around in any discussion.
+ westerners can just say they're liberating LGBTQA+, the poor and oppressed trve Russians who stand up against the dictator, the definitely real idel-uralian hyperborea that was erased by judeo-bolsheviks, and the 1 billion Chinese ethnicities currently being destroyed by evil Xi The Pooh.
Someone should redraw this so that notre mere europe is EU countries and Russia is jumping into the China box. It would be funny to see westerners unironically share such a picture.
No.1795889
>>1795770To be honest I think a lot of people are just terrified of change. There are lots of reasons, but my personal opinion is that because Western political parties offer no good vision of the future and often little evidence they can even deal with the present. The fear that things are going to get worse is translated or imposed onto the big nebulous shape of CHINA or whatever, when they're not alarmed by anything concrete in that regard, so much as the unspoken notion that any change to the status quo will mean disaster and hardship.
No.1795892
>>1795867The other groups that might be attracted are the western "leftists" who have fundamentally bought into the idea of non-violence out of either moral virtue (smug self superiority) and or their own weakness that the initiation or escalation of violence to solve real problems is just wrong and unacceptable. It also tends towards very bourgy individualist readings on this. This is where you get a lot of the takes that are effectively a constant stream of concern trolling (NATO bad but Ukraine isnt NATO!)
Probably a good bit of fear that defeat for NATO means they can't just sit around whining about their overlords with the excuse of the sheer power of the west, but have to actually put skin in the game again.
No.1795900
>>1795892>but have to actually put skin in the game again.The reality is that these individuals who stand in support for their western government's intervention have their equivalents in those who are vocal supporters for Putin; both stand to gain in a material sense from each regime. Their positions are staked on what privileges are granted to them through their income and capital possessions, i.e. the life they are afforded. It is with the same indifference that one votes for Putin as another does for Biden.
It is the same system at play in Russia as it is in the US; capitalist society pervades, exploitation through wage labour exists, and poverty is the grinding mill against which individuals are pushed to work for lives even against their own immediate interests. The political reality is that one society, the west, is as Putin describes a Vampire Ball in which even the most ethical of stances is in reality nothing more than a mirage of the most twisted and perverse ideological functions premised on the supremacy of its own exploitation.
No.1795903
>>1795892>The other groups that might be attracted are the western "leftists" who have fundamentally bought into the idea of non-violence out of either moral virtue (smug self superiority) and or their own weakness that the initiation or escalation of violence to solve real problems is just wrong and unacceptable. It also tends towards very bourgy individualist readings on this. This is where you get a lot of the takes that are effectively a constant stream of concern trolling (NATO bad but Ukraine isnt NATO!) Pic related.
>Probably a good bit of fear that defeat for NATO means they can't just sit around whining about their overlords with the excuse of the sheer power of the west, but have to actually put skin in the game again.I think it's less of that, and more that Europe/"The West" has had several hundred years of main character syndrome. Hell, America and the Anglosphere especially. The idea that we could
lose is such an extreme kind of break with the narrative we've constructed for ourselves, it's like a religious kid becoming an atheist, or a person discovering their dad is a serial killer.
No.1795907
>>1795903This image gave me cancer
>Ukraine is fighting to preserve and restore the indigineity of the region's peopleThe same way Nazi Germant fought to preserve and restore the indigeneity of Greater Germania lmao
No.1795908
>>1795624The dogs of war.
No.1795911
>>1795743They aren't the same people there are a lot more normies online now. They don't see decaying monopoly imperialism eroding civil rights and abortion access as austerity to counter the falling rate of profit they think its Putin Trump Orban and "authoritarianism" which is amplified and pushed as a continuation of cold war hysteria. They really do think good policy just comes from having the right ideas and that you dont need any kind of productive industrial economic base with a full suite of education healthcare and pensions to actually support it you can just vote for good ideas and then good things happen like magic, and when bad things happens its cause you vooted wrong, not because the monopoly corporations that write the laws want to turn your flesh into money. The kind of people who can't understand that reaction is actually justified to some extent by the material conditions imposed on the working class are also the kind of people who are not effected by it and have time to post on reddit.
No.1795917
Does Mercouris get more YouTube bux the longer he talks? More ads or something? Hard to escape the impression that the painfully slow speaking pace and the belaboring of minutiae are deliberate.
No.1795918
>>1795917 (me)
Latest drop btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyPZB0PwGyoI can never tolerate listening at any speed less than 2x.
No.1795923
>>1795915Does the average Finn hate Russia that mich that they'd kamikaze their economy to spite their face?
No.1795924
>>1795903The western left has been defensively skittish more than it can really justify for a while, and the distaste for violence has gone to the level of being pure cucks. Even when it would work and could resonably be gotten away with. It has been an ugly infection of a trifecta of doomerism, ideology, and moralism.
No.1795931
>>1795743Even if its a psyop, it's merely fertilizer on already healthy soil. Status quo supporters come out only when status quo is under threat, mostly to claim how it actually isn't.
No.1795947
>>1795945Which subreddit to post it to?
And with what title?
No.1795948
>>1795947Idk, just be a good, supportive fella
No.1795950
>>1795889>To be honest I think a lot of people are just terrified of change.History was over. Finito. Then it started up again, really suddenly, Afghans stated falling from the landing gear and we're not the desirable winners any more. We might even be the villains. Ukraine has made it even more scary. I honestly think it's that simple for many people.
No.1795958
>>1795805>The world the next generation will grow up in is one in which they will not have families of their own, they will own no major asset, and they will be forced to work well beyond the age at which their bodies have given in. >To anybody who is outside looking in, the party and stability of the 80's and the 90's, which still yet came in exchange for the destitution of the wider world, is well and turly over. It is absolutely comical to see people writing polemics and opinion pieces in defence of 'civilized' society when the only possession they own is their born talent to grift public opinion.This
>>1795950Not just change I'd say, but like the wrong people are gaining from the crisis of liberalism they otherwise understand the source of. One of the first debates after 2016 was the role of 'economic anxiety' which essentially served to argue nothing about the decay in the rust belt drove the failure of a new york neoliberal there, it was purely resentment with cultural progress. This pattern comes up a lot in denying regression under neoliberalism or globalization caused the crisis of democracy. That's the biggest sore spot as liberal hegemony declines, implying it undid itself, ceased to be democratic, and created a power vacuum. I really think that's what happened though, class compromises are clearly breaking down. The petit bourgeoisie and semi periphery seem to show it
No.1795961
>>1795645>looks like if latin alphabet was invented by martians.Cyrillic came first, cretin. Go back.
No.1795967
>>1795961No it didn't lmao
Latin started being used like 15 centuries before Cyrillic. It inspired Cyrillic as well.
No.1795974
>>1795968Yakub lookin ass
No.1795979
>>1795961>hurr Go back.to where? i say my honest opinion about cyrillic, trying to be respectful and starting with sorry and suddenly you think i belong to polstan?
No.1795993
>>1795979 >>1795967Ah you're right, I was thinking about Greek Alphabet. Though to answer about the /pol/stan thing your post does read like a shitpost by those shitters, and they've babbled garbage about "muh Cyrillic" for years there, and considering they sometimes visit this thread it was a fair mistake.
No.1796000
I heard on war thunder that Russian troops landed in Alaska a few minutes ago.
No.1796003
>>1796000They should have come before the Iditarod ended. Now they have to deal with Solid Snake.
No.1796022
It's another thing to be a westoid in Greece and another to be a westoid in Belgium. You won't find many supporting the Greek government and NATO except that 10-20% which are related to the oligarchs or have some well paid position or some left over wealth.
Greeks tried for year to change something and whole of Europe was against them, it wasn't easy and many simply fled.
It's another thing to be in south italy and another in Milan. Walonia is getting fucked more than Flanders and so are the ones who are more against current government.
East Germany is more aggressive than west.
You see these divisions everywhere. however fucked the system is, there is still a 20% of people who are well off and have enough power to hold the rest.
Another thing is that the west has perfected propaganda, essentially embedded it in education and everywhere to the point that I am sure it's sociotechnological a miracle. Russia or China are nowhere near this level of marketing and apparently it's powerful.
But in any case, what's the alternative? To immitate Russia or China? Really? Maybe Cuba? Or africa? Or to make a revolution into what exactly? Something that apparently didn't work that great because where is it now? If (again if) you have a job in most of western Europe you are pretty much okay. There are a lot of social spending. Sure everything gets shittier every year, and people talk about it, but where is it better/safest?
If you ever see anything it will be from those immigrants with no papers working without any security but even them are better than their compatriots and can send back enough to sustain families. Many are happy to at least be alive and have a job.
Everyone is aware that things are shitty. Is it because of Putin or because of china or because of internal corruption? Is it a mix? Who cares? Is there a solution? No. Is there a better place? No. So you carry on…
No.1796031
>>1795760What is it with 30 something white liberal women?
Must just be what happens in post-religious societies where these women can't fulfil their traditional role of reporting their friends and neighbours to the priest.
No.1796032
>>1796031What's FSB doing, then?
No.1796045
>>1795753<The Russian controlled authorities reported that a fluid they described as "ink" was being poured by protesters in what was described by some as "ballot boxes". The <lapdog outlet> could not independently verify these assertions. The Russian embassy did no immediately answer a request for comments. We presume Putin is crying in a corner because our incisive journalism.
>[insert context paragraph about Russian interference in 2016 USA presidential election]>[insert context paragraph about Navalny]>[Insert "expert" opinion of thinktank creature]I hadn't even read the article yet, and the formula is still half right. It's amazing how MSM articles have managed to replicate the weekly cartoon filler and recaps making up half the episode.
No.1796052
>>1795805good post.
here's an updoot
No.1796055
>>1795917>>1795918i started listening at 1.25 a while ago. sounds perfectly natural now. i'll give 1.5 a shot and see if it can take it. i doubt i could handle 2.
No.1796056
>>1796022This situation will explode. Economic necessity will force people onto the streets
No.1796062
>>1796031>where these women can't fulfil their traditional role of reporting their friends and neighbours to the priest.Those women are probably just dumb enough to get phished and blackmailed by ukrops
No.1796073
>>1796064I've a close british friend who attempted overdose suicide and i still find this funny.
No.1796077
>>1795434I always blow up Lynette in this game. Also if you do that and fix Gecko's power plant you get an ending where VC collapses, and then the ghouls move in and re-build it after acquiring their tech.
No.1796097
>>1795835This is somewhat an unfortunate inevitablity of how western media has been run for a while - it's simply easier and cheaper to become less inaccurate by becoming more vague in everything you write while going from accusations to mild hints towards things.
No.1796120
>>1796031>30-somethingPepsi Generation. People raised during peak westoid propaganda.
No.1796128
>>1796122>blue checkmarkedAre we the baddies
No.1796140
>>1796136Kane did nothing wrong
No.1796142
>>1796138gays have come a long way, from having queer bars raided in the 80s, influencing ugandan homophobia with the rainbow flag being publicly burned, to the equality act of 2010, to being used as a bourg tool by burger elites to influence the culture of the entire world, with all the enemies of Burgerstan are somehow all homophobes that must be bombed with our progressive jets, china, cuba, russia, the entire arab world, afghanistan, iran, all conveniently both anti-america and anti-gay.
No.1796171
>>1796138Both of them are retarded btw
No.1796173
>>1796171I've said this to other people about Hamas too; yes, they're playing a historically progressive role today, but keep in mind that Hamas (just like Russian Orthodox Nationalists) were killing leftists left and right back in the 2000s. Never forget what Critical Support means
No.1796180
>>1796171Being idealistic is not equals being retarted. Smugness, elitism and social chauvinism gatekeeped more people from leftism than rightoid bs. And it was installed into leftism on purpose.
No.1796185
>>1796136>Best Korea is GDIJuchebros… it's over
>>1796140PEACE… THROUGH POWER! No.1796193
>>1796191AK-47s FOR EVERYONE!
No.1796195
>>1796191GLA is basically Hamas if it had its own military industrial complex
No.1796204
>>1796195I have great news for you about certain regional neighbors of Israel my friend
No.1796210
>>1796195No GLA is more like Hezbollah
No.1796222
Russia claiming they TOS'd Kraken.
No.1796232
>>1796140Kane's plan for humanity is literally transhumanist, cybernetic, interstellar Posadism.
No.1796236
>>1796140>>1796232idk, forming a literal cult doesnt seem like the best optics.
No.1796242
>>1796237That timeline where Wałęsa found leftover german bomb in his garden.
No.1796244
>>1796210i fucking wish, i fucking wish hezb was as powerful as the global liberation army, stealth commandos, hijackers with balls of steel big enough to hijack an entire tank by walking to it, imaginary money that comes to you everytime you kill a soldier, camoflages that can hide big buildings off the radar, tanks, bigger tanks, monster trucks with ground-to-air heatseeking rockets attached, blue colored chemical weapons, invisibility technology (that are a real thing today and used by US Army), tunnel systems that can go everywhere, the ability to arm mobs with aks that can somehow destroy an abram tank in under 10 seconds of rapid fire, armored trucks straight out of mad max, millions of dollars from oil derricks and black markets, air jordan shoes model 2004, Scud missile that have been "borrowed" from assad. kurdish solid snake with a sniper rifle
No.1796261
>>1796244that would rip tho
No.1796263
¡Джеб!
No.1796289
>>1796287idk pham a lot of those followers are mentally ill schizos, larpers or mutants.
No.1796290
>>1796136Russia and India being GDI is pretty fucking cringe though
No.1796292
>>1796289Good on you to ignore the part where plenty of the "schizos and mutants" were literally billions of people from impoverished countries who were completely ignored by GDI who, by CNC3, had literally walled themselves into a garden so they could safely ignore what was going on outside, while NOD were the only ones stated to be providing mass medical care and essential goods to the masses. But no, "muh cult optics" is more important than the millions that NOD is explicitly saving from painful deaths on a daily basis.
No.1796295
>>1796292>while NOD were the only ones stated to be providing mass medical care and essential goods to the masses. But no, "muh cult optics" is more important than the millions that NOD is explicitly saving from painful deaths on a daily basis.idk pham being the better alterntive over nothing doesn't make it necessarily good though.
No.1796296
Kane assassinated Stalin tho which is pretty cringe
No.1796298
>>1796292Libs have this idea that saving and providing for millions "altruistically" (more like people organizing to provide for themselves) cannot happen and is only ever done for the purpose of fooling the people towards doing evil things
>>1796295It does, though. Your objection is only due to lib authors literally deus ex machina-ing the purpose of NOD being evil
No.1796299
>>1796296CNC Stalin is cringe. He is basically a replacement for Hitler, because they've made Germany into the good guys by undoing fascism by eliminating a "great man" from history
No.1796300
>>1796298>It does, though. Your objection is only due to lib authors literally deus ex machina-ing the purpose of NOD being evilidk pham, idk. Kane just looks evil.
No.1796302
>>1796300Yes, this is author's will that he is evil. We arguing here about how material reality as described does not match the superstructure
No.1796309
>>1796295They took care of the majoduty of humanity, developed the processes needed to provide virtually all the resources people needed, developed groundbreaking human enhancement that actually creates people who can successfuly survive and even thrive in tiberium, as well as boosting their physical and mental capabilities, and try to get humanity off Earth and into the stars.
But Kane just looks cringe so thats all that matters, better go with the gardeners.
No.1796313
>>1796302>>1796309>>1796305fine, you are right anons. kane is based gdi is cringe.
No.1796331
GDI > NOD
Sorry not sorry, NOD have religion
No.1796333
>>1796331Religious religion > secular religion. At least it's not hypocritical
No.1796347
>>1796343>progressive forcethey literally have an emperor and an aristocrasy fueled by war
drive a thousand kirov airships into the imperial palace
No.1796348
>>1796342I knew it! Byzantium is degenerate
No.1796350
>>1796290The idea of Russia westernising
and finally becoming white was still considered likely & possible among libs in the 90s, alongside of course their vision of a global neoliberal utopia.
No.1796355
>>1796353GLA is objectively the most progressive faction in Generals since iirc China completely liberalized in the lore
No.1796357
>>1796350Doesn't make much sense with Kane being in the USSR as Stalin's advisor though.
No.1796361
>>1796353no this is commandandconquor general
No.1796374
>>1796372There's a surprising lot of rikishi from post-Soviet bloc countries. Tochinoshin from Georgia used to be one of the tops.
No.1796375
>>1796367You guys are still talking about c&c? Lmao.
Guess I'll go download thst Vietnam campaign finally.
Shadow Empire is a 10/10 game btw. I couldn't even find a torrent of newest version which is apparently lost of improvement but honestly best thing of its genre I played in a long time.
No.1796377
Russia's upcoming summer offensive should be happening some time between now and may. Dont expect high activity itt until then
No.1796386
Why is Merc still talking about Avdeyevka gains? Hell, on Twitter, I still see Ziggers talking about Bakhmut activity.
And then they fucking complain that Wikipedia won't finalize their results.
No.1796388
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeyVN-djbiI<Odessa Strike Kills Top Ukrs, Putin Retaliates Strikes, Rus Gains Avdeyevka; Scholz Macron QuarrelAdmittedly I've largely tuned out of these micro-skirmishes, but I was under the impression I wouldn't be hearing that shit anymore.
No.1796394
>>1796379comrade was widely used by every communists on earth, but in my language also used for people in your military unit or classroom (and factory work unit initially but not really anymore)
its just a butthurt nazi/anticommunist most likely
No.1796395
what do you think would be the bigger nightmare for the Western neolibs and neocons? putler winning the elections and staying in power, or the head of the communist party magically winning enough votes to make Russia run by a leftist again?, if they had to choose between Putin and a communist, what would it be?
No.1796397
>>1796173did they really though
No.1796400
>>1796367Leftypol has long held an appreciation for C&C and using it to discuss how to view world events, especially to show how to dispel liberal views of the world.
No.1796402
>>1796379In English it's pretty widely used in military or similar contexts. It really only takes on communist connotations outside of that.
No.1796415
>>1796412>between march and may>end in summer???
No.1796418
>>1796415What's the issue? Can't you read or something? "Offensive starts in the next two months." Are you illiterate?
No.1796424
Who will win: The combined might of NATO or a backwater second-world nation with a forty year old military doctrine? The answer MAY shock you!
No.1796426
>>1796424I like red things, they make me happy and gay
No.1796430
>>1796424if russia is a gas station with nukes then it's pretty clear that the cashier was more than capable of handling this robber.
No.1796433
>>1796430gas station with nukes vs starbucks with nukes
No.1796441
>>1796427Lukashenko = Lenin 2 confirmed?
>Slavic>manual labor enjoyer>served the Soviet Union>man of rhetoric (Lenin was a debate master but Lukashenko is more cheeky, like that time he told a factory manager that a motorcycle made out of Chinese parts was not a "domestic" product)>MUSTACHE No.1796456
>>1796400>Leftypol has long held an appreciation for C&C and using it to discuss how to view world events, especially to show how to dispel liberal views of the worldHow so? I'm curious
Since I was young I saw the tiberian universe as a fantastical idea of a successor to cold war divisions, and I'm not surprised it was basically just core and periphery.
Nod isn't materialist or revolutionary but it does see tiberium as something for humanity to embrace rather than something driving either an arms race between states or used to consolidate them further to prevent such an arms race. So, tiberium was the next nuclear power in that respect. Separates the old and new world and everything
No.1796464
>>1796367I'm also kinda celebrating the steam release of the whole series, first time actually getting a chance to play C&C2. Wouldn't mind having some games with fellow leftypolers in OpenRA
No.1796465
>>1796456It's a glimpse into how liberals view the world at the time of the game release. Regardless of how much they try to hide it behind cloaks of "parody" or "satire". NOD and Kane are whatever the liberals need them to be, terrorists, religious fanatics, populist revolutionaries. The same goes for any protagonist or antagonist faction in
any C&C game.
The sole exception being C&C4 where they tried to go e-sports and just killed the franchise and the story outright. What a waste of a good soundtrack.
No.1796466
You ever sit outside, look tat the star-filled sky, wonder what's out there, and realize that the Soviet Union, which once was supposed to be technologically advanced and reaching for space and stars, has now been broken into separate states, killing each other in the trenches using weapons delivered in from the side they were supposed to be fighting together, and that the space that was supposed to be explored by the Soviet Union is now wide open to the European space agency, NASA, and SpaceX? i find it dissapointing
Sure, space is overrated and useless, but one can only wonder what if the red russians and ukrainians were the ones trying to terraform mars today instead of a south african on government pay
No.1796467
>>1796460ahem, C&C4 allready exists
No.1796469
>>1796466Feels really bad but I remain cautiously optimistic about communist China colonizing space in the years to come
>>1796467RA4. not C&C4
No.1796470
>>1796469The moon won't be colonized, to expansive for return, except maybe mining moon dust for what ever reason and making profits from tourists, using it as a vacation spot. Most of the planets in our solar system are boring garbage, that's why the more exciting part of space exploration right now is observing foreign systems.
No.1796472
>>1796469>colonizing spacewatch your words, you mean DE-colonizing space.
No.1796489
>>1796466>space is overrated and uselessLiberal pessimism stop it, space and whats out there is the key to understanding all of this.
>>1796469Yes thats the main hope for the time being, the possibilities are endless.
No.1796492
>>1796460tbf you could always play as both sides
No.1796496
>>1796370I'm not sure in what sense you mean but there is definitely some perfidious anglo fuckery going on with all the strait line borders fake countries around lake victoria and the head of the nile river whos only interior access is railways that go directly from mines to ports. pretty sure theres something going on there about the suez canal too. google is saying they wanted to control everything from the cape to the mediterranean to enforce anti-slavery laws, to protect their investments in india, and trade routes back to europe, likely so that competing empires couldn't undercut their monopoly profits by simply not paying workers.
No.1796504
>>1796466>You ever sit outside, look tat the star-filled skyNo. Light pollution.
>and realize that the Soviet Union, which once was supposed to be technologically advanced and reaching for space and stars, has now been broken into separate states, killing each other in the trenches using weapons delivered in from the side they were supposed to be fighting together,Kind of hard not to. We do live in dark times. But it has been over ever since party leadership started saying "stalinism" unironically.
>and that the space that was supposed to be explored by thse Soviet Union is now wide open to the European space agency, NASA, and SpaceX?It's not. Even if Starship is cool, it's not a part of any broader trend. There still is no profit reason to explore space.
No.1796511
https://jamestown.org/program/russia-exhausts-soviet-era-arms-storage-bases/
< Russia has proposed a pause of the fighting in Ukraine in exchange for strategic arms and space negotiations with the West. < The Russian armed forces have been taking Soviet-era arms out of storage as a solution to its dwindling supply of weapons despite these reserves being limited.< As Russian arms stores decrease, Russia could finally be defeated in the war in the foreseeable future if the West commits to continued and scaled military assistance to Ukraine.
>In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has outlined the Kremlin’s negotiation proposal. He has proposed conducting strategic arms and space negotiations in exchange for pausing the fighting in Ukraine. The nuclear blackmail toward the United States and its allies is a part of this framework. Other Russian officials and experts loyal to the Kremlin are playing good cop/bad cop in outlining these negotiations. The harsher officials insist on the capitulation of Ukraine, while the softer ones are promoting a so-called “Korean Scenario.” The latter describes a ceasefire–or at least decreasing the intensity of warfare–and keeping all the occupied territories in Russian hands. One possible explanation for why the Kremlin is pushing the “Korean Scenario” is a consistent exhaustion of the arms storage bases that Russia inherited from the Soviet Union. This exhaustion is still in process, but Russia may lose its offensive potential by 2025 as these stores are used up (Kremlin.ru, February 20; Globalaffairs.ru, February 23; Kremlin.ru, February 29; Kremlin.ru, March 1; T.me/Medvedev_telegram, March 14).
>Soviet-era arms storage bases are one of the primary sources that still allow the Russian armed forces to fight despite massive losses on the battlefield. Russia has been removing supplies of tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery from these storage bases since 2022. The arms produced in the 1940s–1960s—many of which were decommissioned many years or decades ago—have returned to the battlefield. The stored arms are also massively cannibalized for spare parts, which Russian arms factories and hundreds of field arms repair facilities utilize (The Moscow Times, August 7, 2023; TASS, November 22, 2023; Vedomosti, December 30, 2023; Interfax, January 31; TASS, February 20).
>These storage bases are not endless despite Russia keeping thousands of tanks and howitzers after 1991. Moreover, Russia cannot replenish these arms and material. If Ukraine can maintain a high level of combat intensity and the mounting level of Russian losses continues in 2024, it will be much harder for the Russian army to maintain its military power for offensive operations in 2025. That means the conventional Russian military threat to states other than Ukraine will become much more limited.
>Before this expected exhaustion, Russia’s military behavior may become even more erratic and volatile in the Ukrainian theater than in other areas, such as outer space (Kremlin.ru, March 1). Consequently, commitment from the West to send arms to Ukraine must be substantial and unquestionable for the defeat of the Russian aggression and the security of Europe and other countries.
>There is an evident decrease in almost all categories of heavy weapon systems, based on comparing the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ (IISS) Military Balance—an annual assessment of military capabilities and defense economics—from 2021 to 2023 (see the table below) (IISS.org, accessed March 14). The numbers provided by the IISS are approximate. Moreover, if the number of any single type and model of weapon decreases, this does not mean that these arms have become operational or have been cannibalized already. They could have been delivered to factories or somewhere else. However, what is occurring is obvious: Russia is taking more and more arms from the storage bases, which is an irreversible process.
>The existing number of stored arms is still enough for Russia to continue its aggression even though those arms have been taken from the storage bases into service, which can be returned to operational status faster. Nevertheless, Russia’s resources are not endless, and Russia could finally be defeated in the war in the foreseeable future. The main pre-condition here is continued and scaled military assistance to Ukraine. No.1796513
>>1796510>internet pirates are fighting in the russo-ukrainian war…on both sidespoetic, and not surprising
No.1796519
>>1796511>and Russia could finally be defeated in the war in the foreseeable future.When is that foreseeable future?
No.1796523
>>1796511Gotta love how they completely sidestep the question of whether the West will run out of Cold War stockpiles before Russia does. Iirc the Soviet stockpiles were larger than NATO's to begin with, and Russia is producing more new equipment anyway.
No.1796524
>>1796519The week after next.
>>1796523It seems like it's assuming that these empty boneyards are the result of losses, but to me that seems unlikely.
No.1796526
>>1796452>muh normal behaviourrich coming from THE linger, dismantler of nations
No.1796528
>>1796526>wherever I am, I must balkanizeSeems like normal behaviour to me.
No.1796539
>>1796511>and Russia could finally be defeated in the war in the foreseeable futurehyper cope
No.1796542
>>1796523it's a bit surprising how little they've given in some cases
They've barely sent any Abrams tanks.
No.1796543
This is a test post
Also i hate russians
No.1796547
>>1796543you have failed the test
No.1796548
>>1796543Coming in at the last second to post your L is a bold move. What beings you here in 2024 rather than 2022 lol?
No.1796549
>>1796539Jamestown foundation is where we got the Uyghur genocide story, by the way. They wrote it. That's Zenz's employer.
No.1796564
>>1796452lol he can't take the heat?
No.1796579
>>1796122one of you should tell the powers running leftypol that having a blue checkmarked X account is unnecessary optics, otherwise next thing you know they're gonna be creating linkedin pages urging you to join CPUSA, making quirky tik tok videos that only post Stalin vaporwave edits, and onlyfans, it's a slippery slope
No.1796581
>>1796579Their skinnyfat nonbinary confederate has posted holy and taint iirc so not so much a slippery slope as much as an actively lubed slope with a bunch of lint stuck to it and a weird smell
No.1796584
>>1796579You pretty much need the blue checkmark to have any of your posts seen nowadays I noticed
No.1796588
>>1796584Is there some reason you're not on ActivityPub? There's a lot more than just Mastodon and Lemmy. I don't understand why everyone else is lagging on this.
There's already a twitter lib themed one and a few kiwifarms-esque ones if you need that but really it's hard to describe it's just total chaos. Much more than Twitter 2. It's total chaos. Go to the FediDb website to find a good fork of Misskey with an instance which has high monthly active users.
I'm surprised you're not on transfem.social or tech.lgbt or some kind of domain name like that.
No.1796601
>>1796523I think apart from the Abram's the West already have depleted their Cold War scraps. Now they are resorting to buying back Cold War equipment from non-Western countries.
No.1796602
>>1796542This is because they barely have any serviceable Abram's. And they've only got one plant that can restore the "deep storage" units that need a hull up rebuild.
No.1796604
>>1796602I hope they still have all the plans and shit for that crap so they don't have to try and reverse engineer their own tech like with the b-2
No.1796605
>>1796602and it can only refurbish 10 tanks a year lmao
No.1796615
>>1796604The issue would be finding skilled industrial workers as the manufacturing process is from (at best) fifty years ago and the work force has been de-skilled by CNC machines and robotics.
No.1796620
>>1796122in 2022, there was a un expectant thrill in being correct at every turn, with gaza its just the worst fears coming true rapidly.
No.1796621
>>1796619Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
No.1796623
apparently Russia wiped out some nazis at Odessa yesterday, completely missed it. They seem to be getting better at this
No.1796624
>>1796460And prysm tank and towers would shoot rainbows instead of coherent rays of light? Nah, modern libs and the henchmen artist class (those groups almost 100% overlaps) are past any irony or satire, they're going to war not for the riches of their masters, but for their own survival. So no, sadly good cnc game is non imaginable today.
No.1796625
>>1796623If you believe the commentary it was also to send a message to macaroni that if he sends French troops to Odessa Russia has their number
No.1796627
>>1796602At this point every accusation of Russia running out of x or y seems more like an admission of nato weakness tbh
No.1796629
>>1796611Jesus christ anon
No.1796631
>>1796611I can't help but imagine this being a cover to a musical.
No.1796632
>>1796623"The [Ukrainian] terror in [Belgorod] is a sign of the weakness of the enemy, which is fighting against [Russian] civilians at a time when it cannot guarantee the safety of people on its own territory"
Amazing, every word the hohols speak is literally the opposite in truth.
No.1796634
>>1796511>dwindling supply of weapons Nafo idiots have been saying that Russia's gonna run out of everything since the beginning, they have no source and no facts behind this claim but hope and only the fact that no country has infinite resources. It's unbelievable how the West is getting Hitler'd in underestimating how much in tanks and equipment Moscow has left.
No.1796638
>>1796634>It's unbelievable how the West is getting Hitler'd in underestimating how much in tanks and equipment Moscow has left.Not really, since NATO doctrine is pretty much based on the Nazis, shock and awe, blitzkrieg, overwhelming force, wunderwaffles that take 10x longer to make than the enemy's weapons.
No.1796651
>>1796510Making rutracker more accessible to a global audience would do more than any lamely named russophile appreciators society or whatever. Soviet historical cinema is endless, I can't get enough of it.
No.1796655
>>1796623Foreign mercs too reportedly. It's heartbreaking that twitterfags haven't posted caps here.
No.1796681
>>1796619Get a load of dis guy.
>not conducting offensives for cloutISHYGDDT
No.1796682
>>1796456>>1796465Because ultimately C&C 1-3 KR and, somewhat especially including Renegade, it's a very good look into how Liberalism tries to portray itself as being good guys who remain stoic and calm, collected. Flawed, but sticking to their ideals, while their bad guys commit atrocities and live in shit.
But when you stand back and look at who did what and what their actual aims are, you realize that NOD is, at every opportunity, trying to make moves that dramatically improve humanity in total for the long run, permanently. It's pretty notable that in Renegade one of the major plots is that you, as a GDI commando, go in to shut down a NOD bio research facility where people are being turned more and more into tiberium enhanced cyborgs - and by the end, one of your final bosses is indeed a perfected version of it done on the main scientist herself. And she's finally perfected it to the point where she's hyper-capable and also retains her sanity better than anyone before her. Obviously, this gets played up by you seeing into the grotesqueness of the process but is played as being irredeemable, insane research - but if you stop to ask what it would mean if they did this widely, you'd be forced to admit that the research would be a huge benefit to humanity. Meanwhile GDI are effectively just agents of stagnation and complacency, only doing the bare minimum to maintain their walled off parts of the world to keep them clean from tiberium and poormies. It takes until literally the end of C&C3 for GDI to bother trying to clean up anything outside, when the encroaching tiberium was seriously threatening everything they still held onto, using technology they already had developed within C&C2.
And of course, tiberium itself and the process to get it is pretty illuminating. It leeches up rare, valuable minerals from the ground and also parasitizes carbon. NOD were the first to develop the processes to collect and refine it. GDI come in and pretty much steal the technology for their own benefit. It's pretty damn telling that the countries that harvest the majority of the tiberium are still dirt poor and ravaged despite collecting the majority of these life-destroying, rare minerals.
If you can't see the parallels for imperium there I dunno what to say.
>>1796464I'd love to. I just got things working again with my computer.
No.1796701
>>1796682It's more of a case of liberals confessing, when they think they're bragging, not deliberately supporting anti-imperialism and tiberium-based transhumanism.
>dude, blue zones, lmao!>Greenland>Alaska>Kamchatka and Chukotka>Taklamakan Desert + KashmirI'd rather be NOD in a red zone, like Croatia.
No.1796706
>>1796651RUtracker is the greatest film forum in existence and it BTFOs every other torrent website
The fact that qbittorrent devs don't include it in the search plugins by default is a crime
No.1796755
>>1794723>conscription of foreign individuals into all arms of the nation's forces in exchange for citizenshipThis is just Starship Troopers.
No.1796819
>>1796818this but unironically
No.1796821
>>1796142Cuba has better gay rights than Burgerland. Gay bars in Russia aren't regularly attacked by mass shooters unlike Amerikkka.
No.1796825
>>1796815This article really has everything
>Putin is the same as Stalin because they both ruled for a long time and wanted to recreate the Russian Empire>Navalny should've been on the ballot>Solzhenitsyn>Stalin, although Georgian, liked Russians for being genetically predisposed to slavery>Kievan Rus = Ukraine>Russian economy may be doing good, but it's a potemkin village
<Today is a red-letter day for Vladimir Putin, but not just because of his grotesque pretence of a free election. It is red in honour of the Stalinist past that looms over the present No.1796827
>>1796821This; also, Ukraine is worse than Russia when it comes to sexual minorities. Azovites were firebombing gay bars and shit leading right up to the war.
No.1796831
>>1796825>This article really has everythingit's torygraph
No.1796833
>>1796825>ded guy should've been on the ballotthey expect him to rise from the dead and take office if he won the popular vote?
No.1796836
>>1796825Possible nuclear annihilation would have at least one net positive - complete annihilation and fossilisation of britoids.
No.1796839
so with c&c on steam are we by chance making a group
No.1796858
>>1796825The amount of narrative u-turns and flip flops over whether Russians are the victims of oligarchy and rigged elections, or if they're actually so well represented democratically that not a single Russian citizen should be considered a non-combatant having clearly and enthusiastically voooted for Putin and therefore war, OR if Russians are just bugpeople who were born genetically with slave mindsets and that's why nuking them kinda liberates them from their unintentionally evil voooting habits so genocide in this case would be doing everyone a favour, would make Nazi propagandists blush.
No.1796861
>>1796858god i cant wait for my fellow bugs and orks to win this war so every lib on the planet's head explodes. it will be so funny to watch them all cry out in anguish.
No.1796862
>>1796858Those are only contradictions because we're talking about a fascist liberal alliance. Only the most depraved of this group hold both positions at once. Most mainly think either this or that.
No.1796863
>>1796839And lose our anonymity?
I call dibs on prince kassad No.1796864
>>1796827then how come sarah ashton-cigarillo served with them, checkmate vatnik
No.1796866
>>1796861They'll be able to cope
>Ukraine lost?>Ukraine fought entirely via meat assaults?>Ukraine used disinformatsia to lie about their successes to the west?<Well well, how very Russian of them! No.1796869
>>1796862Tbh I feel it has changed with time, the idea that Russians are people who need to be liberated spread while a sanction-instigated coup was considered possible, then while escalations and excusing rampant Ukrainian terror and revenge attacks on Russian civilians came the "no one in Russia is a non-combatant" narrative and finally as it looks like Ukraine is about to lose imminently comes the "they're not evil so Ukraine can surrender to them, but NATO can't negotiate with them because they're not in control of themselves" narrative.
No.1796875
>>1796869>no one in Russia is a non-combatantthis is pretty much nazi-tier from them, not even during the drone killings in the middle east they justified it like that
they used to express concerns that Ukraine might use the weapons to attack Russia, then they did, and suddenly it was stunning and brave
No.1796895
>>1796873Based
Also is that me or is this thread derailing into video game discussion again?
No.1796903
>>1796895Nothing else relevant is happening.
>what about xyzNothing relevant is happening.
No.1796904
>>1796873god i want that coat
No.1796905
i expect more westoid sport chimpouts to come
No.1796915
>>1796895Maybe, a bit of fun doesn't hurt the thread during the slow periods
No.1796917
>>1796906That Canadian just discovered her inner Hitler
No.1796918
>>1796915Yeah things are slow again until presumably the summer offensive. Though judging by reddit there might be some more pictures of dead Nazis soon.
No.1796921
>>1796513Russia legalized piracy. Anyone fighting for Ukraine is fighting for Wall St and western copyright. Any PIRATE fighting for Ukraine is genuinely retarded.
No.1796922
>>1796918the biggest thing going on right now is Ukraine trying to do terrorism on the border via Russian nazi collaborators, which is so gay and retarded it doesn't even merit discussion
No.1796924
>>1796922I always enjoy dead Nazis.
No.1796926
>>1796922Ukraine seems to be running out of ideas. Clearly their goal is trying to disrupt the elections, but it's also obvious they won't be able to do that. Yet they still try, because there's nothing else they can do.
No.1796928
>>1796918It's rasputiza, we have to wait for the next season coming out in June
No.1796930
>>1796926I don't believe even they think they can disrupt the elections. It's purely media work for a western audience, as usual.
>>1796815 - this article already mentions "Russian democratic rebels" trying to cross the borders.
Imagine being the poor sod being given a clearly suicidal mission for the sake of a couple tiktoks and reddit upvotes.
No.1796931
>>1796926It's that, plus the nation has been a seething death cult to various degrees for decades but especially since 2014, random state-backed terrorist attacks on civilians in Donetsk or Belgorod unironically seems to be an effective morale boost for people to not give up yet. As in even if people don't expect to win at this point, that shouldn't prevent them from exacting as much revenge as possible against the orcs and traitors by continuing to fight JUST so the guns can keep firing.
No.1796937
>>1796921well the pirates fighting for ukraine are drafted so its not like they got a in it
No.1796945
>>1796943The joke's on them, the elections are rigged anyway! Ha ha, right I guise? You'd not bomb polling booths if you also thought they were functionally useless in Putin getting re-elected.. right?
No.1796946
>>1796945These performative scenarios are sooo deeply boring. They convince nobody who matters.
No.1796947
>>1796945They bombed the buildings and trucks carrying the fake votes. It's over for Putler.
No.1796954
>>1796946>They convince nobody who matters.Yeah, it's just preaching to the libshit choir. But in this case, even libshit are not fully on board. Especially those cross-border raids in the recent week where the Ukrops used a bunch of Russian anti-Putin nazis to raze a few border villages to the ground.
No.1796955
>>1796930>Imagine being the poor sod being given a clearly suicidal mission for the sake of a couple tiktoks and reddit upvotes.This sums up every single Ukrainian Dnieper crossing attempt.
No.1796956
>>1796954They didn't raze anything
No.1796958
>>1796954>>1796956Yeah I too understood that they didn't even get that far to raze anything.
No.1796962
>>1796956"Damaged" would be the better word, yeah, but even then it was because of artillery and not because of the Ukrop ground troops doing anything.
No.1796997
>>1796818Fucking liberals (I wish)
No.1797011
>>1797010>we'll make it seem like there are huge lines to voteWhat was their endgame?
No.1797014
>>1797011Probably to make photos and to present them as a protest, exactly like they did
No.1797015
>>1797012…but at what cost?
No.1797030
>Historical accuracy
>According to Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Potemkin's most comprehensive English-language biographer, the tale of elaborate, fake settlements, with glowing fires designed to comfort the monarch and her entourage as they surveyed the barren territory at night, is largely fictional.[4]
They've been at it for over 250 years. It's really eye opening how much bullshit is sold to us as history.
No.1797032
>>1797030>>According to Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Potemkin's most comprehensive English-language biographer, the tale of elaborate, fake settlements, with glowing fires designed to comfort the monarch and her entourage as they surveyed the barren territory at night, is largely fictional.[4]It's honestly confusing to me that there are people in this world who heard the tale and said 'yea, no, this is history you have said the actual truth.'.
Real insanity.
No.1797034
>>1797032Potemkin history.
No.1797035
>>1797032There are plenty of people who believe in fake Chinese cities, in DPRK tour guides and paid actors presenting Westoids with an illusion of a working society, and finally, there are plenty, plenty of people who believe that Soviet or Chinese statistics are fake and doctored.
No.1797036
>>1797032obligatory
>Montefiorefrom me.
No.1797043
>>1797030try 500 years. One of the first mass-printed and leaflets that were distributed all across Europe is the King of Poland bragging about his victory against Russia in the battle of Orsha. In those leaflets he claims to have killed 50k Russians, although in reality both sides lost about 5k each. This is actually a partial origin of the "Russians do massive meat assaults and have gigantic losses in every attack" myth.
No.1797045
>>1797012does anyone have a comprehensive wunderaffe collection?
No.1797046
>>1797032Because "Potemkin's village" is internal russian libshits meme, of course west retards doesn't even check what fled libshits telling them.
No.1797053
>>1797035Sound like an American issue to me tbqh
No.1797058
Any of you remember the previous Belgorod """invasion"""? Kek.
No.1797082
>>1796873Fucking loved playing as Dragunov, let me stun-lock almost every character that couldn't fly.
>>1796815I goddamn WISH Putin was like Stalin. SMH
No.1797093
>>1796815Guy who only ever heard about Stalin: "wow this guy reminds me a lot about Stalin"
No.1797098
>>1797010Putin Putin auf deinem Tank
Befrei Uns von dem Ampelstank!
No.1797101
>>1797100What are these? Documents to join the Ukrop forces?
No.1797111
>>1796825Don’t forget
>Holodomor / double genocide myth>Robert Conquest No.1797112
>>1797101Looks like Russian presidential ballots and Dva.ch memeing while voting
No.1797118
>>1796995What's the context on this?
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