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Thanks, I appreciate that. But yes, I remember being shocked to learn - not long ago either - that it was Russia that destroyed 80% of the wehrmacht i...

I am still laughing, by the way, that you responded to "here is perhaps the most important international shift of geopower in decades" with "here is w...

Not from me, but I cannot recommend this thread enough: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1506116621500403725.html In addition, check out his elabora...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/putin-wants-hostile-states-to-pay-rubles-for-gas-interfax-says Well this is interesting. Putin's do...

Exactly. This shouldn't be this hard. Hewing to a pretty basic principle like this should not occasion accusations of being a Putinist or somesuch. If...

Wish I could quote this entire interview, conducted with a local Ukrainian leftist, by the communist Endnotes collective: https://endnotes.org.uk/othe...

To be clear, Putin should probably be set on fire before being slowly dismembered by horses, but this is no less what any leader in the West deserves ...

I.e. "How can we ensure Russia continues to turn Ukrainian citizens into ash for the sake of cementing American unipolarity?" https://www.bloomberg.co...

It's time! :cheer: Also cheers for the write-up on Traverso. That's roughly what I've read about it too so I will probably hold off on that one for no...

Sophie Wahnich - In Defence of the Terror: Liberty Or Death in the French Revolution Domenico Losurdo - War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth C...

Because liberals get hard-ons for authoritarianism when the going gets rough.

All the more reason to be critical of power, always, no matter what rock star status one might have. - Always fun to watch liberals get hard-ons for a...

Which is funny because before Zelensky got elevated to Western liberal Saint, he wasn't seen - even by the West - as a squeaky clean guy either. To sa...

It would be nice if literally anything I said contradicted this. Thanks for the useless post though I guess.

I will say that the quips about Zelensky being an ex-comedian somehow a bad thing is dumb and classist. I want more comedians, baristas, garbage peopl...

And then there's Raymond Geuss' lovely little piece, which can be rewritten line-by-line, replacing Al-Qaeda with Putin, and US troops in Saudi Arabia...

After 9/11, Judith Butler wrote a depressing piece in which she had to explain - to idiots apparently far more numerous than could have been imagined ...

And I said this is irrelevant.

This is dumb. Just pulling a counterfactual out of thin air then saying ha ha you can't prove it would or wouldn't have happened is meaningless and tr...

(1) Unicorn monkeys have inflected Putin's brain with rainbows (which have made him mad). (2) No one has yet precluded the possibility of unicorn monk...

Lol. "If I disregard everything and assume my conclusion from the beginning, then I am correct". Saved everyone from reading the ramble above.

Your obsession with my posts is unhealthy and maybe you should get that checked out. Just saying.

It's amazing how nearly every any American foreign policy strategist who knew anything about anything understood NATOs role in goading Russian aggress...

source: trust me bro Tada, I condensed your four paragraphs.

As an enlightened centrist who is conflict averse and very much into big tent politics, I think it is perfectly possible to heap liquid shit upon Nato...

On the - not entirely reasonable - assumption that NATO does not trigger a nuclear holocaust, everything this rather sobering article says strikes me ...

That your first post in a while is of a wonderfully framed close-up of Wombat crap is, I think, perfect.

Literally one million dead Iraqis later, on this anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, now close to entering its third decade, one has to wonder wha...

One day someone will explain to me how handing someone a gun while they are in the middle of a child murdering spree - and profiting from it - is some...

Can you imagine if even a fraction of this - totally symbolic, completely useless - self-satisfied wank was applied even for a moment to American crim...

Of the things I care about even minimally, what 'you think' is not on the list.

Don't recall saying otherwise, but sure.

Oh, how convenient. And surely the US can be trusted to not continue such sales, given its stellar track record. Meanwhile American material support o...

Was this before or after the US$650 million arms deal with SA in November 2021?

Lmao, "The US didn't fund the Saudis, they just provided them with weapons so they got to skip the step of converting cash to arms and made killing Ye...

And of course, the war is accelerating the catastrophe of American-sponsored genocide in Yemen... https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114002

And hopefully dead soon, probably peacefully, unfortunately.

JFC even a murderous war criminal like Kissinger had better foresight than some of the very silly people in here. from 2014: https://www.henryakissing...

Meanwhile, markets expecting Russia to default on its debts any day now: https://www.ft.com/content/2c0d7a8b-a48b-4287-ac3a-376603347ba3

The West: "We really care about Ukraine :hearts: :heart: :flower: " Also the West: "Give us all your money forever lol. Hope yall stay alive so you ca...

That's nice for you :)

Maybe get a better hobby? Have you tried Elden Ring?

Yeah, the world is really in danger of not talking about Putin's crimes. Just a hair's breadth away from that untenable situation.

He was right. He remains right. On a related note, it's been fun to see the world's largest room of war criminals condemn Putin, the war criminal, of ...

If the West was in any way sincere about it's faux-concern about Ukraine - and it doesn't give a shit, let's be clear - the one lesson you'd think it ...

Trotsky, the native Ukrainian, knew what's up, long before any of this went down: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/04/ukraine.html

A horrifying thread about what is happening in HK atm. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1503420666980220934

Oh boy how fun. https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1503494235311456260

Ooooh. Manics is big with me! But I didn't recognize him haha. I just listen to the music. --- It's like - the Very Media Literate people here will te...

idk, I'm just saying someone should maybe, maybe maybe look into war-time heroes and how that tends to play out in like, all of history since the begi...