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  • Russia does not have heavy casualties compared to Ukraine. The initial assumption may only be true for equal opponents, which is not the case - Russia has gargantuan advantage in artillery, armored vehicles, total domination of the skies, powerful long-range strike capacity, and now even drones. It has more of everything, including total manpower, and its military industrial base is vastly more powerful than anything the Western empire can muster. If a boxer can only punch once and then gets punched 9 times - that’s not “equal”.

    The other factor is the fact that we’re talking about attrition warfare, where there’s close to zero big arrow maneuvers, instead the Russian military is methodically grinding down the AFU until its combat capacity is negligible. That helps Russia keep its casualty numbers low, regardless of what Western propaganda press is trying to convince the public of. So it actually gets easier for Russia the longer it goes on - because at some point the AFU will not be able to hold the line, which is going to end up in the general collapse of the front line. If you destroy your opponent’s ability faster than they destroy yours and you’re more powerful to begin with - the collapse is a mathematical certainty.

    Also - Russia does not want to occupy all of Ukraine, that goes directly against their economic interests and it is something they want to avoid if possible.



  • Both try to do the same thing, there’s no conceptual difference. However, as it so happens that the US/NATO are the global aggressors, Russia does not actually need to spin things that much. The Empire’s actions speak for themselves, for the Global South to see, all they need to do is perhaps, MAYBE spice up things a bit here and there. Honestly, a lot of the times Russia can just lay back and only give factual information - it would be more than enough.

    That’s when it comes to the proxy war in Ukraine. In other things, like LGBTQ, climate change or anti-communism - they are definitely using similar patterns of manufacturing consent among the population.



  • LeniXtoWorld NewsHalf of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War
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    This poll is bullshit, with numbers pulled out of CIA’s asses. I can tell you without batting an eye - over 90% of Ukrainians want a quick, negotiated end to war, and it’s been like this for months. If anything, it may indicate a shift in US empire’s pivoting strategy, because they gave a cautious “52%” over a realistic percentage.

    In a despotic fascist regime that Ukraine is now, people are extremely wary of revealing their true thoughts and feelings. Many people hide from the kidnapping press gangs and don’t go out on the streets, not answering their phone and even removing their SIM cards - I bet no one included this kind of demographics.

    We now have multiple instances of vloggers just casually pointing out that the people are very tired, only to end up in SBU’s HQ where they “talked” some sense into them. After this sort of “explaining” by Ukronazbara, they usually do a 180 and that’s that.





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    Hey. Apologies for not answering for a while

    I tried finding the specific article from a western media outlet where I saw some schmuck admitting it, I think it was MSN or ABC… Could not do it. I really need to sort out the stuff in my personal archives… What you can do, I guess, is searching through Lemmygrad and Dessalines’ stuff - you may find something useful there.

    Meanwhile - take a look at the reference list in this post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/229881; also - this article may be of some use to you (it’s more about China’s international standing, but there may be a few useful bits)

    This one is sort of just for lulz, a classic example of “It does not mean what you think it means”



  • He’s been giving some PatSoc vibes from what I know of him. I know he’s worked with MWM before claiming he “didn’t know they were PatSocs” when he got backlash as recent as 2024 iirc. I also read the intro he wrote for post-mortem release (which he edited) of Losurdo’s “Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, and How It Can Be Reborn” where he denounces decolonial Marxism as a western deviation of Marxism.

    Could you please elaborate on that one a little bit? Do you have any relevant links or references? I mean, Rockhill does have some very good works, I never suspected anything PatSoc-y, and in Losurdo’s book I could only find this:

    “Much of what Losurdo diagnoses in this book therefore applies mutatis mutandis to many other trends promoted by the theory industry, some of which are openly anti-Marxist, including postcolonial theory, decolonial theory, liberal feminist and queer theory, Afro-pessimism, and so forth.15”

    Here’s what is probably being referenced: “Gaya Markaran and Pierre Gaussens, coord., Piel blanca, máscaras negras: Crítica de la razón decolonial (Mexico City: Bajo Tierra and Centro Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2020);”




  • But a nation is loved not for its political system

    Should Germans have loved Nazi Germany because it was “their nation”, in spite of its political system? How about the Italians or the Japanese? Or any European nation participating in WW1? Is loving the US (or any other imperialist nation) not reactionary? Patriotism cannot and should not be detached from class reality and from material analysis. Otherwise it becomes nothing but a tool to lead the masses towards their slaughter in the name of Capital, instead of a tool for liberation.

    PS IMHO anyone unironically referencing Solzhenitsyn as “credible source” should be immediately dismissed.






  • Ukrainian fascism was created outside Ukraine

    Fascism by its very nature is always an Astroturfed movement. And given the fact that we’re talking about a former Soviet republic - it had to be forcefully pushed into the country, with billions of dollars pouring from the Empire’s coffers.

    Fascism was created in the Western Europe

    I wouldn’t quite put it like that - reactionary movements existed prior to Mussolini and Hitler - the particular form that was eventually coined as “fascism” was, though. UNR, I would say, were also reactionaries, so were the Whites etc. The point stands -Banderism is undoubtedly a vile child of the West.

    This comment is spot on, though. Couldn’t agree more.