Europe is short of gray matter, and that is something you can neither produce on an industrial scale nor implant into their politicians’ heads.

Edit: apologies for my rudeness, but they do grind my gears that much

Never underestimate liberals’ ability to do space-warping levels of mental gymnastics

Here’s the PDF version (apologies for shit quality)

Update: miraculously, I managed to save a cached version to PDF in my mobile Firefox browser. Whoever’s interested in reading - please do tell how to attach a file

Lol did they remove the article? I could read it a while ago, now I’m getting “404 not found”

0% condemnation, 100% based

You don’t consult a hammer before hammering a nail

My bet is a demilitarized rump state.

Most likely scenario imho. I think Russia will also hand-pick the next government in Ukraine, provide it with protection and keep a keen eye on further events in Ukraine. Also, Russia should make sure Nazism (Banderism et al.) in Ukraine is liquidated - full hog.

This is going to sound like circle-jerking, but I think we have achieved top “debate within the party”. Thanks for your analysis

But they have other options to get what they want if that isn’t possible.

Totally agree.

The war has revitalized a lot of industry, inflation is under control and their economic growth is looking pretty healthy, especially compared with the dire situation we in the EU are in.

Agree, but it would be better still not to spend a shit ton of raw materials on fuel, shells, FABs, nitrocellulose etc and reorient or stockpile those too. Also, Russia still experiences demographic issues which go way back to WW2/Great Patriotic War. Even though the casualties are small compared to the AFU’s horrific losses, and they can absorb more, it’s still around 100K KIA and 400K wounded, not to mention the horrors of PTSD and stuff. There’s a reason they push for their “traditional values” reactionary bullshit. It’s better not to lose more people AND achieve all the SMO goals, it’s better to stop the slaughter.

Why would Russia accept anything but a full and definitive settlement of the security problem when it can simply continue advancing until all that they want is achieved militarily anyway?

Just because they can does not mean they should. There are drawbacks in each and every resolution scenario, all of them clash with Russia’s desire for furthering their economic development.

I agree that Prashad is very mistaken, the Korean DMZ is the least likely scenario, imho fuck that shit. I also think Russia will achieve security on their western border whichever way it will go.

One of the reasons, for sure

Essentially, they fail to apply Marxist theory to Marxism :D

Ultras are the equivalent of programmers who shallowly learned a programming language and never wrote a single program

Comparatively rare earth minerals

Stalin was a great ML theoretician, he did however make a few mistakes here and there. This should serve as a reminder to test all ideas against the actualities of reality before dogmatically quoting people because they were correct 99% of the time. Ultras don’t seem to get it, at the same time they absolutely love to throw words like “dialectics” and “revisionist” while having 0 conceptual understanding of them.

That’s not even an ad hominem, that’s an insult. An apt one, I may add - your “typical liberal” ignorance is as massive as your arrogance. Truth is - you know nothing but CIA-regurgitated propaganda, and we’re sort of tired of this lib shit.

Socialist government taking rich compradors’ slaves: “aUtHorItAreAn tOTolitArian”

Fascist government kidnapping people off the streets to die for U$’ capital: “heavy-handed campaign”

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

Please do share it - that would be an absolutely hilarious bit