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  • spend 5% on defense or learn Russian

    Smooth-brain take. Russia has neither the means nor the intention to invade, occupy, and Russify Europe. You are projecting English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese crimes against humanity onto your ideological opponents.

    Appeasement 2.0

    It’s ridiculous that people like you think that Russia is the one being appeased. The USA is being appeased and has been since the end of WW2. The appeasement of the USA is appeasement 2.0 - from their atrocities in Vietnam, Laos, and Korea to their atrocities in the Pacific to their atrocities in “Latin America” to their atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, to their outright torture of people all over the world to their oppression of people at home to their having the highest rate of imprisonment in the world to their economic bullying of the poor all over the world to their collective punishment in Cuba, Venezuela, and many other places.

    Everyone has been appeasing the USA.


  • Yes this is absolutely about siphoning wealth into the USA and creating austerity conditions for 2 reasons:

    1. The bourgeoisie needs to maintain concentration flows and the US is preparing for some of the flows to be constrainee by BRICS. Europe represents a source they can extract from.

    2. The working class in Europe is too comfortable to go to war and are more likely to demand peaceful relationships with Russia and China which will isolate the USA. Having Europe under austerity creates the conditions for larger reactionary movements that can be used by the US to fight more hot proxy conflicts in an attempt to slow down BRICS economically and an attempt to create conditions for military and political error on the part of the anti-imperialist which the USA hopes to be able to exploit to create a rapidly cascading collapse of resistance.


  • Totally disingenuous understanding of what’s happening in this thread. There is no blind trust for the Russian government.

    You have to understand one thing to unlock the perspective you need. It underpins both the reason MLs resist the official narrative of the empire and also why MLs accept certain narratives from other global actors. And that thing is an understanding of, and engagement with, history. It is our understanding of history that allows us to do readily understand when the empire is lying. It is also our understanding of history that allows us to readily understand when other states are saying something worth listening to. And it is our engagement with history that allows us to continue evaluating new statements from any sources.

    In the case of Russia invading Ukraine, history is critical in understanding what’s going on. And the relevant history extends all the way back to Napoleon. Napoleon invaded Russia once. He fielded the French national military forces, along with some international forces, and marched literally all the way across Europe to invade Russia to enact discipline for Russia continuing to trade with England despite Napoleon declaring a unilateral universal blockade. It was on of the bloodiest campaigns in history and millions of Russians died.

    Napoleon invaded Russia via the border that is Ukraine.

    Another invasion killed millions of Russians, too. That was the Third Reich. They fielded their national military and they took marched across Europe to invade Russia. They also had international forces. They killed so many Russians.

    The Third Reich invaded Russia via Ukraine.

    The Ukraine border with Russia has been demonstrated to be impossible to secure without sacrificing millions of Russians lives. The solution, therefore, for Ukraine to be devoid of military threats against Russia - enough military to defend itself against European meddling, not so much that it could threaten millions of Russians lives.

    We know this history. So when NATO does it’s first ever joint exercise with Ukraine in 2013, it raises a lot of eyebrows. NATO is a transnational nuclear military. It expands not by violence but by economic and political dominance. It is a standing army all over Europe but not controlled by European democracy. It has been demonstrated that NATO is controlled by the USA - again, a matter of history.

    When Euromaidan happened in 2014, that was concerning to us because it was a movement that was aligned with European interests and explicitly a NATO-aligned movement. It got more worrying when we realized the US had top state actors on the ground including John McCain and Victoria Nuland. Russia choosing to annex Crimea was a clear message that Russia saw this particular movement as a threat, which we understand in the historical context of previous invasions.

    After Euromaidan the NATO exercises got more numerous and more dangerous including flying B-52 nuclear-capable bombers in the region and simulating an invasion of Kaliningrad. Remember that military exercises and simulations are indistinguishable from real events until the last second when forces do not violate international law. That means the simulated invasion of Kaliningrad included the creation of supply chains and the mobilization of units and then moving them in formation to their target and turning away only when they reach the border.

    This is a real and present danger to Russian security. If NATO establishes full capabilities in Ukraine, the only way for Russia to survive would be to lose millions of lives during an invasion over the border.

    All of this comes from our understanding of history and our engagement with it to evaluate event and statements. So when Putin says NATO activity on Russia’s border is why he acted, we acknowledge the congruence with the historical reality. But when he says Ukraine should never have been granted independence, we understand the errors in reasoning while also acknowledging the strategic military perspective it comes from.

    When Russia says they are de-nazifying Ukraine, we understand the historical context of why that statement can be made. But we are also materialists and we understand to what degree the statement is incongruous with reality and history.

    This understanding and engagement with history is what liberals lack and it’s why those aligned with the empire can’t properly criticize the propaganda and it’s also why they are unequipprd to evaluate statements from other states, like Russia. It’s why counter-cultural liberals just blanket deny what empire says and then get confused why MLs are willing to support narratives that match Russian or Chinese talking points.

    Unless you engage with history and dig in, your resistance to empire will always be shallow and your understanding of what the rest of the world is doing will be purely vibes based.


  • Nuclear war helps nobody. Hegseth doesn’t have an option here, nor does anyone in the West. They tried to push their nuclear capabilities to the last border and Russia stopped them. When the only further option is escalating towards nuclear war, then you really don’t have options. Hegseth, the media talking head that he is, has been tasked with communicating the reality on the ground, not making any real decisions here





  • Get angry. Anger bring clarity. Anger clarifies. You went in knowing you had problems controlling your trading behavior because of your emotional responses to things. You went in looking for support and were clear about it. They welcomed you and even took your money.

    And then they fucked with your emotions.

    They did the exact thing that would harm you the most on your journey. All because they have a sales funnel that they need to run and they have their own internal metrics to hit and whatever.

    Anger. Anger will clarify. Fuck those people. Fuck their system. And fuck how they made you feel. You’re going to be awesome without them. If this is how they behave in the beginning, it’s not going to get better when the pressure is on. No amount of education and platform is going to fix the emotional harm they will do. And that emotion is the primary thing in your way right now. Fuck them.



  • Do you understand what NATO is? It’s a transnational nuclear military without accountability to any populace, that was originally helmed by hand-picked Nazis to create an anti-Russian nuclear first-strike capability. Russia’s direct statement about invading Ukraine explicitly said that NATO activity on their border has become too threatening to ignore. The very first NATO exercise in Ukraine happened months before the Euromaidan coup and immediately after the coup NATO began war exercises including flying B-52s in the region and simulating an invasion of Kaliningrad.

    As far as the USA not having rusted outdated weapons, I point you to the $1T project to upgrade the US nuclear arsenal that started with the sentinel system and immediately hit an 80% cost increase (https://www.wral.com/story/cost-of-modernizing-us-air-force-s-nuclear-missile-arsenal-increases-by-over-80/21516120/) and a timeline problem that puts the upgrade well beyond the service life of the current Minuteman system, which itself ran into failed test flights recently.

    Not to mention the number of jets the US can’t keep in the air.

    Not to mention the fact that Russia has destroyed effectively 3 full Ukrainian militaries, first the stuff Ukraine had, then the first wave of American and European armor, and then the second wave of American and European armor, all while increasing its active duty count and increasing its military production capabilities.

    The reason Russia is threatening nuclear escalation is because the US and NATO are the standing nuclear threat and they continue to use the logic of escalation instead of deescalation and every analyst can see this. You could see it too if you stop reading the propaganda rags and actually build yourself an understanding.






  • There was literally never any chance that Ukraine was going to cause the fall of the RF. That’s absolute cope. The USA, through NATO, was attempting to boil the frog (Russia) and Russia appeased the US for 20 years before reacting to Euromaidan by annexing Crimea. The US decided to call Russia’s bluff and continue developing NATO’s position in Ukraine for the subsequent 8 years and Russia warned and warned and finally attacked to disrupt the process. Russia successfully disrupted the process. The USA’s goal was to deploy it nuclear capabilities and requisite logistics to Russia’s most vulnerable border. Ukraine had no goals of harming Russia, only pleasing Western masters so they could be let into the imperialist club and their oligarchs could benefit economically and politically.

    The greatest risks to Russia after they launched the SMO were 1) allocating too many forces to the front, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from the West in other locations, 2) exposing too much of their capabilities and capacities to Western intelligence, and 3) being unable to handle the activation of potential long-term sleeper cells cultivated by the West.

    There was never a risk that Ukraine itself would collapse the RF.




  • The cost of living will always be lower in China compared to the West due to their organizing of society. Therefore, it will always cost less to use Chinese labor than to use Western labor (except prison slaves and migrant workers) because the US cannot reduce the cost of living effectively due to their underinvestment in infrastructure and their commitment to allowing profit to build sprawl that cannot be operated efficiently.