Thanks so much

Anyone has a way to access the full article?

I feel sorry for this person’s dad to have to put up with a libtard son like that.

It’s infuriating to see liberals taking the “common knowledge” narrative position immediately because it’s the first thing they heard, but when anyone challenges them, they resort to “I need accurate sources because I’m such a man of science”. We have to take their word for it, but they fall from the clouds and clutch their pearls when the other side isn’t a peer-reviewed journal.

That’s the intended purpose. Get a PR victory, and get the Russians worried enough to accept negotiating on less punishing terms for Ukraine

I think long-term this will have the opposite effect. While Russians are slightly panicking right now, they’ll get their shit together eventually and push them back. And then they’ll be looking to wash off the humiliation, so I expect an intensification of fighting to ensue and a refusal for negotiations. The Ukrainians have basically increased the likelyhood of their two worst case scenarios happening.

Scenario 1 is that the US and/or assorted vassals cut off future weapon supplies based on the agreement that their weapons would not be used to strike Russian territory beyond military targets behind the border. While I think it’s an unlikely possibility, the Iran-Israel showdown will be a factor, as the Russians might use military aid to Iran, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen as leverage for this to happen. They’ve allegedly already threatened to arm Yemen with hypersonic anti-ship missiles as a bargaining chip for the recent hostage exchange to happen.

Scenario 2 is that Russia will not accept anything other than complete capitulation from Ukraine. That doesn’t mean Ukraine will be fully annexed (I don’t think the Russians want to spend the next few decades policing Western Ukraine while also guarding a direct border with multiple NATO countries that have shown to be politically unstable and increasingly right-wing anti-Russian in recent years). But it might mean the loss of even more territory. Possibly all the way to Kiev, Cherkassy, Zhitomir and Odessa.

I think the delay is owed to 2 factors:

a) This is a distraction for a counter-attack in Kharkhov area (as there’s been a build-up there for a while), or Zhaporozhia area (where recently the Ukrainians tried a more limited version of this kind of attack, probably for reconaissance). Most likely Kharkhov, as logic dictates, it being the closest place, that’s where the Russians will pull reinforcements from. The Russians are probably weighing their options before committing troops from elsewhere.

b) This area was largely defended by conscripts, instead of regular army, and the Russians got relaxed due the limited amount of action that has been going on before for months. The Ukrainians basically acted with a blitzkrieg mentality and there’s probably a bit of confusion for the Russians on where exactly the frontline is, or what the main objective is.

Once Ukrainians stretch themselves thin and deep, they will slow down and then pushed back. The Russians are probably prioritizing fortifying areas before major settlements where they probably plan to cut the advancing Ukrainian troops. This will take at least a few more days.

It’s probably because you are a raging tankie /s

This was a weirdly comedic read about worlds colliding:

American elites trying to create an American chip monopoly for nationalist and imperialist reasons, ask their colony to bring the factory to the imperial core.

Asian worker exploitation culture being imported to the US, where everyone likes to brag how hard-working people they are and think that the rest of the world is poor because it’s lazy.

American labour aristocrats refusing to conform with Taiwanese worker exploitation culture.

Taiwanese capitalists making concessions to American workers so they can fulfill the wishes of American elites.

American elites crying because they can’t build their self-sufficient capitalist tech utopia that will grab the chip market by the balls.

Taiwanese workers looking in and feeling that everything’s a bit too surreal and unbelievable for their taste.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/24/usa.davidteather

Police-woman enticed him to meet, pretending to be 16-year-old girl

Case dismissed and files sealed.

Someone from within leaked the story to the press to smear him.

In my own opinion, someone is out to get him and they are grasping at anything to discredit him. If the sexual offenses allegations were true, they’d use those to raid his house.

He has a big cult following, especially online, and the people who have no real opinion of him default to the cult opinion.

In my country, a guy who worships him and got famous by camping out for weeks outside Tesla offices just to talk with him, just got elected to the EU parliament, partly because of his Elon Musk worship.

Btw I’m an actual biologist, and what they send is basic shit that you mostly learn in school, and that is unrelated to each other and to whatever it is they are talking about. Most likely they lifted that stuff off a google search of “advanced biology terms” or something.

Yes, we are the counter-revolutionaries.

And imagine the hubris of said war criminals not attending, because their other war criminal buddies were not invited.

Can you elaborate on why he’s a shit stain of a human being? Genuinely asking, because other than his name being vaguely familiar to me, I’ve never heard of him before.

Well, you know, the Wehrmacht did nothing wrong! They didn’t know! They were clean!

Or at least there was a reason we’ve been hearing this stuff all these decades.

The American project of restoring Germany’s military and industrial might that can start world wars, as a tool in their pocket has been completed.

The only reason they are doing a referendum is because otherwise Russia won’t accept negotiating. If Zelensky’s government negotiates peace with Russia, then the next Ukrainian government can reject the treaty on the grounds that Zelensky was not elected in office at the time.

Besides legitimazing himself, Zelensky is also trying to shift the blame around. With a referendum, it’s not him that gave up Ukrainian territory to Russia, it’s everyone.

I wouldn’t expect much consideration to go into how this referendum is going to be made, as its results won’t really change anything. The point is just to declare that a referendum was made.

Paywalled

Nationalism = chauvinism by definition. My nation is better than others. They literally call themselves Patriotic Socialists so they don’t call themselves Nationalist Socialists (and not just of the connotation to the Nazis)

Patsocs and Nationalist right-wingers always try to equate sense of duty/love of to one’s country as nationalism. Otherwise, they would have to admit their racist undertones.

This right here is the answer OP.

Anarchists fundamentally accept this (even if they don’t admit it sometimes because they are liberals cosplaying as anarchists/leftists). Their argument is that communist (in their mind, Stalinist) states replace capitalist oppression.

They even argue for their anarchist society enforcing revolutionary change through citizens organizing to stop reactive elements or set down rules on how the local community will operate, ie a form of civil oppression.

Their idea is still bollocks, since they think that replacing “communist state oppression” with “anarchist civil society oppression” is morally different. The only real difference is that one of these oppressions is organized and capable of defending the revolution and achieving communism, while the other isn’t.

Because they’ve been propagandized so heavily, that their brain makes them lash out instead of considering you might have a point.

This is World News, not Fake News.