Nazis and desperate, doomed Kursk offensives, name a more iconic duo.

Great post but the title doesn’t do it justice. This covers so much more than just electric vehicles.

Honestly even though i’ve tried to keep up with the news on China’s advances in sustainable development these graphs still shock me. Talk about a Great Leap Forward, this is it!

Or maybe this should be considered normal rate of advancement for a well run country and we’re all just too blackpilled from living in a stagnating capitalist dystopia.

My thoughts exactly. If anything Hakim is either purposely trying to pander to western viewers or genuinely doesn’t know any better. I know people want to believe it’s the former but i think the latter is more likely. I have seen no indication that any of the Deprogram trio have done serious investigation into what has been happening in Ukraine since 1991 beyond a shallow surface level overview. Time and again we’ve seen well meaning leftists fall for some of the elements of the western pro-Ukrainian propaganda narrative when they do not do their due diligence to educate themselves thoroughly on a subject before they speak on it.

Ah yes. Of course. I must have missed the imminent collapse of China because i’m so busy enjoying the completely healthy and perfect German economy right now.

The impressive part imo is not the decline itself, it’s the fact that they are managing to do this while also maintaining impressive economic growth.

Usually emissions and growth are strongly correlated and it’s natural to see a reduction when your economy is shrinking as happened during Covid. But as these graphs show, China has been working very hard to decouple these two things, to stabilize or even lower emissions while also continuing to develop their country, steadily increasing the prosperity of their people.

He’s not “lukewarm” or “left wing” anything, as this thread makes very clear he’s a deranged Zionist freak. He isn’t both-siding, he actively supports the genocide and advocates for brainwashing children into Zionism.

That sounds very made up. I’ve never heard anything of the sort from any Romanian i’ve talked to, even the extremely anti-communist ones who will act like communism was the worst thing that ever happened and who repeat all sorts of made up bullshit about communist leaders.

My experience is that the most racist and anti-semitic Romanians are actually the most anti-communist ones.

The West is responsible for what has been happening to the Rohingya, more specifically the British whose divide and rule ethnic policies purposely and strategically inflamed ethnic tensions while they were the dominant colonial power, and when they were forced to leave they knowingly left behind political and border situations that were akin to time bombs that were guaranteed to erupt into ethnic conflicts all over the world, from Africa to South East Asia.

I’m not excusing the perpetrators, but i think we should be aware of the larger historical context. Such things don’t happen in a vacuum and there are larger forces at work that benefit from continuing to fuel such conflicts and destabilization, especially in such a geopolitically important region.

They are preferable insofar as they preserve Myanmar’s sovereignty and expel foreign interference. The leaders of the previous government were literally trained and funded by western NGOs and CIA cutout NED. Of course that doesn’t mean their treatment of minorities is ok.

But at the same time we know that the imperialists love exploiting any and all ethnic divisions to create armed conflict, destabilization and separatism to either install their own puppet regime, or failing that to turn the country into a failed state and have a destabilized conflict zone on the border of one of their main rivals (in this case China) like they did in Afghanistan.

I’m sorry that some of the comrades here over-reacted a bit to your comment. It is completely legitimate to point out the biases of an author. I don’t completely agree with you, but you raise some valid points.

But also i think it is important when we read a piece like this to also judge it own its own merits. The author may have views we disagree with but those views may not necessarily factor very much into their analysis of a geopolitical event.

Pointing out color revolutions and western sponsored regime change against a government doesn’t necessarily imply that you support that government.

And while i do think this is all getting a little off-topic, it is important to note that the ethnic policies of the Myanmar military government are essentially a continuation of what was already happening under the previous “liberal” government of the US puppet Aung San Suu Kyi.

This is uncalled for, they were raising a legitimate concern.

Same. Right now all i have is a snapshot of the current situation. I need more context and a primer on Bangladeshi politics and recent history to understand what’s really going on.

As always, we should wait and see what happens. We will be able to tell a lot about what forces are behind this based on which direction the country takes in the coming weeks and months.

A follow-up article after the news broke that the prime minister has fled the country: https://korybko.substack.com/p/whats-the-best-way-forward-for-bangladesh

The author is pro-Russian, yes.

Agreed. The closer they get to defeat the more internal strife we will see and the more desperate Zelensky and his inner circle will be to eliminate potential threats to their power from any other factions, even once close allies.

I seriously doubt there will be any such referendum. I think this is just more cope, another desperate attempt to get some sort of “freeze” of the conflict now that Russia’s advance is picking up pace. My gut feeling is they hope to pull off another Minsk-like ruse, but it’s probably too little too late. Russia may go through the motions of pretending like this is a serious thing, but i don’t see them accepting anything but a complete capitulation now that their war machine is starting to kick into high gear. Putin was not lying when he said iirc over a year ago “we haven’t really started anything in earnest yet”. Well now they have started and i don’t think they’ll stop anymore until all objectives are achieved.

They didn’t abandon Azov in the steel plant, they went to great lengths to try to extract them actually, they tried breaking out by force, they tried sneaking out, they tried rescuing them by helicopter, they tried negotiating for Russia to open a corridor to Ukrainian controlled territory, they even tried going to beg the “international community” and even the pope to intercede on their behalf. The Russians were having none of it and would only accept surrender. Azov, at least at that time, was considered one of the most politically important units for the Kiev regime.

The reason why they bombed Azovites in Russian prisons is so they couldn’t tell any tales about the war crimes they committed and who ordered/gave them permission to do so. It was a necessary sacrifice and probably done by Azov themselves.

As for whether Kiev is trying to get rid of them now, there’s an argument to be made for that based on how they keep sending them to the most difficult sections of the front, but i don’t find that argument convincing for two reasons:

Firstly, i think the actual reason they keep sending them all over the place to put out fires is because they are one of the last properly trained and equipped units that Kiev has, kind of like the SS for Nazi Germany late in WW2. They have no other effective units with which to plug holes and delay the collapse of whole sections of the front.

Secondly, they hardly ever were actually sent into the most dangerous frontline fighting. Where they need meat they send some unfortunate souls who were forcefully mobilized and got a couple days of “training”. Azov usually stays further away from the front and functions as a blocking detachment. And when they were sent into actually dangerous situations, like when Avdeyevka was about to fall, they simply refused to obey the orders and retreated. The fact they were never punished for that indicates that they and their political patrons still have enormous sway in the Kiev regime.

In my opinion they are still a vital unit for keeping the rest of the army from mutinying, acting as ideological enforcers and punitive squads (torturing and executing defectors, partisans, etc.), and generally being the last line of defense for the Kiev regime in case of an uprising or a regime change attempt by rival Ukrainian factions (or second to last, because the actual last line are probably western special forces).

So no, i don’t think that the Nazis are being purposely eliminated, at least not by Ukraine. They are the political and military backbone of the regime.

It’s too early to tell. I say let’s wait a couple more decades and see what happens.

The Soviet Union was also very good at sports and so were many of the Eastern European socialist countries like Romania. Socialism just makes you good at sports.