you're a great-man theorist reactionary and a moron
do it, loser
you're not really comparing apples to apples here
you made the comparison in the first place dude
In fact, everything they have done has pretty much been a victory outside of random sloppy losses on occaison
this is fucking laughable and as bad as NAFO posters who refuse to accept that Ukraine is losing the war
stop your doomer bullshit and realize what side you're on
i would be in prison or worse if I lived in Russia because I am a transgender woman and an anti-imperialist communist. fuck off telling me to take anyone's side other than the international proletariat.
lol fr? that's awesome
do you seriously think the Russians have won a single victory in any theatre of this war so far which is close to comparable to the scale of victories the Red Army and western Allies were winning by 1944
like do you actually believe there's any point of comparison between those military-industrial superpowers, one of which was a revolutionary socialist republic, and the half-failed neoliberal state of Russia vs the failed neoliberal state of Ukraine
mfs see the Russians take maybe three significant towns in their whole summer offensive and think "ah yes a modern Operation Bagration"
you dont get anywhere near any high office of state in the world if you're willing to raise awareness of rich people being pedophiles and running child sex rings. it's just not done.
the red army not just stalin
who came up with genocide joe
they should use tactical nukes to clear them out and call it unscheduled nuclear testing. nobody can really get mad at the Russians nuking unambiguously Russian land
iran clearly doesnt really give a shit about the suffering of the palestinian ppl so much as it gives a shit abt securing its own safety and stability and like whatever, i didnt expect any different, but it's really grating to see them come out with a new statement every day or two being like "we are totally gonna fucking kill the zionist entity guys just wait and see, plans are in motion, our brave palestinian people will not be left waiting" throughout all of this. shit or get off the pot, losers. i used to have some positive feeling for them but they just let israel get away with the most heinous violation of their sovereignty and didn't do a thing. Hezbollah and Yemen make them look pathetic by comparison.
when we have a revolution in britain, one of the ironic policies I hope to see enacted is that we arrange "fox hunts" in which former members of the landed gentry are chased across fields by packs of vicious dogs and armed revolutionaries on horseback
Russians are really on the verge of turning the Donbass front into a rout at this point. Very little of the Ukrainian 2014 defensive line that hasn't been surpassed, with the final section of it (around "New York" whose actual name escapes me right now) falling apart right now.
With it behind them, the Ukrainians have basically no ability to dig in and stop the Russians anywhere in the Donetsk oblast. Whatever happens in Kursk, embarrassing as it is for the Russian state, will not reverse the much more impactful gains the Russian army is making, and does not change the fact that the only thing standing between the Russian army and the Dniepr is time.
We're very much leaving the regime of "stare at a static line on the map every day for the past year and a half"
the ones who were radical enough to present an actual threat to the present order got their heads smashed by scumbag pigs and fascist mobs within a month; the ones whose demands could be accommodated while maintaining the overall structure got allowed to peacefully disband their camps and enter "negotiations" with bloodsoaked faculties. very similar to how the 2020 uprisings went, really. the positive to draw from this is that the radical wing was way better organised, theoretically much more advanced, and able to move more quickly and adapt more effectively than in 2020 - which featured nothing like the level of organisation or vision we saw last spring.
to compare directly - look at the difference between the hopeless CHAZ/CHOP occupation, which was really the zenith of productive radical action during 2020's uprisings, and the militant occupations of many buildings on campuses across the US - which went on for days, produced an outpouring of revolutionary theory and agitational material, and fended off all sorts of assaults before they had to send in police with damn near shotguns and accompanied by fascist mobs to dismantle them. that's the difference that four years of development of the underlying social base for revolutionary politics has made. no signs point to this development slowing down, in fact the conditions in our societies mean that it's likely to carry on accelerating. and the lessons learned from these uprisings will be learned and integrated just as the lessons learned from 2020 were in this last wave.
so keep your chin up and prepare for the next rupture, comrade, it's coming.
americans are literally deeply evil, so many mfs who claimed to give a shit about the genocide in Palestine but since Harris got the nomination it's become abundantly clear they were just irritated over the lack of a "competent" leader for the empire. i feel really awful for comrades over there who are having to deal with living in the midst of that, it must be soul-crushing. the only difference between zionist supremacism and amerikkkan supremacism is that the zionists are closer to the collapse of their system and thus more obviously, outwardly bloodthirsty, less wholly complacent.
Russia has succeeded in this war so far
not really
this site is too small and subcultural for feds to give a shit. maybe if we had an app and our posts got more than a few hundred views globally on a good day...
stop trying to pretend like the neoliberal shithole of modern Russia is anything near as effective a state structure as what the Bolsheviks delivered unto the world
Did Ukraine just annex Russia?
well they could annex a tiny little bit of it and it would be more meaningful than the Russian annexation of Zaporizhzhia has done for the past two years lol
Russian commentators: the present state of affairs is unacceptable! nuclear-tipped grand offensive now! mobilise all men to the front and women into the factories! assassinate every leading NATO head of state with hypersonic weaponry!
Putin: we are aware of a concerning situation in the Kursk oblast. we must remember Stalin's great and courageous leadership in these times and take heed. i have made funding available to the Bereznetzhov thermal optics factory to expand production by up to 30% by 2028 in light of this. we will not be intimidated by terrorists and the time of empty threats is over.
it's not really his fault that the decaying neoliberal state structure cant really achieve any goals that don't directly align with the goals of big capital. sure, it's bad if totally undisputed Russian territory is being held by a relatively small Ukrainian force, but it would also be bad for business to do too much about it, or otherwise try and prevent this sort of national embarrassment from happening.
if Russia's govt was more like China's, where the state is independently strong enough to tell capitalist interests to fuck off where necessary in favour of national interests, then this would be impossible and the war would be over already as well
MAR A LAGO | 6PM, 9TH AUGUST 2024 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Acting president of the US Donald J Trump delivered remarks from his complex in the sunny Florida peninsula today, a region of the United States thousands of miles distant from the capital and affluent Democratic-loyalist heartlands. Here, the central government's grip is loose enough that the one-time president feels comfortable presenting himself as a leader-in-waiting, unwilling to back down in the face of legal offensives and threats against the independent judiciary from Democratic politicians and their aligned commentators. Trump narrowly survived an attempt on his life last month as a would-be assassin shot at him while he addressed a crowd of loyal supporters; the assassin was later found to have supported disputed president Biden's election campaign, even helping to fundraise for it.
A defiant figure nonetheless, Trump heaped scorn on what many call the "coastal elite" of the country, pulling no punches in a salvo whose targets included paramount leader Joe Biden and second-in-command Kamala Harris. Biden's claim to the presidency was marred by allegations of voter fraud in an election which took many days to produce final results back in 2020, and international observers have warned that the country could lurch towards greater instability with the coming election fast approaching. It now appears that Harris is set to inherit overall command of the party following Biden's sudden announcement that he will step down at the end of his current term last month.
This followed an extraordinary primary which saw Biden uncontested in most states - despite attempts by peace campaigners to express their discontent by simply voting "uncommitted", achieving unprecedented and huge tallies in favour of no candidate in many places in what some have called a clear sign that even Biden's own party want him and the ruling clique out. Some have argued that Biden's early retirement was a result of him being pushed out by figures within the party who could no longer deny the reality of his severe unpopularity. Harris will now take his place despite no votes having been cast for her at all so far this year.
Trump commands a great deal of support and respect from the local population in Florida (especially from the ethnic Hispanic minority there) and across large parts of the US, as well as being recognised as the legitimate leader of the country by sizeable portion of its people and many regional politicians. The Democratic-controlled central government has sought to cast doubt on his claim to the presidency by pointing at official election results which appear to show slim majorities for the ruling party - which has in recent months harshly cracked down on dissent and protest across the country over its controversial support for Israel, a state which the Democratic regime calls a "key ally". Elections in Israel have been cancelled for months and an autocratic war cabinet has been assembled during its war of aggression against the embattled Palestinian nation, with the US Democratic Party insisting that the small and increasingly diplomatically-isolated state has a "right to defend itself" and continuing weapons shipments in violation of international law.
The figure of Trump contrasts this - a popular, unconventional firebrand who commonly speaks in favour of freedom and has plans to get the US back on track by cutting taxes, protecting US business, and streamlining the country's democracy in order to more properly represent the will of the country's varied and restive populace. Polling in the nation appears to indicate that Democratic policies do not command support from the American public and questions have been increasingly raised by international leaders such as China's Xi Jinping and Iran's Khamenei over whether the party truly has a legitimate claim to represent the country's people.
Biden and regime loyalists have sought to brush off such claims but it has become increasingly difficult to deny the emerging picture of a United States beset by an ailing economy, increasingly stage-managed elections, and trapped in multiple foreign quagmires. Trump, whose time in power is widely regarded as having been a more stable and prosperous period for the US, may present a much-needed breath of fresh air - but international partners must closely watch over the election process and ensure that it is not stolen from him if necessary.
please help me understand. i was under the impression that inflation was down and jobs were up. what is there to complain about?
they keep talking as though we fundamentally want the same things but have different views on how to achieve it. no, i want the amerikkkan state and its allies wiped from the face of the earth and every one of its politicians, media cheerleaders, military brass, etc shot, even the ones who are ok with me being trans! i don't want a "lesser evil". i want the people to assert themselves on the world historical stage and drag you and everyone like you from your comfortable homes. you are the modern incarnation of the Nazis, you are actively carrying out the worst atrocity i have seen in my life, and yet you think you can convince me to do anything for you, let alone not actively work for your overthrow and execution???