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Pener Kropoopkin posted:If you REALLY wanted continued imperial dysfunction at any cost, then you'd want the war in Ukraine to perpetuate indefinitely. It's exposed all the shortcomings of the actual capabilities of the global north to wage war and conflict, continues degrading the material conditions of Europe, and represents a massive fiscal sink that wastes the energy and efforts of the United States. uphold marxist-leninist-bidenist thought
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Bitter Harvest got brought up earlier and I could swear there was another movie in the last decade about the Ukrainian independence war in the 20s that also flopped. My searches for it have all been fruitless though. It's interesting that all these Ukrainian revisionist films haven't had any revival from the war, probably because they're still bad movies.
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Oct 6, 2023 16:43
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Orange Devil posted:Yeah I support anything that'll gently caress up US empire. If that also materially worsens the lives of US citizens including many posters on this forum then oh well. I don't really give a poo poo because there's like 350 million of you and 7.5 billion of the rest of us. Plus Americans are garbage people. I get what you are saying but in the end, no I wont prefer Trump over Biden just because Trump was insanely incompetent Besides that, he is also a fascist and gave support to like-minded fascists around world, and that makes a lot of damage too. His defeat was substantial to Bolsonaro's defeat here in Brazil, and for the fact he didint had enough power and support for his post election coup And also, whole might be an "isolationist " in relation to some countries, he was very eager to do something about Mexico or Venezuela
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Oct 6, 2023 16:44
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I probably wasn't clear enough: electing a right wing libertarian or paleoconservative government is never, ever happening. It's not even a scenario, it's a sideshow. The best possible case for imperial dysfunction is another Trump presidency, and Trump just said a few days ago that he would've bombed Mexico. One way or another the imperialist wars will get shifted from Ukraine to either China or Latin America. If you REALLY wanted continued imperial dysfunction at any cost, then you'd want the war in Ukraine to perpetuate indefinitely. It's exposed all the shortcomings of the actual capabilities of the global north to wage war and conflict, continues degrading the material conditions of Europe, and represents a massive fiscal sink that wastes the energy and efforts of the United States. Nah we have it coming. A lot of Europeans are only marginally better than Americans. Plus I don’t see a scenario where EU states end their vassalage to the US and start acting in the better interests of their population (join BRI, achieve energy independence) without going through serious pain first. So imo best to get it over with quick. The war in Ukraine is doing a hell of a lot more damage in Europe than to the US though. To the point where imo the US is a big winner what with everyone depending on them for LNG now.
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Oct 6, 2023 16:47
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Bitter Harvest got brought up earlier and I could swear there was another movie in the last decade about the Ukrainian independence war in the 20s that also flopped. My searches for it have all been fruitless though. It's interesting that all these Ukrainian revisionist films haven't had any revival from the war, probably because they're still bad movies. The movie “Mr. Jones” is an important new historical drama with a very contemporary context. Released in the US in spring 2020, it sheds long overdue light on one of Stalin’s worst crimes, while also serving as a timely reminder that today’s talk of fake news is actually nothing new. Written by Andrea Chalupa and directed by the Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland, this joint Polish, Ukrainian, and British production follows one man’s struggle to expose Stalin’s man-made famine in Ukraine, a crime the Soviet regime was desperate to hide from the outside world. The movie’s central character is Gareth Jones, a young Welsh journalist who travels to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s hoping to interview Stalin. Instead, he ends up uncovering the dictator’s darkest secret, the Ukrainian famine. Jones’s principle antagonist is the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty, who uses his considerable status to publicly attack Jones and deny the existence of the famine. The two leading actors, James Norton (Gareth Jones) and Peter Sarsgaard (Walter Duranty), brilliantly capture this struggle for truth during what was one of the darkest periods in European history.
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Oct 6, 2023 16:49
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:If you REALLY wanted continued imperial dysfunction at any cost, then you'd want the war in Ukraine to perpetuate indefinitely. It's exposed all the shortcomings of the actual capabilities of the global north to wage war and conflict, continues degrading the material conditions of Europe, and represents a massive fiscal sink that wastes the energy and efforts of the United States. i want the american empire to die but i also don't want ukrainians to keep dying
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Zodium posted:uphold marxist-leninist-bidenist thought  mfw the world's only true revolutionary: Donald Trump; threatens to tear down the colossus of Washington DC. Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:The movie “Mr. Jones” is an important new historical drama with a very contemporary context. Released in the US in spring 2020, it sheds long overdue light on one of Stalin’s worst crimes, while also serving as a timely reminder that today’s talk of fake news is actually nothing new. Ok, so Bitter Harvest WAS the movie I was thinking of.
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Oct 6, 2023 16:50
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Best Friends posted:it’s wild that the entire west is donating tube artillery in active use, stripping whole batteries, but there’s thousands of Abrams sitting in the desert and they’re just giving Ukraine a few. all I can figure is that the leadership of the west actively wanted to reduce or eliminate their tube artillery and this was a good excuse. how many of those are in working order though?
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Oct 6, 2023 16:51
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VoicesCanBe posted:https://twitter.com/Ramy_Sawma/status/1709649688079589495 Was thinking about this again because I'm insane. If that hawkish think tank is right about Ukraine having had around 2 million troops in the armed forces throughout the conflict, that coupled with the current count in this video would imply total losses (dead, injured, captured, deserted) around 1 million. That doesn't seem right lmao - one or more of the inputs here are completely off.
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VoicesCanBe posted:Was thinking about this again because I'm insane. If that hawkish think tank is right about Ukraine having had around 2 million troops in the armed forces throughout the conflict, that coupled with the current count in this video would imply total losses (dead, injured, captured, deserted) around 1 million. That doesn't seem right lmao - one or more of the inputs here are completely off. We've seen a lot of rumors and reports and speculation they casualty numbers are around the 400-500k range per side iirc Artillery and mine warfare is some poo poo
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Oct 6, 2023 16:56
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:The movie “Mr. Jones” is an important new historical drama with a very contemporary context. Released in the US in spring 2020, it sheds long overdue light on one of Stalin’s worst crimes, while also serving as a timely reminder that today’s talk of fake news is actually nothing new. given that the ussr was supposedly this authoritarian closed society, how exactly would some rando welshman end up "uncovering the darkest secret" that said all-powerful government so desperately wanted to keep secret?
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Engorged Pedipalps posted:We've seen a lot of rumors and reports and speculation they casualty numbers are around the 400-500k range per side iirc which itself doesn't make much sense one side has most of the artillery and one side has the most troops/targets unless all those Ukrainian soldiers are real good at dodging Russia's huge artillery advantage something doesn't make sense with both sides losing the exact same amount of men. The entire Ukrainian frontline is one big target rich environment.
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Oct 6, 2023 17:00
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KomradeX posted:Talk about the pot calling the kettle Zwarte Piet I mean, most municipalities plus all the media have now changed the appearance of Zwarte Piet and public opinion has shifted. We’re absolutely not there yet, but the struggle of anti-racism activists is producing results. Last year the state and this year the monarchy have officially apologized for slavery and admitted those institutions committed crimes against humanity when they engaged in it. These were clearly influenced by the contribution in the parliamentary debate of the anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist party in parliament. This is now leading to consequences like the rehabilitation of Tula, the leader of a slave revolt on Curaçao, this week, the creation of a slavery museum, and changes to school curriculums. I hope you have more, quicker and easier succes with anti-racism and anti-colonial struggles in your country.
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Oct 6, 2023 17:01
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Marenghi posted:Speaking of. I was looking into the 'documentary' Harvest of Despair, which instigated the government reports in the US and Canada which determined the famine was a genocide and brought about the term holodomor. I had mentioned it was produced by the Ukrianian studies department underneath that ex-nazi chancellor recently exposed. I'm going to guess they leave out the part where the UPA was also formed to ethnically cleanse Ukraine of its jews and other undesirables
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Oct 6, 2023 17:03
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gradenko_2000 posted:SanderS = Nader + SS
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Oct 6, 2023 17:27
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Good news for Sudan! Ukrainian special soldiers are fighting Wagner https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1710241167751671844?t=FVL-ul7d__wKCrMgVd2CyA&s=19
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Oct 6, 2023 17:38
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Maybe I’m way overestimating my forecasting abilities, but it’s mind boggling to me that ruZZia isn’t in full blown panic mode. The majority of artillery pieces that the Ukrainians destroy are “irreplaceable” seeing that they were pulled from old Soviet stocks. ruZZia (or most countries for that matter) don’t have the manufacturing capabilities to produce enough new artillery pieces to keep up with what’s being lost on the front lines. Ditto with tanks and BMPs. I’ve seen several videos where people have closely examined military bases and counted pieces of equipment. They all arrive at the same conclusion - sometime in mid-2024 is when ruZZia is going to run out of Soviet attic stock. Once this happens, their military is going to be without its main pillar and I gotta think that’s when things can get REALLY ugly.
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Oct 6, 2023 17:41
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quote:President of the @EU_Commission. Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺 seven 😳
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HashtagGirlboss posted:ruZZia ru33ia
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When I was a child my friend had an nes game called rush’n attack I thought it was a clever pun
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Not So Fast posted:Good news for Sudan! Ukrainian special soldiers are fighting Wagner shouldnt they be somewhere else doing something more important ukraine
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Best Friends posted:it’s wild that the entire west is donating tube artillery in active use, stripping whole batteries, but there’s thousands of Abrams sitting in the desert and they’re just giving Ukraine a few. all I can figure is that the leadership of the west actively wanted to reduce or eliminate their tube artillery and this was a good excuse. Ukraine already have tanks in large enough quantity to do the type of operation they need. Shoving more tanks their way with the crazy supply train NATO tanks run on is a PR move at best hence the limited numbers.
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Oct 6, 2023 17:52
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Raskolnikov38 posted:shouldnt they be somewhere else doing something more important ukraine What's more important for Ukraine than strategically irrelevant PR wins?
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Oct 6, 2023 17:55
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:The movie “Mr. Jones” is an important new historical drama with a very contemporary context. Released in the US in spring 2020, it sheds long overdue light on one of Stalin’s worst crimes, while also serving as a timely reminder that today’s talk of fake news is actually nothing new. The movie seems to be mixing reality with fiction. He wasn't traveling to interview Stalin, though he did visit Germany just prior to interview newly appointed Chancellor Hitler. His trip was specifically to visit Ukraine and document the famine. He had already visited Ukraine twice once in 1930 and again in 1931, he wrote articles about the poverty and hunger he saw. He was invited by Oscar Ehrt, Vice Consul at the German Consulate in Kharkov. He even visited the opera with the Vice Consul during his stay. The Consuls son Adolf Ehrt was head of Goebbels' Anti-Komintern agency, which was a propaganda unit to discredit the Soviet Union as a "Judeo-Bolshevik" conspiracy. The movie also ends with him imprisoned before being deported, and breaking the story back in London. The truth was he was never arrested and traveled back to Nazi Germany where he first reported his story at a press conference in Berlin. Cerebral Bore posted:given that the ussr was supposedly this authoritarian closed society, how exactly would some rando welshman end up "uncovering the darkest secret" that said all-powerful government so desperately wanted to keep secret? He was invited by Oscar Ehrt, Vice Consul at the German Consulate in Kharkov. He was a diplomatic guest of another country so he was afforded greater freedom than a standard visitor.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:shouldnt they be somewhere else doing something more important ukraine they're """Ukrainian""" special forces, not Ukrainian special forces
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Cerebral Bore posted:given that the ussr was supposedly this authoritarian closed society, how exactly would some rando welshman end up "uncovering the darkest secret" that said all-powerful government so desperately wanted to keep secret? basically the same needle the Tetris movie tried to thread
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Oct 6, 2023 17:58
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Marenghi posted:He was invited by Oscar Ehrt, Vice Consul at the German Consulate in Kharkov. He was a diplomatic guest of another country so he was afforded greater freedom than a standard visitor. Just to follow up on this, the son was quite an interesting character. As mentioned he headed Goebbels' Anti-Komintern with Eberhard Taubert. But after the war he went on to work for the CIA founded Gehlen Organization, which was eventually re-organized into the BND, where he worked until retirement. He doesn't have much presence in English media, but he has a German wiki entry which covers this. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Ehrt Eberhard Taubert wrote Der Ewige Jude. So you can go from the Gareth Jone movie to Der Ewige Jude by 2 degrees of separation.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:05
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Orange Devil posted:I mean, most municipalities plus all the media have now changed the appearance of Zwarte Piet and public opinion has shifted. We’re absolutely not there yet, but the struggle of anti-racism activists is producing results. Whats the dutch opinion on Roma?
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Oct 6, 2023 18:06
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the european opinion on roma has not changed in 40+ years beyond people being slightly quieter in their bigotry, but they might as well not bother because every one of them is doing it seeing Roma get tied to lampposts is what got the EU to support the war in the first place, THIS is how you protect the garden
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Oct 6, 2023 18:07
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Minenfeld! posted:I was in high school during Iraq and my politics have shifted since then, so this particular war is my first real anti war experience writ large, but I'm starting to really understand the dynamics at play among the left in Europe at the beginning of the first world war and it's really deflating. So many folks I thought shared an understanding of the world with me simply didn't. People put their money where their mouth was instead of marching proxies to their deaths. Mussolini was wounded and decorated.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:15
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VoicesCanBe posted:Was thinking about this again because I'm insane. If that hawkish think tank is right about Ukraine having had around 2 million troops in the armed forces throughout the conflict, that coupled with the current count in this video would imply total losses (dead, injured, captured, deserted) around 1 million. That doesn't seem right lmao - one or more of the inputs here are completely off. I don't think that video is anyway meaningful and it doesn't follow the data available. It is true both forces grew over time, but honestly I think both sides have taken more losses than implied, especially on the Ukrainian side. supersnowman posted:Ukraine already have tanks in large enough quantity to do the type of operation they need. Shoving more tanks their way with the crazy supply train NATO tanks run on is a PR move at best hence the limited numbers. They don't really anymore, they have taken such punishing losses over the last 9 months that they dug way into their T-64 reserves and much of their Western armor has been accounted for. It has been a bloodbath. Best Friends posted:it’s wild that the entire west is donating tube artillery in active use, stripping whole batteries, but there’s thousands of Abrams sitting in the desert and they’re just giving Ukraine a few. all I can figure is that the leadership of the west actively wanted to reduce or eliminate their tube artillery and this was a good excuse. There aren't 1000s of them in the Desert anymore, they were probably that many M1 20 years ago but they have been re-using hulls to the point that there are about 1600-1700 left and in all likelihood they don't have engines. The tanks the Ukrainians are getting have been rebuilt ones. The US doesn't want to "cash out" its remaining hulls because they don't getting their supply chain to produce them is going to be a complete mess. Pener Kropoopkin posted:I probably wasn't clear enough: electing a right wing libertarian or paleoconservative government is never, ever happening. It's not even a scenario, it's a sideshow. The best possible case for imperial dysfunction is another Trump presidency, and Trump just said a few days ago that he would've bombed Mexico. One way or another the imperialist wars will get shifted from Ukraine to either China or Latin America. If you REALLY wanted continued imperial dysfunction at any cost, then you'd want the war in Ukraine to perpetuate indefinitely. It's exposed all the shortcomings of the actual capabilities of the global north to wage war and conflict, continues degrading the material conditions of Europe, and represents a massive fiscal sink that wastes the energy and efforts of the United States. Trump saying something isn't the same as doing it though, and Biden has generally been more aggressive than him. The Ukrainians aren't going to last forever, and I don't think Trump will have much bearing on it one way or another. The issue is giving the rest of the world a cooling-off period before another crusade begins. Also, the Democrats will blame every defect of the empire on him and they will be at each other throats for years while the rest of the world moves on.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:17
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i think all that's been exposed is that leftist became an aesthetic for a little while and maybe gave the impression of a larger leftist movement than their actually was. So like the more liberal parts of SA, they might say 'gently caress the police' but they don't mean it, in fact as majority white middle class they quite like the police as they keep them protected from all the underclasses created by their way of life. America sucked, because it was cool to say America sucked. But when push came to shove they didn't just flock back to supporting the US, they became some of the fiercest pro-nato demagogues. That's not whip-lash, that's just a facade falling away.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:21
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Leftism has always been an aesthetic, just look at the SPD.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:26
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Looks like the Russian Army has resumed attacks north of Kupyansk.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:34
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We really need to incorporate basic theory of mind into public schooling if people are looking at a different viewpoint and the only conclusion they can make is "they must be getting paid to say they think that, there's no way they can hold an earnest belief that stopping a deadlocked war is a good thing"
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Regarde Aduck posted:i think all that's been exposed is that leftist became an aesthetic for a little while and maybe gave the impression of a larger leftist movement than their actually was. So like the more liberal parts of SA, they might say 'gently caress the police' but they don't mean it, in fact as majority white middle class they quite like the police as they keep them protected from all the underclasses created by their way of life. America sucked, because it was cool to say America sucked. But when push came to shove they didn't just flock back to supporting the US, they became some of the fiercest pro-nato demagogues. That's not whip-lash, that's just a facade falling away. There's no real political left in the imperial core. The US made sure of that in the Cold War, stamping it out internally by the 70s at the latest.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:48
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Personally Im not getting paid, Im just affect by all that russian disinformation
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KomradeX posted:Whats the dutch opinion on Roma? Mainstream opinion is that the reason there is a stereotype that Roma are all thieves and rapists is because it is true.
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