Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- yuekit4
This article seems to cast the invasion of Ukraine in a different light. All along it's been obvious Putin is isolated, paranoid, etc but how far gone is he? Apparently he's now overruling his own generals and personally giving orders to his troops...which is something Hitler did after he lost the battle of Stalingrad.
- the only difference is hitler didn't have a doomsday machine...._niko
- https://en.wikipedia…moogchild
- NBQ001
Russian commander punishing new guys for leaving their positions.
Such a motivational fella. I’m sure they all love fighting for their country.
- Soldiers *should* be punished for leaving their posts. In the US military, you can receive the death penalty for desertion during a time of war.MondoMorphic
- Nairn0
Any more on that APB strike y'day?
I've not seen anything yet to indicate whether it was a success or not.
- front page?
https://edition.cnn.…grafician - Well, yeah, that's the same official line as was given last time. I meant more independent reportage / satellite analysis.Nairn
- They went piu piu then went boom boomgrafician
- front page?
- neverscared0
Russian troops 'able to freeze sperm for free'
Russian soldiers called up to fight in Ukraine will be able to store their frozen sperm in a cryobank for free, according to a leading Russian lawyer.
Russian Union of Lawyers head Igor Trunov told state news agency Tass the health ministry had responded to his appeal for a free cryobank, and changes to compulsory medical insurance.
- sted0
systems like this are behind the trolls people are arguing with on twitter or facebook :)
most of the equipment you see here are SIM banks, these are essential to get SMS verified accounts, and they provide network access for bots. these can run fully automatically (commenting, posting), but the operator can take control over one or even several units at the same time. we have seen one during the war that specialized in voice calls this station is 100% internet
- Krassy3
Another mystery death in Russia as tank boss dies ‘suddenly’ a day after Putin abruptly cancels meeting with him
https://www.the-sun.com/news/700…
- yuekit2
Kadyrov: "We are fighting in Ukraine against fascism, Satanism and Nazism. Anyone who doesn't want to live under the LGBT flag should stand up and help us deal with it."
- yuekit0
Multipolarity, the Mantra of Authoritarianism
Multipolarity is the compass orienting the Left’s understanding of international relations. All streams of the Left in India and globally have for long advocated for a multipolar world as opposed to a unipolar one dominated by the imperialist USA.
At the same time, multipolarity has become the keystone of the shared language of global fascisms and authoritarianisms. It is a rallying cry for despots, that serves to dress up their war on democracy as a war on imperialism. The deployment of multipolarity to disguise and legitimise despotism is immeasurably enabled by the ringing endorsement by the global Left of multipolarity as a welcome expression of anti-imperialist democratisation of international relations.
By framing its response to political confrontations within or between nation states as a zero-sum option between endorsing multipolarity or unipolarity, the Left perpetuates a fiction that even at its best, was always misleading and inaccurate. But this fiction is positively dangerous today, serving solely as a narrative and dramatic device to cast fascists and authoritarians in flattering roles.
The unfortunate consequences of the Left’s commitment to a value-free multipolarity are illustrated very starkly in the case of its response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The global and the Indian Left have legitimised and amplified (to varying degrees) Russian fascist discourse, by defending the invasion as a multipolar challenge to US-led unipolar imperialism.
- Quite. The battle for 'multi-polarity' ignores the fact that the 'mono-polar' order consists of a fuckload of mostly-aligned countriesNairn
- https://www.theguard…Khurram
- Lula's version of multi-polarity seems very different from Putin. He's talking about diplomatic alliances, ending embargo on Cuba, all seems very reasonable.yuekit
- So these ideas can really be used to justify anything. From perspective of many post Soviet countries like Ukraine they wanted freedom from Russia,yuekit
- but Russia continues to meddle in these countries. You could say the war is more about Russia's attempt to reimpose a unipolar order (led by them of course)yuekit
- lol. Let's all use Putin's definition for everything. Create a straw man. And attack the left. Stupid idiot.Khurram
- Read Lula's opinion carefully and take note:Khurram
- "Lula and his allies do not identify with the concept of the “free world”, nor with the idea that the United States sits at its helm...Khurram
- They believe that a multipolar world is now in formation, and that their task – through an active, assertive and independent foreign policy – is to play...Khurram
- ...a positive role in it. Brazil does not need the US to “lead the world”. It needs the US to find a new place at the table."Khurram
- "All very reasonable" mmmhmmm. And the US and that senile scrotum in charge of that country will set the world on fire before they allow that to happenKhurram
- The article is talking only about Putin's version of "multipolarity." You might notice Lula didn't support the war in Ukraine so apparently he doesn't see it asyuekit
- an existential struggle against the West like some people do. So the issue is how this term has been co-opted by the far right, and then some leftists go alongyuekit
- with it. The multipolar world Putin has in mind is probably more like this...
https://www.mod-lang…yuekit - This entire thread is a propaganda wartoemaas
- Life is a propaganda war broyuekit
- drgs1
If you've ever wondered what Norwegian accent sounds like
- NBQ00-1
- sted0
- grafician0
"#BREAKING Russian defence ministry says use of cellphones by its troops 'main reason' for losses"
Oh no
- sted-3
- drgs1
Comparing to German fascism:
Germans were openly honest about their goals: "We are here to fuck you up because you're subhuman. You have a problem with that? We are the master race."
Their got their asses kicked, but still, if we ignore the holocaust for a moment, there is something admirable about their cockiness and confidence to challenge the whole world, Hugo Boss uniforms and the whole aesthetics of evil. Germans were the best nazis.Russian nazis: "We were never in Ukraine in 2014. Well, we were, but we were there to liberate. Maybe not quite to liberate, but to denazify. Or was is to desatanize? Bombing and killing? It's not a war, it's a special military operation."
It's an autocratic country which calls itself a democracy and is scared of using the word "autocracy". It is a helpless, deceitful, insecure country which on the one hand is proclaiming some values and on the other hand immediately denying them. A secondary country which can only exist by fighting imaginary enemies (general rule which applies to some minorities btw), and it can only be cured by complete humiliation and rebirth.
Discuss
- Fair points all. Not sure how admirable Nazi cockiness is but it's better the devil you know, I suppose. I only wonder if Russia can be cured. We tried in the..mandomafioso
- 90s but that didn't work out so well. It's like this cultural need to lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead. Sad.mandomafioso
- Feed them, ban all alcohol, legalize cannabis
Japan was cured, so will be Russiadrgs
- drgs0
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/0…
"The Soviet state and its successor both experimented with mind control (as did the United States during the Cold War, employing a secretive psychic project of its own). A Russian memo declassified in 2019 laid out how, in the 1980s, scientists investigated extrasensory perception (ESP) and other mystical abilities. And in 2019, a Russian military journal declared that the country’s soldiers have psychic powers—and that they had used them before. The soldiers purportedly learned how to read thoughts from telepathic dolphins. But it isn’t all just Flipper-imparted mind control. The article’s author, an army colonel, wrote that the telepathic soldiers also are able to jam communications signals and crash computers with their thoughts."
Russian military is a piece of dung wrapped in a cabbage leaf
- yuekit0
To Unreality—and Beyond
An examination of Russia's “propaganda of unreality” and why age-old principles of resistance to manipulation no longer work.
