even liberal and conservative historians agree that the damn commies were actual communists: behind closed doors they didn't talk about machiavellian power grabs - they used the same historical materialist framework they would use in public. (for example Kotkin is adamant about this in his Stalin bio. Communists believed in communism. Shocker.)
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wait, is that the 538 dude? Why has it been blurred out?
(dogshit take obviously, it's like these people have never heard about anthropology and sociology - or, as it might be the case here, purposefully ignore them)
What's the best book on the Russian Civil War?
You are correct. Duplicitous ghouls might describe them better than spineless.
Ukraine's Counteroffensive Isn't Going As Well As Many Had Hoped. The Prognosis Isn't Great, Either.
I never thought there will be Russian shills working for Radio Free Europe!
Every civilian death is a tragedy.
When liberals are yelling about sanctioning Russia and sending weapons to Israel consider this:
- In 20 months there were 9600 civilian fatalities in Ukraine according to the UN (1179 killed in the first month, I think this counts both sides)
- In 3 weeks at least 8000 Palestinian civilians were murdered by the IOF
The civilian murder rate of Israel is 24x that of Russia.
Sorry for being vulgar, but the hypocrisy, the double standards in the mainstream discourse is... staggering to say the least. Spineless bastards.
As a European it never ceases to amaze me how arrogant Americans are, even so called leftists. You really seem to think that you know better than everyone and the vassal states need to shut up and know their place. I mean, go tell an Ukrainian that actually America is only helping them defend themselves in order to weaken Russia and America dont care about you, so it would be better if America stopped and let Russia win the war and occupy some million Ukrainians. How does actual people of Ukraine feel about the "anti war" stance do you think?
In my left leaning country (Norway), even the most left wing "Communist party" supports helping Ukraine defend themselves by sending weapons. Its not contriversial because we know Russia, and the idea that not helping is "anti war" is laughable.
I would bet €10 this Norwegian redditor haven't spoken to someone from Ukraine in the past 18 months, especially not someone who's not ethnic Ukrainian. (Also it's typical that they conflate not sending weapons with not sending anything. There's something called humanitarian aid y'know.)
Stock Market
Even stocks are not doing well, the S&P 500 is trading around the same level as it was 2.5 years ago.
Rules based international order! A tale of two votes
Condemning Russia:
Calling for a Humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza:
The UN Secretary-General called for a humanitarian ceasefire (the bare minimum, really). The US and Israel among other western countries are against it.
We already knew the rules based world is complete bullshit, here's yet more proof that the western power elite is as morally corrupt as they come.
When I think about protecting the security of the United States and the world, I am clear-eyed. One of our defining missions is to strengthen the international rules-based order — to defend it, to promote it, and to build on it.
The absolute gall of these fuckers.
I'm Korean. Israel and Palestinian relation is very different from South and North Korea. However, there is one similarity. While Israel and South Korea are prosperous, Palestinians and North Korea are poor and miserable. Why? It's because they spend all their energy on hate.
it's worth noting: their super gundam trillion $ airforce missed the balloon with the first missile