Gladio never went away. It just expanded.

“The death of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second”

Proceeds to drop the beat so fucking hard it shattered the UK.

My favorite comment

“Give nuclear weapons to Ukraine. I’m saying that as a leftist.” -Slavoj “The Jester of the Empire” Zizek

Everything in the West is a psyop. Or maybe not. But in reality you can’t ever know for sure.

I refuse to believe the europeans are so stupid to go to war with Russia. By their own admission the armed forces of basically all of NATO countries are in such a bad state that it will take decades to recover. No european NATO country has the military industrial capacity to compete with Russia, let alone win. And what little they have in stock already has been transfered to Ukraine. Specially in the case of Germany and the UK. What are they going to do? Fight Russia with the old Soviet and Warsaw pact equipment, run out of it the first week and then buy sone more from Russia? Chauvinism is no replacement for armor and ammo. Why would they think they can fight? Just because the gringos are cheering on them?! I do believe Europe has an enormous debt to the global south, but not to the point of continetal suicide and global catastrophe.

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I don’t know what I hate more: Orwell or the cult around him.

Unlimited genocide on golfers

War for territory is the western idea of the war in Ukraine, but it is clearly and explicitly contradictory to what the russian government has stated as official goals and strategy. Small territorial gains? Yes, but the russian objective is “demilitarization” and the only way to demilitarize a state that is unwilling to do it is to destroy their army and their ability to fight. Even the 3rd assault brigade, what’s left of the infamous Azov Battalion, refused their orders to counter attack on the flanks of Avdeevka and there are reports and rumors that Zelensky might move /legally/politically against them. If even the most fanatical of their forces refuse to fight, then the rest of the army might stop following orders soon enough. That is a recipe for disaster in Ukraine, and at the least expected moment it all can get out of control for the government in Kiev. Not to mention that Zelensky’s term is about to end, and who knows what will happen after that, since the country is really in no position to hold elections.

Will Russia have it in a few years?

Lmao, Avdeevka was a full on route, soldiers were abandonig their positions contrary to their orders. This could end in a few months, and at this rate could even be a few weeks (tho I doubt so but you never know)

Hey, so, is the US going to balkanize or what?

Just got a new COVID shot, and they say the Sputnik vaccine doesn’t have any sever side effects, but after it entered my body I started to feel like restoring the Soviet Union.

Today on The Internet™ I saw someone critizicing China for the zero COVID policy because it “harms the working class” and then someone critizicing China for lifting the zero COVID policy because it “harms the working class.” So, China bad I guess 🤷

I now believe in the horseshoe theory. Ultras and anti-communists are not that different from each other.

I’m dismayed seeing how many western leftists and so called communists are immediately against Venezuela and their rightful defense against the long burning issue of Esequibo. They are drunk on showing how righteous and oppossed to captialism and colonialism they are but as soon as things heat up in actual anti-imperialist and anti-colonial projects they immediately fall in line with the US State Department interests. I have no faith in any of that. ¡Chavez vive, la lucha sigue!

Ladies and gentlemen: We got him.

Product of the split becoming a meme there are some other Batyushka bands that claim to be the “true” one, funnily enough including one supposedly from Russia that is extremely pro SMO in their albums, portraying Putin as some medieval orthodox prince/hero.

My guess is that someone mentioned it at some point, but I really haven’t seen anyone talking aobut how that bullshit about palestinians beheading babies invented by israelis is just the blood libel but against palestinians.

This is really interesting, because I too always forget Apartheid SA had nukes. The question then is why didn’t they use them? What forces or situations prevented that from happening?

Without going much into the history of said war, I think we can take Russia as a model for what to expect in regards of when can nukes be used, as russian nuclear doctrine is basically only use nukes if the state existence itself is threatened from outside. Nukes have always been a deterrent to prevent the existence of a given state from being threatened by another. During the fall of the USSR the nukes were not an option since the existential threat was from the inside. The question then is: was Apartheid SA existence as a state threatened by the defeat during the war or only its territorial conquest? The end of Apartheid came from both international and domestic pressures, no war to destroy the SA state needed, so the nukes were not an option. So, the russian model still stands: In Ukraine, the state is in an existential threat but they have no nukes and the russians have nothing to fear in regards of the position of the RF state, so no nukes needed.

When we get to West Asia is when things get complicated and dangerous. The question is: Is there an existential threat to the state of Israel? Could a regional war between Israel and the arab countries escalate to the point where the existence of the state of Israel is threatened? In the event of a regional war we won’t be seeing a repeat of the 6-days war. The conditions have changed. The entire region may be dragged to the conflict and as many people have said in the arab-english speaking media: this may be the final battle against Israel. I’ve seen comparisons being made to Saladin or the Battle of Khaibar. Judging by this admittedly skewed vision, the arabs are seeing this conflict as existential to themselves and, even though no one really wants that, if they are forced to go to war they might be willing to go so far as to destroy Israel as a state once and for all. That is a war Israel cannot win, not with the current state of affairs, and that leads us to the nukes.

Since they officially deny they have nukes, we don’t really know how many they can wield at any time. They can have just some tens of nuclear warheads, just enough to target strategic places without escalating further. Winning the war by nuclear means (or at least trying to, it may not even be a sure way to end it). Although the consequences of this would be another story. If they have nukes in the hundreds, they might be able to target places further out, like Pakistan, which could spark nuclear Armageddon, so it would all depend if they are willing to do so. This all boils down to if Israel has the need to use the deterrence card. I hope they don’t, that cooler heads prevail and a war is avoided, but given the latest US movements (deploying troops and aircraft carrier battle groups to the Mediterranean), it seems the tensions are only going up.

So, to answer you questions:

Is there a way that Iran can aid Hamas without a risk of being nuked?

Clandestine ways I guess.

Is the only way to engage a nuclear-armed state guerilla war waged by internal dissidents?

Currently, most likely. Only internal pressures seem to me to be the most effective in this regard.

I honestly believe that regardless, we are looking at the opening salvos of the Third World War. I hope I’m (and I’m most likely are) wrong about all of this.