Or maybe their capitalist hegemony is in some deep shit and the only way the empire can hold out trying to uphold it is playing with fire. Simply said - desperation.

I expected the US to have kept their Nazi dogs on a leash this time around. That way, they could have painted a rosy picture to their domestic libs - “oh, look, how progressive they are over there! They have pride parades and Starbucks”

It seems like the Nazis just don’t give a fuck sometimes.

Thank you, comrade.

considering the horrors inflicted

Still being inflicted. I mean, it’s bad everywhere, but it is no surprise it’s even worse in Odessa and Kharkov

those with sense should probably leave the country, or at least hope their homes lie behind the Russian side of the border

Sadly, that would exclude a lot of people - the majority would not be able to afford uprooting and leaving. My parents, for example, are way in their 60s and retired - you know how it goes with neoliberal pensions, their only hope is me. And I’m not trying to be dramatic - that’s just how it’s going to be.

There’s no reason to believe the Nazis will be ousted anytime soon, not anywhere without Russian assistance, at least. By-and-large they’ve preserved their ideologically-aligned troops while sending the conscripts to the front to die- and they have the backing of the entire west behind them.

And this is precisely the reason why I think Russia is going to denazify the ENTIRE Ukraine. There’s not going to be any partitioning, they will not carve out Western Ukraine and give it to the Poles. The Banderites will ALWAYS pose a problem for Russia. You have to remember - the majority of the people in Ukraine are bilingual and they can either easily switch to Russian or quickly pick it up. A perfect pool to draw future terrorists against Russia who can blend in and wreak havoc. Russia may not want to go there militarily, but they are (I think) going to try to topple the government, install their people, and order those people to go on a hunt in Western Ukraine. How that’s going to play out - whether there’s going to be a long, protracted guerrilla warfare or the Nazis will just run like the little rats they are - we shall see…

Honestly? I genuinely think that Russian annexation is the best of a plethora of bad options and possibilities for Ukraine’s future ahead.

I genuinely don’t know, maybe you are right but who knows. One factor that can play a significant role is the way the local people would react. My take on it is that the locals will see it as occupation, which may mean the US could continue to destabilize the region over and over again, funding guerrilla groups and clandestine operations just for the sake of it, and I think Russia knows that as well… I mean, if we randos understand this - they do too. Running an occupation is difficult and expensive, annexing a problematic region may play a very bad joke.

spreading

I love how the word “spreading” sounds as though it’s a disease - like they are “infecting” you with it. Real freedom and democracy is not fought for, won and built brick by brick, no, it has to be “spread”. Almost as if it’s only Freedom to exploit, Democracy for the rich

Hopefully what the west receives by the end of all this is a rump western Ukraine (Galicia-Volhynia), landlocked, in complete disrepair, and a complete festering mess for the west to deal with.

Yeah… Though, that wouldn’t be too rosy for the non-Nazi people who live in the country, myself included.

They’re not collaborators, they are the patrons, the coordinators, the puppet masters - they made this whole thing possible.

Walking up to real Jewish people and telling them they are not Jews… Lol They always project their own insecurities, don’t they?

Honestly this is why I believe that Hakim’s personal channel is still holding relatively strong compared to JT and Yugo. He is a doctor. Not a content creator. This is a hobby and a pastime for him, not how he makes his bread and butter. In turn, that means he has little to no incentive to try and squeeze as much money as possible from a corporate algorithm that pays his salary.

Material analysis - hits the mark every time.

Well, I would not say it’s public, rather it is “publicly accessible”. I give out user accounts to people I’m trying to sway, or to people who ask. Yes, there are plenty of resources on Ukraine - some YT downloads (a hodgepodge of sources, a lot of that from Ben Norton/GER), some documentaries, etc.

I just download the good episodes and put them on my Jellyfin media server, so that the people I’m trying to radicalize will only have access to the juicy stuff.

Figuring out one’s motive is always difficult. Perhaps due to their material interests - being afraid of losing the audience. Perhaps because of good old ignorance. Perhaps due to fear of pushback or persecution. Perhaps they got co-opted, or there’s something insidious about the three. Time will give us the clues, I guess

What i am mad about is that none of the other two guys of the trio told JT that this Ukraine video is dogshit and that you can’t discuss the Ukraine conflict without talking about its internal politics

That we don’t know, I guess. Whatever they may tell him (or may have told already) - I doubt they will do it publicly or in the comment section, and also - he may as well tell them “my channel - my rules, I’m doing it”. IDK about Hakim, but Yugo is probably not gonna say much - I remember him posting a copy of the two gymnasts meme on Twitter - “the US does this and that, all the dirty tricks - loses; China does nothing - wins”, where he conveniently smeared the “Support the Nazis in Ukraine” piece with a gray line. Yugo received a TON of shit in the comment section for that - deservedly so.

I think they missed a huge opportunity to talk about what this war is truly about and where it originated, this could have been a great video to educate others on the deep rooted context that informs this conflict but I guess we couldn’t get that… maybe next time.

That’s just the thing… In what way are you better than the liberals if you talk about this very important stuff after the conflict has ended, not while it’s still ongoing? To paraphrase, “Liberals are always against every war except the current one”. You educating people on the matter makes a difference - it stirs people in a direction different from the common Western propaganda narrative, which helps bring down this bubble. When it is over and they come out and say “hey, you know what? what actually happened in Ukraine was this and that and this and that…”, it would be 10 times less impactful.

It might have been underwhelming, but not an outright disaster such as this one from JT. In the end, I would say there aren’t that many good videos about Ceausescu in general, so no surprise there. A preferred way to learn about socialist Romania would be reading relevant literature, at least for now.

It is THAT disappointing, to be honest… I mean, I wouldn’t outright unsubscribe from them - they still have good content, Hakim’s videos for example are very well-written (though not without flaws ofc). But this one… What a way to absolutely nuke your credibility

Yeah, true. I meant if it was a well-educated ML with nuanced takes, not some anti-Russia, anti-China ultra or something. But something tells me they will chicken out if they get the chance.

My guess is they pre-approve not only guests but the talking points in the videos they make. And they did put the Syomin guy into the spotlight twice. You know how it goes - “fool me once…”

100% agree, brilliant analogy

Dogshit video, to be honest.

Multiple critical pieces of the entire puzzle are missing, like almost everything the US had done before 2014, the coup and the fact that it was a US/CIA-orchestrated Nazi coup, the fascists themselves and their massive influence, the fact that it was Ukraine who’s been provoking Russia for 8 long years, despite the Russian government trying to find a diplomatic solution. The fact that it was Ukraine who indiscriminately shelled civilians in the Donbas, that the people of Crimea rose up themselves, and that was evident by a plethora of polls from the 2000s, where even Ukrainian polling companies admitted the majority of the people (over 70%) in Crimea would like to not just secede but join the RF. Too much “both sides”-ing. I get that they are trying to dance around the truth and create a lib-friendly and babyleft-friendly picture, but my personal take on it is we’re way past that point, given that the vast majority of Westerners want this conflict to end - it’s literally tailing the masses. How can a person look at what is happening in Gaza, at the fact that the US is arming “israel” to the teeth, which makes them enablers of genocide and not “protectors of democracy”, and not understand that they’re not “protecting democracy” in Ukraine either? As one comrade aptly pointed out - “what is the common denominator between Palestine, Ukraine, Taiwan, Syria and Libya?”. It should be clear by now.

Is JT aware of the true nature of this conflict? I’m inclined to think rather “yes” than “no”, but I’m very unsure. Hakim definitely dropped some hints. Yugo - IDK, really. But, sadly, they are silent. Also - they have an Arab to tell them a bit about Palestine, I guess if they had a communist from Ukraine they would at least be more knowledgeable when it comes to Russia-Ukraine stuff.

Yasss! Diversity! We need more autistic capitalist pigs! We need more autistic war criminals! We need more autistic riot police officers! Ugh… Face the wall, y’all.