Too bad the ICC lost all credibility when it let itself be used by the West as an anti-Russia political weapon to level absurd charges at Putin et al. I mean this verdict wouldn’t have had any teeth either way because the US would never allow it to be enforced, but still it would have sent a message. As it is now no one takes them seriously anymore, and especially not when they “both sides” a literal genocide by going after resistance leaders too.
Rybar aren’t always the most reliable. Anyway, i’m not remotely qualified to speak on these things so i’ll leave it to the experts to judge, and in the meantime wait for some official confirmation before jumping to conclusions.
Ah yes, the same impeccably reliable source that gave us the Ghost of Kiev.
It’s not confirmed. Don’t just immediately take at face value what a British imperialist propaganda rag claims.
Bernie “Israel has a right to defend itself” Sanders is a “good guy”? Until a few years ago i may have believed that but at this point that’s just not believable when you take even a cursory look at who he has consistently aligned himself with. He’s a sheepdog for imperialism, plain and simple.
Right off the bat the headline is bullshit because it wouldn’t be the first time. They fired tons of them at Russia already, in fact they tried to take out bridges in Crimea with these same missiles, managed to make a few potholes. This is nothing new and they will have just as little success in changing the battlefield dynamics as they did previously. The only thing that may be different is Russia’s response which remains to be seen but will probably involve more systematic dismantling of Ukrainian dual use infrastructure. And that wouldn’t really be a response because they would have done that anyway, but now they have a pretext. I don’t buy the ICBM story either btw, idk why people still think that what the western/Kiev media put out should be taken at all seriously without Russian confirmation. Just like with the DPRK soldiers allegation for which we still haven’t seen a shred of evidence.
Ukraine has no future viability as a “free state”, it never did. It was always doomed to end up a proxy puppet of imperialists if it decided to become the anti-Russia. Separated from Russia it is just as unviable as an independent state as those three jokes in the Baltic. Nobody wants or needs an independent Ukraine now anymore, and prior to 2022 only the Russians in their naivety still believed in the fairy tale of an independent Ukraine. The West has always only ever wanted to subjugate Ukraine as an anti-Russia bridgehead, ever since the days of the Kaiser (and the Anglo dogs have wanted it even longer, since the first Crimean war).
You’d think that’s too far fetched even for a joke that someone would have a take like that but it’s not as far from reality as you’d think. I’ve known people who genuinely seem to believe that we’ve evolved past the need for industry and we can all just write apps for a living.
I mean yeah on the face of it having similar (by then even a bit bigger) population size to China, plenty of natural resources and the largest amount of habitable land in the world, it seems bad that India is only producing a fraction of what China is. But maybe they can compensate for that by going hard on IT and finance to be like the rich, developed western nations. Working in factories or on construction sites is for losers anyway, smart people work in offices writing code or trading stocks - those are the high paying jobs, ergo it stands to reason that a country is better off the more people it has doing those kinds of jobs… ideally 100% of the population for maximum profit!
I was also under a wrong impression. From how well versed you are on what’s going on in Europe i thought you were European 😆
They also started teaching war tactics from NATO training manuals to children in Ukrainian schools. They are indoctrinating an entire generation to become cannon fodder for NATO.
I’m going to offer a more historical explanation and say that imo you have to go back further than WW2 or even WW1 to understand the deep seated issues that these countries have. A big reason why they are so mentally colonized is because they were physically and culturally colonized for hundreds of years by the Germans during the middle ages when the various crusader orders established their own states in the Baltics. During that time they developed a collective Stockholm syndrome and ever since they can’t stop wanting to be German. And just like the western Ukrainians (who were also colonized by Germans in the form of the Austro-Hungarian empire) oftentimes going completely insane in their zeal to show their loyalty to the West, including being more brutal in their atrocities toward Russians and Jews than even the Nazis.
“England, it is true, in causing a social revolution in Hindustan [India], was actuated only by the vilest interests, and was stupid in her manner of enforcing them. But that is not the question. The question is, can mankind fulfil its destiny without a fundamental revolution in the social state of Asia? If not, whatever may have been the crimes of England she was the unconscious tool of history in bringing about that revolution.”
How my professor and a fellow student understood this quote is that Marx says that history can only change if Europeans do something, if Europeans are somehow involved. So Marx was very Eurocentric. Do you agree with this interpretation?
I have no doubt Marx himself had some eurocentric bias, in fact i’ve definitely encountered eurocentrism is some of the works of his that i have read, but this quote to me is not an instance of that. I haven’t read “The British Rule in India” yet though so maybe I’m missing some context, or perhaps his eurocentrism comes across clearer in other passages in that work, but i don’t think that this particular passage is saying that “history can only change if Europeans do something”.
Rather, the way i interpret this passage is simply that it points out that the British, inadvertently and as an unintended consequence of actions otherwise taken purely with malicious intent, caused an advance in the social state of India by awakening revolutionary consciousness, and that the process of decolonization that results from this may even be necessary to advance the revolutionary process in the imperial core itself.
It doesn’t follow that India (and Asia more generally) could not have achieved this social progress without British intervention. In fact i would argue that the destruction of productive capacities as a result of the plundering of India by British imperialism greatly set back their material development, and therefore also delayed the social development which they would have experienced as a result of the natural development of productive forces.
God, that’s gotta be the whitest shit i’ve ever read.
Excellent points all around. Thanks! I love that we can always rely on you to give us the sobering big picture analysis whenever we get too in our heads about something.
Yeah, you’re right…i just get frustrated sometimes because i’m really really sick of these assholes. Can’t wait to see them gone.
It definitely wouldn’t be a good thing, that’s for sure, as an immigrant i am acutely aware of that. I’m just saying whichever way you view that possibility, whether you think it would accelerate us even faster into open fascism (though it’s hard to argue that the current regime isn’t fascist when you see how they fund+arm literal Nazis, run cover for a genocide, and persecute journalists and activist groups who dare to go against the accepted narrative) or you think that they are a wild card who may shake things up and possibly do a U-turn on at least the most self-destructive Ukraine policies if not put up some resistance to the NATO-EU Atlanticist project (highly unlikely imo, at the end of the day the right wing’s “populism” is always fake and a cover for giving more money and power to capitalists), there is no reason quite yet to fearmonger/get your hopes up. What we will see is more of the same, more doubling down on sunk cost. The foot is stuck to the accelerator pedal and the car is heading straight for a cliff.
Mostly by Sinn Féin supporters, afaik.
You should wear an Easter Lily instead.
As i said, i’m not qualified to analyze footage and say what it is, but i wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians used an intermediate range ballistic missile with some kind of MIRV warhead. I would be surprised if it was an ICBM because that’s simply unnecessary. Either way, things are heating up. The Kiev Nazis and their fan club in the West keep insisting that it’s ok to cross Russian red lines cause they won’t do anything, and yet when Russia responds by matching escalation with escalation they cry foul and run to daddy USA. FAFO.