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@tass101 hitler took the name national socialist to entice the working class to vote for his party, whilst using the brown shirts to suppress left wing ideas and keep real socialist from taking part in the democratic process, after taking power, he failed to nationalize the german private sector (a must do under real socialism) he failed in the redistribution of wealth, he failed to uphold the socialist idea of equality for all people, to say the Nazi's were socialist just chirps along with the black book of communism, a puff piece that has long since been debunked as nazi propaganda going so far in that even the authors admitted that the editors lied repeatedly to demonize the soviet republics to group them in as being just as bad if not worse than the fascist, its nothing short of propaganda to appease some Ukrainian banderites living in america, thus is why only fascist take it as truth, even Harvard law school threw it out as rubbish. Nazism is outlawed in Germany, Communism is not, because they come from two seperate ideologies that espouse different ideas and beliefs, while both are extreme ends of the political division, the ideologies are on opposite ends of this spectrum, with communism being far left, and nazism being far right, to say otherwise of a known fact carries as much weight as saying the earth is flat, sure you can really and trully believe it, but that doesnt make it true.
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@johnwolf2829 it doesnt seem that people living in the past is the problem so much as understanding cause and effect, Mexico had gotten it right before the US, ie, SLAVERY, BAD. then tried to evict the squatters violating national law by continuing to own slaves in Mexico, and when they tried to evict you as they had the legal right and responsibility to do, you chose to fight and take thier sovereign territory as your own, and in the end took half of their nation, and continued to intervene in thier economy and police for the next 165 years up to and including military occupations,the effects of which are still felt to this day, America fucked Mexicos future as a prosperous nation for generations past and generations to come and wonder why Mexicans are still angry? I only hope this comment answers your curiosity.
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While i feel terrible for the people of Ukraine being drugged into a war by an undemocratic regime brought to power by a foreign backed coup, the civilians of Donbas have been putting up with this for 10 years, from Ukraines agressive war on the people of the Donbas and Crimea, Russia didnt start the war, it was ongoing when they intervened, only after 8 years of trying to resolve tensions diplomatic, while the Poroshenko's regime only responded with more acts of aggression, from the shelling and airstrikes on Donetsk and Lugansk to cutting of Crimea's access to drinking water. Ukraine could and can stop attacking at any time and negotiate a peaceful settlement, but instead the fires of nationalist pride are razing the nation to the ground while financing the arms industries east and west. Forcefully reincorporating the east of ukraine was never going to work, continuing that path is fruitless, it's time to stop.
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@D.A.OhK. you funded the overthrow of the elected leader of a sovreign nation in violation of article 7 of the hague convention, the same as the US attempted to do in Nicuragua. Victor Yanukovich was overthrown after already agreeing to resign his position, Victoria Nuland promised US support to Svaboda and Right Sector to effect immediate regime change, following this the Maidan protest was hijacked by violent opposition groups that started attacking left-wing protesters from Borotba party as well as the police that were forced to respond, violence continued to escalate and the far right groups began attacks across the western half of the nation and order began breaking down, Victor Yanukovich was forced to flee after elements of the police and armed forces were cooperating with the far right groups and distributing weapons, in the following week of the coup several atrocities were committed against anti-coup protesters such as the Odessa trade union massacre, at this time right sector stormed the Rada in Kiev and forced the passing of anti-Russian legislation and the banning of Borotba and the Ukrainian communist party at gunpoint, following these actions the populaces of Donetsk and Lugansk held open referendums for regional autonomy in order to protect the lives and interest of the the predominantly russian residents in the regions. The regime in Kiev considered this insubordination to be an act of treason and the regimes president Poroshenko then started an Anti-terrorism operation" against both regions that started with air and artillery strikes being fired into the hearts of Donetsk and Lugansk, leaving several thousands dead and injured. This was the first offensive of the conflict, made with the full support of the United States and NATO, this occured 8 years before the Russian military intervened. Russia did not start this war. Ukraine did at the beckoning of the west. That is not propaganda, its fact. You cant blame Russia for starting a war that started 8 years before Russia started fighting, that's just not how time works regardless of your political stance.
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Gigabic or cut workers, or their wages, or their rights, in order to make a profit, and places material value as being more important than human value. So, in your opinion capitalism isn't a bad thing, in the minds of millions of impoverished peoples around the world who are being exploited for their labor or resources, capitalism is very bad, and a threat to humanity. As for the Soviet Union, that was not a communist state, they had a socialist economy, but true communism has yet to be seen, politically, it was a dictatorship, formed by Lenin and the Bolshevik party, hijacked and turned into a corrupt regime by Stalin. All the same, America is looking more like George Orwell's 1984 than the USSR ever did.
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The funny thing with your comment is the trench gun was proved mostly useless in the great war, and there are no actual kills attributed to it from the conflict, so maybe not the best analogy to use, likewise there needs to be more nuance in "who's the aggressor" in the lead up to the first world war, Both France and Russia as well as Germany and Austia-Hungary were taking aggressive actions against each other, securing military alliances at the sake of their neighbors, believing that these would act as a safeguard to prevent war, where in the end it dragged the world into war because of contractual obligations to both the entente and the central alliance, war was inevitable not because of any one side being good or bad, but because the decisions that brought the world to conflict were being advised by those who stood to profit the most from the bloodletting, weather it be Renault or Krupp in the past or Rostek and General Dynamics today, there is no such thing as ethical consumption or expansion under capitalism, conflict between the west and russia has been inevitable since 1991 with the fall of the soviet union and the rise of a capitalist russia.
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@Grusken19 so your part of something that ceased to exist in 1923, alright🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, sure ye are. As to having no backing, due to waste and speculation in the capitalist world, 8 million people die every year to a lack of clean water, 7,655,000 people die every year from hunger, 3 million people die every year to vaccine preventable diseases, and 500,000 die every year from malaria, that's 20 million preventable deaths that occur every year because preventing them isn't profitable for said capitalist.
Sources:
Poverty.com
UNwater.org
CHop.edu
100 million deaths every 5 years, but please, continue to bitch about how the communist killed 100 million in a century, ohh the horror...
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@GuardTheSound But the US did have a Goal, to stop the spead of Communism in Southeast Asia so to maintain its ecconomic and stategic intrest in the region, this goal was not attained. Every time the US supported a coup, it inflamed the populace against american occupation, every time a village was torched by American bombers, it enraged the populace both north and south of the demarcation line, the only time American assistance was wanted was in order to remove the Japanese invaders, beliving if they helped the US, they would gain independence, but after the war the US agreed to left france to retake colonial dominion of Indochina, in doing so becoming the Imperialist and losing the battle for "hearts and minds" long befor the Gulf on Tonkin incident ever happened. Meanwhile the Communist were the only ones promising a Vietnam for the Vietnamese people, the ones who had been fighting occupirers of the country for over 2 decades, the Americans could never hope to win the battle for popular support as they were 20 years too late and backing the wrong side, so en the end the US could have killed a million more, it still would have only further inflamed the region, and turned more people against its military occupation, which is why the US did not win the conflict, by body count, strategically, or in any other form, because to do so would have required genocide on levels the american public could not stomach and on which the US Government could not justify as it would have completely destroyed any ecconomic interest being fought over as well as make known that the lives and well being of the Vietnamese people were never in America's intrest, and that would cost the US more in terms of world relations than Stalin ever worried about losing over gulaging some kulaks, So the US "could" have one the war, but to do so would expose it as an undemocratic, non law abiding rouge state with an imperialist bend, face international sanctions if not intervention, a much worse recession in the 1970's, most if not all of you allies, (spare Israel, South Africa, and oooh you'd get a scorched hole called South Vietnam....yet at the UN the rest of the world would have seen it touting American Victory over Vietnam the same way it viewed Italy's Victory over Etheopia.
So the US had but three options "lose" ahh we know they could admit that, so there was "win", but that outcome would have only led to a greater defeat on the international scale, or option three "just fuckin leave"
America's foriegn policy is like a spoiled child playing a board game, if the child cant win he just wants to kick the board and run away. A prosess that has only continued since the end of Indochina Conflict.
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@nozhki-busha Ukrops also burned civilians alive in Odessa, they were filmed doing so, they cut of drinking water access to 1.6 million people, as the Geneva Convention is concerned, yeah, collective punishment is a war crime, and then there hiding military equipment within civicivilian infrastructure and in dong so endangering their own civilians, as has been recorded repeatedly from apartment blocks to shopping centers, making those areas legitimate military targets but with guaranteed collateral damage that they can then propagandize, innocent lives are nothing more than another weapon to the regime in Kiev, why anyone would want to support those roving bands of butchers is beyond me, I mean, unless your the CEO of an arms contractor, then it would make sense.
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@gracefiji803 you have eastern slavs (being Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, and the Baltic people of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, then you have southern slavs, consisting of Serbs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians, and you have western slavs made up of Uzbeks, kazakhs, Georgians, Ossetians, etc. In most cases, national identity and ethnicity are not the same, in Ukraine, people of non-savic decent only comprise of 6% of the population, this 6% comprises germanic enclaves and the tartars.
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Ukraine has suffered at least 49,000 casualties, while also losing 273 tanks, hundreds of trucks, APCs, and IFVs and there are now still remaining 10,000(+/-) Ukrainian troops that are encircled in the area around Sudzha, bringing Ukrainian losses to 59,000 estimated casualties, regardless of the actual number (due to the missing and the ad hoc nature of forced conscription in Ukraine the real toll will likely never be known) the Kursk offensive has proven to be a disaster for Ukraine, only serving to waste equipment and the lives of thousands that were desperately needed to prevent the Ukrainian defeats in Avdivka, Pokrovsk, Chasiv Yar. These effects are still being realised as the Russian army advances on Kharkov.
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@DirtyMikeandTheBoys69 I was simply stating falsehoods in your comment to rootin for lenin, Diêm rigged the elections in 1955 to seize power, who was only removed by a coup d'état that was funded by the CIA, more specifically it was Lucien Conein, the CIA's liason between the coup planners who had funded the coup leaders ( namely General Minh) who then ran the military junta before being overthrown by General khánh, General Thiêu was only a candidate for the elections because of his role in the coup, rigged the second election before Minh was installed by default in 75 due to thiêu being inept at best.
Nothing in that sad arse history is a description of "democracy", my point in my original comment was in questioning the validity of your statement, and as I have now clearly explained my point, I can feel comfortable in saying your either misinformed, or just lying.
I would also assume your drugs bit was something from firsthand experience as well...but I won't, because I'm not a presumptuous fuckwitt like some people here.
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Ukraine has 700,000 compared to Russia' 1.014 million active standing army, they have only deployed 10% of their forces in Ukraine, Zelensky stated 2 weeks ago that Ukraines casualty rate is unsustainable, while russia is suffering a higher casualty rate, they can account for it, rotate new divisions of active personnel from the far east and the Baltic while having those positions augmented with reserve, of which Russia has a further 2 million serving, I'm surprised how efficiently this operation has been carried out, most of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions have been occupied and shielded by russian forces, the Ukrainian army no longer has the strength to recapture these territories, and a solid land border now connects Crimea to the Russian Federation, their most pertinent objectives have been accomplished, with what remains is to denazify the Ukrainian army leaving it in a position to where it can no longer threaten the citizens of Crimea and the Donbas, The last time Russia denazified Ukraine, they suffered 2.4 million casualties and the campaign took 2 years. they're moving faster this time, the west saving Ukraine is about as likely as army group Steiner saving berlin in 1945.
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+Alexisthebest ever This is why I left the state's two years ago. I found a better way of life, as an Irish born marxist I never fit in well up there, in high school, or the army, can't say I'll be returning, at least for the next 10-15 years.
Revolution is returning to Guatemala, and I can't stand by. at least this is a fight I can understand and believe in, I'm also about to get married, my girlfriend is still struggling to learn english, but my spanish is getting better everyday, since I got here I've been working with the URNG in huehue to start implementing agrarian reform policies in the region.
We are going to bring capitalism to an end here, as well as an end to CIA placed "General Presidents" a tradition in this country that goes back to 1954 when the Central Intelligence Agency planned, funded, and militarily supported Castillo Armas in a coup that ousted a democratically elected government. The violence and corruption here has to stop, and the people's right over their nation's resources must be guaranteed.
Anyways, good luck in the northern empire mate!
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@radio9730 CIA and MI6 estimates of russian casualties are at 14,000-15,000 KIA, not half. Furthermore, take this figure in the context of the fact that the last time the denazified Ukraine they suffered 2.4 million casualties and it took two years to accomplish, by last times standards, they would be looking at 600,000 casualties by this point, and controlled less territory, so yes, they are going strong.
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@rustytr with all due respect, there are international marxist and antifascist fighting for Rojava, A few of my comrades from Belgium, Spain, Russia, and the US joined up with the YPG, that doesnt ensure russian support because Russia hasnt been a socialist republic since the neoliberal coup in 1991, and Putin has already levied his support behind Assad, who likewise tried to negotiate a peace with and amnesty for the kurds, but they chose to trust the american imperialist for continued support, they dug this grave, the US just tossed them the shovels and pushed them in the hole once the YPG had dug it out.
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A man that betrayed his own nation, joined the SS, continued serving in the SS even as Finland switched sides and was fighting the nazis, so to summarize, a traitor to his own nation that fought on the losing side of three conflicts just to satisfy a "red bloodlust".
Try Vo Nguyen Giap, much more badass, also fought in three wars, but didnt lose, and never joined the SS, he was also in Vietnam, lol
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@World Traveller Conquering Finnland was never the goal or objective, The finns didnt attack leningrad, the germans did from the finnish zone, and if it wasnt for the 14th army holding the karelian front than the germans could have easily pushed through before the defences of leningrad were prepared. The second part of your comment is arguing semantics, Stalin never thought Finland would invade the USSR, but that mannerheim would allow finnland to host enemy troops who would attack the USSR, and given that the germans had already intervened in Finland and killed 12,000 finnish bolsheviks in its wake, and given that Mannerheim had made his want of expansion at the cost of Russia known as far back as 1919, one could argue that he would have sided with the nazis regardless of the winter war taking place, but I'm not here to argue semantics, I'll leave that to you. The actions of the 14th and 7th armies in the karelian front in 1941 physically state otherwise, and your comment only serves as an insult for the thousands of red army soldiers that died so that leningrad wouldnt fall.
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"As president trump tightens his authoritarian grip on power", ya know america, us on the left, (not your center-left pro imperialist pundits mind you, but the real left) have been warning for a century that imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, and when capitalist economy decays, the oligarchy of the rich turn to facsist tendencies to maintain thier wealth and grip on power over the working class, is any of this sinking in yet? You lot have had a century to do something about it, and have less than two decades left to do something before its too late for all of us, and no, bernie is not the solution, a step in the right direction, but no where near enough. If there is anything worse than american imperialism, its wars abroad, it's exploitation of the developing world, its regime change tactics, its illegal sanctions and blockades, its inability to properly care for the most vunerable in its society, if there is anything worse than all of this, its the american people complacency in the face of it.
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@johnwolf2829 so your defence is, you werent aggressive imperialists, you were opportunistic imperialists, much better, at to your comment regarding california, that was Adolf's excuse for annexing Czechoslovakia, nice. Blaming legitimate grievances that were never compensated is what people that were wrongly fucked over for over a century do, and your response is hur dur move on, you ficked up Germany and Japan over a 4 year period yet you completely rebuilt thier nations and economies, where was Mexico's marshal plan? Didnt happen, because the US needed a poor neighbor to exploit and that would never be able to challenge American hegemony in the region. My 3G grandfather fought and died beside Riley because you shites were no better than the english we were trying to get away from.
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They were captured in non-standard uniforms with the only insignia for identification being blue armbands, they do not exist in any registry of the Ukrainian Army, the "Volunteers" network is a private for profit entity, and under such context, they are mercenaries, who will be tried accordingly, with that said, they were captured by russian, not DNR forces, they will be interred in Russia to await trial, the paranoia about them being executed is just that, paranoia, Yelstin put a moratorium into place banning capital punishment in Russia in 1996, No state sanctioned executions have taken place in the russian federation since the moratorium was put in place, they will be investigated, tried, and if convicted they will be imprisoned as the law dictates.
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Russia's only commited 20% of its armed forces in Ukraine, and in two years theyve lost about 600,000, compared to Ukraines close to 1.5 million, on top of that Russia has allied armies just joining the fight while the last of ukraines draft age population are fleeing the country, how is russia depleted? They're advancing in both Kursk and Donbass, Ukraines completely lost Lugansk, the only AFU forces left in Donetsk are under siege, and Russia is massing another army group on the Belarussian/Ukrainian border, Ukraine is spent, their forces are spent, and so is morale. The last time Russia faced a fascist aggressor attacking from the west they lost 60 million in 4 years while having a smaller population to work with, this time around only 600K in 2 years, that's just called progress, Zelensky needs to plead for peace before all of Ukraine ends up being a Russian oblast
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Ukraine is going to regret it, Not a Putin supporter btw, just a pragmatist.
1.Going on the offensive meant pulling soldiers off the line in Donbas leaving defences weaker in the face of an ongoing Russian offensive that has since sped up at increasing pace, which will only lower the morale of Ukrainian soldiers.
2. Since the start of the offensive it has enraged the Russian public and led to a boost in recruitment.
3.Russian pilots and missiles are still being freely dropped on Ukrainian soil.
4.As the Russian offensive moves even quicker through Ukrainian lines it forces Ukraine to form new defensive lines in donbass with less hands and more strain on logistics as they try to support one offensive at the same time as trying to stop another.
5. The airbases at Voronezh, Savasleyka and Borisoglebsk have already returned to operational status
6.Ukraine has lost more than 2000 soldiers in 1 week, and Ukraines currently loss rate outweighs its recruitment, which is not sustainable.
7. The territory captured is of little strategic value and added with the public outrage is unlikely to have significant impact on negotiations other than solidifying Russias resoning for its intervention in the conflict in Ukraine.
8.The offensive has only strained relations even further with NATO states with the possibility of states continuing to supply an offensive war against russia being targeted themselves.
9.Ukraine will have to spend more effort, time and money evacuating Ukrainians in the donbass that it cannot afford.
10. May yet still cause the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
Holding Russian territory isnt going to bring Putin to the table, the more territory that's taken will only increase Russia resolve and patriotism, capturing territory in the east didnt work for Napoleon or for Hitler, it's not going to work for Zelensky now either.
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The membership process begins with accession talks with a NATO team, to discuss aspirations, obligations and contribution to NATO’s budget. Nations then send NATO a letter of intent with a timetable for the completion of reforms. Criteria to join include rule of law standards such as “a functioning democratic political system based on a market economy” and “fair treatment of minority populations,” for example, as well as high standards on military equipment and interoperability with NATO forces. Zelensky banning all opposition parties does not meet the democratic requirements to join, the standards of Ukrainian military equipment would are not acceptable by NATO's standards, and NATO is contractually obliged by its charter not to accept nations engaged in border disputes, even if this was resolved by peaceful settlement with Russia, the process of joining NATO would take at least a further two years, time that Ukraine does not have. Ukraine will not be a member of NATO, Zelensky stated this in an address in March. Ukraine must concede defeat.
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@strangelyukrainian7314 Minsk II but with certain modifications, where Donetsk and Lugansk were going to have regional autonomy while being a part of UKraine, Ukraine said no and kept fighting, so now said regions will be a part of Russia as the public voted. Ukraine can also say goodbye to its aspirations of reclaiming crimea, I doubt the citizens will forget or forgive Ukraine cutting off their access to drinking water in violation of the Geneva accords, the Ukrainian Army would have to be demobalized and western offensive weaponry removed from the region while russian forces withdrawal 5km creating a DMZ thats manned by UN peacekeepers allotted from neutral nations such as Vietnam, India, South Africa etc., pending the removal of Zelensky, the legalization of opposition parties in Ukraine, and new democratic elections that ARENT funded by Victoria Nuland or the US state department. That would be a good start.
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Justus Immelmann that's how you justify allying yourself with fuggin nazis, alright, weird flex, and also according to the article you posted, the finn's lost the winter war, and the continuation war,read the moscow treaty of 1940, then the armistice of 1944, ye know, when your nation had to cede karelia, pay 300 million in war reparations to the soviets, and admit to being a fascist ally, so with that said, I reiterate, Finland fought the soviets twice, and lost twice, lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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shinybarrel not only a joke, it's illegal that she's unable to run, no relative, let alone son or daughter of a former dictator can run for president of the republic, the joke is she says her father is her inspiration.
Gutierrez is a capitalist that would be more than happy from getting richer by selling out his country to the yanks, as far as Morales, he lets religious beliefs dominate his polotics, overall, it's not just the candidates, the political system itself is corrupt, just because the president is progressive doesn't mean real progress can be made. When it comes down to a point the government in Guatemala is as much of a Yankee puppet state as it was through the civil war.
I was born an Irishman, raised in Belfast until I was 14, after my mum passed I went to live with my dad in Virginia, then Georgia. After I was old enough I decided to get out and see the world, I joined the army and ended up spending a year in Iraq trying to stay alive and figure out why we were there. After I got home I decided I was done fighting a rich man's war, but I didn't fit in at home anymore, couldn't even talk to my dad about anything, so I left. I walked and hitched rides from Savannah to Brownsville, and then kept hiking and riding in the back of trucks and busses south through Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and finally stopping in Panama City, I was regularly broke, was always sleeping outside, in the mud, through rainstorms that would last for days and even weeks, I would endure long periods without food, and always had to boil my water before I could drink it, I got sick a few times, robbed, stabbed on a bus, and was shot at a few times in Mexico and Honduras, I went through this all because I had long known of the poverty, violence, and corruption throughout Latin America, I wanted to see it firsthand, to try to find out the why in it all, the cause of it. I found the answers I was looking for in Guatemala, where I ended up staying the longest. On my way back north I stopped again in Guatemala at a place called huehuetenango to find my highschool sweetheart who was an exchange student at the time, when I did find her we quickly rekindled our relationship and now we're engaged to be married, I may not have been born here, or grew up here, but I'm intent on staying and rebuilding my life, and raising a family here. There's a lot of tension here, and if Molina doesn't resign there will be violence, but for better or worse I'm still staying, and I'll do everything I can to help fight for the justice, freedom, and future that the people of this nation have been denied for so long.
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+Sam Moon I found some information on its combat history if anyone is interested.
Following an order of the Chief of the General Staff, in the summer of 1916 a company from the 189th Izmail Regiment trained in tactics with the new weapon at the infantry school in Oranienbaum. The company was equipped with 8 Fedorov Avtomats. After completing their training, the company was deployed to the Romanian front in early 1917. It was supposed to report back valuable combat experience with the new weapon, but this did not happen because the company disintegrated during the Kerensky Offensive. About 10 other Avtomats were given to the Russian naval aviation;Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia telegraphed back that his pilots found it more suitable than the Chauchat in light aircraft.
By 1920 only about 100 Fedorov Avtomats had been produced. That year, its production was encouraged by Kamenev, who saw the gun as very promising. Fedorov Avtomats then equipped Red Army units in the Karelian sector, particularly the ski battalion of Toivo Antikainen, during the Karelian Uprising. Reports from combat experiences with the gun during 1921–1922 were very positive as long as spare parts were available. In 1923, 10,000 copies of a 46-page manual for the gun were printed.
Despite some noted reliability issues and performance issues, the Fedorov Avtomat had been deemed acceptable for Red Army use in a 1924 review. However, owing to supply problems, in the same year, Soviet leadership decided to abandon all weapons using foreign ammunition. As a consequence, production of the Fedorov Avtomat was halted in October 1925. Subsequently it was withdrawn from service and put in storage; the last unit to give it up was the Moscow Proletariat Red Banner Rifle Division in 1928. During the 1939–1940 Soviet–Finnish war, an acute lack of individual automatic weapons led to the reintroduction of the stockpiled Fedorovs into service. They were sent to the Karelian front, mostly to military intelligence units. It is assumed that most of the Fedorov Avtomats were expended during that war.
Based on everything covered in this debate, along with all the facts about it, it seems more likely that it was not the first assault rifle, and cant be put into the same category as the Chauchat as the fedorov was to be used by one soldier carrying his own ammunition, whereas the Chauchat was a light machine that would use a team of two or more men for loading and firing, but very likely it earns the title of the first select fire battle rifle to see use in a major conflict, and that is something worth noting all the same. :)
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@ashyari1989 The simple truth is the 100 million deaths attributed to communism is a falsification of historic fact. That figure comes from the Black Book of Communism, and the authors would go on to admit to the falsifications and that they were forced to scew the numbers of deaths by the publisher to reach the 100 million number. Even then, if you took the false information as fact, using thier same algorithms in how millions of the deaths they attributed to communism that were caused by disease, natural famine, and foreign invasions, the capitalist experiment in India alone left over 100 million deaths just between 1948-1979, and a further 35 million under British colonial rule, now add in the right wing dictatorships installed by capitalist powers all across the developing world, the massacres and genocides they committed to maintain thier power, imperialist wars wrought to enrich western entities from Monsanto and United Fruit to the East India company. 20 million deaths to WW1, given that capitalism was the direct cause of the rise of national socialism in germany and fascism in Italy, we can add the 75 million deaths caused by that, then we can talk about the13 million slaves sold to the new world and the generations of thier children that were born into and died in bondage for the sake of profit, 10 million more in the Congo, Spain genocided 130 million in the americas for gold and glory, and the US 12 million more for manifest destiny, communism's hands may be bloody by it doesnt compare to the ocean of blood that's been wrought for the sake of capitalism. Your argument completely ignores this historical context, yet boo hoo for a few grain hoarding kulaks and nazis that got sent to gulag.
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@matthew1882 Ahh, and when you refer to Ireland as the first of the first world, your referring to the small impoverished island that was forcibly colonized by english capitalist, ran us off from our homes, sold us into bondage for profit, stole our land to sell to rich lords, and occupied my nation for 800 years. So let's get "first of the first world" fuggin cleared up right now, My nations history is nothing if not a lesson of what capitalism does to those being exploited, and if it wasnt for communists like James Connoly who died for our independence, we would still be a British dominion today, so take you pre conceived assumptions and do blow them out your arse, and have a nice day, I have to go to work.
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@matthew1882 Screaming profanity? You take yourself far too seriously, Everything was calmly typed while I was having a chuckle, I didn't start this little debate of yours, that was your initiative, and I'm not trying to honestly and thoroughly argue my points with you because I have already seen others try just to see that your a condescending hypocrite with a clear bias to a false narrative. I have used such insults because clearly I was never interested in a conversation with you because I have nothing to gain from it, so please, dont whine, because you asked for all that was recieved, if you feel otherwise, need not reply, click the thumbs down and move on with your life.
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@mariakoshel8889 well, from the news reports I've watched and read, many people especially older generations in the Donbas republic's have said that they felt safer in the Union, there was always peace with their neighbors, that life was better, they had stability and progress, that the west would never dare to overthrow the government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then in the Donbas there are several brigades of the DNR and LNR militias that were members of Borotba and the Russian Communist party who volunteered to defend they're homes, familes and culture from fascist aggression, then there is the International brigade made up of communist from Cuba, Nicuagua, Colombia, Venezuela, Spain and Italy that are now fighting for the defence of Russia, the Donbas and town by city liberate the Ukrainian people from a corrupt regime, I dont say this to criticize them or Russia, but they're sacrifices and dreams should not be ignored or forgotten.
Слава России
Слава Ленина
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@XtreeM_FaiL
1. He joined Sonderkommando, a battalion that was formed of finnish volunteers as a part of SS Division Wiking.
2.He wasnt wearing the SS insignia on his collar and a death head on his cap for the shits and giggles.
3.He was tried for treason in 1946, found guilty for treason, and convicted of treason in january 1947, escaped, was then arrested again, and eventually, recieved a pardon, means he was forgiven for his crime, it does not erase it from ever taking place, he did these things, as he admitted in a court in 1946
It's not a troll school that this came from, its public record and his own admission why any of this is known dimwit.
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Sit E i wouldnt say antif are hateful people, they have families and friends to care for that cant defend themselves when all they want is the right to exist, such as people of the lgbt community, and people of color that are actively discriminated against, antifa are hateful, to Nazi's, why should Nazis be able to threaten innocent people with genocide and have that defended as free speach, so if all fascist are silenced, through the court or in the streets, antifa would no longer have any reason to have this hate you have issues with, other than that, try offering a better solution that deals with the fascist in society? No fascist=No antifa, everybody's happy, well, except the nazis, but fuck nazis, they should never be allowed a voice in American society, otherwise what was the point of all the servicemen who died 70 years ago stopping them then?
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Unless those dictators were named Pinochet, Batista, Trujilio, Montt, Armas, Machado, Franco, Sukarno, Thieu, Diem, Rhee, Seleh, Mobutu, Habré, Videla, Alencar, Gomez, Vargas, Panilla or Zelenskiy.
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The only thing Stalin did wrong was that he didn't gulag enough kulaks.... but in all seriousness this whole thread sounds like OPA propaganda strait from the black book of communism, a book that had numbers so badly inflated by the editors just to demonize the socialist camp that even the authors disasociated themselves with it and harvard law school removed it from they're repository as it's fiction that only slanders the left for the benifit of Ukrainian ultras. The book was discredited over a decade ago, its time to stop grouping those who died to natural causes, historically pre-existing famines, war deaths during the great patriotic war, and natural disasters together and place responsibility soley on Stalin's shoulders, he was one man who was appointed to serve a posistion, a job he did not feel he had the capacity to do and so for which he had requested permission to resign on 4 seperate occasions, each time he was commanded by the central comittee to remain at his post, all of this is open to public domain, you guys need to come up with some new material. 😂😂😂
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@zingerman11259 Ok, so the the Americans left, that being said, outcome of the Indochina conflict was that the NVA won a series of strategic victories against the forces of South Vietnam as they could not hold out while lacking direct American support, which could not continue for reasons stated previously. Why was the US involved in Vietnam, if we look at the simple context, "to stop the spread of Communism", it clearly failed that objective when it abandoned it's ally to fight the Communist alone. Long before American withdrawal they had failed in thier interest of bringing peace and ecconomic prosperity to the people of South Vietnam by supporting a line of corrupt and murderous dictors through military coups (kinda like Korea) that were carried out with the explicit approval of the central intellegence agency. So in terms of the Cold War, Vietnam was a loss for the US, SEATO, and the West in general.
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@kingsleykester8167 Why did you think that? It was never stated as a war aim to take Kiev, let alone in two days, western pundits predicted that, the same pundits who sailed russia would be out of ammo "any day now" last fall, your analyst suck, shame on you for being blind to it, Russia could afford to lose Kherson and Kharkiv alot more than Ukraine could afford to lose Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Slovyansk, Mariupol, and now Soledar, and at the casualty rate Russia still holds a serious advantage over ukraine, it can replace the troops it's losing in these battles, Ukraine is struggling in that regard.
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@1LuvCherishLife Chechnyia was and is a part of Russia, that's like saying when the US invaded LA in 1965 to stop the watts riots. Moving onto Georgia, they instigated that by attacking South Ossetia, who then requested Russia to intervene, to which according to a standing treaty within the framework of CIS states, they were obligated to do so, let's move onto syria, The US invaded in Syria to assist Kurdish rebels fighting both islamic State and the National government under Assad, Russia was invited by Assad to intervene against Islamic State, which is not an invasion, again, that is an intervention upon request.
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Given that russia has only commited a tenth of its active duty forces in Ukraine, while still having over 970,000 active duty soldiers hoarding the border, with another near 2 million in reserves, they have the capacity to open up ten more fronts, they have used very little modern equipment in the conflict, mostly using second line t72's and and t64 alongside soviet built BMP to soak up Ukraines supply of AT weapons while the more capable T90MS have yet to be deployed in the conflict, Russia is alot more prepared for a war of attrition, in 2-3 years by the time Russia is willing to commit modern armor, Ukraine will be out of men, ammo and money and the western audience will have already lost interest.
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2 decades ago the Bolivian people embarked upon a pink revolution. The transition was turbulent but peaceful and improved the living standards of millions of Bolivians, but now the private sector of racist oligarchs has used nothern support to overthrow the legitimate government (Even aside from Evo, based upon the Bolivian constitution the mandate is that the position interim head of state go to the current sitting head of the leating party, in this case, given that she did not resign, should be Adriana Salvatierra of the MAS) to install a neoliberal regime controlled by a military police junta that have placed a Cali Cartel drugtrafficer as a puppet in order to give free reign to the empire for the exploitation of the bolivian people. The vast majority of bolivians are of indegenous decent and support the MAS, the Labor Unions have called for a general strike and delivered an ultimatum that the coup government step down, tens of thousands of masistas have decended upon La Paz carrying wiphala banners, and as a result the pro-coup police and military forces have began commiting massacres against the populace in an attempt to exert control through force and terror, which have likewise pushed groups such as los Ponchos Rojas to form armed defence committees.
Please fill in any blanks I might be missing, i think that is an accurate summary of the events and why the world should stand in solidarty with the MAS and bolivian working class.
Estos pendejos no aceptan la revolución rosa, entonce el clase obrera debe imponer la revolución roja, con toda la fuerza que es necesario, hasta la victoria siempre.
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120,000km of Ukrainian territory has been taken using outdated soviet equipment, namely T72M's and T-64M's, the west is exhausting its stocks of anti tank weapons while Russia has yet to send a single T-90, they dont need nukes, in a war of attrition they just have to stall for time, continue exhausting Ukraine's means to make war, we lambast russia for sending reservist to war to act as bullet sponges without considering the possibility that that is all they are meant to be, Russia can sustain its casualty rate, Ukraine cannot, the banter regarding the use of nuclear weapons is no different now than it was 40 years ago, it is saber rattling, no more, no less. This is simply an objective view of the conflict, while I have my own views regarding justifications and causes of the conflict, those arent relevant here, I will say I hope Russia is driven out of Ukraine, its economy left in shambles, with all blame not only pointing to one of the men responsible, but the corrupt system that brought him to power, 30 years ago Russia embarked on a revisionist capitalist experiment that has created an imperialist reactionary plutocracy no better than the US, whether engaging in military conquest for resources under the pretence of protecting oppressed peoples or ensuring the protection of their territory and its integrity, or whether through predatory loans leaving nations in a permanent relationship of debt and indemnities, the kabal of oligarchs around putin are enriching themselves on arms contracts that they negotiate for the war they control, it is no different to the regime in Kiev or the stockholders of Raytheon and General Dynamics, tis was the "freedom and democracy" that the west sold to russia and the corrupt revisionist in Moscow forced down the throats of the Russian people. The experiment has failed, Lenin was right.
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@moozoo2589 as they arent a functioning democracy and are in a state of civil conflict, they still arent eligible for NATO membership, I dont know why so many people are getting hung up on that as it's only a minor reason, finland joined NATO, yet no Russian invasion, but Finland didnt violate a standing ceasefire 17 times like Ukraine did, Russia threatened to intervene, the EU said all options including nuclear capabilities would be considered if Russia responded to Ukraine violating the ceasefire, while I agree that the Russian invasion was an overreaction, moving troops to secure the donbas republics would have been enough there, I can understand why they did what they did, but as to NATO expansion, If I was in power in the Kremilin I would have advised rebuilding missile bases in Cuba to remind the west the problems of doing what theyve been doing in easter europe the past 3 decades as the west has clearly forgotten the stakes.
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@scorpiontdalpha9799 that was more capitalisms fault that solely Batista, he was a tool corrupted by Meyer Lansky's money because Batista couldnt keep the casinos honest and it was costing Havana alot of revenue, when Batista first took power via coup he was a populists that the cuban people largely supported because he the Machado regime, and got rid of americas right to militarily intervene in Cuba. American companies had already spent decades tuning Cuba in to a monoculture as to have a cheap sugar colony to exploit, and the post WW1 slump in the market sealed Cubas fate as a land that would remain a paradise for the tourist coming from miami and a living hell of poverty and suffering for the working class, and as Batista was further corrupted from the payoffs he was receiving from america companies like United Fruit, the he would grow to care less and less about his responsibilities to the people, upon his 1952 coup he no longer held the popular support of the people, and the US as Americans already owned 70% of the arable land in the nation, to protect these holdings, and receive further payoffs from the americans, he suspended the constitution, revoked most political liberties, banned the right to strike, outlawed the communist party, and set up the Bureau for the repression of communist activities, a secret police apparatus responsible for the deaths and disappearances of 20,000 people. His repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interest, by negotiating lucrative relations with both the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution buisness in Cuba, and th US companies that were paying large sums of money to quell the growing discontent of the populace. Since the Spanish first arrived looking for gold and slaves to exploit, capitalism was never a good thing for the cuban people.
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@Judsonberry Migrants do not wish to stay in Guatemala or Mexico as the conditions there aren't much better than in Honduras, likewise staying in Honduras is just as dangerous if not more so than making the journey north.
I do my part to warn migrants not to go to the US as it is not a welcoming place for them, as it's already only two steps away from becoming an autocratic police state if not downright fascist, that the american authorities do not care for theyre human rights, the do not care about breaking international law to deny those rights, that through the US's support of coups to remove democratic governments, funding of illegal wars, all for the continued economic domination of the region, the northern imperialist do not care about human rights, they do not care about your suffering, they only care about they're own nationalist ambitions and greed.
I'll keep warning them, you can keep setting a prime example for my points in why migrants deserve better than the United States.
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@seidenstickerj Im not forgetting a single thing, never said it was a the best choice, if your misinterpreting my comment as pro russian, then that's on you, I'm very aware of the problems in russia today, would be nothing but tickled to see putin put to the wall, the counter battery fire in the fall of 2014 was by the DPR-LPR militias using soviet surplus artillery, and even as you stated, this was return fire, meaning they were already attacked by Ukrainian artillery, so I cant say as I see what point your trying to make there. As to Ukraine being European, it is in the same sense that Russia is European Ukrainians didnt come from europe, they came from keivian Rus, the people living in ukraine before them were khazars and turkmen tribes, as to the European identity, until the past few decades this was not the case, and as witnessed by the popular support for separation in eastern Ukraine, the populations opinion is still very clearly divided, this change to a hard right european pivot was force by an armed coup financed by the united states to pull Ukraine from Russia's sphere of influence, even though they were offering a more favorable trade relationship with ukraine with lower interest rates on loans. Again I feel the need to reiterate I am not pro Russian in my stance on the conflict, but the western narrative is far too erroneous for me to swallow as it only cares to follow one side of the conflict, Russia is acting as the opportunistic imperialist power, using the pretext of "protecting ethnic russians" to create as wide of a buffer from NATO as possible while they can, in the meantime they get to fuel a war industry that Putin and his kabal of oligarchs personally profit from, as this war is every bit at profitable to Uralvagonzavod and Sukhoi as it is to General Dynamics and Raytheon, all of them have contracts rolling in, personally I'd support a resolution that would find peaceful settlement that has all russian forces withdrawn and full autonomy granted to the donbas while remaining a part of Ukraine, with a demilitarized zone of 10km width separating the the donbas and to have it patrolled by UN peacekeepers, DNR-LNR militias do not exit the territory, and Ukrainian authorities have no jurisdiction in the autonomous zone, if the Mexican government and the EZLN have been able to find a way to co-exist for 26 years, it can work for the donbas, as to russia annexing crimea, the Crimean people wanted to be annexed by Russia alot more than the Hawaiians wanted to be annexed by the US, if you want me to change my point there and agree that russia should leave crimea, ok, just as soon as the US gives Guantanamo back to Cuba and the UK gives the 6 counties back to Ireland. Until then, as far as I'm concerned the west is no better than russia, they just had a head start and russia wants to catch up.
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I'm not a fan of Putin, if Lenin was alive today he would have Putin put to the wall and shot as an opportunistic capitalist and war profiteer, that being said, every move Russia has made since 2014 has been reactionary, Ukraine was the first nation to launch a military offensive against the separatist in Donbas to quell the protest against the coup in Kiev, when russian forces already stationed in Crimea deployed to protect the populace as they voted on referendum and secession, this was because the Ukrainian armed forces alongside far-right paramilitary groups wire already killing hundreds of civilians in the east, with the russian military protecting the populace this prevented the mass murder of civilians that would have otherwise taken place. Russia did not invade Ukraine in 2014, this is a lie, The russian forces that supposedly invaded in 2014 were every bit as present in crimea in 2013 and 2012, they were already there due to the lease agreement shared between Ukraine and the Russian Federation that has had Ukraine leading the Sevastopol Naval base to Russia, then the new western backed regime chose to pretend that this agreement never existed and branded the russians there as invaders even though they had been there long before hostilities had broken out. You can hate Putin, You can hate what he has done to Russia, and what he has done in Ukraine, that doesnt mean that what he is saying is wrong, Russia shouldnt have invaded, likewise Victoria Nuland shouldnt have financed a far right coup to install a western backed Regime in Kiev, both sides have made mistakes, when they both accept this fact an amicable peace resolution can be possible, the reverent nationalism and demonization/dehumanization of the "enemy" being seen by both sides brings neither any closer to peace. I refuse to lend vocal or financial support to either side in this conflict, and my stance will remain neutral.
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@Stählerner Heinz Just putting in my ten cents, I was born Irish, Naturalized as an American thanks to my father, so no, Im not a "russian bot", nor paid in any way by the Russian Federation. With that being said, I once had many friends in Ukraine, from my time traveling there in 2012, I made lasting friendships while staying with Borotba volunteers in Odessa, when the maidan started, they were likewise in support of the removal of Yanukovich, as was I, the maidan protest was commandeered by far-right extremist after they're campaign was financed in the sum of $1.4 billion by Victoria Nuland, with this they paid "volunteers", as well as illegal weapons to forment an armed coup, after Yanukovich had already agreed to new elections even though he would lose, the democratic process was betrayed, gunmen entered the rada and forced the members to pass anti-russian legislation at gunpoint on international television with the tacit support of the United States and NATO, I wrote my congressman protesting my nations involvement to which I recieved no reply, my friends from Borotba likewise protested in Odessa, to which the new regime in Kiev declared them to be terrorists. They were beaten and herded into the trade union building, then barricaded inside, then burned alive, these protesters were expressing their democratic right to self determination and were met with a massacre and the stripping of their legal rights and protections while being persecuted for they're cultural identity, at this point for the russian speaking population in the east, peaceful resolution became impossible. To say that there was no provocation is just parroting an outright lie. The "green men" your referring to were in Crimea, and they were already stationed there prior to the maidan as part of the agreement between Russia and Ukraine since 1991. In Donetsk, you are referring to Vostok Batallion that comprised of former Ukrainian policemen and veterans of the Soviet Army, many still using the same uniforms they were issued in Afghanistan, Russian military assistance did not begin until after the battle of Debaltslavo had already been decided. In response to the crimes committed by the illegal regime against the Ukrainian people, they east held referendum's homogeneously, built their defence homogeneously, and defended their territory against Ukrain's first assaults, as soviet stockpiles were rapidly depleted they sought assistance from the historic defenders of the slavic people's, being Russia, while you can attempt to lambaste Putin for self serving interest in russias involvement, that is no excuse to gaslight the grievances of the people of Donbas, or to excuse crimes committed by the regime in Kiev.
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@vsezaquilt The last time Russia denazified Ukraine it took two years and cost the motherland 2.4 million lives, I admire the care that Russia has given to the people of Donbas and Crimea. Town by Town, district by district, Ukraine will be liberated, do not allow a thief to lecture you about stealing as it is lies built on hypocrisy. For my nations responsibility for this disaster, I am trully sorry, I cannot describe the guilt I feel for the suffering my nation has forced on a sovereign people for pure ecconomic interest, as even if Ukraine managed to win they will be left economically broken, and the people enslaved to the IMF, leaving the oligarchs in Kiev to be the only ones in Ukraine to profit from the this catastrophe, the Ukrainian people deserve better. Just as Russia deserves to have its security guaranteed, without war or armed aggressors at its doorstep. Cлава Донбассу, Слава России 🇮🇪🖤💙❤🇷🇺
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@pavelslutsky3114 I mean, your wrong, idk what else to tell you, we can go back and forth all day, but your generalizations just run off as uninformed and almost racist by a tad, so just go with whomever or whatever taught you that, I'll stick to the census, honestly I have nothing to gain to prove you wrong, it's pointless, you know what you know, if that works for you great, but we will have yo agree to disagree.
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@moderateextremisttoysoldier At least in Ukraine if the unit your tasked to work with are predominantly made up of football hooligans with far right leanings, Meanwhile a Texan by the name of Russel Bonnor Bently volunteered with Vostok Battalion (a Batallion of Donetsk Peoples Militia mostly comprising Afghan war veterans, former policemen and foreign volunteers), he joined the fight in 2014 to defend donetsk after the coup in Kiev and the massacres of civilians that transpired in Odessa and Mariupol, He fought at the battle of Debaltslavo, was there when the militia took the airport, was there each time the ukranazis tried to recapture it, he was on the frontlines for year as ukraine had repeatedly broken its peace agreements and ceasefires. He's still there serving with the Batallion to this day, even though there is little logistical support, until last year all of the gear his unit had was old soviet small arms with half rotted furniture, and mothballed afghanka uniforms from the 80's.
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@darkeimp555 that is an interesting idea, but there are no "right rules" for a system based on unlimited exploitation and growth on the consumption of finite resources. There is no way under capitalism to ensure anyone to follow any rules or maintain sensible checks on said growth for profit because the capitalism was never designed or theorized to really do that, it was engineered to be o more socially acceptavle institution whilst maintaining the same feudal power structures it replaced.
For an example, enough food is produced globaly every year to meed in excess 10 billion people, there are only 7.53 billion currently inhabbiting this planet, yet 36 million will die from hunger alone just this year, as it stands, capitalism is responsible for 100 million preventable deaths every decade, capitalism as an institution has existed for around 500 years, it's not getting any better, while i do not know how many decades more must past, or how many more millions of lives must be lost before it is understood that capitalism can and will only lead to a dead end. This is not solely opinion on the matter, these were the results of of a thorough analysis of the relations of labor-wages-profit using dialectical materialism that has been known since 1867, the finding were published in the book Das Kapital, give it a read when you have the chance m8.
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Ukraine is running out of reserves, Russia has only used 20% of its forces in Ukraine, and are capturing more ground every day, little by little Ukraine is falling, even with all of the US and NATO aid, it doesnt help when there arent enough men left to use it, you cant capture ground with drones and and missiles, that takes men, and Ukraine simply doesnt have enough anymore, when that matter is settled, these people in Tbilisi will either go home or wish they had
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@JJRM8 the russian army didnt invade Crimea, they were stationed in Sevastapol, thats like saying the US army invaded Georgia because Ft. Benning exist, as to the donbass, the east didnt submit to a western funded coup, I dont blame them, but with that said, Russia didnt invade Lugansk or Donetsk, Ukraine did, and were then beaten back by DNR and LNR militias culminating at the battle of Debaltslavo, 4 months before Russian material support even started to arrive in the donbass republics, and 8 years before Russia intervened directly in the conflict.
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It was, in 1954 by the CIA and Castillo Armas, the killing goes on anyways, and the support for mass murdering dictators like Armas and Mont by the US cannot be swept under the rug, and when even today speaking out for real change, when condemning the corruption in the government, military, and police forces here is met with imprisonment or forced disappearance (government sanctioned murder) we have no choice, peaceful means aren't an option, the notion that the peace accords in 94" ended government suppression is pure propaganda, the people here are ready to take their country back, and I decided to help as best I can. People die every day, I'm going to die, your going to die, we all have to die sometime, it's what we die for that makes the difference, and what we fight for today that gives our lives meaning. I know I can't sway you, you sound like a humanist and I admire that, I hope you can bring the change we have to fight for peacefully, and bring an end to the imperialist exploitation that has left so many people suffering
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So she wants to respond to Radical Islam with Radical Christianity, I don't think she has studied any history past "murican" but that strategy was tried before be a bunch of German, French, and English kings, I'm sure most of you yanks saw kingdom of heaven, look how that turned out, then reevaluate your position in the middle east, your crusaders with fancy toys, and you will lose the war, only compassion and understanding can stop it all, hatred begets more hatred, stop the endless bombings, send more doctors and teachers than soldiers and show the people there you care more about them than their resources, and then, give diplomacy a try, there was once a time when you Americans were called terrorist for wanting freedom and to be heard by parliament. Show the world that 200 years ago you severed ties with the empire to forge a nation that represented its people, with the belief that all men are created equally, these principles have been abandoned in the middle east. America, change your ways or this war will grow, and follow you home, give a peaceful solution a chance, because humanity is about never giving up hope, but when you start taking lives that hope is lost, regardless of who started it. You can do more to end this war with your hearts than any amount of bombs.
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I know how you feel, I loved America for its county, when I lived there I was in the mountains of southwest Virginia in a small town called wytheville, probably never heard of it. Whenever I was hiking and camping off the beaten track I felt at home, well, at peace, but I couldn't adjust to society, and never agreed with the government there because it had a more imperialist bent than the crown ever did, at least England was honest about how it built its empire, America offers democracy with one hand while installing corrupt dictatorships through the third world with the other, and the other thing I never understood, the yanks say they have a free market economy while in reality it's controlled by the richest one percent, how is that a free market? By how it has worked it seems more like a monopoly of the rich
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Forgotten Weapons Can't blame you, The PPS does have great reputation, you can see some men here in Donbass using them, and Mosins too, it's funny, after 80+ year of waiting those old guns cans still kill fascists pretty effectively, although I'd rather stick with my Dragunov, going to pick up a Tokarev first chance I get, anyways, take care mate, always enjoy your videos, whatever ye do don't stop making them!!!
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Ryan Price You may disagree with what I say here, but I feel this point needs to be made clear, I wouldn't describe what happened to Cecil as murder, because Cecil was a lion, not a human, but at the same time, that man is not a hunter. If you pay thousands of dollars to go and kill a lion for its head, your no better than the Europeans that slaughters thousands of elephants for ivory, to hunt is a necessity, not a pleasure, I grew up learning how to hunt because we were poor and venison was a staple of my family's diet. I don't think that this man should be charged with murder, but I wouldn't rule out poaching.
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Because the Americans aren't willing to see you as equals on the negotiating table, the country doesn't care for democratic friends, only unquestioning allies, people here will say differently, that over the last few years America promotes democracy, goes to war to destroy dictatorships, it's bullshit, America protects its economic interest while pushing its narrative of freedom, I haven't yet been to the middle east, but I've done a lot of traveling through Latin America, where the yanks have had a long history of installing tin pot dictatorships, CIA overthrows of democratic governments, which led to several civil wars with hundreds of thousands dead under people like Armas, Mont, Trujillo, Batista, etc, and what the Zionist have done in Palestinian is unspeakable, but we all have a responsibility to not counter religious extremism with more religious extremism, America isn't the problem, nor is Israel, capitalism is, the idea of infinite economic growth, regardless of the consequences, this is the cancer that's infected the west, that is causing so much misery and loss in this world, as one people, regardless of race, religion, or nationality, we must stand united and fight for change. By word or Dorsey of arms, we must change, one day soon you will find us, moving forward under a crimson banner, echoing the cry shouted by the impoverished people all over the world, one first heard in Cuba in 1959, that still echoes today, Patria o Muerte!
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+Biden...That's your response? Really, a half assed insult? Took a lot of thought there didn't it. I didn't always think this way, I grew up in the state's, father was an Air Force vet and a conservative, I grew up believing that America was a force for good, for freedom, then I went to Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Panama, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Venezuela, I learned of what American intervention meant in these places, I was appalled at the things this country had done, I realized that capitalism only really works for those who already have an assload of money, and that America would do anything to protect its exploitive interest. The facts speak for themselves weather you agree to it or not, Yankee imperialism and western capitalism are greater dangers to the people of the world than radical Islam could ever be. Capitalism only ends in exploitation and oppression, but given that you have no interest in fact, I'll leave you to continue sucking on O'Reilly's tit, of course the wealthy will say capitalism is not the problem, your protecting your interest, but for the vast majority of the working class in the world, it's the definition of evil.
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If the Russians invaded we'd be seeing T-90's, some of the largest military stockpiles of the former Soviet Union are in Ukraine, yet when people see old Soviet armor, everyone says it must be the russians, there are a lot of Russian volunteers in Ukraine, but there are also Hungarians, poles, Spaniards, Germans and Americans fighting there on both sides too, there are already enough arms in Ukraine for a few wars, stop this madness... please
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+valgehiir. If Russia wanted to go to war with Ukraine, Russian troops would be in Kiev in two weeks or less, and it was the Nazi's that made the first move, not Putin, I'm not defending Russia, they reacted wrongly, but the key word is they reacted, Russian citizens in eastern Ukraine were put under real danger from the coup, and Russia reacted to the conditions that were forced upon it, and yes, the US carries just as much blame for instigating this conflict, but pointing fingers won't stop this. Give Donetsk and Luhansk referendum.
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@stealth6567 Its collective punishment against the Crimean populace to cut off a populations water supply. This is a war crime as it affects the people directly, not anyone in moscow, but please do elaborate this apparent loophole in article 3 that makes it ok for a regime to condemn an entire population for an action taken by a different nation (being Russia) I'll break it down for you, If russia bad, if russia committed the crime, and the Crimean people are the victims of russian occupation that did not actually chhose to leave Ukraine, then why would it be okay for Ukraine to punish them for something that russia did? Do you not see the disconnect? And please think about your answer, don't just call me a "russian troll" because I'm not, I'd like to see Putin, Medvedev, and Yelstin put to the wall for they're continued crimes against the people of russia and they're neighbors, I dont support Russia's intervention in Ukraine any more than I supported the west financing a coup in Ukraine to overthrow the elected government, both were self serving and wrong, Ukraine has been left with the options of Russian occupation or a century of crippling IMF debt, the billions of dollars the west has loaned to ukraine will have to be paid back, Ukraine has lost its industrial heart to 8 years of shelling and the nations agricultural infrastructure will take decades to recover, while the oligarchs in Kiev can retire to theyre dacha's the consequences of this war will have to be shouldered by the Ukrainian people. So please, consider this in your reply, I'm not a Russian bot, just an Irishman interested in peace and lower fuel prices before winter comes.
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@Sean-giang Not in the short run no, it would take decades for the benifit of dropping the dollar to be realized, but in the immediate the harm would and has been greater to the US than to those poor nations themselves, this is called cascade effect, the less value a given currency holds, the less incentive there is to use it in trade against a currency with gaining value, you have now repeatedly made the same point without elaboration as to why it would be harmful to nations already forced into economic subservience because of the dollar, you are looking at the risk of what ditching the dollar holds without weighing them against the harm that the petrodollar's monopoly already causes. In that context I have to disagree, dedollarizing will help countries with fragile economies and governments so long as they can prevent the consequences of doing so, as Americas usual answer to smaller nations that stop trading with the dollar is economic blockade and military intervention to protect its hegemony, when the options are subservience to US exploitation or utter destruction, or everyone ditching the dollar and watching the western empire collapse, I humbly choose the latter.
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@paareth @One That is a blatant lie, I'm not even going to bother opening the "read more" if this is how your going to base your arguement. The coup in Ukraine had already taken place, after Yanukovich had already agreed to new elections while knowing that he would lose, yet the protesters choose to become violent and start throwing molotov at riot police, forcing a response, the protesters created that situation after they're original demands had already been agreed to, your saying that Russia funded and armed a coup and that what started it while ignoring that prior to your claim, (the other part of your lie), Victoria Nuland had already made available millions of dollars to far right extremist organizations such as Svaboda, Right Sektor, and Azov Batallion, with the effect of starting a COUP in Ukraine, to overthrow the democratically elected president, these same groups stole power, immediately forced anti-russian legislation at gunpoint, and declared that anyone opposed to this as being a russian sympathizer and terrorist, this happend before the people of donbas had even chosen to leave Ukraine, long before russia was involved. The people of Donbas made the autonomous decision to leave as the coup plotters were taking over city by city massacring and pillaging along the way, they burned innocent civilians alive in Odessa, Russia was not yet involved, yet the blood was already flowing. Dont sell me that horse shite about evil russia because I've followed the conflict since day 1, Vostok Batallion formed independently in February in Donetsk without any outside support, they're armaments came from two separate Ukrainian army depots containing retired equipment from the 90's, which they were still using throughout the battle of Debaltslavo, Russian armaments did not start arriving until June of 2014, Ukraines military offensive in Donetsk and Lugansk began in April. (April mind you, is 2 months BEFORE June, because that's how the calendar works)
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@taylorm771 just maybe both sides of this capitalists proxy war are full of hypocrites, just maybe, In my opinion, the conflict could have been resolved quite simply, the people of donbass and crimea do not want to adhere to a government it views as illegal and undemocratic, that has directly harmed and further threatened they're livelihoods and the continued existance of they're cultural identity, so do not force them to, Ukraine should be just as prepared to make peace with the Donetsk and Lugansk as Mexico was willing to make peace with the Zapatistas, with that, they would have to agree in such a treaty that would forbid the autonomous republics to join Russia with the mutual respect that Kiev will guarantee the republic's autonomy. Most in Crimea were forced into a corner after the coup and they're was little chance of survival other than to join Russia, on the condition that Russia renounces is claims to Crimea, Ukraine has to respect the memandoram of autonomy granted to Crimea in 1992. The donbas will serve as a DMZ and act as a buffer between Russian and NATO forces if/when Ukraine meets the requirements to join the organization. When this happens, And NATO troops, artillery, and armored vehicles stard establishing themselves across the nation so close to Russia' borders, then Russia should be allowed a free hand to reinstall its former missile and artillery batteries in Cuba, since going by americas defence on the matter this is no sign of provocation or a threat to America's national security, ohh, and on top of that, Putin, Zelensky, Lavrov, Yatesnuk, Nuland, Poroshenko, Medvedev, Trump, and Biden should be tired by a people's tribunal and summarily be stood to the wall for theyre unabridged crimes against the Ukrainian and Russian peoples.
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@schrodingerscat4769 tucker isnt a tankie, hes a fuggin capitalist that is serving his best interest, as is Putin, as is Zelensky, Biden, Rostek, General Dynamics, Izhvesk, and Raytheon. Tankies dont support either side of your imperialists wars, it is the proletariat of both sides that must suffer the losses of life and the economic burden of the conflict. Check your propaganda, it's 30 years out of date.
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Sit E but all peaceful means of stopping fascism were tried and found to be ineffective, this was 80 years ago now, we already know what it leads to, nazi's cannot be simply appeased and reasoned with, the league of nations tried and failed, to simply repeat the same mistake with the same complacency is asking for the worst possible outcome..
There are many communist in antifa, as well as anarchist, who as before in the war against facsism in spain understood that this is a plauge that connot be simply reasoned with, thousands joined the international brigades to stop facsism in spain, but failed due a lack of support from the western governments, and arms embargos limiting thier capabilities, condemning the spanish people to half a century under fascist rule where thousands of innocent people were jailed and executed without repercusions, now it seems that the capitalist powers at be would prefer to again wait and do nothing until its too late, i say this to you with respect, we warned you before and you did not listen, we are now warning you again, if you and the the powers at be again fail to head this warning then any loss of innocent life in this struggle will be first and formost on the hands of those who have done nothing to stop it.
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@steveborgmalta no, were not, but everyone in these positions of power were alive in 1962 and are clearly applying the same logic as used prior, so the US doesnt like Russia being a copycat, tough titties, until the west rights its past wrongs, they have no moral high ground to predicate from, sure russia bad hur dur, the west isnt any damn sight better and they're every bit as culpable for the current crisis as Putin, and again, to reiterate, this is no defence of tsar vladimir, it's a neutral and objective viewpoint, take that as you will.
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@thepatternologist the Russian/Ukrainian dual citizens who have inhabited the donbass since long before ukraine was an independent nation, who were being killed in mass by ukraines "anti-terror" campaign in 2014 that was nothing more than a punitive expidition to crush all civil opposition to the coup in Kiev, for all you want to hate him, as Russias head of state he is under the obligation to take all actions necessary to defend the russian populace as well as Russia's strategic interest, the same pretext that america used when its citizens were killed and endangered in Panama and Grenada, by all accounts, sovereign nations that held no true threat to american security and hegemony, this is not stated to justify Putins actions, but only the context to your question with historical precedent as an example of the same actions being taken before for the same reasons, this is just the shite world we live in, only now russia is trully no better than the west
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m1cr0sn1p3 Delta i was referencing Bush senior, as the soviet repuplic of afghanistan had no state religion, picture this for a moment, no more mujahadeen= no breakaway that births the taliban, which then would hold no popular base to build al queda, and from that islamic state, just a communist republic with free education, medical care, and equality, hah, but america wanted "freedoms", look how that panned out.
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@BOB-wx3fq why do you assume i like john wayne? The man was a racist, mysoginist fuck from what i've read about him, and as far as westerns i prefered actors like sam eliot, Tom whats his name from quigly down under whose last name i cant remember how to spell, but still, enjoyed some of theyre movies, as far as my hero's umm Stalin rallied the Soviet people to defeat the nazi menace that had made to the gates of Moscow, He had modernized the Nation, ended a long series of famines that had been historically plauging Russia for centuries before the Bolshevik revolution, took the City of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War, then defended it against White Army counter attacks, after which the local workers soviets elected to rename the city Stalingrad...
Before all of this he had carried out revolutionary activities to fund the party even getting him exiled to siberia over the matter, Stalin did more to end the facsist stranglehold over europe than any american, including john wayne and his propaganda movies.
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Yeah supporting a dictator is totally unacceptable for the US, I mean unless its Pinochet, Trujillo, Samoza, Montt, Armas, Batista, Huerta, Shek, Diem, Thieu, Rhee or Zelensky amongst quite a few others...
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@SomehowUnsurprising I know I wasnt the one asked, but maybe cut all military spending to Ukraine, apologize for funding the illegal overthrow of Ukraines government in 2014 and I dont know, dont do that again, like, no more maidan, no more cia coups like what Victoria Nuland started in Ukraine. Russia didnt start this war, Russia doesnt profit from this war, the US does. I know He wouldnt do anything stated above, he is a businessman, as such why would he stop something that's profitable? Ethics?
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Looks like you've ired the ukrobots, but yeah I went to check out the article, thanks for the info, as to the rest that they say didnt happen, Zelensky banned political opposition parties in a public address on March 20th of 2022, after several had already been outlawed by Poroshenko's regime. As to the the Christian's, Zelensky banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Aug. 21st, 2024, this is all in the public domain, reported by the Times, CNN, DW, the BBC and so on, maybe not on Ukraines single propaganda, I mean "news" network, but it's no secret to the rest of the world.
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@vanessauosukainen7631 Your taking shite really personally I see, and no, I love historical fact, not a false narratives based on ultranationalist rhetoric. they red army didnt care about losing more men then than the finns, remember that's how the Americans tried to tally thier victories in Vietnam, they lost that war too. Yes, the red army lost more men, finns were good fighters, I'm not putting the blame on them. But the red army could and did afford those loses, It was the same politicians that walked away from the negotiating table that knew they could not win the war, but were still fine with sending thousands into the frozen meat grinder because none of them had to actually fight, it was those same politicians forced to cede Karelia in exchange for soviet territory to the south, as was stipulated in the agreement they walked away from that started the conflict, then those same politicians dragged your nation into the war to support the nazis during barbarossa, dragging your nation into another war it couldnt win, and costing thousands of more lives. Because of Karelia defensive posistion Murmansk and Leningrad were never able to completely cut off, and they were defended, which was the point in needing said land, which the germans still validated, although again to the thanks of those same politicians, finland became a german ally, until 44 when you had to turn around and fight the nazi's to appease Stalin, you want to be angry alright, but your anger is misdirected at me, I'm not the one to walk away from the peace table in an act of ignorance only to be forced back to it to sign a peace treaty to betray by aiding with fuggin nazis only to be forced back to that table for ones own ignorant fuggin decisions and the forced to side with that old enemy to make a new one out of the nazis that you invited in, that clusterfuck was all yous, not me, so have a nice day.
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@donaldkasper8346 panic? Unless they know it is a bluf, which after Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, , the tactic is getting worn out, not that its yet even worked for the Ukrainians, maybe it will, I wouldnt hold my breath. Meanwhile you think they can cut the russians in kherson off because its winter, the russian army has supplied drinking water to 7 million people since Ukraine cut off fresh water access to the peninsula, but it's a cute plan though.
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@katbrown1449 I watch close friends get burned alive in Odessa by swastika waving fascist back in 2014 because they just so happened to be members of the of the left wing party Borotba because they opposed the illegal coup and the destruction of great patriotic war and holocaust memorials, they were unarmed civilians, this was months before Russia started materially aiding th DPR and LPR, the culprits of this and many other atrocities were never brought to justice, they were rewarded and inducted into the Ukrainian national guard, so the better point than yours to make, if you want to play value store Milosevic and instigate intervention, that's on you, Ukraine fucked up there, I dont support russias intervention in Ukraine anymore than I supported NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia, but they fuggin asked for it all the same, NATO then as Russia today are doing so for self interested reasons, again this is a capitalist proxy war for profit, of which the proletariat of both sides have to bleed for and suffer whilst the oligarchs of both sides profit from thier bloodshed, and any rational person not blinded by nationalistic hubris should be able to figure that out. I'll leave the excuses to Tsar Vlad and Il Duce Zelensky, personally I'd like to see both brought before revolutionary tribunals and promptly put to the wall while thier regimes are dismantled and in thier place give rise to people's soviets, cause that worked alot fuggin better than this 30 year long clusterfuck of a capitalist experiment.
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@MarkM001 Nuetrality worked great for Ukraine before victoria nuland gave five billion dollars to far right extremist groups in order to finance an armed anti-Russian coup, yeah the people wanted new elections, Yanukovich agreed to them even knowing he would lose, but said far right militants used the funds to get armed and organized, began attacking state authorities, then overthrew the government, set up an ilegal interim regime with wester support, immediately started forcing draconian anti-Russian laws on the population and in doing so alienated a third of the populace, when that third protested these actions, they were regarded as terrorist and a punitive campaign of murder and destruction was unleashed by the regime in Kiev in order to subjugate the populace. I dont see a peaceful resolution being possible until the west accepts this context, it has done everything possible to ignore it since the maidan, hundreds of civilians were murdered by a regime the west wants to brand as "free and democratic"
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As far as I'm concerned the israelites started it 3,400 years ago when joshua arrived in Canaan and started a war of subjugation and extermination of the region's original inhabitants, Likud is a fundamentalist cult, no better than Hezbollah or Hamas, with those to being reactions to zionist fundamentalism, Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, didnt exist during secular ottoman rule, jews and arabs coexisted peacefully. I support a unified Canaan with no state religion, anything short of that is guaranteed to fail.
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@trollmastermike52845 The most important invention in the communist system is their social care. Every citizen of the country must have food on the table. Any citizen must have health care. Even Cuba the most poor communist country is organized that food and healthcare is available to everybody in their country. This system is taken over by Europe/EU and also by the UK and the commonwealth and the reason why they have universal healthcare, and everybody has food on the table. Of course this kind of “communist” social care is Taboo in the USA and the reason we see people dying, because they could not afford medical services or are eating in feedlots organized by social nonprofit organizations.
The first satalite was launced by the Soviets, a concept that all modern means of telecomunication is based on.
Leonid Kuprianovitch developed the first mobile phone, an invention we take for granted on a daily basis. Mikhail Kartsev developed the first computer in 1967,
They developed the first known vacine for anthrax, the cardiopulmanary bypass, the heart pump, cadaveric blood transfusion, the Ilizarov apparatus.
The Laser was develped by the soviets, Pokhorov in particular.
Innovation continued under communism, to say otherwise is either a gross lack of understanding of innovation under communism, the things these innovations inspired, and how we take them for granted every day, or it's just an outright lie on your part.
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This claim is ignoring alot of context, I doubt it's hard for a trained marksman to rack up kills when shooting into large slow moving walls of meat. With that said, he had 105 days to acrew the 505 kills, Zaytsev killed 225 in 37 days, meaning almost have the kills in a third of the time in worse conditions, in this perspective, what sounds more difficult as far as skill is concerned, laying in a dugout in the snow waiting for the long line of heavy olive brown overcoats coming out from the woodwork with great contrast against the frost in day and night conditions, or picking out german field grey from Stalingrad's rubble?
Was he the deadliest sniper of all time, yes, but only because he had the time and conditions to do so, was he the best sniper of all time? Or of WW2? I would dispute both, as 1, the winter war was a seperate conflict, and finland didnt want to be seen at that point as an ally of nazi germany. 2, he violated his own doctrine and for that had his jaw obliterated by a 7.62x54РПЗ, meanwhile Zaytsev developed sniper tactics so effective that they are still taught to this day
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pure ignorance, only a person who has never known the suffering of war would wish it on anyone, while I dont support Putin, is is because he actively surpresses the communist party. Putin is a capitalist that directly profits from this war in the same manner General Dynamics does. If russia returned to the soviet constitution as it existed prior to perestroika, Putin would be put to the wall, most older russians are nostalgic for the USSR and most of the youth are against Putin's capitalism, now that it political system is as morally bankrupt as the west, russias interventions are no longer for the interest of the people, but for profit margins, same as the west, I do not wish more war for Russia, NATO, or whomevers home your hoping gets destroyed, but if that conflict comes, the destruction will be mutual, 32 NATO countries couldnt wipe out Al Qaeda. Both sides militaries would be destroyed, at which point we can all accept the warm embrace of Xi Jinping and Communism with Chinese characteristics.
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@toonmag50 ireland was heavily involved in the First World War, the Boer wars, and the Zulu campaigns as british subjects, not having any choice in the matter, after a bloody war of independence followed by a just as bloody civil war Ireland took the position of strict neutrality, the second world war was known in Ireland as the emergency, a period when Ireland was as much concerned of the treat of British invasion as much as a German one, furthermore during World War 1 Germany provided arms to the Irish Republican Army to help secure its independence from Britain. Even then, during the war Allied pilots who were forced to land on Irsh soil were quickly repatriated to britian and theyre planes played for by the Irish government, while german pilots who were forced to land were interned for the duration of the war, and while the State was officially neutral, between 80,000-130,000 Irish nationals volunteered in the US, British, and Soviet armies in the conflict against fascism.
(Addendum to Irish volunteers in the Red Army, this was one of the smallest grouping of Irish foreign volunteers made up of Irish Communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War that had sought refuge in the USSR following Franco's victory)
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Its they're own dictatorship, better that than another yankee imposed dictatorship or military junta or puppet administration, Cuba's had all of them, they all failed, socialism isnt perfect, but its theirs, the people support it, some dont, but enough do, it wouldnt stand without the support, socialism cant be maintained by fear and force alone, the soviets proved that, it may be a dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship of the workers, and that still beats the alternative.
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@jakeman025 "Russia thought they were going to take over the entire country in a few days".
No, they did not, nor did they claim as much, the west assumed russia would take Ukraine in a few days, russia said that they would be conducting a military operation to denazify Ukraine, the last operation they launched to denazify Ukraine lasted 2 years and cost 2.4 million KIA, so far almost a third of the nation is in Russian Hands, and they have only sustained between 1,300 and 15,000 casualties depending on the russian MoD or the americans CIA's estimates, either way compared to last time around russia has made incredible progress in such a short time.
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@Petem7668 no problem, I enjoy reading, to verify what I said I poured through about 40 different reports and essays about drug abuse in the USSR just to try to see if any types of amphetamines were in use, but the closest I got was called "cold pills" which were trialled in the red army to keep soldiers warm by increasing metabolicrates, its actual name was 2,4-Dinitrophenol, used for weight loss, or as high explosive (same thing) but the average soldier didnt have a high enough caloric intake to cope with the metabolic boost, and thier hearts gave out, other than that meth in russia at the time was going out butt arse naked in the snow with a bottle of stoly and kvas in the other...ahh, better times before krokodil
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@Jennyfur1019 Most palestinians want to just rebuild they're homes, tend they're gardens and move on with life, where they have always lived, Israelis have been importing conquest, war and famine into the region for more than 2000 years ever since Joshua arrived from Egyptthe native of the region, the amorites were wiped out by conquest and assimilation, they're descendants are who we today call Palestinians. The illegal seizing and resettlement of of palestinian land is cultural genocide, the systematic dehumanization of the population and murder of of over 40,000 Palestinians IS considered genocide by the Geneva Convention. Likud is every bit as much of a genocidal war mongering party as Hamas, with the differences between the two being that Likud has been continually voted into power over the last two decades and Hamas hasnt allowed elections since they one in 2007, they do not represent the people of Palestine in effect, only in word, and have frequently terrorized and assassinated members of the Palestinian opposition, the collective punishment of the palestinian people for the actions of a radical terror group that said people have no control over is another violation of human rights as established by the Geneva convention, so every 2-4 years the israeli people have voted in support of mar war crimes and conquest while the Palestinians havent been allowed to vote in 18 years.
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@piotrtrebisz6602 Hey I'm not about to hide or excuse the neonazi's in the ranks of Wagner group let alone the russian army, percentage wise it's no where near as bad as the Ukrainian army, cant help but notice that these far right groups have only sprung up in eastern europe over the last 30 years with the fall of far left governments and the liberalization of politics in the region, followed by the ultimate corruption of said administrations. To say that Russia hasnt lost doesnt mean I'm in full support of Putin, he's a capitalists oligarch that's using the conflict for his personal gain via stock interest and arms sales from Rostek. This is a proxy war between two capitalist giants, both sides have allowed pervasive elements onto thier ranks because capitalist will always need thier useful fools. I wish russia never had to intervene, I wish ukraine had respected the peoples of donbass' legal right to referendum instead of declaring them terrorists and starting a civil war, I wish Ukraine hadnt violated the Geneva convention by cutting off all fresh water access to the Crimean peninsula in a direct act of aggression towards russia, (when you commit a war crime against the people of a sovereign nation, you tend to piss them off) The entire conflict could have been avoided, but that outcome isnt profitable for either Rostek or General Dynamics.
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@piotrtrebisz6602 Collective punishment is a war crime, there is no other fresh water route to Crimea, it cost Ukraine more money and resources just to cut water access off as opposed to not building a dam just to deprive civilians of drinking water, both Poland and Finland have sent military aid to Ukraine since said crime was perpetrated. Until the matter of the illegal coup that usurped power is resolved said elections cannot be considered fair while the government was in a state of war against a third of the population. If Cuba stopped letting US ships take water to guantanamo, the US would be pretty pissed too. That's what the Russians are saying. Try to see things from thier viewpoint, as your one sided bias isnt going to resolve anything, furthermore Ukraine considers Crimea an integral part of Ukraine, and its population to be made up of Ukrainian "terrorist" so by thier own standing, aside from russia's, it's still a war crime, one amongst many that made the conflict inevitable.
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Russia's offensive in the donbass hasnt stopped, ukraine had to pull troops from its southern flank just to muster enough men for this operation who are now very likely to be encircled, as far as demoralizing them, recruitment numbers have actually gone up, because when you invade russia, it tends to piss them off a wee bit, ask the last two who tried. Old Puttles doesnt need to throw ukraines forces back, they already call a quarter of Ukraine's territory prime real estate, after 2 years since the intervention the average draftee age of Russian conscripts is 24,where in Ukraine after 8 years of conflict the average draftee age is now 38, with russia still advancing in Donbass Ukraine has to both reform its defensive lines in the south while continuing to support its operation into Russia that's already cost the Ukrainians 2300+ casualties, 32MBT's, 28APC's, 19IFV's, so far theve captured 19 villages, failed to take the Kursk nuclear plant, both Khalino and Vostochny airbases have resumed flight operations since the attacks 8 days ago both against the Ukrainian in Kursk and supporting operations over the Donbass offensive.
This offensive in Kursk is no less of an act of desperation as the last offensive at Kursk, it's a waste of Ukrainians that were desperately needed in the south, the offensive had no strategic value, it's based on ludicrous Hope's that it would change russian morale to oust Putin. Did Barbarossa change russian morale? Or was Stalin such a good willed and loveable guy? How about Tsar Alexander? Boy howdy didnt the russians just run to topple his regime at the first sight of the Grande Armée? This was never going to work, Ukraine just gave the common Russian credence to everything theyve been told about ukraine since 2014, I really want to see Putin gone but I'm not living in the clouds, they should have asked for Field Marshal Manstien's opinion before mounting this offensive...
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@keptyeti there are laws against the poaching and sales of certian species of wild animals, there are national notices on the dangers of consuming wild animal parts, from bats to rhino horns, this is an emblematic problem of conservitive chinese who refuse to give up traditional values, a problem that has plagued China over the last 2 centuries, the communist party has spent most of the last 70 years educating society of why these values are ultimately a detriment to the population as a whole. They built a hospital with a 1,000 patient capacity specialized for corona virus in Wuhan in 2 days time, with another to be opened by the 5th of February. The viruse is being brought under control, western media is blowing the issue out of proportions to earn higher ratings because in the west profit margins are deemed more valuable than a properly informed public.
It's apparent that there are many people in this comment feed who choose to speculate without having any understanding of China's history, customs, or laws, I need not name names, you know who you are. You are speading a disease of fear mongering and it is far more dangerous than the Corona virus itself.
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@nhatvu8800 But the west was happy to support the civilians of Donbas getting bombed, killed, raped, looted and only instigated further bloodshed. For 7 years. Not forcing to end support to Ukraine unless Zelensky lifted the ban on opposition parties, ended military offensives in the donbas, removed the dam blocking fresh water to Crimea (a violation of article 33 of the Geneva convention, see collective punishment) and ultimately adhering to the peace agreement signed between Ukraine, the DNR, LNR, Russia, France, and Germany, that was evil, but it generated billions in profits for General Dynamics and Raytheon, paid for with US tax dollars and Ukrainian blood. This is a war between two capitalist giants that are using Ukraine and the Donbas republics as proxies, western arms manufactures are profiting hand over fist from the arms transfers to Ukraine. As is Rostek and Izhvesk via its defence contracts with Russia. Putin is no saint, nor is Zelensky, or Biden, they are cut from the same cloth, and are weaponizing the proletariat against each other to serve their own ends, the civilian populaces of Ukraine, Russia, and the west, have nothing to gain from this conflict, point your finger at who is profiting from the bloodshed
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@KentHiltz the economy crumbled years before Chavez came to power, socialism isnt the cause, there was a market colapse, the government sold out to the US so they could ride on top of the wave, the people overthrow said government, then the US sales the nation with sanctions because "hurdur socialism bad" neoliberal democracy and capitalism already failed Venezuela, bit the US and the OAS cant allow socialism to succeed or fail on its own méritos because if it does it challenges the hegemony, Socialism hasnt failed in Venezuela. I'm not saying it cant fail, but allow it to do so on it's own if you want venezuelans to stop supporting the revolution, otherwise Maduro always has the US to point the finger at and shore up support. Americas options to Venezuela has been exploitation or sanctions going back to the Junta, all any of it has done is made life harder for Venezuelans and agitating more anger towards the US than Maduro. If socialism is such a failure than why fear letting it fail on it's own merits, when that happened the people would be more likely to turn against him achieving americas geopolitical goals in the region without oppressing and alienating the Venezuelan people, I mean, 25 years of sanctions havent worked so why not try something new with more empathy. The US isnt dependent on Venezuelan oil, Juan Guaido lives in Miami, the US has nothing to lose in a new approach
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@Kraftravioli Have yet to turn anyone away, americans, guatemalans, dominicans, hondurans, granted i have but only one guest bedroom in my house i can still take people to shelter's, comrade's houses where they can also stay, If i have the ability to help those in need I have the responsibility to do so, sorry its such a hard decision to put humanity over nationalism, if you dont like that, idk what to tell you because i feel pretty good about myself and what i do to help
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@allowmi if Zelensky wants all of that for Ukraine he should get it the same way america did by spending 150 years f**king over the developing world, not by asking for a hand out. Furthermore, if he wants that, it means he doesnt have that, so russia is trying to take away something he doesnt have to be taken by your logic? Also, based on how we describe dictatorships, theres more political freedom in russia than in Ukraine, the Russian duma consist of 6 different political parties while Ukraine's rada consist of 1, as Zelensky banned all political opposition and conveniently refused to step down when his term ended, if he was really invested in the american dream for Ukrainians he should have taken his out like Johnson and Nixon, the clown is no less of a dictator than Putin.
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@Shareefhamida Hi, as an outside observer looking in, my nation has faced 800 years of foreign occupation, so I absolutely sympathize with Palestine in this matter, from what I have seen, and I'm just trying to be objective here, has the dual state solution not failed? With that being said, why has a single state solution not been discussed? A single non-secular Canaanite state with a governing body that is equally composed of Palestinians and Israelis, as well as a decomposition of the armed forces that likewise is equally composed of both peoples with the responsibility to protect every citizen of the nation regardless of ones faith, I cant sot here and believe that god, whether referred to as Allah or HaShem ever wanted his children slaughtering each other over different prophets interpretations of his teachings. The land we all stand on is sacred as it is the only land in the known universe that has given us life and that can hold us, we are all on this celestial rock together as one human race and we are only strong when we set aside our differences and come together. Tiocfaidh Ar La✌🇮🇪
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@dougwalls6266 As of 2024, the Federation of American Scientists estimates that Russia possesses 5,580 nuclear weapons, while the United States has 5,428; Russia and the U.S. each have about 1,600 active deployed strategic nuclear warheads. With that said, earth could be rendered uninhabitable with as few as 400 being used, I'm sure that Joaquin here would play this down with the US and USSR detonating more than this number during the cold war, but the majority of these test were underground and the majority of contamination was contained, in a global exchange massive amounts of radioactive particles would be released into the atmosphere that would endanger the human race along with most life on the planet. As much as warhawks want to downplay this reality, I have to ask is Ukraine being indebted to the US, EU and IMF really worth the fuggin risk? Even if the Ukrainians magically won the war their nation is leveled and the economy is in shambles, the agricultural industry would take years to recover and the US would be sat with the responsibility of rebuilding like it had to do with Germany and Japan just to leve the nation in perpetual debt to the IMF, it that really worth the risk of nuclear apocalypse? Idk about you but I dont even speak Ukrainian, I'm not ready to burn for them.
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and Stalin was 74 when he had a stroke, also was a smoker by habit, no one beats death, John Wayne starred in movies, Stalin turned a third world backwater into a world superpower in less than 30 years, it took america over 150 years to reach such advancements. The cost of building such a power were immence, but as were the cost of native americans in fulfilling manifest destiny, were their numbers were reduced from 15 million people to a little more than 200,000, not to mention the sufferings of black slaves that lasted nearly a century after the war of independence for "freedom and liberty", the west demonization is mostly propaganda, as was seen when the black book of communism was discredited, what wasnt propaganda is just pure hipocracy.
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@xIANoDOOMx They refused to adhere to the Minsk Agreement forced legislation to suppress the russian speaking populace in an effort to erase russian culture, refused to stop making war in the Donbas on Russias border, they deprived the Crimean populace of fresh water in an act of collective punishment (a violation of the Geneva convention mind you). What did Ukraine do to work for a peaceful resolution? If the west had pressured Ukraine into adherence of the agreements made with the DNR, LNR, Russia, France, and Germany, and stopped their attacks in the east, Russian intervention never would have had to transpire. Ohh, and before you call out "russian bot" or what have you, I'm from Ireland, I'm living in Georgia, the state, not the country, I'm employed by Gulfstream as an aviation tech 1 mechanic, and I'm about to lose my job because it's becoming impossible to afford my commute to work, I never supported the coup in Ukraine that brought murderers to power and sparked a civil war, my tax dollars are paying for the bloodletting while I'm trying to stave off financial insolvency and homelessness. so I'm with OP, END SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE!!
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@Mysteryskatin I'm talking about Ukraine, 2014, when Viktor Yanukovich, the democratically elected president was overthrown in an armed coup financed by the United States, talking about latin america during the 1960's would only makes portrays clear double standard set by these west, something tells me you dont want to go down that rabbit hole, thats fine, again, not what I was referring to, with that said, I dont recall anyone ever giving hypocrisy an expiration date.
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@blank557 Taking all of Finland was never Stalins goal, he never wanted to take territory, he wanted to trade territory with Finland because karelia would be crucial for the defence of Murmansk and Leningrad in the event of a fascist invasion, he wanted a buffer zone to protect the soviet union, as was the same reason for the warsaw pact, if he was trully expansionist as you believe, he would have sent the red army into the spanish civil war to put francos little arse down, he did not, he was pessimistic of communist movements abroad, and his geopolitical decisions were based on what is in the best interest for the soviet people and state. Stalin got what he needed, and Leningrad was held.
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@blank557 aye sure he was a bully, not denying that, although I cant cal the man that was refused his own resignation 3 times by the central committee a tyrant, but that's neither here nor there. But to the same regard, cant say that mannerheim was any better, he happily welcomed german intervention in 1917, the killing of around 12,000 finns for being socialist, and was in full support for the Kaiser's cousin being made king of Finland, you dont want to care about what soviet justifications were, fine, two can play that game, I dont care about what finnish excuses were for allying with the nazi's.
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Angela Mathys lol presuptuous aiteann arent you Angy? Why should I be pro american, your country has done nothing but fuck over mine since 1916 when you chose britians side in branding my forefathers terrorist for striving for the same independence that your ancestors fought for.
My uncle was killed in the Congo because he was deployed with the peacekeeping mission because your CIA funded and backed mobutu sese seko's coup to overthrow the democratically elected government so your nation could control the regions natural resources, namely the uranium mines in katanga.
Ohh, Im 31, my mother died when I was 16, so go fuck yourself on that note. Excuse me for not feeling the need to use a sock account blue on blue, I feel no need to hide my face and openly express my vies as they arent racist or by any other means inhuman, Im guessing you wouldnt understand that though blue on blue.
Lastly, I have no problems with being white, I'm just not a white nationalist nor supremicist, as history has clearly shown what that shite spawned before, so you will have to excuse me if I dont share your aspirations for a 4th Reich.
Gabh transna ort fhéin aiteann. 🇮🇪
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I want to see both sides lose and their populaces rise up in socialist revolution to put the politicians and CEOs profiting from this bloodshed to the wall, regardless if they collect their checks from Rostek or Raytheon, they're all guilty, Putin, Zelensky, Biden, Johnson, Lavrov, Poroshenko, Nuland, Yatsenyuk, Trump, Medvedev, they all have cash in their purses and blood on their hands as capitalism won part 1 of the cold war and armed conflict is the most profitable buisness venture on earth.
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@grimmreaper3241 just prior you want to claim victory, now its a peace deal, your narrative of the outcome keeps shifting, one can just as easily consider that a loss when signing said peace deal isnt optional. The Mannerheim line broke, Vyborg was captured and the soviet presence in karelia was growing every day to exploit the breakthrough that could no longer be stopped. Finland was so desperate to start negotiation they used a finnish communist with personal contact with the soviets in sweden to do so, as the soviets had reneged on all previous finnish attempts at negotiating peace, which was then done on soviet terms.
"On 9 March, the Finnish military situation on the Karelian Isthmus was dire as troops were experiencing heavy casualties. Artillery ammunition was exhausted and weapons were wearing out. The Finnish government, realizing that the hoped-for Franco-British military expedition would not arrive in time, as Norway and Sweden had not given the Allies right of passage, and that King Gustav of Sweden denied Finnish pleas to intervene, had little choice but to accept the Soviet terms."
I've read the moscow armistice in its entirety, have you? I've now explained the context in how it came to be, and why the Finns needed peace alot more than the Soviets, who at which point had the inarguable advantage and momentum to exploit said advantage in the conflict, the further deeper we delve into the events of February to March 1944, the "defensive win" theory becomes less plausible.
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@ringogringo814 ahh so you only believe in freedom of speach so long as the speach follows your narrative? If immediately silencing you political opposition is your first defence then your ideas of "freedom and democracy" seem a tad hollow, but to be clear you have no authority to silence criticism. Your idea is insane, you want to base american nuclear weapons in china to provoke a missile crisis with no clear goals for this insane stunt, you can claim it's for "territorial defence" but it's not your territory to defend, you have less right to do so than Khrushchev had to base missiles in Cuba, China's reaction wont be much different than Kennedy's. It's not a deterrent, it's a provocation that will escalate. Let's set politics aside for the moment and just speak like humans that have to share the same rock we call home, what your advocating for has been tried before, it nearly ended the world last time, I have a job, a home that I can only struggle to afford on a biweekly paycheck, half of my weeks I have to decide between if I want to eat or do I want to have enough gas for the hour long drive to and from work 5 days a week, I have Bill's, so under this pretext for my sake, dont kick off armageddon, I do not hav a crate of dinki di dog food, I do not have rattle cans of silver paint, I do not have a 73' Ford Falcon, I am not prepared for the mad max hellscape you want to usher us into, as several billion people around the world likewise aren't, so please, for everyone's sake, you have enough problems at home, try taking care of them instead of taking a shite on your neighbors yard and in the process ruin the neighborhood for everyone else, thanks👌
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To the OP, this man is supporting Azov, not Antifa, while antifascist groups were organizing alongside Borotba communist to protest the coup in 2014, Azov was formed as a batallion to defend the coup, it was composed of members of the far-right political groups known as Right Sektor and Svaboda, and neonatsi football hooligans, when they were confronted by Anticoup protestors in Odessa in a peaceful protest organized by Borotba and the labor unions, the protestors were attacked by Azov and pro-maidan skinheads, they were beaten, hearded into the trade union building and burned alive, following Ukraine deployment of the army against the population of Donbass, Azov was folded into the Ukrainian national guard. Following the atrocities in 2014 and the banning of all left wing parties shortly following, Antifa groups organized with soviet Afghan war veterans to organize defence militias like Vostok Batallion to counter the Ukrainian Army's assault and defend the populace. They would repeatedly find themselves in combat against Azov until defeating them at the Battle of Debaltslavo. Following the Russian intervention in the conflict most of Azov and the foreign volunteers were obliterated in a concentrated missile assault. Following annexation the defence militias of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics were incorporated officially into the Russian Armed forces.
The fascists sided with Ukraine, they organized the coup with western funding in the first place, this man wasnt the "face of Antifa"he was just fa.
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@philosopher9672 ohh wow, unsolicited insults that in no way argues the point that i made, is that supposed to be a defence or something? If so, why? My comment wasn't even directed to you, just the op., If you dont like it, feel free to hit the thumbs down and move on with your life, or is this your life? Actually, no, dont tell, I really couldnt give a shite, your comments say much more about you than anyone else, have a nice day.
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@Ahahahhaaah theyve taken over a fifth of Ukraine and inflicted 1.5 million casualties, 600,000 are acceptable losses in comparison, especially given that ukraine had a smaller conscription pool at the start of the conflict and how that's been exacerbated by the mass migration of draft age Ukrainians, it's a war of attrition, and the math was never really in ukraines favor, Russia doesnt have to capture all of Ukraine to win, all russia has to do is secure and hold onto what theyve captured as that will force ukraine to mount ever more counter offensives the further drain they're numbers, Russia's casualty rate is lower than they're conscription rate, where Ukraines casualty rate if higher than the birth rate by national average, with those figures the outcome is inevitable.
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Ignore the trump trolls and alt right tiki fascist, dont respond to thier bullshit, dont give them a platform, this should have been a lesson learned by now, if you see something inflamatory, offensive, racist, mysoginist, etc don't debate the bullshit, mass report it, have they're comments removed and pages taken down and move the fuck on with your day.
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@storm7090 "An illegal COUP financed by the US (Namely Victoria Nuland providing 5 Billion dollars to far right extremist groups" took control of Ukraine February 24th, 2014. They then declared that anyone in opposition to the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government to be a terrorists, then forced anti-russian legislation at gunpoint on camera, the subsequent enforcement of which led to a campaign of pillaging and massacres as was witnessed in Odessa and Mariupol, forcing the regions that were populated predominantly of people of russian decent and those holding duel citizenship to respond to these acts of agression, leading to homogeneous uprisings in both Donetsk and Lugansk where popular referendum was then held and the people voted to leave Ukraine, the referendum was overseen by international observers and there was no evidence of fraud ever discovered. The people exercised there democratic right to referendum in an act of self preservation. In response the regime in Kiev began a military operation to crush all descent against the coup, beginning with artillery strikes against civil administration buildings in both Donetsk and Lugansk, in response disaffected policemen and military veterans formed vostok battalion in April to defend the fledgling People's Republics, taking arms from two military depots containing retired arms and equipments from the 90's and the Afghan war. At this time no russian material or financial aid had arrived, the first arms transfer from Russia would not arrive in Donetsk until the end of June, two months into Ukraine's military offensive in the Donbas. Russia held friendly relations with Ukraine prior to the 2014 coup in Kiev, protest broke out calling for the removal of Viktor Yanukovich and that he agree to a snap election, which he knew he had no chance of winning, Putin recommended he resign. He agreed to the elections and was prepared to concede defeat, the protestors got everything they had wanted, but the US ambassador urged the leaders of Svaboda and Right Sektor to agitate thier followers into taking more radical steps and adding further demands, moving the goalpost so to speak, and as such making a peaceful resolution impossible, because a peaceful resolution that left Ukraine politically and financially tied to Russia was not in the interest of the US or NATO.
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@noneya1238 just putting it out there, when you guys get tired of this back and fourth shite, your still free to try communism, well, really you'd have to fight for it, as capitalist usually dont enjoy concepts like equality or the redistribution of wealth or a planned economy, but the cost of doing nothing and believing that change can come from casting your vote into one of two parties that tow the same geopolitical line is hopeless, how many decades need to pass before that becomes evident? The democrats arent in any better of a position to force radical change any more than the republicans because the state under which both parties are subservient is corrupted beyond salvation, If change isnt forced the republic will continue to cumble to the point that all you will have left is an autocratic police state where thousands are murdered on a daily basis, we already know the not so meticulus nor gentleman OP wants to go jew hunting, how many signs are needed?
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@Alice-in-USA yeah one more thing can you link your drug plug? because you got to be high af to believe that😂😂😂 Ukraine and Russia were at peace before the US funded and enabled an armed coup in Kiev that's now being run by a regime that refuses to step down and has likewise outlawed all political opposition, Ukraine isnt free, we didnt make peace, and in spite of all of the money that's been wasted on the conflict, the russian "fascists" are still winning. All of Lugansk is now in russian hands, the last Ukrainian stronghold in Donetsk is being encircled by russian forces, the russian counterattack at Kursk has only begun while Ukraine has already lost 10,000 men in the salient, all the money and weapons can do is prolong the inevitable, Ukraine lost this war when they violated minsk II and resumed ground operations against donbass, they could have settled for regional autonomy years ago, they choose to continue the war, russia simply obliged them.
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@pdoylemi nice thought, but in the end, after someone is in court so often for manslaughter cases, at which point do repeated offences become murder? Maybe they should have thier firearms permit revoked under said circumstances?
Otherwise it will just keep happening, again, and again, whilst using the money aquired from the victims to pay court cost.
In my home country troops have only ever been deployed overseas under auspices of United Nations as peacekeepers, in my current adopted country the armed forces have only been deployed upon the request of soveriegn states for assistance, the last time that happened was 3 decades ago to defend the sovereignty of Angola and gurantee the independence of Namibia from Apartheid South Africa, since then it has only participated in humanitarian relief missions in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. If the US only makes blunders and this is not pre-meditated, then the sensible thing to do is to only deploy it's forces under UN mandate and scruitiny, when that happens, I might actually be able to believe some of America's claims, but my faith and trust in the system was broken long ago in primary school, The Americans sided with Churchill and Kitchener as well as the crown in branding my ancestors as terrorist for striving for independence from the same empire that you yourselves fought to be free from, you chose your own geopolitical interest as oppossed to recognizing our plight for freedom when we needed your support.
When my countrymen were deployed to the Congo after Lumumba was murdered your country was busy giving Mobutu Sese Seko money to arm french and belgian mercenaries that were then used to kill my countrymen.
I, along with the rest of Ireland, still happen to be quite pissed about this, our men died trying to keep the peace whilst your CIA was doing everything in its power to break it in order to control the Uranium mines, while not giving a damn about the Congolese struggle for freedom. These injustices are far too common to be excused as accidents or simple blunders, as the US has repeatedly failed to rectify these past mistakes, and only goes on continuing in subverting the third world to its will by means of force.
I cannot believe in or support americas foriegn policy, as it is preditive in nature and imperialist in practice, so with that being said I do not believe we will be able to come to an understanding on the matter. With that I respectfully say goodnight and goodbye to you sir.
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@pdoylemi and you lost me completely on that last one, your anti-communist dogma is showing, most of the military juntas installed in latin america were orchestrated by the US to topple democraticly elected governments that were replace with ruthless dictators, Batista, Pinochet, Rios Mont for just three examples of this, and the region has never recovered from what the US did, meanwhile a third of your nation wishes to close its doors to the refugees fleeing the shitholes your country created. So again, we're not going to agree on this, goodbye.
And dont give me that 80 years shite, in 1954 your CIA destroyed liberal democracy in Guatemala solely to protect the interest of the United Fruit Company. I would be glad to give you more examples, but given you've ignored everything i said in my last comment to you whats the point?
Rethorical question there, again goodbye.
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@pdoylemi given that you chose to ignore my grievences and the facts attributed to them, why should I? As you are just as culpable in being wedded to the ideas of american exceptionalism.
Ohh, where I live one has to hold full political rights for 5 years to participate in palimentery elections, and I only moved to Cuba 4 years ago, and only recieved my papers of permenant residencey last February, that being said, I still took time to give support to Miguel Diaz, even though I disagree with his legalization of private property, a measure Ive been active in the protest to have overturned, as it is a measure that only compromises the revolution that Fidel and millions of Cubans spent they're lives working to build and maintain, before I came here I had lived and traveled all over central america, In Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicuragua, I've personally witnessed the long term effects of American imperialism, coupling that with my country's grievences as well as the continued economic embargo your empire places over my adopted country that does nothing but make life more difficult for everyone here including myself, maybe you can start to realize your not winning me over to your way of thinking.
If I am evil for defending the rights of the oppressed peoples of the world from american brutality and exploitation, then call me what you will, try me, judge me, fuck all shoot me, but in the end, history will absolve me.
Gabh trasna ort fhéin cúl tona.
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@leeii337 No, those were just some general facts, not justification, that's not my job Russia is acting in a self serving manner using the civilian populace of the east as an excuse to secure its sphere of influence, that being said, russias actions have been reactionary, long before they intervened the Ukrainian Army and far right paramilitaries were already killing hundreds of civilians in the donbas, Odessa, and Mariupol, why should those murders get a pass bud? Because Russia wasnt involved yet so it's cool, or those were all just the bad ukrainians so they deserved to be shot and burned? Or was that just an internal affair that somehow has no bearing on the events that followed? given such the context their excuses are every bit as valid as NATO bombing Yugoslavian civilians, cry me a river, build a bridge, Russia's not doing anything that the west hasnt done repeatedly, so do please blow the exceptionalism out your arse, no russia isnt the kind and humble benefactor simply defending the donbas people any more than NATO gave a shite about the Afghans or Iraqis or Syrians or Serbs, Croats, Bosnians etc, just more proxy war for profit amongst capitalists oligarchs, the west long set the precedent of what's being witnessed in Ukraine, yet it is only when the competitors to the petrodollar do the same when this strategy becomes something evil. If you take this as a defence of Russia, it's not, that's on you, my only bias in this conflict is to the proletariat of both nations who have to suffer for the economic gains being generated at the top, the regimes in Moscow, Kiev, and washington are the responsible parties, the war industry is the responsible party, to end this conflict the nationalist narrative needs to be exposed as the lie it is, part of that is acknowledging the previously stated facts regardless of whether or not they fit your narrative or not, If you ignore past wrongs to justify your present position, the opposition will do the same, as russia has done with said bombings of civilians, and until there is change here both sides self righteous narratives will continue, the conflict will continue to escalate, and hundreds of thousands will continue to die while Uralvagonzovod shareholders and General Dynamics CEO's continue champagne toasts to ever higher stock values from the arms contracts that keep flowing in.
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After reading the first 20 odd comments in this thread I've come to realize the west lives in Orwell's 1984, any questioning of the narrative or dissenting view can only come from "bots" or "orks" or which ever derogatory and dehumanizing term is popular, that independent though and analysis not accepted, that information must come purely from the interested party, regardless of how factual it might be, I'm no fan of Putin but christ almighty this thread is sickening to read while half of you shun the supposed values you espouse. This war is about profit, on both sides of the battle line, regardless of if the industry making the profit is General Dynamics or Uralvagonzavod, money machine still goes brrrrp with every new contract. The regime in Kiev is no more free or democratic than the regime in Kiev in 2013, new oligarchs with new patrons sure, the corruption is very much the same, I'm sure it wont even take a day for one of you clowns to call me out as an ork or botski or wtf ever you all come up with to dehumanize me, go ahead, my point still stands, your just reinforcing it.
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More like a modern day tsar nicholas, just with more capitalist characteristics than the old russian empire, still, it was the liberal revisionst that has led Russia to be an antagonizer in the world, copying the western mold, to that end, I look to the question put before social revolutionaries in 1914, do we support on reactionary imperial8state in war against other imperialist antagonizes? The answer is both yes, and no, support Russia's drive to war knowing while doing everything to undermine the war effort, knowing that it will cripple the state, radicalize an already angry populace, and make ready the conditions for proletarian revolution to rid Russia of the cancer that infected it 32 years ago, I feel trully sorry for Ukraine, regardless if they manage to defeat the Russian army, the society will be left in perpetual poverty and turmoil as over half of the nation has been ravaged by war, the economy has been left in shambles, while the regime in Kiev will squander EU and IMF loans leaving the people toiling away with ever worsening austerity measures to bear the burden of the debt levied by the west for "saving Ukraine"
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@marczhu7473 its likewise to stop russian ships from bringing water to Crimea, from the time Ukraine damed the river supplying fresh water to the Crimean peninsula, the port was one of the few routes left over to provide fresh water to the populace, the damn has been destroyed by russian forces, it being built was an act of collective punishment and a crime against humanity under article 33 of the Geneva Convention, as such it was a direct provocation to Russia, the whole premise of the invasion being "unprovoked" is a fallacy, saying that doesnt mean that one has to automatically support Russia in this conflict, does Putin have ulterior motives for intervening in Ukraine? Of course, he's a capitalist, furthermore a major shareholder of Rostek, and as such only getting richer from the sale of military equipment to the Russian military, this war is every bit as profitable to defence contractors in russia such as Izhvesk or Rostek as it is to Raytheon and General Dynamics. This conflict became inevitable in 1991.
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@nsevv and those unarmed civilians the ukrainians barricaded into a the trade union building and burned alive in Odessa? It was on film, they murdered innocent men and women, they shot civilians as they tried to jump from the windows of the building, they werent separatist or terrorist, they were members of the Borotba party and journalist, and bystanders fleeing the neonazi football hooligans and the pro-coup police supporting them, they had the legal right to protest, and they were murdered for it, I'm not painting russia as the good guys, but dont pretend the the regime in Kiev is made up of saints that can do no wrong, dont hide their crimes just to justify a false narrative, they intentionally murdered civilians and never saw justice for doing so, these actions spurred the separatist movement much more than russia ever could, with that being said, there were thousands of dual citizens living in eastern Ukraine who were at risk of suffering the same fate as those in the Odessa massacre, russia had every bit as much of an obligation to protect its citizens as the americans had to protect its citizen in Grenada, and when it invaded panama to defend its interest in the region, and do remember, context is not justification, it just gives understanding to the reasoning and motives for the conflict, what russia did is by no means without precedent.
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@seidenstickerj It wasnt a western financed coup? Okay, so when Victoria Nuland gives $5 billion to far right extremist groups in your nation to oust the elected government, that hold new elections while alienating a third of the nation's population. This is a coup, it did stick, clearly. If you want to be blind to it, that's on you, not me. I already saw my friends in Odessa burned alive because they didnt support the coup, I lost friends at Debaltslavo because they refused to be subjugated by a series of puppet regimes, and after the massacres committed against protests of the coup in 2014, FULL FUGGIN AUTONOMY FOR DONBAS, nothing less would be acceptable.
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@DV-lr8ec same that's happening to Ukraine now, Germany wasted its soldiers on unsound offensives until they no longer had the manpower to stop Soviet offensives, I know everyone is focused on kursk, but the russian offensive in donbass has only sped up, even while russian soldiers were pulled from the offensive to plug the gap in Kursk, Ukraine is running out of men faster than new soldiers can be drafted and trained. It's a numbers game that even with all the financial and material support Ukraine has gotten, they were never going to be able to win, Ukraine has lost over 2000 men in this offensive so far, all to hold less than 1% of russias territory, meanwhile Russia holds 25% of Ukrainian territory with more on the way while both side continue to suffer comparable casualties, they dont come close to comperable reserves, what happens when ukraine runs out of men to drive the western tanks and pilots to fly the western fighters? It's just a numbers game.
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@wesleys4507 the referendum was monitored by international observers, including from the UN, The people of Crimea choose to leave Ukraine, Russia did not decide that, they didnt "come around" until requested to do so by the Sevastopol city counsil had requested that they intervene, and no evidence exist to the contrary that has been presented in 8 years, with that said, speculation should not dictate the future of Crimea without the say of the Crimean people, they made their choice, if we do hold democratic values then this choice must be respected, as must the autonomy on Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine gets to continue to exist as an independent nation, that's getting something out of it.
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Russian's arent shelling the Nuclear plant, nor do they need to, they already control it and supply power to a third of the nation's population, if russia still controls the plant by winter and is seen as the ones preventing 14 million people from freezing, then that staunch leader loses popular support at home. There is no proof that Russia is shelling they're own forces when they have nothing to gain in doing so, Zelensky hopes that the continued shelling will force UN and IAEA intervention and return control of the plant to Ukraine, in that sense, blackmailing the west with potential of nuclear catastrophe to force them to intervene, on the other side, what does Russia stand to gain in such a situation? Nothing, If they're goal is to create a new Ukrainian government then they would need support of the populace to do so, as was already made evident in Chechnya, so they know this as well. So logic points to Ukraine being responsible. And should be held accountable.
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@randylegall2162 No, using Charles logic, the american taxpayers would be paying for the wall, not Canada, Not Mexico, Not China or Russia either. Again, untill said USMC bill went into effect, if it does at all, Trump is carging the taxpayers for the wall, and thus breaking his campaign promise to his base, clear and simple.
Also, if he wants to build said wall, why not just divert the money from the defence budget? If he's removing American forces from Syria there should be a bit more to spare there and not charge the taxpayers any more than what they are already forced to pay.
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@randylegall2162 for what its worth I personally dont believe he has made america less great, but I never saw America as that great of a nation to begin with, but your nation has had a long history of fucking over my countrymen going back to 1916, so maybe im a bit biased on that point, but as it stands Fidel's Cuba was a better friend to us than America had ever been. As far as I can see the Americans are treating they're southern neighbors the same way the Brits treated my ancestors, well if not worse actually, MI6 never plotted and funded coups to destabalize our democracy as the US has done repeatedly over the last century in Central and South America to continue the exploitation of the third world. That being said, building a wall is still a massive waste of taxpayers dollars. Trumps continued shutdown does more to jeprodize Americas security than any amount of illegal immigration from the southern boarder, because historically, Americas threats from terrorist have been from the air, and through the ports, TSA workers arent being paid, and they are leaving in mass to pick up part time jobs, leaving less people at the ports of entry to screen people entering the country or to cunduct proper searches, you can do the math on that and see how the numbers stack up, no disrespect intended.
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@randylegall2162 I understand your concerns, but quite frankly, In relation to the United Stated repeated violations of international law in it's regime change operations in Latin America to overthrow democratically elected governments with military juntas that were more subservient to US foriegn policy, from the overthrowing of Guatemala's Arbenz Guzman in 1954 to as recently in the 2007 Coup in Honduras which has led to violent civil wars and campaigns of mass murder, free ranging death squads trained in the School of the Americas (WHINSEC), that has broken down law in order in the region making the capability of having a peacful life an impossibility for hundreds of thousands of people in the region, expect no sympathy from me over whats going on on the southern border..
Until your country owns up to its culpability in the destabalization of the region and starts effective programs to set right these injustices, your treatment of migrants and asylum seekers is only a measure to pour salt into the wounds yourselves and forefathers cut open.
Yes I agree that there needs to be immigration reform, but it will not be effective without righting these wrongs, People will still travel north seeking peace and stability, regardless of how many visas are granted, if you want a long term solution to the problem, these measures would be a more effective solution than any wall, and it gives America the added caviat of being able to live up to the imaga of what ot was always supposed to be.
I'm an Irish expatriate living in the Caribbean by the way. Cheers
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@crystalgiddens7276 yep, consistently full of shite, just what I thought. Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan were not communist, communist have never run shite in your country sad as it is to say. You have no understanding of fucking history at all let alone the concept.
Ohh, your speaking to one by the way, go fuck yourself. ☭
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@kurousagi8155 Tell yourself that and good luck trying that theory of yours out, could the us win eventually, yes but it would be pyrrhic at the international level because it would require leveling the entire island and genociding most of the population through extended bombing campaigns that will likely only enrage the entire region making it more difficult to maintain your blockade, 5he cuban people would resist foreign agression with everything they have down to machetes, they have before, ask the Spanish, and enduring such losses in the face of open imperialist aggression and genocide would spark international int er invention from cubas allies, as well as the UN, they're already against the blockade, I dont advise pushing that envelope, At the end of the day, the US gets literally nothing good out of invading Cuba, nor do the Cuban people, you can disagree with the socialist government in Cuba if this is where the whole invade Cuba thing is coming from, but at least the government in power is stable and run by a democratic body with alot of oversight, we've seen what US invasions and interventions have accomplished in Iraq, in Syria, in Lybia, in Sudan, so please, no one wants to see the Cuban version of ISIS, America justsneeds to take a break from invading places,it hasnt been good at it for 70 years and it's only getting worse every time, at some point you have to stop blaming every other country for Americas failures.
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@johnwolf2829 1) your entire reply was defensive posturing, so yes, a defence that you decided to take on.
2) I didnt accuse you of being a nazi, you just attempted to use the same excuse as one.
3)Canada never had the material resources to challenge the US, mexico did, the reasoning for doing so was more socio-economically related, but them being of aztec, mayan, Mexico and spanish decent as well as predominantly catholic made your imperialism easier to sell to you predominantly protastant populace of a lighter complexion, but again, correlation is not causation. Your drawing these cards, not me.
4) the US made thier money back by 1905 and predatory loans left the country indebted for decades based on the decisions of "aristocrats" who usurped power for themselves with americas direct support (ask Caranza or more recently Nieto for further details).
4) I've lived with the Zapatistas in Ocosingo for 8 years, get fucked good sir and dont presume to know shite about me.
5) You blame socialism for the economic woes of a capitalist nation, what's next, your going to blame the thousands of deaths caused every year by the drug trade (a completely capitalist enterprise mind you) on the commies too?
I get a strong feeling that I already have a better understanding than you or the international propagandist you want to link me to.
Gabh trasna ort fhéin cúl tóna.
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@Joshpox that "cowardice has led to 10,000 ukrainian casualties in Kursk with the offensive being halted, all of Lugansk is now in russian hands, and the last Ukrainian stronghold in Donetsk is being encircled by russian ground forces, while ukraines manpower shortages grows more critical every week, all the money and weapons dont count for much if ukraine doesnt have the manpower to effectively use them, Putin is patient, he sees it's a numbers game, and he's just running down the clock by simply holding the donbass Russia continues to build defences that Ukraine bloodies itself trying and failing to recapture, all Putin has to due is continue to keep Russian enlistment rates higher than the casualty rate while keeping ukraines casualty rate higher than the nations birth rate and with that russian victory is inevitable, it's just a matter of when, not if, Ukraine never stood a chance.
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@Mentol_ Theres something I want to ask you for confirmation, or as close to it as possible as you seem to have better access to records I can only get cursory information about. To my question; Regarding the 14th and 7th armies that were stationed in the northern front before it was split into the leningrad and karelian fronts respectively, all information I have read states that there positions were essential in holding the germans and finns long enough to ready the defences of Leningrad and Murmansk before the siege was put into place, with that said, could leningrad and murmansk have been held without the territory gained at the end of the winter war? Given the events of the finnish civil war, the german intervention in 1917, and Mannerheims ambitions at the cost of russian territory, the land trade seemed rational for regional defence, and given that the primary concern to the USSR was that Finland would allow an enemy of russia to use karelia as a staging ground for invasion of the USSR, and that concern seems to have been justified in 1941, how much harder of a time would the red army have had in holding the Leningrad front if not for the events of the winter war?
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Ukraine had to pull troops from its defensive line in the Donbass to mount this offensive, weakening ukraines defenses in the region where russia is now taking 12km a day while meeting light resistance, in the north, Ukraine failed to capture the Kursk Nuclear Powr Plant, its attacks on Russia's airbases were ineffective, as both Khalino and Voronezh have resumed flight operations, Ukraine has overstretched itself now as it will have to support this offensive while struggling to make new defensive lines in the south, its political objective has failed, support for Putins war has only gained fervor as Russian news agencies are reporting mass evacuations and that the Ukrainians are committed atrocities against russian civilians in the kursk region, this has boosted recruitment for the russian army, the only thing that's hilarious is that anyone who wants to see Putin gone (me included) thinks that this was a good thing
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@Jurgen123445 not to mention massive piles of WW1 surplus P1914 enfield's that were used by home guard as the Army never used the rifle in mainland europe, along with that, on top of that there were 75,000 Mk111 Ross rifles provided by Canada, and then there was America;
General George Marshall, the US Chief of Staff, told Roosevelt that the army could sell Britain 500,000 M1917 Enfield rifles of First World War vintage, plus 250 rounds for each weapon, 25,000 Browning automatic rifles, 900 howitzers, 22,000 machine guns and 500 mortars. 900 tons of supplies, before lend lease was even enacted, the arms lost at Dunkirk were rapidly replaced.
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@jeffrey8921 religous fundamentalism is the radical, state power defined by "gods will" is as radical in Tel Aviv as it is in Tehran, it will always lead to bloodshed, Hamas is radical, Likud is just as radical but has a sponsor that has more moneyniether represent common interest, a plan for peace, or the democratic will of the people, both Palestinian and Israeli respectively. Both sides need to disarm, or be disarmed, ilegal settlements need to be closed. Independent UN oversight needs to be put in place over the management of land development, with properties illegally taken from Palestinians to be returned to their original residents. Syrian, Lebanese, and Jordanian territory should likewise be ceded to their sovreign nations under treaty agreements that no hostile actions be taken against this new UN protectorate as a new system of governance established by Palestinians and Israelis that enshrines a clear seperation of church and state to work towards the common interest of all of the citizens of one united nation under one flag. A two state solution with both opposing parties led by religious fanatics was never going York, and that has proven true since its conception with over 70 years of failures to show for it.
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@vikramlothe1709 lol, small world, I spent 3 years living in the US, about a year of it was spent in a small town in the arse end of no where about an hour from Roanoke, i moved to Santa Clara, Cuba about 4 years ago now, and just got perminent residence status approved back in february, without full citizenship I cant vote in the general assembly, but I greatly prefer its method all the same, if all goes to plan and me and my fiance get married in March, i can apply for full citizenship and have the ability to vote within 5 years, it's a long wait but worth every day of it.
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@jalluhc closer to 600,000 Russians, 360,000 Ukrainian dead, 1,300 dead American mercenaries, The Ukrainians went from 300km² of captured territory in Kursk to 6km² and it only cost 20,000 dead, all of Donestk in Russian hands, all of Lugansk minus Chasiv Yar in Russian hands, all of the southern coast from the border to Crimea in Russian hands, and Zelensky is running out of kids to kidnap to man all that old equipment due to most draft age men already having fled the country.
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@w1sh-l1st18 F@%k no, most of europe is already falling back into far right reactionary extremism, In the last conflagration we fought alongside the Soviets against the fascists, the werent our enemies, as to opposing dictators, the US supported Samoza, Pinochet, Trujillo, Batista, Montt, Armas, Thieu, Diem, Rhee, alongside quite a few other dictators throughout the cold war, at least the Soviet Union was a dictatorship of the working class, unlike the monsters the US propped up for half a century, Zelenskii is just the new THieu, the world moved on without south vietnam, I'm not giving my life for Ukraine.
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@SteuerInnenzahler doesnt exist, beat google could come up with is an 1867 map depicting what judea was assume to look like around 300bc, bit its quite irrelevant. Rome squashed that claim in the second century, no one cares who was there first, by your standards the US should be given back to the first nations and all the colonizers should be forced to live in ever shrinking ghettos with no rights. That is the fuggin precedent you set, with that said, the presente persecución of the palestinian people is inexcusable, it is immoral, it is a slap in the face to your ancestors as it only lowers you to the same level as your past oppressors. Furthermore, it is not sustainable, the more Palestinian lands swallowed by Israel coupled with ever more restrictions on civil rights and liberties will only cause more unrest and violence, leading to the impossibility of a peaceful resolution, and ultimately, the complete slaughter of the Palestinian people, exposing Israel as a genocidal aparthied regime no better than Milosevic's Serbia, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Pinochet's Chile, and Idi Amin's Uganda, do tell how that strategy worked out for them? Your not always going to have America to protect you, learn how to coexist. Otherwise your just an imperialists colonizer.
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@joeswanson5486 Russia has 100,000 actively serving in Ukraine, as casualties are taken, the can draw from other units inside russia while having their original positions filled by reservists, as Russia has an active standing army of 1.014 million,, Ukraine had 700,000, they cant call on new divisions, of that 700,000, not all are even fighting in Ukraine, many divisions are spread across western europe reciving training for new weapons, they will not be able to do anything for weeks to months. This is a war of attrition, and Russia has more men and material to throw at it than ukraine can muster, every week the news is reporting at least two more towns that have fallen to Russian forces and this shows no sign of stopping.
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@restuser1740 the video was poorly presented and is using stock footage because of the press censorship in Ukraine and not allowing journalists into the combat zone in Kursk, more detailed reports are being broadcast on Russian media, the special forces operation through the pipeline was to shift attention to the rear while a russian army group advanced on the frontline capturing 4 villages, 80km² and breaking the Ukrainian defensive line that had to fall back to Sudzha, which is now under direct assault, when the town falls the Ukrainian occupation of Kursk will be effectively destroyed. Meanwhile in the south after capturing the strategic crossroads at Chasiv Yar Russia has began its renewed assault on Kharkov. Russia has continued a steady advance over the past year since starting the counteroffensive to liberate Kursk, with only small lulls occurring when Russia rotates its brigades out of the theater while Ukraine has no reserves to allow for troop rotations, every time the assault renews ever more exhausted Ukrainian troops are facing fresh well rested brigades of Russian combat teams, this isnt sustainable for Ukraine, even if the increase supplies and armaments this doesnt solve Ukraines manpower problem that is only growing worse with every week. Russia doesnt need to smash and conquer Ukraine, if the bleed them long enough to disable ukraines ability to be a threat to Russia, then they have achieved their objective.
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@yemannwaiphyo8817 "We are not Ready for Real Communism yet" is one of the most nihilistic things I've ever hear, at the rate were going we wont survive capitalism to get there. Capitalism as a worldwide institution leads to the deaths of 100 million every five years from preventable causes that continue every year, you talk about deaths from communism, while capitalism has killed more throughout history and continues to do the same.
1. Stop getting statistics from the black book of communism, it was discredited by its authors and holds no basis in reality.
2. Neither of the persons mentioned had complete authority. As both had to answer to and could be removed by the central committee of the communist parties of thier respective governments. For example, Stalin requested to resign on 3 occasions only to be ordered to continue his post. He was not all powerful, and he made mistakes, and he admitted to his mistakes at the central committee on multiple occasions.
Meanwhile in the east, No one cared about the famines when Sun Yat-Sen was in charge, nor when Chiang Kai-Shek was in charge, nor when the king dynasty was ruling, China was nothing more than a market for exploitation for whomever was willing to march in and set up shop. Tell me, since the great leap forward, how many nations have attempted to invade China? How many foreign powers have tried to subvert and exploit the chinese populace with opium, how many times has Nanjing been sacked? Because I cant think of any, at all.
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@yemannwaiphyo8817 I'm original from Ireland, my nation has been in conflict for 800 years, I served in Lebanon as a peacekeeper with UNIFIL, I've seen violence and death, after I got out of the service, I did get out and travel, mostly central and south america, I ended up settling in Cuba for a time, but as I'm not a cuban citizen I can only stay but for so long, so I bounce back and forth between mexico and cuba over the last few years, ohh, and aye yeah you wouldnt have wanted to have been in my mothers womb, I didnt, she was a drunk, I'm surprised I lived through the experience.
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America financed the 2014 coup to overthrow the elected government of Ukraine to install a regime allied to it's interest, choosing to support far-right extremists in the maidan protest, providing a $1 Billion loan that contributed to arms, supplies, and salaries for the volunteers of Svaboda Part, Right Sektor, and Azov Battalion, groups so extreme in their message of hate that they alienated a third of the population, which begat referendums for independence, which begat civil war, so yes, the US has been directly responsible from the very beginning.
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@pepperedash4424 "If dozens of nations have all tried and failed to emulate something, than that means its unobtainable" was the excuse of the royal families of the Brithish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Austro-Hungarian empires amongst others against democratic rule for centuries, they used that excuse while spending vast sums of money and millions of lives to control the spread of these liberal progressive ideals just as the western "democracies" have spent trillions of dollars and millions of lives to strangle socialism in its crib since its inception in 1917, If socialism is so unobtainable, why was it never once left to fail of it's own accord? Why has it always required direct western intervention in the form of military occupations, the financing of terrorist groups inside socialist nations, illegal blockades and hostile sanctions, forming Coup d'état's and installing right wing authoritarian regimes that were 10x bloodier and more brutal than the communist they replaced (ask Pinochet, or the Taliban), if communism was unobtainable, and China is set to fail, then none of this would have been necessary for the survival of western capitalism and so its responsible for the most colossal waste of lives and resources es in human history, or, just maybe, your mistaken, and communism has not been achieved because every time it was attempted the west immediately tried to strangle it in the crib before it became a threat to western imperialists hegemony and that true communism can only come to fruition after the complete dismantling of the capitalist system as theorized by Marx and Engels as capitalist will always be able to sow divide amongst the populace so long as they can agitate and exploit the existing class antagonisms. History has provided us both with different lessons based upon different perspectives, and it will be up to history to prove which one of us is correct. Until then, and with respect, we'll have to agree to disagree.
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The US spent 150 years screwing over almost every other nation in this hemisphere, they arent hand outs, they're hand backs, and should continue, with that said, all of the working class should be given the same benefits, and it wouldnt be hard to do, just stop funding Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and terror groups around the world(never stopped giving money to contras in Nicuragua and paramilitary death squads in Colombia), and withdrawal s its forces from South Korea since that cost $3.3B annually and Korea is only paying the US $925M, and then the US could afford to support the entirety of the working class, and it makes alot more sense then cutting support from part of the working class that absolutely needs it to give said support to another part of the working class that also needs it. Because that's the same problem just with different demographics, doesnt fix the problem.
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Ginger Sue Communism is a socio-economic theory based upon equality of all peoples and the redistribution of wealth to the working class, it is antifascist, anticapitalist, antiracist, antisexist, and in contrary to most froms of xenophobia in general, you are commenting on something you obviously have no clue about, communist will not cover up anything for Biden, he gets a revolutionary tribunal and the wall right alongside trump, clinton, obama bush, and the rest of the bourgeoisie. Have a nice day.
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In two years Russia captured a fifth of the nation, so 8 more years by that math, probably less as Ukraine burns through its reserves though, Kursk didnt really help Ukraine though, they cant replace the 16,000 they lost there, not fast enough to make a difference in Donetsk anyways, Chasiv Yar will fall before the year is out, Pokrovsk will be in Russian hands before Thanksgiving , when they fall all of Donetsk will be under Russian control, theyve already secured the whole of Lugansk.
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@Laubergerr @MarcoWasHere @Joonas Naski The treaty was signed before that happened, the soviets broke the mannerheim line and there was no ammunition left to stop them, the finn's had no choice but to sign the treaty, so they did, before helinski was able to be steamrolled, I did not lie, I was misinterpreted.
When I few the goals of this war strategically it goes as follows, as victory is not based on kill count, that's your bloodlust speaking.
Stalin needed Karelia to defend Murmansk and Leningrad in the event of fascist invasion, he won, forced Finland to cede karelia in trade for other soviet territory, and then, when concerned fascist invasion actually happened, Murmansk and Leningrad were defended, so yeah, Soviets won, they accomplished their stated goals. My opinions are my own, just as yours should be yours, I could ask why your sympathetic to a borderline fascist autocracy that sided with the nazis in an egocentric rage which left Finland forced to sign another treaty with the Soviets in 1944 and turn on they're fasist allies in the lapland war, while all the deaths on both sides could have been avoided by signing a piece of fuggin paper in 1939, I could ask, but I really dont care fore the answer, because it is your own buisness, maybe its national pride, dont know, dont care to know, have a nice day 👌
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@pshayes also Ukraine in 1991 was not a place that needed nukes, given the levels of corruption it was almost certain that many of them would have disappeared on the black market, it was in everyone's interest that Ukraine gave up its nukes, including Ukraine's, furthermore, America agreed to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and provide defence for the nation if attacked, the US was in breach of that contract in 2014 when the Obama administration funded a coup to overthrow Ukraine's elected president in order to install a prowerten regime in violation of international law, Ukraine's constitution, and the Budapest memorandum, that document has already been proven a worthless scrap of paper by all parties who signed it, if Ukraine wants those soviet missiles back theyll have to go ask Putin.
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@UserUser-ww2nj so how would you describe the five billion dollars that victoria nuland made available to the far right paramilitary organizations that carried out the coup in 2014, funds that were used to secure equipment and weapons, and recruitment into their ranks while said groups promised that upon seizing power they would agree to the trade deal with the EU even though it was no where near as favorable to ukraine than was the deal being offered to Ukraine by Russia? Financial intervention is still intervention, the same can be said with military equipment and weapons, to the same degree that Americans downplay the eastern front in the second world war by saying that the only reason the USSR defeated the fascist was because of western aid, even though no american or british forces actually fought on the eastern front, that the west still considers a crucial intervention, the case is the same now, the west bears a great deal of responsibility for the current conflict in Ukraine, as I'd does in Lybia, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Nicuragua, Colombia, Venezuela, as it had neared responsibility for dozens of bloody conflicts going back to the war in Korea.
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Even if the Ukrainian loses the US defense contractors still win, if ukraine wins, then the US defense contractors still win, but so does the IMF, they'd loan ukraine the money to rebuild but ukraine would only ever rise to be another Greece, riddled with unpayable debt and a broken economy entirely subservient to the will of the EU, it's people be damned, you see, the west doesnt have anything to lose, they dont care about Ukrainians regardless of if russia is invading or Poland, they care about profit margins, and either way they stand to gain. Capitalism still wins.
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They still have the mineral wealth and oil, that hasnt changed, the market did, sending Venezuela into an ecconomic crisis that was anything but beautiful coupled with the graft corruption wrought by Accion Democratico and Carlos Perez, the economy crumbled years before the socialist took over, as historical precedent has shown that socialism taking over doesnt happen when everything is going well, After the socialist took over and rooted out said corruption, for a time the economy was in recovery, then it was saddled with economic sanctions meant directly to cripple said recovery because "socialism is bad" and it cant be allowed to be seen as a successful model as that would directly challenge the US's hegemony, not to mention destabilize the region, imagine if millions of impoverished Colombians and Chileans saw socialism succeed right next door it would be a domino effect that the US and the OAS would never be willing to risk, for obvious reasons, if I'm wrong, then end the sanctions, if the economy still fails to recover then you've proven your point, and Maduro will lose support, whereas if the economy recovers, Venezuela gets to be a beautiful place with fantastic people again, I'm just saying after 26 years of attempting to overthrow Venezuelan socialism, maybe accept that it's not working and try something else? That seems rational.
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@josephstarnes9554 they arent holding the line in Ukraine though, they're advancing while the Ukrainians have over 6000 men rooting for turnips in Kursk and that 500,000 number you keep throwing out over this page is the US State department's estimates of the overall casualties in the Ukraine conflict, both Russian and Ukrainian, which was reported as such by the New York Tmes, with Russian casualties being estimated around 140,000 killed and and 170,000 wounded, Ukraine is suffering a manpower shortage, the average draftee age in ukraine is almost double that of Russia's. Putlers grand strategy is working fine because it's a long game and they hold a quarter of ukraines board while having 3 times the amount of pawns, all they have to continue to do is run down the clock and ensure Ukraines casualty rate is higher than its recruitment rate while ensuring russias casualty rate is slower that its birthrate, Russia has time in the numbers, Ukraine doesnt, its has nothing to do with personal feelings or partisan politics, math is just cold, and ukraine never had the numbers to make the math work. Russia can continue to sustain casualties at the current rate for years to come, ukraine is struggling to get more recruits into the field now Ukraine's Attorney General stated that they suffer a severe manpower crisis to Ukranes national news network RIA Novosti and is why Zelensky wont authorize Ukraines actual casualty statistics, and that at least 30,000 should be added to the current estimates.
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Dont forget to mention that at the same time as Stalins rule the Ukrainian population somehow went from 22 million to 38 million showing an increase of around 700,000 per year, you would think with how much of a monster Stalin was that the population would shrink, not grow, especially with the 5 grail law and the holodomor and the purges and whatnot, the census records just dont match the numbers reported in the black book of communism, and between Ukraines census records and the black book only one of them has been discredited as falsified propaganda, and it wasnt the censuses.
Also, just to add on to that, Stalin wasnt perfect, no one is, he admitted as sush in his three seperate request sent to the Politburo requesting to resign from his position, all of which were denied by the Politburo.
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No, just human beings, "orks" dont exist, they are a fantasy race from Tolkien, a mutation of elves. Dehumanizing an ethnic group of people was a tactic the fascist use to excuse wholesale genocide of those deemed inferior, comments like this just reinforce Putin's reason for intervening. As far as "last desperate move" a quarter of Ukraine's territory is occupied by Russian, DNR, And LNR forces, this was done only using 10% of Russia's military, want to try 30%. They have a standing army of 1.014 million, the regime in Kiev is living on borrowed time.
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How about instead of a wall the US pays 10B in reparations to the Central American nation states that the US spent a century dominating with unfair trade practices, destabalization of democratically elected governments, installation of murderous dictators and military juntas, ya know, the social conditions that have so harmed the peoples living south of your border that thousands attempt to flee every year, because a wall fixes nothing, if you want to make America great again, help make Honduras great again, maybe say sorry for the CIA's involvent for the 2007 coup that has caused nothing but chaos since, make Guatemala great again, maybe also say sorry for having a democratically elected president killed to have dictator replace him to appease united fruit, then from that directly causing one of the longest civil wars in modern history, make Mexico great again, maybe also say sorry for taking half of thier country and leaving them with no choice in the matter.
Maybe, just maybe now, if America reversed the policies that made said countries "shitholes" and the people of said countries had domestic possibilities for a atable, even happy life, the need to flee north to saftey would no longer exist, its a longshot i know, but probably more effective than a fucking wall, If one does go up ill be sure to open a shop in juarez selling shovels and hacksaws just to make my point.
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@myms7375 The USSR was founded in February of 1917, during WW1, the Russian people that founded the USSR had fought through the war for 2 and a half years by that point, and it was the USSR that signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending the war with the German and Austro-Hungarian empires, not the Tsar or Imperial family, From Feb. 1917- Mar. 1918 the USSR was at war against the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, just because Russia changed its name and became more progressive and democratic doesnt mean that it wasnt still a belligerent in the conflict, nor does it change the fact that Russia had still just lost millions of lives, suffered multiple crop failures, and had its industry and economy wrecked before the civil war even broke out, which lasted years longer and further devastated an already crippled nation. Your arguement there is like saying that the Weimar Republic was in no way involved or affected by the loss of german lives in WW1 or the sanctions on germany by the Treaty of Versailles.
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@myms7375 Ok, so your previous comment about the USSR not fighting in WW1 was incorrect, you know you could have just said that and saved the semantics. The USSR was in the war and would feel the full consequences of the Tsar's blissful ignorance, I feel like your "germany was fighting a losing battle" is trying to mitigate german capabilities in 1917, while the soviets had no choice but to sign the treaty because there was nothing stopping the german army from marching over from finland and up from silesia to take Petrograd which along with the civil war, the western intervention and wars with Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, soviet production and rebuilding was handicapped in manpower, funding, and strategic reserves for the first 15 years of its existence, yet in that 15 years they managed such economic and industrial progress that took the west two centuries to achieve, that's hard to belittle, and doing so is kind of a dick move, just admit you were wrong and have some respect for yourself, it's not the end of the world.
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@myms7375 Operation Faustschlag February of 1918, Germany and Austria Hungary invade the USSR with 53 divisions, the battle of passchendaele was by no means the final nail in the coffin for germany at the time and no one on any side would have agreed with that theory, your thinking of the ludendorff offensive of 1918 and the kaiserschlact that broke the back of the german army, and even then they still could have fallen back, reorganized and continued the defence for another year, the final nails in the coffin for the German empire were socialist revolutions in Berlin and Bavaria that scared the politician into making peace unexpectedly. In 1918 the peace came as a shock as Rollins, Currie, Petan, and Pershing were planning for the 1919 spring offensive, but now we have gotten far off topic, your argument there, "the USSR was only involved in WW2" is an outright falsification of historical fact. The USSR was absolutely involved in WW1, as well as 5 other conflicts before WW2 even kicked off, so why lie when said lies can be so easily disproven? Why is this so personal to you?
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@darkeimp555 well, humanity has about 50 years to make said changes, or our grandkids will get to see humanity die out, if you think that this can be prevented under capitalism, or a modified version of it, you have a rude awakening coming my friend, when your ready to give up on it, and accept that the radical series of changes needed ensure humanity's survival will be a violent social upheaval, there will be a red banner and some molotovs waiting for you. Until then, I respectfully bid you adieu, and good luck.
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@dougd1573 weird flex, I dont recall there being any monuments to Karl Marx in the United States? Aside from that, he was a writer, historian, philosopher, and economist, he held no slaves, led no imperialist conquest, and inspired millions of people to to liberate themselves from the oppressions of colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism and the gross exploitation of the working class by the powers that be. Given that his character and actions in life exemplified the ideals he espoused, I have no qualms with his comemeration, but there dont need to be more statues made regardless, as it only leads to cult of personality worship, leading people to blindly follow these idealist and leaders without trully understanding who they were or what were the ideals they believed in and worked to realize, as well as the mistakes they made along the way or finding nuance in those mistakes.
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@desi00000 You assume it is only my assertion? Why? this conclusion has been reached by a scientific process of dialectical materialism that holds two centuries of evidence as clear proof that "democracy" as you call it under a capitalist structure is nothing more than a sham meant to maintain the complacency of the lumpen prol and petit bourgeoisie.
I take great concern on the goings on in the states because although I moved, I do still have family there that I do care about, also given that you nation still holds a hostile, and for that matter illegal embargo (that both of your political parties support) over mine for refusing to be exploited by imperialist, I have all the fucking right to concern myself in these matters sir.
Cuba IS a democracy, with executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, we hold open and fair elections with a higher percentage voter turn out than the US could ever hope for, so please save your time preaching your lived experiences on democracy to me, I lack the time for a straw man argument on the matter when you quite clearly do not understand how a socialist republic works outside of the anti-communist propaganda you've been spoonfed up there, For that I feel sorry that we cant have a more rational debate on the matter.
I'm not personally accusing you of being an imperialist, your simply one of the lumpen proletariat that unknowingly supports the imperialist whilst being led to believe your working for the best interest of yourself and the ones you care about. I'm not trying to insult you by saying this, Im simply trying to motivate you to again, understand the material conditions in which you live, a social and political revolution is not going to come from the inside of the institution in place. This is a known fact. They tried it in Guatemala before, said imperialist i concern myself with led a coup backed by both parties in the United States to install a military dictatorship that led to a civil war in which more than 8000 people were murdered outright by the government and another 40,000 would be lost in the fighting, this has happened time and time again. I need not assume your, the DNC's, or the GOP's motives to understand what the end result will be, as it has always been. Im not taking part in any "tea party belief" as you call it.
I believe in the revolutionary capacity of the working class to overthrow thier oppressors, and see your views as being harmful to the extent of bringing about that outcome. Weather your a moderate or progressive in the party is besides the point, liberal politics will not bring change or put an end to the capitalist ruling class that does run your society while maintaining a global empire through brute force and exploitation
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@hazalnut8647 yeah, whose initial advance tied up thousands of Ukrainian soldiers, allowing the southern advance that has captured Mariupol, Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, while forcing Ukraine to suffer unsustainable casualties, with that context, yes it does fit the narrative of beating Ukraine, the last time Russia denazified Ukrain it cost 2 years and 2.4 million casualties, with that context, they're making much more progress with less casualties and taking less time to do so than before. Ukraine is running out of men, and hoping that western arms sales will save Ukraine is like hoping army group steiner would have saved Berlin. It's just not rational thinking.
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@hazalnut8647 That's a blatant lie, Ukraine has a little over 500,000 active personnel with another 200,000 in the national guard and mercenary betallions. Russia has an active force of 1.014 million with an additional 2 million reservists, Ukraine is losing the conflict, ask the citizens of Mariupol, or Severodonetsk, or Lysychansk, or as of 15 hours ago, ask the citizens of Siviersk, All of the Donbas is in russian hands, and Russia only need to use 10% of their active duty forces thus far, Imagone 40%. I dont see NATO standing much of a chance against russia as they actively deplete their weapons reserve trying desperately just to slow the Russian advance, not to mention they couldn't even beat a few thousand poorly organized peasants with the technological capabilities of a RadioShack.
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