CascadeOfLight [he/him]

He seemed really shaken by the assassination attempt, some staffer said he obsessed over it to the point of rewatching the video of it on loop, so if people keep popping off around him he might seriously break down.

Alberto Is-no-more-i

I know she said that the Minsk agreements were just to buy time to arm Ukraine, but I think she was lying. Germany obviously wanted to deal with Russia, it wanted the cheap energy and resources Russia offered and its manufacturing base was built upon this clearly beneficial arrangement. There’s a reason the US had to blow up Nordstream themselves, because otherwise the Germans would have eventually caved to their own economic interests and started rebuilding relations with Russia.

So I believe the Germans really did go into the Minsk agreements in good faith, but the US and UK were always planning to backstab both Russia and their continental European ‘allies’. As for why Merkel then claimed Minsk was a lie - the political climate in Europe at that point had reached a full crescendo of Russophobia, and even the slightest sympathy for the Russian devil was being rooted out inquisition-style, so I think part of it was her trying to avoid having her political legacy tarnished by fanatics accusing her of being “soft” or “naive” about Russia just as she was about to retire.

Putin’s almost theatrical response to her claims, putting out a speech where he seemed personally affronted, also makes me think that he didn’t really believe it either, but that he knew it was absolute gold in terms of pointing out the perfidiousness and hypocrisy of the west to an audience of the rest of the world.

I also think - and this is going into the realms of psychoanalyzing that we rightfully dismiss, but whatever - that to some extent, having worked with each other for almost twenty years that Merkel and Putin had a kind of grudging respect for each other, and Merkel made these statements both as a way to spite the Atlanticists who ruined her project of ‘German economic development using Russian materials’ and also as some kind of a parting gift for Putin, because she’s far too politically savvy to not know how these things would sound to the rest of the world. But then again, it may have just been her self-servingly falling in line with the prevailing narrative.

But another part is ironically the decentralization of research effort as it is privatized.

A slight side-track, but this always pisses me off when people say things like “well, war might be terrible, but it does drive scientific progress…”

No it doesn’t! It just centralizes research! It forces a bunch of disparate capitalist scientific institutions to be directed by a central body, with the goal of actually making breakthroughs instead of just finding new ways to make profit.

As they should have known from their history, one fascist’s life is worth at least 50 French lives.

So they’ve saved their Azov buddies the equivalent of an entire casualty.

It was a joke…

Saint Petersburg

Where’s that? Is it near Leningrad?

about it you ignorant racist imperial peon.

Chinese people feel both that their country is more democratic, and that democracy is more important than USians do.

Damn, cause from here it seems kinda like all their Nazi shock troopers got smoked

Violence is the only thing that has ever destroyed oppression.

Violence, and the threat of violence, is the only way to make someone who is persecuting you for their own material benefit stop.

There was another post somewhere with the calculation of the actual explosive warhead mass converted into TNT equivalent, and it was around 6kT total, just over a third of Little Boy which was 15kT. Which is still absolutely fucking insane.

No it cannot, because the Ukrainian army and regime is filled with nazis that want to ethnic-cleanse the Russian speaking population.

Here is a video of a Ukrainian nazi conference on the 5th of February 2022 (!) discussing the end goal of a dismembered Russia, which these nazis expected to gain a large share of the spoils from.

The Chinese Nationalists thought that military power should decide that they were in charge of China, right up until the People’s Liberation Army fucking bodied them and they fled to their little island with their tails between their legs (and then conducted massacres against the native population and anyone remotely leftist).

This “”“independence dispute”“” would have been resolved seventy years ago had the US Navy not stuck their fucking imperial beak in and stopped the communists chasing down these fascist war criminals and finishing the job.

Yeah, clearly they just post any kind of Russian propaganda over at the… checks notes Kyiv Independent

Why are you defending the rump state of a fascist dictatorship?

I hope the “Republic of China” can someday be peacefully dissolved and the province of Taipei reunited under the mainland government.

I question the US’s claims over a certain region (the whole of it)

Oh man, what did the US and UK have that the USSR didn’t? That’s right, a giant fucking empire grinding hundreds of millions of third world slaves into the dirt.

And yet, even without that the USSR was growing so much faster it would have caught up to and surpassed them eventually - until they couped it, destroyed it and ravaged its people and economy.

Damn, if the Ukrainians had your tactical insight they might’ve won by now!

Mr. Boatarelli!