Stalin personally stood behind all 42 million people with a gun to each of their heads, and what’s unforgivable is that he didn’t even buy the gun from the US.

“Excuse me, how dare you retaliate against the foreign military occupying me just because they illegally attacked you!”

The empire is announcing as clearly as possible in one voice that every country on earth that isn’t currently hosting US troops will eventually submit to colonization or be bombed into submission one by one as the rest of the world patiently waits their turn. I really don’t see an argument for how the UN isn’t totally illegitimate at this point.

Is this what the Irak war build up was like?

Yes. (CW: David Frum)

Has the US at any point ever stopped providing direct military aid to the occupation? It’s against the law to even advocate for stopping it in 38 states.

a negotiated peaceful settlement is in the best interest of both parties and our nation’s interests.

A good faith position that is both genuine and sure to be applied similarly to America’s many other proxy wars of aggression.

It won’t, but it could.

Hope Lindsey Graham and his friends pay their bodyguards well!

When determining Russia’s position, one mustn’t rely on the things Russia has consistently said publicly for the past 40 years, because that would be Russian propaganda. Instead, we must rely on the divination of anonymous Western sources that don’t live there or speak the language about how the unique cranial ridges on the Slavic brain pan reveal an innate lust for duplicity and authoritarianism.

General Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, had proposed a prolonged 8–10 month campaign to degrade Ansar Allah’s air defense systems and carry out targeted assassinations of key leaders—modeled on Israeli tactics in Lebanon.

So, open terrorism then. The “Israeli tactics in Lebanon” involved smuggling concealed explosives into civilian supply chains and detonating them in crowded areas.

I think most of Trump’s strategies come down to high stakes games of chicken. He correctly estimates that most world leaders are cowards who will accept any indignity the empire heaps on them, and that he won’t personally suffer consequences for anything he does. Given those two things, there’s little incentive for him to not at least try shaking down the entire planet just to see who capitulates.

The lesson the EU learned from WW2 is that whenever Nazis lose an armed conflict, the United States is supposed to be there to ensure they stay in power and dictate the terms of any superficial political transition.

1. “I want to split off my own ML forum/group/party.”
2. “It’s too small, maybe it should be open to non-Marxists”
3. “It’s too small, maybe it should be about broad left-unity”
4. “It’s too small, maybe it should be about rejecting labels and traditional political divides”
5. “Maybe I should get into crypto?”
6. “You know the thing they don’t want you to know about the COVID vaccine is…”
7. “Guys, the FBI just rolled up to the compound of my ancap sex cult where my sister-wives and I are stockpiling explosives and waiting out the end of days, what should I do?”

I think that sounds like speedrunning Western leftism

Palestine also conspicuously missing. Indivisible has always been Democrats trying to dig in like a tick to co-opt and neutralize popular rage against the government. It’s trying to replicate the Obama campaign model of co-opting popular rage against Bush and the terror war, then neutralizing it from above to preserve all the policies people were fighting against.

I was reading MSM articles yesterday that noted with confusion that these protests seem to skew much older than larger mass gatherings in recent memory, and seem to have more overt displays of “patriotism”. No mention of the students out here the whole time getting kidnapped off the street while every DNC-aligned institution cheered. No mention of the crackdowns on the popular uprisings against police brutality under Biden. No mention of all the people acquitted for shooting unarmed protestors in the past several years. I can’t imagine where young people would have gotten the idea that peacefully standing around an American flag respecting the sanctity of police, private property, and non-violence would be a waste of time at best and suicidal at worst.

Yeah man, Russia so badly wanted to be rid of the people living in the Donbas that it gave them citizenship after overwhelming public referendums. Putin then went back in time and tricked them all into speaking and identifying as Russians for the past hundred years. Russia just wants land, because if there’s one thing that anyone can tell from looking at a map, it’s that Russia lacks uninhabited land.

of course not: it’s going to pay for US weapons to kill Slavs

something something milk snatcher…

imperial troops aren’t use to fighting locals that can shoot back