hello_hello [undecided, comrade/them]

a move [Taiwan] that could draw Western sanctions on Beijing or even a US naval blockade that disrupts China’s sea-borne oil imports.

Because the last blockade worked so well on a country that didnt even have a peer navy that didnt get sucker sunked at the very start of the war.

DW is a German state publication, so their aim is to widen the wedge between russo-sino relations and hope that Power of Siberia 2 is delayed as much as possible. Predictably, euro-american imperialists want Russia to stay in the West and simply accept its second class position perpetually. Driving sinophobia is the key aim of the new cold war to delegitmize any cooperation outside of western control.

Hopefully POS II is realized and Russia will have pivoted its energy exports away from the transient warzone that NATO had created.

Dumacrats I fucking can’t anymore how am I getting outposted by the president

Shocking to see a country actually become more progressive because peoples basic needs were prioritized first rather than paper thin declarations of equality.

XHS spoke a lot about this second classing of migrant workers. Now the government is moving towards resolving it which is great to see.

What even is there in Taiwan that’s so important to you??? Like you write this as if the mainland is going to put all the island inhabitants in a large blender and sell them as bubble tea or some shit.

Reading this and then reading about how Ukraine is mobilizing doctors and emptying out hospitals only doubles the horror.

Zero future type country.

JPMorgan writing this as if they don’t have an interest in carving up a post war Ukraine through privatization and cannibalizing the soviet era industry.

This does track with the liberal analysis though which posits that the war started solely due to Ukraine’s desire to join the EU and NATO and not an intervention in an already existing civil war.

This analysis has a lot of hopium attached to it considering how much of Ukraine was sold off to the highest bidder and the demographic collapse. We’d then have to understand that this report serves a dual purpose of actually prolonging the war by providing such a naive analysis to investors and news pundits (also LMAO at that russian death toll just pure Ukrainian hasbara)

Only those on the Russian side can really come to terms with how dire the situation actually is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSIraw4Jclw (Mines in Azov, a woman explains she gets more vacations out of the country because her husband is in Azov)

Azov has become the Ukrainian marvel avengers, let alone legitimized in the civil society.

Basic food and essentials are also not guaranteed from the reports on the Ukrainian side unless you drone strike for points.

Its basically the same line of reasoning people give for wanting to join the military because they feel ostracized and bullied in their current life.

You feel dehumanized and worthless presently and you want to overcome that by enlisting in an institution thats all about dehumanizing yourself and being forced to obey and submit to even more violent and abusive men and if you don’t they can do anything they want to you and no one will save you.

And now youre going to do it in a 4 year long warzone on the side which has been forcefully conscripting anyone it finds?! Literally doesnt make any sense.

Legitimately this is just a suicide attempt dressed up as something vaguely noble because self sacrifice is easier to sell to yourself than self defeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNZwLA869Sc

Videos from Mauriupol’s translation of this documentary is great for being a wake up call. If your friend is a G@mer then maybe she’ll enjoy the disco Elysium style transitions.

In poetic fashion, the overzealous “to the last Ukrainian” propaganda blitz has ensured that the Ukrainian diaspora never chooses to go back.

Machine translation (Firefox 140 ESR) of the end of the linked article regarding immigrants (https://lb.ua/society/2026/04/29/735427_denis_ulyutin_kilkist_lyudey.html)

In his opinion, after the end of the war or during a stable truce, 2 million Ukrainians will be ready to return to Ukraine. But it will depend on the willingness of hromadas to accept them, adds Minister.

For those who are abroad, IDPs, even immigrants, if we decide to involve them - a set of criteria and requirements are essentially the same, said Denis Ulyutin: security, access to housing, work, care services, infrastructure. Because people will compare the conditions in which they are now with what they will receive when moving. And therefore, I am sure Ulyutin, in the context of stimulating the return Ukrainians, we need to talk, in particular with international partners, not about the individual support of those who decide to go to Ukraine, but about the support of communities.

And the opening of the Centers for Unity Abroad, the minister believes, plays an important role here, as they will provide Ukrainians both forensic services and the most complete information about the possibility of returning to their homeland. The first Center for Unity was opened in Germany, where the most Ukrainians are now (up to 1.3 million), the following are also planned - in the Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden.

The idea of potential payments to emigrants for returning to Ukraine, which are periodically discussed in the public space, the Minister of Social Policy rejected categorically. This, in his opinion, will negatively hit and So the fragile situation in the country, polarizes society and generates a potential conflict between 6 million of those who left, and 4.2 million IDPs who were forced to abandon their homes. However, they remained in the country.

The approach for Ukraine to consolidate its diaspora are a pipe dream at best. How much could you really pay someone to go back to a country where the leaders reject diplomacy and encourage Nazism when you’re living in the US/EU?

It’s still vulgar and excessive but it’s surreal watching characters say things like “Well try [Ukraine] not getting invaded next time” and “OPEC countries are rejecting the US” being delivered completely seriously while the entire show takes place in like 5 locations.

40 years of instilling learned helplessness about computers in the general populace didn’t go to waste. Think of all the lucrative contracts Canvas was able to secure for its shareholders!

A hotel will die tonight

The riddle of why Washington was so caught off guard is perhaps best answered by Netanyahu’s assurances to Trump that the Islamic Republic would collapse in mere days. Astonishingly, there was no contingency plan beyond that.

Capitalist war machine can’t plan more than 1 day in advance apparently. Puts into perspective why China has not reunified with Taiwan, accounting for all the possible variables takes years/decades worth of planning and even then it’s still too risky to initiate.

Don’t siege Tehran, bury a girls school and murder a 86 year old man with his family instead .

After reports emerged in early March of the CIA working with Kurdish militants “with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran,” even Zionist think tank pundits and diaspora activists warned such action was a recipe for disaster, which would unite Iranians of every extraction in opposition.

“So anyway I bought a property in southern lebanon”

Less smarmy response because I have a bad habit of doing them:

To label Iran as a theocracy in this way feels very tone deaf to me. In addition to what Awoo said, the clerical elite/revolutionary leaders of Iran have sacrificed so much of themselves to defend the Iranian nation and its people. Not to mention how there is a whole electoral power system alongside the clerical class. This callous off-hand reference to reducing the material conditions of Iran to “just a theocracy” is the sort of ideological alienation Marxists should seek to avoid.

The US has repeatedly invoked religious rhetoric in the Ramadan War, explaining to its own military that this war is about securing Christianity (or something else I can’t remember). The Iranian side has not done the same, every diplomatic movement from Iran is made using calculated, materialist decision making that is aligned with “International Law” to a frustrating degree and repeatedly punished for it.

Also Persepolis (2003) and its consequences were a disaster for the western perception of Iran not rooted in veiled women and repressive “totalitarianism”

So you agree with the Trump admin then? I’m confused.

AI won’t disappear, but the economic base they injected into it will

Spending hundreds of billions on AI to only have the product be superseded by a Chinese startup #69 in a corporate office in Shenzhen or Hangzhou who provides the same thing but pennies on the dollar.