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Ukraine – Doubling Down
The Russian side is making some progress in the war in Ukraine. While the differences on the map look small the repositioning of forces that had threatened Kiev is finished and the Russian military is now seriously degrading and grinding down the Ukrainian forces in Donbas.
March 31 2022
Source: Liveuamap – biggerApril 29 2022
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According to the daily reports of Russia's Ministry of Defense the Ukraine is losing several hundred soldiers and some 30 armored vehicles per day, most of them to artillery. A flood of gruel pictures posted on Telegram by both sides confirm this. Several Ukrainian attempts to counterattack Russian forces have failed.
'Western' propagandists are noting that their side is losing.
Anders Åslund @anders_aslund 14:02 UTC · Apr 28, 2022
The War: Ukraine has experienced setback in the past few days. A senior Ukrainian official announced yesterday that Russian troops had taken part of the Kharkiv region. Yesterday, Russia announced that it has captured the entire Kherson region. No Ukrainian advances.
Not good.
The typical U.S. reaction to losing is to double down.
This can be done financially:
Jack Detsch @JackDetsch – 19:25 UTC · Apr 28, 2022
DATA: A cumulative total of U.S. military aid to Ukraine since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion.
February 25: $350m
March 12: $550m
March 16: $1.35b
April 1: $1.65b
April 5: $1.75b
April 13: $2.55b
April 21: $3.35b
April 24: $3.67b
April 28: $14.67b (if approved by Congress)
Most of above sums will go the U.S. arms industry to deliver weapons for which the Ukraine has little use or which never will reach the frontline. The rest will be pilfered by Ukrainian oligarchs.
That financial doubling down will not be very effective.
There is also the possibility of doubling down by widening the war. This could be in Bosnia where attacks on the Serbian population could drag the Russian ally Serbia into another war. An additional war could also be created in Transnistria (marked as a lengthy strip on the left of the above maps). This could involve not only forces from the Ukraine but also from Moldova, Romania and Poland. In the early 1990s a small war between Moldova and the Russian population in Transnistria ended in 1992 with a ceasefire and Russian peacekeeper troops on the ground.
In a piece about Biden's new pledge of money to Ukraine the NYT notes:
The Ukrainian military said it was moving more troops to the border with Transnistria, a small breakaway region in Moldova, on Ukraine’s southwest flank, hundreds of miles from the fighting on the eastern front.
Should those troops do something Russia does not like it will likely use its air and missile capabilities to destroy their fighting power. President Putin certainly did not mean Transnistria when he recently spoke to Russian lawmakers and threatened retaliation:
Let me emphasise once again: if anyone intends to intervene from the outside and create a strategic threat to Russia that is unacceptable to us, they should know that our retaliatory strikes will be lightning-fast. We have the tools we need for this, the likes of which no one else can claim at this point. We will not just brag; we will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know this; we have made all the decisions on this matter.
That threat was likely a response to rumors that the U.S. and UK are planing to deliver longer range missiles to Ukraine to be use against targets on Russian grounds. That would be another form of doubling down but also a way more dangerous one.
Ukraine is a victim here but not a victim of Russia but of much bigger plans in the U.S. which did its best to instigate this war (recommended).
As Michael Hudson explains (vid), the economic consequences of this war will be catastrophic for many countries and people. But the neocons who are running the war do not care about those. They have a plan to profit from it. They want to stay the unipolar power of the globe. To them it is a game and their main motives include an ingrained hatred towards Russia.
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Okay.
So, according to these views.
A deeply influential, vaguely religious-themed, international supremacist banking mafia.
Believes its interests are best served by fostering, as a proxy, a political current.
Which has the following characteristics/goals:
-Militant atheism
-Militant scientism (even if at times misguided)
-Hardcore equality before the law of man and woman
-Militant anti-racism
-Militant anti-fascism
-Destruction of the financial sector
-Nationalization
-Collectivization
-Ultrafast industrialization
-Guaranteed employment
-Obsession with workers’ benefits
-Obsession with workers’ education
-Forceful expropriation of the wealthy
-Political representation within narrow bounds
-Wholesale destruction of previous political institutions
-A willingness to shed blood for all of the above if necessary.
Because, maybe, some day in what used to be the future, some particular nation arising of such a movement might give diplomatic recognition, to a second country merely hypothetical at the time, whose very creation rests just as heavily or more onto the actions of entirely different nations and ideologies?
Seriously, how the f**k does that work?
How the f****ng f**k does that work?
The materialist ultra-enlightment works (by some miracle of god) into the religious element?
The antifascism/antiracism component is (again by some miracle of god) a tool of supremacism?
The definancialization of economy is (once more by a miracle of god) a wet dream of banksters?
Maybe collectivization is (yet again by a miracle of god) the pastime of rent-seekers?
Or is it that legal and political equality of man and woman (by a miracle of god for the fifth time in a row) goes hand-in-hand with bronze-age superstitions?
And at which point does your brain twist into a pretzel, to be able to pile oxymoron onto oxymoron and think “f**k yeah, flawless logic!”
All this shit-talk rests on four points:
1: “Internationalism”. We heard the communists like to use the word internationalism, this is good enough. Nevermind that we can’t be bothered to actually stick to a definition to what “internationalism” means, much less tell apart the different meanings in different political frameworks. Impossible to process TWO definitions if not even ONE definition is held.
(Pro-Tip: Socialism In One Country won. Commie internationalism was dead with Luxemburg and buried with Trotsky. Supra-national development of commie-nism didn’t really go beyond what many other political entities had already done before in both recent and ancient history and would continue to do, see EU)
2: “Recognition of Israel” The Union of Soviet Satanic Russkies recognized Israel, this is good enough. Nevermind that every second grandma and her lapdog did too, including Every. Single. Anglo. Country. Nevermind that those and many other countries have a deeper, longer-lasting, even more brown-nosed support of the usurper entity.
3: “Jewish Commies”. That there were people of jewish ancestry amonst communists, this is good enough. Wow, gee, big surprise! A lot of countries in europe had jews, even more before a select few “statesmen” in the 20th century decided that a certain european tradition wasn’t being exercised with enough zeal. Really comical when coming from people who venerate a jew as the son of god.
Nevermind that communists soon enough told the Bund (communist jew organization) to quit the chosenite bullshit and take a fucking hike.
4: “Double Standard from Hell”. Holding the USSR to such an unrealistic high standard that even the most wide-eyed communist true believer couldn’t cook it up in a fever dream.
See all of the above, again: Perfidious Albion and its mutt successors have regularly conquered, confined, deported, sterilized and exterminated whole populations the world over for shits and giggles, but this is nothing, what’s really evil is the ONE point at which a socialist polity of russian origin rolled over half of europe as the result of a defensive war.
The same anglos lick usurper entity ass until you can make out the figure of a nose in its belly, but this is nothing, what’s really evil is diplomatic recognition by Stalin.
That these same countries are not only crawling but directed by the shadiest bankers and speculators, and give them every degree of freedom and continued and continue to give them balls-to-the-wall support in their pet “national” projects, this is nothing, what’s really evil is the possibility that some (thoroughly misguided) bankers gave some finance at the start (fat good that it did them).
It is again really comical that people who insist on the radical, inherent evil of commienism, do indeed hold it to the standard of god-sent angels; since whatever is considered business-as-usual for others, is an indelible mark of evil in commies! And somehow – engaging in those sorts of behavior never seems to warrant a wholesale indictment against monarchy, liberal parliamentarism, or right-wing dictatorship. Nevermind that they’re orders of magnitude more prone to such behaviors.
Who did historically get off to judeo-bolshevik fantasizing?
Who has the mindset to try and “tar” socialists with a pretext of association with jews?
Who has the mindset to try and “tar” jews with a pretext of association with socialists?
Who did historically hate both jews and commies with a murderous zeal, not only in war but also during “peacetime”?
It’s not slander if you connect the dots on your own 😉
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