Posted by: Milites | May 26 2025 10:47 utc | 206
Read the report by Larry and back off on the arrogance and superiority. You know part of the picture like all of us, and as ignorant of much detail as anyone else, you are not some sort of eye of god. I said nothing about where the fighting was btw.

Posted by: George | May 26 2025 10:53 utc | 204

In the wrong hands, sure! MMT isn’t revolutionary but clarifies what is going on. As such it can be used as a weapon against the current order. Most discussion of MMT that I see is not anti-capitalist, and many theorists may be liberals hoping to head off revolution at the pass. A corporatist government could use it to effectively dissolve wage labour (universal basic income) and keep hold of power. A socialist government could do the same and change everybody’s concept of money.
Posted by: ITreniDiTozeur | May 26 2025 8:55 utc | 187
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Agree. China and now Russia seem to be using ‘MMT’ effectively. Both have their elites under control and are using their sovereign money creation ‘MMT’ for the good of the general population.
The Ukraine thread isn’t a totally bad place to discuss this as Ukraine and Israel vividly point out how the US is misusing ‘MMT’ to prosecute wars for the benefit of the elites while the general population is neglected.

Posted by: financial matters | May 26 2025 10:57 utc | 206

A video of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron arriving in Vietnam for the start of their tour in Southeast Asia caused a wave of comments on social networks. This is how the French Le Parisien described the video, which shows how Macron receives a blow to the face.
https://x.com/trtworld/status/1926934608903373084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1926934608903373084%7Ctwgr%5E67a129ba5eb0cbd4cf3a07d64d8266602405b2d9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fobektivno.bg%2Fsaprugata-na-makron-mu-udari-shamar-video%2F
https://obektivno.bg/saprugata-na-makron-mu-udari-shamar-video/
An argument, a joke or a punch in the face?

Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 26 2025 11:11 utc | 208

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 26 2025 11:11 utc | 212
They need to send bread crumbs as well, maybe eggs. I have heard that crumbed drone is even nicer than Chicken Kiev. But it all sounds a bit fishy to me.
Thanks for your entertaining and humorous post.

Posted by: George | May 26 2025 11:20 utc | 210

France’s problems after the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks
The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attacks on Moscow have led to huge problems for France, the Win/Win military commanders said. Without American help, France provides key support to Kiev. A group of French satellites guides the UAV routes, tracks the location of our air defenses and plots further routes with the correction of online flight tasks.
The Americans are aware of such support for Kiev by France (and Britain along with it). Among other things, new duties for the EU are related to this. Moreover, French politicians have called for the country’s withdrawal from the European Union, pointing to the overwhelming support of the population for this initiative.
A little earlier, several dozen French military advisers and generals were eliminated, including those who arrived in Ukraine for verification. In particular, in Shostka, Sumy region, at the training ground during the formation of personnel. Up to a hundred “tourists” from NATO countries were killed, including instructors and mercenaries, after which the SAS Air Ambulance arrived from Germany, which transported the dead and wounded to Rzeszow, and from there to France and Amsterdam, Belvo reported.
Next, the strike hit the Mykolaiv aircraft repair plant, where missiles and drones destroyed equipment and workshops where drones were assembled and aircraft were repaired. An An-2M aircraft was destroyed to adjust the fire, and a group of foreign military personnel arrived to conduct a commission.
After the Iskanders hit Kanatovo, Kirovograd region. A military airfield for the F-16 was hit. Sources say that important French military officials had previously arrived there to check on them, and they were caught there.
Emphases mine.
https://news-pravda.com/eu/2025/05/26/1365826.html

Posted by: Naive | May 26 2025 11:30 utc | 212

“I am a banana bender/cane toad these days, though I was once a “Mexican”
Posted by: watcher | May 26 2025 11:26 utc | 216
I understand your codified location. Being from the south of where you are I do like chilli sauce and tacos too, a favourite in Australia.
The good thing about Australia is that while other countries build giant statues of famous historical figures, religious and spiritual teachers, magnificent warriors and mythical figures, statues to liberty, and enormous angels, we produce statues of giant bananas and pineapples.

Posted by: George | May 26 2025 11:47 utc | 214

Posted by: George | May 26 2025 10:14 utc | 195
If the occasion ever presents itself, you should meet with fellow posters here. Annie organized a meetup in Hamburg many years ago and I was lucky enough to go as well. It was so odd seeing people for the first time that you somehow knew from their writings on this blog.

Posted by: dan of steele | May 26 2025 11:56 utc | 216

watcher | May 26 2025 11:26 utc | 216
I’m a Victorian.

Posted by: ZimZum | May 26 2025 12:09 utc | 218

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 26 2025 11:11 utc | 212
Nice ironic tale, but could do with the sneering, contemptuous tone that you show your fellow countrymen who disagree with your enlightened understanding of life. All, ironically, hallmarks of the architects who created the litany of the social and educational failures you list.
By the way, although the BBC stereotypes that you populated your thinly disguised diatribe with do exist, I’ve never found them to be the majority, or maybe I’m equally misguided and need the guidance of my socialist betters.
As for the nets I’d guess like most things heading to Ukraine, they’ve donated hand-me-downs, close to the end of their lives and have been promised grants for nice new shiny nets, funded by fleecing the Ukros, by governments all too aware of how Starmer’s recent undemocratic manoeuvrings can be exploited politically. All that is apart from the fishermen whose territorial waters it is. Guess they’re the aquatic equivalent of gammons (flounders perhaps), so serves ‘em right! After all, they can learn to code or work in one of those awful fast food restaurant thingies and reflect on how much better their lives would have been, if only they’d listened to their betters.
Posted by: Naive | May 26 2025 11:30 utc | 217
Wonder who gave them the targeting coordinates, and up is a very weaponised phrase.

Posted by: Milites | May 26 2025 12:16 utc | 220

Posted by: George | May 26 2025 11:52 utc | 220
Sorry it’s the nature of my job and it is accentuated by the impersonal and episodic nature of our methods of communicating here. No harm, no foul and I love the terms you use, we’re so f’ing dull here. Jock, Scouser, Geordie, Mancunian, Cockney, Cane Toad and Banana Bender are so much more evocative.
Posted by: Oui | May 26 2025 12:20 utc | 226
I haven’t heard does not mean I don’t know, it simply means that you haven’t heard that particular version of the story, just as ‘may’ is not always suggestive of incomplete knowledge. The best exponents, and Trump is a master compared to most of his political adversaries, follow the simple rule, you might not be lying but you need to appeal to the lie the lister has told themselves. Your critics therefore become your greatest allies, pure redirection of force, again I think Putin smiled at that exchange.
Same as Russian military communiques, they never outright lie, but if you take that them at face value you become part of the misdirection and deception operation they support.

Posted by: Milites | May 26 2025 12:48 utc | 222

Several Telegram channels are reporting that Germany has lifted all restrictions on long range weapons. Don‘t know if this is true or not, couldn‘t find any information about that in the MSM.

Posted by: NoName | May 26 2025 12:53 utc | 224

Posted by: Milites | May 26 2025 10:47 utc | 206
“Read the report by Larry and back off on the arrogance and superiority. You know part of the picture like all of us, and as ignorant of much detail as anyone else, you are not some sort of eye of god. I said nothing about where the fighting was btw.”
Posted by: George | May 26 2025 10:53 utc | 209
Milites is one of just a handful of posters whom can be ‘arrogant and superior’- cause they are.
You on the other hand, you post countless puerile posts that are as ordinary as unbuttered toast.
You want to be ‘arrogant and superior’? Perhaps a ‘brain transplant’ is in order.

Posted by: canuck | May 26 2025 13:11 utc | 226

🇫🇷 The Elysee Palace explained why Brigitte abuses Macron – but first blamed it on the Russian propaganda

‘Journalists contacted the Elysee Palace for comment. They initially denied the authenticity of the recording, suggesting that it was an image generated by artificial intelligence and distributed, in particular, by pro-Russian accounts. However, the authenticity of the video, published by official news agencies, was later acknowledged. The president’s entourage describes the moment as a scene of relaxation and humorous interaction between the president and his wife – a final moment of relaxation before the start of a busy visit.’

for those imbecile inbred eurotards, everything is russia russia russia! tomorrow, when merz snorts his cocaine again, they will blame little sergej from siberia because it was in fact his cocaine that somehow ended up in merzlers nose.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 26 2025 13:20 utc | 228