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Yeah exactly. On the plus side, it’ll hopefully lead to a grassroots proto-socialist state somewhere.

Prolekult has a good piece on the question of whether or not Russia could be considered imperialist.

Both can be true. The Ukrainian far rights extreme Russophobia is well documented and the west giving them control of the country allowed them to carry out what they’ve been calling for for decades.

I agree the primary reason for Russian intervention in Ukraine was a reaction to NATO provocation but that doesn’t mean Russian speakers in Ukraine weren’t actually being persecuted and facing discrimination.

I don’t know if that’s what you were getting at but your phrasing seems rather dismissive of the internal contradictions within Ukrainian society.

Hungarian reaction to language laws from 2017

Romanian reaction to language laws from 2017

Language law requires all public business and media to be in Ukrainian with some exceptions for recognized EU languages but not Russian

EU says Ukraine laws are not compliant with EU requirements

Ukraine has been attempting to remove any legal protections for minority languages in Ukraine for over a decade now. While, the language used is generally ambiguous the aim is pretty clearly directed at the Russian language as other languages are often granted exceptions. There was also something a long the lines of a language can only be recognized as a protected minority if the population is under a certain percentage of the region. In this way, they managed to both attack Russian where it actually is a relative minority (western Ukraine) and where it’s also a majority (eastern Ukraine). It was a part of the Minsk agreements as well as being a point of tension that lead to the 2014 referendums which were, initially, referendums seeking greater autonomy within Ukraine. The intent being eastern Ukraine is more Russian and sought to protect its language and culture from the western Russophobia.

Pulling the west’s best trick in the book…sanctioning so many people around them that they eventually just end up sanctioning themselves off from reality.

“Hey, looks like Yosefs coming in for a close up aga…”

Yeah…I know I know…it’s just so enraging

This sucks, man. Just fucking leave people alone like how hard is that?

This is all, of course, ignoring the fact that it’s the current lobbies of fighter and missile manufacturers who will have the final say in all of this.

Also, Ukraine. Ukraine was supposed to lead to the collapse of Russia thus cutting China off from a major source of its raw materials.

I still see a lot in my area. I’m more rural tho so things move a lot more slowly. A ton of US flags tho and some zionist ones sprinkled in as well.

The Ottawa Citizen reported this week that a non-commissioned Azov officer received military training in Canada earlier this year. In 2025, The Maple revealed that the Canadian embassy in Kyiv hosted representatives from Azov for what one Azov contact called a “friendly and open dialogue.”

This isn’t anything new. 2021

Also 2021

Canadian military personnel were aware of the units neo nazi links but were more concerned about media optics. Funny how all of this was just before the war started.

The centuria project a neo-nazi project that has infiltrated all levels of the Ukrainian military and has embedded itself extensively in the countries military acadamies. journalist Oleksiy Kuzmenko details the scope of Canadian contributions to training these neo-nazis including state of the art training facilities both in Ukraine and in Canada. Canada just doing nazi things as per the norm.

They aren’t rare but they’re field rations. Navy ships are supposed to be supplying their own food to their crews from their mess halls. They don’t deploy with field rations. MRE’s are surprisingly carefully counted and stocked for designated field units.

Like, yeah I’m sure they could send them to the ship in question and maybe they will who knows. But ships (other than the obvious ones like troop ships) don’t go out to sea with MRE’s. Until now, maybe they’ll start keeping some for scenarios like this.

MRE’s are field food. Where there isn’t a kitchen to cook and all you have is a small stove or even a fire. Usually only combat troops like infantry get them.

these genz snowflakes just don’t want to do real work anymore

maybe try FUCKING PAYING PEOPLE A GOOD WAGE

Also… They make it nearly impossible for young people to get the skills and reqs to qualify for these specialized positions and they don’t even offer the same benefits and job security their predecessors had for doing the same job. In my area, for example, these type of jobs are often “on call” or contract positions lasting between 3-6 months. The pay is good, but there’s just no long-term security for building a stable future.

But entering the trades as an apprentice is brutal. You basically start as a slave.

Long hours, extended periods of time away from home (for more specialized jobs) exhausting and brutal working conditions and being treated like shit by your seniors for barely more than minimum wage. Its no wonder most people try it out for 2-3 years then say fuck this and just go do “unskilled labor” jobs. Same pay with none of the baggage.

They always cry about needing more trades people but refuse to change the toxic working culture surrounding the trades.

What is he gonna do? Bomb them?

The timing of this is crazy for me. I just finished “Zionist relations with nazi Germany” by Faris Yahya and this exchange is eerily similar to a passage from Rabbi Weissmandl who was attempting to save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, efforts which were directly undermined and intentionally sabotaged by the zionists;

“We send you this special message to inform you that yesterday the Germans began the deportation of Jews from Hungary… The deported ones go to Auschwitz to be put to death by cyanide gas… This is the schedule of Auschwitz. from yesterday to the end: 12,000 Jews-men, women and children, old men, infants, healthy and sick ones — are to be suffocated daily… “‘And you, our brothers in Palestine, in all the countries of freedom, and you, ministers of all the Kingdom, how do you keep silent in the face of this great murder? Silent while thousands on thousands, reaching now to 6 million Jews, were murdered. And silent now while tens of thousands are still being murdered and waiting to be murdered? Their destroyed hearts cry out to you for help as they bewail your cruelty. Brutal you are and murderers too you are, because of the cold- bloodedness of the silent in which you watch. Because you sit with folded arms and you do nothing, although you could stop or delay the murder of Jews at this very hour… You, our brothers, sons of Israel, are you insane ? Don’t you know the hell around us? For whom are you saving your money ? Murderers. Madmen. Who is it that gives charity ? You who toss a few pennies from your safe homes ? Or we who give our blood in the depths of hell ? ”

I saw that comment. That’s not “blaming the war on Russia,” that’s comparing Russian tactics to US tactics.

First of all, no. There were plenty of responses including my own in that very thread if you would like to get a better understanding. Russian tactics are not the same as US tactics.

Russia did conduct a surprise attack following an ambiguous buildup. And, while this is the first I’ve heard of the Kiev operation, if they attempted to storm Kiev and detain or kill political figures, that would also be a kind of decapitation strike. There’s a tactical resemblance to the US blitzkrieg on Iran.

First of all, There was absolutely nothing “surprising” about this conflict. Again, i point this out to marmite. Russias actions were fully anticipated and encouraged by NATO.

Second, it was not a “decapitation strike”. Nor did it precede the start of hostilities. As was the case with Iran. Given you weren’t even aware of the Kiev operation, your own understanding seems to be as thin as marmite on this matter. And given I’ve already gone over this I’m not going to again. I do enjoy discussing this, have done a lot of reading and listening and have even written about it myself. So, if you would like a better understanding and more context i would be more than willing to talk elsewhere about it.

Comparing tactics is not the same thing as both-sidesing imperialism. For that matter, hexbear is anti-imperialist, not, strictly speaking, pro-Russia. AFAIK the neoliberal state of Russia is anti-imperialist as a matter of self-preservation, not on principle, although principle vs practice can get blurry.

Maybe you think Marmite should not refer to Russia in a flippant way, but this is absolutely not “fanatical support for Ukraine” – Marmite even refers to the operation as denazification, right there at the end. The comment has 40 upvotes, it’s within the bounds of acceptable speech on hexbear.

Marmite didn’t even “both sides” anything. As I said, the role the west played in the origins of the conflict went completely unmentioned. Ignoring the dominant aspect of the contradiciton in question. In other words, repeating the imperial line that Russia acted unprovoked and in a vacuum. A sentiment you are now echoing. Tactics weren’t even a part of the conversation. I agreed with marmite on the matter of political double speak, which you seem to be confusing with “tactics”. but that wasn’t the core issue being discussed.

You yourself seem like you could use a bit more material understanding of the contradictions currently at play in Ukraine.

The conversation in regards to Pakistan was similarly sympathetic to imperialism. Omitting pakistans history with the CIA and the Taliban entirely and focusing on a single recent event.

It’s you who is coming off as incredibly belligerent rather than understanding when seeing the incorrect views of a potential comrade being corrected. There was no argument with marmite as I said. Rather, the incorrect line he had taken was pointed out, by more comrades than just myself. A core part of our system is criticism and self-criticism.

5 months in and you missed this? Convenient.

MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any] to news •

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

told a Russian radio station that the U.S.-Israeli campaign in Iran “marks a transition to a different type of international relations” where at any moment, you can move from being a person sitting across the table to becoming a victim.” Lukyanov added, “How can negotiations even be conducted in such a situation, if you know that at any moment the other side may shift to a direct personal attack against you?

I’m sorry this is extremely funny given that Russia said for months that they would never invade Ukraine, including in talks with the US and Europe (to the point that a lot of us on here in the news mega naively believed them, including me), only to launch a war that has lasted 4+ years with no signs of stopping. And at the start of the war, Russia tried to have their special forces enter the Ukrainian capital and perform such “personal attacks” aimed at the political class of Ukraine as part of denazification.

This was the latest one. The first bit was the comment he was responding to. His reply is highlighted. The Afghanistan thread was before this so im not going to bother searching anymore. You do you, but i prefer to call out incorrect analysis when i see it.

There was no argument. And…are you really playing the “you mad bro?”

Marmite unironically supported Ukraines right to defend itself in the face of Russian aggression and ignored the role the west played entirely placing the blame solely on Russia. In a separate thread he framed pakistans bombing as justifiable because it was betrayed by the taliban in Afghanistan or something along those lines.

Not sure why you find having a random person on the internet be knowledgeable about one topic and totally backwards on another so hard to believe. Doesn’t matter to me tho. They knew their guns, but had a total lack of understanding of material reality. Ignorance or not.