Serious question, but why aren't we doing the for Ebrahim Raisi? Sure he was against the west and the Iranian revolution was preferable to the western puppet king. But he was deeply right wing and murdered communists during the Revolution.

You are obviously funded by Count Dooku, tankie.

Sorry tankies, but I'm voting for Papa Palpatine. I may not support all of his policies, but it's either him or General Grievous. The genocide will be a lot bigger if the separatists win. Anyone who opposes Palpatine is obviously funded by Count Dooku.

Also, I find it funny how he completely absolves America's role in all of this. This piece is written as if us Russians are all Asiatic hordes that want to destroy the West because they have shiny new technology that our Slavic brainpans are to primitive to create.

Kotkin is one of the very few liberal historians who doesn't completely regurgitate batshit insane takes about the Soviet Union from the Cold War era (For instance he acknowledges that Lenin's testament was a hoax).

However, his takes on politics are so utterly naïve that one might think he's some kind of Harvard MBA failson rather than an actual historian. I remember during a conversation a couple of years ago where he basically states that America will win the new Cold War because they have the capability of "self correction" that China does not. Because choosing between two demented racists in an election is apparently "self correction". This article is more of the same. The Russia-Chinese vassal theory is literally believed by no one and is ludicrous when you consider that America literally controls Europe's foreign policy. Everything else sounds like it came from redditors in early 2022.

I'm not religious at all. But seeing decaying husks like Lindsey Graham and his ilk go to Ukraine and demand that 18 year old's be drafted and sent to die in the trenches for the Empire's proxy wars genuinely makes me want to believe in some kind of Biblical eternal torment.

I was watching some clips from the 2016 election period and I'm genuinely baffled by how anyone could stand listening to her voice. Hillary is so utterly insufferably uncharismatic and is a husk of a human being. My 2016 self was probably still too much into my lib phase to really notice. At least Biden has that senile grampa persona and Obama is a faux progressive.

You would think that after 2 years, someone at the Institute for Strategic Cope would wizen up and realize that making comical claims about Russia's casualties will eventually stop being effective. If Ukraine really only took 31,000 casualties, they wouldn't need to mobilize 400,000 more people for the meat grinder. If Russia took the comical level of casualties that they say they did, then would would see every Russian male kidnapped on video to be sent for war. At this point I can't tell if they are all failsons who fall for their own propaganda or if they are trying to convince dumbass liberals to clap like seals for Biden.

Question, but how could Hitler to turn east towards the USSR if Poland is in the way? Unless they expected the Poles and Nazis to collaborate? or did they believe he wouldn't invade France and do the USSR next? Is there any evidence of this?

Left of Bernie is far too generous. I've seen Trumpsters and even other liberals called tankies by internet libs for not supporting nuking Russia. More like left of Reagan, Thatcher, and Himmler.

Anyone have any updates on Ukraine shooting down 2 Russian spy planes over Azov? I've seen claims that the Russian military acknowledged it, but I can't seem to find anything recent.

I find it funny how just a couple of years ago I was terrified of Ron DeSantis because he had the potential to be an actually competent fascist president, but then he blows up his own political career by going against Like he could have just waited until 2028 to run against AOC or gruesome Newsom and have a decent shot at nomination.

The background codex for Earth literally states that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. I believe they also imply that African countries still haven't advanced much because they are still being exploited.

Currently near the end of Atomic Heart. So far I've been really enjoying the game. I haven't seen anything explicitly anti-Communist yet like I was expecting so that's good. There are so many Soviet 50s - 80s references that my parents would probably love this game if they actually played videogames.

I'll probably play Mass Effect next since I haven't done a playthrough of that trilogy in like a decade. I kind of hate the Human background lore of Mass Effect since it's basically neoliberalism 150 years into the future, but seeing how bland sci fi games are nowadays like Star Citizen or Starfield really made me miss Mass Effect.

Joe Biden could take a massive dump in his Depends and liberals will say that this humiliates and owns Xi because he now has to smell it.

It bothers me greatly that Arab countries are doing virtually nothing beyond making empty statements about the Gaza genocide.

Post Soviet Russia has many L's but even they had the foresight to intervene in Ukraine and Georgia before they were able to launch their genocides.

What do you mean by very undesirable changes?

Can someone explain what's going on with Ecuador? I thought the Brits were gluttons for punishment and humiliation by electing comically corrupt Tory's over and over again, but lately Ecuador has been giving them a run for their money. They keep electing right wingers like Lasso who utterly shit the bed and sabotage the country from within. Even America still manages to kick turds like Clinton to the curb every once in a while.

Looks like a Russian won a Nobel prize and Swedish libs are having a normal one. One "reporter" asked the committee why they gave Alexei I. Ekimov a prize while evil Putler is waging a war in Ukraine, even though Ekimov has lived in the USA for like 20 years. Luckily the committee member gave a pretty solid response.

After the war is over, there is going to be a quiet trickle of articles about how the war crimes Ukraine accused Russia of were actually committed by Ukraine. It wouldn't surprise me if one year from now the MSM finally acknowledges that the Azov battalion caused Bucha.