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Posted: Mar 13, 2023 - 5:09am


just wondering why a lot of these people have not heard about finland and sweden joining nato...
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Posted: Mar 11, 2023 - 11:07pm

for those who can read German, here's a great article
 by a Russian who now lives in Germany. 

deepL translation of one excerpt:

In the grammar of Russian violence, the subject, the perpetrator of violence, can never stand without an object, without a "terpila," tolerator. Whoever wants to talk about peace with Russian violence must not be deaf to it. With tolerators who tell Russia about its "legitimate interests" is only possible to deal , see above. When Putin utters “Surrender, my beauty.." in the video, some life comes into his gaze, his eyes narrow, one corner of his mouth pulls up, Putin seems satisfied by the speech act alone.

Even under the tsar, countries that Russia subdued were said to have been "pacified. In the Soviet Union it was called peace struggle, and we learned in peace lessons how the Western peace movement helped our country to fight for peace all over the world. Today, it is helping Putin.

Every time the word "peace" is mentioned, even if it is only in an Internet comment, it is registered in Russian open-plan offices and it is echoed back, amplified. Every post means one more bullet in someone's flesh, every flyer with Picasso's dove makes more people hide in the basement of their house, because uniforms move into their apartment, come to them in the basement, beat them up, rape them, shoot them until everything "surrenders".


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Posted: Mar 11, 2023 - 11:21am

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why is it when people want human rights and some to recognize their agency it is always the west's fault?
as if people don't have sense enough to reject brutal populist authoritarian rule?
religious and political theocracy is out...


Heil Neocon Power!

"The bill’s authors claimed it was modeled on the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. The U.S. law, enacted 80 years ago to expose Nazi propaganda, requires people to disclose when they lobby in the U.S. on behalf of foreign governments or political entities."


The move came two days after the Russian state-funded television channel RT registered in the United States under a decades-old law known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

RT officials had complained repeatedly about being forced to comply with the law, and warned of retaliation.

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Posted: Mar 11, 2023 - 5:06am

why is it when people want human rights and some to recognize their agency it is always the west's fault?
as if people don't have sense enough to reject brutal populist authoritarian rule?
religious and political theocracy is out...

The Kremlin and Georgian Dream spread similar narratives about protests in Georgia

Narratives attempt to discredit protesters, blame the West for public dissent

Participants protest against a draft law on “foreign agents” during a rally outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, March 8, 2023. (Source: Reuters/Irakli Gedenidze)

By Eto Buziashvili and Sopo Gelava

Anti-Russian, anti-government protests in Georgia forced the country’s ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD), to withdraw its bill on “foreign agents,” while GD officials attempted to discredit the protests by spreading anti-Western narratives, echoing Kremlin propaganda, including the threat of another Russian invasion and blaming the West for orchestrating the protests.





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Posted: Mar 9, 2023 - 8:59pm

Ischinger on Russian/German relations
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Posted: Mar 9, 2023 - 8:34pm

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Know your memes!
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Posted: Mar 9, 2023 - 10:00am

“How Stupid Do They Think We Are?” Nord Stream Pipelines Bombing Edition
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Posted: Mar 5, 2023 - 9:49am

putin's poisonous narratives:

the rancorous result (from a granny on the street?):


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Posted: Mar 4, 2023 - 10:16am

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another recent example...
a non-violent teenage student no less

Russian Teen Faces Decade In Prison Camp for Anti-War Posts

Olesya Krivtsova, a first-year university student from the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk, is facing more than 10 years in a penal colony for publicly opposing the war in Ukraine on social media.

Krivtsova, 19, stand accused of “justifying terrorism” and repeatedly “discrediting the Russian armed forces” for posts she made on her personal page on the Russian social network VKontakte and Instagram.







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Posted: Mar 4, 2023 - 3:37am

Putin has gone mad from power
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Posted: Mar 3, 2023 - 11:27am

a sign of things to come...

Russia’s Wagner Mercenary Group Launches Youth Club in St. Petersburg

Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has launched a youth club aimed at fostering patriotism and preparing young Russians for military service.

The club, called Wagneryonok (“Junior Wagnerite”), is based at the Wagner Center, the group’s glass-fronted headquarters and technology center that opened in St. Petersburg in November.





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Posted: Mar 3, 2023 - 9:38am

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ever notice how all authoritarians eventually skew toward nationalism/facism?

Ever notice how Dilbertarian buffoons can't even spell fascism? 

MAGA!
When liberalism is on the march and nationalism is under siege, a nationalist backlash eventually follows. The ensuing competition between these two perspectives is not a fair fight: nationalism wins every time. Not only does liberalism fail to achieve its most ambitious goals, but many of its most important gains are likely to be reversed. Indeed, the great danger is that a resurgent nationalism will not merely restore a workable balance of power between liberalism and nationalism but will instead turn liberal democracies into illiberal democracies or worse.

Nationalism is more powerful than liberalism for three reasons. First, nationalism is more in sync with human nature. Humans are intensely social beings from the beginning, not individuals who start life alone and form social contracts when they are mature. We are all born into social groups that nurture us and protect us. Nations, like other social groups, are primarily survival vehicles that are essential for our well-being. Their common culture allows members to cooperate more easily and effectively, which in turn maximizes their chances of securing the basic necessities of life.

Second, liberalism alone cannot provide the glue that holds disputatious people together in a state, which is a monumental task. The liberal solution for the problem – promoting the norm of tolerance and creating a state that is largely confined to maintaining order and protecting rights – is helpful, but not enough to handle those rancorous differences that invariably arise among individuals and groups in any society. Nationalism is essential for accomplishing that difficult task, because it provides a common culture that helps create bonds between people who often have profound differences over first principles. In brief, liberalism needs nationalism, but nationalism does not need liberalism.

Third, nationalism, unlike liberalism, fulfills important emotional needs. One characteristic of a nation that makes it so special is that it provides its members with an existential narrative. It gives them a strong sense that they are part of an exclusive and exceptional community whose history is filled with important traditions as well as remarkable individuals and events. Furthermore, nationalism promises people that the nation will be there for future generations the way it was there for past generations. In this sense, nationalism is much like religion, which is also adept at weaving the past, present, and future into a seamless web that gives members a sense they are part of a long and rich tradition. This formidable bonding force is absent from liberalism, which has no equivalent story to tell.

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Posted: Mar 3, 2023 - 4:35am

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given that there has never been a communist country in the true sense of the word, just autocratic one-party governments masquerading as one, it is just a question of semantics, is it not?



can we just call it (a violence inspired) late stage communism?
ever notice how all authoritarians eventually skew toward nationalism/facism?
far left and far right eventually agree/merge?
hegel/marx inspired nationalism and communism have had plenty of resources, time and most importantly top down strongman control
the disastrous results are really easy to observe
what passes for communism and nationalism today is a reflexive "anti-capitalist" position, blaming everything under the sun on capitalism
not many new ideas, just more of the same silly reheated rhetoric


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Posted: Mar 2, 2023 - 7:09pm

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given that there has never been a communist country in the true sense of the word, just autocratic one-party governments masquerading as one, it is just a question of semantics, is it not?

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Posted: Mar 2, 2023 - 12:40am

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This guy is my favourite discovery over the last 12 months. I love just about everything he says.
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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 2:06pm

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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 - 11:37am

Timothy Snyder on Nuclear War! (It's not happening)
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Posted: Feb 23, 2023 - 11:36am

one year in and some analysis...


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