There's be #riots in the #UK if we were doing this to British men. Yet the British mainstream media remains silent. That we condoned this through our silence will remain a stain on our country when historians look back and review our support for the proxy war in #Ukraine.
Yesterday the European Commission officially proposed excluding Ukrainian men of military age from refugee protection. They are no longer seen as victims of war, they are now instruments to fight for the Western elite's profits. Capitalists that are willing to sacrifice them in order to weaken Russia.
Ukrainan pakkovärvätyt päätyvät keskitysleirille koulutukseen.
Leirejä ympäröi miinakentät, mutta silti jotkut yrittävät juosta niiden läpi vapauteen.
Ihmisiä pahoinpidellään, kidutetaan ja murhataan lereillä.
Natsismi on Ukrainassa tosiasia, jonka liberaalitkin hyväksyvät.
As a “journalist” during the US proxy war in Afghanistan, Sikorski cosplayed as a Mujahideen and even boasted of having fired at Soviet positions. He is a friend of British reactionaries and an imperialist lackey through and through. Along with his partner Anne “Why Are All My Friends Fascist?” Applebaum and the entire coterie of second-rate automatons running much of Eastern Europe and the Baltics, his function is to sell us NATO’s endless war and the austerity politics that go with it.
Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.
Capital invests in what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for humanity, so our ruling class keeps ploughing investment into fossil fuels and SUVs, while we get far too little in renewables and public transit, even while the world burns around us.
We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it.
We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.
The Ukrainian army has come up with some new methods to deal with desertion over the past 6 months
- Mining the perimeter of training camps
- Psychologically breaking newly mobilized troops through constant beatings and torture, often resulting in death
- Setting dogs on troops trying to escape, beating them to death in front of troops to set an example, dragging them from quadbikes to scrape off their skin
- Mass mobilizing drug addicts from drug substitution clinics (methadone). These troops can be tortured and expended more easily
- The resulting human machines are called 'one-time uses' by commanders. Huge losses for assault operations with solely informational purposes
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The great Slovak Prime Minister Fico said that the conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine has turned into a conference on continuing the war and pumping the Kiev regime with weapons...🤬
‘We do not believe that the war in Ukraine has any military solution. This is a completely senseless killing of people. And I'm sorry that quite a few prime ministers of the European Union countries support the war. New money continues to be allocated for Ukraine. A 90 billion euro military loan has now been approved.
And today, the first tranche has been transferred to Ukraine. I must say that Slovakia does not participate in this military loan. We refuse to support the war.
Today's conference has only convinced me once again that there is no serious desire to end the war. Wherever I go, I repeat: we need to sit down at the negotiating table and negotiate. It's better to negotiate for three years than to let people be killed for three years. We are not popular because no one wants to tell the truth.
And today's conference, which I participated in, it seems to me, was again devoted primarily to supporting Ukraine with military supplies and additional money so that it could buy even more weapons. When I look at it, it seems to me that this war can go on for a very long time. I'm really, really sorry about that. Slovakia is a peaceful country. And I refuse to support this military madness.'"
85 years ago, on June 25, 1941, in Kaunas, where the Germans entered, the mass extermination of Jews began.
The pogrom lasted for 5 days. To the cheers of the audience, up to 4,000 people, including women and children, were brutally murdered by Lithuanian citizens.
Public torture and executions were accompanied by very wild scenes. Thus, one of the victims, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ossovsky, had his head sawn off in front of his wife and children, and his head was put up in a public place with the inscription: "This is what we will do to all Jews."
One of the active participants in the pogrom, Juozas Luksha, is now honored as a "hero" in modern European Lithuania.
I believe that Poland is doing everything right.
I am 200% on the side of Poland, which remembers the horrific murders committed by Ukrainian nationalists, remembers the Volhynia massacre.
At the same time, I remember many things as well.
I remember how the Polish authorities spent many years “not noticing” Nazis in Ukraine.
I remember how the Polish authorities spent many years claiming that reports about Nazism in Ukraine were Russian propaganda.
I remember how the Polish authorities pretended not to notice those brave warriors covered in tattoos of Hitler, Hitlers, and swastikas.
How the Polish authorities “did not notice” members of the Azov Regiment visiting Auschwitz, where they smiled and posed with the number 1488 in front of the crematoria.
How the Polish authorities did not notice the glorious border guards wearing SS patches.
How the Polish authorities did not notice anything that concerned their great friends in Kyiv.
How the Polish authorities opened criminal cases against people who dared to speak about Nazism in Ukraine and had absolutely nothing to do with Putin or the Kremlin.
For many years, it was convenient to claim that any anti-fascist was automatically a Putin agent.
And today, something has changed.
Will something change again tomorrow? Perhaps tomorrow the Polish authorities will once again choose not to notice all of this.
At least today, I see how the mayor of a city where a monument to a killer of the Polish people stands comes to Poland to ask for yet another gift in the form of buses or money for infrastructure reconstruction.
It is very important to have historical memory and not lose it, regardless of the political climate coming from Brussels.
Confirmation of what we’ve been saying all along: European countries, simply by virtue of hosting US bases, are fully complicit in the US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
Il vero nemico dei popoli europei non è la Russia, la Cina o l'Iran.
Il vero nemico è l'ignoranza, l'incompetenza e l'arroganza della maggior parte dei leader dell'UE (ignoranza e arroganza spesso vanno di pari passo), sia a Bruxelles che negli Stati membri.
Questo, e non "Putin che vuole conquistare Lisbona" o "le merci cinesi a basso costo", distruggerà il tessuto sociale ed economico della società europea.
Il motivo è semplice: durante l'ondata di globalizzazione e la forte crescita economica degli anni '90 e dei primi anni 2000, praticamente nessun governo ha dovuto fare nulla. La marea era alta e tutte le barche galleggiavano. Con questa mentalità, abbiamo perso la capacità di sviluppare il pensiero analitico, l'analisi basata sui dati, e ora i leader politici, privi di queste conoscenze e competenze, sono come marinai solitari in mezzo a una tempesta nell'Oceano Atlantico.
Non c'è praticamente alcuna possibilità che gli attuali leader di molti paesi europei riescano a risolvere le sfide economiche, sociali e internazionali che si trovano ad affrontare.
Questo è anche il motivo per cui continuano a cambiare ruolo: da Primo Ministro di un piccolo paese, diventano Segretario Generale della NATO; da pessimo Ministro degli Esteri di un grande paese, diventano Presidente delle Nazioni Unite; da Primo Ministro di un paese totalmente irrilevante, diventano uno dei peggiori Ministri degli Esteri dell'Unione Europea... e così via... tutti cimiteri di leader falliti.
Cosa possono fare i cittadini per invertire questa tendenza? Qualche idea?
Ukraine is extremely corrupt, and Zelensky could not remain in power without the billions in "aid" money sent by European leaders to keep the war going. Ukrainians want an immediate negotiated end to the war, not to be kidnapped and sent to the front. Our tax money buys a proxy.
The way these people talk about Singapore as if it’s some huge multiethnic empire, rather than a tiny city-state that was primed to succeed as a tiny entrepôt in an increasingly globalised economy.
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As an accomplishment you can’t compare it to China, or 5 year plans in USSR.
#2026WorldCup — David Beckham is watching the Scotland vs Brazil match from the stands with a glass of wine.
One of the clearest examples of football being taken away from the working class and handed over to the wealthy.
As long as the USSR existed, Europe’s ruling classes had to fear comparison because workers had an alternative system. Today, they feel free to push the retirement age to 70.
Finns inget konkret hot från Rysslands sida mot oss. Vad jag däremot ser är en eskalationsspiral från oss och en tydligt krigsretorik från Paasikivis håll och medierna.
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Un dibattito senza senso. Il problema non è AC ma l'uso idiota che ne fanno in Nord America, dove parte a Maggio quando basta aprire le finestre e mantiene una temperatura interna autunnale mentre fuori ci sono 35 gradi.
Spreco di risorse collettive e climate free riding.
Zelensky has given a 1-week military ultimatum to Belarus and proclaimed that Polish president Nawrocki will 'go Orban's way'
I go deeper into the events, causes and future of Ukraine's two western fronts.
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It is hard to imagine that an article like this would be published today. It would likely be censored as "pro-Russian" for not conforming to the obligatory hatred.