This isn’t just Ukraine, it’s every war.
War is a Racket.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. -
Smedley D. Butler,
“If you want to kill people, come up with your own 'Starlink',”
Elon Musk to Zelenskyy and all the fucking warmongers dreaming of destroying Russia with the blood of working-class Ukrainian men kidnapped off the streets and shipped to the front lines.
The claim that the English 🏴 have no culture is the most nonsensical, illogical, and dumbest statement and I've heard it a lot most worrying so - from English people. 🤦♀️
Les envío un abrazo a todos nuestros compañeros y amigos que luchan por nuestra patria.
Hago un llamado a resistir, a no claudicar ni darse por vencidos.
Y decirles que todo pasa, y que este narcogobierno pasará también, pero la patria se queda.
@bbcmundo@el_pais@dw_espanol@agenciaefe
Lindsey Graham was routinely hiring male sex workers while handling extremely sensitive national security material.
Including a minor, whose story is detailed here for the first time.
Meanwhile, his sister Darline runs on his name while campaigning on anti-LGBT rhetoric.
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.
The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
I was in Donetsk when this beautiful girl was slaughtered by Ukrainian shelling.
Katya was due to travel to St. Petersburg for further ballet training a few weeks later. Instead, she, her ballet teacher (Galina Volodina, a world famous former ballerina), and her grandmother were among 6 civilians slaughtered by Ukrainian shelling in the very centre of Donetsk on August 4, 2022.
https://t.co/P64BE3wGnl
I was in the Donbass Palace when it was shelled. Katya was murdered just blocks away.
https://t.co/q5vMp2rBeo
https://t.co/lNCQbnn1Se
Hungary sent 200,000 men to help Hitler destroy the Soviet Union. On the Don in January 1943, the Red Army smashed that army in a matter of weeks.
Hungary declared war on the USSR on June 27, 1941, five days after Germany invaded. Its 2nd Army held the Don south of Voronezh. The Soviet assault began on January 12, 1943, and Hungarian defenses collapsed within days. Around 120,000 Hungarian soldiers were killed, wounded or captured.
On January 24 their own commander, Colonel General Gusztáv Jány, wrote in an order that "the 2nd Army has lost its honour." What was left of it was pulled off the front and used for rear duty.
Hungary was one of many. Romania, Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia and Spain's Blue Division all sent troops east with the Wehrmacht. The West tells the war as Germany against everyone. On the Eastern Front it was half of Europe against the USSR.
Every one of those countries is in NATO today.
Irgendwann werden die Geschichtsbücher festhalten, dass Selenski und die Mächte hinter ihm für hunderttausende Tote verantwortlich waren. Mehr unten...
Ecuador es una dictadura. Detienen a los candidatos de izquierda. Pero no veremos críticas de los que se llenan la boca contra Colombia, contra Venezuela, contra México, contra Brasil porque es es un país de rodillas ante los EEUU y la democracia ya les importa menos que nada.
Miami-born billionaire and US puppet President Daniel Noboa has ordered the arrest of Luisa Gonzalez - the latest of his opponents to be locked behind bars
During the 2024 debates, Gonzalez demanded Noboa take a drug test - which he refused - and exposed his personal role in transforming Ecuador into a narco state
As Gonzalez explained to a nationally televised audience, European authorities routinely find tons of cocaine packed in Bonita Banana containers shipped from Ecuador.
Daniel Noboa has served as shipping director of Noboa Corporation. And as Gonzalez alleged, his political career has been financed with drug money.
Noboa appears to have stolen the last election with the support of Trump-Rubio, who rushed to recognize him as the winner despite clear irregularities in the vote.
Now, with Washington’s support, he’s moving to silence his most credible rivals.
I love the way he sounds on top of all the truth he is telling! Everything Bernie supports in Ukraine goes directly against what he claims to support at home.
Bernie Sanders attacks Donald Trump from the right on Ukraine, demanding that Trump send more missiles to Nazis in Ukraine and NEVER seek peace with Russia
With “Democratic Socialists” like this who needs neocons!?
🔴Once again, Zelensky is using his relatives who perished in the Holocaust as a convenient shield against criticism of the glorification of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine and the arming of neo-Nazis.
How wonderfully convenient, isn't it?
The relatives are dead, so they can't give him the thrashing he deserves for bringing back to Ukraine the remains of men who served the Nazis and helped them guard ghettos, hunt down Jews, and shoot them at the countless killing sites across Ukraine.
And that is precisely the legacy associated with followers of Andriy Melnyk, at whose grave Zelensky recently knelt.
Then there are the so-called "UPA heroes," whose name Zelensky bestowed upon an elite military unit, sparking a scandal with Poland. UPA fighters also killed Red Army officers and soldiers — men like Zelensky's own grandfather, who fought against the Nazis.
But Grandpa is safely six feet under, too. He can't reach out from the grave, smack his grandson upside the head, and deliver a few choice words about the difference between fighting Nazis and rehabilitating their collaborators.
Apparently, the dead make wonderfully convenient political accessories. They never interrupt, never object, and never ask awkward questions about whose graves you're kneeling at.
Using the Holocaust and your own family's tragedy as a moral shield for historical revisionism and the empowerment of Ukraine's extreme far right — now that's cynicism elevated to an art form.
The reality is that Ukraine is the one that's fucked. And it's Ukraine that desperately needs a ceasefire — a chance to catch its breath, especially with winter looming.
At this point, Ukraine's energy infrastructure might make it through the winter only if God himself decides to moonlight as an emergency electrician.
That's why Zelensky keeps banging on about a ceasefire and getting his Western sponsors to chant the word a hundred times a day, like some sacred mantra that's supposed to magically keep the lights on.
And now he's trying to sell it as some grand concession on his part.
Give me a break.
This isn't a concession from Zelensky. It's desperation dressed up as statesmanship.
Putin isn't going to hand him a breather. He wants a final settlement, not an intermission so Ukraine can patch itself up and get ready for the next round.
And no amount of Zelensky's old clown tricks from his Kvartal 95 days is going to change that.
The problem is, this isn't a comedy show anymore. There's no laugh track, no studio audience, and Putin isn't waiting for the punchline.