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We can imagine him saying to the Russians: 'Ok, now you have a piece of Ukraine east of the Dnieper River, and I have a piece of Russia.' He knows that the only possible end for Ukraine is negotiations. There's not going to be a big victory over Russia, forget it.

But Zelensky knows that when the peace treaty comes and there will be peace talks, he has something to sell to Russia to balance Russia's claim to the Donbas.

They are so behind on their narrative switch that they are rolling this out at a time when Russia has already recaptured all sections of Kursk except Sudzha. They won't manage to hold the territory until the end of the year, let alone until any negotiations actually take place.

And a month after Ukraine is driven out of Kursk, this Bratwurst Brain is going to come out claiming that the real goal of the Kursk operation was always to inflict mass casualties on the Russians all along, a statement impossible to disprove by anyone since there's no accurate, unbiased information on casualties, let alone information that Westeners would actually believe.

But but but I thought Putler was hell bent on reconquring the lost USSR territory in Europe and that's why we had to blow up our economy and kiss US and Wall Street's ass as they blazingly blow up our entire energy infrastructure in front of us!

The Ukrainians were warned that Russia was mobilising. But the Ukrainians, let's be honest, were fighting among themselves. The Ukrainian [politics] were deeply corrupt and I don't think they took the threat very seriously. So when the attack did come, it came as a big shock.

The Russians also believe that the Donbas region is Russian, because so many people there speak Russian, want to be Russian.

He knows that the Donbas region let the Russians in to help them fight the civil war. He's just playing stupid. He knows exactly what's going on here.

They are paranoid and they always will be because they think the West is technically better and richer.

The definition of

The way this downplays then fearmongers, then downplays then fearmongers again is just a trip on its own.

That's because he knows exactly what the truth actually is, and he's doing a very bad job pretending to be stupid.

He knows exactly what's going on here.

See those articles also come out of Denmark every now and then, less so now that Ukraine is visibly losing and our Prime Minister didn't get the job as GenSec of NATO, and they always use the same 3-5 different "retired" officers who teach at the Danish Defense Academy. They're usually so unbounded from reality that I've dubbed the DDA "the greatest bastion of anti-imperialism Denmark has produced in a while", since the shit they say is basically just NAFO-shit with fancier wording.

sets traps in building that have already been cleared

Shit's not a video game, once you leave a building or area it stops being cleared/secured.

We’re sitting ducks in a shooting range.

Palestinians:

You have to imagine at least some of these people feel terrible guilt for what they're being asked to do, right?

Of a platoon of 30 soldiers called for their 11th deployment in Gaza, only 6 showed up.

Holy shit are they deploying once a month? Two weeks on two weeks off?

I would think "deployment", in this context, would be referring to the current conflict but I could be wrong.

Hamas repeatedly sets traps in building that have already been cleared, and soldiers feel their task is impossible/pointless.

lmao get Looney Tuned bozos

Man with one arm pokes bear (you won't believe how he lost the other arm)

It's all in giant white sacks with "$" on them. Lebanon is notorious for bank thieves who dress in black-and-white striped clothing and wear black eye masks.

I wonder if you could get one of the really stupid neolibs like Matt Yglesias to write something about how Israel is offering Lebanon a chance to save their economy, as Lebanon will at some point have to rebuild the parts of it that Israel is blowing up, and for some reason building something, having it blown up and then rebuilding it, can only count as GDP increasing in perpetuity.

Methinks if it's that close I doubt the accession process would be smooth sailing, they're just getting in line to be delayed indefinitely

This is outdated,the results say 50.28 to 49.72,with about 10k votes difference,99% votes counted

Is the EU actually allowing them to join?

Critical support for Lidia Thorpe. Rashida Tlaib needs to take notes.

Their smug "look at this loser causing a scene" reactions are so infuriating. Really makes you think

On a scale of zero to epoch times, how influential was the gulen movement?

Mayor Adams has fulfilled his protocol. Awaiting new orders from the Turks

CIA lost a real one

If/when Israel actually collapses, US and allies will be glad to 'paperclip' them up. It could be like the Ukrainian Nazis were treated in Canada, a preferred and reliable fascist to semi-fascist bloc that can be mobilized in the streets when needed. They'll build a "victims of terrorism" memorial, and if they've learned their lesson they'll be less specific about those victims.

So ideologically, I'd expect something that reflects those motivations: maybe a novel anti-semitism that's fused with and secondary to Islamophobia and a "stabbed in the back" anti-liberal narrative? Not sure of the specifics. And they usually deploy these ideologies in a semi-planned way, heavily reusing established ideas, so it might be cruder and more contradictory. But regardless, I'm confident that the worst elements of Israel will still be pampered and I expect they'll find a way to blame the Jewish dissenters as a 5th column. Maybe it will be as simple as anti-semitism for western Jews who didn't do their part for the ethno-state, while actual Israelis are "the good ones".

On the plus side, this would all be happening in the "good timeline" where Israel actually does collapse, and the whole imperial project is delt a serious blow. Hopefully China or someone holds some Nuremberg trials, which would make these plans a lot more difficult. The counter-force to everything above is the simple need to cut their losses and blame someone else, which would align more with conventional and undifferentiated anti-semitism.

Idfk, it's all fucked but at least it's collapsing.

That Tiktok of the dude explaining the concept broke my brain because it really does sound like the dude is just going, "You know all those anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jews being conniving and untrustworthy? They're all true and a foundational part of Israeli society lmao" It goes back to the repeated Zionist behavior of spreading anti-Semitism to push Jews into emigrating to the Zionist entity. Perhaps this is just the latest attempt.

It isn't anti-semitism to hate zionists. Hating nazis isn't "germanophobia."

I think after the fall of the entity anti-Jewish sentiment will be about the same as it has been for the last few decades. Jewish people outside of isisrael have been some of the biggest critics of the genocide and anyone who cares knows this.

in the absence of a materialist explanation of settler-colonialism, the mass of liberals will search for an idealist (racist) reason for zionist crimes