shitholeislander [none/use name]

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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • Russians are really on the verge of turning the Donbass front into a rout at this point. Very little of the Ukrainian 2014 defensive line that hasn’t been surpassed, with the final section of it (around “New York” whose actual name escapes me right now) falling apart right now.

    With it behind them, the Ukrainians have basically no ability to dig in and stop the Russians anywhere in the Donetsk oblast. Whatever happens in Kursk, embarrassing as it is for the Russian state, will not reverse the much more impactful gains the Russian army is making, and does not change the fact that the only thing standing between the Russian army and the Dniepr is time.

    We’re very much leaving the regime of “stare at a static line on the map every day for the past year and a half”


  • the ones who were radical enough to present an actual threat to the present order got their heads smashed by scumbag pigs and fascist mobs within a month; the ones whose demands could be accommodated while maintaining the overall structure got allowed to peacefully disband their camps and enter “negotiations” with bloodsoaked faculties. very similar to how the 2020 uprisings went, really. the positive to draw from this is that the radical wing was way better organised, theoretically much more advanced, and able to move more quickly and adapt more effectively than in 2020 - which featured nothing like the level of organisation or vision we saw last spring.

    to compare directly - look at the difference between the hopeless CHAZ/CHOP occupation, which was really the zenith of productive radical action during 2020’s uprisings, and the militant occupations of many buildings on campuses across the US - which went on for days, produced an outpouring of revolutionary theory and agitational material, and fended off all sorts of assaults before they had to send in police with damn near shotguns and accompanied by fascist mobs to dismantle them. that’s the difference that four years of development of the underlying social base for revolutionary politics has made. no signs point to this development slowing down, in fact the conditions in our societies mean that it’s likely to carry on accelerating. and the lessons learned from these uprisings will be learned and integrated just as the lessons learned from 2020 were in this last wave.

    so keep your chin up and prepare for the next rupture, comrade, it’s coming.








  • it’s not really his fault that the decaying neoliberal state structure cant really achieve any goals that don’t directly align with the goals of big capital. sure, it’s bad if totally undisputed Russian territory is being held by a relatively small Ukrainian force, but it would also be bad for business to do too much about it, or otherwise try and prevent this sort of national embarrassment from happening.

    if Russia’s govt was more like China’s, where the state is independently strong enough to tell capitalist interests to fuck off where necessary in favour of national interests, then this would be impossible and the war would be over already as well