Where does this overwhelming numbers thing come from?

Remember when the war started and all the newsmedia was making a big deal out of Russia invading with 150,000 soldiers? Meanwhile, Ukraine had triple that.

You ever think your world view might be a little… curated?

To be fair to the TBP trilogy…

The war is moving fast now.

This morning, Ukraine has issued evacuation orders up to 30km from the front lines around Novohrodivka in the Donetsk region. We might be seeing the start of collapses in Donetsk as the Russians push beyond the heavily fortified 2014 lines, and cut the Ukrainian defense in two. Meanwhile, in Luhansk, Ukraine is holding on by it’s fingertips, and Russia is prying them away one by one, seemingly with deliberate intent of declaring the region liberated.

The Sudzha incursion is spreading Ukrainian troops thinner and thinner, while activating increasing numbers of Russian troops that were previously restricted to homefront-only operations. Ukraine has essentially double the number of enemy troops they are in contact with.

Destroying cultural monuments is an actual warcrime.

My concern is more what the impact of uncontrolled degrowth or sudden realignments of wealth and resources. The rich rarely suffer, but workers and the underclass in the global north might suffer badly if the pace of change is too fast to adapt to.

People align with their class interests. Class traitors are exceptional.

It’s not surprising that someone with a keen understanding of the global north/south divide would do a complete full fascist 180 when they are shocked into realigning with their class (global north) interests. They understand that their entire body of work is still legit, it’s just that their class interest is to now denounce it because they are horrified by the implications.

The truth is, the global south has no reason to be kind to the global north once the tables have turned. The global south has no guarantee of becoming socialist, only the potential opportunity. The only certainty of multipolarity and global south development is that living standards in the global north will sharply decrease as the disparity balances out, and that can only really happen via counter-imperialist forces that are opposing imperial market penetration.

Competent imperialists have to understand marxist analysis too, because it’s the only lens of analysis that actually makes makes sense at different scales. That’s why, when the mask slips, the liberal platitudes morph into zero-sum conflict theory materialist assessments on how to maintain the empire. The real evil of how to dominate markets is done via materialist analysis and disguised with liberal fluff.

How does a global north third worldist stay sane in the face of what might happen, what we’ve done to others, and what might happen to us when the tables turn? I don’t know yet, it’s scary, but I’m not going to become an imperialist cheerleader.

You should stick around and keep posting adorable little tantrums.

Wow, when your 8 day trip turns into an 8 month trip.

It’s a Russian propaganda channel aimed at English speaking audiences. Don’t take it as gospel.

They have to report truthfully to earn the trust of the target audience that is predisposed to mistrust them, however, the UK is an enemy nation and now they’re swapping from white (true) propaganda to black (false) propaganda as agitprop against a hostile force.

They’re not even doing it seriously, they’re obviously having fun bullshitting and lying for a change because that isn’t usual their task.

If not us, whom? If not now, when?