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The propaganda war
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60571737And those 15 nuclear power stations…what if is asked here
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-the-risks-of-war-in-a-nuclear-state/a-60963926
Another Russian language article by StephenS of our American partty for comrades to spread on appropriate social media.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/03/who-is-to-blame.html
This is a civilized city!
They're blue-eyed and blond-haired!
This is Europe, not the Third World!Tonight on @MSNBC, @AymanM and I discussed some of the awful and, frankly, racist coverage of the Ukraine war & Ukrainian refugees compared to the MidEast:pic.twitter.com/ir6qWHBNE6
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 28, 2022
Already the global cost of living inflation was high, now for many, the war will make the price of food climb
And the prospect of an energy shortage
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and now deputy chairman of its Security Council said on Twitter: “Welcome to the brave new world where Europeans are very soon going to pay €2,000 for 1,000 cubic metres of natural gas!”
And green policies? Forget the promises
The German Council on Foreign Relations’ Meister thinks “We will have further discussions on nuclear power stations and coal power stations, which will be very controversial for German society,”
Not your fault, ZJW. My impatience. I should have used it and then had it checked out before uploading.
A rare media report from the forgotten DPR and LPR
And another report of the racism being at the borders
White Ukrainian Refugees Accepted by Nations Who Shut Out Others
Is the media sanitising their coverage?
Seen ample footage of wrecked and destroyed vehicles but not a single corpse.
An on-the-spot report from anarchists in Kharkov
http://libcom.org/news/invasion-ukraine-anarchist-media-call-kharkov-28022022
The reality of what has happened will in due course sink in for those patriotic Russians who were duped into believing it was a humanitarian intervention for the protection of the Donbas Russian-speakers.
Despite any pro-Putin spin, the assured victory with minimal cost has not materialised. Russians will gradually understand their country was defeated. Who will become the scapegoats? The West? Or Putin’s government?
All the benefits of thaw of the Soviet-era Cold War will be eroded for ordinary Russians. They will begin to feel the economic pain of the sanctions.
We have witnessed the beginnings of an anti-war peace movement, albeit small and easily suppressed by the State.
Can the domestic Russian consumer market sustain jobs and wages and standard of living for the working class? Will the state enterprises require heavy subsidies once again? Denied the facility of capital export, can the Russian oligarch achieve their profit accumulation from investing solely in Russian industry and businesses?
Discontent will issue forth more dissent. The class war intensified and State repression increased.
Will it all bring closer another Russian Revolution?
For sure, a ceasefire, a peace treaty will eventually in the due course of time will lead to a relaxation in the sanctions imposed upon Russia but I have an inkling that the psychological aftermath will linger and be long-lasting.
I have seen the importance of the Russian tourist income where I live. Already the focus was concentrating on the Chinese holiday-maker. Now they become even more important for the hotels and tour operators.
The world now becomes even more heavily Beijing oriented with Russia isolated once again.
In a couple of years, it will be all about Taiwan and the China South Sea. A new stage but the same old story.
Just a few speculations going about inside my head that I thought I express.
Further to the Russian translation, our language expert has pointed out more flaws in the automatic translation that changes the political content of the article.
EG ‘fellow countrymen’ instead of ‘fellow workers’ – an important change of words – so the translation now reads more appropriately ‘class brothers and sisters’
His far better translation is now used and the blog updated and his effort much appreciated.
I risked ZJW recommendation of a web translator and did this
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/02/blog-post.html
Hopefully, it is accurate enough of ‘Another War to Condemn’ blog-post
I’m awaiting a WSPUS comrade to double-check the translation.
If so perhaps when uploaded to the internet it will attract the notice of a few Russians,
The expert verdict is that it is a mediocre translation but nevertheless comprehensible and understandable, so feel free to post.
The latest IPCC report tries to gain coverage
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-other-ongoing-crisis.html
