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TW- “Ukrainian losses are catastrophic and getting worse. I’m hearing a kill ratio of 15:1.”
That’s right. You heard it here first folks, TW is getting direct updates from the front line!
He only stops by our forum when he has a moment, mainly he’s busy liaising with the top people in Putin’s team. We should be honoured that such an important figure is honouring is with his presence!
No wonder he can’t outline the basic concepts of materialism, he’s got his nose to the grindstone directing the Russian military!
😂😂😂😂😂Perhaps TW could give us his view of Marx’s “The German Ideology”.
That would be well worth a giggle
Still waiting for TW to explain materialism and how US nationalisation was somehow “created by real Socialists”.
I do wish he would, we could all do with a good laugh to cheer us up.
TW – Still no sign of an explanation of your understanding of materialism or an explanation of how the nationalised companies I listed were created by (your words) the struggles of actual socialists.
Is it reasonable to assume that you haven’t got any?
LBN – On reflection, I can see your point. Linking a useful and (in my opinion tasty) item to our resident Stalinist, is a little disrespectful to the spud.
That said, and with respect, I can’t see “oli follower” tripping off the tongue very easily. I had used the term “tosspot” which was frowned on by our sage and patient moderator. However I do think this is a good term. It does not, as some think, have an obscene derivation. Although some have stated that it derived from tossing the pot down the throat (drinking heavily or befuddled) others have said it derives from the lowliest of servants to the great lord, who had the lowest job in the household, tossing (turning over) the porridge in the kitchen.
As TW really is the humble servant and master to the mighty lord (Putin) I think he does fit the epithet tosspot
TW – “That state sector wouldn’t exist were it not for the struggles of actual socialists.”
So presumably the following state sector enterprises in the US, were created by the “struggles of actual socialists”:
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)
Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps)
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
Farm Credit Banks
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Financing Bank (FFB)
Federal Home Loan Banks
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR)
The Financing Corporation
Gallaudet University
Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae)[
Legal Services Corporation
Millennium Challenge Corporation
National Cooperative Bank
National Corporation for Housing Partnerships (NCHP); Washington, D.C.
National Credit Union Administration Central Liquidity Facility (CLF)
National Endowment for Democracy
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
National Park Foundation
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; Washington, D.C.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
United States Postal Service
YRC WorldwideAnd presumably the UK Tory Party who undertook the nationalisation of the following rail companies in recent years, were also “actual socialists”:
Northern Rail
London North East Railways
South East TrainsWhat a spud
Tinky Winky
As you have failed to show any understanding of for instance Lenin’s theory of Imperialism, Marx’s theory of value, Marx’s theory of class conflict, etc.
Given that it appears that you have confused the ideas of Hobbes, Feuebach and Marx with those of Nostradamus.
Could you please explain to us your concept of Materialism?
Howay son, I could do with a laugh.
Genuine, because he’s the bloke who’s giving the interview, you spanner.
Tinky Winky is a character from your favourite political party CBBC. 😂😂😂😂
Do you prefer I call you chickenshit?
How’s your Russian Tinky Winky
You might find this conversation enlightening
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQh3gTiKL4
I don’t speak the language, but my mate who grew up in East Germany is reasonably fluent.
He says in this apparently genuine interview, Milchakov openly states he is a Nazi, talks enthusiastically abou Lev Gumilev’s ethnogenetic theories and states that he & his men fought in Donbas in 2014-15, & mentioning his practice of cutting off & collecting dead soldiers’ ears as trophies.
So Russia doesn’t tolerate Nazis, does it.
So there you go CS, the great Nazi hunter, here is your mission, I’ve identified a Nazi, are you going to hunt him down or was my description accurate?
Tinky Winky said – “ Russians don’t tolerate Nazis.”
I wonder if anyone has told Alexey Milchakov. He’s the founder of “The Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group (DShRG) “Rusich” (Russian: Диверсионно-штурмовая разведывательная группа”.
If you have any doubt about their link to Nazism, check out their flags and symbols.
Milchakov has openly made the following statement “I’m not going to go deep and say, I’m a nationalist, a patriot, an imperialist, and so forth. I’ll say it outright: I’m a Nazi.”
They are a unit within the Wagner Group (any thoughts on why they may have called themselves that?)
It appears that TW is as deluded about the Russian government’s attitude to Nazis as he is about his own physical prowess.
As a child, the best way to get me interested in a book was to tell me that I shouldn’t read it. I am sure the publishers of Lady Chatterley’s Lover were absolutely thrilled at all of the publicity.
On being banned, Alice Cooper has said ““They helped us so much just because of the fact that they kept going, ‘Oh this band will never play England’, and we got banned in Russia, everywhere, and of course every teenager in the world wanted to go see Alice Cooper at that point then.”
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“but we couldn’t have paid them enough to say what they said.”
The Russian Armed Forces conscript men for National Service twice a year, with the autumn draft lasting from October 1 until December 31 and the spring draft running from April 1 until July 15 In 2022, the Kremlin announced the spring draft early on February 18. (see interfax)
The draft affects all men aged 18 to 27 years old, though some conscripts can be as young as 16 years old.
Russian conscripts typically serve one year. The Yearly conscription pool of all Russian military-aged men is approximately 1.2 million people, though only about half are compelled to present themselves at their local military commissariat (voenkomat).
The Russian General Staff reported conscripting 127,000 people for the autumn 2021 draft and 134,000 people in spring 2022 out of 672,000 summoned men.
Russian Law allows soldiers conscripted by the draft to serve outside of Russia after 4 months training.
Conscripts, not reservists, you do know the difference, don’t you?
Anyway, instead of writing off the deaths of 30,000 Russian troops as being “not being catastrophic”, why are you (the alleged anti Nazi) not joining them, you do know what the word chickenshit means, don’t you?
Tinky Winky said “Russia has annexed huge swathes of resource rich territory, grown its population and all at the cost of less than 20-30,000 lives. Remind me, what’s this “catastrophic error” of which you speak?”
There we have, fully exposed, the anti working class rhetoric of TW. The mineral wealth and resources annexed will not of course be used for the benefit of the vast majority (working class) of that population, any more that it was used for the benefit of the working class when it was part of the Ukraine.
What is catastrophic asks TW, the catastrophy is the families bereft following the deaths of their loved ones, the children who have lost their fathers and perhaps mothers, the mothers and fathers grieving the deaths of their beloved children, the long term impact of these deaths on all of the family, the post traumatic stress left on the survivors, the impact of children and family living with those who have suffered PTS, the destruction of houses and resources created by working class people through their hard work, to name just a few catastrophic consequences. All of this to enrich the already fabuloously rich.
He has also exposed by his own words what has really occured. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “Annex” as meaning “add (territory) to one’s own territory by apropriation”. Of course as Marxists, we are only interested in ensuring that the expropriators are expropriated.
Surprisingly though, TW has actually stumbled oafishly across a relevant “fact”, however typically he has misinterperated that “fact” as could be expected.
Tinky Winky has stated that the number of Russian Deaths is in the 20,000 to 30,000 deaths. This is probably an underestimation, as the deaths are continuing as we speak. Other estimates of 200,000 deaths are probably equally wide of the mark.
If we, for argument’s, sake work on a death toll of 35,000 (probably quite a conservative number) and compare this to war casualties in recent conflicts, it is clear that this death toll for one year of conflict is very high.
The estimated US deaths in the Korean War was 36,516 deaths over 3 years. An attrition rate of 12,000 deaths a year
The estimated death toll in the Vietnam War was 58,220 deaths over the roughly 10 year span of direct US involvement an attrition rate of 5-6,000 deaths a year
The official Soviet death toll for the Soviet Afghan war was given as 14,453 with estimates rising up to about 26,000 deaths during a 10 year campaign an attrition rate of perhaps 2,000 deaths per year.
That means the death rate that TW has agreed has occured in less than one year is greater than the combined yearly average deaths of the US deaths in Korea and Vietnam and the Soviet deaths in Afghanistan.
Considering the fact that the Vietnam and Afghan Wars led to lots of political instability in the US and USSR and the facts that no official NATO lives are being lost, that Russia doesn’t seem to be making any great progress in their offensives, being pushed back on several fronts and at least at the moment the Ukraine doesn’t seem to be about to over run, the situation might actually be one that US NATO are generally happy about.
Yes they have lost a lot of weapons, but for them the up sides are that the majority of NATO countries are upping their military budgets, the fuel crisis appears to have passed without major issue, they are likely to have Sweden and Finland added to their coalition, there is always the possiblity of war weariness arising in Russia and they get the chance to test out their weaponry without losing lives to NATO forces, whilst Russia is also losing miliary hardware, but is also losing soldiers and suppport infrastructure.
Given this, some elements of the NATO alliance and their general staff, may actually see this whole bloodbath as something positive. Unfortunately this will not be the case for the workers who pay for this fiasco with their lives and their limbs.
