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  • in reply to: Russian Tensions #240096
    Bijou Drains
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    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.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #240046
    Bijou Drains
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    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?

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #240042
    Bijou Drains
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    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?

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #240038
    Bijou Drains
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    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.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #240037
    Bijou Drains
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    More comedy gold from Tinky Winky
    😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡

    in reply to: Burning children’s books. #240030
    Bijou Drains
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    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.”

    and

    “but we couldn’t have paid them enough to say what they said.”

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #240028
    Bijou Drains
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    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?

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #240009
    Bijou Drains
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    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.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Bijou Drains.
    in reply to: Russian Tensions #239907
    Bijou Drains
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    True narcissist, the gift that keeps on giving.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #239891
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    Dear Tinky Winky

    There is a huge difference between “surplus value” and “surplus wealth”

    “As any fule kno”

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #239887
    Bijou Drains
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    AJ – “Would you care to name these non-capitalist states?”

    Tinky Winky says “The USSR, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, China, etc.”

    🤣😂🤣😂
    Honestly, this guy is so funny, 🤡🤡🤡

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #239818
    Bijou Drains
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    Tinky winky said – “ Two of the most recent being that China’s economy would not collapse (a couple of years back it was all the rage to believe otherwise) and that Russia would easily defeat Ukraine on the battlefield if it came to war”

    China’s economy has clearly had some difficulties, it achieved growth of 3% in 2022, compared to the governments target of 5.5%. Other than 2020 (the start of the pandemic) growth has been the lowest since 1976 (Mao’s death).

    As to predictions of collapse, not many credible economists predicted collapse. A few have said China will face economic difficulties, which appear to be the case. This all proves what Socialists have stated clearly for years. Boom and bust cycles are all part of the nature of capitalist production. Capitalist China is not immune to these cycles.

    As to your prediction that Russia would easily defeat Ukraine? Well given that 10 months of war hasn’t achieved victory and the Russians have acknowledged 24,000 dead (probably more than that) I’d hate to see what would have happened if it has been difficult.

    To put that figure into some perspective the US had 33,000 deaths in just over 3 years, of the Korean War, 47,400 deaths in 10 years of the Vietnam War and 1,900 deaths in the Afghan War.

    So in terms of your “predictions”, your not really the new feckin Nostradamus, are you?

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #239804
    Bijou Drains
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    AJ – If not a member of any, what political party (past or present) do you judge to be the closest to your own political beliefs?”

    “TN The CPGB.”

    Are you sure you don’t mean CBBC?
    🤣🤣🤣

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #239689
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    TN has now exposed all that he has to offer:

    An uninformed hero worship at the rotting edifice of State Capitalism. An inability to articulate any purposeful, evidenced based or coherent arguments to support his fetid nationalist rhetoric. A lack of scruple to even check his historical references for accuracy. The complete absence of any reply to the challenges and questions asked of him and all he’s got in the tank is a few unoriginal, unfunny attempts to insult. Basically he’s been on an ego trip that he hasn’t got the intellectual currency to pay the fare.

    Close the door on the way out, there’s a good boy.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Bijou Drains.
    in reply to: Russian Tensions #239658
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    True Narcissist, I’m truly sorry for you. Considering the way in which you have been exposed as:
    A Socialist – who has no idea what socialism is
    A Leninist- whose never read a word of Lenin’s work
    An anti Nazi – who has not the slightest idea of what the ideological basis of nazism or fascism is
    A anti imperialist- who demonstrably has the slightest clue of Lenin’s theories of imperialism
    A historian- who thought that the overthrow of the Russian Consituent Assembly had something to do with the Kornilov Affair
    A promoter of Stalin’s ideas who relies on the ludicrous ramblings of Grover Furr.

    You are embarrassing, son.

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