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  • in reply to: Russian Tensions #258336
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    Brussels leading us toward mass extinction.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258335
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    👍

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258333
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    US to jumpstart production and distribution to navy of advanced thermonuclear warheads.

    https://tass.com/world/1954695

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258331
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    I am simply pointing out that the notion that Putin is about to fall is obviously western propaganda.

    I wish a pox on the lot of them, but the only way the Ukraine war will end, ending the militaristic bravado of the likes of Starmer, Micron and Merz, is for Zelensky to lose power in Kiev.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258328
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    A state about to collapse? I very much doubt it.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258321
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    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258312
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    Merz has now won the Chancellorship. 🤢

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258310
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    ” Much more likely that Putin gets ousted than Zelenskyy.”

    I don’t know how you can believe that. One might as well say that Xi will be ousted. Putin is considered a god by 9 out of 10 Russians. His army is bulldozing Ukraine, in spite of western weapons.

    Tass: https://tass.com/world/1953455

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    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258308
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    Exactly as I would say, Robbo.

    The best thing for Ukraine and for all of us now would be for the Ukrainians to oust Zelensky and agree to Putin’s demands, ending the war.

    By the way, I see warmonger Merz failed to get the majority he needed to become Chancellor, so far. Also, that an anti-Brussels pro-Hungary candidate won the first round of the Romanian election, which buggers NATO’s plans for leverage in the Black Sea. Good news, even though he’s called a “right extremist.” (Nothing more extremist than the Brussels, Paris and London gang!)

    I always say better a “fascist” who calls for peace than a “democrat” who calls for war!

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258306
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    I don’t feel this is likely, not with stronger ties with China and the ever stronger support of what Putin calls “the global south.”

    I thought the collapse came with the end of the U.S.S.R., and that now we are seeing the fall of the European Union, which is losing members like Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, presaging the eventual disintegration of NATO.

    Russia is seemingly recovering, but in the shade of China, while the USA is increasingly chaotic.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258303
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    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258291
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    But why are Hungary and Slovakia pro-Russia? Why are the right wing (so-called) parties pro-Russia? One may say it’s because they’re not in power, but they are in Hungary and Slovakia, and remain opposed to a war with Russia.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #258285
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    With the former Soviet bloc countries like the Baltics and Poland being the most antagonistic to Russia, do we know why Hungary and Slovakia are the opposite? (With Romania maybe soon to follow)?

    And why is it the “ultra”(?)-nationalist parties across Europe who are the most vociferously anti-war? (While leftists and centrists scream “fascism” at them)?

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    I read that there was more nationalisation under the KMT than there was under Mao.

    Many among the national bourgeoisie, very weak in the 1930s, increasingly preferred the Red areas, if they could reach them, and moved to the Japanese areas if not, rather than stay in the KMT, the same study said. I don’t know if it was true.

    It was the foreign bourgeoisie that preferred Chiang, although he personally despised them. They had initially feared him as “The Red General.”

    It is logical, in that the national bourgeoisie was in a class war with the gentry, most of whom had decided to run with the Right KMT after the April coup of 1927 ousted the “Communists” from the KMT.

    For the “Communists” the ‘nation’ came first against everyone. The Reds were far more nationalist than the “Nationalists” were. This attracted the home-grown bourgeoisie.

    in reply to: The rise of ReformUK #258277
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    Oh ok. Thanks.

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