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@granit had an excellent comment in the last megathread recommending a podcast on MMT, as well as Marxism and anti-imperialism. Check it out!
Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Yesterday's discussion post.
U.S. officials are cautioning African countries against buying grains plundered from Ukraine as some nations draw closer to Russia to slow surging food prices and stave off hunger.
Imagine having the fucking nerve to tell nations to starve their people because it doesn't fit your western worldview. I guess that's :amerikkka: for you.
Ketchup at risk from climate change
Finally some good news!
Reading each day about the ever-worsening state of the planet is nightmare inducing. Sometimes I just think about the fact that I will live multiple decades into the decay and wonder how dire things will get. Then I stop and make myself think of literally anything else. It's very upsetting that the people in charge are sending future generations into disaster.
The generations currently alive is probably going to become the most hated and despised people in human history. Centuries from now the descendants of the survivors will curse us for our monumental evil and use us as examples of reckless greed, arrogance and shallow indifference to human suffering.
Assuming humanity survives long-term, for anybody reading this on the archived internet two centuries from now: I fucking hate the people in charge right now. If things are better: in the most genuine way, be thankful you aren't living under these deeply evil ghouls. If things are worse: I'm very sorry that the failchildren in charge right now have destroyed the planet long-term and it sucks that you're ruled by the great-great-great-grandchildren of these current failchildren ruling us.
Like, fuck, imagine how bad the failchildren be after that long. It took, what, two or three generations to get from the really competent and evil capitalist titans to people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk? What will it be like in three more generations?
If you're reading this 2 centuries from now: Wow, I'm genuinely surprised you still have internet
Boomers, gen x, millennials will all be judged very harshly. They had the opportunity to change, of course we were never gonna take it. We did it for the treats
You must let your people go hungry, you can’t do what you’ve been doing for decades
r/sino is a good source on this despite not being entirely socialist.
37 countries that signed the letter supporting Chinese policy in Xinjiang. 18 of these are majority
There was always a majority support for China from the Muslim world. Now whether you call that geopolitics, self-interest or not the matter of fact is that if Muslims are not to be trusted on this issue than surely Westerners should be the last ones to have a say on it as well and basicaly imo there is no argument to be made other than purely pragmatic points. Chinese policies worked without resorting to violence or war and that is what matters.
Also it is very important to note that the Xinjiang extremests were also linked to ISIS and some of them were fighting in Syria. You can search on google(use before:2018-01-01 for example) and on r/sino for ISIS and Uighur.
Here is western media reporting notice "Chinese figthers" instead of terrorists.
WSJ : Over 100 Chinese Fighters Have Joined Islamic State in Syria
Financial times: Isis Uighurs threaten ‘rivers of blood’ in China
AP Exclusive: Uighurs fighting in Syria take aim at China
Random research paper from 2017: Uighur Foreign Fighters: An Underexamined Jihadist Challenge
Also there is that infamous YT video of the US army guy basically telling the entire US plan to use Xinjiang against China.
Thank you for this compilation of links! Absolutely brilliant .
These are Solid Gold Nunchaku in the fight against "China has concentration camps"
Guy who doesn't know the difference between japan & china; 'wow 'nunchaku', racist much?'
Over sensitive SJW much? I wasn't suggesting Chinese people invented nunchucks or even that they would be using them. I was implying I was going to use them to metaphorically bash libs with facts that contradict their propagandized world view. This sort of attitude is counter productive as it makes you look pedantic and nit-picky.
Mexico’s President AMLO condemns US blockade of Cuba as ‘genocide’ and ‘tremendous violation of human rights’ Multipolarista
López Obrador denounced the blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years, in flagrant violation of international law.
“How is it that a blockade is maintained that prevents food from arriving to the Cuban people, that prevents medicines from arriving?” he asked.
“That is a type of genocide,” the Mexican president declared. He called it “a tremendous violation of human rights.”
“When the subject of the blockade is addressed in the UN, every country votes to lift the blockade. One or two prevent it,” he noted.
“It would be the peak [of hypocrisy] for us to attend the Summit [of Americas] in that context,” AMLO added. “That violates the foreign policy of Mexico, which our constitution establishes, the non-intervention, the self-determination of peoples.”
AMLO reiterated his call for “the integration of all of the Americas,” but he emphasized that “that is going to mean a change in the policy, leaving behind confrontation, leaving behind hate, leaving behind the threats, the blockades, the meddling, and choosing brotherhood.”
“That is a type of genocide,”
:eye-twitch:
Good news though, I hope the puppet OAS looses it legitimacy and more countries join the São Paulo Forum
The São Paulo Forum is more of a club of socialist/labour political parties, CELAC is the latam only version of the OAS
Related: US Leads Sanctions Killing Millions to No End Naked Capitalism
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Unilateral sanctions – not approved by the UN Security Council – are illegal under international law. Besides contravening the UN Charter, unilateral sanctions inflict much human loss. Countless civilians – many far from target countries – are at risk, depriving them of much, even life itself.
Sanctions, embargos and blockades – ‘sold’ as non-violent alternatives to waging war by military means – economically isolate and punish targeted countries, supposedly to force them to acquiesce. But most sanctions hurt the innocent majority, much more than ruling elites.
Like laying siege on enemy settlements, sanctions are ‘weapons of mass starvation’. They “are silent killers. People die in their homes, nobody is counting”. The human costs are considerable and varied, but largely overlooked. Knowing they are mere collateral damage will not endear any victim to the sanctions’ ‘true purpose’.
The US has imposed more sanctions, for longer periods, than any other nation. During 1990-2005, the US imposed a third of sanctions regimes worldwide. These were inflicted on more than 1,000 entities or individuals yearly in 2016-20 – nearly 80% more than in 2008-15. Thus, the Trump administration raised the US share of all sanctions to almost half!
Tens of millions of Afghans now face food insecurity, even starvation, as the US has seized its US$9.5 billion central bank reserves. President Biden’s 11 February 2022 executive order gives half of this to 9/11 victims’ families, although no Afghan was ever found responsible for the atrocity.
Biden claims the rest will be for ‘humanitarian crises’, presumably as decided by the White House. But he remains silent about the countless victims of the US’s two-decade long war in Afghanistan, where airstrikes alone killed at least 48,308 civilians.
Now, the US-controlled World Bank and IMF both block access to financial resources for Afghanistan. The long US war’s massive population displacement and physical destruction have made it much more vulnerable and foreign aid dependent.
The six decade-long US trade embargo has cost Cuba at least US$130 billion. It causes shortages of food, medicine and other essential items to this day. Meanwhile, Washington continues to ignore the UN General Assembly’s call to lift its blockade.
The US-backed Israeli blockade of the densely populated Gaza Strip has inflicted at least US$17 billion in losses. Besides denying Gaza’s population access to many imported supplies – including medicines – bombing and repression make life miserable for its besieged people.
Meanwhile, the US supports the Saudi-led coalition’s war on Yemen with its continuing blockade of the poorest Arab nation. US arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have ensured the worst for Yemenis under siege.
Blocking essential goods – including food, fuel and medical supplies – has intensified the “world’s worst ongoing humanitarian crisis”. Meanwhile, “years of famine” – including “starving to death a Yemeni child every 75 seconds” – have been aggravated by the “largest cholera outbreak anywhere in history”.
Humanitarian disasters and destroying lives and livelihoods are excused as inevitable “collateral damage”. Acknowledging hundreds of thousands of Iraqi child deaths, due to US sanctions after the 1991 invasion, an ex-US Secretary of State deemed the price “worth it”.
Poverty levels in countries under US sanctions are 3.8 percentage points higher, on average, than in other comparable countries. Such negative impacts rose with their duration, while unilateral and US sanctions stood out as most effective!
Clearly, the US government has not hesitated to wage war by other means. Its recent sanctions threaten living costs worldwide, reversing progress everywhere, especially for the most vulnerable.
Yet, US-led unilateral sanctions against Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and other countries have failed to achieve their purported objectives, namely, to change regimes, or at least, regime behaviour.
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Economic sanctions – originally conceived a century ago to wage war by non-military means – are increasingly being used to force governments to conform. Sanctions are still portrayed as non-violent means to induce ‘rogue’ states to ‘behave’.
But this ignores its cruel paradox – supposedly avoiding war, sanctions lay siege, an ancient technique of war. Yet, despite all the harm caused, they typically fail to achieve their intended political objectives – as Nicholas Mulder documents in The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.
A friend showed me a dprk and south korea light pollution levels map, and then mocked dprk for not having as much.... :brainworms:
saw a video on that comparison somewhere that alleged that graphic was at least partially fabricated anyways.
I love how there was a response in the DPRK media to this, and none fucking none of the western media who reported on this ever provided the link to the original article. They just say shit. eg. . If anyone can halp, I'd really love to see the original, which is reported to be pretty long. The English title of the article is reported to be "Right In Front Of Our Eyes" and the publication is Rodong Sinmun .
Response to that map that doesn't show what people think it shows. https://youtu.be/HNf3wM0feb8?t=639
Seems like Russia is gaining more territory every day. Damn this is wild to see happen so fast.
Source??? Not that I don’t believe, just want to read on it
https://defensepoliticsasia.com/luhansk-front-lpr-forces-allegedly-captured-borivske-ukr-still-holds-novookhtyrka-voronove/
https://defensepoliticsasia.com/kharkiv-front-russian-forces-captured-bairak-peremoha-shestakove/
https://defensepoliticsasia.com/izyum-front-russian-forces-captured-svyatohirsk-and-sviatohirsk-cave-monestery-across-the-river/
some towns and villages allegedly taken today
Makes me wonder if the southern campaign was what they had planned for all along and the attempt to take Kiev was a last minute harebrained choice by someone higher up
The Kiev offensive tied down a lot of Ukrainian troops at relatively low cost for Russia. All those troops were prevented from reinforcing the eastern front until Russia had time to move it's own troops into positions and destroy a lot of logistical centers.
Winning a war without taking risks or spending your soldiers' lives is a hollywood fiction. I'm not sure it makes sense to criticize Russia for things that could have happened but didn't. Russia has made enough actual mistakes that we can look at.
I think the Kiev offensive was partly a feint to hold UA's armies and partly a test to see how far they could get. If they could have taken the city that easily it would have been nearly the end for UA. If the whole Kiev offensive got cut off and destroyed it would have been costly but not "war ending." It was a reasonable risk and in the end it cost them barely anything and it did effectively allow their southern force to penetrate deep and dig in.
Sorry the Quincy institute maybe the best thinktank but I've been reliable informed by :reddit-logo: that putin is the only Russian in favor of this war and is about to be couped any day now...
“[T]he US and its allies have set much more radical goals than the relatively conservative containment and deterrence strategies used toward the Soviet Union. They are in fact striving to exclude Russia from world politics as an independent factor, and to completely destroy the Russian economy. The success of this strategy would allow the US-led West to finally resolve the “Russia question” and create favorable prospects for victory in the confrontation with China.
bang on, I also like that he brings Georgia and who attacked whom first, which is an issue I haven't seen raised much
It is interesting to me that this reaction to something that isn't really of earth-shattering importance by itself - like, Ukraine wasn't a household subject in the West before the invasion threat really mounted, it's among the poorest countries in Europe, it doesn't play any discernable role in world politics unless you were really into agricultural world news or the current state of Russia-US/NATO relations and geopolitics. Like, if Russia had invaded Finland then then that's an attack on a "western", fully white nation and would be of inflated importance in people's minds, and if Russia had invaded a NATO country then... well, we wouldn't be here talking about it.
So it's interesting that the US did all this in response to Russia's invasion when, as the article says, the same was not really true for the Soviet Union. That was more of an ideological and cultural separation and demonization, but not so much explicitly seeking to completely isolate them and destroy them economically and shatter them into a hundred different tiny countries and salting their land and so on, and everybody being on board with that. It was an underlying hatred and fear, whereas this is really burning hot.
Is it desperation to boost the military-industrial complex in response to the falling rate of profit? Is it that we're governed by people who have almost no concept of realpolitik, as opposed to people like Kissinger? Is it people no longer seeing Russia as the threat it was during the Cold War, due to its perceived destruction after 1990, and thus everybody thinking that asking "Hmm, should we humiliate Russia or not? Should we let them get Ukraine's territory or not?" is even an applicable question to this situation as they still buy the whole "GDP the size of Italy, half their nukes probably don't work anymore" thing?
Any mafia boss will be able to tell you how important it is to maintain credibility. If people see you as powerful you can get your way unchallenged but if people starts doubting your ability to bank up your demands with force, your power slips away and people starts challenging you.
The US is in a similar situation. What was once a shining city on a hill is now increasingly seen as a failed state, a cautionary tale of how not to run a country. Chinese industry is roaring while the US seems incapable of product anything but weapons and financial scams. Even large parts of the weapons industry is just a front for scams. The political system is ossified and seemingly unable to govern effectively as evidenced by the humiliating mismanagement of COVID.
The ability to break Cuba, Venezuela, Korea, Iran and Bolivia as well as the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan has seriously put into question the US ability to project power abroad.
And then we have the Ukraine crisis. The US had invested a lot of effort in drawing Ukraine into its sphere of influence and encircling Russia. Had they succeeded it would have been a welcome win for Washington.
But the plans feel apart and Russia openly challenged them. The US had to take up the challenge in order to maintain credibility as an empire. The alternative, a negotiated compromise with Russia involving de-escalation of NATO, would havesaved thousands of lives but it would also have been a huge blow to the US empire's status and would have opened up a Pandora's box of challenges to their global supremacy. War was the only acceptable option for Washington.
So it’s interesting that the US did all this in response to Russia’s invasion
Yes I think it will become the US suez moment once russia wins and there's some reflection and people realise that the US was unable to change the outcome doing everything bar sending troops(although there are 'advisors' there currently)
I think there's something to the idea that the current crop of technocrats believe there own bullshit to some extent, 'ukraine is winning we just need to send a few more wunderwaffens and it'll be a game-changer' etc, IMO there's a feedback loop with the media
Media military industrial fart sniffing circle jerk feed back loop.
I've actually now been thinking about it quite a bit and what the US could actually get out of it and I think it could just be about Oil, the US hit peak Oil in 1970 but was able to deal with it thanks to discovering Alaska but ever since then US oil production has come down, offshore can set it off but it's not very efficient and cannot preserve their status, the thing that really reversed it was fracking but those drills lose 30% of their output every year until depletion so you need to constantly build new drills and that's not being done anymore, so we've might've already hit peak fracking oil and because those drills lose 30% it's basically falling down, almost all of the USAs geopolitics is based on their energy/oil dominance with them losing it a lot of stuff built on it will come down as well, the petrodollar probably won't exist in a world where OPEC or Russia hold the oil dominance.
They might think that even though their energy dominance decline is inevitable they might still be able to hold onto it if they eliminate the most dangerous players, Iran is already isolated and the US gov probably thinks they can control the Gulf states. The one country that could bring this all down is Russia, so they have to move as quickly as possible and isolate Russia so that they cannot be challenged. This might be why the US looks so brazen why they were fine with endangering the US dollars status as the global reserve currency because it might not even exist in the future, why they are so willing to drive Russia and China closer together because they have to try to isolate them in order to hold onto their dominance.
I think they might've overestimated their own influence as we can now see countries like India not really caring about it and lots of european nations giving up on the sanctions and start getting russian gas in order to keep their economies going.
So I think the reason might not even be about NATO and affirming it to it's allies even though that is a nice benefit it's about Oil, US is running out of cheap to produce oil and the next country that is able can challenge their hegemony.
Some part of me just really wants to see a unionization campaign centered around waffle houses.
As somebody who has that Chapo bit about Blood and Cheesecake permanently locked into their brain, I think we should unionize every restaurant that Matt has ever complained about. Well, we should unionize all restaurants anyway obviously, but like, super-unionize those ones.
"why aren't you happy starving to meet my geopolitical objectives"
Zelensky aide berates Germany RT
Berlin’s support for Kiev has been lacking, even as Germany plans to invest 100 billion euros in its own military, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. He claimed that he couldn’t even tell if the 5,000 helmets promised by Berlin in January had actually arrived or not.
“We are struggling to understand what [we received from Germany],” Alexey Arestovich said during an interview with a YouTube-based blogger. “For now, I still want to see those 5,000 helmets”.
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The issue of German arms came up during the interview as Arestovich was detailing the latest pledges of weapons from Western nations. He complained that Ukraine didn’t receive enough support from Germany, even as the country decided to invest 100 billion euro in its own military.
“Could it be that the Germans are reviving the glory of the German arms? Could it be that the Bundeswehr will once again ride across uncut fields?” the Ukrainian official said in a mocking tone. The investment sum was “crazy” and amounted to roughly two annual military budgets of Russia, he pointed out.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s promise to make the German army the largest conventional force in Europe was too good to be true, Arstovich assessed. The news deserves far wider coverage in the media than there is, so it must not be what is really happening, he said.
“He promised us a lot and gave nothing,” he said of Scholtz rhetorically. German people don’t trust their leader either, he claimed, suggesting that the Germans should “sort out” their politicians.
This is funny. They don't even know what they have or what has been destroyed by air strikes.
According to Putin:
Industrial production increased by 3.9% in the first four months of 2022. .
The situation with inflation has been brought under control, it is at zero.
Unemployment is falling: in April it was 4% — the lowest value for all time.
The volume of retail trade in May increased by 5.4% compared to last year.
Price growth in Russia stopped in the second half of May.
Since June 1, pensions and the minimum wage, as well as the subsistence minimum, have increased by 10%.
A new Russian federal budget is being developed for the next 3 years.
Western capital leaving Russia seems to be one of the greatest things that ever happened for the Russian economy, who could have guessed
Victoria Nuland and the Gang that couldn't Sanction Straight didn't lol, I hope this is end of dollar hegemony
Love to impose the 70s oil crisis from the OPEC embargo onto myself to own Putler
"We're very angry at your government and we want to destroy your economy. Therefore we're giving you all of these factories and shops and distribution networks at firesale prices!"
:galaxy-brain:
I'm unsure as to how much western businesses withdrawing was about wanting to cause economic strife in Russia, vs taking some kind of principled stand against the invasion, but if it is the former - it's really emblematic of the west-brain that they think that the brands leaving - not the factories, not the restaurants, not the retail buildings, not the material structure, but the brands themselves, the names that are on the buildings, would like, make Russia economically collapse. Like, you see this with the whole McDonalds thing, where they're just renaming it and opening it back up. Like, it's not as if when some car manufacturer officially leaves Russia, that the factory is physically towed back into Europe.
Unemployment is falling: in April it was 4% — the lowest value for all time.
Well not "all time" :stalin-approval:
I read that sales tax income is down by about 50% which is strange given inflated prices would also inflate the sales tax. It seems like a massive drop in consumer spending if it is true. Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220602-russia-braces-for-economic-upheaval-as-sanctions-start-to-bite
It seems reasonable that Russian consumers would be careful making big purchases, with their national economy being under attack.
The End of Energy Free Trade WSJ
Russia’s attack on Ukraine is redrawing the world’s energy map, ushering in a new era in which the flow of fossil fuels is influenced by geopolitical rivalries as much as supply and demand.
There was an interesting podcast episode years back in From Alpha to Omega with a professor about Energy and Empire, the main idea of the professor was that empires rose and fell because of energy efficiencies, the Roman Empire was only able to conquer so much because their system allowed them to support more troops, during those times 10 people would support one soldiering person and romans were able to cut that down to 9 per 1 person. Steppe horsemen would invade and something like the Mongol Empire would come to exist because of unusually positive rainseasons that would make the steppes overflow with feed for their horses. The british empire rose because of their rich and easy to access coal deposits, and during the cold war it was the USA and the Soviet Union, two major oil producing nations. I'll try finding that episode again and really write down what I think this could mean but my initial thoughts reading this is, after the fall of the SU the US was able to indirectly monopolize pretty much all the oil in the world through letting russia provide their oil to it's closest allies.
There's a couple random thoughts I have about this that I might write down a bit later but the two big ones are that russia now providing their oil to India and China for cheap could really shift things around and the other is was the USA wary of the rise of an EU power built off the back of russias efficient energy.
The Pentagon Has a Supply-Chain Problem Bloomberg
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, no weapon has been more effective against Russian forces than the Javelin anti-tank missile. Drawing on a supply of roughly 7,000 US-made Javelins, Ukraine’s fighters have destroyed at least 400 Russian tanks and hundreds more armored vehicles. The weapon’s potency has helped foil President Vladimir Putin’s plans to overrun the country. There’s just one problem: The US stockpile is now running out.
Another Javelin commercial! They might as well include a link to where you can buy your own at this point. It's the US version of the Turkish drones needing to appear effective so more will be sold even though there's no indication that they're at all good weapons.
The war has already consumed as much as one-third of the US military’s inventory of Javelins. Within months, the Pentagon will be unable to deliver new ones without emptying out its own supply. The war has also consumed one-quarter of the US inventory of Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles; Raytheon, which makes the Stinger, says it could take up to a year to restart production. (The Army has issued a $625 million contract to Raytheon to do so.) At the current usage rate, supplies could be nearly exhausted by next year.
A $40 billion spending package passed by Congress last month aims to replenish these stockpiles. But the problem goes deeper than short-term supply disruptions. Military planners and defense contractors have long prioritized spending on big-ticket “platforms,” such as aircraft carriers and fighter jets, over making weapons themselves. Pandemic-related disruptions in the supply chain for microchips have made the problem worse. And the erosion of the military’s industrial base has made it harder for the Pentagon to accelerate production. Defense-industry concentration, cumbersome contracting rules, and a shortage of skilled workers have slashed the number of companies in the business. A 2020 Pentagon report found that in an alarming number of cases, the military relies on a single, “often fragile” supplier to make critical components.
The weakness of the Pentagon’s supply chain threatens not only aid to Ukraine but also America’s ability to respond to future crises — including a potential conflict over Taiwan, whose military depends on US-made hardware. To address the current strain, President Joe Biden should consider invoking the Defense Production Act, which requires manufacturers to prioritize delivering goods for defense-related needs over orders from other industries. Although sometimes misused for political purposes, the authority could in this case help to ease production bottlenecks for military vehicles and heavy weaponry.
Man, we're having to invoke that act a lot recently.
They might as well include a link to where you can buy your own at this point.
I've seen screenshots of some really nice javelins with blue and yellow stripes on them going for one bitcoin a pop on the kind of webshop you need a Tor browser to access.
US working on new Russian oil plan RT
Jesus christ, what else can they do? They've already agreed to embargo all oil shipments.
The United States is involved in “extremely active” discussions with European countries aimed at limiting the revenues Russia can generate from selling oil, without interrupting supplies, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday.
Yellen reportedly told the Senate Finance Committee that US officials were keen to keep Russian oil flowing into the global market to contain prices and avoid a spike that could cause a worldwide recession.
“But absolutely the objective is to limit the revenue going to Russia,” she allegedly said, adding there were different ways to accomplish that. The Treasury Secretary specified such measures could include a possible move by buyers to band together and cap the prices they were paying to Moscow.
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This is utterly deranged. They want to organise every oil buying country to disregard their own economic interest and to subject themselves to termination of oil supplies when they don't pay the market price.
And for what reason? Sucking up to Washington? Sticking it to Putin? Who do they imagine to get on board of this?
limiting the revenues Russia can generate from selling oil, without interrupting supplies
what the fuck is this limp shit. either you're buying Russian oil or you aren't. don't come up with convoluted lib schemes to make you feel better about it
The US just needs to admit they're dependent on Russian oil supplies and move the fuck on
They're trying to build a coalition of oil producers that will sell selectively to US client states, thereby making the sanctions on Russian oil theoretically actually doable rather than the theater they are now.
I think they'll fail and help out Venezuela in the process, lol.
We want to keep the Russian oil but also not pay them. If the Russians stop giving us oil then oil prices might go up and that’s unacceptable.
Capitalists are becoming incoherent. Didn’t they use to understand the simple concept of exchange? They want their cake and to eat it too, you don’t get the profits and the goods. You exchange one for the other.
How are they getting this deranged?
The answer is simple
They are old
The youth don't really get it. But I've worked in retirement homes. And old people are insane and incoherent and that is who is running the west
It's that simple.
They want oil but they don't want to pay for it? Good luck with that.
Capitalism is flawed by nature and continuing it is illogical. That Capitalists are irrational and delusional should come as no surprize.
Melitopol mayor announces beginning of preparations for referendum on accession to Russia TASS
Head of the military-civilian administration of Melitopol Galina Danilchenko announced the beginning of preparation for a referendum on accession to Russia.
"We know that our future is single with Russia, the Russian Federation is here forever. We begin to prepare for a referendum," she said according to the city administration Telegram channel.
And yet...
Kremlin denies reports that Russia will not discuss Kherson, Zaporozhye status with Kiev TASS
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the Izvestia newspaper's publication that Moscow will not discuss the status of Kherson and Zaporozhye with Kiev.
"No, it's all wrong. <...> No, this is incorrect information," he said on Tuesday, commenting on the report that the status of Zaporozhye and Kherson would not be discussed in a new agreement with Ukraine if negotiations resumed.
The publication's source said that the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions will not be included in the new agreement between Russia and Kiev because the overwhelming majority of the region's residents support Russia.
