Beautiful photo. It makes my week 😊

There’s a conspiracy theory that they are just pushing the collapse back as much as they can, so it blows up in Trump’s face when he gets into office in January.

The Ukrainians seem to be pulling brigades even from Kursk to halt the Pokrovsk collapse.

It is likely they realized that the ongoing Kursk offensive or the planned Zaporozhie offensive will not work, especially since their Western masters have not unlocked their ATACMS and other long-range weapons to be able to strike deep into Russian territory.

It is also likely the Russians will hold off advancing further (at least so rapidly) in the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka line in the near future, and instead will push exactly where the Ukrainians are pulling troops from.

By the way, there’s a pretty good chance the article is bullshit.

The Ukrainians did lose an F16 and its pilot. But they didn’t lose it due to a crash.

See about a week ago, the Ukrainian propaganda arm released a video where they were commemorating the memory of another Ukrainian pilot who died in 2023. The video was filmed at an airfield with F16s. Due to some unique architecture in the background, the Russians were able to geolocate the airfield at Ivano-Frankovsk, which they bombed last Monday, during the massive bombing strike of Ukraine. And that is exactly where the Ukrainians are saying that the F16 “crashed”.

There’s a pretty good chance that the Russians destroyed that F16 on the ground, with the pilot inside, probably during ground preparations. But ofcourse, Ukraine doesn’t want to admit to anybody that they lost a precious F16 and its pilot, on the ground, because they fucked up. So they are probably inventing this narrative about a “crash” and a “non-combat loss”, so they don’t look like clowns.

The way the western economy is tied together through stock markets though means that one company or hedge fund failing because one manufacturer goes down, will cause a domino effect (either due to panic or interconnected stocks). That’s the fear anyway. We’ve seen exactly that when Intel’s stock went down, which was only mitigated by the Fed printing money and silently propping up the stock market.

The West has built itself an economy based on services and speculation. Meaning it’s backed by nothing, other than imaginary concepts. So when the prices of tangible goods go down, the few EU/US/UK industries that use/produce them suddenly have to lower prices as they can’t compete. If they lower prices, their stock goes down. If their stock goes down, then the whole speculation sector deflates in value. If the speculation sector loses value, the western economies collapse.

There’s a similar worry with the price of steel (which is also “overproduced” by China after diminishing its construction sector), and don’t forget the recent tarrifs imposed on EVs and renewable resources exported by China as well.

There’s wider implications on the West caused by price cuts:

• less profits for the capitalist class

• line doesn’t go up exponentially any more

• the global south suddenly has viable alternatives to importing high-tech and manufactured goods

• the financial instruments used to keep the global south down are no longer effective

I love that the draw lines give the impression of perspective and depth.

I don’t know… He looks sharpe

Anything worse than what they’re been doing already for 2.5 years?

Maybe. They’ve been holding out hope that Ukraine & US/Europe would be reasonable, so they avoided committing to full-scale war.

Possibly 'cause they’re rusted to dust due to stolen maintenance funds.

Yes, yes, very edgy, well done.

This Kursk thing really pantsed Russia. How embarrassing must it feel to be a nuclear superpower, losing ground.

Sure, it’s an intelligence failure, and a humiliation. But then what? Ukraine moved in 30 km, and now they are stuck fighting to hold insignificant 100-population villages in a strategically irrelevant area. If this was done in Crimea, or Zaporozhie, or Belgorod, it’d be a different discussion.

Makes me wonder if they’re even able to see getting invaded as a just response for invading others.

Oh right, because Ukraine is the just side in all this. Russians go home. Leave the poor Ukrainians alone, so they can go back to genociding half the country and revere their Nazi ancestors.

A few weeks ago, the German army tried to silently whitewash Wehrmacht and SS war criminals by naming them as “tradition-formers”, “trend-setters” and “pioneers” of the modern German army.

The head of Ukrainian intelligence had said before that Russians only understand fear, in response to bombing civilian targets and raiding incursions in Belgorod. And some of the units in Kursk are under the direct control of Ukrainian intelligence.

And there’s a video of a Ukrainian POW, who surrendered in Vovchansk, stating that he was recruited from prison into the Ukrainian army, and the recruiters promised them they would be used to attack Russia, and then let loose to rape and pillage as much as they wanted as bonus payment.

I’d like to see them post a picture the morning after. Curious to see how many were left after their night of happy adventuring.

When Russia wins this, they should hold a victory parade where they throw all the Neo-Nazi and Nazi insignia they’ve captured into a big pile, like they did for the WW2 parade. Then encase it in glass and leave it there for the rest of time. Let the world see how based Ukraine is.

Thanks so much

Anyone has a way to access the full article?

This was a weirdly comedic read about worlds colliding:

American elites trying to create an American chip monopoly for nationalist and imperialist reasons, ask their colony to bring the factory to the imperial core.

Asian worker exploitation culture being imported to the US, where everyone likes to brag how hard-working people they are and think that the rest of the world is poor because it’s lazy.

American labour aristocrats refusing to conform with Taiwanese worker exploitation culture.

Taiwanese capitalists making concessions to American workers so they can fulfill the wishes of American elites.

American elites crying because they can’t build their self-sufficient capitalist tech utopia that will grab the chip market by the balls.

Taiwanese workers looking in and feeling that everything’s a bit too surreal and unbelievable for their taste.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/24/usa.davidteather

Police-woman enticed him to meet, pretending to be 16-year-old girl

Case dismissed and files sealed.

Someone from within leaked the story to the press to smear him.

In my own opinion, someone is out to get him and they are grasping at anything to discredit him. If the sexual offenses allegations were true, they’d use those to raid his house.

He has a big cult following, especially online, and the people who have no real opinion of him default to the cult opinion.

In my country, a guy who worships him and got famous by camping out for weeks outside Tesla offices just to talk with him, just got elected to the EU parliament, partly because of his Elon Musk worship.

And imagine the hubris of said war criminals not attending, because their other war criminal buddies were not invited.

Can you elaborate on why he’s a shit stain of a human being? Genuinely asking, because other than his name being vaguely familiar to me, I’ve never heard of him before.