they definitely only started questioning it weeks after the home front collapse accelerated and their creative offensive stalled

I can’t stand this shit ass reporting, at least put some effort into your dumb fuck narrative twists

are you sure there are no imperial tendencies at all in the Russian establishment? This seems unlikely, even if one does not read present policy as imperialist

clown

But isn’t so much journalism nowadays characterised by unsubstantiated speculation? (i.e. propaganda, if not simply clickbait filler pretending analysis)

It seems to me your criticism amounts essentially to your dislike of the thesis of this piece. This can be legitimate, but not what you’ve argued here.

Isn’t this piece an example of precisely the supposed promise of the internet, in the sense that journalism becomes democratised and anyone can publish and disseminate analysis, which can be evaluated on its merits rather than institutional validation and inertia based on opaque criteria? (I would of course argue the aggregated needs of capital, but I won’t force that in)

what the fuck are you talking about

they may be wrong and/or assholes, but this does not seem to me to be a robust example

European NATO allies have begun hitting 2% targets in recent years and there are heated debates about going way above that in multiple capitals.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-turning-point-in-european-security-as-uk-set-to-increase-defence-spending-to-25-by-2030

I will note that in the UK case the picture is particularly accurate, if you consider the development of food bank statistics. The Trussel Trust distributed 3.1 million food parcels in 2023/2024, of these 1.1 million to children.

In 2008/2009 the number of parcels distributed was 26’000.

https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/382695/uk-foodbank-users/

just saw an article about the brugge nazis, nice to see there were some antifascists representing against those clowns

they lost 1-0 apparently too heh

is this japanese crash going to snowball? pull out your crystal balls and bet the house

beyond absurd

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/ obligatory

particularly after october '23 even Americans must know the deal deep down, there’s a lot of choosing to ignore the realities

I’m afraid the political problem you describe is much deeper and more entrenched.

The class of aggregated economic interests that brought the Western world the “centrist ditherers”, as you describe them, are increasingly backing right wing politicians to divide and confuse discontent majorities, now that the social contract is in obvious and advancing decay around us, due to decades of aggressive privatisation of public goods like utilities, education, healthcare as well as related but also wider economic slowdown.

Ironically it was precisely this kind of “centrist ditherer” that spent the last half century destroying these public goods and therefore inflaming the social discontent, which capital must now fuel right wingers to quell.

have you heard of the critical theory workshop? their summer program for this year just ended but u could try next year

https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/summer-program-2024/

agreed, despicable brexit-ball with that talent

lmao nice juxtaposition

im going to be honest rome-beijing procedure made me think it was some experimental surgery like sewing someone’s head back on or sth

is militarised austerity edible?

Hahaha I can do you one better, a friend of mine asked why people hated Hitler so much (she is from a caucasus country, I am in Mitteleuropa), she was under the impression that only Stalin was bad and Adolf was just a particularly motivated guy whom one could/should be ambivalent about, particularly when compared to Stalin. She did listen very carefully to me and is a very smart woman, don’t get me wrong.

Her friend (also from said country) explained at a later point that the education system in said country had degraded significantly since… I’m sure you can guess the rest