ISIS are an Anglo-Zionist creation and pawn.

Chechnya is a part of Russia. A country cannot invade itself. It was jihadi terrorists, armed and trained by the CIA, who invaded Russia.

Georgia was the one who attacked first in 2008. Even the EU investigation into that conflict had to admit this undeniable fact.

Russia did not invade Crimea. Russia was already in Crimea because they were leasing a naval base there. Crimeans held a referendum to join Russia and Russia accepted them.

The Donbass rebelled against the illegal fascist coup in 2014 and was attacked for this by the Nazi thugs of the coup regime.

Russia responded to a request for mutual defense from the Donbass republics in 2022 which had declared independence from Ukraine due to being attacked by the illegally installed Kiev regime for eight years.

This is their legal right under international law according to the UN charter article 51.

Tibet is part of China and has been since at least the Yuan dynasty (13th century).

The Uyghurs are a protected ethnic group in China. You can visit Xinjiang which is autonomously governed mostly by local Uyghurs and see for yourself they live just as normally as any other people in China.

The South China Sea is split between all nations bordering it. China’s claims to its share are legal and historically justified.

When other countries’ fishing boats intrude into Chinese waters without China’s permission, China enforces its sovereignty. The other countries do the same to Chinese fishing boats in their respective waters. The US meanwhile blows up fishing boats in other countries’ waters, which is a war crime.

China and Russia both have democratic processes just like the US does. Russia even has presidential elections. They are not dictatorships any more than the US is. Russia’s constitution is practically a carbon copy of the French constitution and was written with heavy involvement of US “advisors” (USAID).

The US is the one that repeatedly, blatantly and unrepentantly violates international law:

The unprovoked bombing of Serbia and the illegal NATO occupation of Serbia’s Kosovo province, the illegal invasion of Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, the bombing of Libya, the invasion of Syria, the aiding and abetting of the genocide in Palestine, the unprovoked bombing of Iran, serial theft of other countries’ legal property, illegal unilateral sanctions, and a litany of war crimes against civilians… the list is practically endless.

This comment deserves an award. This is exactly how communists should approach propaganda and party building under current imperial core conditions.

But we should also bear in mind that while this strategy of toeing the line in order to be allowed to operate openly and legally is still viable right now, there may come a point when conditions have deteriorated to such an extent (that is, when the ruling class feels the imminent threat of revolution) that the bourgeois state has no choice but to resort to open repression, and we will be forced to start to operate underground.

We should not delude ourselves into thinking that, if only we make our messaging palatable enough, we will be tolerated forever. The ruling class allows open dissent for now because it still feels secure in its power, but one day it won’t feel that way anymore. And we have to be ready for when that day comes by building as robust and disciplined a party organization as possible, with professional cadres and widespread penetration of working class organizations.

Plenty of countries have held elections during wartime. The “constitution” is just a piece of paper. If they wanted to hold elections they could, nothing is physically tying their hands. If they wanted to they could also just change the constitution, the same way they just changed it when they wrote into the constitution that they would join NATO. If they wanted to they could just lift martial law, the same way they just imposed it. They won’t because they’re a fascist dictatorship maintaining power through imposing a repressive military regime on their own citizens. And they don’t want to hold elections because the Nazi junta currently in charge would lose them or have to rig them so blatantly that the country would revolt.

It is pure nonsense to compare Russia with Iran. Russia is a nuclear superpower. Anyone who thinks the same kind of games can be played with them as with Iran is in for a world of hurt.

The purest example of fake news. Putin invited journalists to see the surrounded Ukrainian garrison in Myrnograd-Pokrovsk (that pocket has now been all but eliminated, so it’s too late for that). This article tries to claim he said it about Kupyansk, a town in a completely different part of Ukraine, which is very easy to verify is not true.

It’s sort of insulting that the people who churn out this lazy pro-Ukrainian propaganda think their audience is this stupid that they won’t even check.

As for the Narcoführer, he just went to do another of his usual photoshoots with the town sign, which in this case happens to be several kilometers outside of the actual city itself.

Coincidentally it just so happens that almost every time he does one of these PR stunts that city ends up falling not long after.

I have no idea if this is going to be the case here. Who knows, maybe Ukraine will break the pattern this time and retake the city. Congratulations to them if they do, they haven’t had a win in a long time now so i’m sure it would be a nice morale booster, but unfortunately it doesn’t change the broader trend which is very much not in their favor.

> “I’m not racist”

> Proceeds to be racist towards Russians, Chinese, Indians and Pakistanis

Russia was invading militarily Crimea well before 2014

Lol, do you mean the lease agreement in which Ukraine was getting a ton of money for the Russian naval base in Crimea? Is that your definition of “invading”?

Ah yes the dehumanizing Russian rhetoric towards the Ukrainians of… *checks notes* calling them a brotherly people. Smh…how awful of them.

First and Second Chechen Wars

Purely defensive, internal conflicts on internationally recognized Russian territory against CIA backed jihadist terrorists who butchered civilians and committed heinous acts of terrorism such as taking an entire school hostage and murdering hundreds of children.

Puppet Leader in Belarus Alexander Lukashenko

Lukashenko has been the leader of Belarus longer than Putin has been president. Belarus is in a Union State with Russia, and still has more autonomy from Russia than the average EU state has from Brussels.

Puppet leader in Ukraine Victor Yanukovych

He was the furthest thing from a puppet. If anything he was Western-leaning, but trying to keep Ukraine neutral. His one unforgivable crime in the eyes of the West was rejecting a terrible EU trade deal that would have ruined Ukraine’s economy (and did) in favor of an objectively much better one from Russia.

Georgian War

Literally even the EU investigation into that conflict admitted that Georgia started it. Emboldened by believing they had NATO backing, the US puppet president, installed in a color revolution, attacked the region of South Ossetia which was under the protection of Russian peacekeepers.

Annexation of Crimea

The people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted in a referendum to rejoin Russia in response to the fascist, Western-orchestrated Maidan coup.

The majority ethnic Russian population of Crimea did not want the same brutal neo-nazi terror militias that were terrorizing ethnic Russian regions across the rest of Ukraine to come to them, nor did they want to be forced to abide by the russophobic laws passed by the illegally installed Maidan regime, which Crimea, like the Donbass, did not recognize as legitimate.

Russia’s actions in Crimea were a response to a crisis provoked by Western intervention and the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected government.

Role in Syria conflict

Russia co-operated with the legitimate Syrian government against a brutal Zionist/US armed and funded Al Qaeda/ISIS terrorist insurgency.

Role in African dictatorships in Burma Faso and Niger

Same thing. They are co-operating with the official government of those countries in counter-terrorist operations against Western backed jihadist terrorists.

None of this constitutes imperialism. In fact almost all of these are examples of Russia pushing back against Western imperialist aggression, encroachment and proxies.

The reality is that German industry was built on Russian energy and resources.

Unfortunately, right now the far-right threat is too big for me not to hold my nose and vote strategically.

This mentality is exactly why Germany is failing, it’s why “liberal democracies” all around the world are failing. Voting for liberals who have proven to be failures and will continue to be failures, purely out of fear of what will happen if you don’t, means that the conditions which led to the rise of the far right will continue to worsen, which sets up the far right for an even bigger win down the line. Just like “vote for the Democrats to stop Trump” was a failed strategy in the US, “vote for SPD/CDU to stop AfD” is a failed strategy in Germany.

And worst of all, while you’ve been conditioned by the media to be so afraid of one fascist party coming to power, you’ve failed to notice that fascists are already in charge.

While you’ve been conditioned to be so afraid of “losing your democracy” you’ve failed to notice that you’re already living under repression, censorship, state surveillance, a violent police state that defends Nazis and imprisons you for protesting a genocide, with regime-aligned media brainwashing you 24/7 with propaganda, ruled by corrupt politicians bought and paid for by lobbyists, unelected Brussels elites working for corporate interests, and warmongers selling you fear and hysteria while destroying your future and your children’s future for the profits of arms manufacturers.

This framing incorrectly absolves German voters of their guilt. Unlike in the US there are actual options in German elections. Instead most voters just choose to stick with the establishment that continues to screw them over. We can have a debate about the role of indoctrination and brainwashing by the media but the fact remains that the voters are culpable, just like most Germans were culpable for the Nazi regime remaining in power for as long as it did.

Not at all. You’ll notice basically the entire EU abstained. Ireland’s government is very neoliberal and is aligned with everything that the EU and NATO want. Ireland wants to be part of “the West” and so it has to be pro-colonialist and pro-imperialist. The days when Ireland was a bastion of anti-imperialism are long gone. Anti-imperialist Ireland died when they signed off on the Good Friday Agreement.

“Mediazona” is literally an asset of British intelligence funded by the British government and USAID.

The US doesn’t need a military. It has two oceans and two weak neighbors. But that’s beside the point.

Also, the US sells a lot of weapons to other countries.

Yea, to hold ground

Yes that’s part of it. Also storming positions is still done by dismounted infantry. You don’t need very fancy guns but you still need good ones. Also the role of sniper has not disappeared.

Drones have not replaced infantry. They fulfill roles previously assigned to reconnaissance, sabotage, specialized anti-armor units, CAS, and partly artillery (though artillery has also not been obsoleted by drones, it just serves a slightly different purpose).

Drones can neither take nor hold ground. Anyone who makes the mistake of overinvesting into drones at the expense of the traditional “basics” makes the same mistake as those who overinvest in airpower.

Drones are important but the infantryman isn’t getting replaced any time soon. Still the backbone of the army.

I trust their own identity and view on this one.

So you can’t even tell them apart, is what you’re saying.

There’s a lot of Russians who live(d) in Ukraine

So every Russian-speaking Ukrainian is just a Russian? It seems it’s you who is denying Ukrainian identity.

What exactly constitutes a Ukrainian in your opinion? Is it just someone who hates Russia? If a Ukrainian speaks Russian as their native language and likes Russia do they cease to be Ukrainian?

And sometimes they treat Ukrainians as “brothers” in the sense that they’re denying their whole identity as Ukrainians.

So which is it? Do they hate Ukrainians or do they think they are one and the same?

And if they are denying Ukrainian identity, why does Ukrainian language have officially protected status in the new Russian regions, why is it offered to be taught in schools, unlike Russian language in Ukraine which is heavily suppressed? Again, who is trying to erase who’s identity?