as of today putin's three-day military operation has lasted as long as the Great Patriotic War. congrats to irony for its total victory over russia

This is a cool rock. I like this rock.

Pretty strong evidence that the regime doesn't expect to survive the coming weeks

Anyway if you read a Russia analysis that doesn't center siloviki class interests are one of the driving engines of the Russian state and policy, you're not reading a Russia analysis

It really does worry me that Dem electeds don't even talk about police militarization and the lack of civilian oversight. In most metros, PDs haven't been accountable to City Hall since the early 90s at least, and I've never heard an elected talk about that.

People laughed at me when I told em that Trump no shit wants to nuke Ottawa.

They were afraid it would be done by Liberals. Everything Conservatives have been afraid of in our lifetimes has been because the state was an imperfect but fundamentally Liberal force in society. Conservatism is the ideology of monarchy. They don't believe in small government when they're in power.

everyone was so committed to appeasing Trump on Venezuela - acting like it was a sensible policy decision rather than an unhinged act of looting and pillaging - that he immediately has taken the next immediate step that appeased tyrants always do

i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed

My bombshell culture take is that Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi is a pretty great song and you should listen to it and remember a better time, the 90s

Whoever made this 🫡

Just an FYI that map is very historically inaccurate. Especially the 1776 and 1850 ones. There were near three centuries of Spanish and French colonization in these areas. (A focus in my studies) and more importantly Redfish is a straight up Russian State propaganda outfit using pain for clicks.

#PolishMeme Isaac Newton shows on the map which region of Poland need to be attacked with gay ray lasers in order to destroy traditional family model, 1704.

Exactly right. It's a signal to demonstrate who is acceptable as a target.

Russian forces carried out a combined overnight attack on Ukraine, targeting critical infrastructure and using a medium-range Oreshnik ballistic missile launched from the Kapustin Yar in Astrakhan Oblast.

need more cosmopolitan chauvinism imo. to be able to go to a world city and do this without crossing a border is something you should be proud of, it means you're a great country. To want to tear it down means you are inbred provincial hog with no greater drives than envy and fear.

Actually this aphorism slaps, I'm claiming end credit

If American citizens keep treating ICE as an unaccountable state secret police with the right to murder with impunity, ICE will continue to function that way. But there are alternatives.

Fucking dumber than a bag of bricks, or disingenuous bullshit. As always, both. Why the fuck would we need foreign troops if we *weren't* going to get invaded?

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He made a bog standard bilateral investment agreement where the end beneficiary is a marble quarry in Vinnystia Oblast. But sure, Donny, rare earths. Keep waiting for that cash.

No one believed the Vichy apologists when they claimed collaboration was the only way to save France. No one will believe these assholes either

Kyiv’s Pecherskyi district and the left bank part of the city were left without a water supply after Russia's massive Russian air assault on the Ukrainian capital overnight.

Big F in chat for the State Department lackeys who have to say with a straight face that the United States supports the right to peacefully oppose the government and opposes autocracy.

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

Yes, they were divided by the fact that the federal officials were brazenly lying

Basically, yes.

Yanis Varoufakis is a Russian asset.

Abolishing ICE is the minimum position. The moderate position is prosecuting nearly all of them as a criminal enterprise.

In my experience, US cops and prosecutors believe "disobeying an officer of the law" carries a death penalty, sentence to be carried out expeditiously

To emphasis this point, the Old World ended 20 January 2025, we are almost a year later. We were told directly again on 14 February 2025 at the Munich Security Conference by Vance. We screamed at again on 4 December 2025 with the US National Security Strategy telling us exactly MAGA's goals.

Abolish ICE is the conservative position abolishing DHS is moderate solution open borders is the liberal solution Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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You're thinking of cyberspace. Kubernetes is a type of dog food made from mixed veggies, grains, and meats, dried and formed into pellets.

Imo I always got the sense that the South as a construct was the villian

Malyuk gave one of the keynote speeches on New Years, so this seems deliberately timed. english.nv.ua/nation/ukrai...

Will Stancil also does not have not bizarre politics, he is a bog-standard progressive who takes it seriously and is also way too online, it is *extremely weird* that this is considered beyond the pale of comprehension by the pop-left posting class.

Anyway congrats to Katie Miller for becoming the first female president of the United States

This is the product of an extremely strong chain of command and culture of “just following orders.” If we had civilian control of the military the JCS would’ve refused the order pending congressional authorization. The military has thrown in with Trump.

Timothy Snyder has mentioned how Russia and other autocratic states blatantly stealing elections or holding sham referendums are meant to make a mockery of the democratic process and any country or leader who endorses them or their results contributes to delegitimizing it as an institution

So much for ethics

if I wanted to see hateful posts from rando nazis I would go to twitter. There is NO reason to drag that shit over here. There is no news value. We know they are sociopathic freaks. You're looking for some kind of adrenaline fix because you miss the conflict. Don't inflict that on the rest of us.

This the guy who just kidnapped a foreign head of state and his wife

I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Lol, lmao

The evening of Feb 24, 2022 featured Russian special forces units randomly shooting civilian vehicles and getting in firefights with TDF inside Kyiv as they were attempting to find and kill Zelensky

Reuters celebrates the glorious revolution launched by Supreme Commander Trump.

Hey look a genocidaire, have fun blocking and reporting

As a creature who believes in a basic right to national sovereignty I would like to congratulate the United States on forcing me to actively support the Chavistas winning a war