SAN FRANCISCO - Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move that could help prevent its artificial intelligence chips from being…
SAN FRANCISCO - Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move that could help prevent its artificial intelligence chips from being…
What can I use to record and ensure the data is saved locally. Nothing serious, just chickens being accused of hurting plants when they are monitored. I just want to catch whatever it is (deer? Etc?) eating it so I can have evidence it isn't them
Amcrest cameras have a RTSP stream open by default. If you know the camera’s IP address you can just open the stream in a media player, like VLC, and set it to save the stream to disk.
Also, you could probably save the stream without viewing using ffmpeg.
I'm using two pi-zero-w to monitor our garage and boiler-room, works like a charm, you can even install a lightweight webserver like lighttpd and setup a livestream
Seems like it has a built in webserver for remote viewing. Does it have a slot for an SD Card? The simplest solution would be to block the cameras internet access in your router/firewall and live stream through a browser while recording detected motion to an SD Card. Link to the camera: amcrest.com/qcam-ip2m822e-2mp-…
Probably going to be Frigate. It's meant for NVR, and has easy time management tools for review, plus you can setup an easy monitor stream with RTSP or ON IF to watch live from elsewhere.
You could also engage it's inference for doing simple identification or animals and objects to tag clips where something happens in a Region of Interest.
Because Russia is winning and has no reason to stop. Whether or not anyone is "okay" with Russia winning makes no difference on what the logical conclusion is, which is eventual Russian victory, as Russia is winning and Ukraine is losing even with NATO support. Russia stopping while they are ahead and the war is coming to a close is the least logical conclusion.
Well, Lukashenko also said it, and the editor of RT said. But yes.
The other evidence they use is the feint that was sent directly at Kiev. They think the feint was a real genuine attempt to capture the capital city, and then from there take all the evidence that it was a feint and spin it into bad planning. So specifically, if you send a feint, and you're committed to that entire allocation of soldiers being wiped out, you don't send them in with supplies to last for a long slog - you send them in ultra light on a suicide mission. And that's essentially what the deployment to Kiev was, a group with an ultralight kit heading straight for Kiev to draw out forces and create confusion in the early days of the war. That feint was destroyed and then when they realized it was feint they spun it hard into "look at these fools who thought they could end this thing in three days" basically as a way of avoiding the obvious conclusion that they wasted time dealing with a trick.
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Well, Lukashenko also said it, and the editor of RT said. But yes.
The other evidence they use is the feint that was sent directly at Kiev. They think the feint was a real genuine attempt to capture the capital city, and then from there take all the evidence that it was a feint and spin it into bad planning. So specifically, if you send a feint, and you're committed to that entire allocation of soldiers being wiped out, you don't send them in with supplies to last for a long slog - you send them in ultra light on a suicide mission. And that's essentially what the deployment to Kiev was, a group with an ultralight kit heading straight for Kiev to draw out forces and create confusion in the early days of the war. That feint was destroyed and then when they realized it was feint they spun it hard into "look at these fools who thought they could end this thing in three days" basically as a way of avoiding the obvious conclusion that they wasted time dealing with a trick.
It would be like if someone sent a feint filled with woodland creatures and animated scarecrows and after you waste strategically valuable time dealing with them you spend the rest of the war saying "this opponent is so dumb they thought they could win with scarecrows" when the reality is that you got tricked and the feint did exactly what it was intended to do.
Cowbee. I appreciate some of your takes on Marxism, but disagree frequently with your frame of reference on state power in the global field.
I view the war with Ukraine as one of Russo imperialism in response to Western imperialism. Indeed the USSR itself had many imperialist tendencies under a unified Asiatic / Slavic Soviet even as did Western and Asian counterparts post WW2
The irony being I am more allied to Trotsky or Luxemburg’s take. Which no doubt wouldn’t receive fair purchase in ML group. Forgive me for not directly referencing War and International - as it meanders but hits many themes relevant to Russia/Ukraine conflict
That being said to summarize my view: wars of conquest as a tool for furthering state capital / geopolitical interests shouldn’t be supported by Marxists, and posting the rationalization of an autocrat reads as support to me.
If Russia was actually imperialist and the Russo-Ukrainian war an inter-imperialist conflict, then I'd agree with you, but Russia isn't imperialist (and certainly not the USSR). In the current era, the US Empire is the hegemon, and its vassals the beneficiaries of imperialism. Russia is governed by nationalists who do not have a stake in the global imperialist system, and as such are forced into south-south trade and south-south alliances. Further, there is a rising communist movement within Russia that is growing year over year that stands to return Russia to socialism.
Ukraine is used somewhat similarly as how Israel is used by the US Empire; as millitary bases. The far-right Banderites in Kiev have power currently, and are doing their job of de-communization. The Donbass region seceded, and the ensuing war between Donetsk/Luhansk and Kiev is what is sparking Russian intervention. Russia is not doing this in pursuit of new neocolonies to exploit, nor does it have any. Russia lacks the financial capital as well as a spot in the global financial monopoly by which im
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If Russia was actually imperialist and the Russo-Ukrainian war an inter-imperialist conflict, then I'd agree with you, but Russia isn't imperialist (and certainly not the USSR). In the current era, the US Empire is the hegemon, and its vassals the beneficiaries of imperialism. Russia is governed by nationalists who do not have a stake in the global imperialist system, and as such are forced into south-south trade and south-south alliances. Further, there is a rising communist movement within Russia that is growing year over year that stands to return Russia to socialism.
Ukraine is used somewhat similarly as how Israel is used by the US Empire; as millitary bases. The far-right Banderites in Kiev have power currently, and are doing their job of de-communization. The Donbass region seceded, and the ensuing war between Donetsk/Luhansk and Kiev is what is sparking Russian intervention. Russia is not doing this in pursuit of new neocolonies to exploit, nor does it have any. Russia lacks the financial capital as well as a spot in the global financial monopoly by which imperialism functions that the west has.
A NATO victory over Russia would result in ethnic cleansing in the Donbass region, serious destabilization in a significant anti-US force, and a strong ally for socialist countries and anyone trying to break away from the IMF.
Russia doesn't have a stake in the world imperialist system, France does and has for centuries. If France were to lose in a war against the global south, there would be a huge blow to their continued domination and subjugation of African countries. The fact that Russia has a rising communist movement is just a bonus tacked onto the end, it isn't an indication of the country being imperialist or not. In fact, the nationalists in charge of Russia are caught between needing to appease the public yearning more and more for socialism and their own interests in perpetuating their capitalist system.
bit of a stretch to characterize this as winning. Russia faced off with a much weaker opponent and has been spinning its tires for years now. the russian economy is in shambles. the most effective russian play this entire war was putting trump back in the white house, but that fucker will be dead before midterms. look at his puffy face and purple hands. he is a walking corpse
Russia has been gradually taking more and more land and strategic footholds. This war is incredibly brutal, and the massive rise in FPV drones that are cheap and deadly forces slow movements, almost like a return to World War I style trench warfare. The Russian economy is still holding on strong, Europe is importing tons of gas indirectly from Russia through alternate channels, and Russia has spent the last decade trying to rely less on unreliable western trade partners. Further, there's no real evidence of Russia putting Trump in the White House, nor would Ukraine suddenly be winning had Harris been in office.
Because Russia has no reason to be invading neighbouring countries?
Idk just a thought. Not sure why we reward the aggressors. Remember that time the Russian backed separatists who totally weren’t just Russian military shot down that airliner?
Oh, of course. This all just happened for no reason, contravening all laws of cause and effect. History began in February 2022.
Reward the aggressor
Who's rewarding anyone? They've won the war all by themselves. This is how war works, not some kindergarten where you can put countries in timeout. To think that acknowledging objective reality is somehow "rewarding" anyone is some real "punish the unbelievers" type shit.
The word “gradually” is doing some heavy lifting in your post. the economist estimates that russia has only captured an additional 1.45% of ukraine in 3 fucking years. the surge you mentioned has been a month long. it will sputter, just like every other putin blunder. russia has a lot of meat to throw at the enemy and the russian plebs seem remarkably complacent about putin’s misrule, but they can’t sustain this level of pressure.
here’s a chart to put your claim in perspective:
as for russia’s economy being strong - their interest rate is 16.5 percent. inflation is rampant. the us just made it harder for russia to sell oil with new sanctions on lukoil and rosnef. what school of economics do you beong to that calls this situation “holding on strong”?
the evidence that russia influenced the election is pervasive. so many maga influencers have been revealed as foreign accounts. i wouldn’t be too surprised to lea
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The word “gradually” is doing some heavy lifting in your post. the economist estimates that russia has only captured an additional 1.45% of ukraine in 3 fucking years. the surge you mentioned has been a month long. it will sputter, just like every other putin blunder. russia has a lot of meat to throw at the enemy and the russian plebs seem remarkably complacent about putin’s misrule, but they can’t sustain this level of pressure.
here’s a chart to put your claim in perspective:
as for russia’s economy being strong - their interest rate is 16.5 percent. inflation is rampant. the us just made it harder for russia to sell oil with new sanctions on lukoil and rosnef. what school of economics do you beong to that calls this situation “holding on strong”?
the evidence that russia influenced the election is pervasive. so many maga influencers have been revealed as foreign accounts. i wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that you yourself are a russian bot, so uncritically do you spout moscow propaganda.
There's no evidence that the collapse in Ukrainian defenses will slow down, rather it seems like it will accelerate as strongholds fall and the war becomes increasingly unpopular. Russia isn't trying to take all of Ukraine, just the four oblasts, the Economist is trying to frame it as total and complete conquest of Ukraine. When compared to Russia's actual objectives, Russia is advancing steadily.
Further, Russia does not "throw meat" at the war. Russians are largely supportive of Putin right now because he's doing a balancing act between appeasing the Russian capitalist class and the rising socialist movements in the public. Russia's economy is holding strong, the sheer fact that sanctions are still coming out means they haven't been effective thus far. I belong to the Marxist school of economics, which recognizes actual production over the largely financial western economies.
Your final accusation that I'm a bot for not agreeing with you is just the cherry on top. You give clear examples of liberals manipulating data like the economist graph and using percen
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There's no evidence that the collapse in Ukrainian defenses will slow down, rather it seems like it will accelerate as strongholds fall and the war becomes increasingly unpopular. Russia isn't trying to take all of Ukraine, just the four oblasts, the Economist is trying to frame it as total and complete conquest of Ukraine. When compared to Russia's actual objectives, Russia is advancing steadily.
Further, Russia does not "throw meat" at the war. Russians are largely supportive of Putin right now because he's doing a balancing act between appeasing the Russian capitalist class and the rising socialist movements in the public. Russia's economy is holding strong, the sheer fact that sanctions are still coming out means they haven't been effective thus far. I belong to the Marxist school of economics, which recognizes actual production over the largely financial western economies.
Your final accusation that I'm a bot for not agreeing with you is just the cherry on top. You give clear examples of liberals manipulating data like the economist graph and using percentages of total Ukrainian territory and not the Donbass region, because when we measure Russia by its ability to achieve its actual goals its clear that its rapidly advancing towards them. You're quite literally uncritically spouting liberal, western propaganda that falls apart at the slightest prodding.
Cowbee, I disagree almost entirely with what you posted. But with respect for you clearly articulating your position I will share my response.
To your “But Russia is not imperialist” , please reflect on the following and to what extent you must stretch a rationalization:
First and Second Chechen Wars (1994, 2000) Puppet Leader in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko (1996) Puppet leader in Ukraine Victor Yanukovych (2010) Georgian War (2008) Annexation of Crimea (2014) Role in Syria conflict (2000 onwards) Role in African dictatorships in Burma Faso and Niger (2010s- present)
… global south / US bad too / old Soviet vassal states must kneel ect… I get it. But the above conflicts are evidence of state capitalism exerting itself militarily for geopolitical and economic aims
I doubt this will influence you much as you are pretty invested in your world view. But from my vantage point and reading of theory (likely some overlap if you are ML) - you are wrong *respectfully
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 th
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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.
Imperialism is defined as the monopoly stage of finance capital.
Russian economy is dominated by the state and oligarchs, not by independent finance capital. It's territorial expansion while being an regional historical imperialist action is defensive and self limiting and driven mostly by nationalism and security concerns.
Your list provides critical empirical evidence for a dialectical analysis but requires contextualization to avoid oversimplification. See response from comrade @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
Comrade cfgaussian already answered perfectly here. Essentially, you mix in defensive wars with allyships with other countries, and claim the defensive wars are for imperialism and the allyships "puppetry." The Sahel States are progressive, and are allied with Russia in their national liberation from France and western imperialism.
I am a Marxist-Leninist, yes. Imperialism needs to be analyzed primarily by the definition of imperialism Lenin gives, not on whether or not a country interacts with others. In most of these examples, such as the Sahel States, Russia is working against imperialism.
Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism by which finance capital and world monopoly are dominant. Russia does not have this. Russia is currently under the control of nationalists, not finance capital, and it is the west that has that global financial monopoly.
Your error is in both erasing Lenin's analysis of imperialism and viewing any kind of interaction Russia has as inherently imperialist working backwards from there. To use your rhetoric, I sug
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Comrade cfgaussian already answered perfectly here. Essentially, you mix in defensive wars with allyships with other countries, and claim the defensive wars are for imperialism and the allyships "puppetry." The Sahel States are progressive, and are allied with Russia in their national liberation from France and western imperialism.
I am a Marxist-Leninist, yes. Imperialism needs to be analyzed primarily by the definition of imperialism Lenin gives, not on whether or not a country interacts with others. In most of these examples, such as the Sahel States, Russia is working against imperialism.
Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism by which finance capital and world monopoly are dominant. Russia does not have this. Russia is currently under the control of nationalists, not finance capital, and it is the west that has that global financial monopoly.
Your error is in both erasing Lenin's analysis of imperialism and viewing any kind of interaction Russia has as inherently imperialist working backwards from there. To use your rhetoric, I suggest you reflect first on what imperialism is, why we define it as such and how it operates, and consider why Marxist-Leninists therefore have the understanding of the Russian Federation that we do.
wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that you yourself are a russian bot, so uncritically do you spout moscow propaganda.
Yeah, no shit the "evidence is pervasive" when your standard of evidence for declaring someone a Russian agent is "they disagree with me"
You are a fascist, you are a Nazi ranting about Judeo-Bolshevick conspiracies, you are a McCarthyist ranting about communist subversion of our precious bodily fluids.
Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big DealOn the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
Matt Taibbi: Note on New Trump-Russia DisclosuresThanks to explosive new document releases, the Russiagate hoax is now exposed, commencing a new era that will be about accountability for the guilty
Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go AwayThe cynical con the Democratic Party and the F.B.I. carried out to falsely portray Donald Trump as a puppet of the Kremlin worked, and continues to work, because it is what those who detest Trump want to believe.
i wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that you yourself are a russian bot
Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland MadeAssistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in UkraineFormer Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
Zelensky was a comedian groomed by oligarchs. He played a president on TV and then ran for president on TV. This was planned out in advance. Zelensky has never been in control because he was an actor in way over his head, beholden to US comprador oligarchs, and his life is openly threatened by high-level Banderite fascists should he get out of line. And he’s quite wealthy now, an oligarch in his own right. He’s in no way a “servant of the people;” that’s an act played by an actor.
Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland MadeAssistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in UkraineFormer Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
If Russia seems to be acting illogically to you, perhaps the problem isn’t with Russia but with your understanding of this war and Russia’s actual goals.
Yes we would, and your dumbass would be screaming about it at the top of your lungs because reddit told you.
Look at how you're approaching the Ukraine war. You've shown that you know nothing about what was occuring pre-Feb 2022 and are adamant that everyone else that's trying to tell you about it in good faith is a Russian asset. To you, history started on Feb 2022; and anyone that tries to tell you otherwise for the sake of "nuance" and "context" and other frilly fuckass bullshit is a Russian asset personally getting paid by Putin himself.
Not only do you know absolutely nothing, but you have zero intention to critically engage others because of your arrogance. You won't learn a single thing and you are adamant about not learning a single thing. That kind of behavior will absolutely not disappear in a hypothetical situation where China directly intervenes to end the genocide.
Lemmy libs still think that the EU is going to step up and provide military support to Ukraine in any meaningful way and believe they're in opposition to US and Russia and will stand up for what is right and against "imperial aggression". Meanwhile the EU members are awarding right wing María Corina Machado a peace price in Oslo who is calling for the US to escalate a war in Venezuela.
They can threaten all they want publicly, they won't do it. Then they have no leverage and their only other alternative is to divert all their spending into military defense and the Europeans way of life ends. The Russian threat isn't as big as the defense companies are claiming to manufacture consent for a profitable war.
The US empire is already dying, but it still has hard power. Europe has very little hard power and very little soft power, and as such their relevance on the world stage is vanishing. Cutting their ties with the US like that would result in essentially them getting rid of their support system.
The EU dogs of empire have no interest in biting their masters. They are well trained and domesticated. They will serve loyally. They won't feel the negative impacts of anything, they will always have a cushy life and avenue of retreat to North America if things go bad.
Russia's 3 day operation continues to amaze me, they truly suck at war like their generals are worse than a 14 year old total war gamer. Everyday it's 'russia gonan win real soon totes promise!' and yet they continue to stall out over 55 year old blokes with out of date war gear. Pathetic truly, as sad as the Yankees wasting 20 years in the desert only to be defeated by goat herders lmao. These imperialist powers sure know how to waste their young men!
Remind me, which international alliance was putting its full military and financial support behind these "goat herders" during the failed US occupation?
China and Russia are not imperialist, they are closer to global south countries in their position with respect to imperialism as a global phenomenon. In order to fight the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, capital either seeks new markets, ie new inventions to flood with capital or geographically new markets, or it seeks to establish monopoly. The former allows for greater profits in absolute terms, the latter temporarily raises the rate of profit. The natural consequence is imperialism, where this is combined by having financial capital dominate the global south, super-exploiting labor for super-profits, and via unequal exchange, where technology and tech development is kept in the global north and thus monopoly prices are charged.
This is also why south-south trade is the path to escape underdevelopment, and is why China in particular has been a progressive force for the global south, as they don't withold tech knowledge but instead share it through cooperation and trade. China also doesn't charge the same monopoly prices for tech, which is why global south countrie
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China and Russia are not imperialist, they are closer to global south countries in their position with respect to imperialism as a global phenomenon. In order to fight the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, capital either seeks new markets, ie new inventions to flood with capital or geographically new markets, or it seeks to establish monopoly. The former allows for greater profits in absolute terms, the latter temporarily raises the rate of profit. The natural consequence is imperialism, where this is combined by having financial capital dominate the global south, super-exploiting labor for super-profits, and via unequal exchange, where technology and tech development is kept in the global north and thus monopoly prices are charged.
This is also why south-south trade is the path to escape underdevelopment, and is why China in particular has been a progressive force for the global south, as they don't withold tech knowledge but instead share it through cooperation and trade. China also doesn't charge the same monopoly prices for tech, which is why global south countries are seeing huge electrification, expansions in EVs, etc.
The west used to have a monopoly on cutting edge tech, they witheld the technology used for creating firearms from African countries for hundreds of years while selectively trading firearms in limited quantities for huge amounts of slaves, as an example. The west forces the global south to rely on them, and forces them into remaining at lower levels of industrial development and refinement. It's also why countries like the Sahel States are working towards cutting unrefined gold exports and upping refined gold exports, ie moving from unfinished raw materials into more finished goods or ancillary materials, and why porkie is terrified of them.
It isn't that goods further along in the commodity production process have more valuable labor time at the higher end, it's that the upper end of the production chain is easier to keep a tech and skill monopoly on. This is what liberals mean by "higher value add" industries, made more naked through Marxist analysis.
Before you start making bets, what do you count as a Russian victory? It's almost certainly going to end favorably to Russia, so I'm not sure why you'd take this bet.
Initial goal was to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine and also to 'protect the people of Luhansk and Donetsk' right? So anything short of that is sort of a loss. I don't think Putin can get all of that he's going to have to compromise.
Russia wants the four oblasts, which they have been accelerating their advance in in the last few months. Cheap and deadly FPV drones force slow movement in general, but in the last few months strings of Kiev-held strongholds are falling left and right. Ukraine can't field the war much longer either, and the war is becoming increasingly unpopular. What's likely is that the four oblasts go to Russia, Kiev is forced into NATO neutrality, and their millitary is severely crippled. That's absolutely a Russian victory.
Which of these do you think Russia will have to compromise on, and why would you consider the compromise to be a loss?
The "3 day war" idea was not an official millitary or government statement, Lukashenko and an RT editor both said it and the west has been using it as a way to obscure the fact that Russia has been steadily achieving its actually stated goals. I know you've read Lenin, have you read Imperialism, the Current Highest Stage of Capitalism? The Russian Federation is governed by nationalists, not finance capital, and Russia doesn't have a stake in the global financial monopoly. It's the west that has that. Russia doesn't really meet the Marxist understanding of imperialism, nor is it acting how we would expect imperialist powers to act.
The book Imperialism, the current highest stage of capitalism was written by Lenin between January and June 1916 in Zürich. According to Russian native speakers...
Liberals seem to think that if enough people say (or think, idk), let's say, "100 octillion russians dead", that reality will change to bend to their will.
This only works in fiction written by liberals though.
As Russia presses its offensive, Ukraine faces a crisis that experts say is as critical as its shortages of ammunition and weapons: a dwindling supply of infantry.
Do you think that sharing news of how the war is going is somehow changing the outcomes? Do you think that not talking about it will somehow change the outcomes? Is this some kind of exercise in wishcasting to your eyes? Are you really so egomaniacal as to believe that people could only possibly disagree with you if they're being paid to do so?
No, but I think you and your compatriots pretty much exclusively parrot the Kremlin's talking points, with articles posted from American sources to cover the connection. I don't know who you're trying to convince because these posts are routinely heavily downvoted, but they just keep coming, and your buddies brigade anyone that dissents.
you and your compatriots pretty much exclusively parrot the Kremlin’s talking points
Kremlin talking points is when you point out who is clearly winning the war
with articles posted from American sources to cover the connection
Even when it's American media saying it, it's Kremlin talking points. Unfalsifiable orthodoxy. You're operating on religious belief dude
. I don’t know who you’re trying to convince because these posts are routinely heavily downvoted
"The fact that people are currently mad at you for saying this proves it's wrong, just like when Saddam Hussein totally had WMD". I know it sucks to have your bubble burst, but just because you want something to be true, that doesn't make it true. These posts are also heavily upvoted, but of course that doesn't count. When people agree with US propaganda, it's totally organic. When people disagree, it's because of a shadowy foreign influence operation. Again, you are working off of essentially a religious fa
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you and your compatriots pretty much exclusively parrot the Kremlin’s talking points
Kremlin talking points is when you point out who is clearly winning the war
with articles posted from American sources to cover the connection
Even when it's American media saying it, it's Kremlin talking points. Unfalsifiable orthodoxy. You're operating on religious belief dude
. I don’t know who you’re trying to convince because these posts are routinely heavily downvoted
"The fact that people are currently mad at you for saying this proves it's wrong, just like when Saddam Hussein totally had WMD". I know it sucks to have your bubble burst, but just because you want something to be true, that doesn't make it true. These posts are also heavily upvoted, but of course that doesn't count. When people agree with US propaganda, it's totally organic. When people disagree, it's because of a shadowy foreign influence operation. Again, you are working off of essentially a religious faith, and if it were 2003 you would be calling me a Saddam lover.
your buddies brigade anyone that dissents.
Arguing on a thread that comes up on your own page is now brigading. Anything to give yourself permission to ignore perspectives that aren't sanctioned by capitalist media. In two months time you'll be calling everyone Venezuelan bots for being against that imperial venture. The common denominator is a burning desire never to admit fault, almost like a political narcissism: any dissent is because of a conspiracy against you.
See? Like a toddler refusing to eat vegetables. You put on the appearance of being high-minded and caring about truth, but when it comes time to engage with any kind of dissent, you shut down and become a sullen child. What you actually care about is preserving your illusions in the face of cold reality.
You seemed happy to perform the appearance of arguing earlier, when you thought I wouldn't say anything substantial that required you to think. Now that I have, your bluff has been called and you're shitting your pants in self-righteous indignation.
People "want Ukraine to fail so badly" and therefore celebrating negative press, because IT IS failing so badly. And for some, like me, this was clear from day one, that is to say 22nd February 2014. And it was clear from the get go that it didn't even stand a remote chance by 2022, despite heavy weapons support from NATO, which means, NATO is now failing badly as well. And I'm part of those nations so I'm not happy about seeing my nation's economy fail and keep failing worse and worse, while everyone here is still heading West while it should be looking East if it wants economic progress. In fact, I'd argue that even Russia is still looking way too much Westwards. The global pace of cultural change towards socialism at this moment is at a snail's pace while economically socialist China has already won hands down and is only advancing further at an accelerating rapid pace while even it's neighbors are pretending that this is some kind of fluke that will magically disappear and they can just ignore it and even aim for further capitalism. It's complete madness.
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People "want Ukraine to fail so badly" and therefore celebrating negative press, because IT IS failing so badly. And for some, like me, this was clear from day one, that is to say 22nd February 2014. And it was clear from the get go that it didn't even stand a remote chance by 2022, despite heavy weapons support from NATO, which means, NATO is now failing badly as well. And I'm part of those nations so I'm not happy about seeing my nation's economy fail and keep failing worse and worse, while everyone here is still heading West while it should be looking East if it wants economic progress. In fact, I'd argue that even Russia is still looking way too much Westwards. The global pace of cultural change towards socialism at this moment is at a snail's pace while economically socialist China has already won hands down and is only advancing further at an accelerating rapid pace while even it's neighbors are pretending that this is some kind of fluke that will magically disappear and they can just ignore it and even aim for further capitalism. It's complete madness.
This is utter destruction for Ukraine and be extremely costly for the EU, the UK and to a lesser extend the US. And it's not even the only mistake we're making in the EU, because we're currently making costly mistake after costly mistake. And the longer you're losing touch with reality, the harder and faster reality will catch up with you.
It happened in Hong Kong and it will happen in Ukraine too.
And in a few years we'll be seeing countries turn around towards socialism with Chinese characteristics, because the China's success isn't going to be isolated for much longer.
Yeah I remember being on a call the night of the invasion with a Russian comrade, we were both still under the impression they would not invade and it was just more US scaremongering but as soon as they did we both came to the same conclusion, the west would press Ukraine to fight to the end and it would and badly for them. And well, here we are.
Your framing is extremely dishonest. We simply recognize the one itable outcome and wish western governments and the Nazi captured Ukraine regime would stop pressing unwilling people into a clearly unwinnable war. We have been correct about this position from the start.
Yes "facts" presented without source and as an unnamed editorial from a biased source.
Where are you getting this nonsense "most Russian soldiers are volunteers nonsense" given the fact traditionally and currently military service is mandatory and has been officially since like 1986 or so.
This has remained the case with even the Ukrainians admitting that the Russians generally rely on volunteers and have refused to send conscripts into Ukraine.
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So a single editorial video from 8 years ago and a single editorial neither with any sort of source and the second straight up being opinion?
So you have an actual source with first hand knowledge that can speak against Russian drafting and notably the increase in drafting since they decided to invade a sovereign nation?
Also the kyiv independent is.... He's me out here. Independent the Ukrainian stance officially is that they are in large part conscripts.
Can you prove that conscripts are generally being used in Ukraine?
There are some cases where conscripts are used, where they signed combat contracts either voluntarily or without knowing what they signed or during the Kursk incursion. But these are exceptions, not the rule.
In 2022, there were some cases of conscripts being inadvertently or illegally deployed to Ukraine. However, when this was found out, they were withdrawn and returned to Russia. The commanding officers responsible for the deployments were punished.
I don't need to. Their main military is by legislation conscripts. The claimant who said they're mostly volunteer needs to prove that and no a retracted editorial is not a good source.
And by law, conscripts are currently prohibited from serving outside the territory of the Russian Federation under any circumstances. Conscripts cannot even participate in peace-keeping missions.
Russia who signed an non aggression agreement with Ukraine in 91 right?
I believe you meant the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. The Budapest Memorandum was first violated by America when they sanctioned Belarus in violation of Article 3 of the Memorandum.
America then stated that the Memorandum was "not legally binding".
Is Ukraine the USA? Last I checked no, no they're not. So the non aggression pact stands, I'm pretty sure it even has a severability clause for participants.
What you're actually saying is that Russia can invade because the USA is shitty? That's a pretty slippery slope bud.
Couldn't explain how I'm wrong huh? Had to find a different thread to try to harass me with your strategic non answer bullshit to feel better about yourself, huh pal?
I think "you're living in a fantasy of imaginary spies" was a fairly straightforward explanation of exactly how you're wrong, consider learning to read
Okay so quit repeating state department thought-terminating cliches about the inhumanity of anyone who disagrees with you. At this point you all do it, you all get so defensive, and it's fuckin embarassing. Grow up and have an uncomfortable conversation like an adult.
No, I called them a bot because they're spouting shit that doesn't make sense if you read literally anything about it and only reply monosyllabic when pushed to explain themselves.
Though I do enjoy that you're upset I would call someone acting like a bot a bot but you have no issue calling me a state department shill simply because you disagree with me. It's very consistent and logical behavior that doesn't at all make you a hypocrite and likely idiot.
That's a lot of words for "I have destroyed my own theory of mind with an all-consuming internet solipsism and am hellbent on making it everyone else's problem."👍
Helpful non answer. Explain your argument, I'm betting you can't but I'm also willing to be wrong. To be honest I don't think you have a point but sure let's hear how a conscripted military service isn't relying mainly on conscripts.
Lol yes, because I have eyes and can read and I happen to disagree with you I'm a useful idiot. Prove me wrong then bud, you can't but the contortions you attempt aught to be enjoyable to watch.
Easy the Russian military has been conscripts since like 1986, they have draft legislation. Unless you're saying that doesn't exist then I don't need to. You need to prove that most Russians in Ukraine are volunteers, it's your position you should have a source for it right?
I'm about to go do one of my favorite things (a kratom afternoon bike ride) so let's just cut to the core of all this. I bet you ten actual thousand actual dollars that Ukraine surrenders in 2026
He said he chose to desert after realising how perfunctory and ineffective his training was for real combat, and that he would inevitably become a front-line stormtrooper with no chances of survival.
“There’s zero training. They don’t care that I won’t survive the very first attack,” Tymofey said, referring to the drill sergeants who were training him in April after police rounded him up in central Kyiv.
He claimed that his trainers were mostly preoccupied with preventing desertions from the centre, which was surrounded by a 3-metre (9.8 ft) high concrete wall covered with barbed wire.
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Non-Americans complaining that their shitposts about their own countries aren't as popular.
Weird complaint coming from a shitpost community. Honestly, a ban or rule against this would be super stupid. If you don't like it, downvote it or post something else. Just don't spam.
I have nothing against complaining against it, to be clear, I just think it's a strange complaint. "Ah this subject in a shitpost comm is more popular than I want"
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