Declining empire doing declining things.

They are paid to write prompts for chatGPT, then copy paste that crap as articles

I love to explain to libs how the Tank Man in the famous video was stopping tanks from driving away from the square, and his gestures suggest he was telling the crew to drive back to the square and clear out the protestors.

Also how the “oppressive massacring” Chinese soldiers were willing to talk with him for quite a while and did not drive over him, as they had supposingly driven over all those protesters afterwards.

Meanwhile, in the US, police are using police cars to drive into protesters without consequence.

Secretary of Genocide, as another protester aptly put it.

The frustration exists, but it has existed for over a year now. There’s movements to presentn Zaluzhny and others as the replacements of Zelensky. But the nationalist/neonazi factions have been getting weaker and weaker as their militias have been ground to pulp by Russian FABs and bullets.

They can’t hide behind their finger anymore. They need to acknowledge what’s going on in the army, otherwise everyone is going to desert soon.

There’s estimates that desertions in the Ukrainian army are 6 times the reported numbers (because commanders reporting deserters makes the commanders liable). In November alone there were 20 000 reported cases of desertion, which means that actually up to 120 000 people had deserted.

In various interviews deserters explain that the biggest reason they’ve deserted is being mobilized, fighting for months/years with no leave, those who can afford it are bribing their way out of frontline duty, mismanagement and abandonment by all command levels, and most importantly, how easy it is to actually desert without being caught.

So now that the kettle is boiling, it finally dawned on the Ukrainian leadership that they need to be seen that they are addressing the grievances of deserters while simultaneously cracking down on desertion.

US proxies doing US proxy things

In Trump’s last term he achieved having both sides sit down to talk. He stated that he understood North Korea’s security concerns. I think there’s a fear in Washington he’ll do the same again and might succeed.

Meanwhile every rich asshole is stating that “Brian was a generous and loving man”.

Bike Rider, if you are reading this, you are a hero!

The Europeans are about to experience imperialist wealth extraction.

People in Western states are mostly docile. Occupied Korea has been wracked with strikes and protests for the past 2 years. But probably the biggest reason this martial law was declared is that the opposition parties have been trying to get Yoon and his associates investigated for multiple corruption scandals for the last 2 years. They also hold a parliamentary majority and are blocking everything he tries to do. It’s likely they actually approached something that could incriminate him, or they refused to vote for something they should have, so now Yoon is acting to regain authority over the government (since calling everyone that disagrees with him a communist, spy or traitor, doesn’t really seem to work).

There will be a new demonstration in Athens tomorrow Tuesday, due to the visit of the new NATO head Mark Rutte. Without simultaneous strikes this time.

The government tried to respond the same way they do every time: Ignore the protestor demands. Have the police start beating up and arresting protestors, to provoke violence and property damage. Use provocateurs in the crowd. Then go on the media and accuse the protestors of violence to deflate them.

This time though, things were organized very well and the old tricks didn’t work. KKE and the unions, as well as every other participant group got together from before and made sure to stamp out provocateurs and avoid police provocations. We foresee that the protests will carry on.

It helps a lot that parties like SYRIZA have basically been dismantled at this point. They only served as distractions to the proletariat’s struggle. All they ever achieved was some small liberal compromises to largely neoliberal policies for the past 15 years.

Let’s keep playing Nuclear Chicken! It’s such an adrenaline rush!

The real salary is the bribes we made along the way

Probably a combination of expected emigration (due to the country’s destruction) and the death of many young people (which decreases birth rate and causes even more economic destruction).

Important context that is missing from the article: The Maccabi fans were causing havoc in the city since the morning before the match was held. They were going around shouting anti-Palestine chants, climbing buildings to take down Palestinian flags from windows, burned down at least one Palestinian flag, attacked a taxi driver in his taxi with metal chains, and broke store and apartment windows. There’s also numerous reports that they’ve been attacking people in the street who had attempted to stop their vandalism.

Source: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/sports/israeli-fans-vandalize-amsterdam--tear-down-palestinian-flag

In traditional Israeli fashion, these goons are now trying to present themselves as the victims, after pissing off an entire city with their provocations and barbaric behavior.

There were also reports that during covid, Boeing charged the Pentagon 600 000 to produce 15 trash cans. That’s 40 000 dollars per trash can. Previously, the same trash cans cost the Pentagon 300 dollars per item.

Yes, communist movements in Europe and the US are getting suppressed. The violent phase occured 60-70 years ago. Now whatever is left is getting infiltrated and chopped up immediately through psyops. They are allowed to operate “unmolested” because they’ve been suppressed to hell and are now just husks used to sheepdog and manipulate people.

Take a look at Greece. KKE is vehemently anti-government but nobody cares to listen to it or takes it seriously, because there’s constant infighting for nonsensical reasons. That’s the controlled parts of the leadership constantly creating issues to prevent unified action. Any efforts by other communist movements are quickly destroyed by planting provocateurs in their marches and actions. Any spontaneous protest is immediately and violently suppressed by police forces. Similar things are happening in France, Spain and Germany.

Don’t get me started on the state of communist movements in the US and the UK.

I’d suggest you take a look at the history of communism in all these places and understand that what is happening to all the former Soviet countries now, has already happened after 1945 all over the West.

This is just Western exceptionalism talking.

I said I’m not going to pretend Western communist movements are perfect. But you are quick to blame the strawman Western communist for imperialism. That’s nothing more than sectarianism.

Yeah, Western communists ought to take up arms. But what arms? We are talking about extremely diminished movements in a fairly demotivated population, fighting against tanks, jets and drones. In countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, the communists tried to fight in the last century and failed. They are still carrying the stigma to this day. And yeah, a bunch of movements are bought for or otherwise institutionalized. How is that the fault of an everyday communist?

Lastly, you blame Western communists of decrying “all Ukrainians” as Nazis. Yet, you do the same exact thing by lumping all Western communists in the same basket.

And when the country is finally beaten into submission all you armchair communists will start spewing “all Georgians are Nazis” within a week

I’m not gonna sit here and pretend that all is well with communists in the imperial core, but what are they expected to do? If Georgian communists, and Ukrainian communists got beaten down, imagine the situation for communists in Europe, or even worse, the US.