With how much Russia is able to sustain toe-to-for attrition warfare against the west, imagine if the USSR, even in its late stages under Gorbachev, actually committed to a full scale attrition war against the West when it continued its imperialist aggressions. Actually took control of Europe by force and kept the West out of Eurasia and Africa.

1. The West’s industrial and military prowess hasn’t rotted away yet due to neoliberalism and can actually put up a fight.

2. The PRC would almost certainly have went to war with the SU, in which case it becomes a SU vs PRC war with the West marching into what’s left of the SU after the SU defeats the PRC, so the West can triumph over both the SU and the PRC instead of just the SU.

There was a brief period of time when the PRC wouldn’t have gone to the war with the SU in this hypothetical (ie when Stalin was still alive), but the SU was still recovering from WWII. This is basically “Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin.” The SU wouldn’t get ICBMs until after Stalin’s death, so even if Stalin didn’t stop at Berlin, the US would still be around.

I guess there’s also the very end of Gorbachev’s reign, but the Soviet political class was thoroughly compromised by that point.

It is not a coincidence that I also noticed an increase in military recruitment ads in China. In fact, this is not even particular to China. The world is turning towards militarization as the global economic instability is amplified further under Trump’s erratic policies. The US, Europe and many other countries are also investing heavily into militarization.

I mean, this needs to happen if China is serious about dethroning the US or even just fending itself against US machinations. All anti-imperialist and counter-hegemonic countries need to militarize themselves (and nuke up if able) for the coming storm. The US will not give up the throne without a fight.

https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1943527247702286350

Israeli media reported on Thursday the discovery of a dead reserve soldier in the illegal Har Homa settlement in occupied al-Quds, amid a growing wave of suicides among Israeli occupation forces since the war on Gaza began in October 2023.

According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, suicide rates within the Israeli military have reached unprecedented levels, with seven cases recorded between October 7 and the end of December 2023, followed by 21 in 2024, and at least 14 more reported in 2025 so far.

Over the weekend, another occupation soldier reportedly died by suicide after experiencing severe psychological distress linked to his deployment in Gaza and southern Lebanon. The mental health toll has become a mounting concern for the Israeli regime, particularly as reports point to a significant manpower shortage within its ranks.

Despite the rising numbers, the Israeli occupation forces have refused to release the official 2025 suicide statistics, stating they’ll publish a comprehensive report only at year’s end, fueling criticism and raising questions about transparency within the military command.

BRICS is a step-up from the non-alignment movement, which didn’t even have a nominal common enemy. To join the non-alignment movement, you just had to be a non-superpower, non-Asian US vassal, non-Western European country. Non-alignment movement chairs range from Tito and Castro to Suharto and Aliyev. The non-alignment movement didn’t stop any wars between members like wars between India and Pakistan or how Iran flew jets into Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war so the 7th summit wouldn’t take place in Baghdad. The non-alignment movement technically still exists with a summit held in Uganda in 2024, but I seriously doubt anyone here cares.

BRICS is better because there’s some semblance of cohesion alongside great powers/superpowers not being barred from joining it.

Dynasties come and go, but every subsequent dynasty inherits the lessons and memories of the previous dynasties going all the way back to the Shang for better or worse. Should the “Red dynasty” fall, whatever successor dynasty that eventually rises out of the ashes will simply inherit the memories of the Red dynasty along with every other past dynasties. They will begin their administration with a clear plan to avoid the mistakes that led to the fall of the Red dynasty like every other dynasty that believed it can escape the fate of the previous dynasty.

Ruby Ridge and Waco still haunt the feds.

More like 10000 years of Iranian history starting with the Medes.

Beyond revealing their cowardice, the pose is just so awkward:
https://xcancel.com/broseph_stalin/status/1941050308790309021

IOF soldiers are now taking their official photos with their backs turned. [It’s closer to having their left shoulder face the camera but turning their head right so we can’t see their face profiles.] Because they know. We know. They will be held accountable.

Zarif practically gloating over the uselessness of Pezeshkian for the sake of “maintaining peace:”
https://xcancel.com/Safarnejad_IR/status/1940805563799224711

Another day in al Qaeda Syria:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/martyrs--statue-destroyed-in-aleppo--stirring-controversy

Marco Rubio

I had the idea that the flour has been laced for a while with the drugs as a powder, but some new 20-year old staff sergeant just threw in the pills because they’re a lazy dumbass.

Time to spinup an offshoot org called “The Crown.”

On a more serious note, people will feel awfully silly about typing their tl;dr pro-/con- comments if the dude doesn’t even get elected. Let’s hold off the tl;dr comments until after he gets elected, shall we?

Me: I wish people in the news mega would stop comparing Iran with Syria.

Monkey paw: curls

I just assume the NYPD would murder him if he refuses to toe the line. He has countermeasures for everything else they can throw at him, even fascist stochastic terrorists (he just needs to have security), but if the NYPD wants him dead, he’s pretty much a dead man walking.

IOF goon folding like a lawn chair after getting sniped (plus a whole bunch of other footage of them getting owned):
https://xcancel.com/BIG__Brother7/status/1937540186537099555

Good job, but the fight is far from over. And if Mamdani can take any advice from the news mega, it’s that he must nuke up and purge the reformers from his rank lest they jeopardize the revolutionary project. And he also needs to make deals with Russia and China to have a modern air force. And have good AA.

Dude just cut a promo like he was in WWE.

Physicists: Nooooo, electrons don’t travel along a circuit in a smooth continuous loop. Their average velocity with respect to the path of the circuit is not c noooooo

Engineers: Haha, billiard balls go zooom