I don’t see how that tracks. They themselves have mentioned that English isn’t their first language

Like it or not, I’ve seen my ESL coworkers use AI to write out their emails. Critical support because it’s a world-historic injustice for people to be forced to learn English.

Look at what happened after the collapse of the USSR - 70 years of institutions simply went down the drain, and the society reverted to its past, reactionary form, just like that.

This is not remotely true. The RF, as reactionary as it is, isn’t a past reactionary form but a new reactionary form distinct from its tsardom past, which makes sense since the tsardom and the federation have different modes of production. Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality isn’t the guiding ideology of the Russian state no matter how much Westerners try to paint Putin as a new tsar. The current Russian state cherrypicks the highlight reel moments of its distant feudal past and much less distant socialist past, but it’s still fundamentally a liberal state with a liberal ideology. And the fact that it cherrypicks its nonliberal history in order to form a highlight reel exposes an insecurity with the state: the liberal state is a young state that hasn’t accomplished a whole lot in the grand scheme of things.

47% of its population is Hispanic/Latino.

That’s the reason. Too many POC who won’t let ICE goons kidnap their family and friends without putting up a fight.

It’s just a Western rag spreading FUD.

Literally everything Shipwreck said about bureaucracy in the PRC can apply to bureaucracy in every single state society of every single historical epoch. “Bureaucracy sucks because people with close ties to bureaucrats can leverage their connections to gain status, wealth, and power.” Cool, but what does this has to do specifically with the PRC?

Is the PRC actually more plagued by bureaucracy than say India, a country located on the same continent with a slightly larger population, and a similiarish trajectory in history?

This has the same exact energy as those IOF losers crying how they can’t sleep without pissing on themselves because Hamas gave them PTSD.

“no war but the class war!”

nobody is armed

the majority has never touched a firearm before

nobody has read a single text on how to wage war

“what’s coin? why are we talking about currency?”

Least servile Atlanticist:
https://xcancel.com/clashreport/status/2013614742531678672

Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else. - Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever

https://www.telesurenglish.net/togo-extradites-former-burkina-faso-pres/:

The Government of Togo announced on Thursday, January 20, the extradition to Burkina Faso of the former Burkinabe President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who led the country between January and September 2022.

The former Head of State was extradited on charges of embezzlement of public funds, illicit enrichment, corruption, incitement to commit crimes, money laundering, and for his alleged involvement in the recent attempted coup against the Government of Ibrahim Traore.

Damiba’s arrest took place on January 16 in Togo, where he was in exile, and the legal process in the host country concluded with an indictment from the investigative chamber and a subsequent extradition ruling issued by the Court of Appeals of Lome. Burkina Faso authorities had requested the extradition on January 12.

This measure was triggered following a national television announcement by Burkina Faso’s Minister of Security, Mahamadou Sana, stating that “an assassination plot targeting high-ranking state officials, including President Ibrahim Traore, was foiled on January 3.” In relation to this event, “former president Damiba is the alleged mastermind of the conspiracy.”

A Togolese government communiqué emphasized that to proceed with the extradition, “the Burkinabe authorities guaranteed the former president’s physical integrity, respect for his right to a fair trial, and the non-application of the death penalty” -essential conditions to ensure a transparent legal process.

Damiba ascended to the presidency on January 24, 2022, when he led Burkinabe rebels to seize power in the name of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration, ousting then-President Roch Kabore. On September 30, 2022, Damiba was overthrown by a group of soldiers led by Captain Traore.

I really don’t think even Lenin himself would disagree, if he were alive today (inshallah).

The paragraph right before his criteria for imperialism:

But very brief definitions, although convenient, for they sum up the main points, are nevertheless inadequate, since we have to deduce from them some especially important features of the phenomenon that has to be defined. And so, without forgetting the conditional and relative value of all definitions in general, which can never embrace all the concatenations of a phenomenon in its full development, we must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:

They can barely clear 30% support

“In the coming years of US occupation of Canada, the US occupation would heavily recruit from Albertans as colonial police. The word “Albertan” quickly becomes a term of derision synonymous with “traitor.” Angry mobs of Canadians would lobby the insult at members of the Canadian Colonial Police Force regardless of whether they are actually from Alberta.”

And then when the US did capture Maduro, those same alt media sphere accounts said that Venezuela just surrendered in a deal, ignoring all the pictures of destroyed Buks (there were quite a lot), and videos of US helicopters shooting anything that moved, and the close to 100 casualties amongst Venezuelan and Cuban forces.

“Cranks like Escobar told me Venezuela would totally own the US, so the fact that the US was successful in capturing Maduro meant that he was betrayed from within because the guy who said Iran almost got nuked by Israel if it weren’t for Russia couldn’t possibly be wrong about things. I don’t care about Venezuela anymore. Fuck Venezuela.”

It creates a very obnoxious cycle where cranks hype these countries up well beyond what they’re actually capable of and when those countries inevitably fail to live up to the crank’s fantasy, people start dooming over the country falling part “like Syria” or “giving up” on that country. I’ve seen an article boasting about how the US is the third strongest military in the world. I wonder how many people will be disillusioned when the “third strongest military in the world” continues to rampage across the globe as if it were the strongest military in the world.

Insurgency side:

• On Guerilla Warfare by Mao
• Guerrilla Warfare by Che
• Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare by Nkrumah
• People’s War, People’s Army by Giap
• Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla by Carlos Marighella

Counterinsurgency side:

• Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula
• Various COIN manuals that you can find online by just googling them. Here’s one I found: https://info.publicintelligence.net/ANA-3-24.pdf
• Various law enforcement manuals on how to kettle protestors, stop rioters, etc. Unicorn Riot got a riot police manual: https://media.unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9-14-16-email-attachment-Crowd-Control.pdf

There’s also classical text like On War by Clausewitz.

Absolutely. All that “peaceful coexistence” bullshit is just to cover that their military is not strong enough. That blog article doesn’t even attempt to analyze the current PLA’s military capabilities, let along compare the PLA’s military capabilities to what the US has or what the SU had.

This is a persistent problem of leftist analysis. They pretty much do not analyze things from a military perspective, ceding the ground to “Anglo Jews invented globohomo and installed the Anglo Jew agent Lenin after overthrowing Saint Nicholas the last man standing against the globohomo menace” reactionaries and “that slightly large explosion was actually multiple tactical nukes going off at once in a successful attempt to prevent the enemy from setting off their own tactical nukes” cranks. The Russian SMO enjoyer crowd is full of these dipshits, but how is the left doing in comparison?

Radlib types are allergic to anything concerning hard power, preferring to squander Marxist analysis on literary critique of Marvel slop. Class reductionist types chant “no war but the class war” without having read a single text on how to effectively wage warfare. ML types only concern themselves with economic analysis, forgetting that there’s more to hard power than the economy. I see reading lists from ML orgs and few of them incorporate texts on revolutionary warfare. The only part of the left that is at least semi-serious about military matters are various anarchists, largely through the dissemination and study of COIN manuals. Too bad for various reasons, anarchists are suckered in by NATO narratives, but credit where credit is due, at least they realize that military matters is something worth studying.

In order to exercise control over those resources, they need to build an enormous amount of infrastructure that necessarily tramples Greenlandic autonomy. There is no existing legal mechanism for that without the consent of Greenlanders. Seizing the island through military or other means is how they do that.

Or to be more blunt, the enormous amount of infrastructure cannot be build without the genocide of Greenlanders happening first, the exact reason why you have to completely cut down trees and bulldoze a field of wild plants before laying down concrete. I suspect this is the real reason why the annexation has to happen (assuming it actually happens). The US can more or less do everything already except for the genocide of Greenlanders because I don’t think even a vassal as servile as Denmark will look the other way while Danish citizens are being exterminated. But if those Danish citizens either de jure or de facto cease to hold Danish citizenship, then the US gets what it wants (extractive infrastructure/penal colony being build without an Indigenous population to fight back) and Denmark gets what it wants (saving face by having an excuse to avoid directly confronting the US ethnically cleansing a people holding Danish passports).

The British did something similar to Chagos. The Indigenous Chagossians inhabited those islands, but the US wanted a naval base in the Indian Ocean, so what did the British do? They deported every single Chagossian from their native land, thereby ethnically cleansing those islands of their Indigenous population. All for the sake of building a naval base at Diego Garcia for the USians so that they can project power in the Indian Ocean.

It’s all posturing/kayfabe. Any country semi-serious about the possibility of waging war against the US would have long since procured weapons from US rivals (Russia, China, Iran).

Trump then “walked back” to the pre-determined 10%. The governments across the world sighed a breath of relief, and implicitly accepted the 10% tariff rate because “it could have been worse”.

The oldest trick in the book.

Iranian doesn’t see any other way out than the one offered by the West.

Virtually no people in the history of the world would rather have a government installed by other people than a government of themselves. The closest thing would be if people already colonized decided to hedge their bets on a rival colonizer who offered a better deal than their current colonizer.

That medal has been handled by a LOSER! I want a new one.

https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/status/2011476301060702329