They have other means of retaliation, notably, arming western enemies. Although thisninstance was cancelled

3 day invasion

The idea that they planned for it to be 3 days was completely made up.

Let’s see if it pays off for them.

Quite the attitude to have when the west is losing wars on like 4 fronts (gaza, yemen, ukraine, and lebanon) simultaneously. That too while having shit military industrial capacity.

By capturing Russian territory Russia now has a reason to come to negotiations to just call everything off to get their land back.

Ukraine captured land in kursk and this did not cause the Russians to come to the negotiating table, nor signal that they will weaken their demands. In fact, they simply started taking land even faster in Ukraine because Ukraine had committed resources into kursk instead of the front lines.

All it goes to show is that westerners have a complete non-understanding of this war.

Well, at least Russia will further supply enemies of the west in retaliation.

The fact that the dollar and the euro are the world’s reserve currencies allows both America and the EU to do 2 crucial things.

Firstly, whenever a country prints money (they don’t exactly, the money supply increases when banks give out loans. Countries can loosen lending requirements/costs), it acts as a tax on everyone holding the currency, because the value of products purchasable by that currency is spread over more currency.

Since everyone holds dollars and euros, American and European banks are able to tax the world. The same applies to their treasuries, which increase the money supply by running deficits (financed by borrowing from their central banks).

Secondly, these countries can sanction individuals, organisations and countries by cutting them off from exchange markets (as described by soviet entropy), and by cutting them off from the swift banking system (which is tech to transfer financial messages/transactions internationally).

These are the 2 fundamental tools of imperialism, and practically define it. The role of currency in empire is so important in fact that the first currencies were invented by ancient empires to tax subjects.

BRICS becomes an obstacle to the American and European empires by offering financial alternatives, and allowing countries to, if they choose so, to free themselves from imperial currencies. But this capability hasn’t been fully developed yet.

few more decades.

The world has already changed so much since just covid. If you’d told me in 2019 that we would have a global pandemic, multiple major wars at once, America losing to half of Yemen, the liberal world order in free fall, and China running circles around the west in their green tech all in a span of 4 years, I would have thought you were making things up.

Silly Hazel, war does change! We used to have wars where thousands of people died, then, we got wars where millions die, now we have wars where tens of millions can die!

It’s called progress.

The collapse of american hegemony us already progress towards a socialist world happening right now. The rise of chinese power also helps.

However, it is almost certain at this point that we are headed towards WW3 (imo we have alreadt started the pre-war phase). How that will end up going is anyone’s guess.

It would have to be france since outside of the US, France is the NATO country with the largest military power and the one which runs a thinly viewed colonial empire in Northern Africa.

You could also put South Korea, which happens to be even more of a corporate hellhole than Japan, or maybe Saudi Arabia, an opportunistic monarchy which pumps out massive amounts of oil and helps keep the American empire afloat.

Nato is as much a “mutual defense” pact as sea lions are lions. These guys bombed Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq and countless other nations. The members of Nato have repeatedly cooperated with each other, using the military networks built through the alliance to wage proxy wars, perform coups, destabilise regions of the world at a scale never before seen in human history.

You might as well call the axis a mutual defense alliance lmao.

I mean America is a fascist country though. After all, it still has legalised slavery and killed millions of innocent people in this century alone. It’s only natural for such a country to elect fine specimens just as Trump or Biden.

But there are some in this thread who would pretend Harris is more pro-genocide than Trump, which is demonstrably false.

Is it? She’s the one who is the VP of the organization funding the genocide. I don’t recall Trump directly funding genocide, even going out of his way to circumvent US law. Maybe he did, wouldn’t put it past him, but given the information I have at least, Kamala and Joe Biden are demonstrably, empirically more pro-genocide than Trump, who remember, has already been president in the past.

Literally the entire political analysis of liberals on this issue is based on nothing but vibes. Trump is worse than Biden/Kamla on genocide because he has more bad guy molecules in his brain of some dumb shit.

Israel, for whatever fucking reason, has us by the balls.

They don’t. Their military is entirely dependent upon America. Israel is essentially America’s 51rst state. I mean, Congress even passed a law to treat IDF soldiers as if they were American soldiers.

You still didn’t answer the question.

He did, you just lack reading comprehension.

The ruling elite was the Communist party, mostly people near the top who were able to obtain key government positions that they would exploit for personal gain especially in later years of USSR.

The Latter years of the USSR are notorious for being fucked, but this does not address the middle or early years.

Mentioning that some guy was Ukrainian with in the regime while not mentioning Holodomor is OG 🤡

Ah yes, the famine which affected all of the Soviet Union (and Kazakhstan more in terms of deaths per capita) which even the inventors of the narrative of genocide (Robert conquest) no longer call genocide.

Must he nice being a communist while enjoying benefits of western society lol

I love the benefits western society! I get to enjoy half my income go to some landleech and fund war crimes in the middle east! I can’t wait to see which climate change fueled disaster kills me, or maybe the fascist death squads will be the ones to do me in!

In a country where the government m is just 3 corporations in a trench coat, this is a meaningless distinction. None of these people give the slightest fuck about what the public thinks on any given issue and will work with the Democrats to undermine any public movement that tries to assert its will (see gaza protests which are just the latest example of this).

I find it hard to believe that a Harris presidency would stand idle.

Harris is the motherfuking vice president of the administration sending tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel. What in the actual fuck are you talking about? Are liberals genuinely this clueless?

This is an all-hands on deck fight against the fourth reich.

Yes, we should all work to destroy the American empire.

Even people who suck for the reasons you correctly list are willing to point out that trump sucks.

… what? You mean, the “fourth reich” is not the empire which keeps bombing and genociding and looting its way round the world, but is just … some guy? Who can be defeated by saying he sucks?

getting the water out of the boat alongside us now.

The Democrats (and republicans) are the water in the boat.

the guy who bombed the shit out of Yemen to help Israel “finish the job” before turning against Ukraine and then domestically.

This applies literally to both candidates. The Biden admin hasn’t been slacking off in suppressing your civil rights as much as possible.

If you actually want to avoid full-blown Fascism in America

The world empire ruling over humanity with an iron fist, who’s founding act was the liquidation of an entire continents worth of people is somehow not “full blown fascist” yet.

But I think we all agree that Trump is an even more aggressive piece of shit in comparison.

How the hell is trump worse than bush era republicans or Mike fucking pence?

I mean, if you get into any real depth with math, you are going to reach a point where you can’t use conveniently use words to describe the symbols being manipulated.

As an example for the math I am doing literally right now, I very much prefer using C⁺_R compared to “semi circular arc in the upper half of the complex plane with radius R”, or M⁺(f(z)) which means “Maximum of the magnitude of the function f(z) over C⁺_R”, which if I were to write out in full, would just become a clusterfuck.

Also you still wouldn’t be able to get rid of symbols because some symbols are placeholders and straight up don’t have any meaning in natural language. This occurs often in physics as well, not just pure maths. For example, the laplace transform of any function is written as a variable of “s”, but “s” doesn’t have a clear meaning (at least as far as I know).