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Literally who's saying any of that?
Do bullets make infantry obsolete? Humans die really quickly to bullets and the cost relation is horrible
Tanks might become obsolete, in fact NATO has been developing the concept of Strike/Stryker brigades as their main meat for a long time and those function mostly without MBTs as their primary armor. If they become obsolete it won't simply be because of drones, but because their tactical role will be filled by other systems or concepts.
Heavy armor in large columns has a big problem in modern peer conflicts in general. Minefields and high precision weapons combined with constant satelite and UAV surveillance make them incredibly vulnerable. Both Ukraine and Russia have struggled massively with this. Both have resorted to small scale infantry teams to circumvent this problem. Cluster munitions should, however, make this manpower intensive strategy even more costly and difficult. So that doesn't seem to be a good solution either in an age where manpower is sparse as hell due to demographic shifts.
The tank's role in this seems to have shifted too tho. From what we can see they're less effective as breakthrough weapons and more as short-range, direct fire, mobile artillery. In times of immense focus on artillery that still gives them a highly important role that drones don't really impact any more than they do howitzers, SPGs or AD for that matter.
Personally I think long term drones will mostly impact the role of the airforce. Planes are absurdly expensive to build ($80mio for a single F35, bombers can cost close to a billion), operate and maintain, so are pilots. Much more so than tanks and their crews. Missiles, drones and integrated AD, to me, seem much more economical than huge fleets of jets and bombers operated by incredibly vulnerable human meat while filling similar tactical roles. We can see this in Ukraine where air power plays a pretty small role, while tanks are still all present and sought after.
AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now
Good wrap up of 'left' Dem politicians and AOC in particular, but especially fascinating to me just how close libs can get to realizing the futility of electoralism without ever actually getting there.
want something out of the dems? Put a real leftist in charge
Imagine looking at the past 200 years and still believing this fairytale nonsense.
Great, give Russia absolutely no incentive to ever stop this war short of destorying the Ukrainian state in its entirety. That'll calm shit down and avoid further suffering
This is why I hope for the organization to flourish, because the conclusions that individuals will come to is always the same: revolution or capitulation.
Yes and liberals like Thunberg are actively working so people avoid the conclusion is revolution. Those that came to that conclusion did not get there, because principled communists were defending white liberals, but because they offered an alternative and a systemic critique to the shortcomings of liberal climate movements.
Revolutionary organisations can work on the grounds of liberal organising and even with liberal organisations, even on the grand strategic level as in the Russian, Chinese, Cuban and many other revolutions. But they decidedly do not do that by merging with them or refraining from citicizing them when they're objectively wrong and to be criticized.
Communists don't need to do the work of the liberals, the liberals are doing that already. The communists need to do the work of the communists, which is attacking liberal ideology relentlessly and structuraly, offering alternatives for the contradictions within liberal ideology. You don't get someone from FFF to a CP by defending the liberalism within FFF.
I mean to say that Greta, FFF, or whatever similar organization, while most certainly not in any form revolutionary, is nonetheless the ground upon which we can flourish
Yes, but that is only so if we provide and attack them from the left, not if we defend them. If we do so, there's no meaningful difference between us and them and then ultimately there's no movement from them to the left.
Yes, but people only progressed from those naive, liberal tendencies towards revolutionary action because of revolutionaries attacking them not because principled communists were praising the white liberal.
We criticize people, parties and organisations when their stances are wrong. Whatever good they might or might not have done in the past is no grounds for refraining from attack.
If there's one thing that's more than abundant in this world, it's people defending milquetoast, apologetic liberals. We as communists don't need to beat that drum too, but have to offer a different tune.
Totally with you there. It is only tangentially related. I just wanted to point out that principled, anti-capitalist environmentalists can and actually have to be active in the peace movement. You can use the popularity of this issue to agitate against war. People do it. Thunberg just refuses to. But not because her main focus is climate change, but because she's a dishonest, bourgeois white liberal.
Can't mess with big bad Belarus
Well spitting my drink out at a TPB meme about a mercenary uprising in Russia seeking to remove the head of the MoD mediated by the Belarussian president wasn't on my 2023 shit-bingo card, yet here we are lol
Ka-52 "Alligator" diverted the anti-aircraft missile of Wagner combat vehicle over Voronezh
Several km long column of Chechens heading to Rostov
And thus the most obvious contradiction in the world resolves itself. This is a horrible hit to the perception of Russiain the world. They were able portray an imagine of stability and calm to their partners, investors, population and the economy at large up until now. That just literally blew up
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Comrade Biden creating the multipolar world at record speed
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What could go wrong creating a China-Russia-India-Turkey block on top of BRICS, other sanctioned countries and everyone else trading with them?
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Generally overlooked by most analysts and commenters or simply taken for granted, despite being a crucial part and doing much of the heavy lifting in almost all theaters and major battles of this war. Praise to the militias - these guys are everything the West wants the UAF to be.
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This timeline man
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Heartbreaking letter of Russian WW2 veterans to the Germans
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Veterans and children of the Great Patriotic War to the government and the people of Germany
Today, because the German government has decided to deliver deadly weapons to Ukraine, the world has changed - the outlines of a new world war are more than clearly visible. And again it's Germany! But there are honest people in Germany, antifascists, and we hope that this message reaches you. People, who were born between 1927 and 1945, have the status of "war children" in Russia. This letter can be signed by all those, who survived this war.
The tragedy in Ukraine
We, the last veterans and all of the peoples of Russia, who survived this great and terrible war, are now on the brink of death. Our time is running out. The largest part of our lives we hoped it would end in peace - without the all-destroying hatred. After the Second World War we painstakingly overcame, over the course of long decades, our righteous wrath. We were longing for vengeance for the countless physical and mental wounds, that we're still carrying in our bodies and our hearts. But most of us have forgiven!
In the end this happened not least for the reason, that for many years Germany demonstrated its regret, its understanding of what happened. And we didn't just overcome ourselves, but too the voice of the blood of our barbarically exterminated relatives. Exterminated by whom? By the Germans, by the fascists! We have forgiven - corresponding to the laws of human coexistence. Such it was - till 2014.
Streams of blood
Then, in 2014, when everything started in Ukraine, we looked to Germany with hope and to then chancellor Angela Merkel. We could not have imagined that the Germans, after everything they've done in Ukraine - after Babi Jar, after the mountains of mutilated corpses -, would still longingly look to the Ukrainian fields, that can still feed Europe today. Or that they, the Germans, who once drenched Crimea, which was promised to them, in blood, still have an interest in turning Crimea into an American and general NATO-base - ideal for attacks on Russia. This would've openly aimed for a future war. Because only fools don't understand reason and purpose of the coup in Ukraine, to which Russia reacted in the only possible way!
But the Germans, they aren't fools. We Russians know them first hand. Their psychology as "blood brothers" - our blood, that they "calculatingly" shed in streams. We remember their "systematic" methods of "population reduction". Our population! To this day we're discovering hidden mass graves of our peaceful citizens in different corners of our once united fatherland where the boot of German fascism fell: In the region Nowgorod, in Kuban, in the region Rostow, in Karelia. In 2021 on the grounds of the Jewish ghetto in Brest in Belarus the remains of hundreds of peaceful citizens were found. The concentration camp Trostenez near Minsk - place of a terrible tragedy - has uncovered the mystery of tens of thousands more tortured and murdered people. We're speaking of tens of thousands newly discovered victims of Nazism! This blood is still screaming for vengence, while for decades now the memory of barbarically murdered Russian people and the monuments for Russian soldiers, liberators, have been desecrated with impunity. New Nazis are marching in the Baltics and in Ukraine infront of the eyes of the whole "civilized" world.
And Germany, again
But in 2014 we really were convinced that the Germans, in the face of these new Nazi-marches, would be our allies in preventing these atrocities. We were hoping that the Germans would - guided by an elementary consciousness - not take part in the openly fascistic coup in Ukraine. Because the following catastrophy in todays Ukraine was caused by the direct decendents of those that were a special rabble in the German army. Openly, unapologetic! The US-Americans and Canadians just concealed and conserved this devilish legacy, raised its decendents, but the breeding ground of this evil is - Germany! Hitler-Germany! We couldn't dare believe, that it was Germany which would show these monsters the way again. But we were wrong! Germany has again allowed this fasistic scum to enter the world.
The support of todays Germany - in the face of the new government of Ukraine - for the Bandera-people, for the heirs of the SS division "Galicia", for UPA- and OUN-thugs and all the other atrocities were just unthinkable for us.
That's beyond anything human! But you, Germany, have done it and continue to do it! You're again aiming for the slavic world and this scum - it's blood of the blood of German Nazism! And again against Russia! Just more inisidous: Our closest brothers, the Ukrainians, are stired up against us. And you know it! You know it as much as we know it! You have murdered a people in this Great War! Yes, we are a people! Your Steinmeier [President and former foreign minister of Germany (SPD)] often writes and says the truth, he who was simultaneously involved in the Kiev-Putsch of 2014 - an essentially fascistic putsch. For the Americans this might not be obvious, but for you it's more than obvious!
And it's your pupils that were able to march with torches through Kiev. The living shadow of Nazi-Germany is standing behind all of this. This was just temporarily covered up by a sly diplomacy - "helmets instead of rifles". But this is it, the "masks have slipped". That you're currently delivering German weapons to Ukraine is logical, it follows the logic of your policy of the past decades. Today she's openly pro-fascistic again. You've made this step: German weapons will kill Russians again. The killing continues.
Preparing for world war
In the years of the conflict in Donbass your professional murderers have already killed Russians, at least taught "how to kill them properly". Now it's even more despicable - you're teaching it to blood brothers. The Donbass is on your conscience! Thousands of lives of its peaceful citizens - that is your work again. We're not concerned about the role the Americans are playing in all of this: There, money is god!
Our veterans of this war, its children, are concerned about the role of the Germans. Because they are the ones who know exactly who makes up the Ukrainian "Nazi-battalions" and who could've prevented and stopped this new fascism. But that's not what you did! Because of this alone you're again responsible before history. You're unequivocally part of the preparation of Ukraine for war against Russia. You can't get around understanding the purpose of everything that happened: from the unconsitutional coup in Kiev to the bloodshed in Donbass.
Essentially it's about preparation for a third world war. And again about you, the Germans...Germany. From the high German stage in Berlin we're hearing today: "Russia will pay a high price!!!" A speech of the chancellor of Germany! Unthinkable! We have paid the price already: 27 million of our lives. Is that not enough for you? About what price are you still talking? There's no house(hold) in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in which "this price" wasn't paid. And there's no house(hold) in Germany that didn't take part in this terrible, bloody barbarity! Horrible! Beastly!
Today more than 13.000 Russians have already died at the hands of the new Nazis. The public mockery of the genocide of the Russians in Donbass by the German chancellor himself is itself a crime. To such an extent can the lessons of history be neglected and defiled! The most terrible history of the world! Do you want something even worse? This new "Drive to the east" can make it so no second Nuremberg-trials will be held against you, because there just won't be a humanity. You will not be there!
But a special court, a universal court for you, Germans, is inevitable. For all aggressors, but for you especially. The world will have justice! And we, the last veterans of this terrible war, are leaving this world as witnesses. As witnesses of the prosecution! And today victory will be ours, but those, who died yesterday, or those of us, who're dying today, are bearing witness to the role of the German people in the history of humankind - the bloody history. German weapons are again in the hands of young Nazis!
Stop!
Letter is from the 27th of February. It was published by the »Spiritual center St. Johannes of Kronstadt« based in Moscow, following the German chancellors declaration of historic German rearmament and deliveries of German weapons to Ukraine on the same day. On the 6th of March the Russian Veterans Union posted a link to the article on its website stating they're signing "every word" of the letter.
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Plan to assassinate Imran Khan foiled
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So days after Victoria Nuland visits Sri Lanka, a possible colour revolution attempt launches there and a soft coup with alledged assassination attempt in Pakistan happens.
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Niger has suspended the export of gold and uranium to France this Sunday with immediate effect
Jesus Christ, I'm getting brainworms reading those comments