welcome to the big show, where debt brakes are judiciously enforced for social spending for 15 years and immediately suspended for lockheed's big bertha

it's the perfect plan: you vaporise welfare spending and make some quick cash on the way out via defence stocks, with the potentially outstanding bonus of sending a few million troublemakers head first into a meat grinder next decade and all this in one masterful stroke

I suspect the european elites are instrumentalising the crisis to smash their domestic welfare states on the grounds of national security

there's class war in europe too, there really is no "european interest" as such

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I will never forget/forgive what capital has done here

For the generation I suspect is most represented here this must be analagous to an earlier cohort watching the iraq war trample overwhelming global public opinion in 2003

to those who are feeling overwhelmed as I have often felt in the past year, please remember to take a step back when you need to, resilience is the name of the game in my view, self destruction in the face of disaster helps no one (when I say this I am also wrestling with myself, I don't mean to say this is an easy thing)

edit: please watch "No Other Land" when it becomes available to you and you feel up to it, it is about an Israeli and a Palestinian in a West Bank village called Massafer Yatta before Oct. 7 23, education is agitation & praxis

I was talking to someone recently, who was like "yeah we'll have a ceasefire, raise NATO spending to 3% and rearm ukraine in the meantime." I was fucking incredulous to hear this in real life...

Do you really think the Russians would accept a ceasefire that allows for that under the circumstances? AFTER MINSK???

Quite apart from the fact that if you are arguing (or more likely pretending to argue) from the ukrainian interest, it is completely incoherent. Such a strategy spells doom for ukraine

I would like to be paged when said expert explains it, can I do that somehow? or does someone need to @ me?

OH NO A TERRIFYING AUTHORITARIAN KILL WEB

so unlike our amazing and humanitarian full spectrum dominance

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the harm reduction candidate

Is it time to retire "Joe"?

i can't believe these titanic clownpeople are going to ratfuck us into an abyss again

I think you will find that cuts both ways unfortunately