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I thought about writing a note likening this to colonial powers despoiling indigenous populations, but I decided against it on the grounds that the similarities were too obvious. Perhaps that would have made my topic more interesting anyway, though. What do you think?
The incompetence of the American empire has inspired hope in this cold commie heart
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
Have a wonderful week, everyone!
As always, communism will win.
For those still keeping up with the Ukraine conflict (which has unfortunately faded into the background in light of the latest US-Israeli unprovoked war of aggression in the Middle East), here is some neat data quantifying Russian advances so far this year compared to last year:
(The red dot represents last year's gains by April 30.)
I thought it was important to have this on record because i've seen some uninformed comments on other instances about Russia supposedly being pushed back or not able to advance.
On a localized level there is of course always some back and forth, but the question is: what do you see when you zoom out and look at the net balance over a longer period of time? The picture is fairly clear:
Data compiled by https://xcancel.com/LajosPhd9236 based on mapping by @Suriyakmaps
(Also, keep in mind that this is a war of attrition and territorial advances are not the primary objective.)
I'm getting the feeling Russia will take a lot of land in the next few months.
Maybe. But maybe not. I still tend to believe that they will continue with what they've been doing so far. If what you're doing is working, why change it? What we don't see here are the relative casualties, but that's really the key to deciding whether this approach is worth it.
It's harder to get reliable data there, but the prisoner and body exchange ratios as well as the (incomplete) stats we do have on number of vehicle losses based on visual evidence for each side indicate clearly that Russia is taking considerably less casualties than Ukraine (and that's before you factor in deep strikes on logistics and infrastructure damage, which also works in Russia's favor). If the Russian command is happy with the low casualty rate and want to keep it that way then they may decide that advancing faster is not worth it.
That being said, i also think that as the weather has been unfavorable for advances Russia has been in a bit of a pause over the last couple of months, where they mainly focused on regrouping and dealing with Ukrainian counter-attacks. It could very well be that now the pace will pick back up again. We'll have to wait and see.
I hope you all have a nice week
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Wishing everyone a great week.
The past month has been quite stressful for me, but things are starting to look up.
I've seen a Trot defending that Stalin paved the way for Khrushchevites by trying to coexist with the West and his "communism in one state" policy, and Trotsky was proven right with the dissolution of the USSR by the peasant elites in the ruling class (the guy is from the Global South, btw).
He also said Mao had to make a peasant revolution because of Stalin. He is actually a very intelligent guy, but somehow he has a Trot tendency while disparaging the Trots.
Seems suspect lol. Does he think the Soviets had the power to export a top-down proletarian revolution to China? Like, Mao didn't conjure millions of peasants into existence. They were the primary underclass in China. You don't just choose to be ideologically proletarian lol
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the claim
He claims Stalin thought China wasn't ready for a proletariat revolution, and for that he didn't support them. According to him, Stalin also abandoned the socialist Spain to be torn apart by fascists because of his "socialism in one country" doctrine.
Idk why, but the left-wing in my country is either left deviationist (Trots, MLMs, Hoxhaists) or right deviationist (demsuccs, patsuccs, succdems). I've yet to see a real ML who doesn't crap on the USSR and PRC and their leaders.