When the end approaches for Ukraine, and when the US imperialists finally accept it’s coming, that’s when things will get very dangerous. There’s no telling what the US might do to prolong the conflict, provoke Russia into doing something stupid, or just strike out in sheer desperation to salvage some kind of advantage.

The leadership in the West (as the recent EU top official appointments and the NATO head appointment show) is ruled by people who are primarily fanatic anti-Russians. Their decisions are based on sentiment instead of logic. So WW3 might start anyway.

In what realm and what reality?

I think we all agree at this point that holding out for better negotiating terms will only result in a weaker position and worse outcome for Ukraine. Zelenskyy needs to wake up and start peace talks immediately.

There’s been efforts to elevate the Azov Nazis in the eyes of Ukrainians recently, and the US has lifted sanctions to equip them. It’s likely that they’ll be used to conduct another coup if Zelensky tries to negotiate too early/give away too much. Or they are being prepared to take power again after peace is signed and Zelensky is gone.

Zelensky this last week started saying that Ukraine will start negotiating by the end of the year.

The recent “peace summit” in Switzerland was a failure, but immediately afterwards we saw a bunch of Western nations ramping up the aid and committing to deploying support personell for the rear (mostly medics and engineers they say). Probably Zelensky promised there will be one last counteroffensive. If some success, he’s probably thinking he will convince the Russians to accept less concessions.

He announced this week that Russia must accept:

• Ukraine joining NATO (no chance)

• Ukraine joining the EU (maybe feasible, as Putin’s last terms did not prohibit this)

• Russia to pay Ukraine monetary concessions for the war and lost territorry (significant that the Ukrainians are backpedalling on 1991 borders; maybe Russia will actually pay as a negotiating chip for further Ukrainian concessions)

He did not talk about:

• demilitarization (which will definitely be a Russian term)

• denazification (which Russia will likely accept symbolically, in favour of other concessions)

• commitment to neutrality (which Russia will definitely demand)

And he still wants to treat Russia through a third party (likely the US/UK, possibly China) which Russia will not accept.

The Biden-Trump debate, as well as the French election results have shown that the West is unlikely to continue supporting Ukraine for long. That Zelensky is willing to negotiate by the end of the year probably has something to do with Biden’s likely exit from the White House in January.

Furthermore, the current situation on the ground could not be more starkingly obvious:

• Russians are sweeping Ukrainian defenses and making massive gains in significant areas.

• The recent mobilization in Ukraine was a massive failure. Newly mobilized troops are either surrendering en masse AND giving up information to the Russians (which has led to an increase in precision strikes on Ukrainian HQs, ammo depots, vehicle depots and areas of troop concentration), or refusing to attack or take up positions for defense, or dying in large numbers due to poor training.

• Ukrainian manpower is completely depleted and Ukrainian losses are climbing to record numbers.

• Lack of defensive works that outlines the massive corruption regarding Western aid

• Removal of commanding officers (like the general that Azov wanted removed) and disagreements between general staff and Zelensky (Zelensky and Syrsky are not getting along - it is likely that Syrsky refused to carry out a counteroffensive - also the aforementioned removed general was Syrsky’s friend/supporter/ally).

It is no wonder that Western media will start actually telling some truth about Project Ukraine. They need to prepare the people for the inevitable defeat of the West in Ukraine.

Thanks. I thought Saxony put it into effect in January, and then it was ratified this week for the rest of Germany.

I think it’s no accident that it comes right after the European Parliament elections:

1. If people get angry, it’s the longest possible time between elections

2. Sholz and company could gauge how Germans view their current immigration policy from the election results, and vote for or against the law accordingly. The elections show gains for AfD, so they are trying to gain points with the fascists, by passing the law.

This is probably the aim of this law: To reduce the number of Muslims who apply for German citizenship.

This guy used to be a Maoist activist in the early 90s.

More than 8,831 metric tons, or approximately 19.4 million pounds, of humanitarian aid was delivered since the pier became operational on 17 May, Singh said, calling it a “great success”.

At max load a truck can carry between 15-20 tonnes. Let’s say 18 tonnes as an average.

8831 tonnes delivered over 40 days (since May 17). That’s 220 tonnes of aid per day (or 11 trucks per day).

According to UNRWA, Gaza needs around 500 trucks of aid per day. That is 9000 tonnes per day (500*18). Or, for those following the math, Gaza needs every day as much aid as the pier “successfully” delivered since its operation in total.

Who in their right mind would call this shameful operation “a great success”?

All these reports and articles attempt to cunningly manipulate the numbers regarding humanitarian aid. They use pounds (here they throw the 19.4 million pounds) or kilograms or pallettes to make it seem like the amount of aid was a lot. In reality, it’s only a very small fraction of what Gaza actually needs. And they never ever say how much Gaza actually needs. They never mention the needs.

Not only that, but they also always talk about the aid reaching the pier, but not what happens afterwards. Never about Israeli settlers hijacking the trucks and destroying their cargo, Israel military confiscating or blocking the aid for arbitrary reasons, or the myriads of issues that occur before even aid is shipped.

And as for “great success”, they don’t even mention that the stated goal of the pier was to reach 200 trucks per day at this point, but they never went further than 12 trucks a day. So even by their standards, this operation has been a massive failure.

And now they are removing it. Because the actual goal of the pier was never to help Palestinians. It was to give the illusion aid for calming down the protests in the West and in the UN. It was to act as a surveillance point on Hamas, and to act as a staging ground for operations, such as the slaughter that was the hostage “rescue” operation recently. And long-term, it was to act as a port to deport Palestinians to Northern Africa and Europe.

I don’t think he’s the one managing the channel. At least right now. He does the live streams, but I’m guessing someone else is clipping them and uploading 1 video every day. During the periods he’s on break (like these past 2 weeks), the titles get more clickbaity than normal.

Yes, from “southern” Cyprus

Certainly the government is kind of panicked right now. There’s this weird thing going on where Hezbolah has accused Cyprus of participating in Israel’s war crimes, but at the same time, the Lebanese government is saying the Cypriot government isn’t involved in any hostilities with Lebanon, and ambassadors have been exchanging friendly compliments.

People in general are not willing to be entangled in war at all. But at the same time, most live in a bubble where they think nothing bad will happen.

Still, the majority of people assume that the government is lying. The communist party (AKEL) has been against whatever Cyprus is doing to aid Israel since almost the beginning, and has been organizing marches in support of Palestine since December. The right-wingers are more apathetic and critical than supportive, with few exceptions. Even parties that are cooperating with the government, are now unsure what to do, and some have started criticizing the government.

I’m Cypriot, and our government for the past 11 years has been neoliberal right wingers. Cyprus has always had a steady line of neutrality. We were one of the very few European countries to recognize Palestine’s statehood since the 70s and we were condemning Israel’s occupation,

These neoliberal idiots have been steadily trying to get Cyprus into the US bossom. They think (or at least present it this way) that being closer to the US will help reunite the island. They’ve even tried to get us into NATO, but thankfully there was too much backlash for that to happen.

One of the first things they did to signal to the US we want to be their vassals was to start getting better relations with Israel. A bunch of blunders occured because of this. Namely and most famously, Cyprus has served as a testing ground and tradehouse for Israeli surveillance technology. There was even a whole international scandal of spyware being found on journalists’, activists’ and politicians’ phones all over Europe, which originated from an Israeli company registered in Cyprus, with ties to the Cypriot government (look up the Predator spyware case).

Long story short, we thought Israel’s military might would help make us secure, so we made treaties with them for bilateral military assistance. Turns out, nobody thought the bilateral nature of those treaties would bite us in the ass, and they did.

There’s something to be said about the 2 british military bases on the island, and 1 american surveillance station, which have been used extensively for Israel’s sake, and obviously Cyprus can’t really consent about that.

There’s also something to be said about Turkey always trying to fuck around with Cyprus in an effort to get their illegal military occupation entity recognized as a state.

But we’ve also fucked up, because we enabled the Americans to start constructing the “humanitarian” dock in Gaza, that was used for that massacre a few weeks ago. Not only that, but our government (before the incident) had been boasting that it was their idea. Essentially they gave Israel and the US the excuse to end UNRWA’s humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

It’s not worth splitting up with your sister over this stuff. There’s more to life than politics. You need to both calm down, sit down and figure out each other’s red lines, and then avoid stepping over them.

Ukrainians have announced recently that they are mobilizing 5000 a day, but that’s probably just PR. Even if true, the quality of this troops is most likely shit, due to age, health issues, unwillingness to fight and extremely short training.

Last week they lost 15000 soldiers in a week, according to the Russian MoD weekly report.

There was another social media post by another Ukrainian commander (regular army, I think their formation is defending Novovasilevka?) that says that the newest recruits are being blindfolded when transported to the front. The most recent mobilization has been so forceful, that even the Ukrainian government expects their new recruits to surrender immediately and give up information to the Russians.

But those kinds of posts are of course ignored.

Agreed. Putin had been building up to it for years though. The first sanctions made it possible to hasten this process. And the Russian oligarchs aren’t extinct or anything. They are still super-rich compared to the average Russian. They just can’t mess with the government right now, and they have to support the renewed semi-planned economy.

I’m sure the two things are totally unrelated!

The sanctions targeted the Russian oligarchs quite a bit, by threatening their investments, properties and deposits in EU tax havens, like Cyprus and Greece. They were forced to transfer a bunch of assets back in Russia, which gave Putin the opportunity to crack down on their corruption and demanding that their wealth remains in Russia. Also, most importantly, he basically curbed their political power and political meddling. A big reason the Russian economy is doing so well is this returned wealth. So the first sanction packages basically backfired. The Europeans thought the Russian oligarchs would overthrow Putin if pressured. Turns out, Putin overthrew the Russian oligarchs.

The new sanction packages leave the oligarchs alone and target Russian government assets in Europe. And yes, all packages have targeted the ability of simple civilians to interact economically with anybody in the US or Europe.

Oh look at that. The Nazis have very little influence on the government of Ukraine, but one guy from Azov Battalion writes a social media post, and the next day Zelenski abides.