Apparently Lukashenko said it in 2014?

So then the US should avoid investing in Europe at all costs, eh?

Donald Flanders

So that’s how narco traffickers can defend themselves - carry oil on their boats.

Well, Lukashenko also said it, and the editor of RT said. But yes.

The other evidence they use is the feint that was sent directly at Kiev. They think the feint was a real genuine attempt to capture the capital city, and then from there take all the evidence that it was a feint and spin it into bad planning. So specifically, if you send a feint, and you’re committed to that entire allocation of soldiers being wiped out, you don’t send them in with supplies to last for a long slog - you send them in ultra light on a suicide mission. And that’s essentially what the deployment to Kiev was, a group with an ultralight kit heading straight for Kiev to draw out forces and create confusion in the early days of the war. That feint was destroyed and then when they realized it was feint they spun it hard into “look at these fools who thought they could end this thing in three days” basically as a way of avoiding the obvious conclusion that they wasted time dealing with a trick.

It would be like if someone sent a feint filled with woodland creatures and animated scarecrows and after you waste strategically valuable time dealing with them you spend the rest of the war saying “this opponent is so dumb they thought they could win with scarecrows” when the reality is that you got tricked and the feint did exactly what it was intended to do.

Keep commenting, keep getting critique, listen learn and grow

Focus isn’t the thing that helps. It’s iteration.

You are raised in a conceptual framework that predisposes you to think about new things in specific ways. To get a more accurate worldview, you need more iterations, you need to explore new experiences, you need to see the same things presented in slightly different ways.

Above all else, though, you need to make posts and comments like this, and you need to have live conversations where you express your current understanding and you need to receive feedback. Sometimes you’re wrong, sometimes your omitting something, sometimes you have a good grip on it. You can’t just focus and read and hope to have correct understanding. These things are not dead concepts that can pinned to the pages of a book - they are living dynamic understandings generated through dialogue.l

Geopolitics understander, right here

Man, you are just itching for nuclear war aren’t you? You really want a nuclear-armed transnational force with zero democratic accountability to go and fight another nuclear armed power that is currently fighting explicitly to prevent that nuclear-armed transnational force from expanding its control of the region? That is literally nuclear escalation. You gotta get out of the death cult you’re in.

It was an industrial war. Yes, the command was critical. Yes allies were critical. But Stalin directed the economy on the basis of a prediction of the war in a way that I don’t think any other economic thinker at the time would have

Do we think that the level of development of the local Soviets and the higher order Soviets was sufficient enough to coordinate the necessary response to the threat of the Third Reich? As far as I understand it, even with Stalin’s significant control he still had opposition to the idea that Germany would be such a near-term threat and such a massive one. Maybe I am wrong about that.

It’s literally Harvard

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School’s research, teaching, and training in international security and diplomacy, environment and natural resource issues, and science and technology policy.

Like literally it’s the race-science white supremacist nazi-friendly ivy league school of the USA.

The fact that you got triggered by their choice of domain name is on you, not on them.

https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-ukraine-war-report-card/russia-ukraine-war-report-card-nov-26-2025

This report from the Harvard Kennedy school indicates that Russian forces gained 258 square miles of Ukrainian territory between end of Oct and Thanksgiving, with half of those gains in the week running up to Thanksgiving. I can’t find data for gains over the last 5 days, but the rate of Russian gains is increasing.

So wild that this is such a widespread phenomenon and yet Ukraine can’t seem to resist the onslaught of … unarmored and unarmed soldiers who eat nothing but tree bark and have to scavenge for their weapons and ammo.

Ukraine must be in really bad shape if they can’t defend against that, huh?

$100M is chump change at this scale

Suuuuuuper easy to forget

Every single person has something to teach.

Everyone.

Sometimes, that thing is patience. Sometimes it’s compassion. Sometimes it’s how to communicate better. Sometimes it’s when to walk away.

But if you believe every single person has something to teach you, that is a huge hack.

What a strange world you inhabit, where Russia ending war with a strike taking out a carrier group could somehow both end war before it starts and also somehow make Venezuela into a Russian victim by making them dependent.

Like, how does any of that mechanically work?

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9618794

The US wants Venezuela’s oil fields to be privatized and the Maduro government has nationalized the oil fields to prevent them from being owned by US/mult-national corporations for profit.

As with any government that nationalizes their resources, the US will totally obliterate their country for the offense of daring to protect their interests against USA’s interests. See Libya and Iran as but two examples.

Also note that, as has been publicly state, the CIA is doing a lot of the work here and has been “authorized” to operate in Venezuela. The CIA was created by the Dulles Brothers specifically to protect the interests of US businesses around the world.

Yeah, that’s not what’s happening