Eldungeon2 [he/him]

So what’s the deal in the Azerbaijani Armenian conflict? Armenia was previously pro-Russia but new leader has pivoted west to the US to the extent of even asking for US protection now. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan is ( politically ) supported by Turkiye? There is also a Russian peace keeping force in Nagorno-Karabakh. Is this internal NATO infighting between Turkiye and the US? Has Russia sold Armenia out (prosumably ceding to Turkiye and Azerbaijan)? What the heck is the real balance of forces on the ground and how invested are they. Can we get some dialectical materialist analysis up in this shit?

I know right, I’m shitting razor blades over here

It’d be funny if Russia turns it negative demographic growth by returning to a slightly more productive economy and a slightly less financialized economy. I know it’s wartime economics but would be nice to see materialist dialectics working in real time.

True enough. I see Putin much the same as Deng in China but he was unsuccessful in gaining western capital investment while trying to maintain some sort of national control over their economy. Russia and Putin have been seeking to join the international capitalist system as relative equals and were repeatedly rejected and diminished by the west until they were in a corner in UKR and lashed out. They’re now simply playing out plan B - anti US hegemony/multi-polarity. They’re entering into capitalist competition on a global development scale, alongside China and BRICS to both enrich and protect themselves more than anything. I can’t really think of a more materialist situation where the west is forced into unfavorable conflicts to satiate our outrageous debt ratios while keeping profit margins high. Meanwhile the East and global south are being channeled into a relationship of convenience in opposition to the West.

Mississippi God Damn

There’s definitely evidence of them shitting mine, the bois at Langley did a forensic examination of the skid stains and borscht doo doo ass is typical KGB bullshit

Recommend bullshit jobs by Graeber for the monthly book club lol

On the assassination in Ecuador, of candidate Villavincencio from the Real News Network https://youtu.be/RL1wjVELzDs

Looks like Gonzalez, the Correa-ist candidate is facing a lot of right wing accusations that the left assinated him to consolidate the vote. Seems very unlikely or dubious at best. But guy is actually right wing and would probably pull votes to other right wing candidates

UKR is evacuating an unspecified ‘key’ town in Kharkov region due to RUS advance RT reports

https://www.rt.com/russia/581098-ukraine-orders-evacuation-key-town/

Here’s a minute video from Breakthrough News about the 30,000 rally in support of the coup/junta

https://youtu.be/gflPjawDR6E

Their face when you say median family disposable income is rapidly falling

Haiti 🇭🇹 doesn’t need foreign occupation it needs the west to let Democracy do it’s lib magic by letting Lavalas finally rule without interference, oh wait they’re doing Democracy the wrong way. Hillary Clinton also fought to keep the Haitian minimum wage at 27 cents per hour versus a rise to 61 cents per hour. US been pulling the strings since 1915. More Dessalines less Louverture

Seeing how the ECOWAS is not actually prepared to invade, and in response to the popular support in Niamy for the coup, I’d guess the Western parties don’t have the horses to actually do anything. The paper tiger shows itself again. Nuland is trying to buy them out or discipline them and without success apparently.