It wasn’t me, I swear I’m innocent!

Given the unaccounted for siphoning of arms by Azov and other brownshirt groups and their patrons, as well as Zelenskyy’s threats this past weekend, Nato will soon start talking about quelling terrorist threats within its own borders.

Gladio C is well and truly underway, and the consequences will be terrifying.

I’m honestly a bit surprised that his CIA handlers let him, but he is also a bit unhinged.

I wonder where MI6 spy cells are operating…

These AI things don’t do well with nuance and haven’t been trained on any socio-economic theory beyond neoliberal textbooks.

There was a thread on Lemmygrad in the last week or so discussing why libs always reach for the term state capitalism, there’s some good stuff in there.

Cooling more efficiently is definitely something we need to work on as well. I always imagine a symmetric system which can heat and cool using basically the same infrastructure, but I’m not sure how realistic that is.

District heating has been done, AFAIK, in small cities with smaller apartment blocks, big cities with apartment high rises, and suburbs and villages with primarily one or two family homes. It can also be used for industrial processes. I’m sure there are plenty of issues, such as energy losses during transport of heat from the source to the consumers, but nothing we can’t and haven’t overcome.

At its simplest, district heating just a central water heater for an area, where the hot water is then pumped into houses to heat water for local heating and hot water needs. It can also be combined with heat pumps on the consumption side to improve efficiency and reduce the need for a high temperature difference.

What has helped me frame these ideas is the concept of primary vs secondary (and tertiary and so on) contradictions.

Imperialism, specifically US led imperialism as there are no other imperialist forces at the moment, is the primary contradiction of our time. Russia, along with other capitalist nations such as India and Brazil as a part of BRICS, are contributing to the coming end of the imperialist contradiction. The ruling classes of these countries are our allies on this today, even though they are our class enemy tomorrow.

Once the primary contradiction is dealt with, a formerly secondary contradiction becomes primary. That will likely be the monopoly phase of capitalism. In that phase the capitalist nature of states such as Russia, India, and Brazil (just to name the examples from above) will be challenged and brought to an end.

And then we focus the struggle on to the next primary contradiction and so on. Such is the practice of a communist. I think that the struggle against dealing with contradictions is asymptotic, as in always approaching but never reaching a finished state, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth fighting to make people’s lives better.

I’m also wondering what’s going to happen with heating in general. In Germany for example heat pumps are all but required now for all new heating systems in homes. But why do we need to have one heater per home? District heating can be done far more efficiently than individual buildings, but it’s almost never considered. Of course companies can make a lot more money selling hundreds of thousands of gest pumps than they can building a few district heating systems. And those would again most likely be powered by fossil fuels, as existing ones outside of China and Russia are.

Anyway, I’ve just been thinking that there are alternatives, but instead profits and “individual responsibility” must be prioritized rather than the climate emergency.

It’s been done before and will be done again. I don’t think it’s conspiracy nutjob territory at all to consider connections between the state, and organized crime/drug cartels.

Welcome, stay a while and chat with us. You can expand your horizons or you can go back to reddit where anti-imperialist analysis and opinion are censored.

So a few things.

If the election weren’t legitimate, why do Crimeans still stand by the decision they supposedly made at gunpoint to this day? Why don’t they remember there being Russian soldiers being present during the referendum? Why would Ukrainian citizens be welcomed into Crimeans communities now if this had simply been a nationalist land grab? Why didn’t Ukraine invest in Crimean infrastructure and social services between 1991 and 2014? Why would Russia invest in that same infrastructure and social services post 2014? Why weren’t Russian citizens allowed to vote in the referendum, only Ukrainians with Crimean residency?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/return-russia-crimea-story-referendum-lives-since/262247

Comparing this situation to the relationship between the US and Iraq/Basra is grotesque and intellectually dishonest so there’s no point in discussing that further.

Am I missing something or is this tweet talking about a different person (Jens Stoltenberg)?

I remember reading that AFU couldn’t pull the trigger on HIMARS without US approval. If other US/Nato weapons systems are sold under the same rules that escalates this conflict well beyond the status of proxy war.

The drill will take place across Germany, Poland and the Baltics in February and March and forms part of a new training strategy that will see the military alliance carry out two big exercises every year, instead of one. Nato will also train to counter terrorist threats outside its immediate borders. Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said in June last year that the alliance would increase the number of its high-readiness forces from 40,000 to “well over 300,000”. It forms part of a historic overhaul to shift the alliance towards heavy military capabilities as opposed to the light and mobile forces deployed in the Balkans and Afghanistan.

These ghouls want to start WWIII so desperately. I hope one day soon we can teach them that they are in fact the terrorists.

Archive link for those with too little stress and anxiety in their lives: https://archive.ph/rji5T

You don’t have to register how you’ll vote, but in most states you have to register to say that you will vote. Depending on the state the rules are different. Sometimes you only have to register once per residence, sometimes you have to register for each election. And then there’s the whole “purging the voter rolls” silliness which some states use to try to exclude certain demographics from voting at all.

Not only that, elected and career US officials were present and active in the events.

If you’re trying to claim that these events were driven by “Russian interference,” I have some hacked voting machines to sell you.

The US effectively did. There’s no other explanation for why US elected and career officials were present in Ukraine during small and violent anti-government protests, and there’s no other explanation for how and why the US state department chose the next leader of Ukraine after the democratically elected and widely supported President Yanukovych was forced to flee in fear for his life. Ukraine for all practical purposes lost its sovereignty in February 2014.

If you’re talking about the small peninsula of Crimea, the residents of Crimea democratically chose to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia.

It’s not easy, but it’s very much worth taking some time to understand what sovereignty and democracy actually mean, both in theory and in practice.

Yes, in 2004 and 2014 by covert and “diplomatic” US forces.

This has never been about sovereignty and always about maintaining hegemonic imperialist control.

Indeed, accurate information is far less available in the US.