Because Trump still says reasonable things once in a while that is not completely detached from reality. The bar is that low. Desperate people will believe in anything.
It’s the same reason why many people in China and Russia like Trump, because once in a while he says stuff like this (there is even a tag that says this clip was the 12th most popular video on Bilibili at one point).
Israel is betting on Iran not wanting to be dragged into a regional war. The economic situation has’t been great for Iran with all the sanctions, it’s going to get even worse if a war is to happen (not to mention that many will be looking to flee the country if economic conditions continue to deteriorate). Most countries are not like Russia that can sustain itself and possess conditions that render it highly immune to Western sanctions (and even then, the impact is not insignificant).
So you end up in a situation where everyone is dragging their feet because they don’t want to start a war. And this is precisely what allows the US and Israel to keep calling everyone’s bluff and getting away with it.
Besides, everyone knows what the Zionists are capable of doing if they are truly on the brink of defeat. It is an ideology of ethnosupremacy with ethnic cleansing the Palestinians as their end goal, and the defeat of Israeli military would certainly mean the end of its ideology.
What do you think the believers would do when they have come to realize that their ethnosupremacist ideology can no longer be allowed to exist, that their dream of an Israeli state without Palestinians would have to be abandoned? Blowing up the world with nukes becomes the only option left for them. It is a rational decision for the irrationals.
I wasn’t going to respond, but let’s not throw around accusations here about “bait” and whatnot.
That question was inspired by Trueanon’s latest episode that covered how RT was recently caught trying to fund American right wing grifters like Tim Pool and his likes in a most incompetent and hilarious manner.
It wasn’t so much about how Russiagate made Trump win, but the fact that Russia is indeed trying (and failing) to influence the American political right. How hard is it to believe that some incompetent Russian intelligence officer named “Eduard Gregoriann” came up with some half baked plans that the Republicans fell hook, line and sinker for?
I simply asked if Project 2025 (which I don’t take nowhere as seriously as libs as I don’t think it will ever be realistically implemented) somehow had a Russian connection given its naming conventions (something I picked up on reading Soviet military history), but that was enough to invite a whole load of angry comments from Russia defenders on Hexbear which I truly did not expect.
Yeah people forget that Russia is a neoliberal hellhole.
After the crisis, the percentage of black homeowners with negative equity exploded by twenty-fold, from 0.7 percent to 14.2 percent — and unlike white families, did not reach its peak until 2013.
What insanity.
It was also extremely demoralizing with an attrition rate of 90%. Only a few thousand made it to Yan’an, and most people they started out with would perish along the journey.
The feat was extraordinary, and what determination it would take to keep the revolution alive at all cost. Nobody even knew what the future would look like for them, the challenges ahead of them, let alone their ultimate victory!
Well the screenshot says 26 days of non-stop walking. If you factor in rest and sleep, it could easily be a 2-3 months endeavor at minimum.
The Long March was nearly a year, and yes I agree, not even remotely comparable given that the Chinese communists were trekking through uncharted wilderness of the mountain ranges.
I shudder to think what would have happened to world history if they had just decided to give up instead of keeping the revolution alive at all cost.
To what end? To continue the brutalization of Africa, South America, the Pacific, etc. under the new shining sun of a Black president?
Don’t forget that Obama wiped out nearly half of the generational wealth of black communities in America overnight when he chose to bail out Wall Street by evicting 9 million American (predominantly black and Hispanic) families and transferred their properties to private capital ownership, one of the single largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the top 1% in American history. The wealth that black communities had accumulated over decades all ended up in the hands of private capital overnight thanks to Obama.
Well this site is probably the only place I feel comfortable asking stupid questions like this, but clearly I forgot that Hexbear is full of Putin’s strongest soldiers and treated as though I had just asked an idiotic question (it probably was).
Honestly I think American communists (if such a group even exists) should really prepare for a potential Long March if it ever comes to that.
This is nothing (~1500 miles on foot, likely on paved roads as well) compared to the Long March where Chinese communists trekked over 5600 miles through the most treacherous mountainous terrains across China while being pursued by the KMT set out to kill them.
Slightly unrelated, does anyone knows why podcasts like this never bothered to release their transcripts?
These episodes were scripted after all, so it’s not like they have to do extra work to get it down in written form. I’d even pay good money to purchase them but this has never been an option.
As someone who much prefer reading than listening because it’s so easy to miss small details when your attention wanders off for just a few seconds, it’s kinda frustrating. The same with the Revolutions podcast - so much details are packed into every episode and it would have been so much better to just being able to read them.
The Soviet Union and Russia use numbers as designation for many of its projects under development, and they are not assigned a name until serial production phase. Here’s an example of Soviet ship project numbers that follows this convention.
This extends beyond military projects though. In the USSR/Russia, research institutes are designated by numbers, as well as hospitals and schools etc. You don’t go to Libertyville High School, instead in Russia you go to “School 57” (Школа № 57).
China also largely follows the same numbering conventions for military projects, institutions, hospitals and schools.
Follow up to the IMF mission to Russia:
IMF scraps its mission to Moscow, Russian media reports
The IMF has indefinitely postponed its first official visit to Russia since President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine following criticism from several of Kyiv’s European allies, according to Russian state media.
The IMF’s leadership scrapped plans to begin a review of the Russian economy this week ahead of a trip to Moscow later this month because the mission was “technically not ready”, Alexsei Mozhin, the IMF’s executive director for Russia, told Tass news wire on Wednesday.
Mozhin said the last-minute decision was taken on Monday, the day preliminary talks were supposed to start. He suggested the U-turn had been prompted by objections from European countries to the IMF’s renewal of its ties with Russia.
In a letter seen by the Financial Times and signed by Poland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and non-EU members Iceland and Norway, ministers spoke about the “reputational risk” to the IMF and implied that such a visit would “diminish donors’ efforts and actions in supporting Ukraine through IMF initiatives”.
The visit “would be a sign for the international community that the IMF is ready to go back to business as usual, taking a step towards normalising relations with the aggressor”.
The European libs have prevented the reconciliation between Washington and Moscow lol. What a twist.
Once again the Russian libs get betrayed by their European “allies” who they love so much but that one-sided affection has never been reciprocated.
Honestly this site has always leaned more towards vibes-based discussion rather than actual material analysis. Can’t really fault that since this is a shitposting site after all and most of us come here after a day’s of hard work to relax and talk shit, not exactly to engage in profound intellectual discussion. If we’re restricting this to serious posting the number of active users will dwindle by a lot.
So a bit of vibeposting isn’t so bad as long as it keeps people engaged and come here to read the news and learn from/participate in the discussions going on in the news mega.
If the Europeans had been dreaming about MMT they would have called for abolishing the euro currency. The European left doesn’t even want to leave the eurozone. That’s how dire the situation is over there.
I don’t think the Russians really care about hiding their tracks, or are as competent as you think.
RT literally just got caught funding American right wingers in the most hilarious manner (Trueanon’s latest episode covered this). So the connection with the American right is there, I was just wondering specifically about Project 2025 because the naming convention came straight out of how Russians typically name things.
I was just curious because the naming convention is typical for Soviet/Russian projects. Americans would have named it Operation something something.
Didn’t expect the angry comments though. I should have known that Hexbear is full of Putin’s strongest soldiers before posting.
lmao this is such a Hexbear post. you really cannot find it anywhere else on the internet
It depends on how fast America can rebuild its own supply chain. If the Global South can form their own alternative economic bloc that decouples from the dollar, then there is very little reason to export to America.
When countries export stuff to places like China, they can actually get real, tangible things in return. When you export to America, you get junk papers in return. For now these junk papers are highly desirable, because you need them to purchase energy/food and pay back your debt, but would you still want to obtain junk papers when you no longer need them?
With so much of US consumer products dependent on foreign imports (seriously, name a Made in America product at your home, and even then, how many of its components are actually locally made), it will ultimately depend on what America can offer to the world that is attractive enough that other countries would want to sell their stuff to you. Hospitals, schools etc. still need supplies, many of which America no longer make. Maybe China can ship some humanitarian aid to America or something.
I think America can still sell fossil fuel and food, but those are fairly low value added goods and not nearly enough to sustain a high income economy. The country isn’t going to starve or anything, but it will no longer be able to get cheap consumer products like it used to.
That too. American politics is more like an entertainment in China haha.