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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't think they ever will be completely obsolete, the paradigm will probably just shift away from big formations of big boats with big guns to smaller more maneuverable boats in smaller groups more specialized on long distance strike capabilities using drones and missiles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

That makes sense

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately and scarily, Russia is showing much of the same pattern as Germany in its most dark past, with the ruski mir looking more and more like the german lebensraum.

When you totally know what the lebensraum was.

The Nazis' lebensraum project wasn't just taking over a bunch of land in Europe, it was a settler colonial project inspired by the American policies of systematic forced displacement and extermination of the native populations under the doctrine manifest destiny.

Lebensraum was a pseudo-scientific racist theory formulated by pro-colonialism far right German thinkers, according to the lebensraum theory, a race needs a certain amount of space for themselves in order to attain their full potential and therefore need to take their necessary territory from "lesser" races by force. To summarise rapidly how it was developed, the German colonialists basically went "Look at America, they expanded to the west basically exterminating every native population in the way and replacing they with white settlers and now they're super rich and powerful, so if we exterminate a bunch of native populations, take over their land and put native Germans in their place, we should become super rich and powerful too".

The idea was put into practice in Namibia, then one of the German empire's colonies, resulting in the genocide of the Herero and Nama.

Fast forward a bit, Adolph Hitler was visited in prison by one of the main colonialist thinkers behind lebensraum theory and Hitler was rapidly convinced to adopt it.

And that's how was born the genocidal project of the Nazis in eastern Europe, just as their mentor the United States had rid "their" land of "lesser" north Americans natives to expand westward and make way for the "superior" whites, so would Germany rid eastern Europe of Jews and Slavs to make way for the "Aryans".

Now comes the question: is Russia doing any of that? Does the Russian government believe in and promote a theory that rank races to justify the extermination of "lesser" ones? Is Russia shoving Ukrainians (or anyone else) in concentration camps and "reservation"? Do they steal Ukrainians houses and invite Russian natives to go live in the stolen houses in Ukraine?

The answer to all of those questions is no. If you think it's yes you need to demonstrate it, saying "they look just like Nazis" without drawing any actual parallels between them is no better than saying "anyone I don't like is a Nazi".

The fact that all of russia’s puppet state demanded to join NATO (BTW: you cannot be invited it only works by writing an official demand to join and approval by all member state), is a revealing fact.

If a NATO country can somehow influence the elections and public opinion on NATO in those so called "Russian puppets", which they very much can, they can make sure to have pro-NATO politicians in power who will demand a NATO membership, that way they effectively force the country to join while making it look like it was voluntary.

As we saw in Ukraine, Russia does not need any reason to invade a sovereign nation (their reason for invading looking also stangely like german justification for poland invasion)

"Russia does not need any reason to invade[...] their reason for invading looking also stangely like..."

Look, if you're gonna spew bullshit, can't you at least keep it strait and somewhat coherent?

Putin didn't just wake up and decide he was feeling like invading something that day, whether you like it or not they had actual reasons to do it and the fact that you or I may or may not think those reasons are not legitimate does not matter since neither you nor I have a say in the Kremlin.

Also, once again you say "they look like Nazis" without showing why you think they look like Nazis. How are their reasons similar? Russia's stated reasons for invading are to prevent all of their western frontier neighbors to become part of a military alliance they deem aggressive to them and to stop the killing of ethnic Russians in the Donbas and Luhansk regions and overthrow the current far right government of Ukraine, how is that similar to the Nazi's excuses to invade Poland?

The countless horrors of torture, rape, murder and brainwashing by the russian state, seems to prove their reasoning right.

[citation needed]

That wouldn't be the first time the west has falsely accused an enemy of those things so I'm really gonna need a source for that.

I do not claim that the west is perfect, with the actions of the united states and other in recent times, but claiming that russia or china have clean hands would be outright hypocritical.

You claim that the west is systematically better than Russia, China and other countries that the west considers rivals or enemy (funny coincidence that those are all countries the west don't like isn't it) and when we demonstrate to you that this is bullshit since the west has literally done almost every single thing you accuse China, Russia, etc of, often in worst and more than once, you go "Ha but I think the west is bad too" so that you can continue pretending to be objective even after we expose you massive pro-west bias.

Thanks to the free press, the western world made their population aware of this wrong actions and helped steer them in the right direction.

The press in the west is not free, it's the private property of a handful of billionaires who, since they are their private properties, have complete control over what is or is not published in their outlets. I'd even say that given that the capitalists are the ruling class in the west, privately owned medias are really state owned medias with extra steps.

Not to mention the fact that western outlet are often in contact with organs of western governments, most notoriously with the CIA, who often dictate what the outlets should publish.

Just look at how they report on the genocide of Palestinians, does that look like fair and unbiased reporting to you? Those that look free pro Israel bias?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yellen made a point of shouting out Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 visit to manufacturing and export powerhouse Guangzhou. It marked a key milestone in China’s progress in becoming a market economy, one that Yellen hopes the Xi era will emulate by leveling playing fields for Western companies.

Liberals can't see beyond what's right in front of them as usual, without doing the smallest amount of investigations into Deng's reasoning for the market reforms she is preaching him as a liberal icon to peoples who know the actual reason why Deng did what he did. Having markets and bourgeois on a leash to develop the forces of production is pretty basic stuff and it's easy to find that it's what Deng wanted to do, but instead of looking into why on earth the chairman of a communist party would implement market reforms they saw that China's market was open to foreign markets and concluded that Deng was a liberal without any further investigations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This is "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong" 's evil twin "we investigated these peoples we don't like and found they did everything wrong"

 

Context: He is a Russian who live in France and is known for his videos comparing Russian and French culture. At the start of the the invasion in 2022, he bought on to western propaganda and fled Russia in a panic (he happened to be there at the time) and didn't return for 2 years. He finally returned to Russia recently and just published this video a few hours ago in which he give a pretty fair account of how Russia is really doing 2 years later.

The video is in french but the auto subtitles work decently enough.

I think this is interesting for 2 reasons:

  1. This is a big shift in opinion for him, back in 2022 he was firmly on Ukraine's side and in favor of the economic sanctions and now there he is telling to his audience that everyone who lost their mind about the sanctions were wrong and that Russia is actually doing even better than before the sanctions.

  2. He has a massive audience (>2M subscribers), this is the first time I see such a huge internet personality openly acknowledging the real economic situation in Russia, from a guy who is literally known for being Russian too.

He has 2 or 3 weird takes but otherwise the video is decently fair and nuanced.

 
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Washington's protectionism

More like Washington's begging daddy bourgeois to please stop exporting all the industry to the third world and exporting back home cheap goods.

 

This summaries the problem with radlib perfectly. We should show it to as many liberals as possible, not that it would actually sway most of them but still, nothing bad can come from confronting them with their own hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Not anymore but it was until the 90s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

France become the first country to explicitly include the right to terminate a pregnancy in its constitution.

No, Yugoslavia did it in the 70s.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwdhRGHd4C8

A press review from the french marxist-leninist organisation Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France, it's in french but auto-translating the french subtitles in english works decently enough if you are interested but don't speak french.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Interesting development.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

US try to not hurt itself in it's confusion challenge.

 
 

It’s so stupid I wonder if they’re not lying.

After the October loss, the Joint Chiefs began an overhaul and shifted toward a new concept they call “Expanded Maneuver.” Hyten wants the U.S. military to be ready to fight under this overhauled Joint Warfighting Concept by 2030, using many of today’s weapons, aircraft, and ships.

Earlier this month, Hyten released four directives to the services: one each for contested logistics; joint fires; Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2; and information advantage. On Monday, he revealed new details about these “functional battles.”

Contested logistics. Creating new ways to deliver fuel and supplies to front lines. U.S. Transportation Command and the Air Force are working on using rockets and a space trajectory to get large cargo spaceships into and out of battlefields.

So basicaly they want to have supply delivered to the frontline by reusable rockets. From the weight issues typical with space flight to how hard and expencive to produce even one of these, any amateur space geek can see why this is stupid. I guess the envisioned rocket for the job is the spaceship of Space x? Did the fucking pentagon drink the Musk coolaid?

Joint fires: “You have to aggregate to mass fires, but it doesn't have to be a physical aggregation,” Hyten said. “It could be a virtual aggregation for multiple domains; acting at the same time under a single command structure allows the fires to come in on anybody. It allows you to disaggregate to survive.” Hyten said the joint fires concept “is aspirational. It is unbelievably difficult to do.” And the military will have to figure out what part will be affordable and practical, he said.

So basicaly, they are sitting ducks to next gen artillery when they park a bunch of ships together a few kms from the coast to strike the land at a distance like they have been doing for decade and their solution to that is to stop parking a bunch of ships together. I like how this one is just « If lose when group then no lose when no group » but they talk about it like it’s an amaizing idea and then admit they have no concrete plan how they would do it.

JADC2: The Pentagon’s push to connect everything demands always-on, hackerproof networks, Hyten said. “The goal is to be fully connected to a combat cloud that has all information that you can access at any time, anyplace,” so that, like with joint fires, the data doesn’t get exposed or hacked because it’s housed in one centralized location, he said.

So decentralizing data storage so that even if they get hacked the hackers won’t have access to everything and only a limited amount of data will fall to enemy hands. Make sense but. That sound… basic… No? I don’t know much about computer science or military strategy but that sound like something that a principled army would have put in place like 20 years ago. Am I crazy?

Information advantage: This element is the sum of the first three, Hyten said: “If we can do the things I just described, the United States and our allies will have an information advantage over anybody that we could possibly face.”

Ok, I need someone who know strategy to enlighten me here. What is bro yapping about? Appart from maybe the JADC2 thing I don’t see how any of that would give them an informational advantage. Am I wrong?

What do you think comrades?

 

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