Det här måste vara den mest korkade rubrik som någonsin figurerat på en vänsterblogg. Eller också har Tobias Hübinette nu definitivt gått över till västimperialismens läger. Detta är hans Rubicon. Hade jag väl sagt om jag varit marxist. Vilket jag inte är.
Eller snarare västimperialismen *av igår*...
Ja, men whatever. Även denna kan vara av intresse:
It seems the new strategy is the same as the old one. You know, support Ukraine and sanction the Russian Federation until Putin gets tired of it all. So I suppose the United States will no longer vote with North Korea in the UN General Assembly, then?
Is this the end of the labor wing of the CIA? The Social Democrats USA are rolling in their graves...
I actually agree with a recent statement by Pete Hegseth that Ukraine can´t become a NATO member and can´t go back to the pre-2014 borders. The maximum Ukraine can get would be a return to the 2022 status quo bellum ante. The problem, of course, is that Russia would see this as a defeat. They started the war precisely to upend this status quo. So they are unlikely to settle for anything less than keeping what they are currently holding - which is far more than they had before 2022.
And what is Hegseth proposing to do about *that*? He says in a recent interview that the EU should take most of the responsibility for lethal and nonlethal aid to Ukraine. This is a recipe for defeat since the EU simply doesn´t have enough military equipment (or even stamina) to defeat Russia. Hegseth´s proposal to hurt Russia by crashing the oil market prices is more interesting, but how realistic is it? Wouldn´t the Democrats have tried it already if it´s an obviously winning strategy? I don´t think they were *that* afraid of the Green lobby!
It´s also peculiar that Hegseth says he wants to prioritize the US confrontation with China, since Russia (for the nth time) *is a Chinese ally* and perhaps even a kind of Chinese proxy. How is winning the war in Ukraine *not* part of "confronting China"?
One reason why the war started is that Russia gave the Western powers a bizarre ultimatum, essentially demanding the dissolution or emasculation of NATO. Letting the European NATO members fight Russia alone sounds a bit too close for comfort to that scenario...
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John Michael Greer continues his Schopenhaueresque analysis of Wagner´s magna opera (pun intended). But he misses one point: Fabian socialism, ahem, worked for about 100 years...
OK, help me out here. So the ship recently boarded in the Gulf of Finland by the Finnish police has a flag of convenience from the Cook Islands, an obsure quasi-independent territory somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The ship is believed to be part of a "shadow fleet" controlled by Russia, the main purpose of which is to export Russian oil and hence break the Western sanctions. Finland suspects that the ship also sabotaged two underwater cabels connecting Finland and Estonia.
But the most interesting part of the equation here is surely the flag of convenience. So by not banning such anti-labor practices, the Western nations (including New Zealand, the actual overlord of the Cook Islands) have enabled Russia to bypass the sanctions.
Capitalist greed makes it more difficult to fight Russian imperialism. How ironic!
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A provocative thought. Panama wouldn´t even exist as an independent nation without US support. And the US built the Panama Canal. So why shouldn´t the United States take it back? :D
Vi får hoppas att "de sydkoreanska arbetarna" även kommer att försvara demokratin om den hotas av Vänsterpartiets gamla broderparti i norr...
Slag under bältet? Ja, kanske det, men jag är tillräckligt gammal för att komma ihåg när Nordkoreas fana ingick i Vänsterpartiets fanborg på första maj!
Okej, kan vi utesluta Turkiet ur NATO *nu* då? Och så lite roligt att Hübinette LARP-ar Max Shachtman...
BRICS är den största antivästerländska alliansen i historien
Okej, min rubrik är "click bait", men jag kunde inte låta bli. Dock lite överraskad över att La France Insoumise tillhör den anti-ryska vänstergruppen i EU-parlamentet. Trodde de var pro-ryska?
Intressant blogginlägg. Är T.H. bara historienörd, eller finns det ett dolt budskap i historien om hur spanska anarkister stödde västmakterna mot Hitler?
Why is everyone complaining about Tim Walz´ latest statements about trans-gender people? As a newly minted neo-Shachtmanite, I absolutely support the right of trans-gender people to fight the Viet Cong, the Pathet Lao and the Khmer Rouge in China, Indo-China, Coke-in-China or whatever the gooks call their damn jungles this ghost festival. Indeed, not only the right but the downright *duty* to do so. Why the heck the grandchildren of the hippie draft-dodgers would want to serve beats me too, but the times they are a´changing.
The United States are becoming less and less reliable as allies. I mean, who can trust the US if they let Turkey and Hungary call the shots within NATO, want to overthrow the government of Israel (that´s Israel for crying out loud) in the middle of a shooting war, or threaten to abandon Ukraine to Russia.
Maybe it *is* time for somebody else to take over as Überboyo Hegemon on this rock. Wanted: somebody who dislikes both Russia and China, and are ready to "get the bomb"...
India? Japan? The Federated States of Micronesia???
Asking for a friend named Max.
A month ago, super-exploited North Korean workers at a Chinese factory rioted, occupied the place and then beat one of the managers to death. North Korean *female* workers, to be exact.
Yes, really.
Or rather: we don´t know, but a Japanese newspaper claims that this did indeed happen about a month ago. There is certainly a context for the above, and I already linked to that article, but here we go again (see second link below).
Somewhat ironically, both pieces are from the right-wing populist site Breitbart News, presumably because the prove that Communism is a bad thing even for workers. Also, Breitbart are anti-Chinese. Still, the articles are worth reading. The short story is that China´s seafood industry is using virtual slave labor from the Pacific islands, North Korea and China itself. Much of the seafood is then exported to the United States!
I suppose it would be richly ironic if the North Korean Communist regime would be overthrown by workers from a capitalist "free zone"...
Angry North Korean workers occupy Chinese factory, beat owner to death
U.S. seafood industry tainted by Uyghur, North Korean slavery
Anti-NATO-propaganda i Aftonbladet.
Varnar för jätterisk med USA-insats: svenska krigsfartyg kan sänkas
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NATO:s befästa folkhem, närmare bestämt. Suhonen goes full SKP i denna debattartikel. Alltså 70-talets SKP. Välkommen i gänget. 1914 har aldrig känts skönare än idag!
Översättning: Vi kan be Turkiet och Ungern dra åt helvete. Eller?
Considering the bizarre character of the North Korean Communist regime, I get some kind of involuntary sympathies for these guys...
Apropos the end of the Korean War 70 years ago.
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Turkiet - den internationella skurkstaten? Vilken är den lagliga grunden för att *Turkiet* vill gripa någon för koranbränningar *i Sverige*?
Det här landet blockerar alltså Sveriges NATO-ansökan och vill bli medlemmar i EU (där det potentiellt kan kontrollera EU-parlamentet via allianser med nyttiga idioter).
Suspendera Turkiet från NATO. Do it now!
Anders Lindberg har upptäckt ett närmare 1000 år gammalt geopolitiskt faktum. Jag antar att "världen av igår" syftar på världen innan Anund Gårdske bet i det sura äpplet...
"Vi har varit naiva"?
