It’s true, having the fascists win would end the war in Ukraine. Not in a way that wouldn’t be genocidal to the Ukrainians, and it would simply replace it with a war in Lithuania or Poland or Finland next…but it would end that war.
A bad peace is worse than war. –Tacitus
Meanwhile, new evidence highlights how the RRC entered an official partnership with an organization that is under Western sanctions for “re-educating” children that Russia has deported from occupied Ukraine. The RRC also routinely engages with Russia’s patriotic military camps, which teach children as young as 8 how to fire Kalashnikov automatic rifles and participate in close-combat.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/politics/us-announces-weapons-package-ukraine/index.html
(Diverted from Israel?)
In occupied Ukraine, people don’t have to go to vote - the ballot boxes find them
Hungary too. When Orban gets fucked out Russia would invade Hungary.
‘The fight is continuing’: a decade of Russian rule has not silenced Ukrainian voices in Crimea
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The fact that this was published shows that Dugin is not protected by the Kremlin.
The author is condemning Dugin as a way to get around censorship and condemn the vision of eternal total war that is espoused by the state and Putin himself.
Definitely not. Putin allowed the military faction to kill Dugin’s daughter, and it’s possible the car bomb was meant for the old fascist theorist himself.
Not the first country Russia will try to overcome next, but they see which way the wind is blowing:
A response to Simon Jenkins:
If turnout and support flag in line with a generalised anxiety regarding how this war ever reaches a conclusion - particularly a war which is pitched as a never-ending conflict with the West - then it will look as though Putin has made a terrible mistake. This he cannot allow.
“It’s like Churchill saying that dictators ride on tigers they dare not dismount,” says David Kankia of the Russian electoral monitoring movement, Golos.
“We have a war crisis, a political crisis inside and outside the country. And if he gets less than he did six years ago, that will mean he doesn’t have the support of his people and that will crush his system.”
It is also a way of proving to those who might feel at the very least some disquiet about the course their country is taking, that they are in the minority.
