Please be careful not to conflate the official confirmation with Kots’s writing that you’re quoting in the OP. This whole “they swore to never be captured” thing is not officially confirmed and there should be a disclaimer about that.

Other than that, I think it’s fair to assume this must’ve been happening since this November announcement:

“From that moment, the Ukraine conflict previously provoked by the West acquired elements of a global nature, just as we warned more than once,” Putin said on Thursday, in a televised address to the nation.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/607999-putin-ukraine-conflict-global/

It makes sense that they participated in some combat, and I’m wondering why other anti-US countries like Venezuela aren’t at the very least sending generals to get some experience there.

Edit: Alexander Kots’s Wikipedia page is really funny:

Alexander Igorevich Kots (Russian: Александр Игоревич Коц; born 3 September 1978) is a Russian propagandist, fascist and war criminal promoting aggressive wars against independent states and genocide of their population.[a] He reports mostly for the tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and on his own channel on Telegram.

a: According to various international media such as Voice of America, British BBC, Ukrainian media, Israeli, Belarusian and others.

Indeed, it’s very strange that sovereign Ukraine is not the one negotiating this. They could just ignore Trump’s peace deal and keep on fighting without US support.

Surely they can manufacture their own weapons and fight their own war, and don’t need to bow down to US directives imposed from afar. Being the one holding the cards, they definitely don’t need to hear anything from Trump in order to negotiate with Russia.

It gets worse now that it’s being made available to people with disabilities and now with mental illness too. In Belgium there’s precedent for people being euthanised for being for autism. Only difference from the Nazis is that at least the Hans Asperger didn’t try to convince his patients they had to die.

Are these tariffs even being implemented or are they just “announced”? I can only imagine the chaos that customs workers must be going through.

Edit: Found an answer to my own question. It starts on may 2.

The Vietnam essay exists already 😄 https://criticalresist.substack.com/p/how-vietnam-decolonized-and-what

Nice!

And patsocs don’t deserve an essay of their own lol

I disagree. You quite clearly have some very developed thoughts on them that I’d like to read more about and comprehend better, and I believe right-opportunists should be mercilessly opposed from the cradle to the grave.

This is well meaning critique, but I think you mashed two really good essays into something lesser than they could’ve been. I’d be way more interested in either a thorough dissection of the organisation principles of Ho Chi Minh and specifically about General Giáp and another essay carefully tearing down whatever passes for Marxism in the US with clearer evidence and more neatly tied together.

As somebody who knows very little about both the CPV and the Yankee pseudoleft I look forward to more of your writing on these topics.

I think somebody on hexbear posted a tool on GitHub that is exactly that. Can’t remember the name though.

This is in line with “midtechs” in peripheral countries that operate “rideshare” and delivery apps becoming “fintechs” and offering banking services. After monopoly, the only path is always financialisation.

The Fifth Republic predates the 1968 strikes by 10 years. Maybe you’re mistaking that for May 1958 in which De Gaulle led a coup that actually toppled the Fourth Republic to “prevent communists” after crises caused by the Algerian War of Independence led by the FLN. That one was a successful counter revolution, though I’m open to the idea that it was a close one if evidence of that is presented. Besides all that, there’s nothing to celebrate about the Fifth Republic still existing as a “victory”.

But on the 1968 strikes and election, Pompidou went from Prime Minister to president, and was from the same party as Dr Gaulle, as was the new Prime Minister de Murville. The conservative UDR also gained seats. I may not be very knowledgeable about cold war French history, but you’re really not helping your arguments with such easily debunked claims.

The government wasn’t toppled, they just did a snap election. That’s like saying the UK government was toppled when Theresa May called one back when she couldn’t Brexit.

Also, on that same election the communists lost chairs. This is nowhere close to a successful revolution.

I may have been too harsh and knee-jerky on you on my first reply, but it’s seriously very important to acknowledge our past failures and self-crit in order to find the correct path to revolution. In Brazil the Communist Party split specifically because the party was ossified and the faction that left/was expelled wanted to seek better paths. There’s no shame in admitting that what has been tried did not work.

Pretty cool, thanks comrade!

Name one successful socialist revolution in the West.

One of my favourite things about lemmygrad is seeing informed comrades accurately predicting the near future through careful study. None of this “constant bewildered redditor” nonsense. I don’t remember all the users predicting this, but well done y’all.

Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak?

The interface is reddit-like, you must click the small image to view it properly. Not being logged in has nothing to do with it.

Wouldn’t the Yugoslavia War with bombing from NATO at least compete for the title of “bloodiest European war”?

Looks cool, I just don’t get why they include both the acronym which uses the word “alliance” and the name around it which uses the word “confederation”. A notion for a single federal government is pretty cool too.

A picture with all three together will probably be in some history books like the Yalta Conference photograph.

You see, Russia is invading for economic reasons, specifically those minerals, and not anything else, because they’re imperialist. So all support should be given to Ukraine, in their anti-imperialist war, so they can retain sovereignty over their resources and economy. \s

That is not even including all the debt.

USAmericans can’t read Spanish, I guess. State Dept has done the same thing with Petro, another false victory announced and then moved on from.