Yeah, that really puts it into perspective how amazing it was. China starts out around the start of the green line there (Asia), and ends around the red line (Americas). That’s MASSIVELY ahead of the curve.

They’re losing the war at a rapidly increasing rate. But they have to spin it as a victory. They’ve been claiming this entire time that the Russians are throwing massive amounts of men and materiel at them in human waves. It makes sense to keep using that claim and say that Ukraine is cleverly exploiting the dumb Russian tactics to increase the attrition rate.

Of course that all falls apart even if you only read western media, if you read further than the headline. The reality is an underequipped, under trained, under staffed UAF being sent to the frontline in their mass. Pretty much the opposite of what’s advertised. You’re not supposed to remember that Russia has air superiority and at least a 3:1 advantage in artillery and drones. You aren’t supposed to see the military cemetaries in Ukraine adding hundreds of thousands of new plots.

You’re just expected to forget all that, and believe Zelensky when he says that there have been less than 40k casualties, and Russians are throwing themselves on the brave Ukrainian bayonettes. Then this makes sense.

Same flags as above:

1. war crime
2. anti terrorist operation
3. intelligence triumph

I read that article this morning. It’s a well oiled routine at this point. Russians are using human wave tactics in the first half, then the second half talks about massive Russian artillery and air superiority, and how the UAF is taking enormous losses.

I almost think that the reporter knows that their regular readership only reads headlines. But they still want to tell the truth.

Taking away the landowner’s serfs of course.

I very rarely click on video links. But I watched this one. It’s honestly not that earth shattering IMO. Russia has nearly encircled a fairly large area where there may or not be a sizeable chunk of UAF.

I do think that the end of the war is fast approaching, and we’ll see some real change this winter. But this isn’t it. This is a tactical victory, not a strategic one.

I found this article, which might be a clue. Estradiol starts as a cooking oil by-product. Hubei seems to be a hot spot for cooking oil plants, and I did find a few in that general area, although most of China’s production appears to be located northeast of there. That’s about as far as I got. I’m questioning the veracity of this, but it’s not worth it to me to prove it one way or the other. Details are becoming more difficult to dig up.

Completely agree. I haven’t worked up the courage, but it’s something I absolutely would like to do as a part time job. It’s a service like any other, and it should be treated as such.

Edit: to the downvoters, why? My body your choice?

A phenomenon I’ve noticed many a time, and I’m not a tinfoil hat wearing type. This is why anything smart gets removed when I want a serious talk.

Fun fact: in 1950, there were only 500 million people in China. That means that Mao killed half the population of China. That’s a little less than the raw percentage of population loss from the native population of North America in the 19th century (~600k in 1800 to 250k in 1890). Funnily enough, in 1979, the population of China had nearly doubled from the 1950 figures.

I guess we’ll never know what happened in North America, but that Mao guy sure was evil.

Of course it would be. Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather was absolutely not a nazi, and to claim otherwise is just Russian propaganda. This is a known fact, and that list would just confuse matters.

Not an American, but have spent a lot of time there. They have two right wing liberal parties, and a political system that actively resists any changes to that setup. As a result, they think that those are the two political extremes, and everything between them is centrist. Anyone outside of that is an extremist and not worthy of consideration. So when you criticise their party of choice, you obviously must be on the “other” side of the political spectrum, which to them is the other US political party.

They just don’t know any better, it’s outside of their realm of experience.

I’d not been following the war that closely until the Kursk invasion. I strongly believed it to be the beginning of the end. It makes absolutely zero strategic sense. Zelensky himself has waffled on what the point of it is. At this point it seems to be just a terrorist attack/PR stunt aimed at harming Russian civilians. That’s not really a good use of your best troops if you want to win a war. As we can see with the collapse of the Ukrainian fronts, which Ukraine is still not doing much about. This just isn’t sustainable.

Thank you. I’m drunk.

I know you can’t read my response, but thank you.

Lawn dart.

right here. Please repost for hexbear. They can’t see my posts in my own instance.

The problem with that question is that you get accusations of genocide. If you point out that it’s overblown and/or falsified to fit the narrative, it’s genocide denial. If you point out that the fine capitalist countries have done and are continuing to do worse than what they accuse communist countries of, it’s whattaboutism. If you continue to press, then the capitalist countries made a whoopsie, or it’s all the fault of one man, while communists are just bloodthirsty and evil. Evidenced by the genocide… And back to square one.

I understand that they’re likely a US bot of some kind. But this is just ridiculously dumb.

Uhhh… The racist little shit uploaded video of him and his friends committing arson. Source is in the link you posted. Wtf is this nonsense?