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2022-02-25 06:11:44 https://twitter.com/jnadcyn/status/1497021981773942792?s=12 Open / Comment

2022-02-25 05:46:53 TOMORROW Open / Comment

2022-02-24 06:21:18 Putin lays out his objectives here: https://tass.com/world/1408595

"Therefore, the main point - is demilitarization of the modern Ukraine to a certain degree, because this is the only objectively controllable factor, which could be supervised and which could be reacted to."

Moscow cannot allow restoration of Ukraine’s nuclear power status, which Ukrainian authorities talk about.

"Even acquisition of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine means a strategic threat for us," he said.

I don't see how Russia can achieve these objectives without a move on Kyiv. Ukraine have made it clear they'd rather fight than accept Russian terms, so a fight they will get.

This is the best write up on how we can realistically expect a Russian invasion will go down that I've come across: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-02-21/russias-shock-and-awe

The Russian military would likely open its campaign with airstrikes targeting command-and-control systems, logistical centers, airports, air defenses, and other critical infrastructure.

Ukrainian air defenses are in short supply, and they would be unlikely to provide effective cover for most of the country’s ground troops. They would be quickly overwhelmed.

The main effort of Russia’s ground campaign would be to create a pincer movement from the north that encircled Kyiv and enveloped the bulk of Ukraine’s ground forces in the eastern part of the country. Russian formations would then cut off Ukrainian supply lines and fragment the Ukrainian military into isolated pockets surrounded by Russian troops.

Ukraine’s military is generally understaffed and has limited familiarity with warfare designed to surprise and disrupt enemies. Its ground forces are composed of thousands of conscripts with limited experience. Russian battalion tactical groups, by contrast, are filled with more skilled, contract servicemen. Ukraine’s air force is dated and stands no chance against its Russian counterpart. The Ukrainian navy is essentially a “mosquito navy” of small, armored gunboats. Although reliable numbers are hard to come by, Ukraine’s ground forces might field 50 to 60 battalions against the more than 120 currently mustered by the Russian army, and these battalions do not have the same levels of combat effectiveness. Russia has far more—and far better—artillery, reconnaissance, and logistical capabilities than Ukraine does. The Russian military would have the advantage along every axis of attack.

Ukraine is vast, which makes it impractical for the country’s inferior force to mount an effective defense against an invasion. The most logical strategy for the Ukrainian military would therefore be to fight an organized retreat, imposing as high a cost as it can on any Russian advance. Falling back to more defensible terrain, such as the Dnieper River, which runs through the middle of Ukraine, could help deplete Russian forces. But Ukrainian forces would fall victim to Russian air attacks as they retreated, and Russian ground forces would move quickly to try to surround Ukrainian formations. The Russian military would also move in from Belarus in the north, allowing many troops to avoid crossing the Dnieper River. They could then attack from both west and east of Kyiv and cut off the city from most of the Ukrainian army. The fight outside Kyiv might then entail a handful of Ukrainian brigades battling far more and far more powerful Russian forces, which would be supported by airborne units. This is a fight that Ukraine would almost certainly lose. Open / Comment

2022-02-24 06:20:03 A new era begins Open / Comment

2022-02-23 17:21:49 It's astounding what passes for "scholarship" in the academy, especially the softer social sciences. This isn't just just us patting ourselves on the back. You will still regularly hear "fascism as capitalism in decay" despite it being obvious to everyone for a century that fascism arose in societies dominated by agriculture.

These people are not smart and not interesting, there's just nothing there. They simply need to be bullied and their patrons need to be humiliated by association.

https://qrius.com/the-ecological-philosophy-of-right-wing-environmentalism/ Open / Comment

2022-02-23 02:37:21 Hello, everyone. I've started a Telegram channel now. I will be posting music old and new, on Odysee. Open / Comment

2022-02-22 16:04:23 The free market is a myth that Americanism imposes on other economies to hamper them—what Friedrich List calls "kicking away the ladder". Protectionism for me, but not for thee.

America was a protectionist nation in its growth phase and is now a corporatocracy in its maturity. (Proto-)fascist economists have known how this works this since the 19th century.

***BONUS*** Let's take a moment to laugh at reddit socialists quoting List, the OG nationalist economist, while at the same time demonstrating the classic leftist textwall meme style:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6b3p14/kicking_away_the_ladder_redux/ Open / Comment

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2022-02-21 16:35:39 The radical right punches above its weight class on history, philosophy, most social sciences. We're heirs to Nietzsche, Maistre, Spengler, and the whole ancient world.

But who are the great economists we look back to?

We often pass over economics—we're neither of the two major positions, capitalist or socialist. Is there no home for a third position in the West?

From 1850-1950 there was an American school of economics that's now memory-holed. This school was nationalist, it saw economics as something to be controlled by the state. America used this anti-free market policy to become an economic juggernaut. Germany too, and now China, who is currently handing our ass to us with our own school of thought.

You haven't heard about this school for the same reason you've been lied to about everything else before 1950. This school had a founder who laid the theoretical foundations for a truly nationalist economics—neither individualist nor internationalist. This Friday we'll introduce you to his major work. Open / Comment

2022-02-21 03:46:14 This would be far more dangerous, subversive, and revolutionary Open / Comment