Kieselguhr [none/use name] @ Kieselguhr @hexbear.net

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surely Russia has plenty of non-nuclear but extremely devastating rockets in their arsenal, no? What happened to the Oreshniks?

3 page summary

They specifically asked a comrade who read the whole thing to summarize it, a 3 page summary written by neoliberals is not going to be a historical materialist summary of the 150 pages

Do some self crit

They have zero values, not even pragmatism. It is just sophistry to save the status quo.

They are all for "lesser evil" if it's about electing a neoliberal ghoul, but when the lesser evil would be not arming Ukraine and trying diplomacy, then they will be all for absolute moralism, because of "western values"

Yeah but Putler is evil

The Chilcot report? What's that?

Back in the 50s in the newly established Eastern Bloc countries the communists forced (ex-)aristocrats to live as peasants for a few years.

They still complain about it.

Each according to their need, each according to their ability

wow that sounds horrible I don't know how someone could say such a horrid thing

The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas was tasked to follow up on a request made by the 27 leaders at their Council summit last week to engage with Israel and scope out further options for action against Tel Aviv if the situation in Gaza does not improve

We are too used to politicians being older than 45 (or even 60)

[Asking SEA focused Marxists economists:] why is this good for Vietnam? Shouldn't they be protectionist for a few more decades?

They literally have to go to the state barber every day to get the Kim haircut

The Median survey revealed that 86 percent of the Hungarian population supports the country's EU membership, and 91 percent supports NATO membership.

I guess a good chunk of these people would think Ukraine should be let into the EU because "The EU is a good thing and Ukrainians deserve good things"

IDEA Institute's nationally representative survey of 1,500 people, conducted in early April 2025, examined how members of the Hungarian adult population generally view the possibility of Ukraine's EU membership. The survey results show that more people agree with Ukraine's future EU membership, provided the still unknown conditions are met, than those who reject it. 45 percent of Hungarian adults agree that Ukraine should be a member of the European Union if it meets the accession conditions, and only 38 percent reject this. Furthermore, 17 percent of the population is uncertain about the issue, has mixed impressions, or is unable to take a position at all – the research concluded.

there have gotta be more ultra-pro-ukraine eurolibs

There are plenty. West vs. East is foundational in Hungarian political imagination, especially for liberals. Idealist essentialism is their thing. "West is inherently progressive and just", and "East is backwards and corrupt" etc.

They never arrived at the negation of the negation

The Hungarian government continuously campaigns against Zelensky and Von Der Leyen.

international law

I don’t even know her

I've only seen this one and the most recent short one about Iran

My impression is that he is a well-read high school history teacher who likes the game theory school of IR and he's not indoctrinated by western propaganda

Which means he's much better than your average talking heads you encounter in Western mainstream media

Not historical materialist it seems like, sadly there are not enough Marxist teachers of current geopolitics

It's funny how youtube algo sometimes actually boosts pertinent videos, like when the now-famous Mearsheimer lecture got a couple million views at the start of the SMO

Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap

On a "grand strategy" level USA is the leader, on the level of individual politicians AIPAC clearly has big influence.

Westerners criticizing their own governments and power structures would be authoritarian actually

A real critical thinking liberal only criticizes their governments' official enemies