That’s a sure-fire sign of you having read it, comrade. Two trots are a party, three - an internationale, and four are a split in a trot internationale.
Edit: oh, sorry, you learned it from experience with IRL trots. Let’s just say that it doesn’t get a lot better on paper.
I mean, I knew mccarthyism isn’t so much dead as it just changed form, but man… The amount of clowns commenting on this with bullshit about “commie governor and mayor” inciting riots is quite something.
Guess it’s time to expand the Russian joke about Putin being the god of Ukraine, on account of him living rent free in Ukrainians’ heads…
You know, what with the whole “Trump does it to protect Greenland against Russia” thing.
It doesn’t. Mostly. It’s like this - court precedent can’t be a source of law in Russia, but Supreme Court’s interpretations of contentious stuff are effectively mandatory, because lower courts have to keep in mind they can end up being overruled if they make a ruling that goes against those interpretations. And the Supreme Court ends up dealing with contentious stuff when it’s brought before the Supreme Court. So the Supreme Court can kinda set precedents. But not the other courts. Not even kinda.
It is a social precedent though. Not sure what kind. I’m leaning towards bad as being anti-war right now isn’t a great way to earn support in Russia. So entangling the word “communist” with that isn’t great.
I dunno how intentional this was on Kremlin’s part, but yeah - I would be over here praying the EU does this if I still believed in God.
Eh. Before work isn’t much better, really. Living in interesting times means there is no good time for news, I guess.
Will Ukraine fight until the AFU collapses?
Most likely.
Will there be a coup?
Like, a pro-Russian one? Most unlikely.
Would a pro russian or neutral ukraine be established across all of what is currently the Ukraine, or will there be an attempt to make a “taiwan-ified” state in the west?
Strategically speaking, Russia needs the most industrialized regions and the entire shoreline. Demilitarization of the rest too. Which way what remains of “independent” Ukraine leans doesn’t matter a lot at that point, only that it remains. But it might be better for Russia, if it’s westward, so that Russia doesn’t have to rebuild at least that. Neutral status on paper though.
Which way what remains of “independent” Ukraine leans doesn’t matter a lot at that point, only that it remains.
I should clarify. That’s because the Russian government is clearly trying to do it “right”. SMO isn’t breaking international law, which is why there aren’t any sanctions, like, UN ones, only unilateral restrictions from individual countries(which are, ironically, illegal). Annexation of Ukraine wasn’t in the declared goals at any point. And leaving it be, albeit demilitarized, would be the final nail in the coffin of already ridiculous genocide allegations. Good for propaganda in a different way too. Independent Ukraine is yet another entity people in the West that have a good idea of what’s going on can point at as an example of NATO using up it’s supposes allies and leaving them the worse for wear, whereas annexing the entire thing just adds to the rUsSiAn ImPeRiAlIsT cOnQuErErS narrative, even if Ukraine asks for it till the end.
Seems pretty fair to me, considering the history of trots being CIA infested af starting with the man himself, who sold out comintern agents to proto-CIA.