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Charles Kelly's avatar

During his welcome speech to the Chinese President on May 8, I remember the Russian President mentioning their losses in WW2 as 27 million Russians and 37 million Chinese. Those numbers are about 100 times greater than the losses of the Allies who only entered the conflict in June 1944.

Holllywood still tries to make us believe the Allies won the war.

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Klonda56's avatar

Unfortunately the neocolonial alkiance is determined to do the only thing it knows how to do these days: fling missiles at anyone making progress peacefully and helping others to do so. Because that's at "threat" to the prospects of western oligarchs getting even richer.

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Longtrail's avatar

Rump the zionist is an ignorant fool with delusions of grandeur. He's a fitting president for a delusional nation full of fatal overconfidence.

It's hard to imagine that I was once a zionist, a neocon and thought I had no choice but being a MAGA Freak. What a fool I was!

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Ahenobarbus's avatar

Um, that effort officially failed in 2022 when US Imperialism pushed Russia to initiate its SMO with the goal of neutralizing the neo Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine. You might remember, shortly thereafter, Xi met with Putin and publicly described their partnership as "no limits". You may not remember that though. The Western press willfully failed to report it and it's epoch making significance for over a year. Almost as though it could not see past its own delusions as to how clever Imperialism's incursions into Russia via Ukraine were.

I'm not a Trump supporter, but there is a dangerous tendency developing in the bourgeois press which seeks to put the blame for all Imperialist sins of the last 40 years on the easy target Trump. He is a continuation of all of it, but making him the scapegoat will only aid the rival Imperialist party in coming to power again and doing the exact same thing!

Trump is just a billionaire useful idiot which elements of the doomed ruling class have hitched themselves to in desperation. He will be replaced by another. Sowing illusions about burning the witch Trump and saving "democracy" only aid Imperialism.

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Monsoon's avatar

Exactly. The problems are structural. Trump is merely what capitalism vomits up when faced with the decline of its imperial hegemony.

I fear the power of the corporate media and its sinister culture will continue to obfuscate the issues.

Binary thinking is not what we need.

We need class consciousness and a movement that goes with it.

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ahenobarbus's avatar

Amen, baby!

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Monsoon's avatar

Man is a wolf to man. We have become our own executioners, through mind control and the manipulation of perceptions and the psyche.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

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TanSkeptic's avatar

CHINA BUILT- HELP OTHER COUNTRIES PROGRESS WITH THEM WHILE FASCIST COLONIAL NAZI USA EUROPE LOOT ROB GENOCIDE DESTROY COUNTRIES FOR MINERAL RESOURCES FOR ZIONIST MASTERS AND CORPORATIONS

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Brenda Hazelhurst's avatar

Russia, China and Iran joined at the hip and then there's North Korea

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Larry's avatar

Bite me Rubio

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Robert Billyard's avatar

The grieving and denialism over empires lost must end. The great disconnect is upon us.

Demagoguery can only exist where societies are broken, fragmented and corrupted existing as failed states. Where too many wars have been fought, too much moral and fiscal capital squandered the road back becomes longer and more tortuous with each passing day. Delusional megalomania must be thwarted in favor of dynamic and resolute reform. Reform must be pursued with uncompromising assiduousness and impervious to sordid corruptions by the hand of retrograde despots. The pure evil of our times must be squelched out of existence for a new equilibrium and real democracy.

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Monsoon's avatar

Reform? Or revolution?

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Charles Kelly's avatar

The 2024 movie "Civil War" presents the scenario!

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Karri The Best Lira's avatar

Well Failure is what he is best at.

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Charles Kelly's avatar

I have been to Iran and Russia, I love Chinese food and could chat with Kim about basketball. I have no enemies!

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