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In portugal 2 red wine depots broke and red wine is just flooding down the street like a river it’s crazy 🇵🇹

I thought the point of a Wagenknecht party was that it could take votes FROM the afd (and others due to her being a popular figure), has she ever actually said that she’d work with that party?

Unless by “fascists” you mean anyone not very socially liberal, in that case I agree it’s my understanding that she wouldn’t close her party’s ranks to social conservatives.

I remember seeing a tweet a few weeks ago with Die Linke polling a 5% (as they have for years) saying “what’s even the point of die linke?” and…yeah sad to think they won’t even be able to hold on to what little they have because of this split

It would certainly help their image I think

Unrelated to anything but last weekend I went to the portuguese communist party’s Avante Festival where, besides a whole lot of cool fucking stuff, several communist/progressive parties are represented, some of them have restaurants others have stands and stuff.

The CPC stand, as usual, had some high tech gadjets as well as traditional chinese products at very good prices, how good? I walked away with a 250€ Xiaomi headset for 40€. Also got Cuban cigars and rum.

But yeah I encourage everyone to come every year it’s a lot of fun, here’s some photos and a video from last year, this was when the attacks on the party for our position on ukraine were the fiercest and this year even MORE people showed up which meant longer lines (which is very socialist) but also was very nice to see

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Cuba has plenty to lose by doing like Syria and the DPRK and fully backing Russia in this conflict, not the least of which is there diplomatic reputation but also whatever volume of trade they’re still able to have with, say, the EU and the west

Statement from the Cuban ministry of foreign affairs about cuban mercenaries in ukraine:

The Ministry of the Interior has detected and it is working to neutralize and dismantle a human trafficking network that operates from Russia in order to incorporate Cuban citizens living there and even some living in Cuba, into the military forces that participate in military operations in Ukraine. Attempts of this nature have been neutralized and criminal proceedings have been initiated against those involved in these activities.

This podcast interview with the author popped up on my feed

That’s just you

I don’t mean to shame anyone into getting out there, there are a multitude of valid reasons to not be able to do anything locally. There may not even exist anything local for you to get involved in. Hey, just not wanting to or not being confident enough to do it are fine too.

My problem is how that decision is interpreted, so I am shaming the moral position of renunciation masquerading as a politics that is I think the most common feature of the leftists you see online. If that weren’t the case you’d see a lot more activity irl because there are so many of these people online

You can’t pretend to be altruistic when your idea of peace is letting Putin forcibly annex all former Soviet states.

You’re a child

Yes. The point is to put an invading force on the defense

I think the russians are quite confortable being on the defense right now, seems like the defensive position has an inherent advantage in this war, ukraine had it at first.

You’re an idiot

If an end can be brought to the war that ensures that Ukraine maintains their own territory then obviously that is the ideal scenario

Emphasis on “ideal”

Dugin’s book states:

You’re paying more attention to that guy than anyone in russia with decision making power is.

There is no evidence that Russia ever seriously meant to give up its influence over the D/LPRs.

Minsk what? Ok no evidenc-Minsk 2 what?

Ya’ll could have a Minsk 3 and then 4 years of ukraine bombing people they supposedly want to reintegrate into their country and still find it hard to fault the ukranian state

some kind of smart and pragmatic leadership were to take over the US and kick the neocons out

That could happen, but plenty of “marxists” have given up their historic responsibility to take power and chosen to become third worldists that wait for poor people to save them while they sit on the wealthiest country on earth, or become “wait for the revolution” insurrectionists which is even worse.

I completely dodged your question to make a jab at internet leftists sorry

I can’t wait for the breathless western media coverage that vehemently condems this “disdain for democracy” while never ever ever ever ever delving into why the fuck these coups happen and why people might’ve been upset with the former regime.

I hope that there’s an equivalent of this piece, about the Niger coup and former PNDS regime, for Gabon soon.

I also found this Branko Milanovic piece on Brics and non-alignment worth a read

a policy that was economically good for (the population)

Isn’t Niger, like, one of the top 10 poorest countries on earth

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