This has been tried many times and history shows that it's a really effective way of getting yourself couped and get a brutal reactionary regime put in your place. The bourgeoisie is not burdened by any high-minded liberal ideals when it comes to preserving their wealth and power, they are going to do whatever it takes.

As well as the Netherlands, Denmark has received permission from their overlords in Washington to hand over F-16's to the Kiev government once the training of Ukrainian pilots is done. Surely this Wunderwaffe will turn the tide of the war and guarantee final Ukrainian victory.

When asked whether the permit means that Denmark is actually going to send the planes any time soon, Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says that the permit "means that a barrier to do that is no longer there. And together with our allies we are now discussing what the next step could be". Danish minister of defence Jakob Ellemann Jensen has commented that "the government has been saying several times that a donation is the next step after training. We discuss is with near allies and I expect that we can get more concrete about it soon"

The Danish government has cancelled promises to aid poor families with children, subjected higher education to an austerity regime and taken away a paid public holiday as the economy of the kingdom on the northern outskirts of Europe presumably is in dire straits.

Nobody likes the reactionary, misogynistic and homophobic Taliban movement and I'm sure everybody here wish something much better for the Afghan people. However, we live in the real world and not in the fairytale world of nicely aligned black and white ideals. The alternative to the Taliban is not fully automated luxury gay space communism but an American puppet government of unfathomably corrup compradors.

The Taliban are horrible but they've done things that are objectively good, like bringing law and order, stopping the opium trade, reining the warlords in and ending the foreign occupation. All of these are things the US puppet government failed miserably at.

In a wider geopolitical context the Taliban victory over the US empire has weakened the imperialists and helped make more breathing space for the global south to seek independence. This too is an objectively good development as US imperialism remains one of the largest impediments to socialism and global development.

I'm not denying that these things comes with a heavy price that the Afghan people are paying. But even if you reckon that Taliban rule is as bad or worse than US rule, you have to assess reactions to the Taliban by their material consequences rather than by what feeling the abstract idealism of a reaction gives you in your tummy. The current western policy towards Afghanistan is outright criminal and borderline genocidal. Sanctions never ever work. They didn't work against Cuba, China, Korea, Vietnam, the USSR, Venezuela, Iraq, Afghanistan in the 1990's or Russia and they're not going to work now. What they are already doing to Afghanistan is creating famine and suffering for Afghan people whose only crime was being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Taliban might be the worst regime in the world but isolating them, stealing their money, blockading them and funding terrorist groups inside the country is only going to hurt the average Afghan even more.

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Much to his dismay the conservative Putin realises that he has to do a form of minimal viable socialism if Russia is to survive and neoliberals begin falling out of windows.

The answer that'll really get you labelled as a Putin shill is that Russia shouldn't have stopped at Crimea back in 2014. Back then the Ukrainian state was much weaker than it is now and Russia could possibly have beat them a lot faster and consequently with a lot less lives lost compared to what's happening now.

I've noticed a slight shift in the reporting on Ukraine in Danish media. There's less of the "Our superior Wunderwaffen will crush Russia!" stuff and a lot more stuff about how challenging things are for the Ukrainian armed forces, some even go as far as saying that the counteroffensive has failed.

Theyre still campaigning to give Ukraine F-16's and seems to think that this time superior Aryan technology will change the tide of the war.

Something suggests that at least some of the sources that western media get their Ukraine content from is winding down their bellicose stance.

My mainstream TV news has an amazing segment. The title read:

No to retirement: Elderly who work are happier than those who retire

And then they go on to interview experts who talk about how elderly who work find purpose and enjoy the comradery with colleagues. Everything illustrated with the example of a smiling graphic designer who came out of retirement to do party time service work. Nobody talks about the elephant in the room: The elderly who are healthy enough to are also a lot happier than those who are too sick to work.

I'm so happy to live in a country with a free and objective press thatb doesn't just act as mouthpieces for elite propaganda!

Please tell me how you're imagining getting people like Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk to "work together instead of fighting" and give up their hoarded wealth. What short of sheer force would compel them to do that?

Utopian socialism would be nice if it worked but it patently does not. The bourgeoisie have a very fine time controlling the wealth of the world and they have nothing to gain by accepting democracy. Socialism, like any economic order, is only going to be a reality if it is enforced with violence. If somebody tries to undo the collective ownership to the means of production they will have to be stopped by force, just as force is applied today to stop people from violating bourgeois property rights.

"We liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it" — Marshal Zhukov,

Ukraine under his leadership has been acting up to the highest ethical ideals of the EU.

I agree with this sentence but I think we have very different ideas of what the "ethical ideals of the EU" are.

Virgin Putin

• Let's Prigo get away with an armed coup attempt
• Everybody laughs at him

Vs.

Chad Biden

• Has guy who wrote dumb threats against him online killed
• Strikes fear in the heart of his enemies