They comply with UN sanctions. Unfortunately these are very hard to reverse and it would be impossible for China to continue to credibly championing the UN and international law as opposed to the West's "rules based order" without abiding by UN resolutions. Much of the global south is still being regularly blackmailed and pressured by the US into voting the way the US wants them to in the UN. Over time this will slowly change as the US grows weaker and the global south stronger and more independent, and then these unjust and absurd sanctions will be lifted because most of the world has no issues with the DPRK.

Clearly it was a poor decision to have that command be useable by anyone. It should be exclusive to the server's mods so that images can be vetted.

If that is not possible or not within your skill set to do then it may be wise to just switch the plugin off altogether until a safe solution can be found.

Luka was almost certainly acting on behalf of the Kremlin because for image purposes the Kremlin could not be seen to be the ones making the offer of leniency to traitors, they needed to be the bad cop to Lukashenko's good cop. In the interest of avoiding a dangerous escalation Luka was used as an ostensible (but not really) "third party" to give the leaders of the mutiny who had backed themselves into a corner a way to still get out of this with their lives so that they wouldn't fight to the death and take valuable rank and file soldiers with them.

We don't know what the terms were exactly, we'll have to wait and see, but from what has been openly stated at least there is no indication that any of the demands of the mutineers were conceded to, personnel changes were not even discussed (imo there was never a snowball's chance in hell of the government agreeing to that, can you imagine how bad it would be for discipline to allow some uppity mercs to dictate who the commanders of the armed forces are? it would be an enormous violation of the chain of command!), and the integration of Wagner into the official armed forces has only accelerated.

On the whole i think this was unavoidable at some point because the contradiction of giving so much power and prominence to a mercenary group was always going to create conflict, but the way it was handled was just about the optimal way to do it and Russia will come out of this stronger. There will be some who will say that Russia should have foreseen this and not allowed it to come this far in the first place, and maybe that is true, but maybe it was also good it happened the way it did because it offers an opportunity for a more thorough cleanse and a more decisive break with previous policy toward PMCs.

More consolidation under the official state power structures is a good thing for when communists take over again. Mercenaries with too much influence and autonomy would be a nasty problem to deal with. And at the very least the image of Wagner and especially that of certain personalities involved with it is irreversibly tarnished in the eyes of the Russian public, and again i can't say that that is bad, they were getting too full of themselves and starting to have a negative morale impact by denigrating the performance of the regular armed forces without whom they could never have even operated the way they did to begin with.

Спасибо Батя

Several different events happened in 1917. He could also be referring to the failed Kornilov coup. He could be referring to the forced abdication of the Tsar and the establishment of Kerensky's provisional government. But given that we know that he is an anti-communist and despises Lenin the likeliest option is that he means the October revolution and the subsequent signing of Brest-Litovsk which is viewed by Russian nationalists as a sort of stab in the back as they believe they were winning and that was a needless capitulation.

The West doesn't do diplomacy. Diplomacy as you rightly say is about understanding and acknowledging both sides' interests and motivations. The West refuses to acknowledge that anyone outside of the West even has any legitimate interests, let alone try to understand how they think or view the world. The unipolar moment that they briefly enjoyed in the 90s has imbued them with a boundless arrogance and hubris, and the belief that they can simply bully their way into getting everyone else to do what they want. As such any "deals" or concessions that they appear to make are just tactical ploys and deceptions that they have no intention whatsoever of honoring. They will say one thing and immediately do the opposite.

I don't know if i have enough knowledge on the theory of Protracted People's War to say how it differs from regular guerilla warfare, but certainly the kind of guerilla warfare that for example Che Guevara describes in his famous manual on guerilla warfare seems to either have arrived independently at some of the same strategies or have been inspired by it.

As for the various ultra-left tendencies, i am on the whole not too worried about them. I personally gravitate towards believing in a kind of natural selection of ideologies in the sense that those ideological frameworks that are not rooted in reality will, over time, tend to be supplanted by those that are simply because the latter will invariably achieve better results in practice. Maoism has all but died out as a politically relevant ideology with the exception of a few frozen guerilla conflicts that have been treading water for decades never actually managing to seize state power.

Of course the degree to which such idealism manages to take root in the revolutionary movement, even if only temporarily, still matters because it can weaken revolutionary forces and delay their victory or cause them to blunder into some pretty serious setbacks. It is for this reason that COINTELPRO has tried to foster ultra left deviationism, promoting it over the ideologies that have an actual track record of success and which the bourgeois state actually fears.

But as it becomes increasingly impossible to deny the success of AES states and all of the progress and development that they are achieving, it will be harder and harder to still convince people to subscribe to these unserious and by now mostly meme ideologies. They will still exist in niche online communities but the people doing real work in the real world will have very little interest in them.

Oh wow, really? Well in that case i am very positively surprised. I have become so jaded and cynical about the state of leftist politics in Europe, and in particular in Germany where i am the most familiar with the political scene, that i fully did not expect to hear this sort of challenge to the Atlanticist narrative coming from the left. That's great! There are maybe a handful of voices on the left in Germany who would dare to say something like this, but i doubt any of them would be allowed to speak in parliament. So it's been largely left up to the AfD to play the role of skeptics on this issue, which only further reinforces the notion that anyone who questions the narrative is a crazy conspiracy theorist.

Awesome work comrade! Just one small correction in case you want to repost this somewhere else: you wrote "in order to compromise for rising energy costs", i believe you meant "compensate". Oh and where you wrote "a big priority of them" i believe it's supposed to be "of theirs". Grammar pedantry aside this is all wonderful to read and while it is just a small start it is of immense value to the struggle. Not only is it beneficial for communists to gain practical experience in actually governing and dealing with the day to day problems and needs of a community, but successes like this help to boost the standing of communists in the eyes of the people, it earns the trust of the masses and does more to attract people to communism than any amount of pure propaganda work ever could (not that propaganda work isn't also important). Small local government successes such as this coupled with vigorous workplace organizing efforts and other direct action initiatives are a very effective combo.

By "10 years of democracy" they mean the 1990s, when the drunk Yeltsin dissolved the parliament with tanks, when he increased the executive powers of the presidency under the pretext of the emergency situation to the point that he basically ruled by decree for most of his time in office, when the US literally openly admitted to rigging the election so that the communists wouldn't win, and when Russia experienced the worst inflation and economic crash in its entire modern history. In short, the "good, democratic Russia" that Westerners and Russian libs like is Russia during its Decade of Humiliation, when it was on its knees, being plundered and robbed by Western capital, its people committing suicide en masse, crime and gangs running rampant, and the country itself barely hanging on almost to the point of falling apart and being even further balkanized due to the terrorist insurgency in the Caucasus that British and American intelligence services had orchestrated.

Of course they are furious that someone came along and put a stop to that. They hoped for that "democracy" to continue, they wanted to "democratize" Russia to pieces like they did Yugoslavia, to rip entire chunks out of it and make Western controlled puppet states out of them where they would get to put their military bases into to surround whatever core was left of Russia and permanently keep it from ever reconstituting itself while the West got to extract all of Russia's wealth in natural resources for themselves. And why? Because that is the only thing that at this point could give their morbund capitalism a much needed infusion of vitality, even if only temporarily.

Yes that is a debatable point. It brings up once again the old concept of labor aristocracy and we have to ask ourselves to what extent do the material interests that have been formed in the imperial core even allow for the development of true revolutionary potential...

I myself find that i alternate between doomerism and revolutionary optimism on this topic. On the one hand i am perpetually disappointed seeing how bribed and/or complicit the population of the imperial core is, their lack of class consciousness and solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the global south... but on the other hand it feels wrong and elitist to simply discard the majority of the western masses as inherently reactionary.

Because how can one call onesself a communist if one does not trust in the masses? As a communist i am part of the masses, i am not above them, i am not better than them, i am not smarter than them, i just happen to have had my eyes opened a little earlier than the rest, and if i could come to the correct conclusions and learn to reject liberalism, idealism and reactionary prejudices then so can they.

It would be easy to give in to the temptation to simply discard the majority of Americans as reactionary so that i could feel superior, especially as i am not American so i could pretend like my own country is somehow better, but frankly from what i've seen and experienced so far it's really not.

Sure, maybe their material circumstances will have to change first in some way before that kind of change can take place on a scale large enough to begin to make real difference, but it can and it will happen eventually.

Russia is not in decline, at the moment it is on a trajectory toward regaining its former status as a superpower. The economic war launched by the West against it has backfired and has only made Russia stronger, as a result of sanctions Russia has reoriented its economy and strengthened its domestic capacities.

The kinetic war which was launched by NATO against Russia through the use of the Ukraine proxy has led to a reboot of much of Russia's dormant military industrial capacities, an expansion of the Russian military, and is giving Russia invaluable experience in what it means to fight a war with modern technology.

This is a fight against the unchecked global hegemony of the US empire. It is no coincidence that the global south has overwhelmingly aligned with Russia. Russia and China are the leaders of a global anti-hegemonic coalition that is growing by the day. Neither of the two for the time being shows any intentions of replacing the US. Both are heavily pushing multipolarity.

And if any one fact more than anything else should tell you that you should support Russia in this conflict it is that the DPRK does so. Throughout its entire history the DPRK's track record on global conflicts has been spotless. Do you really thing you know better than the world's most successful communist parties, the CPC and the WPK, not to mention Russia's own KPRF?