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WASBAPPIN, what is your opinion on the India-Pakistan conflict? Both countries have nukes, India's a traditional ally of Russia, Pakistan's a traditional ally of China. India has leaned towards Assad as a result of a shared membership in the non-alignment movement, Pakistan hasn't declared that they support the Syrian rebels but their alliances with Saudi Arabia and Turkey show that there is some bias against him. But, recently Pakistan has been aligning with Russia, engaging in trade deals with them despite the sanctions and refusing to vote against them in the UN. They also played a role in America's defeat in Afghanistan and arguably are the only reason Taliban still stands, and are currently normalizing with Assad. Are both countries herrenvolk states?

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@LeftistsAreF "LeftistsAreFascists" has much to say about this subject so I defer to them on it, but it sadly appears that is what is happening, if both have not arrived already. I think the sanctions regime enacted against Russia will accelerate developments in one way or another. They may provide space for Russia to act as mediator between India and China while integrating India into the Axis economic system. Pakistan would follow the gravity of such moves. Hence why I'm lukewarm about them and would prefer to see a military solution enacted now in Ukraine and Syria. Though I do support measures which make the average Russian suffer, I think the sanctions regime is more reflective of the domestic aims of the America First wings and is borne of a failure to imagine what interstate war would look like in a globalized economy (trade flows would continue more or less uninterrupted).

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BAPPY, where are you? It's been over a month. Youre getting everything you want in politics right now: your beloved Blob is using Ukraine as a proxy to fight Russia indefinitely, antifa is already doxing and threatening anyone who refuses to call Russian attacks in Ukraine gEnOcIdE, ordinary shitlib winemoms are braying for a nuclear strike to wipe out Russia once and for all. Biden, facing electoral catastrophe, is incentivized to escalate the war past the proxy phase; NATO may directly confront Russia soon. The Doomsday Clock hasnt been this close to midnight since 1983. BAPPINISM is triumphing right now; why arent you gloating? Where are you?

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Not at all - the military-demobilization complex, aka the actual Blob, insofar as it exists, is working overtime to preserve Russia and starve Ukraine of arms under flimsy technocratic pretenses. They make a show of a handful of outdated systems with a sub-billion price tag, which their leftist flunkies then hype as WW3-in-a-box, thus taking the heat off the complex to actually stop Russia now instead of dragging this out for years like they did with Syria, all to ensure an Axis victory that preserves "stability." All hope rests on Biden's escape from Obamaworld, which may happen simply due to his obstinance (Afghanistan cut both ways), regardless of how much Psaki, the Blinken Boys, and the rest of the Obama alums who buried Syria and got Putin to where he is now try to erase and enable Putin's Ukrainian Genocide so their "legacy" is never called into question.

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Wasbappin. any views on the newest developments as the Second Holodomor is starting again.

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Hi BAPPY, I am curious to know if you plan on suing Vaush for stealing your anarcho-neoconservative gimmick. Or maybe challenge him to a duel? You did it when it was stunning and brave; he's doing it now, after Russia has begun invading Ukraine, that it is cheap and easy - hardly seems fair! Pretty crummy of him to not even give you any credit for being a pioneer of woke imperialism 😞

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The anarcho-neocon spot is open as I've always regarded neocons as, at best, co-belligerents, and more often than not diametrically opposed to our movement's agenda. Yes, I am aware of their genealogy. They are conservatives first and foremost.

As to the Vaushites, I would like to personally thank them for growing my Monke Putin collection and making Tiny Putin images easier to find, as GRUgle has done its best to bury them from image search. However, it remains to be seen if they can adopt true antifascist principles or if they will stall out as yet another ring of pseudoresistance akin to Thorneists-Warrenists, Globehawks, or our own defectors. Ideally, Vaushites would move beyond anodyne Putin is Bad, Support Ukraine discourse push for military intervention for Ukrainians before millions of them are dead or displaced. I don't suspect that will happen.

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