https://archive.ph/RtJOo

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10299915

Seems USA is now pirating Russian ships.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9273769

Check it out.

@yogthos@lemmygrad.ml

Also, first video in a while that involves Russia or Russians that doesn't lambast them or have a "BUT" at the end of it regarding the Kremlin or Russian government.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36768635

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9251545

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Corporate media expressed either surprise or, in some cases, downright glee after it was reported this week that Trump “switched sides” and now says Ukraine can win back all the territories taken by Russia during the ongoing war there.

Trump is suddenly praising Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for “putting up a helluva” fight against Russia and proving Ukraine can reclaim all the land the Russians have taken from them during three-and-a-half years of war.

Even when U.S. military aid to Ukraine was at its highest levels, Russia still made slow but steady gains in battle after battle. So, it makes little sense to expect that the Ukrainian army will suddenly be able to turn things around now given that U.S. battlefield support has been drastically curtailed under Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

MSNBC and other media outlets have reported that Ukraine is the “big beneficiary” of the president’s reversal. And President Volodymyr Zelensky is now praising Trump for “understanding the realities Ukraine faces.” The truth, however, could be something entirely different.

Under both Trump and Biden before him, the people of Ukraine—as a result of U.S. policy in the war—have known only suffering, death, and destruction as the U.S. and its European allies pursued a course of fighting a proxy war against Russia to, seemingly, the very last Ukrainian.

It’s true enough that Trump would like to see a Ukrainian victory so that U.S. corporations could grab the country’s mineral wealth and Russia would be knocked out as a potential ally to China. But there is something else entirely behind his flip-flop, and it’s not a sudden change of heart concerning the fate of the embattled Ukrainian people.

It should also come as no surprise that Trump has ended up in essentially the same place vis-a-vis the war in Ukraine that was occupied by former President Joe Biden. As the head of the world’s most powerful imperialist country, the American president commands a military machine spread around the globe, with over 800 bases surrounding not just Russia but also China, the primary long-term target of U.S. imperialism.

Tactics change, but the ultimate strategy under both Biden and Trump is the same: Weaken Russia and clear out obstacles on the U.S. imperialist path to challenging China—economically and militarily.

Part of that strategy necessitated the installation and maintenance of a government in Ukraine that is compliant with that strategy. It started with the expansion of NATO right up to the borders of Russia, followed by the U.S.-backed coup in 2014 that installed an unelected anti-Russian government, and continued with U.S. support for Zelensky.

The latter’s hold on power in Kiev has depended on continued U.S. patronage, not to mention on his tossing out almost every remnant of democracy in the country, including canceling elections, curbing freedom of the press, ending independent trade unions, banning most opposition political parties, and more.

The problem with the U.S. plan to fight a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, however, is that Russia was never going to allow Ukraine to be used as yet another NATO outpost on its borders, with more weapons and missiles positioned only minutes from Moscow.

Trump’s description of Russia, the world’s second nuclear power, this week as a “paper tiger” is, therefore, as absurd as it sounds. One need not be a fan of Vladimir Putin to recognize the Russian military’s capabilities.

U.S. imperialism has been able to keep Russian troops bogged down in a prolonged war somewhat akin to the situation the Soviet Union found itself in the 1980s, when it was fighting CIA-backed Islamist militants in Afghanistan. But as it turns out, the Russian military has not been fatally weakened in the Ukraine war in the way that U.S. strategists had hoped; they didn’t get the Afghanistan rerun they wanted.

The recent gains by Russia on the battlefield may have brought closer the day that U.S. imperialism will finally lose the war against Russia that it is fighting on Ukrainian soil. The alternative path the U.S could have taken, the curbing of NATO and cooperation and trade amongst the U.S., Europe, and Russia would have benefitted the people of the entire world. Unfortunately, U.S. imperialism followed a course of militarism and war.

Trump’s supposed change in perspective on the war, highlighted by his statement that Ukraine is now winning and can finally score victory—with the help of Europe, but not the U.S.—is nothing more than an excuse to wash his hands of what is, for the U.S., a losing proposition.

Unfortunately, the people of Ukraine have paid an unacceptably heavy price for the use of their country as a staging ground for greedy weapons makers. As for the people of the U.S., they have paid for the war with massive cuts in the essential services they need. The days in which the U.S. can win every single military adventure in which it engages are long over.

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More of the article in the link above.

You can see her here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBK-g-ge5SE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJiHcBEma90

https://archive.ph/6fZjC

A Moscow court has sentenced four journalists to five and a half years in prison each for allegedly participating in the activities of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF, ФБК in Russian), which the Kremlin has outlawed as an “extremist” organisation. The verdict was handed down after all hearings were held behind closed doors, with press and public barred from attending.

Чо вы где тут обитаете то

I honestly wish they sold something like this North America

I can see the that it means "Where" but how do you say when I break down the words I get the following:

g-d-ye t-ee

How do I pronounce it?

I have been told, that when entering foreign country address, I may be asked to verify passport details, I am unsure how it is when i enter russian address. I guess that when entering invalid address, I may be unable to claim my domain in case my domain registar bankrupt. Thank you in advance.

https://www.hosting.co.uk/register-domain/su-extension/ says:

.SU registry asks that companies provide a copy of the registering company's Certificate of Registration or an excerpt from the Commercial Register. Individuals are requested to provide their ID card or passport number.

https://manage.resellerclub.com/kb/answer/1336#heading_5 says:

For Individual: Registrant's Name (preferably in Russian); Passport Information: This needs to include the Document number, Issued by, Issued Date of the Passport. Birth Date: This needs to be entered as a numeric value in DD.MM.YYYY format.

https://wiki.hexonet.net/wiki/RU says:

for natural persons: passport copy (personal details and issuance data)

Middle man style services:

https://xuid.ru/domains.php - "No Personal information required."

News in Russian:

В России рекордно низкая безработица — в апреле она составила 2,6%. Значительно снизилась молодежная безработица.

https://meduza.io/paragraph/2024/06/07/v-rossii-edyat-v-dva-raza-bolshe-myasa-chem-v-drugih-stranah-mira-tempy-rosta-nashey-ekonomiki-vyshe-srednemirovyh-my-obognali-yaponiyu

The facts:

The number of young workers in Russia fell by 1.33 million people between December 2021 and December 2022.

That is the second-largest decrease in recorded history behind the pandemic year of 2020, when 1.34 million young Russians left the job market.

Finexpertiza’s research shows a decrease of 87,000 workers aged 20-24 from December 2021-December 2022 to a total of 3.2 million.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/04/11/russia-lost-13m-young-workers-in-2022-research-a80784

I am referring to the way out of the dangerous military and political situation that has developed in the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, with its military and political might, significantly limited the aggressive policy of the United States in the world. Today, the U.S. has no restrictions on the implementation of its imperialist policies throughout the world. I am in my ninety-fourth year of life. I am a historian and an officer of the Soviet Army of the Air Defense Forces. Participant of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I served in the Soviet Army during the active period of the so-called “cold war”. And we, the officers of the Soviet Army, saw and participated in operations to limit the military-political activities of the United States.

#The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Russophobia With the collapse of the socialist camp of the Soviet Union, the United States no longer has the restrictions that existed under the Soviet Union to implement its dirty policy. China? China only defends its interests. And it will never aggravate relations with the United States.

The Anglo-Saxons sought to destroy the Soviet Union from the very first day of its emergence. Hitler failed, “Uncle Sema” succeeded. It was possible with the active help of the top leaders of the Soviet Union. With the active use of anti-Sovietism, anti-Stalinism, and nationalism the allied states were obsessed with Russophobia. And the main instrument of the destruction of the Soviet Union, in my opinion, was Russophobia. And until this filthy slander against Russia is exposed and rejected, there will be no way out of this difficult political situation.

The repetition of the fascist threat in Europe Today, there is a repetition of the military-political situation in Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In Europe, fascist ideology is winning. In the last century, Europe did not particularly oppose fascism. The Anglo-Saxons opened a second front when the Red Army entered the territory of European states, fearing that the Red Army would reach the Atlantic. They feared that the Soviet Union might conquer all of Europe and therefore opened a second front in July 1944.

For 3 years, the Soviet Union stood alone against the entire European military power. It is terrible to consider the human sacrifice this victory cost the Soviet Union. How many cities, villages, factories, railways, bridges, and everything else were destroyed by European barbarians? How much misfortune they brought to the Soviet people! How can we count the tens of millions of lives of the Soviet people who were destroyed?

Our Soviet people saved the people of Europe from Hitler’s use of the atomic bomb. Germany had practically everything prepared for the atomic bomb. The Americans tested the German atomic bomb on Japan. And the brunt of this terrible war was experienced by Russia.

The peoples of Europe, the peoples of the former Soviet republics, whose lives Russia saved at the cost of the lives of its children, should be grateful to the Russian people. And in response, Russia received Russophobia, at the command of the Anglo-Saxons, from whom it saved from the Nazi occupation.

#My life in the era of socialism I was born, grew up, and grew old in the era of socialism. I was proud of my country. Yes, there were many shortcomings and difficulties, and even too many. We were building a state the like of which no one else in the world had ever created. We have been building, sometimes I don’t understand what we are building and how we should build. The country was ruled mainly by an illiterate, uneducated mass of people, with major mistakes and a lot of unjustified victims. But we believed in the future and did not understand that such a country had no future. Yes, communism may be the highest stage of human development, but humanity is still close to Neanderthals in terms of the development of its moral principles. In the world, the production of human murder weapons has been the most developed. This already speaks to what humanity is.

Colonel of the Soviet Army

Any state has the right to set some conditions for another state. But in this case, the state that sets the conditions must be either stronger or at least equal in military-economic power. In all other cases, you can only politely ask for something. Therefore, setting some conditions for Russia on the part of Salome is either the height of arrogance or the height of political illiteracy. Well, as a historian who graduated from the university in Tbilisi, I understand that Salome has no idea about the historical relations between Russia and Georgia. She was a Frenchwoman and remained a Frenchwoman, and in case of complications, she would run away to France.

The question is, how does Russia threaten Georgia? Russia protected Ossetia from destruction by the Georgians. If you consider the protection of small people as an occupation, then this is your level of development. If Russia leaves Ossetia, then the next day a frenzied crowd of Georgians will break into it, cut all the Ossetians, loot, and burn everything that can be burned. Do you want this, Madam Salome? Do you want to cover the noble Georgian people with such shame? And have you thought about what awaits hundreds of thousands of Georgians living in Russia? In North Ossetia? You have an interesting foreign policy position. You want the Russian people to feed you better and you also want to destroy Russia with the help of NATO. And who will feed you? America? France? Sorry, but they don’t care about you. With their help, proud Georgians are already digging in trash cans in search of food.

And another thing. You are preparing Georgia for war against Russia as part of NATO. You conduct NATO military exercises. You participate in other exercises against Russia. Your business. More NATO in Georgia. This is your slogan. Of course, you are a Frenchwoman and Europe is closer to you than Georgia. I am a military man, a colonel of the Soviet army, an officer of the air defense forces. And I have, as an officer of the air defense forces, a question, how is Georgia covered from the point of view of air, and chemical defense? How is your civil defense organized in case of the use of nuclear weapons by the enemy? Well, if none of this exists, then excuse me for being rude, where are you climbing? No America NATO will organize air defense and civil defense for you. Then why are you exposing the Georgian people to such mortal danger? The answer is very simple. Because the Georgian people are not your people. You are a NATO puppet and you also don’t care about the Georgian people. Sorry, but this is the truth.

All the best to you. Colonel of the Soviet army. Patriot of Georgia Chigoev Shamil Arsenovich.

Finally, the inevitable has occurred. Russia now has its self-appointed emperor. This is nothing new when looking at Russian history. Time and again leaders have sacrificed much to strengthen their temporary power into something eternal.

We recall how Peter I treated his sister, or what Elizabeth did to relatives close to her. Catherine the Great never passed the throne to the rightful emperor. Her son Alexander I lived with guilt for his role in his father Paul I's murder. So Putin's actions as emperor are trivial compared to theirs, and most importantly, it is all legal.

But will an "eternal president" truly help the people? It is unlikely based on Putin's 20 years in power. While I don't know the inner workings, it seems he lacks full control over governing. The country lacks diverse industry growth and focuses too much on defense.

It is normal for leaders to claim everything was bad before they arrived. But we shouldn't disrespect our history. Russia has always developed weapons to keep up with others. I served in the military for 20 years and know we shot down many American planes with pride. We ensured the country's security.

Would America ever catch up to our number of beggars or poor medical care? With 22 million living in poverty, becoming "eternal president" is miraculous. Where is Putin taking the country? After 20 years in power, we deserve to understand his vision and plans. What future does he offer beyond himself? As someone who lived through many eras, I want to know what comes next.