Aren't you supposed to eat the brain to gain their lore and the heart to gain their courage?

It was posted in this very site a few months ago, that's were I saw it. And even commented " the Ukrainian salt bae" if my original account called farman

I don't agree with Brenner, I think the original works from Postan are much more consistent with a materialist interpretation, basically primitive accumulation and demographic changes lead to the development of proto capitalist forms. His example is the 100 years war, by the begining of the 14 century we see the development of banks and finance in England, as well as large merchant capital, but once the plague hits, even if the war was still going on, the demographic basis for these institutions is no longer there, rich merchants buy land and titles, other landlords stop managing their states and ether sell them or rent them the banks and Italian creditors disappear or become much less relevant. The volume of trade decreased and merchants and manufacturers formed guilds to protect their shares of a diminishing pie.

Once population recovered, mpl fell and it became easier to extract sulprus value from laborers and accumulation started again. It was not a crisis, but the fact that an agrarian crisis like the one in the 1300s was averted by the discovery of the americas, that enabled primitive accumulation to continue. Even with the addition of india, the system was about to collapse in the early 1800. Had the industrial revolution been delayed a few decades, we'd be back at the 14th century.

I remember before the special operation began, there were videos of the Ukrainians nailing POWs to croses, burning them alive and in some cases eating their victims. The video of the Ukrainian salt bae seasoning a soup with a human head with the same relish and enthusiasm salt bae was preparing his beef was posted on here. I'm impressed we don't hear about that any more. They have always been the equivalent of ISIS, and given many of the ones invading Kursk have an American accent, they likely were in ISIS.

Also, batteries on cars are bullshit, see that SUV with a 1000kg of batteries, but a trolley is connected to an ac grid.

I'm unsure of the extent of cooperation between both sides, it's certainly less than between Iran and Korea or Iran and Venezuela.

There is also a significant portion of the Russian ruling class with deep economic ties to the entity and the west. So it's in their personal and class interests to reproach the west. This is also true in Iran to a lesser extent.

However I do agree that as the sanctions against Russia continue, it's economic interests will align more and more with the resistance, we have seen the reproach meant with Korea, and Iranian arms sales are a good start.

That being said, this meeting was with the comprador regime in the west bank and the statement seems vacuous.

Isn't this the comprador regime in the west bank?

Saying Russia is arming Iran makes it seem like iranian industry is underdeveloped or needs Russian help. it does not. The Iranians have made a lot of effort in order to build their own heavy industry from scratch, the only country that has helped meaningfully in arming Iran is Korea. In many areas, like medium range ballistic missiles the Iranians are ahead, at least according to simplicius.

In other areas, like turbines for electric generation, it has been Iranian companies that have been supplying Russia after they were sanctioned. Even in your own link it's Iran doing the selling to Russia.

They cooperate, and that's great. But that's different than Russia arming Iran. As the link says none of the hardware going from Russia to Iran has been delivered, even things that were paid decades ago. Except for the satellite launch.

Russia is not arming Iran. Iran has its own mic and the tings they don't produce, like planes, the Russians don't want to sell, or are never delivered when sold.

Good post, good points. It reminds me of those early modern depictions of classical antiquity, where people are dressed like tercios, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HumiliationValerianusHolbein.jpg

Perhaps most depictions of the past tend to be anachronistic because we are too immersed in the super structure we are part of that we become unable to imagine anything different.

Then again this fantasy worlds and games created under capitalism have every incentive to do the bare minimum and just copy each other without any nuance or research. It's also likely that a truly accurate world would not resonate with audiences.

And indeed the half assed fantasies reinforce the prejudices of their consumer.

That always pisses me of. Gold should be about 8-15 (13) silvers. Unless the silvers are tiny and the golds huge. if it's in the iron age, bronze should be company script. If it's not, bronze should be very expensive, to the point many farmers still use flint tools because they can't afford bronze. Think of how during the trail of tears the amerindians had holy tablets made of copper, because for a neolithic society copper was immensely precious. The ratios can be a little of, but not too much or else the geology of the planet is going to be very weird. Gold is mined first, so if you are writing a story and put the ratio very low, as in 1:3 or 1:4 then your civilization is relatively new to mining.

The reason the prices are so messed up today are financial shenanigans.

There were multiple tablets found in his house. Various clients complaining about both quality and failure to deliver.