Russian Tensions
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Japan has a big population decline and their citizen are getting old
“I believe Lithuania has a few patrol boats that they might be able to get there via the Danube.”
Be intrigued to know how they’d get their boats to the Danube.
I am not privy to the plans of the Lithuanian navy but they would have to sail out of the Baltic Sea into the North Sea and then to the mouth of the Rhine in the Netherlands and then to Danube, I think.
“I am not privy to the plans of the Lithuanian navy but they would have to sail out of the Baltic Sea into the North Sea and then to the mouth of the Rhine in the Netherlands and then to Danube, I think.”
A highly circuitous route, which would include negotiating the RMD canal which alone is over 170km in length and possesses 16 locks.
And that’s even before the Danube is reached at Kelheim in Germany!Which all goes to show how crazy the whole proposal is. How else could their warships get to the Black Sea if Turkey won’t allow any warships through the Bosphorus? There is another river and canal route, I think, but that would take them from Gdańsk to Kherson which is Russia controlled. A bit of dead-end, then. The Lithuanian Foreign minister clearly hasn’t thought things through. I am assuming of course that he Lithuanian navy would participate in the coalition of the warmongers.
May be unnecessary now that Russia is proposing some sort of safe channel for ships.
Even the Guardian is surprised by pro-war anarchists protecting Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/putin-anarchists-join-ukraine-war-effort
Some anarchists took the same position in the First World War. Others didn’t.
The only anarchists that has not been mistaken is Karl Marx
“Russian meddling in the Western Balkans risks pulling the region back into war, Liz Truss warned as she called on the West to not appease Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine. The Foreign Secretary accused Moscow of exerting a “malign” influence over the countries that used to be part of Yugoslavia with dirty tactics on a visit to Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
The Russian government may well be exerting a malign influence over the area but that’s exactly what she is doing. What could be more provocative than to go to Sarajevo to express support for one of the sides (Bosnia) in the civil war that led to the break-up of Yugoslavia, knowing that the other side (Serbia) is pro-Russia? Her recklessness risks restarting that civil war. The permanent civil servants at the Foreign Office must be tearing their hair out at her antics.
“Even the Guardian is surprised by pro-war anarchists protecting Ukraine”
Perhaps those anarchists should have read that Makhno book instead of photographing the cover of it.
“The history of recent years will afford considerable weight to their argument, for the Ukraine has seen a parade of all manner of authorities and, when all is said and done, these have been as indistinguishable one from another as peas in a pod. We must demonstrate that a “blow-in” State power and an “independent” State power amount to just about equal in value and that the toilers have nothing to gain from either: they should focus all their attention elsewhere: on destroying the nests of the State apparatus and replacing these with worker and peasant bodies for social and economic self-direction.” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1928/12/national-question.htm
https://news.yahoo.com/analysis-russia-prepares-seize-western-060630516.html
Going back to State Capitalism again. Russia is going to pass a law to take over the properties, assets and means of productions of the Western Capitalists, it clear indication that capitalism can operate as corporate capitalism and as state capitalism and in essence both are the same, in Russia both capitalist module have taken place. The left-wingers and supporters of Vladimir Putin are going to call it communism
Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports is being blamed for the rise in food prices but some experts blame the sanctions on Russia as the main culprit.
David Laborde, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, pointed out that “the biggest threat the food system is facing is the disruption of the fertilizer trade.” This is because, he said: “Wheat will impact a few countries. The fertilizer issue can impact every farmer everywhere in the world, and cause declines in the production of all food, not just wheat.”
According to this article, there is a reluctance amongst some members of the Ukrainian army to be used as canon-fodder as has reportedly been the case in the Russian army too:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/26/ukraine-frontline-russia-military-severodonetsk/
115 national guardsmen, known as Rosgvardia, have been fired for refusing to fight in Ukraine.
It came to light after a local Russian court rejected their collective lawsuit that challenged their earlier sacking. The lawsuit was dismissed after the judge determined that the soldiers had been rightfully fired for “refusing to perform an official assignment” to fight in Ukraine and instead returned to a duty station.
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