Russian commentators: the present state of affairs is unacceptable! nuclear-tipped grand offensive now! mobilise all men to the front and women into the factories! assassinate every leading NATO head of state with hypersonic weaponry!

Putin: we are aware of a concerning situation in the Kursk oblast. we must remember Stalin’s great and courageous leadership in these times and take heed. i have made funding available to the Bereznetzhov thermal optics factory to expand production by up to 30% by 2028 in light of this. we will not be intimidated by terrorists and the time of empty threats is over.

you’re erasing both the white supremacy of female-dominated english online culture, and the consumerism of male-dominated english online culture

Watching the Ukraine v Romania match, and the Ukrainians are really having trouble with their counter-attacking strategy here. Their opponents have settled into a well-organised and manned defensive line which the Ukranians have failed to breach, instead only making themselves vulnerable to the enemy offensive. Romania have taken a 1-0 lead with a truly hypersonic strike and will hope to further press their advantage by rotating fresh players into the squad later in the game.

this seems like a pretty huge deal???

Russians are really on the verge of turning the Donbass front into a rout at this point. Very little of the Ukrainian 2014 defensive line that hasn’t been surpassed, with the final section of it (around “New York” whose actual name escapes me right now) falling apart right now.

With it behind them, the Ukrainians have basically no ability to dig in and stop the Russians anywhere in the Donetsk oblast. Whatever happens in Kursk, embarrassing as it is for the Russian state, will not reverse the much more impactful gains the Russian army is making, and does not change the fact that the only thing standing between the Russian army and the Dniepr is time.

We’re very much leaving the regime of “stare at a static line on the map every day for the past year and a half”

The Kursk offensive doesn’t change the fundamental situation along the main front but it’s really embarrassing for Russia to get its nose bloodied like this, especially as the image of Ukraine as a bloodied nation on its last legs was really starting to sink in. Politically this will have given western support for Ukraine a shot in the arm which is the opposite of what Russia needs if it wants to end the war sooner rather than later. Domestically it’s a major setback for the United Russia govt which erodes confidence they had won back after the disastrous first months of the war.

Really just feels like this war is going nowhere fast.

crazy situation in Kenya rn, 10 shot dead by pigs, parliament stormed

i feel like the way that liberals have snapped from “he is literally hitler incarnate” to “you can’t use violence to try and stop him” is exposing something very important about how liberals really feel about fascism, especially in combination with the unbelievable violence against Pal solidarity protests over the past year

americans are literally deeply evil, so many mfs who claimed to give a shit about the genocide in Palestine but since Harris got the nomination it’s become abundantly clear they were just irritated over the lack of a “competent” leader for the empire. i feel really awful for comrades over there who are having to deal with living in the midst of that, it must be soul-crushing. the only difference between zionist supremacism and amerikkkan supremacism is that the zionists are closer to the collapse of their system and thus more obviously, outwardly bloodthirsty, less wholly complacent.