Considering he just (re?)appeared on UP for the sake of this thread, and he’s ignored two of these jabs now in favor of staying non-confrontational and on message, I’m guessing the former.
I mean I could be wrong but I have never seen anybody use it outside of this forum (where I’m guessing everyone grew up during late era soviet union) other than referring to Stalinists but not other fascists in general (as the usage would itt would suggest).
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Einbert was a tankie. That’s where I got it from. So anyone who posts like him I just associate with tankie.
First Kelhus and now Bill Haywood?
It’s like the Mariel boatlift, but with the detritus of 2+2.
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I think they’re some sliding between some realpolitik and ideal circumstances going around everywhere. Like should Ukraine be able to choose it’s own path? Sure. Should Mexico choose its own path, sure. But, in reality, states, like people, follow the dictum The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. Mexico and Canada accede to American wishes all the time because not doing so is going to cause a lot of problems for them. Same with Ukraine.
The problem is, of course, if you strictly follow that dictum then the problem with the Iraq War and Libya invasion is that they ended badly, not that they were some kind of violation of state sovereignty, human rights, or any of that deontological stuff. Then you’re right back to the Great Powers worldview and all the attending nationalism and imperialism stuff that comes with it
Which sadly we might end up at anyways. Ukraine, whether or not it should be able to determine its own path forward, currently isn’t, and Europe and the US probably aren’t willing to do what it takes to ensure that Ukraine is able to.
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https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1498381975022940167
This is a very good thread about where the war stands and where it could go.
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how many nato tanks do you think there are in latvia/estonia? are they all at the border with russia? are they amassed in an invasion formation for “training exercises”?
LMAO.
nope, but i did stay at a holiday in express last night, and watched this youtuve video that russian mission in geneva paid to be recommended to me.
This “We must look deep into the subconscious mind of the Kremlin to understand their most hidden fears” stuff is getting well into gaslighting territory.
The satellites need to bounce the signal from a ground station to link everything to the broader Internet. They’re working on using laser links in space to eliminate the need for ground stations but that’s a few years out.
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you realize we already have nuclear ballistic missile submarines, right?
the russian mind is COMPLEX!!! you can’t understand it unless you are russian, or have spent your life idolizing Dostoyevskiy’s Idiot, and have a PhD from oxford to prove it.
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Yes, Russia only uses nukes if we blow up their tanks in Ukraine. Never in defense of their existence as a country. o_0
I’ve always understood it to mean not just a communist, but one who supported Soviet use of tanks to crush movements such as the Hungarian revolution. More generally, I believe it was used pejoratively by supporters of democratic socialism to dismiss supporters of authoritarian socialism.
Borscht goes in, bowel movements come out.
You can’t explain it.
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In Soviet Union, Tankie means whatever you want to mean!
All this America Bad, Russia’s actions can be justified are being turned on its head right now.
And some of them are doubling down on the lunacy of it.
Countries join NATO because they are clear eyed about Putin’s goals of rebuilding USSR and having satelite states around him. How more obvious is this as we stand here in 2022.
I wonder what that fart Noam Chomsky has to say now about NATO aggression pushing Putin. What a joke.
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i told you guys 48 hour ago
Yet both sides maintain tremendous conventional armaments. The reasoning is that they need to have flexible responses, fighting either with or without nukes. It’s imperial and military industrial complex reasoning on both sides.