"refused to return to anarchism"? What does that even mean? These terminally online losers are talking about niche internet web forums as if they were states.

That's fair, but it's also the capital of one of the four claimed oblasts

my bad, i definitely havent kept up with everything

No bingo this year, but given some of these spaces that's probably for the best.

In actual news, Hulyaipole/Gulyaipole has been liberated by RU according to Suriyakmaps. The gaps in the line are apparently so bad that RU managed to capture a field headquarters almost completely intact. As far as I understand, that means there's almost no fortified lines between the front and Zaporizhzhia, one of the biggest and most important cities in all of Ukraine. The last real obstacle, at least from the southeast / south directions, is Orikhiv.

He's fathered a lot more. He's into eugenics breeding shit and has completely fucked contracts with women to carry his children he otherwise has no contact with.

In news:

Denis Nikitin / Kapustin, aka White Rex, leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a unit of Russian neo-nazis created by Ukrainian military intelligence, has been killed at the front.

The RDK announced it on their social media, claiming that he was killed by a Russian FPV drone on the frontlines of the Zaporizhzhia oblast.

Kapustin was quite an important figure in the global neo-nazi scene. As a child, he received a visa to move from Russia to Germany. A rather special visa — for those of Jewish descent. This didn’t stop him from opening a white nationalist merchandise network called ‘White Rex’, which also became his nickname. Eventually wanted for violent crimes in both the EU and Russia, he found a welcome home in Ukraine. After 2022, Ukraine’s military intelligence gathered the motley crew of Russian neo-nazis around Nikitin to create the Russian Volunteer Corps.

Nikitin’s strategy of opening MMA fight clubs for racially conscious whites only has become popular for neo-nazis around the world. Nikitin and his Russian emigre friends in Ukraine also played a major role in glorifying the 2019 Christchurch massacre, translating the racist manifesto into Russian numerous times.

Nikitin also played a direct role in aiding neo-nazi forces as far away as the southern hemisphere. Australian media was already writing in 2021 of Nikitin’s influential role and even direct involvement in organizing Australia’s ‘National Socialist Network’, which nowadays is becoming more and more visible.

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Nikitin’s RDK has in fact lost a number of troops to frontline fighting in recent weeks. One week ago, RDK media put out obituaries for a number of its fighters.

According to Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy, Nikitin died fighting for the southern town of Huliaipole. I’ll cover the situation there tomorrow, but what’s important is that the city is now essentially lost to the Russians. The RDK was chucked in to try and salvage a disastrous situation.

Things are clearly bad at the frontlines if the likes of the RDK are being thrown into dangerous assault missions. There clearly just isn’t enough dispensable infantry left. Now it’s up to the RDK, which was originally intended as a psywar tool to undermine Russian society, rather than an infantry assault unit.

An ignominious fate for the RDK. This is a very well-funded unit, with support from powerful Russian (-Israeli) oligarchs like Leonid Nevzlin. The RDK is one of the star units of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), and its leaders constantly go on interviews, playing the part of the fearless special op superhero.

The infantry deficit must be quite bleak if UA is throwing their media battalions into already lost cities.

My "hope" in this regard is that culture war bullshit will lose its influence as material conditions worsen and take precedence because stripping trans people of rights and disappearing into concentration camps will only let people ignore rising rent and food costs for so long. Not to ignite a Mamdani struggle session (whether he follows through on his platform is a whole other thing), but I think his campaign win points in that direction. Trump-voting reactionaries didn't give enough of a shit that he's pro queer rights to not vote for him, because he was offering them better conditions.

Maybe I'm very late to this and maybe what I'm about to say is obvious, but has anyone else been thinking that the massive mobilization of ICE is a way for the state to integrate the fascist gangs/militias/paramilitaries like Proud Boys, Patriot Front, et al. into the security services in a similar manner to what happened in Ukraine with their fascist groups? They're obviously the "target audience" for the recruitment drives and it feels like we haven't heard from those groups in some time, especially since you'd expect them to show up in defence of ICE at the counter-ICE rallies. It's also possible that these people could move "laterally" into other agencies once they have their foot in the door via ICE mass recruitment, then we'd really be seeing something similar to Ukraine. Just some things I've been thinking about after watching this translated documentary about Ukraine's "decentralized totalitarianism" (the author disparages the original use of the term to conflate fascism and communism, but he feels it's descriptive in a post-Maidan context) and how every imperialist frontier is a labratory for the future, and was curious about what the newsmega crowd thought.

Time for the weekly question as to why there are anti-imperialists on the anti-imperialist platform from a redditor who joined less than a month ago

Kim Yo Jong called SK and Ukraine "bad dogs bred by the U.S." after they started spreading the story of DPRK soldiers being deployed to Donbass

I'd trust a Soyuz with my life over any privately made corner cutting spacecraft any day, fuck that. Outsourcing spaceflight to the private sector always seemed like asking for all sorts of trouble.