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.

For liberals, history restarts every presidential term. It's like object permanence but for history.

It's wild to see how much open nazism is everywhere on twitter now. Feels like every twitter link should be followed up with a

Multi-stream of people at the protests right now: https://www.twitch.tv/woke

Some fucking clowns from KTVU just doxxed some dude they were interviewing whose girlfriend was kidnapped by ICE by reading his fucking phone number live on air and not bothering to mute.

It's like every company thinks their game will be the only game on your drive. It wouldn't kill you to do at least a modicum of compression!!!

As much as I'd like to believe this, I think he just doesn't want to be blamed for the ever worsening shit show going on in the admin. Regardless, I fully support the bullying.

I want a cheap Chinese EV so bad

Under such situation, I'd like to see once how the dirty curs in Seoul bark.
The world may also be curious about it.

Love the energy in DPRK statements. I get why other states can't or won't use that kind of rhetoric, but damn is it cathartic.

is Israel’s strategy really just “bomb everyone and everything till the other side gives up”?

That's probably their ideal, but I think their real strategy is to continue to escalate/goad the Resistance into escalating to the point where the US has to intervene directly to bail out the zionists, and the only way that is likely to happen is if a wider regional war starts. Getting bogged down and eventually kicked out of Lebanon by itself wouldn't be enough to pull in the US, they need an outright war with Iran in order for that to be a possibility.

It failed when they failed to capture the Kursk NPP within 48 hours.

unhealthy amounts of drugs tbh

What do people make of Mercouris' vague allusions to some unannounced weapon capability that Iran has? He seems petty unsettled just talking about it, is he talking about nukes? Does Iran have nukes or the ability to quickly assemble a warhead?