30k russians walked into kiev and retreated with minimal losses, it's not the own you think it is.

And Ukraine has been claiming that this was the offensive to liberate crimea for the last six months. They committed their élite western trained brigades and the most modern equipment that was given to them, including the famous leopards. This is what their "being ready" looks like, and it barely put a dent into the outermost lines of russian defences

At least we came to the conclusion that your thing is that you hate russia and its people and just wish them harm

I actually think that with the internet and everything, we will gradually move away from "big thinkers". Sure, there will still be people producing decent theory, but i just can't see in the current world a russian revolution like scenario when whole shifts at factories would meet up to read Marx.

I believe we will move towards a sort of "crowdsourced" theory where the main theoretical line is born organically out of continuos communication and discussion until we eventually get to a point where most contradictions and disagreements are solved. At that point the "big thinker" and his work will be one of many inputs, and not some sort of ideological hegemon.

Sort of like it is happening on here. We didn't read the same stuff, but with time the community shaped itself to a point where we substantially agree with each other on pretty much everything.

More than anything, it's the definitive confirmation that the Lion of Damascus won the civil war. They wouldn't have let him in if there were doubts about his position.

It pretty much says that the arab world has made peace with the idea that Assad and the Ba'ath party are there to stay

tbh Bing can have them, tf are they going to do? be even more irrelevant?