If RT says the sky is blue are you going to say that's just Russian propaganda as well? Because the fact that this is happening is about as obvious as the previously stated fact, regardless who is saying it.

Now I'm worried about the lack of falling dominoes on the continent.

In a way the retreat of European and US troops across the Sahel region are "falling dominos". Just today we had news that German troops are being pulled out of Niger

And Chad could be the next domino to fall. They've had a lot of anti-French protests, they expelled the German ambassador, and the US is probably going to be forced to pull its troops out of there soon as well. Meanwhile they are building closer relations with Russia. I am hopeful that things are moving in the right direction.

The US is absolutely cooked:

this article has completely omitted the role of Bidzina Ivanishvili

I guess the left are supposed to be fans of Bidzina Ivanishvili now

This is faulty logic. Omission of something is not endorsement.

Apparently it's great news that the left is now aligned with a billionaire

First of all the author of this article does not represent "the left". His views are his own.

Secondly, nothing in the article suggests alignment with this person you mentioned, because as has already been established, said person is not even mentioned in the piece.

You need to work on your reading comprehension skills. You are reading things into this article that it simply does not say.

This article omits that sort of discussion because it is not relevant. This article is about Georgia mending its relations with Russia, which is objectively a good thing for both countries and a defeat for the US empire.

Ok, so fucking what? China could have no stock market whatsoever and still have a more productive and valuable economy than the US.

I love how they are so petrified at the prospect of even just a fraction of the USSR being restored. This is why they are writing so much bullshit about how Russia supposedly plans to conquer the Baltics and the central Asian states next. It's not because Russia thinks about doing this, it's because they, the Western elite and their lackeys in the media, lie awake at night dreading a return of the USSR, even in an incarnation that is not socialist, because they know if that ever happens their gravy train ends and they will not be able to get away with half the shit they do now.

Dialectics teaches us that real systems are never static, that they change over time. The western post-war model of industrial capitalism by the late 1970s had already ceased to be viable and entered into crisis. The tendency of the rate of profit to fall over time, which Marx correctly analyzed, had made it impossible to continue to maintain the high wage industrial economies and welfare states established in the wake of WWII as a means of placating the masses and staving off socialist revolution. There were only two ways out of this predicament: socialism or neoliberalism.

Of course capital picked the latter. And now things have deteriorated even further and even the illusory boom provided by the financialization glut of the 80s and the cannibalization of the industrial base which occured in the 90s has long since evaporated, at least since the great recession of '08 which in many ways is still ongoing. It is impossible to turn back the clock on capitalism and return to the pre-neoliberal model short of a global black swan event like a world war which would destroy much of the existing base of production.

It is very likely that the capitalist ruling class understands this otherwise unsolvable dilemma they are facing and the fact that on the current trajectory their situation will only get worse, and this is precisely why they are so frantically trying to accelerate the timeline for war with Russia, China, Iran, etc. whoever really just so long as they can get a sufficiently big and destructive war before it is too late and even this would no longer save them but only bring about their demise faster.

Unfortunately for them i think that we have already passed that inflection point and they just don't see it yet. Russia is probably the country that understood this first, hence why it dared to launch its SMO. Following that the Axis of Resistance in the Middle East seems to have caught on as well. Now it only remains to see what China does.

The 3.8% is some irrelevant lib that hardly anyone had even heard of before this election and who will fade again into irrelevancy just as quickly. He was just a placeholder to aggregate all of the disaffected libs behind. At least Kharitonov and Slutsky are somewhat known names, even if the latter is a total shit bag.

Anyway, i think this election isn't really representative of the support that the KPRF actually has, as i said these were unusual circumstances what with the conflict sparking a patriotic wave and people wanting to show support for the commander in chief or at the very least keep the country stable until the war is won.

Imo regional elections in non-presidential election years are more indicative of the actual level of support that each party enjoys. And in those the KPRF tends to do quite well actually. Clearly Putin is incredibly popular, but that is not always the case for his party as a whole and other candidates that they run in lower level elections do lose to communists sometimes.

How long until they are told by their handlers to take down the story and claim they were hacked?

They physically can't get too close else they are in range of shore based Iranian missiles, and having one of their precious ships sunk would force them to make a decision with no good options for them: either do nothing, look completely impotent and lose all "deterrence", or go to war with Iran which is extremely risky and could end in the US' greatest defeat of all time. If we do see them push their navy up into the Persian Gulf it will mean that they have become so desperate that they feel they need to gamble it all on all out war. I don't think that they will do it just as they haven't and won't dare to get directly involved in Ukraine because a bully doesn't pick a fight against anyone who may actually beat or severely hurt them, but you never know what a losing, cornered and increasingly irrational empire may do in its final days.

Glenn Greenwald says a lot of cringy libertarian shit but this isn't one of those instances. It doesn't make the truth any less true just because who is saying it has dumb, awful opinions on other things.