Good. You can't negotiate with the Great Satan. The Soviet Union became too naive and trusting and its communists had to learn that lesson the hard way. I hope China avoids making the same mistakes. "Detente" doesn't work when it's with a country that will always regard it as its holy mission to eradicate you as a state and an economic system.

"Steiner will come through any moment now."

Isn't it interesting how the riots stopped just after the law was passed? Almost as if the money tap was turned off once it became clear the battle was lost...

That would be true if everyone had this same defeatist attitude...

I have to agree with OP's response here, none of what they said here is irrationally biased in favor of Russia and all of their arguments are based in fact. You yourself admit the soundness of their arguments so then what are you basing the first part of your comment on?

Where was the outdated message template posted then?

You'd have to ask the western media outlets which have been circulating this alleged ISIS confession that question.

Regardless, even if some official ISIS channel did come out and claim the attack, a) we know that ISIS is controlled by CIA and Mossad so they can just get the order from their handlers to go ahead and falsely claim it; it means nothing. And b) the apprehended perpetrators of the attack have not claimed to be acting on behalf of ISIS, and it's not that we should take them at their word but that is just not how ISIS followers behave. They want the world to know it was ISIS. They also want to become martyrs, they don't typically try to make an escape.

KPRF needs younger leadership imo. Particularly younger people who weren't yet politically conscious in the 90s and who haven't been so traumatized by the political defeats suffered by communists during that time. I believe there is a kind of collective political PTSD among communists who were active in that difficult period that makes them very timid and prone to compromise and capitulation.

(Don't quote me on that though, it's just some armchair psychology on my part and may be total bullshit. In fact i know there are older communists in Russia who are quite radical, if somewhat behind the times in many ways...)

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.

The UK and Germany will never, ever change their position either. They will back the Zionist entity until its end.

and are dismantling fossil fuel industries

Lol. Good one. Sometimes i wonder if the German Green party is just an elaborate joke that the rest of us just don't get because we don't have a German sense of humor...

The US and its Qatari and Saudi allies have been promoting Salafist ideology in the northern Caucasus for a long time. When Russia in the late 90s and early 00s cracked down on the terrorists and insurgents they all cried crocodile tears. Now they all act shocked that there is anti-semitism in a region in which they themselves promoted the most extreme forms of jihadi ideology in order to try and balkanize Russia.