Not that rare. This is the second time that she has sided with literal Nazis just to be anti-Russia.

Nope.

Unsurprising. Anyone who has been to Denmark can tell you it's a strong contender for the title of most racist country in Europe.

First Trump dodges a bullet by a couple of centimeters and then the universe smites Biden with the plague? Can you imagine how insufferable evangelicals will become if that happens?

The US is absolutely cooked:

This article does not endorse Georgia's current ruling party, and neither do we. It is simply pointing out that relations between Georgia and Russia are stabilizing, and that this is a good thing for both countries while at the same time being a blow to the plans of the US empire to drive a wedge between them and turn Georgia into another Ukraine.

Georgia has been a US puppet for decades but it appears that enough people in Georgia have understood that that was not to their advantage and are now seeking to regain their autonomy and adopt a more neutral alignment.

As for the breakaway regions, so long as there is no pressing need for Russia to annex Abkhazia or South Ossetia the status quo is best left as is.

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.

And "not adding fuel to the fire" is just a nice way of saying "stop sending them weapons you idiots!".

Unfortunately i think there is a cultural barrier here at play in that the Chinese are used to being very polite in their speech and using symbolism and metaphorical language, whereas the West is too blunt and barbaric to understand that kind of subtlety so they misinterpret it as China being timid and on the fence.

This isn't just a problem when it comes to the Ukraine conflict and China's stance toward it, it also affects how the West perceives China's stance toward the Taiwan issue. Because China is oftentimes being too diplomatic in its language the West looks at that as a sign of weakness and thinks it can continue to push even further up to or beyond China's red lines, which is very dangerous.

Here's where i have to criticize China and say that i think they need to do better in understanding the mentality of the West. I get the impression that sometimes they just can't believe that anyone can be this barbaric and uncivilized, but unfortunately we are.

They assume too much that everyone thinks like them, that their interlocutors understand culturally complex symbolic gestures, and that everyone ultimately will be reasonable and respond to politeness in kind. Things may work that way in Asia but that's not how Europeans are.

When you're dealing with the kinds of racist, genocidal lunatics who are in charge in the West the only thing they understand is naked force, both in rhetoric and in action.

The sanctions are still there and the US will never allow them to be lifted, but this is just yet another step along the way to making said sanctions effectively meaningless. Russia has been trading extensively with the DPRK again for a while now and while they are careful to not outright violate UN imposed sanctions which are binding according to international law, they have pretty much managed to find alternative ways of doing the same thing just without strictly speaking going against the letter of the sanctions. And since Russia will not allow the US to strongarm the UN into imposing any additional sanctions to shut the alternatives down, these sorts of loopholes are just going to get bigger and more numerous until the existing sanctions are all but irrelevant.

Seems to be fake. The actual channels that ISIS is known to operate from have been apparently silent. This is some sort of psy-op.

Venezuela is doing no such thing.

Fascists aren't gonna put themselves in gulags.