[2026-06-18] @Pataramesh@twitter.com: It all could have went very different for Iran if:
It had no missiles & drones able to penetrate opponents defenses and answer back... ↪️ 🇺🇲 + 🇮🇱 would have certainly hit Powerplants & bridges
It had no 60% enriched weaponizable Uranium... ↪️ Entirely possible that it's Missile Cities & Nuclear sites would have been hit by chemical or even tactical nuclear weapons
It had no persistent & credible control over the Strait of Hormuz on which world economy depends... ↪️ A U.S. naval & economic blockade could have put Iran under siege without any leverage to counter it with time on its side
It had no super-hardened Missile & Drone Cities... ↪️ U.S. & Israeli stand-off missile power, and Airpower, would have neutralized Iran's capability to hit back at will and persistently
It had no ambush-type air-defenses to hold opposing Airpower at risk... ↪️ 🇺🇲 & 🇮🇱 Airpower with low-cost guided bombs could have suppressed Missile & Drone launch operations and badly degrade Iran's missile launcher fleet
➡️ Only the combination of all of this, and more, lead to the outcome we witnessed
Iran is a very... different country...
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What’s interesting is I noticed a trend of a handful of trotskyists essentially being MLs without knowing, having reconstructed decent theory through first principals, just without any of the scary terminology of Stalinism.
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Thoughts on Stallman's defense of Marvin Minsky? Was he actually saying what he believed or was this a little slip where someone openly defended something they were willing to do or had done? WTF is going on at MIT? Why did people take him blaming autism seriously?
CW if you need to look up what he said
The problem is that you're talking about a coalition of people who all intend to help Palestine through the liberal nonviolent protest disorganizing strategy I mentioned. The Gene Sharpe thing.
Exciting sneak preview of the chauvinism my forthcoming post will elicit. I'm having second thoughts. These people need to be [REDACTED POSITIVE THING VERY POSITIVE]
They don't research these orgs well before forming an emotional attachment to them based on their preconceoved notions of the "success" of liberal strategies. This is still going strong on the threadiverse. People around here on Lemmygrad are doing an exact rerun of the "China supports Israel" psyop with Vietnam, a (lovely) country that does not respect sanctions on Iran...
I wonder if anyone useful will show up before this site dies?
The core of the post-Vietnam volunteer US military (well more complicated than that with contractors and shit moving on) is these generations of chuds pouring out of the deep south.
Even the PSL, which we were just discussing, is all buddy-buddy with organizations that treat US veterans as special good boys who need their treats. After all Brian Becker's BFF is Mike Prysner, who got on the map by doing the Medea Benjamin bit of screaming at GWB about how he shed precious soldier blood on filthy middle eastern soil (yes this is a bad faith characterization of the way he centered soldiers' lives over the colonized – my friends died because you lied – and he deserves it)
We've got an issue with coddling the US military to work out. Don't be deceived by the west's online spaces
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America is about to pass the biggest peacetime military budget of any nation in history. And yet, as the excellent Van Jackson (@WonkVJ) notes, American militarism is not in a happy place. “It is wild that the House is appropriating $886 billion for the defense budget … and NOBODY is happy with it.”
With good reason Van Jackson concentrates on the grand strategic issues. As he points out, in an increasingly multipolar world, the demand that the US should be able to beat anyone, anywhere, any time, is a recipe for frustration. As he puts it in another tweet “In a multipolarizing world, there is no real-world force that can close the gap … generated by a (global) primacy strategy.” The litany of gigantic, over-budget weapons projects (F35) and prestige military objects of dubious value (carrier groups) attests to this fact.
At the same time as the external demands are excessive, the domestic political foundation of US militarism are fraying as well. In recent years it was something of a cliché that the one thing that a divided US polity could agree on was more military spending. Now, not even that is true, at least not without “culture war” riders.
In Congress the GOP are holding the defense budget and senior appointments to ransom. Amongst the wider American public the image of the military has sharply declined. Meanwhile, the newest branch of the US armed forces.- the Space Force - launched in 2019 by President Trump, is quite literally a laughing-stock. At a moment of world historic confrontation the politics of American militarism are, all at the same time, a matter of deadly seriousness, blatant pork barrel vote-buying, supercharged culture wars and kitsch. You might say that it has ever been so. It is a myth to imagine a once-clean militarism. Actually existing militarism is always “messy” - a conflict zone of social, economic and political forces. But America’s current cocktail is both particularly potent and particularly toxic.
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The most conspicuous example of this fraying are the remarkable antics of Congressional Republicans. As the Washington Post commented:
For decades, bipartisan majorities in Congress approved the annual defense authorization bill ... That long-standing practice collapsed this week … The House narrowly approved the National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 219-210. Four Democrats supported it; four Republicans opposed it. Last December, the defense authorization cleared the House by 350-80, when Democrats held a slim majority in the chamber and the GOP’s far-right Freedom Caucus held little sway. There is no realistic chance that the Democratic-controlled Senate will go along with the House version approved Friday, which includes limits on abortion, transgender transition treatment, diversity training and other matters. The Senate is almost certain to return to the House a defense bill stripped of those controversial Republican amendments. The bill would then face an uncertain future as some House Republicans who pushed through the amendments have vowed to hold the line …
On the same issues - above all abortion - Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has been holding up hundreds of Pentagon promotions for high-ranking officers. The result is to sabotage the circulation of military elites. As the New York Times reports: “More than half of the current Joint Chiefs are expected to step down from their posts during the next few months without a Senate-approved successor in place”.
No doubt a procedural work-around will be found to ensure that the US military has a command chain in place. But the attitude of the far-right to the US military leadership was well articulated back in the spring by Tuberville. When challenged on his blockade of senior appointments, Tuberville shot back: “Experts have known for more than a decade that the military is top heavy. We do not suffer from a lack of generals,"
For many on America’s right-wing the emblem of the “top heavy”, liberal minded, “political” leadership of the US military is Mark Milley, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 2020 Milley clashed with President Trump and felt forced to make contact with his Chinese counterparts to convey “reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability.” Since then Trump has accused Milley of “TREASON.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wants him “immediately” fired and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wants him court-martialed.
It is worth pausing to consider the implications of this escalation between the US military top brass and the radical right-wing of the Republican party. If Trump were to take office again in January 2025, how would he act in relation to a military command chain with which he was so conspicuously at odds?
Milley went on to rub salt in the wound with his robust defense of a military curriculum at West Point that included works on Critical Race Theory. In response to criticism by the likes of Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) Milley replied: “I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist … what is wrong with understanding … the country which we are here to defend?”
The question, of course, is precisely what country is Milley defending? The vision of the United States defended by Florida Republicans does not encourage the reading of Mao, Marx or Lenin. High-profile Florida Republican Matt Gaetz responded to Milley’s remarks by tweeting contemptuously: “With Generals like this it’s no wonder we’ve fought considerably more wars than we’ve won.”
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Of course, Tuberville, Gaetz and Waltz are attention-seekers. But the fact that they court such controversy points to the fact that there is a groundswell of right-wing opinion, which see the US military leadership not simply as defenders of America, but as “political” and as complicit with a liberal agenda that is anathema to conservative Americans. This is revealed by striking polling figures compiled by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. These show that though the US military retain more trust than any other institution in American society, that trust has dwindled dramatically in recent years.
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From a high of 70 percent in 2018 the share of Americans expressing a great deal of trust for the US military plunged to 45 percent in 2021 before recovering to 45 percent in 2022. The singles biggest cause for this collapse is the perception on the part of conservative Americans that the military leadership has become “politicized” and complicit with the liberal agenda they identify with “woke”. These domestic political issues and in particular the suspicions of conservative Americans far outweigh any negative judgements about military competence or failure in Afghanistan.
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Strikingly, when you ask which security risks Americans are most afraid of, what, in other words, they need defending against, what came top in 2022 were not foreign threats, but “political divisions within the US leading to violence.” 85 percent of Americans are concerned about that scenario and this fear of domestic political violence was shared by both sides (88 Democrat v. 85 percent GOP). Unsurprisingly, Democrats were also more concerned about Russia’s war on Ukraine. Asked to prioritize Russia and China 56 % of Republicans ranked China first, against only 19 percent who put Russia top. 42 % of Democrats put Russia top v. only 32% prioritizing China. Really big gaps opened up, not over Taiwan (69 v. 75), but over the risk of actual war with China, which concerned 59 percent of Democrats v. 79 percent of Republicans. Likewise there was a giant gap on climate change which ranked top for Democrats (91%) v. only 41 % for Republicans.
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Since the American military is an all-volunteer force public opinion matters not just as political background. To be confident of being able to regularly refresh its ranks, the US military needs not just public affirmation, but also a general conformity between the lifestyles of young people and martial expectations. In this regard too, the disconnect is getting progressively wider.
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I agree that sticking to pointing out connections is by far the least effective way I can go about it. The patterns of sheepdog strategies across the linked orgs are suspicious, but this leaves people open to the impression they can overwhelm these orgs regardless of their structure & create something positive out of them. That's what people would say whenever I made the case these were part of the CIA's portfolio before I had much of a grasp of Marxism-Leninism.
Key issues we will get into, once I finish rewriting old pieces, which I have decided to do next since it seems like good timing:
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form of organizing (not comparing recruitment messaging)
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misrepresentation of US's dependency relationships with other countries, particularly other members of the imperial core & subimperialists (let's not repeat the mistakes of the 2nd international)
It's been quite a long time, & nobody else has brought this up for me to passively cheer them on. I should have done it before the war started. Main people who talk about this network are just hypervigilant, clearly no idea what the party form of socialism even is.
The reasoning for putting it off (need to stare at wife, need money, need money, more money, need to go to China again, need to go on a nice walk, oh look a squirrel, people were mean to me so they should be duped by reactionaries & go die) has no weight versus the prospect of moving up the historical recognition of the alt media - social media system or whatever we call it by, idk, five years? Who knows when it will be understood. Maybe it really requires luck to figure out
It seems to me the only part of, say, Prof. Gabriel Rockhill's criticism of the western left people have metabolized is a caricatured version where we are wary solely of people who explicitly condemn AES countries!! I think if the Zohran Mamdani types could keep it in their pants a little better with the Google Uyghurs stuff they would be more effective sheepdogs. Shit is offputting
Of course, sorry, I am making this the next action I take on Lemmy. I have put it off because the burden of proof suddenly jumps up to "epistemological" & everyone gets really mad at me for days every time I bring it up. But, I just thought about it, this is technically posting about the war, so that frees up my compulsion to do that. I get really sad if I don't post about Palestine on like a dozen websites every single day. There is no point in doing that just to make myself feel better if nobody understands what's going on or what to do about it, and this is arguably the most crucial part for Westoids.
It's not just one organization. It's not that many organizations and key individuals, plus sometimes a wall randomly crumbles next to you & an item like https://serenashimaward.org/laureates/ this rolls out lol. But it is enough organizations & people to be really hard 🤣 their whole thing is creating new front groups where the new membership is clueless but once they find out about the connections they're presented as normal & pragmatic.
Every front group can be tuned to a different audience. I am going to finish updating some old writing. I said I would do it last year but I got really mad
Ah shit here we go again
I swear people just call me an accelerationist whenever I say the world shouldn't revolve around getting unstable concessions from the western political system they already snatched back with zero resistance. You're not keeping those anyways
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Konstantinovka
Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "The settlement of Artema in the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated as a result of decisive actions by servicemen of the 54th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 'South' Group. The liberation of the settlement became possible thanks to the coordinated work of reconnaissance units, fire support from artillery, and the effective work of unmanned systems crews. This made it possible to thwart all enemy attempts to maintain control over the settlement."
On the extreme western sector of the left flank of the "South" Group, a large bridgehead has been formed for a highly probable wide envelopment of the city of Konstantinovka and an advance to the southern districts of the settlement of Alekseevo-Druzhkovka. On June 15, the settlement of Artema/Dolgaya Balka (48°29′17″ N 37°36′24″ E, population 944 in 2001) was liberated. Somewhere in this area, to the west (as we assume), runs the line demarcating the zones of responsibility of the "South" and "Center" Groups. In the rectangle of Artemovka - Raiyskoe - Priyut - Rusin Yar (approximately 90 square kilometers), there are no settlements.
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It is likely that the demarcation line runs along the Raiyskoe - Rusin Yar line, along the Berestovataya ravine. This terrain is located on the high ground of the interfluve of the Krivoy Torets River (to the east) and the Kazenny Torets River (to the west), with a gentle descent from the O0520 road line, which connects the settlement of Artema with the Rusinovskoe refractory clay deposit, to the Druzhkovka - Novogrigorovka line (here the Gruzskaya and Poltavka rivers flow into the Kazenny Torets River). From the heights of the elevation in the area of the settlement of Nikolaipole down to the lowland toward the Kazenny Torets River, this sector is cut by a number of ravines: Berestovaya, Lozovaya, and Berestovataya.
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Berestovaya Ravine
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View of the western outskirts of the city of Druzhkovka from the Berestovaya ravine.
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Berestovaya Ravine. Ravines are convenient folds in the terrain for the covert movement of troops and the placement of firing positions.
The positions of the "South" Group's units are located on this elevation from the Artema - Roskoshnoe area to Rusin Yar - the Rusynovskoye deposit. An ideal staging area for advancing downward (to the north), with control of the ravines, toward the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense area of Raiyskoe - Novogrigorovka - Torskoe, with support from neighbors on the left (the "Center" Group) on the Novopavlovka - Krasny Kut - Novogrigorovka axis. This provides an approach from the south to the Druzhkovka defensive hub, with an envelopment of the right flank of enemy defense in the Alekseevo-Druzhkovka area and pressure on the left flank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defensive line of Druzhkovka - Zolotoy Kolodez.
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The advance of Russian formations to the strategic Druzhkovka - Dobropole line, with simultaneous pressure on the agglomeration from the east, on the front from Rai-Aleksandrovka (Northeast of Kramatorsk) to Belokuzminovka, will create for the Ukrainian Armed Forces a situation close to complete collapse on this direction.
One of the elements of implementing such a plan must be the liberation of the settlement of Nikolaipole — the last enemy defense area (based on a settlement) in this sector of terrain.
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Konstantinovka
Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "The settlement of Artema in the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated as a result of decisive actions by servicemen of the 54th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 'South' Group. The liberation of the settlement became possible thanks to the coordinated work of reconnaissance units, fire support from artillery, and the effective work of unmanned systems crews. This made it possible to thwart all enemy attempts to maintain control over the settlement."
On the extreme western sector of the left flank of the "South" Group, a large bridgehead has been formed for a highly probable wide envelopment of the city of Konstantinovka and an advance to the southern districts of the settlement of Alekseevo-Druzhkovka. On June 15, the settlement of Artema/Dolgaya Balka (48°29′17″ N 37°36′24″ E, population 944 in 2001) was liberated. Somewhere in this area, to the west (as we assume), runs the line demarcating the zones of responsibility of the "South" and "Center" Groups. In the rectangle of Artemovka - Raiyskoe - Priyut - Rusin Yar (approximately 90 square kilometers), there are no settlements.
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It is likely that the demarcation line runs along the Raiyskoe - Rusin Yar line, along the Berestovataya ravine. This terrain is located on the high ground of the interfluve of the Krivoy Torets River (to the east) and the Kazenny Torets River (to the west), with a gentle descent from the O0520 road line, which connects the settlement of Artema with the Rusinovskoe refractory clay deposit, to the Druzhkovka - Novogrigorovka line (here the Gruzskaya and Poltavka rivers flow into the Kazenny Torets River). From the heights of the elevation in the area of the settlement of Nikolaipole down to the lowland toward the Kazenny Torets River, this sector is cut by a number of ravines: Berestovaya, Lozovaya, and Berestovataya.
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Berestovaya Ravine
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View of the western outskirts of the city of Druzhkovka from the Berestovaya ravine.
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Berestovaya Ravine. Ravines are convenient folds in the terrain for the covert movement of troops and the placement of firing positions.
The positions of the "South" Group's units are located on this elevation from the Artema - Roskoshnoe area to Rusin Yar - the Rusynovskoye deposit. An ideal staging area for advancing downward (to the north), with control of the ravines, toward the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense area of Raiyskoe - Novogrigorovka - Torskoe, with support from neighbors on the left (the "Center" Group) on the Novopavlovka - Krasny Kut - Novogrigorovka axis. This provides an approach from the south to the Druzhkovka defensive hub, with an envelopment of the right flank of enemy defense in the Alekseevo-Druzhkovka area and pressure on the left flank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defensive line of Druzhkovka - Zolotoy Kolodez.
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The advance of Russian formations to the strategic Druzhkovka - Dobropole line, with simultaneous pressure on the agglomeration from the east, on the front from Rai-Aleksandrovka (Northeast of Kramatorsk) to Belokuzminovka, will create for the Ukrainian Armed Forces a situation close to complete collapse on this direction.
One of the elements of implementing such a plan must be the liberation of the settlement of Nikolaipole — the last enemy defense area (based on a settlement) in this sector of terrain.
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Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "Over the past 24 hours, as a result of decisive actions by units of the 'Center' Group of forces, the settlement of Priyut in the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated."
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Krasnoarmeysk to Dobropole (Northeast Donetsk Direction)
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On June 11, when describing the formation by the Russian Armed Forces of a wide envelopment west of the city of Konstantinovka, we suggested that simultaneously with these actions by the "South" Group, their neighbors on the left (the "Center" Group) would likely begin advancing in the direction of the Novogrigorievka ("Novogrigorovka on some maps; Mikhail uses the old Russian MOD maps*) defense area. The objective of these actions: to pin down the enemy's forces and assets in the Raiyskoe - Novogrigorievka - Krasny Kut hub and prevent it from counterattacking the assault units of the "South" group in the area of the Lozovaya and Berestovaya ravines. On June 12, on the operational axis of Artemovka (Sofiyevka) - Novogrigorievka, the settlement of Priyut (48°32′17″ N 37°24′47″ E, population 42 in 2001) was liberated.
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Here, along the right bank of the Kazenny Torets River and its tributary the Poltavka River, transitioning from one to another, are located several rural settlements forming a kind of micro-agglomeration: Novopavlovka, Pavlovka, Priyut, Torskoe (to the west of it, on the opposite bank of the river, lies the village of Krasny Kut), and Toretskoe. And, at the confluence of the Gruzskaya and Kazenny Torets rivers, on the opposite bank opposite the settlement of Toretskoye, is located the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defensive hub of Novogrigorievka - Raiyskoe. In a straight line, from the settlement of Priyut to the settlement of Novogrigorievka is 4 kilometers. East of the settlement of Priyut lies the C050828 rocade, from which the Raiyskoye area is 5 kilometers away.
A new operational salient has been formed, with its apex at Dolgaya Balka - Nikolaipole and its bases at Alekseevo-Druzhkovka and Novogrigorievka, located in the area of the demarcation line between the zones of responsibility of two Russian army groups.
Zin Note: Attention everyone! Marat wants to become more active on this substack! He plans on making a video this week on a topic of your choosing. Please, refrain from questions like, “Why doesn't Russia nuke Kiev?” This is a golden opportunity, and I look forward to seeing your suggestions. This could become a weekly addition to the Substack. Put your suggestions in the comments!
Additionally: There is a new backup channel, and I may even start posting videos and articles there: maratkhairullinarticles.substack.com
[Reminder: A rocade is a road that runs parallel to the front line.*]
Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "Units of the 126th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 'North' Group, as a result of decisive actions, have established control over the settlement of Okhrimovka in Kharkov Oblast."
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Kharkov Direction (Area of Degtyarnoe - Volchansk - Veliky Burluk)
Units of the "North" Group are methodically, one after another, destroying Ukrainian Armed Forces defensive hubs on the left bank of the Volchya River, located along the O-210825 rocade. The village of Okhrimovka (50°20′20″ N 37°12′37″ E, population 625 in 2001) was the largest defense area in this sector. It is located at the confluence of the Plotva River and the Volchya River, and from it, along the Plotva River through forest belts, a dirt road stretches in the direction of the settlement of Zakharovka.
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In this sector, on the left bank of the Volchya River, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have one remaining defensive hub: Varvarovka - Khripuny - Malaya Volchya.
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With the converging movement of Russian units (along the O-210825 rocade) from Budarki toward Varvarovka and from Okhrimovka toward Khripuny, all enemy units occupying positions (north of the rocade) risk being encircled. They have communication and supply only through the Loshakovo - Krasny Yar hub. South of the Okhrimovka - Varvarovka sector, there are nearly 12 kilometers of practically uninhabited and roadless terrain.
To the south, along the bed of the Plotva River, along the C-210812 rocade, are located the settlements of Zakharovka, Ivanovka, Vasilevka, Blagodatnoe, Nefedovka, and Chernoe, which constitute a defensive line to protect the main rocade of this direction, the T-21-04 highway. This rocade is the base of the Veliky Burluk triangle and connects the flanks of this sector: the Olkhovatka area in the east and Bely Kolodez in the west.
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In the current configuration, the village of Okhrimovka is the center from which, likely, the rays of pressure will begin to diverge onto the flanks of the Chernoe - Zakharovka line. With the simultaneous advance of Russian units from the Vilcha area toward Bely Kolodez and from Verkhnyaya Pisarevka toward Shevchenkovo, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will face serious problems.
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Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "On the Konstantinovka direction, fighters of the 54th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 'South' Group liberated the settlement of Roskoshnoe in the DPR."
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The outer ring around the city of Konstantinovka is tightening ever more strongly. Previously, on the left flank of the Shevchenko - Stepanovka sector, Russian units, without consolidating in the settlement of Dolgaya Balka, advanced along the right bank along the ponds on the Lozovaya River and established blocking positions, ensuring the security of the flank of assault groups advancing on the settlement of Novoselovka.
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Following the successful advance into the city's urban quarters and the withdrawal of the enemy's main forces to the settlement of Alekseevo-Druzhkovka, they began forming a bridgehead in the Dolgaya Balka - Roskoshnoe area on the left flank. On June 11, the settlement of Roskoshnoe (48°29′54″ N 37°35′29″ E, population 152 in 2001) was liberated.
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After clearing the settlement of Dolgaya Balka, and having a bridgehead (Dolgaya Balka - Roskoshnoe) on the left bank of the Lozovaya River, Russian units, with support from neighbors on the left (the "Center" Group), are blocking the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defensive hub of Nikolaipole and are entering the underbelly of Druzhkovka in a beautiful, wide envelopment, occupying the high ground of the watershed of the Krivoy Torets River and the Berestovaya ravine, threatening the right flank of Ukrainian units defending in Alekseevo-Druzhkovka. If this scenario is realized, to contain enemy formations on the Druzhkovka - Zolotoy Kolodez line and to break through this Ukrainian defensive line, flank advances are likely by units of the "Center" Group in the direction of Pavlovka - Novogrigorievka
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[2026-06-16] @sermal_@twitter.com (OP video source)
Sermal - I said that the culture of lynching would turn against Sunnis after t. #2 [2066272673676541952].mp4 0.8 MB https://files.catbox.moe/ica309.mp4 Sermal - I said that the culture of lynching would turn against Sunnis after t. #1 [2066272674448330752].mp4 1.1 MB https://files.catbox.moe/tg68s9.mp4
Well I hope the "anti-campists" are enjoying discussions of Maine, USA politics, having moved on entirely. See, authoritarianism was defeated. Hmm, this shouldn't be hard to find.
[2026-06-16] @uncle_authority@twitter.com: universalising the "nation-state" as a bourgeois concept dismisses liberation struggles of imperialised peoples as wholly (or worse, secretly) bourgeois efforts while also diagnosing the international proletariat as too stupid to meaningfully steer any of its cultures on its own.
[2026-06-16] @redf0undation@twitter.com: Socialism is not the democratic perfection of the nation-state but its abolition. Seeking to preserve the it is to remain confined within bourgeois society. The emancipation of the proletariat is necessarily international and transcends national divisions.
[2026-06-12] @mindyisser@twitter.com: World Cup tourists have discovered New Jersey deli:
(despicably Atlantic short-form video slop)
[2] that is to say: this is basically Animal Farm masquerading as the sage wisdom of the One True Scotsman, but for the National Question rather than the DotP.
👆 let me take a blind guess here: 
Yep. Responding to sandwich videos harping on about the abolition of the nation state. Hey, why watch New Jersey? Look at Syria buddy! You got exactly what you wanted!
[2026-06-16] @bookdellector@twitter.com: I take no joy nor pride in this but I did say right after damascus fell, that even sunni syrians won’t be spared from the chaos and carnage to come…now what?
(OP video)
[2] syria has no air defenses, no real army, no standing, no real partners. only epstein daddies looking to desolate the region and what once was syria is like a straw in their hands…
[2026-06-16] @sermal_@twitter.com (OP video source)
Sermal - I said that the culture of lynching would turn against Sunnis after t. #2 [2066272673676541952].mp4 0.8 MB https://files.catbox.moe/ica309.mp4 Sermal - I said that the culture of lynching would turn against Sunnis after t. #1 [2066272674448330752].mp4 1.1 MB https://files.catbox.moe/tg68s9.mp4
Well I hope the "anti-campists" are enjoying discussions of Maine, USA politics, having moved on entirely. See, authoritarianism was defeated. Hmm, this shouldn't be hard to find.
[2026-06-16] @uncle_authority@twitter.com: universalising the "nation-state" as a bourgeois concept dismisses liberation struggles of imperialised peoples as wholly (or worse, secretly) bourgeois efforts while also diagnosing the international proletariat as too stupid to meaningfully steer any of its cultures on its own.
[2026-06-16] @redf0undation@twitter.com: Socialism is not the democratic perfection of the nation-state but its abolition. Seeking to preserve the it is to remain confined within bourgeois society. The emancipation of the proletariat is necessarily international and transcends national divisions.
[2026-06-12] @mindyisser@twitter.com: World Cup tourists have discovered New Jersey deli:
(despicably Atlantic short-form video slop)
[2] that is to say: this is basically Animal Farm masquerading as the sage wisdom of the One True Scotsman, but for the National Question rather than the DotP.
👆 let me take a blind guess here:
Yep. Responding to sandwich videos harping on about the abolition of the nation state. Hey, why watch New Jersey? Look at Syria buddy! You got exactly what you wanted!
[2026-06-16] @bookdellector@twitter.com: I take no joy nor pride in this but I did say right after damascus fell, that even sunni syrians won’t be spared from the chaos and carnage to come…now what?
(OP video)
[2] syria has no air defenses, no real army, no standing, no real partners. only epstein daddies looking to desolate the region and what once was syria is like a straw in their hands…
DeepSeek added vision mode so go and give that a test drive