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  • Reminded of this convo from "The Alliance that never was"

    The Soviet press attaché, A. A. Smirnov, was at the German foreign ministry on July 31x and met the deputy head of the press bureau, B. von Stumm. Germany had “no aggressive plans against the Soviet Union,” Stumm said.

    “We haven’t forgotten what Hitler wrote in his book [Mein Kampf],” replied Smirnov.

    “Ach, that,” exclaimed Stumm, “there’s a big difference between what is said and what is done in practice. The book was written in prison, a long time ago, hastily ... what’s written in that book is out of date, and we shouldn’t take it seriously.”?? But Mein Kampf with its visions of eastern conquest was never far from the Soviet mind.

  • I think her complaint then is irrelevant to anarchism vs communism. It was not the existence of a state that led to Russification, it was chauvinism and absolute assumptions about what development looks like. Anarchists can make the exact same mistakes. Greater autonomy could help, but that autonomy would only be able to stem the pressure if the Kazakh polity has power and is organized well.

    No matter what one thinks of Russification, it is just not an issue that can be chalked up to statism

  • Almost like the senate always sucked and served as a check on the representatives who at least had some popular support.

    I love when these freaks praise the specifically bad things about the founding generation. Hamilton brainrot though I know it predates that obvs

  • Yeah I don't agree with them. I don't know armchair or at least don't remember their prior analysis with Russia, so I didn't have the baggage of knowing they are reactionary till after. I think their view is wishful thinking honestly. We know Mossad got a drone base into Iran (cough Azerbaijan cough) and took out many defenses. Iran could not have predicted what the missile attack was going to hit, not with much certainty in advance. If they did simply turn off defenses in places why let several nuclear facilities get hit as well, along with key scientists in their apartments?

    A proper purge or even faking a pager attack just seems like a better way to do something like that. They got defenses online yesterday, they have done great at stopping missiles since then. it all seems consistent with a security failure, taking their time to assess, and then getting things up and running and retaliating once they were sure they had defenses up. Part of why I did not expect them to fire back in the hours following the initial attack.

    Even once they seemed to have things running again there were some semi successful hits on missile launch sites. I take it Iran was playing it safe before escalating, making sure they could defend from another barrage. If they had tactically allowed their defenses to fail for certain targets, they wouldn't have needed that wait time.

  • I stand by my comments that Iran's defenses being taken down like that is a huge problem and something that should never be able to happen. But the people saying Iran would COLLAPSE made me scratch my head. Iran is not Syria, Tehran could be in ashes and it still would not make the material reality of Iranian society anything like Syria after a decade of civil war.

    Like I said the other day, they survived the Iraq-Iran war for a decade of grueling trench combat and atrocities, a serious failure of air defense is bad, but it is not going to break what endured THAT hell.

    Honestly I should relisten to the Radio War Nerd ep on Iran-Iraq, good a time as any.

    https://fountain.fm/episode/0XsubVEkxzxcRgSieBbo

    this link was safe, warning don't click around on random sites for war nerd premium eps, always get pop ups, no way they are safe.