And United24, the platform that Western celebrities have used to fundraise for Ukraine, was literally founded by Zelensky. People share its articles as though its news.

It’s not. It’s state propaganda, and they’re not even discreet about it.

That explains the wave of “Nord Publishing” United 24 bots that were ubiquitous on Lemmy a couple of months ago.

Ukraine is being used as a testing ground for NATO’s military-industrial ambitions, its forces deployed to generate combat experience with drones and tactics that can then be shared with other NATO members. This is, in the clearest possible terms, a proxy war, and the proxy is being destroyed.

And these tactics will be turned upon the West’s own children and elderly, to press them into conscription for Western business interests, like they have Ukraine’s children and elderly.

Of course, if you define Ukraine as its puppet government, controlled by NATO and kept in place by the same Western powers that benefit from every day this war continues, then yes, they want to keep fighting. It is not their children being sent to die. Zelensky’s children live safely outside Ukraine, as do the children of the vast majority of the Rada. The West is determined to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian. And the Ukrainian people, the real Ukraine, the only Ukraine that matters, have made clear that they are no longer willing to be the last Ukrainian.

The fascist ghouls are on the list too, but only in the event their behavior exceeds acceptable bounds, which are wide, or they need a convenient sacrifice, or both.

I don’t know, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

So I tried this in mojeek with and without .js. Thing is, most websites are designed not to work, without it. I could use some help with settings, if anyone is inclined.

Also, that made my fingerprint much more unique. It almost seems worse.

This is what narcissistic injury looks like.

For those who don’t like long-pressing or right-clicking: https://www.simplypsychology.com/articles/narcissistic-injury-guide

😂 self-important much?

If you must know, I’m browsing Lemmy. The horror! 😱

Oh you again. Always complaining, never solution oriented. Go fix yourself, then return – or don’t. It seems whining is your preferred MO.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/kazakhstan-cuts-oil-production-over-160337153.html

Oil-rich Kazakhstan has announced a cut in its production volumes following mass Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia.

The Kazakh Energy Ministry said on Thursday that the decision was prompted by the security situation at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, which has been targeted in Ukrainian drone attacks in recent weeks.

The consortium that uses the port to ship oil had previously protested against the Ukrainian strikes.

The ministry said the reduction in output was a temporary measure. Loading operations were “temporarily suspended to ensure the safety of vessels, crews and the environment in the Black Sea area,” it said, adding that technical facilities were functioning and ready for use should the situation normalize.

They aren’t meant to stay on the borders, either.

the lack of a timetable for elections

There went the argument against Burkina Faso (which was already bs but whatever).

You get “invalid email address” on a lot of disposable email addresses, too.

🫂

Since they refuse to do this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/CompendiumMaleficarumEngraving15.jpg

The level of DARVO here is tragicomic.

Because both Israel and USA fabulously and famously always keep their agreements.

If Cuba was scared and wanted to abide by the terms and agreements of the USA

What the…

No one said that but you.

Only now that the US has successfully crippled and starved Cuba are they throwing in the towel.

Please stop worshipping randos who got rich talking 💩 about things of which they have no knowledge.

Edit: here https://socialistchina.org/2026/06/25/cubas-economic-reforms-and-the-prospects-for-socialist-renewal/

Pass through the US imposed oil blockade and tell the US to go shove it instead of abiding by US imperialist terms.

Do you imagine Cuba has no say in this? Has it occurred to you maybe Cuba doesn’t want this?

Russia has been capitalist for a long time, but not imperialist. Cuba is grown up now. Both are helping. What are they supposed to do, say: do this and that? Go in and take over and run things? Cuba is sovereign. This is a Cuban issue for Cuban people.

Yes what the US does, did is slimey af. And if China or Russia went in telling Cuba they have to do this or that to get assistance, that’s… imperialism.

I asked and received. Thank you.

Edit:

Generalised subsidies that benefit the relatively affluent and the poor alike are to be replaced by assistance targeted at the most vulnerable – retirees, families with chronically ill children, and impoverished neighbourhoods – but the state’s responsibility for healthcare, education, social security and welfare is unchanged.

This is the main thing in my mind.

The reforms unquestionably carry risks. A property market, private banks, large firms and remittance-funded investment will tend to generate a propertied stratum, and in the Cuban case along existing fault lines of access to hard currency and family abroad. None of this should be waved away; it is the real cost of the policy. But the wager is a considered one, and it rests on a proposition that China has spent nearly 50 years testing: that a socialist state which keeps political power, public ownership of the commanding heights and the levers of planning and redistribution in its own hands can use markets and foreign capital to develop without being captured by them.

I’m unclear on property reforms. Are large swaths of land open to private ownership?

I’m also unclear on the ins and outs of market reforms in Cuba, and would like an analysis or few. In the meantime, I keep this comment in mind:

https://hexbear.net/comment/7271699