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Verner Verass retweeted
“Rusya için bu, son savaştır. Bu bir sondur. Mevcut çatışma, Rusya’nın girişeceği son savaş olacaktır. Ülkenin parçalanma süreci çoktan başladı; bu, Varşova Paktı’nı ve Sovyetler Birliği’ni tarihe gömen tarihsel sürecin bir devamıdır.
Rusya, kendi sonunu bizzat hızlandırdı: Petrol, doğal gaz, elmas ve altınla beslenerek yüz yıl daha durağan bir şekilde varlığını sürdürebilirdi; ancak bunun yerine, Sibirya ve Uzak Doğu üzerindeki kontrolünü dahi tam olarak sağlayamazken, Ukrayna’da savaş açmayı tercih etti. Oysa Sibirya olmadan Rusya hiçbir şey üretemez.
Rusya Maliye Bakanlığı’nın verileri henüz topyekûn bir çöküşü göstermese de, savaşın giderek artan maliyetini gözler önüne seriyor: Bakanlık, eylül ayı sonunda 2026 yılı için öngörülen bütçe açığını 7,3 trilyon rubleye çıkardı. Bu rakam, başlangıçtaki hedefin iki katı olduğu gibi, tam kapsamlı işgalin başlamasından bu yana kaydedilen en yüksek seviye; üstelik bu yıl vergiler yeniden artırılmış olmasına rağmen.
Nihayetinde çatışmalar Rusya’nın kendi topraklarına sıçrayacak; bölgesel feodal yapılar kaynaklar üzerinde birbirleriyle savaşmaya başlayacaklar. Ülke, 1917–1919 döneminin bir benzerine, yani Kolçak gibi ‘savaş ağalarının’ hüküm sürdüğü bir döneme doğru sürükleniyor.
Dolayısıyla, ne olursa olsun Rusya çoktan kaybetti; Ukrayna ise ne yaşanırsa yaşansın, çoktan kazandı. Şunu da itiraf etmeliyim ki, kendi vatanım olan Ukrayna ile büyük bir gurur duyuyorum: Onu üç gün içinde ele geçirmeyi planlıyorlardı, oysa Ukrayna beş yıldır direniyor.”
(Viktor Suvorov; 1978 yılında ailesiyle birlikte, İngiliz istihbaratının yardımıyla Birleşik Krallık’a iltica eden ve burada daha sonra istihbarat analisti olarak görev yapan eski bir Sovyet yetkilisi)
Kaynak: @francescoproia
Verner Verass retweeted
Ex-FSB agents and American real estate agents want Europe to accept "security guarantees" from Russia 🤡
Putin demands NATO go back to its 1997 borders, but he can't even take the Ukrainian land he wants.
Countries join NATO for protection from Russia.
Russia has no leverage. Witkoff and Kushner have none either.
#RussiaIsCollapsing #MakeRussiaSmallAgain #NATO #StandWithUkraine
Verner Verass retweeted
I left the new Democrats conference with a clear vision for what the party is going to do.
Watch my biggest takeaways and interviews from the conference:
Verner Verass retweeted
🇺🇦🇷🇺 APPLEBAUM: RUSSIA’S WAR MACHINE IS FACING A DANGEROUS MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM!
What happens when an invading army struggles to advance, loses soldiers faster than it can replace them and can no longer assume that its own territory is beyond the enemy’s reach?
Anne Applebaum argues that Russia is confronting precisely this combination of pressures.
In her assessment, Ukrainian forces have significantly strengthened their control of the front line, making further Russian advances increasingly difficult.
She also argues that Russian monthly personnel losses now exceed recruitment, while Ukrainian long-range drones are reaching major targets deep inside Russia.
These are her assessments, not independently established figures for every sector of the battlefield.
But together, they point to a strategic problem for Moscow.
Russia can continue attacking without necessarily improving its position. And every month of costly, limited advances risks consuming resources needed for the next offensive.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s long-range strikes force Moscow to defend facilities and infrastructure far beyond the front.
Applebaum also describes Putin’s regime as increasingly paranoid.
That observation matters because the Kremlin’s decisions are shaped not only by conditions on the battlefield but also by its perception of threats to its own security.
The war is not simply a contest over how much territory Russia can capture. It is also a contest over how long Moscow can sustain the cost of trying.
Verner Verass retweeted
At the current rate, Russia is losing 60,000+ men a month. No fuel, no food, and no pay. We may be about to witness the collapse of the Russian army.
Verner Verass retweeted
🔔Bild: Russia's list for a "new European order" includes Finland leaving NATO and no NATO bases in the Baltics.
Why Russia's peace terms mean a very long war and why it was never just about Donbas.
🎥full video is on my YT channel
Verner Verass retweeted
🚨🚨 BLUE TSUNAMI STILL GOING!
Republicans redrew this district to give themselves an unfair advantage.
IT DIDN’T WORK
It was VERY close but even in deep red North Carolina, even after unfair scam Republican redistricting…
Democrat Raymond Smith
WINS!!!!!
LET’S
FUCKING
GO!!
Verner Verass retweeted
🇱🇻 Latvian PM Andris Kulbergs: "I think we, as Europe, have to grow some bigger balls."
Verner Verass retweeted
🚨 Breaking: Israel's oil is burning right now. Iran retaliates twice as hard within 24 hours of the actions taken against it by Israel and the United States. 🚀💥🔥🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸
Nadeem Ahmed: there must be justice "…Jeremy Corbyn …defending Palestine…" 🇵🇸
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Palestine was never property of another country to give away …the Palestinian people are the rightful landholders of thousands of years of continuous residence.
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Jeremy Corbyn has been defending Palestine for over 40 years .
He has never given up on the Palestinians.
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Verner Verass retweeted
Jeremy Corbyn has been defending Palestine for over 40 years .
He has never given up on the Palestinians.
Verner Verass retweeted
Chuck Schumer thought he could just glide into majority leader role, this is so satisfying to see
JUST NOW — @VanHollenForMD: “We should not decide what we do based on what Trump might do.”
The candidate for @SenateDems leader says @TheDemocrats must deliver what the people want not what special interests want. #MedicareForAllNOW #AbolishICE #EndTheWar #CutOffIsrael
Verner Verass retweeted
Holding a place means deciding who comes and goes; announcing it only takes a press office. That is owning a house versus owning a yard sign.
In 12 hours, Ukraine tested Russia's grip on Moscow's skies, its oil refineries, and Donetsk. Russia failed all three. 2/
Verner Verass retweeted
Handre: profit-motivated economics is doomed unless profit motive can be augmented by service motives…
"…proposed solution? A global wealth tax reaching up to 80 percent on high incomes, requiring an international enforcement apparatus with no exit option for capital…"
Thomas Piketty built a global reputation on a single, seductive claim: capital accumulates faster than the economy grows, causing wealth to concentrate permanently at the top, and only aggressive redistribution fixes this.
His 2013 book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" sold over three million copies. Politicians treated it like scripture. But the entire foundation is rotten.
Piketty's central formula, r > g (the return on capital exceeds economic growth), relies on projecting historical capital returns forward indefinitely. This ignores capital consumption, entrepreneurial loss, and the constant destruction of old fortunes through bad investments, generational spending, and market competition. Andrew Carnegie's grandchildren did not control U.S. Steel. Vanderbilt money scattered within two generations. Markets punish miscalculation without mercy, so the aristocratic permanence Piketty fears keeps failing to materialize.
Somehow, that isn't even the most intellectually dishonest part of the book. Piketty treats capital as a static pool sitting on top of society, extracting rent from you while doing nothing useful. Capital is deferred consumption channeled into productive tools, which is why real wages in market economies rise alongside capital accumulation, not despite it. Every factory, every server farm, every distribution network that employs you and cheapens the goods you buy exists because someone saved instead of spent.
His proposed solution? A global wealth tax reaching up to 80 percent on high incomes, requiring an international enforcement apparatus with no exit option for capital.
Yet another manufactured crisis, built on dishonest numbers, and the solution is always to give globalists more of your hard-earned money.
Handre: profit-motivated economics is doomed unless profit motive can be augmented by service motives…
"…proposed solution? A global wealth tax reaching up to 80 percent on high incomes, requiring an international enforcement apparatus with no exit option for capital…"
Thomas Piketty built a global reputation on a single, seductive claim: capital accumulates faster than the economy grows, causing wealth to concentrate permanently at the top, and only aggressive redistribution fixes this.
His 2013 book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" sold over three million copies. Politicians treated it like scripture. But the entire foundation is rotten.
Piketty's central formula, r > g (the return on capital exceeds economic growth), relies on projecting historical capital returns forward indefinitely. This ignores capital consumption, entrepreneurial loss, and the constant destruction of old fortunes through bad investments, generational spending, and market competition. Andrew Carnegie's grandchildren did not control U.S. Steel. Vanderbilt money scattered within two generations. Markets punish miscalculation without mercy, so the aristocratic permanence Piketty fears keeps failing to materialize.
Somehow, that isn't even the most intellectually dishonest part of the book. Piketty treats capital as a static pool sitting on top of society, extracting rent from you while doing nothing useful. Capital is deferred consumption channeled into productive tools, which is why real wages in market economies rise alongside capital accumulation, not despite it. Every factory, every server farm, every distribution network that employs you and cheapens the goods you buy exists because someone saved instead of spent.
His proposed solution? A global wealth tax reaching up to 80 percent on high incomes, requiring an international enforcement apparatus with no exit option for capital.
Yet another manufactured crisis, built on dishonest numbers, and the solution is always to give globalists more of your hard-earned money.
Verner Verass retweeted
Thomas Piketty built a global reputation on a single, seductive claim: capital accumulates faster than the economy grows, causing wealth to concentrate permanently at the top, and only aggressive redistribution fixes this.
His 2013 book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" sold over three million copies. Politicians treated it like scripture. But the entire foundation is rotten.
Piketty's central formula, r > g (the return on capital exceeds economic growth), relies on projecting historical capital returns forward indefinitely. This ignores capital consumption, entrepreneurial loss, and the constant destruction of old fortunes through bad investments, generational spending, and market competition. Andrew Carnegie's grandchildren did not control U.S. Steel. Vanderbilt money scattered within two generations. Markets punish miscalculation without mercy, so the aristocratic permanence Piketty fears keeps failing to materialize.
Somehow, that isn't even the most intellectually dishonest part of the book. Piketty treats capital as a static pool sitting on top of society, extracting rent from you while doing nothing useful. Capital is deferred consumption channeled into productive tools, which is why real wages in market economies rise alongside capital accumulation, not despite it. Every factory, every server farm, every distribution network that employs you and cheapens the goods you buy exists because someone saved instead of spent.
His proposed solution? A global wealth tax reaching up to 80 percent on high incomes, requiring an international enforcement apparatus with no exit option for capital.
Yet another manufactured crisis, built on dishonest numbers, and the solution is always to give globalists more of your hard-earned money.
