Trump has no choice, but I don’t see how he can make a deal on Iran’s terms. It would be an incredible humiliation and Israel is fighting tooth and nail to prevent that. Given massive Israeli influence in the US, I expect any actual deal will be stopped in the end.
Yes, right now I find it hard to imagine how Trump intends to extricate himself from this situation. Trump faces a “tough decision”—either that, or he starts drinking vodka. The U.S. needs years to rebuild its military, not just weeks or months.
Currently, in a hasty scramble, they are field-testing their new technologies in Ukraine; however, I doubt the U.S. is capable of reorganizing its military as rapidly as Russia did at the start of the war. Then again, we shall see—perhaps Trump is a capable manager… (haha), even if he is currently neck-deep in shit. It seems to me that he won’t be able to wash himself clean of this—nothing can save him now; he is a lame duck.
And yeah, the problem Russia has is the fact that it’s a capitalist system which stands in the way of meaningful development.
Just recently, I was trying to understand the difference between shortages in a planned economy and shortages in a capitalist economy.
I came to only one conclusion: under capitalism, shortages are highly profitable for capitalists; they allow them to generate excess profits while maintaining the same—or even lower—levels of production. A shortage is simply a mechanism for extracting additional funds from the public.
This is the very same scheme that speculators employed during the Soviet era—a practice for which they faced prison sentences. Under capitalism, however, these same individuals are regarded as highly respected figures in the world of macroeconomics—people like Trump and Musk. They ought to be shipped off to the USSR so they could finally be judged according to their true deserts—specifically for the things they are doing right now.
Just take a look: Russia, too, has its own Ma… доморощенный.
It’s all very simple and straightforward: you work harder, but you get paid the exact same amount. You’re working for the good of the Motherland… :))))
“The Motherland”—that’s actually Deripaska’s codename in certain circles… :))) Oh, how I miss Comrade Beria.
This was unnecessary under the communist system which naturally united people.
Stalin didn’t ban the Church, which implies that it was, after all, necessary—especially during times of hardship. It was mainly women who went there—women whose husbands were either at the front or had already perished. There, they found at least some measure of solace to keep from losing their minds during the war.
But Solzhenitsyn and his ilk decided that Stalin—the Antichrist—had repented and come to believe in God… )))) And they’ve been playing that same broken record for forty years now… The only thing missing from that story was Rasputin…
Just recently, a new Russian film aired on Russian TV channels… It’s the kind of thing that would make Dr. Lecter look like a nervous amateur. The story goes that when the Germans were at the gates of Moscow in '41, Stalin was in despair and didn’t know what to do; so, he decided to visit a vedunya—a blind old seer. The sorceress handed Stalin a wooden icon and said: “This icon must be flown around Moscow three times…” ))))) Stalin took the icon and entrusted it to the Soviet Union’s finest pilot. The pilot proceeded to circle Moscow repeatedly while under heavy fire from German anti-aircraft guns. By some miracle, he managed to fly around Moscow three times. And what do you think, comrade? The Germans immediately retreated from Moscow… )))) С Божьей помощью!
They’ve completely lost their minds over these icons!
And agree capitalism is built on extraction, and every crisis creates opportunities for somebody. Especially true when that somebody is causing the crisis and they have inside information. Russell actually had a great essay on the whole extraction mechanic https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
And yeah religion is being pushed in a very obvious way, although I recall seeing a survey last yeah I think where it showed that number of religious people is about the same as ever.
Yes, right now I find it hard to imagine how Trump intends to extricate himself from this situation. Trump faces a “tough decision”—either that, or he starts drinking vodka. The U.S. needs years to rebuild its military, not just weeks or months.
Currently, in a hasty scramble, they are field-testing their new technologies in Ukraine; however, I doubt the U.S. is capable of reorganizing its military as rapidly as Russia did at the start of the war. Then again, we shall see—perhaps Trump is a capable manager… (haha), even if he is currently neck-deep in shit. It seems to me that he won’t be able to wash himself clean of this—nothing can save him now; he is a lame duck.
Just recently, I was trying to understand the difference between shortages in a planned economy and shortages in a capitalist economy.
I came to only one conclusion: under capitalism, shortages are highly profitable for capitalists; they allow them to generate excess profits while maintaining the same—or even lower—levels of production. A shortage is simply a mechanism for extracting additional funds from the public.
This is the very same scheme that speculators employed during the Soviet era—a practice for which they faced prison sentences. Under capitalism, however, these same individuals are regarded as highly respected figures in the world of macroeconomics—people like Trump and Musk. They ought to be shipped off to the USSR so they could finally be judged according to their true deserts—specifically for the things they are doing right now.
Just take a look: Russia, too, has its own Ma… доморощенный.
https://ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/30/milliarder-deripaska-predlozhil-vvesti-12-chasovoi-rabochii-den-vklyuchaya-subbotu-chtobi-ponyat-ekonomiku-a191202
It’s all very simple and straightforward: you work harder, but you get paid the exact same amount. You’re working for the good of the Motherland… :))))
“The Motherland”—that’s actually Deripaska’s codename in certain circles… :))) Oh, how I miss Comrade Beria.
Stalin didn’t ban the Church, which implies that it was, after all, necessary—especially during times of hardship. It was mainly women who went there—women whose husbands were either at the front or had already perished. There, they found at least some measure of solace to keep from losing their minds during the war.
But Solzhenitsyn and his ilk decided that Stalin—the Antichrist—had repented and come to believe in God… )))) And they’ve been playing that same broken record for forty years now… The only thing missing from that story was Rasputin…
Just recently, a new Russian film aired on Russian TV channels… It’s the kind of thing that would make Dr. Lecter look like a nervous amateur. The story goes that when the Germans were at the gates of Moscow in '41, Stalin was in despair and didn’t know what to do; so, he decided to visit a vedunya—a blind old seer. The sorceress handed Stalin a wooden icon and said: “This icon must be flown around Moscow three times…” ))))) Stalin took the icon and entrusted it to the Soviet Union’s finest pilot. The pilot proceeded to circle Moscow repeatedly while under heavy fire from German anti-aircraft guns. By some miracle, he managed to fly around Moscow three times. And what do you think, comrade? The Germans immediately retreated from Moscow… )))) С Божьей помощью!
They’ve completely lost their minds over these icons!
https://youtu.be/Cz5uF6ms3Do
And this is the disgrace I am forced to witness right now. And just try saying anything against God…
And agree capitalism is built on extraction, and every crisis creates opportunities for somebody. Especially true when that somebody is causing the crisis and they have inside information. Russell actually had a great essay on the whole extraction mechanic https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
And yeah religion is being pushed in a very obvious way, although I recall seeing a survey last yeah I think where it showed that number of religious people is about the same as ever.