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Ukrainians have been fighting for their freedom for 372 years. The Romanovs could not uproot them, Stalin could not crush them, Hitler could not destroy them, the Soviet empire could not digest them, neoliberalism could not hold them, Putinism cannot defeat them, and Trumpism will not stop them.

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You were warned, Europe. Trumpism is leaving NATO. Time to build an EU army, navy and air force and go all in on Ukraine's impending victory. (Spoiler for the Asian polities: Trumpism is going to leave Taiwan and the Pacific, too).

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This is 2.2% of Ukraine's primary mobilization pool, comparable to British fatalities between 1940-1943. Muscovy has suffered a minimum of 350,000 and possibly as many as 850,000 fatalities, a loss rate of 5% to 12% -- comparable to Mussolini's army. Ukraine. Will. Win. #SlavaUkraïni

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After destroying the Federal state, Trumpism will end competitive elections on the state level via vote suppression, grift and gerry-mandering. The final goal is a Xiist-style social credit scoring system. Algos will hide videos, skew search results away from you, and promote plutofascism.

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Vance's Munich speech was Trumpism's declaration of war on the European Union. What happens next is the firing of anyone who isn't white and male in the US government, the jailing of millions of Americans in a silicon gulag, and the exit of the US from NATO. Time for an EU army, air force and navy.

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In the summer of 2024, I said the EU didn't have five years to realm, they had five months. No more excuses, it's time to act. Send 1% of EU GDP to Ukraine's military ($180 billion/year), scrap Maastricht austerity, and tax the hell out of China's state-subsidized exports.

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Lots of US progressives argue we shouldn't bash the 77 million US citizens who voted for Trumpism. Not so: the latter knowingly declared war on the 8.129 billion human beings who are not in the Orange Death Cult. Mock them, block them, and focus on the 50% of US citizens who don't vote.

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The United States is a perfectly ordinary 18th century constitutional oligarchy undergoing a perfectly ordinary mid-19th century coup.

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Freedom requires firepower, but it also requires podcasts. These three are worth your time: Better Offline youtube.com/@BetterOffline) Organized Money (youtube.com/@OrganizedMo...) Ukraine Russia War Talk (open.spotify.com/show/30kKbRhdLL7fZgQr8ue0mo)

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The 25% of Americans who still live in the social conditions of a core polity are about to be hurled into the semi-periphery.

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Trumpism, a.k.a. American plutofascism, has declared war on 77 polities. It will fail -- just like all the other plutofascisms temporarily blighting our planet. www.slmissionun.gov.sl/joint-statem...

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Six months overdue, but still a good step forwards. Total EU military spending is 1.9% of GDP (France reached 2% last year) but needs to be 4%, an increase from $369 billion to $776 billion. A third of that increase ($111 billion) needs to go to Ukraine. #FreedomRequiresFirepower

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We're 17 years past the end of the US hegemony in 2008, which means our world-system has all the morbid symptoms of 1635, 1797, and 1931, only with one big difference: no new hegemon will ever run the planet. #DemocracyOfThe8Billion

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The 198 million Americans who didn't vote for plutofascism are finally experiencing what I felt back in 2003: the indescribable shock, rage, despair, and blazing fury of discovering that the US is a semi-periphery run by lumpen-criminal millionaires to enrich a handful of billionaire monopolists.

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It took post-hegemonic Britain 106 years (1914-2020) to return to the semi-periphery. It took the post-hegemonic US only 17 years (2008-2025).

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In December 2024, Uplink argued that Trumpism was the English-speaking version of Peronism. Greenland will be to Trumpism what the Falklands was to the Argentine military dictatorship.

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After 163 years, the United States has returned to the semi-periphery, shrinking the core from 13% of the planet down to 9%.

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Thoughtful blog post on the contradictions of small-scale videogame production: auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...

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Here's one for you music fans: an excursus on why the Finnish Opera's glorious 2019-2023 Ring cycle, directed by Anna Kelo, is the first opera of the 8 billion (the performances are viewable at Finland's YLE public broadcaster). www.patreon.com/posts/uplink...

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Ed Zitron delivers the truth we need to hear in 2024: digital plutocrats broke the world, and all 8 billion of us digital commoners have to pitch in to save it.

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Why Trumpism is algo-boosted Peronism: www.patreon.com/posts/uplink...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Biden has managed the rare geopolitical feat of being the US version of Chancellor Hindenburg (promised a New Deal, delivered plutofascism), Chamberlain (talked democracy, slow-walked aid to Ukraine) and now Yeltsin (preached legal norms, practiced family scams). #Cthulhumerica

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Love and respect to the design team (little-known fact: Heiner Müller's skull-seller in "Germania" was the first Stalker). #SlavaUkraïni bsky.app/profile/stal...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

My latest book is finally done -- a rethinking of the seismic events of 1914-1945 from a transnational perspective. Will be posting video explainers on the individual chapters, text is free to download below. Happy historicizing!

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Sarah Kendzior is America's Jesse Faden. Listen close, and you can just barely catch the warble of a very Finnish tango... #SlavaUkraïni

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Also, regular videos are coming. In the post-hegemonic darkness of Cthulhumerica, we lecturers at the University of Miskatonic are keeping the lights on.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Deleted my account from the ketamine freak's cesspool of plutofascism. The blue bird is dead, the blue skies are ours. #SlavaUkraïni

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