US and Europe are big players.

Let's not forget how Russia is a massive negative destabilizing force in the region/world.

More fun with Etsy resin prints; the not-Ambull-Ambull. Much cheaper than the official one and fun to paint as well. I started out with a black base, then decided to give it a grey drybrush coat, then some blue contrast paint, then a light blue drybrush, then a black wash, then more light blue drybrush, then some light grey for highlights since I had gotten pretty lost at that point and couldn't remember what my original painting idea was. Done! :D

The seller also sent me a broken print, gratis, that I haven't decided what to do with yet.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 IN A TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE published October 30th, Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky is described as having become immovable in his conviction that Ukraine will defeat the Russian Federation in the east of Ukraine, to the point of delusion.

According to the Time Magazine Article:

Despite the recent setbacks on the battlefield, he [Zelensky] does not intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary, his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic.

“He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”

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Secret British ‘black propaganda’ campaign targeted cold war enemies

From the article;

'The British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, targeting Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia with leaflets and reports from fake sources aimed at destabilising cold war enemies by encouraging racial tensions, sowing chaos, inciting violence and reinforcing anti-communist ideas, newly declassified documents have revealed.

The effort, run from the mid-1950s through to the late 70s by a unit in London that was part of the Foreign Office, was focused on cold war enemies such as the Soviet Union and China, leftwing liberation groups and leaders that the UK saw as threats to its interests

The campaign also sought to mobilise Muslims against Moscow, promoting greater religious conservatism and radical ideas. To appear authentic, documents encouraged hatred of Israel.

Recently declassified British government documents reveal hundreds of extensive and costly operations.'

A stellar article on the damage proxy wars, answers a lot of questions!

Our Evolving Foreign Policy | Power and Politics in US Government 30 of ...

The point is to prolong it and bleed Russia dry // this is a very strange opinion. Russia is not trying to end it. Russia is most interested in prolonging it. The attack on Ukraine is an attack on the west primarily in russian media, so in russian propaganda. They are fighting the proxy war, sure. But that doesn't make it so. The fact that they view it like that just supports the point that they view an independent state and people who live there as void of their own political agency or right to live, if we are being honest. Anyway... it is sad. Proxy war is such a disturbing lacuna that people fall for or using staregically when their opinions are formed and they are not opened to learning about the conflict they don't understand.

I find your argumentation very strange as well.

Proxy wars are geopolitical reality, not a fantasy. Accordingly, I do not see how you can possibly equate the notion of proxy wars with lacunae on my part.

The war has stalled and it is not progressing the way that the US and the EU planned. That does not mean that they would not prefer to see it going on for years. Putin hoped it would be done in the matter of weeks. Both of them have their own delusions.

Syria was very much a proxy war between the US and the Russian federation, fought on Syrian soil and to the immense detriment of Syrian civilians.

Frankly, civilians are all that I care about, ever since I have been a stateless refugee. I do not have any sentimentality about any professional army in the world.

I do not believe in nation-states, nor do I belong to one.

I do not believe that there is such a thing as "the West," nor have I ever felt protected by the NATO. Conversely, I deeply dislike and mistrust the way that Russian influence has spread in some parts of the Balkans. I am disgusted that they elevated the Romanovs to saintly status. I hate their racism against Central Asians and people from the Caucasus.

Yes, you can say that I am cynical. I am. I do not see any humanitarianism or idealism or either side.

I only see civilians suffering and dying for nothing, and I do not believe that "the West" gives a damn about Ukrainian lives (nor does Putin). Cheap labour and cannon fodder.

idiot baby kill credit fight

Abusive relationship

i know that disney is too big to boycott effectively but that shouldn't translate to "and so we should keep buying their products like normal" but rather "at the very least we should try"

Finally finished the Medusaes for my Court of the Archon, now I just need an Archon for them to follow. The first three are resin casts from Proxywars on Etsy, the last on the right is a resin cast from GW. I feel like they need a darker pink on their exposed brain matter so I will probably come back to these.

Athletes-turned-servicemen and women are not unique to America

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First look at Book 6: Stars!

breaking my silence on chess the musical to say that i would literally not give a fuck about this show if i thought it was good or fully successful at what it is saying. SORRY! i love how messy she is. i love how since 1984 and continuing to this very day people with entirely different perceptions of and opinions on the musical have attempted in their own ways to "make it good" by creating all these different versions with like notably different plots, characterization, and song order, and i love how fucking bad the vast majority of these are despite it all. i hope people keep trying to fix chess the musical forever and until the end of time. i hope no one ever figures it out. i want every currently living theatre director in existence to make their own version and for all these versions to come out on broadway at the same time, making that year's musical season entirely comprised of various different versions of the cold war chess musical by tim rice and half of abba. i want not only our greatest minds but also our middlest-of-the-road and worst minds to come up with their own conclusions as to why chess does not entirely work in its original form or any subsequent forms like to really think about it and yes i do want someone to dedicate their entire life to perfecting chess by releasing version after version after version until they die peacefully but still, as always, in the grips of obsession. i want marriages to be broken up. i want mental states to be shattered. i dream of this world

justa bunch of heads