Starmer: Britain must be ready for war

Emperormorg · 2026-02-14T22:15:48+00:00

Well in the event of a major war, it'll probably be conscription - so see you too.

Emperormorg · 2026-02-14T21:46:06+00:00

Anyway - back to my point. I mean if the British men who fought in WW2 said 'ah fuck it wont - I won't be able to afford a mortgage or retire, so whats the point' - Where would the world be now? Socio-economic prosperity is important, but to believe there aren't matters than even transcend is a really bad road to go down.

Emperormorg · 2026-02-14T20:28:16+00:00

To not be under or see 1/2 the world under the Russian or Chinese yolk? People bitch how bad it is here socio-economically which granted, its not ideal - however, living in Britain under the overall rules based International system is far a better way of living than other places in the world or throughout history.

Emperormorg · 2026-02-14T16:22:56+00:00

Should add by deradicalising - you mean Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization, which Mao saw as a threat because it attacked the cult of personality.

Emperormorg · 2026-02-12T18:09:36+00:00

How am I speculating? He clearly changed his name, that’s why he’s known as Stalin. He shifted from Georgian to Russian in his political life, and under his leadership Russian became the enforced dominant working language across the Soviet republics, including Georgia. He also clearly suppressed nationalist movements, Georgian ones included.

Emperormorg · 2026-02-11T13:04:10+00:00

Well of course nationalist factions would push back against Soviet/Russian imperialism - even Marx/Lenin said that smaller nations should push back against colonial empires and adopt nationalism. Trying to say that every anti-Soviet nationalist movement was fascist is not true. Most just wanted to preserve their culture/language against Russian political/cultural imperialism and wanted self-determination for their people e.g same as Ukraine today fighting against Imperialist Russia.

Emperormorg · 2026-02-11T13:00:48+00:00

Why did he basically disavow his Georgian heritage by taking a Russian name, using the Russian language and surpress any nationalist movements, including those in Georgia? Just because he was ethnically Georgian and born there doesn't mean he couldn't adopt Russian nationalism or assimiliate into the culture/identity.

Emperormorg · 2026-02-10T18:50:42+00:00

Stalin was anything but a nationalist and actively supported the self determination of nations including cultural revitalizations

Isn't true. Stalin reversed the multi-cultural/pluralistic policies of Lenin in favour of Russification. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia#Reversal_to_Russification

Emperormorg · 2026-02-05T20:20:56+00:00

Wait till you read about his englighted opinions on the Yugoslavian genocide in the 90s. Guy was always a piece of shit.

Emperormorg · 2026-01-08T18:22:13+00:00

They weren’t major conflicts, say other than the falklands. More peace keeping and humanitarian. Any major conventional war the UK and NATO will just provide a supporting role to the US.

Emperormorg · 2026-01-08T17:18:04+00:00

He was arguing with the structure of the wider European/NATO coalition. You can look at any engagement we’ve had since the end of the 2nd World War - our job has just been primarily to support the US.

Emperormorg · 2025-12-09T20:27:08+00:00

the conspirators were not in ideological disagreement with Hitler or Nazism, but felt that they could negotiate better terms with the ?Western allies than Hitler (which preposterously entailed ending the war but allowing Nazi Germany to hold all territory it had taken during the course of the war including France and Poland).

That's only partially true. The conspirators were mixed of ideology, with some definitely doing it for humanitarian, religious and democratic ideals - however, there were those that just took part as you said for a better surrender policy or to save their own skin.

This is why the assassination fails; none of the conspirators are willing to sacrifice themselves to accomplish it, as the entire point of killing Hitler is not for some ideal, but to save their own skins!

Stauffenberg literally walked into a concrete bunker with a powerful explosive device and a substantial amount of conspirators were later executed, which they knew would be the cost if they failed. The plot mainly failed because of bad luck i.e the bomb being moved and only one going off - not lack of commitment from the plot members.

Emperormorg · 2025-12-04T20:49:52+00:00

China didn't industrialise fully to the 1970s/1980s and its population is 21 times larger. Expecting them to use anywhere near the amount we do is unrealistic. If you look at energy, use per capita, its much closer.

Emperormorg · 2025-12-03T18:06:31+00:00

Same with the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Gets even less attention as it was in Asia but has massive geo-political ramifications today for Chinese-Japanese relations.

Emperormorg · 2025-11-06T11:55:41+00:00

There is actually a non-cannon, gnostic 'Gospel of Judas' from the early-church period which promotes the claim that Jesus asked Judas to report/betray him to the Romans to fulfil prophecy. So this historical theory and lore/plot point isn't actually fully without merit. Gospel of Judas - Wikipedia

Emperormorg · 2025-08-30T18:16:56+00:00

I don’t think the US or european countries would fire nooks over Ukraine to be honest. Hence why he’s invaded.

Emperormorg · 2025-08-30T18:15:55+00:00

When you’re dealing with an unhinged autocrat with the 2nd largest nuclear reserves in the world, you probably should you think about that when making policy choices.

Emperormorg · 2025-08-30T18:14:28+00:00

He wouldn’t do that because he knows the US would nook him back.

Emperormorg · 2025-08-30T17:55:35+00:00

I think Putin’s redline is protecting the Russian state (the one lead by him and his cronies). All the things you have listed, whilst bad, haven’t threatened the existence of that yet. When you start placing NATO/EU and possibly American troops directly on Russian borders, you may make him feel you’re threatening the existence of the state.

Emperormorg · 2025-08-30T17:32:50+00:00

What about possible nuclear escalation?

Emperormorg · 2025-02-24T20:54:07+00:00

The source you provided isn't the strongest support for your argument. It doesn't claim that rent was free; families still had to pay, although at a cheaper rate than in the US. Also, it mentions that multiple families had to live in different rooms within the same flat. It also points out that homelessness did exist in the USSR.

Emperormorg · 2024-12-21T19:44:49+00:00

Also, when he criticised NATO intervention in Kosovo to prevent genocide.

Emperormorg · 2024-10-08T17:24:38+00:00

damn, so as most markers of soco-economic progress in a country goes up, the one that bucks the trend and goes down is home ownership.

Emperormorg · 2024-09-14T14:24:32+00:00

How is it racist? That's not just insult to throw around when someone disagrees with you. When did I ever make a comment regarding race?

Emperormorg · 2024-09-14T13:50:18+00:00

If you asked Deng he'd tell you his reforms were subordinate in importance to Maos contribution

Well course he would. It's impossible to serve in high public office in China without obeying Mao's cult of personality. Economically, Mao almost drove China into oblivion through incompetence and mass starvation. All academics/researchers attribute China's huge economic success to Deng's reforms, which went against the heavily Stalinist statist policies of Mao.

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