Any guesses which european country has the most revolutionary potential?

Russia for sure (this includes Belarus because the two countries are very closely tied together now so if there is a revolution in Russia Belarus will follow). Then Serbia a distant second, but there is also an unfortunately very strong liberal tendency there.

Then maybe France, but this is probably mostly wishful thinking because Western European countries tend to be very liberal and convinced of their own superiority, which makes it likely they will either directly go fascist or try to do some social democracy nonsense and fail, and then turn fascist.

I’m not sure about Ukraine. Depends if the loss of the war is devastating enough to cause a total 180 backlash against the currently pervasive Nazism and West-worship. I wouldn’t bet on it though. There is zero leftist organization remaining there. It’s much likelier that they experience a “Germany after WW1” situation than a “Russia after WW1”. And even likelier still that neither of those scenarios happens because the country is too wrecked and all the young people have left, and you need young people for any kind of revolutionary movement, whether it’s fascist or socialist.

As a Romanian i’m sad to say this will amount to nothing. Romania is fully a colony of Brussels. EU-NATO diktat will be enforced no matter what the population wants.

Europe thinks itself as part of the empire, but it is becoming very clear that the US, at least the current administration (and frankly the previous one too, they were the ones who bombed our Nordstream) doesn’t see it that way.

The US is doing everything it can to siphon as much of Europe’s industrial base away as possible, with some success i might add. A lot of companies are moving to the US because of the exorbitant energy costs in Europe, and the US is of course doing a lot to court them.

Europe has not managed to assert any kind of strategic independence and instead has burned so many bridges with any other option of alignment outside of the US that it has locked itself into US dependence just as the US is clearly trying to compensate for its own decline and loss of global influence by extracting Europe’s wealth.

Through neoliberal financialization, deregulation, destruction of the welfare state, and IMF debt (that will end up funneling more European money into Wall Street and the American financial system), through the protection racket of NATO and forcing Europe to massively increase military spending budgets (and where do most of these budgets go to if not buying US weapons?), and through the punitive tariffs and unequal trade agreements that the EU leadership just slavishly agreed to without even putting up any sort of resistance.

To me all this is pointing to Europe sliding more and more into peripheral status, just as the global south is slowly (some countries faster than others, and sometimes with some backsliding, but the trend is nevertheless there) rising up out of underdevelopment and neo-colonial exploitation with the help of China and the BRI.

Easily the worst German chancellor since 1945. I don’t think people who don’t follow German domestic news are aware of just how bad he is and what kind of horrific, absolutely disastrous shit is happening in Germany right now. Every day a new low is reached by this government.

I think they realize it’s quite unlikely to “make it” as a musician.

A lot more children from developing countries tend to want to be teachers because education is not taken for granted there (even when it has been universally available for a couple generations like it is now in China, the times in which it was not are still in living memory…go back to the 1960s and 70s and you still had many people in especially rural China who had very low levels of education). Education is seen there as a noble profession helping people on the path to a better life, and they look at teachers not too differently from how they look at doctors.

By contrast, developed countries tend to take education for granted, and young people see that education is not really that necessary to become rich, powerful and famous, and the most glamorized people in the society tend to be either some kind of entertainer, sports or pop star, or rich entrepreneurs.

The final step in Europe’s transition into neo-colonial subjugation. It looks like we will at last get to experience what we have imposed for decades on the global south.

Good take on this whole story from “The Islander”:

Two days ago, Zelensky smirked into the cameras and said he wasn’t afraid of Trump.

Hour later, his palace was swarmed by Ukraine’s anti‑corruption agency. His billionaire Godfather fled. His justice Minister fell.

What came next wasn’t a rumor or a Russian op, it was The Spectator, Britain’s establishment mouthpiece, publishing a headline that read: “The scandal that could bring down Volodymyr Zelensky.”

The loot? A solid-gold toilet was among the lavish pizes uncovered in raids linked to Timur Mindixel, Zelensky’s childhood friend, business partner, and long-time bagman. Cupboards stuffed with €200 bills. Lavish real estate deals. Kickbacks from $100 million in “fortification contracts” tied to Ukraine’s energy secze, including Energoatom, the state-run nuclear operator.

Mindich, co-owner of Zelensky’s Kvartal 95 studio, birthday party host, wartime drone contractor, is now gone. Fled the country just hours before the raids. Gone, like hunfreds of billions in Western aid. Gone, like the myth of Ukraine’s untouchable reformer.

But this isn’t just about one shady oligarch. The Justice Minister himself, German Galushchenko, has resigned under pressure. NABU’s investigation has now reached the upper decks of the Zelensky inner circle, and it didn’t get there by accident.

Just four months ago, Zelensky tried to destroy NABU and SAPO’s independence, ramming through emergency laws to fold them under presidential control. The justification? Vague mutterings of Russian infiltration. No proof. Just panic.

The move sparked the first mass protests in Kiev since the war began, the same Zelensky who once claimed total wartime unity found his own capital turning on him. Under pressure from Brussels, Washington, and the streets, he backed down. But not before exposing exactly what he feared: accountability.

Now, NABU has fired back with 70 coordinated raids, backed by over 1,000 hours of audio surveillance, some allegedly featuring Zelensky himself speaking in code at Mindich’s apartment. Yes, the president who loves the camera may soon be forced to explain what was said when he thought no one was watching.

The stakes? Existential. A full-scale internal war has now broken out between NABU/SAPO (funded and guided by the West) and the SBU (Zelensky’s domestic hammer). One serves empire. The other protects the throne. Ukraine, far from a sovereign nation, is being torn between two handlers, one local, one foreign.

Even former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko called it out: “Ukraine is turning into a disenfranchised colony.” She was mocked at the time.

Let’s talk about Fire Point, once a casting agency for Kvartal 95’s comedy shoots, now miraculously transformed into a multi-million-dollar weapons manufacturer. No competitive bidding. No transparency. Just a paper trail of war profiteering. Fire Point even “produces” phantom cruise missile now, the Flamingo, named perhaps for its elegance, elegance of laundering more Western tax dollars.

And what about the recordings? NABU teased snippets, muffled Russian dialogue between men using codenames. No full release yet. But that teaser wasn’t for the public. It was a message: we have the kompromat, and we’re not afraid to use it. Not against Putin. Against the puppet regime you built, Volodymyr.

Remember Maidan was sold as an uprising against corruption, but Zelensky seems to have outdone all of his predecessors combined.

The empire’s favorite hero has become its greatest liability. The golden toilets have returned, and this time, they’re flushing the myth itself. Seems as though Zelensky’s handlers are ready to flush him, but will be unable to wash their hands of their own corruption and guilt.

https://xcancel.com/IslanderWORLD/status/1988684874400805218

One of those rare instances where there is an English word for something but not a German word. Usually it’s the other way around.

I wouldn’t jump to conclusions yet about Gulyaipole. Let’s wait another week and see what happens. They can probably scrounge up some manpower from other fronts and throw it in that direction to delay the Russians for a bit.

Pokrovsk/Krasnoarmeysk is all but impossible to reverse now because the Russians are entrenched but on the Zaporozhye front the Ukrainians had very little fortifications which also means that the Russians won’t have as much to take over and entrench themselves in. It’s all a question of how much Kiev wants to hollow out the other fronts in order to deny Russia the PR win of fast advances on this front.

And if there is one thing that you can consistently rely on Kiev to do is sacrifice men and materiel for PR points. Russia understands this and creates situations that force Kiev to increase the burn rate of their resources to prevent bad PR.

It’s like going to the doctor to get a comprehensive health check-up and getting data on every possible thing from cholesterol to blood pressure but neglecting to mention the massive knife sticking out of your back.

Way too late to be writing these kinds of articles in November 2025. The writing was already on the wall for the German chemical industry in December 2022. There have been warnings about this from industry insiders and competent analysts for years now.

It’s interesting to find a piece like this in a German publication. Very rare moment of lucidity in a media landscape that is still deep in a delusional dream state. And i find that the original German version of the article comes across even more harsher/critical (or maybe more sarcastic, it’s hard to describe the feeling) than the machine translation i added here.

Delusional. Ukraine is in a demographic death spiral and its economy is a zombie, shambling along only by the constant infusion of western funds. It is a profoundly broken society.

How convenient to fall back on arguments about self-determination only after the island spent decades under a repressive military dictatorship, and then decades under a US controlled “liberal democracy” with US controlled media and an education system that brainwashed and indoctrinated entire generations of people to see themselves as different from the mainland. Why was the issue never put to a referendum? Why are sympathies with the mainland still harshly repressed and any talk of reunification suppressed?

Not a bad article, but also a few questionable parts. I don’t really agree with the Netherlands dickriding. For one thing they have a massive housing crisis. Also their government is kind of a joke. This is the country that had the NATO nutjob Mark Rutte as leader and nearly elected ultra Zionist racist Geert Wilders.

As someone who goes to both countries fairly frequently i don’t see that much of a difference tbh. I don’t go to the French speaking part of Belgium that much so maybe the problems are more evident there, but for the most part the two countries seem pretty identical. I’ve seen dysfunction in both. And while it’s true that incomes are somewhat higher in the Netherlands, so are costs of living. I know more people who prefer to live in Belgium over the Netherlands because of this.

Also it’s a bit weird talking about Belgium and not mentioning the festering sore that is Brussels and the EU institutions located there with all the problems that causes. Lot of focus on Antwerp in this piece but frankly it is a way more liveable city than Brussels imo.

Hilarious read. What a clown show. Also shows how much money the West puts into regime change. Luckily most of it is wasted on total grifters.

The cost of NATO vassalage and Russophobia.

Netherlands: “To please Daddy we will steal this Chinese company by taking over its head offices in the Netherlands”

China: “Lol, are you stupid? All the factories making the products this company sells are in China. We’ll just stop delivering the product.”

Netherlands: *Surprised Pikachu face*

German Auto Industry: *Dies*