“Even” a FAB 500 is a beast. If you’ve seen the kind of destruction Kalibr missiles make - those have warheads of 200-400 usually (at least AFAIK). Now imagine three times that. Modern weapons are quite horrific

Nizhny Novgorod region is quite rich in defense oriented industry. Airplane components, ship components, plenty of stuff. Plus there is (or perhaps was) an oil refinery that was recently struck by a drone.

tariff rates and salaries were increased and the bonus system for employees was changed, and therefore wages increased by an average of 20 percent

I’d like to see actual numbers, because:

1. Salaries in the region aren’t that high. Better by far than in many other regions of the country, and the averages are muddied by various factors, but factory workers don’t make a lot

2. Inflation and general rise in prices is eating up salary increases pretty quick. Need prescription meds? Those are now more expensive or can’t be bought because sanctions. Groceries? Retail chains are feeling an opportunity and hiking prices. Gasoline? That was climbing anyway.

Additionally, I have to wonder what is the purpose of this bomb. And what happened to using cruise missiles the way it was in 2022

Bit of a different situation, methinks. AFAIK to get ot Niger, they’d have to fly across Algerian airspace - which Algeria has closed for military aircraft. To get to Ukraine, they’d have to move across Germany and Poland - both of which are in NATO and will likely be of assistance.

Apparently comrade Yogthos got banned from WorldNews@lemmy.ml. Couldn’t handle the facts, I suppose

Throw out a shockingly violent, over the top devastating and effective blow now to dissuade further deployments and turn western public opinion further against involvement.

I’m not sure that’ll work. For one, the public doesn’t decide as much as they would like to think - it’s dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and the bourgeoisie aren’t the ones getting blown up, nor are their children, friends or anyone they’d care about. Plus they are profiting quite nicely from the conflict.

How long did it take for public opinion to turn against WW1? And it’s not like conditions there were soft - people drowning in mud, trench foot, the sheer carnage of mechanised warfare. People writing home about their experiences, coming back without limbs, coming back broken in mind. Did the ruling class care?

If anything I would expect this to be spun hard by the media to drum further support for involvement and war. “Our brave democracy defenders were just humble logistics staff, but cruel asiatic Barbarians used white phosphorus and napalm on them!!!111”. Nevermind what would have actually happened.

Not really related to the topic at hand, but it’s something that’s been bothering me for a bit and it seems like a good opportunity as any to raise the matter: you are posting articles from this blog quite often, I’ve even started reading it myself occasionally. And while I do find the author’s situation analysis informative (if perhaps too optimistic at times), I have to call into question their ideological leanings (for the lack of a better term). The author has a second blog, dark futura, which focuses on the more abstract meandering and culture stuff. In there, the author keeps mocking climate change as a hoax, has at least one article decrying the attention to trans issues as an agenda of the powers that be (IIRC the Obama admin specifically), and most recently had an article with statistics on which universities were popular among the “1%”. Which is fine by itself, informative even, if not for the fact that throughout the article there seemed to have been nods towards support of US repubs in a positive way. Plus the comment section was frothing at the mouth about the supposed Jewish agenda in these institutions, complete with users “well akschually”-Ing the topic as “not antisemitic”, because (and I quote) “ashkenazim aren’t really Jews, they’re turkic”. And while the author is hardly responsible for their comment section, the fact these comments were permitted to stay and were not challenged says a lot.

So with all that said, I have to call into question why you are posting their things.

That’s funny, because I have specifically went looking for tours to China after reading this article (and again after reading your comment) and the visa requirements are there. There are supposedly some caveats: for example if one is flying transit through China, visiting Shanghai via a cruise ship or have residence permit.

Although I suspect you correct, judging by the amount of Chinese tourist groups in Moscow and Petersburg

We can all agree a fundamental root of Western imperialism is the Roman Empire.

Can we? Should we?

However, it is hard for me to pinpoint the missing link between the Romans and the developed Christendom/ renaissance/ colonial/ industrial Western powers

The “missing link” is the development of productive forces. As described by Marx and Engels. That’s it.

It’s frankly hard for me to read everything else in your post. Now, I don’t mean to be insulting, but I will probably come off as such anyway. My comrade, I have to ask what the hey is going on in your bright head. You are veering into rather strange territory.

There is no need for any of this.

They do it already

Yes. So would our homegrown libs. In fact I would imagine the internet to become unusable (more so than currently) for months afterwards

who are often from affluent backgrounds

More reason to ask why CPC isn’t cracking down harder on their local bourgeoisie

try taking out more transport and infrastructure links, destroy rail at Ukraine’s borders, take out rail bridges to force troop movements by road

Military might want to do that, it might be sensible. But the bourgeoisie running the country won’t let them. Same reason the oil and gas and ammonia pipes are still operational

If I get drone bombed I’ll call you from the other side

Not like other members of NATO are going to physically stop them or condemn them for it obviously but it’s not under the banner of it.

Doubt this could be happening without the blessing of the boss. The fact it’s “not under nato banner” means little - it’s the same attempt at “plausible deniability” as everything else. Oh sure NATO isn’t directly involved in the war, they’re just supplying weapons, munitions, logistics, training, intelligence data, weapon operators. But suuure, they’re not involved directly. Same shit here

That’s 2k official troops, right? Plus logistics and support personnel. Plus however many foreign legion

to create larger state-managed industries.

Something like the “state corporations” in Russia, perhaps. “USTech”. “USHeli”.

Exactly. They aren’t the neat little houses with white picket fences and smiling neighbours. That’s just the advertising - like in Back to the Future

Semi related, but after updates a few months ago, I can barely read the text in the body of a post - it’s light grey on white. Anyone else has this problem?

That’s because we do live in a dystopian post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future. Those pretty neon and rain pictures you’ve seen in cyberpunk themed media? That was advertising, same as pictures of USian suburbs in the 50’s

That’s a bummer, comrade. Sounds like you have a bug - flu or cold or something. Get well soon!