A-Infos (en) Russia, Avtonom: You Can't Win: "Trends of Order and Chaos" Episode 157 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Today we will again talk about two modern wars, which have already been 
discussed more than once in the podcast. And we will find something in 
common in them: both sides are not ready to win right now, and both wars 
began according to the voluntaristic decision of "charismatic leaders" 
with an unhealthy psyche. ---- Exercises on the use of nuclear weapons 
---- Last week, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced exercises on 
the use of tactical nuclear weapons. The Russian army advanced slowly, 
but on the whole successfully: therefore, at the end of April, the 
United States finally agreed on military assistance to Ukraine, and in 
parallel, discussions began on sending NATO troops to Ukraine. And this 
is the Russian answer...

One can only hope that for now it is still a matter of bluffing, but 
when they begin to threaten with weapons, the distance to their use is 
dramatically reduced. Both sides - NATO and the Kremlin - currently do 
not believe in the possibility of their real victory in the Ukrainian 
war. But defeat would be too costly for both sides.

Both sides are stalling with no real plan to win. And now mutual 
pressure is already approaching the point of suicide for all humanity. 
The east of Ukraine, to which NATO promises "freedom" and the Kremlin 
promises the "Russian world," is simply being wiped off the face of the 
earth. There is already a comparable amount of destruction in the 
Russian Belgorod region, and recently a Ukrainian drone flew all the way 
to Bashkortostan for the first time.

Fanatics command, skaters suffer
Another war in which the parties have no real plan to win is between 
Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Negotiations for the release of Israeli 
hostages and the conclusion of a long-term truce have begun and stopped 
numerous times, with both sides stalling for time.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu apparently believes that a long war 
will give him political points within Israel; Hamas is playing for time, 
hoping that as a result of international pressure on Israel they will 
still be allowed to retain power in Gaza.

Hamas does not care about the suffering and death of Palestinians in 
Gaza, the Israeli government does not care about the lives of the 
hostages and the fact that Israeli soldiers are dying almost every day, 
and that because of the war, tens of thousands of Israelis are still 
refugees within their small country.

The knot of a complex geopolitical showdown is tightening around Gaza, 
which could potentially develop into a much larger war than now.

Hamas, an organization of religious fundamentalists, has controlled Gaza 
since 2007. Netanyahu has helped Hamas stay in power many times over the 
years. To divide the Palestinians and in opposition to the secular (but 
extremely unpopular due to corruption) Palestinian Authority ruling in 
the West Bank.

For the same reason, under Israeli control, Hamas received money from 
Arab countries and the European Union for many years: it was no secret 
that the money was not used to overcome poverty, as was declared, but 
for weapons and the construction of underground tunnels.

The publication of Haarza (an Israeli publication similar to Novaya 
Gazeta) is very interesting: the text is in Hebrew, but can be 
translated well by any automatic translator. The investigation says that 
the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 has been prepared in Gaza for 
several years, and almost openly. Hamas, among other things, publicly 
discussed plans for the future reconstruction of the territory in which 
Israel is located after the successful military invasion from Gaza.

Obviously, Israeli military intelligence saw all this, but the plan was 
so crazy that it was not taken seriously: apparently, Israeli analysts 
in uniform believed that this was just Hamas rhetoric for the residents 
of Gaza.

But Gaza was ruled by Yahya Sinwar, one of the leaders of Hamas, a 
fanatic who served 22 years in Israeli prisons. He actually gave an 
insane order...

Isn't this similar to the Russian quasi-tsar, who in February 2022 went 
nuts from his unlimited power and, quite possibly, suffered a little 
mental damage while sitting in Covid quarantine, and also made one wrong 
decision?

Instead of an epilogue to this issue, I suggest you just look at the 
Instagram of skaters from Gaza. There's a poignant, recent post: how the 
kids had their skate park bombed, and they made a new one for 
themselves, on the ruins of another bombed house.

Well that's all for today! We remind you that in Trends in Order and 
Chaos, members of Autonomous Action and other authors give anarchist 
assessments of current events. Listen to us on YouTube, SoundCloud and 
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Issue prepared by Listyev

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