The summer offensive that has been going on for what? One week? Looking at how fast Russia gained ground in bakhmut, vuhledar, and avdiivka, this offensive is going swimmingly

I name everything as var1 var2 etc.

I take it you are completely fine with the current state of Russia's leadership, or how would you describe it?

I'm fine with being hyper critical of sources, what I don't understand is, if you go down that route dismissing sources because of some clandestine connection, why isn't this applicable to any source? Western media controlled by the CIA or whatever with an agenda of demonizing socialism, media controlled by socialist countries with an agenda of demonizing capitalism. It's so weird only extending that scepticism to western media

Ahh so it's not really about communism at all but anti-american imperialism. I don't know what mental gymnastics you have to go through supporting an invasion on an neighbouring country by a fascist regime as a communist

"One of the major things that sets us apart from fascists and liberals is that we do not have an idealized, cultish, worship of the past and our leaders."

Granted I'm new to this community, but the interactions I've had so far (like the weird attachment to Russia, which stopped being even even remotely communist many years ago, and is at the moment bordering fascism) kind of don't reflect my recent experience. If this truly is an integral part of communist ideology then many people didn't get the memo.

So what is the point of having peace talks if not the cessation of war?

So if the war end right now would that mean Russia would withdraw it's troops from Ukraine? No it wouldn't, so implicitly engaging in peace talks while Russia holds territory in Ukraine would mean conceding territory. Why would china want that? Isn't that meddling in the war?

It's very ironic how you are fine with china's involvement but not the US'

Would any source I give you be acceptable to you? Guessing western media is out of the question, WHO and HRW too. It's difficult providing sources if the only acceptable ones are those that deny it's happening

Could you point me to the points in the article relevant to my comment? (This is a genuine request and I'm not being sarcastic)

I guess we disagree on that, I see no reason to make out some communist countries as hellholes (DPRK) while others like Cuba get a free pass. Other than that I consider DPRK leadership as more of a personal cult disguised with a communist state, and why communists would be compelled to defend that kind of stratification of society is beyond me