Kraut

New video! The last in this series on Polish Foreign policy.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 345

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Good Morning. I've been up all night, watching the Asian stock markets crash, waiting for European markets to open. And it just hit me, this is a first in history. Of course there have been economic crashes before, but the weird and unique thing about this one, is that it isn't a surprise. This isn't suddenly coming out of the blue. We all get to watch an economic disaster unfold live. Because it was deliberately caused and therefore predictable. Either way. I just want to check in and hope you are all ok.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 6,456

Kraut

New Video!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 341

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Hey, I went on the official Polandball podcast for a little chat.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 190

Kraut

I was asked by a Turkish friend to share this with you:

Hello,

You will be hearing this message from Kraut, but this script wasn’t written by himself. This script was produced by the collaboration of 2 Turkish users in Kraut’s discord server— and our communication was rendered possible through the use of VPNs, as discord and a lot of other social media platforms are restricted in Turkey.

As some of you may know, there are nationwide protests ongoing right now in Turkey. You may have also seen footage of cops using excessive violence, rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper spray, as well as making use of the water cannons of riot control vehicles against mostly student protesters. As it currently stands, more than 1,000 protestors have been detained since the start of these protests. What sparked these protests was the detention and arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor and the opposition’s leading contender for the 2028 presidential elections. This move essentially prevents İmamoğlu from running against Erdoğan. In the eyes of many, this serves a turning point in Turkey’s descent into full autocracy.

However, it would be naive to suggest that the detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu is the sole reason of the people taking it to the streets. The AKP, the ruling party, has been in power since 2002 and over this more than 20 year long period the Turkish political system has been undergoing a gradual transformation towards authoritarianism. Turkey remains one of the worst jailers of journalists, the government continues to suppress protests and harass civil society groups.

One might argue that the 2013 Gezi Park protests marked a turning point in Erdoğan’s approach to the opposition. Previously he had presented himself as a more moderate leader, or at least maintained that appearance. After the Gezi protests, he started escalating his crackdown on dissent. Following his election as president in 2014, he openly disregarded the constitutional constraints, ruling as a de facto party leader despite the presidency’s nonpartisan status under the legal framework at the time. And in 2017, the country formally transitioned to what we call a one-man regime. We call it that since this regime entirely abolished the separation of powers and rendered parliament functionally irrelevant, though elections have continued to function within a legal framework that preserved a veneer of legitimacy.

Now, with the detention and arrest of İmamoğlu, the mask of legitimacy has been formally discarded. The fascistic Erdoğan administration’s ambitions likely will not stop at eliminating İmamoğlu. The action appears poised to launch a broader crackdown on The Republican People’s Party (CHP), which may face systematic marginalization— as seen by the recently launched investigation against Ankara’s mayor Mansur Yavaş of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), who is also considered a potential challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the 2028 presidential election.

For us Turkish people, it is clear as day that İmamoğlu’s detention was a politically charged move to neutralize an opposition figure and ensure Erdoğan’s fascistic, authoritarian regime remains unchallenged. In a country that arrests its political rivals, elections are nothing more than a ritualistic performance to uphold the appearance of a democracy. In this new era of authoritarianism in Turkey, even the semblance of democratic competition may soon be systematically eradicated. And much like in the 2013 Gezi Protest, we may pay a heavy price for challenging the AKP rule and failing to rid ourselves of their parasitic hold over this country.

Whilst all of this is happening, we have yet to hear a word of condemnation from the EU and the U.S. While comparisons of the Turkish situation to Russia may seem apt, it is much closer to home of many within the West. This is not just our story, but yours as well. Europeans have already seen Orban and the change in Hungary, and the recent wave of Trumpism in the US. This recent escalation by Erdogan is not isolated by any means. What happens here, will most likely follow elsewhere unless people get the courage to fight back. People should fight back. Institutions should fight back. Countries should fight back. This, dear viewers, is where you come in. It is easy to despair when looking at this situation, but you can write to your representatives and demand them to condemn the dictatorial regime of Erdoğan and demand them to sanction the AKP regime. You can also stay informed by following these accounts:


x.com/imamoglu_int
x.com/rojdaaltintas
x.com/YusufCan_EN
x.com/solcugazeteD
x.com/hazardost

Now, some of you might’ve noticed that we used the term fascistic to describe Erdoğan and his regime. There is a lot of academic debate regarding what exactly fascism is, but we’d like to provide a simpler answer to this debate: the answer is this. This is what fascism is. The reason why us, Turkish people, don’t simply call the Erdoğan regime authoritarian, but rather fascist is that because even before all of this he was an authoritarian. The word “authoritarian” at this point does no justice to describe his dictatorial regime. From the regime’s authoritarianism, its militarism, its characterization by a dictatorial figure, and its tendency to disappear political rivals, there is no term more apt than fascist to describe the AKP regime.

A misconception one might have is that this is a CHP-led movement. This is simply not true. From communists and socialists to democrats, liberals, nationalists to even libertarians, many have joined this fight. This is a people’s led movement. We’d like to end this video with a slogan used during the nationwide protests: “shoulder to shoulder against fascism.” There is a long road ahead of us, we don’t know if we’re going to be successful. We don’t know if there is a light at the end of this tunnel, but what we do know is that we must continue resisting against fascism, shoulder to shoulder.

Thank you for listening.

1 month ago | [YT] | 4,294

Kraut

In Mexico an organisation of mothers of Cartel victims found a "death camp" at a ranch. Where the Jalisco cartel systematically murdered at least a thousand people and disposed of their bodies in crematoria. The local government is now trying to cover it up. Mexican friends of mine therefore asked me to use my platform to share the news and reporting on this with you: english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-17/at-the…

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 5,817

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Dear @BBCNews in case you have not noticed or somehow missed out on the last 20 years, the Putin regime in Russia is a brutal dictatorship that kidnaps, imprisons, disappears, tortures, and murders anyone who opposes it. So could you stop asking Russian anti-war activists (including the one who is a friend of mine) to go on a "debate panel" to "debate" pro-war Russian regime propagandists, and thereby identify themselves to the Russian regime? Your job is to report the news, and not to emulate the morons that inhabit twitch.

1 month ago | [YT] | 4,830

Kraut

Hey everyone, my friend and old work college turkbud has just started his own youtube channel called ‪@beaconinsight‬ . I appear in the first episode aswell, you should check it out, it's really really good. The art is beautiful. The video is about a hostage crisis in Japan.

1 month ago | [YT] | 241

Kraut

My friend ‪@VatnikSoup‬ made a video explaining what the Russian shaddow fleet is. Worth a watch!

1 month ago | [YT] | 344