InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]

Path of Exile, it say it right there on the top right

forcing china to have more skin in the game is probably the move. You’re right, you have to make it personal for China or they won’t get off their ass.

the war can’t really ‘start’ because 1 side is defeated (their strategic objectives are impossible) but unwilling to admit it and leave/abide by a ceasefire (US/Israel) and the other side lacks of the capability of projecting their power enough to force the other to leave or abide by the ceasefire (Iran)

So we’re locked in eternal stalemate of on-and-off strikes, poking each other, breaking ceasefires, starting ceasefires, negotiations, end of negotiations, etc. It becomes a contest of will and endurance, and unfortunately the US is never, ever going to give up on its imperialist ambitions and protection of the entity. Iran will probably just make a deal at some point when their reformist factions get a moment in the sun because how else does this end? America will drag this out eternally until we’re in a global depression and famines before they abandon Israel. Is all of Iran willing to go to those ends? Iran does have the upper hand in the long run with their economic levers, but will they actually fully push it to that brink? Or will the “reasonable adults” balk at the game of chicken?

You have to remember the axis of resistance is in this basically alone. China and Pakistan are pressuring Iran to make a deal and chicken out, to abandon Lebanon/Palestine. All of Iran’s “allies” outside the resistance just want things to go back to “normal”. They aren’t supporting Iran, they’re constantly pressuring them to surrender.

which gathers Iran’s civilian and military leadership

remotely i hope. please iran stop putting all your leadership in a single location to “negotiate” with the negotiator killers

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Reagan was probably the most leftwing economically 🤣

ok now we’re hogposting

Unlicensed dong pics, sorry that’s 10 years in jail

Huh turns out it really was just the sanctions and isolation that were destroying their economy not “socialism”. The second China and Russia stopped giving a fuck suddenly DPRK has an economic boom. Shame it’s taken this long and DPRK had to suffer alone for so long before their neighbors wised up to the Great Satan

i could see them doing some more pointless impeachments over legal quibbles, with the senate refusing to remove him. That already happened a bunch in his first term.

Every time people get excited it all suddenly all dies down into nothing again, so I think people are more reserved on it now. How many times have we thought “this is the start of a regional hot war!” only for it to end in 3 hours and we wait another 3 weeks before anything happens?

Yea generally shahed/geran are used to deliver large payloads at long distance to static targets. They aren’t really designed for intercepting flying helicopters

Depends on the damage. Helicopters are actually very good at landing if only their engine is damaged, as they can safely “fall” and the blades will auto-rotate. Most helicopter crashes happen when they fly into objects (like mountainsides) or the rotor system gets mechanically damaged

Yes. He did this exact thing where he would “get in fights” with Netanyahu and scream the F word at him allegedly. Tons of palace intrigue drama that ultimately resulted in nothing cause it was a performance for democrats to feel less guilty

He hasn’t. This is kayfabe

Fair enough. In the Cuban revolution the US assistance was negligible, and ended up having no effect in terms of making the revolution pro-USA or currying any favor with the US government. I would frame the arms embargo as more of a cessation of support for batista than open support for the revolution, but I take your point. I think the modern US government would never do such a thing, instead it would start bombing the revolutionaries themselves and doubling down on Batista. The US government use to have restraint and act more rationally as it had the USSR to keep them in check, and it had more competent long-term imperialist planners instead of short-term violence obsessed freaks like nowadays.

They already control all of the levers of government, I’m not sure what ‘liberal imperialists’ you think even have any power. The ‘liberal imperialists’ are the minority opposition. This is a symptom of their total dominance, not a cause of it.

The only sources for this is a NYT article, they often post this kind of disinfo to try and cause confusion or distrust in the enemy camp. In addition, even the allegation is a one time bribe to “leaders of the movement” for $50,000 which is basically nothing anyway relative to the aid the US provided to Bautista (millions in weapons, ammo, tanks, planes, bombs, etc).

Forgive me for not trusting the “common knowledge” of Wikipedia which has a source of one NYT article, which is unsourced.

Good. Then everyone else will be our side instead of Trump’s side. Let them isolate themselves with supremacist minoritarianism. Let them destroy their own coalitions. This is good for the same reason that Trump banning Trans people from the military is good. A diverse coalition of US imperialists is more dangerous than a supremacist, isolated one. It is more stable, it gets more buy-in from the population, it is more sophisticated in infiltration and propaganda, it uses rainbow imperialism as a moral shield and sullies anyone who associates with it permanently. Much better to have a clearly supremacist, isolated and brittle system in place that the majority of the population can openly see excludes them.

did you read the thread about someone who’s friend is considering getting IVF impregnated and moving to Israel because of their “long distance girlfriend”?

That’s the start of a horror movie plot right there if I ever saw one. Israel is so evil I can legitimately see them doing massive catfishing campaigns with AI to recruit and entrap new immigrants and “fertile women”. I don’t think that’s likely what is happening, but I wouldn’t put it past them.