Hezbollah surrendering without a ceasefire in Gaza
I don't think they surrendered to anyone -- they just negotiated a ceasefire between them and Israel. Bad, but they're not off the board like Syria.
Assad won’t really be missed for anything but his compliance in transporting weapons to Lebanon.
Who knows what information Hezbollah had about the impending collapse of Syria that we didn't have? Who knows how that impacted their ceasefire decision?
Truthfully this is my image state power. They make shiat up 100% of the time.
Citizens don’t believe anything out of the State or Media.
This is not how most people view information from the state or media. There's a much higher degree of skepticism than in the past, sure, but most people aren't going to simply believe every cop (or especially every journalist) is lying 100% of the time.
I don't think it does the left any favors to take this stance, either. It makes us look contrarian (because it is contrarian) rather than grounded in reality.
I don't understand how so many Americans buy the "North Korea is a cartoonish dictatorship" line so easily. It's obvious that you can make up any story about it, no matter how outlandish, and the media will just print it uncritically.
It's like a kid making up crazy stories about their cousin. The kid is full of shit half the time -- you don't believe the other half, you conclude that nothing that kid has to say about his cousin is reliable.
As a result of Yoon’s enhanced role in U.S. military strategy in Asia, the disgraced president has been the darling of the think tanks and Korea “experts” in the U.S. capital. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has even suggested that Yoon should get a Nobel Peace Prize for putting aside Korean differences with Japan to make the trilateral alliance work.
Is there even one foreign leader the U.S. likes who is actually decent?
Yet even as the United States backs Yoon's stance on North Korea, the enhanced ties between the Pentagon and the South Korean Army, coupled with memories of what happened in Gwangju 44 years ago, is an explosive combination. Many Koreans remember that after Chun's coup and the slaughter in Gwangju, President Jimmy Carter directed the Pentagon to help the Korean martial law command crush the uprising by sending an aircraft carrier and advanced reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the actions of the Korean troops dispatched to the city from the Combined Forces Command. After assisting Chun to reassert military control over the country, South Korea suffered seven more years of authoritarian rule.
Even in the most generous possible reading, the South Korean government has been a straight-up U.S. puppet for much of its history.
once a streamer, podcaster, or one of these online personalities makes it big they often move to like LA or NYC. Why is that?
That's not a streamer thing, that's an almost everyone thing. Tons of people move to cities as soon as they can afford it, tons of those who don't stay where they are in no small part because it's less expensive.
People need to pay attention to what he does, not what he says.
...He's a pundit. What he does is pick opinions and put them in front of his audience. He seems to have much better opinions than most Americans and is pretty good at spreading them. That's useful.
The man, who admits to belonging to the Wagner Group, tells his interrogator that he and his men drove from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) to Sudan in order to “overthrow the local government”. The video cannot be independently verified by Middle East Eye.
"Yes, officer, I belong to the crips and drove here to do some gang-related murders."
So corruption isn't possible at all? If my town's mayor gives millions in no-bid contracts to his cousin, that's actually the representative of the people doing what the people want?
He still can, he's not out of office for another six weeks!
Bonus question: if Biden actually cared about a potential mass deportation under Trump, how many millions of immigrants could he pardon of crossing the border unlawfully? It's a federal crime, after all.
I don't think they surrendered to anyone -- they just negotiated a ceasefire between them and Israel. Bad, but they're not off the board like Syria.
Who knows what information Hezbollah had about the impending collapse of Syria that we didn't have? Who knows how that impacted their ceasefire decision?