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Starting to look like the west inc. Israel spends more on information war than on the means to conduct actual war.

I'd keep them censored. They're openly speaking in public already but advertising their names on a platform they didn't choose to speak on will open them to vitriol from a wider audience than they might expect.

Wouldn't be surprised if the US uses all this to block Chinese ships coming up the Red Sea, trying to weaken and provoke China before the BRI is quite ready to properly supplement the sea trade with overland trade. Then pincer Chinese sea trade via it's SEA vassals, hoping to deter Egypt and SA from following through with joining BRICS. Subtly and slyly, of course. The US already has a presence in the Med. I don't want to get carried away but this could be the spark for a rather large fire. Especially if there neighbours get involved.

Remember to be saving your receipts (screenshots, pdfs). There's going to be a lot of 'editing' as this goes on. Like we saw with Ukraine.

Even if they now fail, they still make Israel divert resources to preventing/fixing potential attacks, maybe?

"enter your card details to allow the plane to burn enough fuel to get you all the way home"

Holy shit. That's it. They're looking at history and going in reverse chronological order. 🤯

Wonder whether the Palestinian resistance and NATO losing in Ukraine are a coincidence? That loss has got to help Palestine. The US military is a big beast, but can it manage two (three if we include Taiwan/SEA) significant fronts at once?

The Palestine situation also reveals serious flaws in Western intelligence. Honestly didn't think it was possible to launch a surprise attack on such a scale nowadays. Also curious as to whether Russia has been telling Palestine what it's been learning about evading Western surveillance on the front.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens to the growing relationship between SA, Syria, and Iran. If SA backs Palestine or at least doesn't actively support Israel, some may suspect that China had a hand in facilitating the conditions for Palestine to free itself (i.e. by bringing SA/S/I back to talking).

I saw something about SA about to sign a telecoms and energy agreement or something with Israel and how those plans are now out the window. Thinking cynically, there's no reason why SA couldn't make the same deal with Palestine. It's not easy to predict who will align with who.

All this, alongside BRICS/BRI growth, African states breaking the colonial stranglehold, and Latin America swinging left (with Venezuela and China working more closely going forward, for example).

If we keep getting weeks where decades happen, it's going to feel like travelling through time.

Hang on, Soviet Russia had communists in it? Really lucky that Soviet Ukraine managed to dodge that bullet! Imagine if they had been joined in some kind of union. Where would it stop! Even Poland or Kazakhstan might have got roped in.

I'm struggling to believe it all tbh. It's not just random weirdos on the internet. It's whole parliaments and the press machinery just outright erasing Nazis and their crimes from history.

At the start of the SMO I wasn't too worried about an outbreak of WWIII but at this rate. Jfc. These cracker fucks have been hearing warnings of climate catastrophe and all the time been thinking, 'not if we kill the bastards first'.

Yet still there are enough crypto-fascists and clueless liberals that if you were to say any of this in 'polite company', they'll dismiss you for being a conspiracy theorist. If the Western left doesn't get it's act together within the next few years, we've got some scary times ahead.

Look at those soldiers looking at Himmler, thinking 'why is this guy here, I didn't know the SS had anything to do with the Nazis' and Himmler thinking, 'why are these neutral soldiers dressed in my uniform?'

Good way to explain what it means when Marxists say liberalism is idealism.

Like when white racists will be racist around other white people because they think they'll find it acceptable.

It's like Michael Hudson wrote his book about imperialism to show how bad it was and they used it as an instruction manual except Orwell's wasn't an accident.

9 salty libs and counting who don't like to have their inner contradictions revealed.

and people do literally actually think that so

This really does make it hard to detect sarcasm sometimes.

Hmm it can't be 'cosplaying as Hitler with Nazi mis-en-scène' or 'cheering for Nazi "war heros"' or 'funding fascists like in the run up to WWII' or… damn, it's a long list.

Conservative liberals can be less susceptible than progressive liberals to being duped about this kind of thing because they're well into their nationalism and remember which side their country ostensibly fought on during WWII; i.e. against the Nazis. So they can see open support for Nazis as betrayal of 'what we fought for' (even though we weren't born). Maybe it depends on the country.

Progressive libs, on the other hand, like to get sucked in to giving the appearance of being 'on the good side'. Do they blow in the wind.

Sometimes, if you can find a way to suspend conservatives' bigotry for long enough to talk about history and economics, they can skip the progressive liberalism all together and go straight to communist. Not all of them, of course.

I suppose my point is that we can't rely on a spectrum where progressives are closer to communists than conservatives. They're all a big fluid blob of reactionary.

Really seems like a switch was flipped over the last couple of years. Comrades were warning people that Ukraine had a serious Nazi problem and that ignoring it to support Zelensky's government would normalise fascism. We were essentially told to stop being ridiculous. Yet here we are. Best of it is, the liberals haven't even been scratched.