With all great respect but deep sadness I must inform you that everyone, everywhere, is a cretin
In yet another example of "I can't fucking believe I actually learned things from Hearts of Iron 4" a staggering number of economists and policy experts don't understand that production lines aren't light switches that can be turned on and off at maximum efficiency
Appointing someone who wants to turn the underlying causes of those issues up to 11 is essentially setting the furniture on fire to warm the house in the medium term. The Iranian state ruling over a dessicated patch of land is infinitely less threatening that one that tries to fix structural issues.
Also, the Iranian state is suffering an immense polycrisis that mostly stem from the IRGC policy: the water crisis (water is taken by construction companies owned/aligned with the IRGC), pervasive corruption (through unaccountable IRGC companies), economic ruin (caused by IRGC FOPO blowback), etc...
The people crave the steady hand of the banker.
For all the talk of an Asian century, China and other Asian powers never prepared for scenarios where the US would flip from the primary security guarantor in the Middle East they relied on to the primary source of instability that would undermine their energy supply chains
The Iranian regime thought they could get away with indefinitely murdering civilians at a slow pace & arming insane terrorists & genocidal rogue states as much as they wanted, but they've built up a fuckton of ill-will in the process.
And that ill-will is why nothing can stop Bibi and Trump's war.
Not sure that this is the outcome that Yahya Sinwar intended
Its nuts to call for EU to care of this, especially on the side of the IR which has done all it did, in the region, in UA, internally.
Nobody is gonna join the US in bombings, the correct position is very much a limited neutral one. No mil involvement while preparing for various scenarios
one of the weird things about the world is that, in general, people forget most stuff very fast. the only hatreds that really seem to stick are when you *occupy* a country.
the ISI was doing everything that leftists think the CIA was doing in the Middle East both pre and post 9/11
Damn you mean supprting a Pashtun nationalist Islamist theocrat group for 2 decades while your "allies" tried to stop them out despite them having aspirations for your Pashtun territory is blowing up in Pakistan's face?
This is the "type" of voter that dominates most of east Europe. The problem here is to draw from this that the "anti-system" views are in anyway more than a vague vibe with no internal meaning or desired endgoal
It most often is nothing more than that
a very persistent thing on here is
poster a: untrue claim about a political figure - often a justly dislikable or objectionable one
poster b: correction of untrue claim
poster a: oh so you support them
it's part of the general comprehension collapse but it's a distinct dynamic.
"Just half man, half beast, prowling the scorched earth, hunting absolution by his own bloodied fist since no one else could grant it."
See also: people who attempted to die on the self-driving car hill because Elon Musk constantly lies about Tesla's capabilities to get richer (hmmm, sensing a pattern here), only to get completely blindsided by Waymo's capabilities and forced to argue against it purely due to negative polarization
Lol, of course he's being interviewed by Mintpress news. Yet another Patreon-funded organization with large undisclosed donors and a hardline pro-Russia/China/Iran stance.
Red Army Truthers always crack me up, like everyone helped each other out in meaningful ways, making it into an idealogical pissing contest makes me think:
This isn't just a Russian issue-every conspiracy theorist I've ever encountered has the exact same mindset.
Don't forget Jake Sullivan, Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School
>battled with the Tory establishment
>depopulated rural areas
>did not want East Germany to be dissolved
>engaged in anti-imperialist praxis against fascist junta
Margaret Thatcher was the UK's first socialist leader. Sorry folks, it's just the truth.
you'd think that vampires would be rich from compound interest and things like that but you'd need a pretty complex setup to avoid detection, and what if you predate capitalism and can barely read. just continually building up a small pile of savings and then getting wiped out and/or scammed
Embracing the Hobbesian state of nature but wagging my finger at Hobbesian solutions
You can, perhaps, make an argument that post Cold War policy around NATO expansion led the Russians to misjudge Western intent which spurred their aggression. What you can’t do is use that to argue against NATO today. The horse has bolted, the cat has left the bag, the die is cast, etc.
Returning to this, the author direly misunderstands their oath to the Constitution. If the civic order collapses, it is the responsibility of the armed forces to restore it. Your loyalty is to the order, not a profession.
This is, of course, war in the Clausewitzian sense, but not necessarily war in the diplomatic sense, which is relevant. It’s up to states to decide what to consider an act of war, and this includes the ability to ignore violence.
Gamers love claiming that their objection to paying more is not a childish consumerist tantrum, but actually Noble Concern For Abused Workers Exploited By Greedy Executives. In fact, gaming companies have very high median pay and below-average CEO pay ratios compared to other large companies.
I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory
