i m going to say at this point raisi is likely dead. I wonder who will be the next in line to succeed khamenei now as he doesnt have a lot of time left.
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supercat
Colonel
Better late then never:
For the US MSM, the nonexistent Uyghur genocide is real; the real genocide in Gaza is nothing to see; and the inadvertent exposure through contaminated food is deliberate doping.
The US regime shot itself in the foot by imposing so many tariffs against China's green tech supply chains. They essentially negated the supposed benefits of the IRA.
Another one who can't distinguish the West from the the world and Global South:
Gaslighting twitter of the day:
For the US MSM, the nonexistent Uyghur genocide is real; the real genocide in Gaza is nothing to see; and the inadvertent exposure through contaminated food is deliberate doping.
The US regime shot itself in the foot by imposing so many tariffs against China's green tech supply chains. They essentially negated the supposed benefits of the IRA.
Another one who can't distinguish the West from the the world and Global South:
Gaslighting twitter of the day:
I'm actually surprised so many neighbouring countries had friendly words and aid to offer. Doesn't really match the narrative that Iran is isolated
It's just political goodwill. Iran is trying to undermine Turkish security through supporting adversary groups and literally shelling Turkish outposts in the M.E, yet today we saw Turkey aiding the efforts to locate the crash site. That's how it is.
If you look at european/Anglo- Chinese relations dating from the 1500s to present, it's simply a running theme of western chauvinists trying to control or be China. Look at the running themes of the english speaking netizens of 4chan and twitter and it's a desire and myth making of a mighty, millennia old "hyperborean" civilisation with megastructures and populated by aryan blonde nordics. Was there such a 'Hyperborean' civilisation? No, but there is a far eastern Chinese civilisation contemporaneous with the ancient egyptians and Sumerians that is still living today, with nuclear technology and interplanetary travel.
Taken to extremes, you'll see this effect of nationalist myth making in the current zionist genocide against Palestinians; european jews with no levantine ancestry claim to descend from mythical bronze age kingdom of israelites and have lobbied european governments and wheeled and dealed to ensure western compliance with zionist aims of creating Greater Israel.
I just realized that they’ve surpassed the SeeSeePee that they so despise in censorship. Not even the SeeSeePee claims that they are beyond reproach and has actually apologized for Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution. Good luck getting those people to admit that they’ve been running over Palestinian children with tanks.
Biden said:
This is so funny-not-funny given I grew up in the 80/90s in effectively the Third World/Developing nations.
Free Trade agreements by the US was very much the big stick that Uncle Sam went around swinging in our region. What was very clear even then, as a young man, with a basic academic primer in economics was
- goods and services worldwide were dominated by western brands. There was very little our Third World economies could produce that could match western goods with their slick marketing.
- FTAs were very much one way street. Opening our economies to have local brands displaced by theirs just for the chance to have our products have a chance to enter their markets. In the background, "Buy American" campaign in the US was a real thing and already in full swing.
- Foreign brand forays into our region could tank loses while stealing market share, propped by profits in their own huge home market.
And yet, here we are ... the tables have finally turned.
There is now a player in the global economy more competitive and with the same ability to tank loses while grabbing offshore market share. Suddenly "Free Trade" isn't a pillar of global economy and human rights anymore. The hypocrisy is stunning (except I'm already blase due to having seen similar turnarounds on other pillars of western civilisation)
broadsword
Brigadier
There are too many of them for Boeing to finish them off without it looking like a serial/mass killer, unless they want to subcontract the job to the sicarios.