Jeanne-Paul Marat

That has a whole different connotation

I just didn’t have a better term off the top of my head. Conservative socialism isn’t exactly a helpful descriptor but I didn’t want to say like Tailism either or anything.

I don’t have the time [or honestly the knowledge] to go super in depth, but basically a lot of the old guard who currently runs the party are more in line with “Patriotic socialism.” [As in, socialism that supports the current state.] Meanwhile the younger generation who gave joined the party more recently are more principled.

The SMO makes things complicated since, to my knowledge, the CPRF was on board with it before even United Russia/Putin was on board with it.

Congrats to the tumor for being removed from netanahyu. No one deserve to be infected by him

Dammit, there’s a video I watched a while ago from a liberal who said something along the lines of “and America destroyed their chemical weapins” and then gave a very smarmy and smug “rebuttal” to people who asserted that wasn’t true. I wish i could shove this in their face but I dont feel like looking for it tbh

That’s not very good evidence. Many things can seem like other things without actually being the same.

The warring states during the first world War had very harsh media censorship because of…well the whole war thing. Ergo when Spanish coverage started popping up due to the lack of censorship there, people assumed it originated from Spain. To this day we don’t actually know where the flu came from specifically. Covid is harder to track, due to the long incubation period.

Not saying there can’t be discussion on the matter, it just requires more evidence to be considered is all.

This is something that vexxes me about a possible ground invasion. You need to launch even more bombs at Iran to actually do that. And more as you push inward, and that’s assuming this doesn’t end up as just another Gallipoli

Honestly can’t believe the EU has tied themselves to the US this badly. It has a population of 450 million, could probably secure its own soil well enough, and hell I’d wager that cutting with the US is a popular policy and places like the gulf states would love a different security guaranteer right now. But noooo

That’s one thing, but also…like, there really hasn’t been a massive campaign to garner support for this. Yknow…how it usually goes. It took years to garner support for Vietnam, and even then it was unpopular for obvious reasons. The gulf war had a much more concerted effort and at least bothered to have a figure head whiner to justify the war, and Iraq had months upon months of build up and…idk somehing happened a couple years before that made Americans extra jingoistic…idk, probably wasn’t important.

It doesn’t help that America is, yknow, losing. The US won the intial conventional conflict in Iraq so being against it didn’t have a material backing. When gas prices are squeezing people into poverty…now they have to take interest.

But yeah, the fact that there are so many alternative news sources rather than just the cable outlets really helps. Honestly I’m surprised the government hasn’t pulled an africastream/reddot again. Just say xyz are funded by China or Russia or Iran and Google can take care of the rest

I know they just fired a bunch of generals, but genuinely what happens if Trump just…can’t accept a loss?

Theres irony in whatever happens to the Eisenhower in this conflict, given how its namesake treated Iran

Quick update: Newsweek and other sources have retracted parts of their articles citing Domg Jun saying “Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and it is open for us” and other such things. In regards to China’s position, they have released statements through the foreign ministry encouraging deescalation

“It doesn’t seem like there’s a coherent plan” is the slogan of the Trump administration.

Can someone answer what the actual…term for what the US is doing right now? Obviously interdiction vessels trading with Iran is a blockade, but vessels that are trading with Iran who pay a toll to Iran is…what exactly? Is it literally legally piracy? Is it something else? Did no one think that this was a possibility because this is imbecilic?

Edit: or is the US not actually doing that because when should we expect the checks notes commander in chief of the armed forces to be saying the same thing as the armed forces?

But no seriously what happens when the US seizes Chinese and European vessels? I have no clue how maritime law works so I’m a little comfused

So much for fucking anything. I hate Israel so much. It’s impossible to hate them enough

Could this entire…conflict be compared to Operation Rolling Thunder or no?

So if Iran and Hezbollah officially break the ceasefire with Israel specifically, will the US join back in?

…whats Sony’s opinion in the Pacific war?

Paris peace accord 2.0?