Boise_Idaho [null/void, any]

How the fuck does he have a 11+ year old Twitter account without catching a ban? I think Maduro and Morales used to have Twitter accounts before they got banned.

The quaint occidental is guided by a persistent need to save face. This curious cultural fixation permeates throughout occidental society from the simplest social interaction to geopolitical posturing of most importance.

The pope off to a cringey start by meeting with Ben Shapiro:
https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1935613595318210617

Hope we reach the “court eunuchs assassinate the current sovereign to put an easily manipulated 7-year old heir apparent to the throne” stage of imperial decline.

Real footage is either a perfectly still camera where the subject is completely off-centered or constantly jittery because the person filming is too scared or excited.

How much of this is them wanting to distance themselves from Musk?

At the end of the day, Pakistan’s military is completely reliant on China with 82% of imported weapons coming from China, so China has massive amounts of leverage. Any military action taken by Pakistan is a military action taken by China. That’s the bottom line.

Damn, looks like China really is going to militarily help Iran.

Who wants to bet Trump is insinuating that Iran will get bombed on the 4th of July?

Chinese workers in Iraq filming Iranian missiles:
https://xcancel.com/TripInChina/status/1935527988810141785

Given your overall lack of faith in the current Chinese leadership to do what must be done, shouldn’t instability be welcome as far as the US losing control is concerned? Or do you see this instability as a bad thing because you predict future Chinese leadership will find the political will to do what must be done?

Average impeachment fan:

This unpredictability amplifies the risks of global instability, because you can no longer predict what he wants.

But the US has the entire world under its thumb via the USD. Global instability wrought by Trump just means the US self-owning itself and destroying something that they had spend decades building. Or are you saying the current economic order is so robust that not even instability caused by Trump can ruin it?

Okay fine. I removed that sentence.

Not trying to pull a “told you so”, this is not the time and place, but I did warn of exactly this happening during the election (that Trump is going to end up 10 times worse than Biden/Harris) when the entire site gave me shit and accused me of “voting for Harris means supporting fascist genocide” as if strategic voting isn’t a thing.

The entire site gave you shit because you made tl;dr posts about how Biden is a big-brained 10d chess grandmaster imperialist who knew how to leverage USD as an economic weapon much better than Trump only to end your posts with “anyways vote for Biden.”

My impression from reading the NATOpedia articles on how the DPRK and Pakistan got nukes is that the government has to all-in when it comes to nukes since the government will face extraordinary amounts of international pressure, including other nuclear powers, to not nuke up. They will threaten them with sanctions, bribe them with food aid, even sabotage and assassinate scientists, but once the nuclear tests get detected on seismometers and satellites, everybody becomes fucking quiet.

Pakistan’s PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto said “We will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will have our own nuclear bomb.” This is the amount of urgency the political class has to have in order for the country to actually get nukes. As soon as there’s a faction that doesn’t want nukes or wants to drag their feet, that country will never get nukes in time.

I 100% agree. The Iranian people will suffer greatly due to the irresponsible mismanagement by the reformers, but the Zionist operatives and treacherous elements of Iranian society are outing themselves as we speak. In times of war, everyone falls in their respective lines.

Perhaps once the reformers and various US-backed fake leftists like MEK have been purged, there will be political space for a real authentic progressive movement that is less socially reactionary but are still loyal to Iran. But this has to wait. They have a war to win.

Interesting set of commentaries. They are incredibly harsh towards Iran, but from a realpolitiks perspective:
https://nitter.net/PandemicTruther/status/1935021769762451584
https://nitter.net/PandemicTruther/status/1934358798904541316
https://nitter.net/PandemicTruther/status/1933980879996752224

My comments assuming the massive long threads are true:

1. The reformers have sold Iran down the river. They have done a whole lot harm, partially due to betrayal and partially due to general dumbassery on account of being useless libs. A lot of them need to be swinging from cranes, starting with this shithead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Javad_Zarif Seriously, go read the article. It has charming sentences like “Even though the United States did not make a promised reciprocal goodwill gesture at the time, Zarif remained committed to improving ties.”

2. As soon as the West accuses a country of having WMDs, that country is now on a timetable. It has to get WMDs and turn the West’s otherwise baseless accucation into a self-fulfilling prophecy or it will be destroyed. I think Iran tried to pivot the accusation into a form of strategic ambiguity, but like everyone here has said, they should’ve acquired nukes by any means necessary.

3. China will never militarily support Iran. That’s Pakistan’s job. China is the carrot while Pakistan is the stick. 80% of Pakistan’s weapons come from China after all, so any military action due by Pakistan should be understood (and is being understood) as a military action done by China. If China truly doesn’t want Pakistan to militarily intervene in Iran, a single phone call is all they need to get Pakistan to stand down. Any potential military action done by Pakistan against the Zionist entity would have been vetted and cosigned by China. I would not put it past China to officially condemn Pakistan should Pakistan intervene. But it’s all kayfabe.

As an aside, I really hope they’re not some anti-vaxxer crank lol

Nearly half a million Chinese volunteers died fighting in Korea, without whose sacrifices the modern state of China would not have survived. Do you seriously think that Chinese people aren’t taught about their own history and know nothing about sacrifices?

They died for the sake of China, not for the sake of Korea. I personally do not think most Chinese people would be willing to put their lives at risk for the sake of Palestinians and Iranians. Your outline of economic warfare by China against the West would almost certainly lead to reprisal against the Chinese people. If you aren’t convinced by the plausibility of nuke, there’s always sabotage. Blown up factories, bridges rigged with explosives, poisoned food supplies, etc. China’s internal security isn’t so great that a truck with drones can’t sneak its way in like what happened in Russia and Iran. The main difference is that Russia and Iran are fighting an active war with a populace that understands it will have to pay a human price while China is officially still a neutral bystander.