probably an op, xhs is a terrible platform and using it is self harm, it is completely ideologically compromised and anyone willing to cooperate with them is an antipolitical opportunist at best
probably an op, xhs is a terrible platform and using it is self harm, it is completely ideologically compromised and anyone willing to cooperate with them is an antipolitical opportunist at best
depends on how yappy ishiba ends up being ig
doubt much will come of it, the us is overleveraged in other theatres and will likely be unable to force japan to do things too far outside japanese self interest
jsdf is japanese self defense force, used to be similar cases were classified under such and such clause that foreign military forces had to seek approval from korean congress to be able to access korea, but this time they nudged the definition of “temporary stay” so as to allow the jsdf to bypass congressional approval apparently
korea opened its us military bases to ‘temporary’ stays by the jsdf. used to require congressional approval, now nothing. no western sources but do get kr/jp/cn hits.
Denmark’s First Step Over a Bottomless Chinese Abyss
danish man with a balancing rod tentatively inching forward on a tightrope strung over a massive hole filled with chinese people
i think hezbollah has the right idea with the golf carts, you get more mount options and you can carry like six people for an admittedly higher price point
but i guess if you really need the dump bed and are looking for a cost effective solution…
xhs is probably the most reactionary platform right after zhihu and certain weibo neighborhoods and among the academics i get to interact with, it’s like 50/25/25 split between libs/infantile disorder patients/based
listening to some pretty wild theories about how nato/us is going to majorly escalate in europe before elections because the us is unwilling to directly intervene in the middle east and, other than israel, doesn’t really have any proxies in the area that can reliably go to bat for it. unlike in europe, where you have the baltics and the rest of nato baying for russian blood. best part about the prediction is that once the escalation happens we’ll get to see a dprk intervention in belarus. cant tell if the dude is serious or is just manifesting finno korean hyperwar energies.
noise floating around about for a few days now about they got his successor as well, unconfirmed
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sorry, theyre all chrome forks
there is speculation that the pager attacks caused hez to fall back on more modern, compromised lines of communication that israel took advantage of.
havent mainlined this many decades since prigo
i feel like iran getting played like a fiddle was kind of a suffering from success kind of deal. unlike russia, who was left with basically no strategic depth after 2014, iran broke out of the encirclement of the early 2000s and has had israel on the ropes with pressure from lebanon, syria, iraq and yemen. getting played was a naive but optimistic and, dare i say, humane option that they could afford to take. pity that they were dealing with the great satan and now the price must be paid in lebanese lives.
someone @ me if we get footage of a merkava getting by a golf cart
if the us loses israel, it loses most of its regional leverage and influence and, following that, a good chunk of the legitimacy that underpins its economic hegemony over the rest of the world. it’s not really a question of agency or intention, the reality of the situation is that israel has a game plan (the same one as 2006, as has been its mo since 67, i might add) and that game plan is part of a chain of events in the region that may or may not lead to its ultimate destruction. the us’ role and probable intention is to make judgment calls all along this chain of events to preempt the destruction of israel. many of those decisions involve direct intervention.
the apparent ‘dragging’ of the us lies primarily in the unnecessarily provocative and ultimately self-defeating nature of us/israel doctrine wherein they first target leaders, then civilian infrastructure and population centers, then ground invasion; they still live in an era where the use of violence is an exclusive western privilege that uniformly results in acquiescence wherever applied. this doctrine will only result in larger and larger backlashes against the entity and the associated american interests, resulting in an escalating spiral of conflict that can only end with the self destruction of regional hegemony in the middle east. obviously and objectively the wrong thing to do, but as far as we onlookers can tell, it is the only thing they know.
its stuck strategically. optics are terrible if ukraine is left out to dry so it tries and fails to push europe and nato to directly intervene, israel was getting pummeled strategically and diplomatically and knew it was just a matter of time and so allowed oct 7th to happen so it could do atrocity porn to draw the us in and save itself, meanwhile the one thing the us actually wants to do is start a proxy war in the pacific but the japanese and pinoy dogs arent barking as loud as the us would like.
the sarmat and df tests i think were just messages to the us that if it really wants to get stuck in, itll have to be in the middle east again. in this way kursk and the various israeli atrocities were also signals for the us to intervene more actively, since if the situation were actually tenable for western proxies then there would tangible progress on the ground instead of hollow symbolic victories designed to be spun as positively as possible.
feels like rest of nato is just waiting for us to go in on israel so they can finally turn the tables and get out from under the americans.
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some people think it was to make up for sarmat’s failure, i think it was just to scare usians off from doing something dumb in westpac
there is conjecture that the best case resistance axis result is to keep the kinetic stuff mostly contained until the us elections and with some luck have all the internal contradictions resolve themselves through civil war that doesn’t affect the rest of the world
failing that, the next best case would be to have the us get bogged down in another losing war in the middle east, the logic being that military keynesianism is a lot less effective if no one’s scared of your military
chinese system is just the western system put into a much more highly competitive environment. the paper mills are symptoms of a (shittily designed and archaic) system operating in a cultural and socioeconomic environment it should not be operating in.