Yes lmao it’s such a good one

Guessing that resolution was originally to fight the DPRK?

With any luck

There is an in between layer called “fucking hell” and actually pretty dope

Oh for some reason I read the Guardian article as “invasion” instead of “operation”, which makes it less funny

Very glad to hear they’ve got a solid plan mate, I hope they’ll be safe on the journey

Kind of funny

I just don’t think they have a choice, as they picked their team a long time ago and are absolutely riddled to the hilt with worms that would revolt if they tried to change course

I think they’ve known China has outflanked them in a structural way for a while now, as in China is using the contradictions produced by the global capitalist order to its advantage in a way the US can’t respond as effectively to as it has past adversaries, and in a way that has structural momentum for China.

If I were a decision maker in this apparatus and my negative goal was to prevent China from taking advantage in this way, while my positive goal was to entrench the capitalist order as an American hegemony for another hundred years at least, then I would see eventually a direct war with China is inevitable because the US can’t outright overcome the structural momentum China has. I think specifically because the type of crises that are mounting and will continue to increase are best navigated by a coordinated, centralized apparatus that the financial interests driving the Western blob hegemon see as more an existential threat than the crises themselves.

Once I see that, I think it’s as simple as, create chaos through proxies worldwide as best as I can, with the aim to both isolate China and control its emerging allies. Because the inevitable fight is only winnable if the “Eastern”/Global South is exhausted. Destroy the playing field before the game

I still don’t really buy the whole “Israel is trying to pull the US into a war” line. I think the US knows perfectly well where this goes, and has for a very long time, and are making their own calculations about what the best moments are to apply what sort of pressure or action. Like I just refuse to believe the entire US military and state apparatus is like “fuck are we getting pulled into something here? What do we do?” The end goal is rooting out any uncontrolled opposition to global capitalist order, methodically and systematically. Overcoming contradictions, or redirecting them into new usable/controllable forms. Of course by the very nature of fire you can only control it for so long. I think for the US that process is much different and longer than any of us understand though. But the US clearly has aims for Iran and China as it does for Russia. And I don’t buy the ruling class would allow itself to “get dragged” into something it didn’t want or wasn’t actively trying to use. Lying to Iran is a great example of this

Aside from the immediate humanitarian issue of all this, it’ll be interesting to see how this may affect NC politics in the short term. Whoever the new governor is going to be can use this as a PR mandate if they lean into it. And it also throws the black NAZI guy a bone to redirect political conversation

Thanks comrade they are for now

Absolutely biblical. My family is there, didn’t hear from them for 3 days. Finally got in touch with them this morning, they’ve been trapped by flooding on all sides. Asheville and other town after towns in Western NC are absolutely wrecked. Entire houses floating down rivers, huge stretches of roads just obliterated, strips of towns entirely washed away. Look up like Hot Springs and Chimney Rock for example. It’s going to be a very long recovery. Like there’s a major road between Boone and Asheville that is just gone

The bad guys want to liberate Pokémon from being captive battle slaves, and you and the coalition of good guys are trying to stop it. And of course they make the bad guys out to be doing it because they actually just want power and to steal everyone’s Pokémon for themselves lol. Some of the lines in there are golden, things like “We’re going to liberate all Pokémon! And I’m gonna start by stealing yours because I want to!!”

Still haven’t heard from my family there, been days now

I played Black on an emulator for the first time recently and holy shit it must have been made by the Japanese State Department or something lmao a tour de force of propaganda

Yeah idk everyone is depressed

Good old Israeli-Tech scrubbing collabs

I’m seeing more comments about how much dooming there is in this thread than actual dooming in this thread

Fucking hell those are big