Joe Biden: If I’m elected, we’re going to cure cancer

metastasis to the bone

My uncle died bc of this cancer, horrible way to die. Can’t say I feel sorry for Biden, he had the chance to stop the genocide in Palestine, stop the war in Ukraine, and arrest Donald Trump, he didn’t do any of that and instead continued to arm Israel and Ukraine, and gave the republicans all they wanted to elect the Orange guy.

How did it get to that point without being detected? He has the best medical care in America, did he just refuse to get prostate exams?

The Ukranian military can’t retake and hold its lost territories.

Is there really a reason to burn an ICBM to try to intimidate an army that is effectively losing?

The airbase in Poland is probably target number 1 for Oreshnik in a hypothetical Russia-NATO war.

They run “preparing for war” stories every other week to keep up the paranoia levels and boost defense spending, if war really is imminent it wouldn’t be that impressive a prediction, and wouldn’t be the result of their journalistic capability, cf. the Twitter accounts that posted the Queen would die on X date for every possible day in the near future and deleted all the wrong ones when she really croaked.

The EU MIC is trying to kick into gear. There has been a push across all media and politicians to cut social spending and increase war spending. Fearmongering constantly is a necessary part of that

don’t they say this every year

i still struggle to think of a scenario where russia would expand into poland, obviously short of nato troops actually in the frontlines

Kaliningrad oblast, a Russian exclave surrounded on all sides by NATO members including Poland, is in a very precarious position. It’s why Europeans are always talking about Putler invading and annexing the Baltic states.

I don’t think Russia will take military action unless forced to, by a blockade or whatever.

Poland prepares for war

Also called “getting your lightbulbs in order”

The cynic in me thinks this can double as preparations to seize Ukrainian land in the event of a Ukrainian collapse. Iirc Hungary has been making similar noises about bits of western Ukraine, I wouldn’t be surprised if these vultures pick apart Ukraine’s corpse under the guise of “protecting ethic minorities” (ironic)

Didn’t @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net say it was getting replaced?

Can someon tldr me on why this is absolutely necessary and why Evo himself is the only person who should lead Bolivia?

the placard in front of the dock says 被bèi告gào人rén (defendant/the accused)

Another certified people’s daily banger

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Another example of China’s oppressive authoritarianism. In the West, this wouldn’t even be considered a crime.

but brother get a better camo pattern i beg you

The problem is that we have no idea, and that anybody making claims one way or the other is merely guessing based on vibes.

My own purely vibes-based analysis is that Hezbollah was significantly (but certainly not terminally) damaged by the Israeli offensive (just as Israel was significantly damaged by attempting it, plus the War Against The Towers) and has been taking time to regroup, re-organize, re-strategize, and re-arm, because the situation they were in prior to Nasrallah’s death is substantially different from their current one, with a now-hostile Syria bordering them and civil mayhem in Lebanon.

I wouldn’t be pessimistic; the mere existence of Israel will always provide the impetus for resistance groups to arise in order to fight back against them. A strategy of constant mass murder to instil terror doesn’t actually get you anywhere in the long-run, as European colonial history shows, and if anything, has the opposite effect of further promoting resistance. The Resistance will not be defeated because it literally can not; even if Hezbollah disbanded tomorrow, a new guerilla group would coalesce around the shared experience of living under Israeli oppression. Such is the history of colonial subjects for centuries.

Their missile capabilities have advanced significantly since October 7th 2023. From firing off long range SCUDs, to Hatem-2 (Kheibar Shekan-1), to Palestine-1 (Kheibar Shekan-2), to Palestine-2 (Fattah/Kheibar Shekan series hybrid variant), to Fattah-1 itself now. If a volley of Fattah-1 missiles are fired in a large enough number, the US/Israeli air defence net will struggle to deal with such an attack (as seen by Operation True Promise II), even with THAAD in the picture now. This is an opportune moment for such an attack, as the US Navy is busy rotating Carrier Strike Groups in the Red Sea (USS Harry Truman leaving, USS Gerald Ford arriving). With minimal to no US Navy warships in the Red Sea now, they cannot blunt a missile attack from Yemen with SM-3 interceptors for a late boost phase or early midcourse interception. The position of the USS Carl Vinson, off to the East in the Gulf of Aden, is also not in position to do this. US Navy warships near Israel can still launch SM-3 midcourse interceptors, but there’s quite a difference between ships in the Mediterranean launching SM-3s, and ships in the Red Sea launching SM-3s.

My question is if they can actually launch the advanced missiles in sufficient numbers to cause damage. Cluster warheads that release tiny munitions at high altitude on less advanced missiles are another option, but that would be very imprecise.

“And he who gives fair warning is absolved of blame”

A year ago criticism of the occupation and genocide was political blasphemy but the protests and activism has started trends in these states to lay the groundwork to “always have been against this”. These states aren’t real democracies; they are class dictatorships violently repressing , covertly and overtly, the dissent of their own citizenry.

The truth of the matter is that these states are losing the facade of human rights, democracy, and freedom to favor Israel. These are the expositions of the obsolescence of liberal democracy to respond to the demands of the people in an immediate sense; only delegates can act within the boundaries of the state and the people have no access to the levers of power except for voting for delegates - pre-compromised by their own interests and influences - who make decisions on behalf of their constituencies with nothing to compel them but a whim.

The state has expended its tools in suppressing these dissidents. The dissidents delegitimize the state through the persistence of protesting, activism, and engaging in direct action to express discontent and publicly decry the illegitimate action by the state.

The pretences keep the people satisfied. All over Europe there are daily protests and activists who engage in direct action. It’s been really difficult for the media to keep demonising these protesters and activists because more people are starting to look through the bs. Police forces are in crisis because suppressing the protests is really hard work. Also labour unions are slowly starting to get involved and demand an end to support of Israel.

Fully openly backing Israel would put fuel to the fire and accelerate these movements. Governments are walking tight rope between backing Israel and preventing mass riots and strikes at public sectors.

I think I answered one of your questions before, but let’s put it this way: what can the individual countries actually do?

Very few countries can survive US sanctions. Unless you’re prepared to go the way of North Korea and Venezuela and the likes, and have the full backing of your own people ready to go through hell with you, you’d better not attract any attention to yourself, and chances are you’d end up a failed state like Libya where everything descends to chaos and having millions and millions of people of your own end up impoverished, just to save two million Palestinian lives?

This is simply the outcome of the world letting US and China to run a huge trade imbalances over the past few decades. By concentrating all industrial capacity in China, the rest of the world are made vulnerable to Western imperialism. This was a very deliberate imperial strategy by the US, and not a mistake like many people are saying.

Europe was never going to take the Palestinian side, save a couple of countries, but even if they wanted to, they are now heavily reliant on US energy to survive, and is in austerity itself.

Russia is already having its hands full dealing with Ukraine, and could barely do any power projection itself. Just look at how it lost Syria. And Putin was literally begging for everyone to de-dollarize since 2022 (to a certain extent, Lula did too), and many countries in the Global South was looking for a dollar alternative during the summer of 2022, but unfortunately China chose not to take up the offer and instead doubled down on defending dollar hegemony. This was a huge opportunity that is now forever lost. Russia’s not going to lose the war or anything, but that economic transformation is not happening anytime soon.

And obviously China is way too comfortable to abandon the status quo. After all, both the US and China have been the greatest beneficiaries of the dollar hegemony.

It is apparent that Trump is allowed to have his nonsense tariffs precisely because they have already seen how the world (mostly China) reacted to Russia’s call for de-dollarization after the Ukraine war started, and are calculating on the fact that nothing will fundamentally change. Looks like they’re winning that bet too.

Even Trump’s crazy tariffs could not replicate the dangers the US dollar faced when it first raised interest rates in 2022. That really was an opportunity that only happens once every few decades.

To put it bluntly, Russia (February 24th 2022) and the Palestinians (October 7th 2023) rolled their dice, and they lost the ultimate bet. The world lost an opportunity for an alternative system to emerge.

There is no point sugar coating anymore. Remember that human agency is the one to change the world. The left has to be at the vanguard of the movement. But are we even prepared? Has the left studied and devised its theory, strategy and tactics to the point where they are prepared to take on the rise of fascism?

We can only wait for the next crisis of capitalism to erupt. But even if it does happen tomorrow, is anyone even prepared to take action?