CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]

sad thing is that that’s more than what italy did for libya

another transphobe, another weird thing involving mold

We continue to believe that both sides will ultimately work toward a deal, as this pre-deal turbulence has been observed many times in previous conflicts involving President Trump.

as opposed to the post deal moments when nothing chaotic happens

People are talking about the culture of eating meat in Argentina and that’s true. It’s just insufficient.

When chattle culture is that widespread, you have an entire complex system of expectations. People’s own understanding of nutrition is informed by the chattle culture. So, you can see, people first ate beef - which means they still had enough purchasing power to acquire ‘higher grade’ protein. Then they ate poultry and pork, which meant they had grown poor. Finally they resorted to eggs, the protein+nutrition combo that the poorest person you know resorts to.

Truth be told tofu isn’t the answer in this continent. It’s beans. Traditional recipes aren’t even vegan, they still have minimal amounts of animal products to them, to the point that south americans would feel ‘properly fed’. That feeling is what’s key. This perception that if you can’t eat animal products you aren’t properly fed is something that predates internet culture and american style ‘carnivores’.

Unlike the influencers people in this area of the world wouldn’t consider beans to be bad for you. On the contrary, black beans are what you eat when you have iron deprivation and anemia. It’s just that food is culture and the culture is that you need some kind of ‘protein’ (ie, meat), even when you’re eating legumes. Otherwise people feel like they aren’t doing the right thing.

indeed. this is a south american country. if there was a donkey industry it would be set up for exports.

damn, everyone in the US sphere of influence can either just go with the flow and move on with the times or trigger a societal death spiral by raising defense spending north of 5% of GDP

its not like buying US arms even guarantees anything any more

Hopefully the revolutionary and military factions override the civilian government if they attempt anything like this.

They have no choice because Israel won’t give them thta choice. No country in the region gets to integrate into the international system, as far as the kahanists in Israel are concerned its already a massive PITA that they’ll have to go to war with Turkey next. Syria doesn’t get to integrate. Lebanon doesn’t get to integrate. Iraq doesn’t get to integrate. Iran would be like a Turkey with actual natural resources and massive importance to the entire world economy.

@grok was this tweet a binding contract in peruvian law

and they’ve gotten over their hangup while we’re stuck in the 1700’s.

excuse me people were partying back then. the world is instead stuck in nancy reagan’s mind palace

the dead guy made a play to the duende constituency

converts to catholicism. kills the pope with in person cringe

Plus, the US is global capitalism. If the gulf sells less energy, the US makes money. If the gulf sells more energy, the US makes money. If all you do is ‘follow the money’ then it will become easy to see grand strategies that don’t really exist.

we are this close to the chud reformation

its ‘your’ party but its the ‘royal you’

to be fair this sounds pretty threatening too

“regime change for competitive elections” what does this even mean?

apparently it means the iraqis kept electing people who told the US to leave and the US said no

1. simply win the war
2. take tehranograd instead of just bombing it

the washington post is truly where great minds meet

Anti-imperialist? Not likely. But the underlying assumption of the current government in Damascus seems to be that they have to hedge their bets. They rely on their former sponsors in Turkey but do not want to become dependent on them. They play nice with Europe if for no other reason than to seek political legitimacy. And they pledged support for the US and Israel if for no other reason than presenting themselves as the real partner to hold onto Syria’s agricultural lands and oil (as opposed to the SDF).

This has been their play to hold onto power. The first contradiction to it was almost immediate, because Israel is such a sore winner that they couldn’t help but go apeshit all over the country, invade it further more in the south and start supporting separatist groups in Suweyda. So all those pledges of being anti Hezbollah, anti Iran and anti Russia fell on deaf ears. As a result the Russians came back.

I suspect that if Iran achieves their mission the Syrian government isn’t going to go to bat for the current order of things, but that won’t because they are anti-imperialist.

I think the idea here is that the US tried to undercut the chinese, in a way: ‘look, everyone can buy iranian oil now! make sure to bid for it and fuck over the chinese!’. But it’s not like everyone is gonna go all in on a trade relationship that as far as they are concerned, the US will just re-sanction a month from now. The economies of Asia might get desperate enough all things considered, but can they out-bid the world’s largest economy?