InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]

You can’t have any Cuba until you’ve finished your Iran

Thank you for the correction. They do have some production. Not enough though it seems as they have energy blackouts under total blockade and rely on imports. Iran’s reserves are vastly larger is all I’m saying.

yeah they would need to mimic Iran’s strategy. Have proxies in somewhere within range of Panama that can close the canal. Invest extensively into small fast boats and UAVs and massive amounts of shahed-like cheap drones to hit Miami and oil infrastructure in the gulf. I am not inside the Cuban military so I don’t know what they’ve been cooking up, but hopefully it’s something along these lines seeing the power that Iran can project regionally with drones and missiles.

The problem is that Cuba doesn’t have any oil or energy production domestically, they have to import it. So unlike Iran they cannot afford to just turtle up and withstand siege while dealing counter-damage and continuing underground missile production in the mountains. Problem is, Cuba is already under total blockade and siege so they are already under a state of war. They just aren’t allowed to fire back.

CIA also is quite interested in destroying all oil and gas infrastructure on earth that isn’t US controlled it seems. I wouldn’t write off sabotage. If they can blame it on Iran then even better.

Not even close unfortunately. Vietnam had an airforce that was shooting down US planes. Vietnam had a huge an active military that was experienced and filled with veterans. They had contemporary and modern soviet artillery, anti-air, anti-tank systems. They had Chinese volunteers that could spill over the border. Cuba is also right next to the US, which makes the logistics a lot easier.

not that locally owned and operated media companies are much better. petty bourgies vs. haute bourgies, either way they’re just shoving various flavor of boogie ideology in your face. Small “local” news, even before they were monopolized, spent all their time on fearmongering about crime and putting out useless feel-good puff pieces. It’s not like they were putting out cutting critiques of the system or anything. An actual exposé revealing local corruption or scandals was extremely rare, and some of those were probably bullshit smear pieces and opposition hit pieces in a political game.

If anything, it’s better that the small news stations are monopolized now because it’s more obviously bullshit, and it will be easier to seize when the time comes.

it was the most effective of any anti-genocide protesting in the USA, that’s why it was cracked down on with an iron fist. It stopped not because it was ineffective but because the core of activists was arrested, expelled and beaten

Simply embargo Israel and piss them off and they’ll do it for you as they collapse

Microsoft just cut-off free Co-Pilot in it’s Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc). It’s now only available to premium AI users who subscribe. That’s a stark change from their previous position was to shove it in your face and have it auto-fill in things by default. I had to go through all my settings and disable all of it to stop its spam at work.

I’m seeing a trend of AI stuff getting retracted and pulled back. The “Uber model” of losing unlimited money to try and gain 100% marketshare and disrupt the competition of AI is flagging. They can’t keep burning through unlimited money for not enough return forever, at some point it has to give. Especially with energy price hikes, shortages of supplies, west asian data-centers and projects being disrupted or ended.

The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we manage to shoot over this matter, the better. It is necessary right now to teach that group a lesson that they will not ever dare to think about opposing us for decades

Lenin speaking about the Catholic Church, which he considered a bastion of the reactionary bourgeoise

They spoofed fake IDs and pretended to be civilian ships lmao

Medhurst made no comment on the ability of the US to reindustrialize, he merely is describing the plan. He did not say if it was viable or say it was inevitable

His replacement is also a Zionist, but also rabidly pro-Azov. Straight downgrade

Spain and Ireland are the only two countries in Western Europe with even a modicum of a soul remaining

He widely publicized the story on UN participating in the Saudi/US oil embargo of Yemen and widely covered it when everyone else on the left ignored Yemen before October 7th. The “official” story was that the UN checkpoints were an alternative to the US/Saudi embargo, but in reality they were an additional checkpoint and filter and ended up reducing oil imports even further when they said they were there to do the opposite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQ1HlY6bzo (October 8th, 2022)

He widely publicized the story on the offshore Gaza and Syrian gas fields, and Israel and the US’s driving interest in them. The largest known gas reserves on Earth. Something completely ignored in most western leftist analysis of the situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn7fIe8PYbg

He consistently provides materialist explanations with correct understanding of energy. You couldn’t be more incorrect that this is outside his area of expertise, this is the area in which his reporting has been more cutting and consistently proven correct. It’s the area where his analysis is the most advanced compared to the overall western left.

that’s why it will likely be “friend-shored” to Mexico and Central America and not directly brought back to America beyond what is necessary. The Gulf of Mexico and Panama would become the new world energy hub.

It doesn’t need to export more, its revenues have doubled with the same output by selling to the highest bidders on spot markets. Profits have probably went up at least three to fivefold if revenues have doubled.

Imagine Lenin reading this

no comment on the lies they are stating in the opening paragraph? you have continuously avoided that subject. You still have not properly addressed that Iran made Lebanon a red line, US/Israel broke it, and Iran continued with the talks and did not enforce their red line. Why didn’t they walk away?

Nor has anyone here addressed the Iranian leadership lying to the public throughout the war, saying explicitly that they were not negotiating (while Trump was telling the truth that indirect talks were indeed happening). This is actual gaslighting that you and everyone else here just ignores this or lies about it.

Iran’s ceasefire proposal included Lebanon in the terms or else the strait would remain closed. The strait therefore, has remained closed.

This is completely, objectively false and incorrect. The ceasefire proposal included Lebanon or Iran refused to proceed with talks. Then Iran proceeded with talks and broke their explicitly stated public redline. The US does this on purpose as a shit test to humiliate its opponents. The “close the straits” thing is a post-hoc explanation. Does it bother you that you lie? Does it bother you that Iran lied about not negotiating with the US, directly or indirectly, up until they announced the ceasefire talks with the US? These lies don’t bother you at all? You will just continue to lie?

Random reactionary potshots at Israel wouldn’t have saved the people of Lebanon.

The missile and drone waves of Operation True Promise 4 were not random, reactionary nor potshots. We saw quite clearly last year that when Iran attacked Israel, it had to completely stop it’s bombing campaigns in Gaza. Using jets and military personnel for defense does mean they cannot be used for offense. Suppressing Israel’s bombing campaigns with constant missile waves does work and is effective, and ceasing it does have an impact on the resistance forces in combat with Israel.

All it would’ve done is show to the rest of the world that Iran is just as irrational and dangerous a party as the US

Not engaging in perfidious fake talks and just continuing to fight the defensive war Israel and US started would prove Iran irrational? How? If anything their stopping to do talks after multiple rounds of perfidy and killed negotiators is the irrational part, especially when Iran wins if they just continue doing what they’re doing. The world was already on Iran’s side here.

I do think it’s funny how the anti-doomer idealogues find themselves in twisted pretzel positions.

“Iran’s missile attacks are devastating! They are wiping out US bases in the region!”

Iran announces a ceasefire:

“Iran’s missile attacks are random and reactionary and weak and have no strategic impact. It’s just smart geopolitics to stop!”

Once the ceasefire ends:

“Iran’s attacks are devastating the enemy!”

Experts of the post-hoc, the anti-doomer squad is here to make up some plausible rationalization for whatever the topic of the day is. Marxist analysis? What’s that? We’re cheerleaders of the official narrative here.