It is so funny isn’t it? Some goodbits from the post:
SEND MONEY NOW PLEASE YES THIIS IS RESISTANCE:
Poor airforce pilots who have been the fkin tip of the needle in delivering unlimited imperialist violence on civilians for 75 years:
And finally some AI slop - we musn’t be without:
Ah, my prediction that the UK has at most 2 decades left as a functioning state continues to be fullfilled with each passing day.
Al-Jazeera:
During his first term as president, Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017 and ordered the relocation of Washington’s diplomatic mission from Tel Aviv.
So that was mostly optics where they moved their “diplomatic mission” to Jerusalem while the actual embassy was in Tel-Aviv still. So now actual construction and move of the embassy will take place…
Didn’t they already move the embassy to Jerusalem during Trumps first term?
both Israeli and Lebanese negotiators are frustrated by the inclusion of a Lebanon-related clause in the US-Iran memorandum of understanding
The Lebanese puppet government would rather negotiate with 0 leverage.
“self-defense”
New strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut. Everyone seems to be holding their breath and wondering how a possible retaliation from Hezbollah/Iran could look. This has been one of Irans red lines in the so called “negotiations” with the US regime, but I have seen nothing officially yet.
Trump has reportedly called for more “surgical strikes” against Hezbollah so no condemnation from that sicko.
I mostly wonder which money will finance all this, state debt? Usually these dont go very well together:
Free dental care for at-risk adults with a promise to expand free dental care to cover all adults within 10 years
Half sales tax on food and no sales tax on fruit and vegetables
Better funding for schools
Making it easier to build public housing in Copenhagen, including direct rent subsidies
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Lower corporate taxes
Lower income taxes on the rich
Spending 5 percent of GDP on three military, more than during the height of the Cold War
Here in Sweden they currently “solve” it by the state loaning a bunch and just pushing the problems with financing onto the next government (and for the current government this means not even using this to finance good things, it is mostly overpriced defense spending, to where I imagine most of the danish money also will go) Also, throughout the last decades it has mostly gone like this:
liberal government does NPM, slashes a bunch of good stuff and lowers taxes --> succdem government comes in, undoes some (but not all the damage, and usually don’t come with much new good stuff), raises taxes because former government reforms were expensive as shit --> liberal government does NPM, slashes a bunch of good stuff and lowers taxes --> and it continues on like this.
It is interesting though how we’ve come this far with the contradictions that it is “obvious” to the public that no party has a reasonable answer, and so the vote is just spread thin. We also had a “crisis” of government a couple of times now. I wonder how long the welfare states can continue on like this. Atleast we have SOME type of industry unlike those pesky norwegians (who btw are also spending less and less on the welfare state despite their fund and all).
They have said this thoughout the war though, this and threats to the read sea - at most we have gotten a few rockets here and there but nothing substantial. Not that I blame them in the slightest, they are a warrior people but they also need time to build civilly and militarily before they join battle again.
What I think is most interesting are the reports of Hamas having started building fiberoptic drones. If they can learn from Hezbollah, there could be a more asymmetry on the Palestinian front. So when shit breaks loose, hopefully it will be too ouch for the Zionists, but we’ll see.
Trita Parsi spoke of this a while back. iirc he said around 10% of Iranians in the US supported some form of actions against Iran back in 2010 - and that now at the start of this conflict it had increased to around 25-30% (from good polling). So this is still a minority - and that is only the Iranian diaspora in the US. So it is definitely NOT a majority position even outside of Iran, but of course it is elevated in the propaganda as if it is 99% of all Iranians inside and outside of the country lol.
What? Fascist propaganda in my racist newspaper?
Anyway – I wonder how soon the western media will start referring to Hitler as a “divisive nationalist figure”
This will in many ways make or break India in the coming decades - hopefully it forces good changes since it will have lasting effects on many parts of the world if central Asia becomes inhabitable. I guess only the future will tell.
I agree that in material costs the US is in a better position to wait it out - however, most of the wars waged by amerikkka throughout history have ended due to mounting domestic political cost. What is interesting now is that alot of former alies of the US regime are turning against it publicly, so it might be that even if they could win the game of chicken in theory - it is too high of a cost politically.
I agree that Israel seems to have accelerated their expansionist project, it is very interesting to see politicians in my region (EU) continue to try and justify it. I wonder if this will be the final nail in the coffin for the perceived “humane & liberal values” that the broader western conscious still attributes our states. (obviously most organized people now it’s a sham, but you’d be surprised the shift that has occured in the minds of the general un-organized populace these last few years)
And so it begins - reject the aviation class, commence THE CENTURY OF THE MOLE
What do you think guys? After yet another week of thruth social posts and back-to-back statements from both parties - will this be the week where we see either an escalation or an agreement? Now that the US regime is back from China, are they more inclined to pursue military action or will this just continue to fissle out without much progress?
It is obvious that both sides are quite far from eachother (mostly stemming from the US continuing to push for maximalist concessions), still the most immediate suffering seems to be felt by the people in Lebanon, Palestine and Iran.
Some good news!
I feel like there have been escalatory retoric from Iran towards UAE the last days. There have been a lot of talk regarding their alleged involvement in american strikes as well as a few of their drones being shot down over Iran.
My guess is that this is a warning to the rest of the Gulf that things wont go back to how they were and further alignment with US/Israel wont be beneficial.
EDIT: Lets also wait and see what the IRGC says - would not be the first false flag from the imperialists…
Very much fog or war here, this post alleges one pilot has been rescued while the other is still being searched for. Only time will tell :) https://xcancel.com/cym27s/status/2040038982453481624
Great! Although the last time Germany had this sombre financial outlook they did a few things as cope…