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Thank you

Going as far as saying on TV that prison was not for people like them.

Do you have a clip of that lol I need it

Some kind of air bridge from Russia or Iran for supplies is not feasible, neither state has the airlift capacity.

How come? Doesn’t russia have enough IL-76s lying around?

China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years

So this is obviously false right, but is he referring to something specific, where is the 5 years coming from? It can’t be about stockpiles, so is it about delivery mechanisms/early warning/second strike capability?

Seeing the children of Gaza celebrate even before the ceasefire is implemented warms the heart, the first joyful news since June. May Allah grant them lasting peace and relief.

What do the newsheads think about the timing of the deal, why did the enemy offer a ceasefire now? With American military buildup in the Middle East, security guarantees for Qatar, Saudi-Pakistani pact, are they going for Iran again? Trump offering ceasefire for Muslim states support against Iran, while offering action against Iran to get Israel on board. Saw this earlier:

Ali Akbar Velayati, advisor to the Iranian Supreme Leader:

The ceasefire in Gaza may be behind the collapse of ceasefires elsewhere.

Is there any substance to this? I know @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net mentioned the current buildup is different (smaller) in scale/capabilities from the one earlier this year.

Afghan Media reports that information received from Taliban sources indicates that Khārji Noor Wali Mehsud, the leader of the TTP (Tehrik Taliban Pakistan), was killed in a drone strike on a cruiser in Kabul city tonight.

https://t.me/TheSimurgh313/57012

Pakistan supposedly strikes Kabul with US assistance

https://www.trtworld.com/article/b8b843c9db2d

From what I remember Tutsis were the old elite under the colonial regime, after Hutu led decolonization many of them became refugees in neighbouring countries, they formed the RPF there, civil war broke out and a double genocide occurred. RPF won and now there’s a Tutsi dominated government again. I don’t know anything about the geopolitics though

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You’ve probably seen it already but you can read this effortpost by LargePenis about the rise of Shia political islam.

It’s important to remember that 60 years ago the situation was the opposite. Iran was a secular comprador state and the biggest ally of America and Israel in the middle east, while the Arab world was unified in opposition to Israel. Most prominently the secular socialist government of Nasser, but also conservative anticommunist Saudi Arabia. During the 70s, after the failure of a strategic defeat of Israel to materialize, some Arab countries started to consider repositioning themselves geopolitically. This was also the time that the US turned the middle east into a cornerstone of their foreign policy with the introduction of the petrodollar. The collapse of the Soviet Union only accelerated the Arab world falling into western orbit with the collapse of progressive secular movements, continuing until today with the fall of Libya and Syria.

Specifically why Sunni political Islam was not able to form a front against Zionism compared to Shia Islam I would guess it’s also because of the conditions they developed in. In much of the Islamic world Sunni political islam acted as an opportunistic force of reaction against progressive governments, being sponsored by pro western forces. While in Iran it specifically arose against American-Zionist influence, and in other countries with the additional context of Shia interests being sidelined by the Sunni majority.

Of course reality is more nuanced, other people may correct me

https://monthlyreviewarchives.org/mr/issue/view/900

Archived versions here:

• “Notes from the Editors, October 2020” by The Editors
• Introduction: “China 2020: An Introduction” by John Bellamy Foster
• “U.S.-China Trade War: Has the Real “Thief” Finally Been Unmasked?” by Zhiming Long; Zhixuan Feng; Bangxi li; Rémy Herrera
• “Toward Delinking: An Alternative Chinese Path Amid the New Cold War” by Sit Tsui; Erebus Wong; Lau Kin Chi; Wen Tiejun
• “Tracing a Trajectory of Hope in Rural Communities in China: Survival Bricolage of Zhoujiazhuang and Puhan Rural Community” by Lau Kin Chi; Sit Tsui; Yan Xiaohui
• “Revisiting Collectivism and Rural Governance in China: The Singularity of the Zhoujiazhuang People’s Commune” by Lau Kin Chi
• “Negotiating Debt: The Making of Puhan Rural Community in North China” by Sit Tsui, Yan Xiaohui

Maybe someone can mirror the pdf too

He’s not arguing that most lower castes support BJP, but that most petty bourgeois are lower caste (and support BJP)

27 years

so like 3 life sentences

Ah sorry, I misread

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“Those young people, they are pro-Jewish, and they don’t consider it being anti Nazi Germany”

ok, please face the wall

The fact that they’re serious about multipolarity and breaking away from western hegemony. Okay maybe it’s just this one thing and I shouldn’t have said a lot haha. But the fact that the largest country on earth, together with China, forms a separate economic base can’t be overstated. Even if their position has been kind of forced upon them by realpolitik.

Could Iran ever have come this far without Russia and China? Of course their outlook is bleak right now, but regardless of the outcome of the war, countries in the Sahel will still need trading partners, countries in Latin America will still need them, as will any country which undergoes a socialist or anti imperialist revolution.

Imperialism is the primary contradiction. In terms of social policy, I feel like the reactionary trends in much of the global south can be explained by the cold war dynamics of the combination of progressive forces being defeated, and pink imperialism, leading to anti-imperialist movements drawing from local conservative currents. If those external forces fade away there’s much less stopping local activism from achieving reform. Sure communism would still require a revolution, but even that would be more possible if western hegemony is weakened.

Thanks!

This had me kinda especially since I literally couldn’t find any english source other than the tweet. I did manage to find a clip though (you can find longer clips if you search “Лукашенко гея” on youtube)

There’s no captions but with google translate it’s pretty clear he’s saying there’s nothing wrong with gays, but LGBT propaganda should never be accepted. This is of course more in line with previous statements of his and what Putin has said on the issue.

There’s a lot to be optimistic about in Belarus and Russia but they didn’t suddenly reverse course on gay rights, and I feel like thats not likely to change in years or even decades. If something is too strange to be true it probably isn’t! I still enjoyed the clip though haha

context?

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