Ukraine should have under supported by "US, France, UK, NATO, EU" at minimum on their side. The number of citations one could give for that support would not be mere allegations by one leader that are denied by both Russia and the other country but hundreds of instances of open admission to the media that this is what they are doing.
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Russia the Yemeni people yearn for freedom and mutual trade and cooperation, please send s-400 anti-air defense systems. After all if the west can man air defense systems like patriots in Ukraine without being in a war with Russia then surely Russian crews can shoot down American planes in another country without being at war with the US. Right?
The zionist regime has been murdering very, very, very effectively the leadership of Hamas plus Hezbollah for a few months now so it's not one of those things likely to be a lie. It's among the most pointless kind of lies to tell too as if it is untrue the enemy can just record a video showing them opening up a news website this afternoon and make them look silly and untrustworthy and incompetent. They certainly lie about casualties of the resistance's fighters because that's hard to disprove and same with their own casualties but sadly these kinds of claims are very unlikely to be false.
Fact is this is a real problem the resistance has. Leadership changes create chaos and opportunity. There's every reason to believe the zionists have some compromised assets they're trying to maneuver into place of leadership in these groups. Not necessarily outright spies but let's say compradors or incompetents who would either rather elect to lay down in the face of the zionists and give up their arms for a bad compromised peace that won't last OR make strategic blunders because of a bad way of thinking that leads to the same kind of loss or fragmentation of the resistance and power struggles which leads to weakness and more opportunities for strikes and elimination of planning and organizational/supply capabilities which if degraded enough take them out of the fight.
So while one decapitation may not work to destabilize a disciplined and ideologically committed group, with enough of them things can start to come undone and every time it happens it's a threat and crisis for the organization as reshuffling has to happen and in that reshuffling people make opsec mistakes, people chatter and talk, further mapping of the people and command structure of the organization becomes a threat as meetings occur, power struggles may happen, factional splits are widened, previously settled disagreements come out, and so on.
Just goes to show though that the US led by the genocidal Biden-Harris regime has no intention of actually forcing the zionist entity into negotiations with Hamas that lead to peace because you don't let your underling constantly murder the leadership who they'd in theory be negotiating with if you want peace.
So angry. This anger I will carry inside me towards liberals, towards Democrats, towards soc-dems and reformists and so on for the rest of my life. redacted
May we live to see the zionist settler state fall.
I recommend for writing that people make frequent versioned copies as well. For example after some amount of pages or time spent I'll copy the file itself and rename it _backup to try and protect against corruption that happens to part of the file without being noticed and just to have the option of rolling back to a previous iteration or at least looking at it. It can clutter things up a little but if you like you can put the backups in their own folder somewhere. Though this is obviously no substitute for backing up to another device as this method doesn't protect you against your storage device failing, suffering corruption, malware, etc so it's more important to do that.
Sorry this happened to you OP.
It’s just full of ‘member this’ call back and line repeats word for word of iconic quotes just like Disney Star Wars. Soulless reanimated monstrosity living via 20th century nostalgia. Countless inconsistencies and breaks from precedent in the rest of the series.
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The main characters are invincible and dodge aliens easily (making the creatures less frightening) until it’s time to get owned and die for upping the plot ante towards the conclusion. Token minorities murdered off immediately which is sorta more insulting than never having them in the first place in some ways. (Why is the main character once again a conventionally attractive white woman and her magic black robot man / servant who’s also a wind-up toy for contrived plot reasons (I swear it was invented for just one scene late in the movie and makes no sense)).
About the only good thing I have to say about it is they didn’t do the Prometheus thing that you see with many other IPs where a prequel has much more advanced looking tech in it than sequels that in real life were produced decades ago because of a desire to look futuristic for current audiences at the expense of consistency and feel of the universe. I liked that but it’s not enough to salvage it and is really probably just nostalgia slop same as Disney Star Wars so not sure it’s really a brave decision.
I rise in support of the vetting.
It works. It works so well there are sore anarchists and left-libs on hex bear who will let people know they were rejected from here.
Sure it won’t stop a CIA officer who’s familiar with Marxism and determined to get an account (though even they will probably have to take their time). But it stops fascists who aren’t going to spend hours researching Marxism to give convincing sounding and organic arguments and it stops liberals who likewise aren’t going to put in the effort.
I do think perhaps the admins could offer an abbreviated vetting for those with an account here to get on prole wiki and perhaps vice versa.
Only somewhat IMO.
The US has mobile bridge units and rebuilding corps for crossing areas and exceptional experience in doing this kind of work over the past 70 years. Let's recall for example the battle at Lake Changjin so well depicted in recent Chinese cinema. The reason that Chinese forces didn't eliminate US troops there is because the US flew a bridge or parts of it straight from Japan to the battlefront to give them an evac route after the Chinese blew up the original bridge. That's the kind of force they're dealing with. So at best it slightly slows them down. Mining does a lot more but one must consider that the US and occupied Korea may not even try to use land routes for the first few weeks of conflict. In the original Korean war turn-about for the running dogs of imperial Japan/US was achieved via massive naval landings and use of air power. Given how much coast Korea has I think that's probably part of any strategy.
In my opinion it's as much about sending a message in the vein of closing off roads, burning bridges, that kind of thing of their resolve about the south being a hostile and threatening state.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if these drones were flown by the CIA or another US agency trying to provoke some sort of reaction like this so they can use it as a pretext for more power for the military and more funding for themselves to stop those dastardly Chinese/Russians/Iranians whoever the cartoon villain of the week is.
Usually it should be NBC which stands for nuclear, biological, chemical.
I'm guessing here they meant atomic, biological, chemical.
One can only hope.
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Something I noticed: A lot of talk of health issues/regulation of smartphones seems to revolve around loss of productivity
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The WHO has recently declared Smartphones a public health problem.
It's interesting that the real problem here seems to be addictive and abusive algorithms deployed by social media and gaming companies but that's not mentioned because those are where the capitalists make their money and it's forbidden to interfere with their profit generation or point that out.
Instead they paint it as this vague addiction of which social media is depicted as merely a small part but the real problem is the hardware, the Smartphones and too much use and access to them. And the real issue is people are distracted at work (and school) and productivity is suffering.
And the solution is bans on use of smartphones at schools and crackdowns on use at work because we can't have the proles enjoying the addictive treats we've made to distract them from their horrible lives while they're supposed to be earning us money, those are for while they're taking 2 hours in their commute to get to work or for while they're at home too exhausted to cook or get up off the couch.
Just an interesting observation I had. I will be the opposite of shocked when they try and make smartphone lockers at work a thing or implement AI in cameras that detects smartphone usage outside of breaks and applies penalties.
India of course wants to compete against China's electric car market. The west will likely not allow them to displace domestic manufacturers in the US but the US may coerce them into opening plants in the US using their lithium supply to allow their brands to penetrate, the US also I would guess promises them to help drive out Chinese brands from global markets and to give those markets to the Indian firms or at least that's how the Indians will understand it and probably the desire of the US (with an intent to eventually take control of those companies or at least ensure western bourgeoisie own a huge chunk to earn most of the profits).
Regarding China's rise and partnerships with African states. While there are clear-headed leaders who understand the history of colonialism and reach for China, there are just as many mercenary leaders and those of a comprador, western-boot-licking nature in Africa who will taken some token debt relief in exchange for selling out their people and resources to the west. So China's ascendancy through win-win cooperation is by no means guaranteed. For that to work both sides must have long-term visions and understandings of history which is something liberals are terrible at in both directions (past/future).
Let us recall history and remember that the USSR was starting to make inroads with former colonies and victim nations of imperialism after the second world war and that the US used coups, installation of brutal dictators, ethnic conflicts they fanned the flames of, compradors, threats of economic sanction and later in the century terrorism and extremism to blunt this type of independent thinking that would have helped the USSR. That hope has been crushed before as detailed for example in William Blum's excellent "Killing Hope" book and in fact was systemically killed in the 50s through 70s with a new wave with new tactics of broad regional destabilization based off for example the Grand Chessboard type of thinking really taking root from the 70s to 90s.
The road for China is not as smooth of sailing as many like to sell it here. The US still has a lot of potency and strength coming right off the back of its era as a unipolar hegemon. That strength exists economically for coercion and sanctions, in military terms including its NATO navy and air force which polices the world and can enforce sanctions (also including hundreds of bases across the globe in nations that submit themselves to the US boot from Jordan to those in Africa itself even with the loss of the AES/sahel states), as well as dollar hegemony, and the fact they are the gatekeepers with the final say for access to the advanced and wealthy markets of the US/Canada, EU, and their occupied Asian vassals of Korea and Japan, as well as their southern hemisphere long-time colonies Australia/New Zealand which is a part of the economic strength but one that bears underlining.
The population of China+Russia is 1.5 billion but both are experiencing demographic problems from lowered birth rates so that's expected to fall (the west by contrast is all too happy to bolster its populations via immigration for purposes of exploitation and domestic labor discipline so isn't as vulnerable to the kinds of sharp drops Russia/China may be) and we must remember though China has done a great deal in lifting hundreds of millions out of absolute poverty and creating a thriving middle class that several hundreds of millions of those people are not consumers for various goods due to still lacking economic mobility as well as being adapted to say village as opposed to city life. A young Chinese person in a city is going to buy all kinds of goods but a Chinese person who is in their 70s, who grew up in poverty, who lives a simpler life in a village and who isn't terribly well off even if not in absolute poverty isn't necessarily a customer for an electric car company or for many other types of consumer goods that China produces. The real amount of people that China would have in a decoupling and 2-camps situation between themselves, Russia, and a few friends like Vietnam as a market for its production of consumer goods is likely more in the 800 million to 1 billion range which puts it roughly on par with the combined west of USA, Canada, EU/NATO, Australia, NZ, Japan, occupied Korea.
So then you have a situation of two roughly matched populations with one having the benefits of pre-existing hegemony and power and concentrated wealth as well as access to India a population of 1 billion to exploit selling western brands and making cheap goods for export to the west. So the road for China and BRICS (well BR*CS+ because India is all too happy to sell out to the west while pretending to be shrewd and getting deals) is a potentially rough one. We are looking at the strong possibility of a second full cold war or echoes of one at least with strong economic and trade barriers put up by the west and effectively two blocs plus bystanders who lean one way or the other.
There are positive headwinds compared to last time around after WW2 of course. The US is no longer an empire in its ascendancy phase as it was, it has (hopefully) peaked (if it hasn't it means the destruction and looting of China and barbarism reigning forever over humankind), there seem to be many in the global south who've learned the lessons of last century and want cooperation with China. China is exceptionally strong and well developed, the US is looking exceptionally winded in military technology for instance, the gap is widening somewhat in China's favor.
But the US and co can and still are going to put up a tough fight and China is still left contending with the fact that many in the west would rather nuke the whole world than let it fall to communism, than give up white supremacy and their own primacy and rule and thus left placating them and trying to stall for time and put off the confrontation and avoid provoking them too much. From such a position China cannot exercise its full strength.
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There is a very alarming claim that they're pursuing and potentially weeks away from a nuclear weapon. The west is just deranged enough and Zelensky as well to use such a weapon, however crude on Moscow. For the west it presents an opportunity to hobble and weaken an enemy while keeping their own hands clean enough that they think perhaps they will escape retaliation, that Ukraine will get nuked into nothing but that doesn't matter because it will have served its purpose.
Recently Zelensky zig-zagged back and forth on this, saying that they either needed to join NATO imminently or get nukes, one or the other, seeing as NATO is off the table this is perhaps a way to attempt to threaten his western backers but he may underestimate how much they'd in fact enjoy that.