Biden is demanding results before election time, wouldn’t be surprised if they brought the conscription age down to 18. I imagine by the time the US allows them to surrender, Ukraine is going to look more devastated than Paraguay after the War of the Triple Alliance.
For fighting in war? Ancient. I’m around that age and I work out 6 days a week and even then sometimes I feel my body being heavy when I’m forced to do something uncomfortable. I can’t imagine eating 3 meals a day from a can, sleeping in a sleeping bag with a rifle on my chest and shitting in a bucket…
For what, exactly?
I hope to commie Jesus you’re right, but Westerners that are 40+ overwhelmingly believe the propaganda bullshit hook, line and sinker. But yes, the tide is changing very quick.
Well, on one side this was the perfect deal for the US and I imagine the future of American imperial war will look a lot more like Ukraine and a lot less like Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan. However, the imperial war machine dreamed of having a little Slavic military base dressed as a nation like Israel, so this is still a massive failure for them, but no matter what happens American elites get PAID.
Definitely vote, just vote for whatever the closest thing to a revolutionary party that you can, even if that party is only going to get like 2%, revolution won’t happen via the voting box but there’s a reason that the CIA tries to subvert these parties.
Social democrats can “win” sometimes but their advances are fleeting, look at Sweden, Netherlands, and France to see how quickly their gains can be undone. Hell, even Labour in Britain and the Democratic Party in the US were somewhat respectable social democratic parties in the earlier to mid 20th century. However why would they work to shut down CPUSA (before it was co-opted)? Because it can serve as a barometer for revolutionary sentiment.
Lol why would the power be cut in a hospital (which in developed nations all have generators) unless it’s the rightists cutting the electricity? Giving everyone healthcare is kind of one of the biggest things for us.
This. I remember watching Democracy Now! with an ex-girlfriend and her remarking how odd it is to hear actual news about Latin America and Africa outside of some random mention of chaotic violence.
That’s why all of this is so absurd, Zionists are hugging the far-right in the US right now because they perceive they will protect them…
But it’s obvious that they’re vile antisemites. The left wants to protect Jewish people, we just want an end to Israel.
doesn’t justify the millions of deaths though
Obviously that’s bullshit, but let us accept that for argument’s sake. What about the US that killed 10 million indigenous peoples (a conservative estimate) over the nearly 250 nations that existed then and built their economy first with direct slave labor and then via convoluted forms of slave labor (share cropping, or “illegal immigration mostly from Mexico and Central America) not to mention colonialism and neocolonialism. The prosperity of the US is fed by the deaths of potentially hundreds of millions of people, a prosperity given overwhelmingly to just “white” men and some tokens to use as bait.
They had the chance of at least switching his VP to someone… ANYONE competent. Hell even Hillary Clinton is less shit than Harris.
They were evil but at least American presidents seemed like statesmen until the 2000s, once Dubya got into power, it was all downhill with exception of Obama.
In theory, but Israel doesn’t decide even if they “canceled” the other citizenships, only the other country decides that.
This. Hamas knows, better than many armchair “experts” online that the goal is not for Israelis to find humanity (impossible) but to be so frightened that they’d rather flee Israel to the US, Europe, Argentina, Australia, etc. Half the nation has a second foreign passport, after the Al-Aqsa Flood, a significant number of Israelis citizens boarded on planes, buses and boats going anywhere for a short holiday. Fear of Hamas from the South and a significantly stronger Hezbollah from the north might, for once, cause a reverse settlement process.
You have to understand that for a number of decades the IDF has successfully portrayed itself as an unstoppable juggernaut, and therefore many “dual nationality” Jewish people are only there because they have been convinced it’s safe.
To what level is Washington willing to bleed its own soft power before it forces SOME degree of moderation on Israel, a nation hellbent on going off the ramp of extremism on the right as theoretically possible.
Reminder that if you’re a Westerner and especially a US American and don’t read black, latine, indigenous, etc. revolutionaries, you’re a poor socialist.
There was an interview on the LA Times, I think (I’m going to look for it afterwards), where the DNC is confident Biden will skate to victory because the court trials will destroy Trump. This is the same mentality that they had in 2016 when the DNC and Hillary for President organizations had when they figured the “grab them by the p%ssy” audio leak would obliterate Trump and they rested on their laurels.
Not to mention Democrats figure they are likely to still win the House and Senate (with even bigger margins) and losing the presidency wouldn’t be the end of the world for them. Especially since they like the thrill of being “the good guys” in contrast to Trump.
I have made a special attempt to avoid almost all smartphone use beyond googling things, getting directions and checking emails and it has made reality a lot more real.
I think there’s the potential of it beginning if Trump loses reelection and in a desperate attempt to save his own fat orange ass might command his legions of fascists to attempt to take power. However it could not progress beyond the initial throwing down of the gauntlet, because the US Armed Forces would drop bombs on whatever ragtag army of lunatics wants trouble if they need to.
I think they don’t understand how punching up or down works.
I’m a sinoboo but I’m willing to play Devil’s Advocate:
1 Urban versus rural divide is still harsh. The big cities look like they live in the future but a great deal of the nation still lives in underdeveloped areas in the countryside.
2 While a lot better than it used to be, air pollution can still be rather bad.
3 Population growth is still too low.
4 Too much of the new national wealth is tied up in real estate (which is a shitty industry for the health of a nation).
5 While it’s to prevent CIA led coups, separatist movements and/or color revolutions… the security state is rather stifling and civil rights are cast aside.
6 Poor soft power projection since the arts where largely abandoned by society with the Dengist government. They lack “anime”, or “Kpop” to push their narrative into the world. Lately the CPC has been promoting more domestically produced movies but they really need to step up their game.
7 Their LGBTQ+ rights are garbage, and honestly it’s inexcusable.