Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]

They got mad at me for trying to order a cheeseburger at the sushi restaurant

I haven’t read him, but I had a professor once that name dropped him, so he might have read him.

An AWACS sounds like something that would fly at a very high altitude and is protected by sdvanced technology more than pilot skill. Sounds impressive to shoot one down.

What’s an AWACS plane? Also, is there any news on western casualties from Iranian strikes on ships, bases and hotels/other facilities being used by western militaries? A week ago everyone was claiming virtually no casualties. It seems gard to believe unless they had already abandoned everything and Iran just destroyed the physical infrastructure to make sure the western militaries never come back.

Ok. Pretty much the same.

I’ve been out camping in the desert, talking to strangers, and touching grass around the house for the past week. Did anything interesting happen?

I bought a bunch of used books today, because you only live once.

Ok, and then what else did you do?

To these people the “economy” is not an allocation of finite resources with associated opportunity costs, it’s a stockmarlet casino.

China has dumped vast amounts of money into the PLA the past couple years, often at the expense of domestic priorities

This gets at the heart of the US’s ongoing Cold War advantage. The US had no obligations to provide anything to its citizens, the cherished constitution is nothing but a list of things the government isn’t allowed to do to protect its citizens from the bourgeoisie. Military spending can increase at the expense of everything else. By contrast, the USSR and China actually had/have obligations. In classic American asshole form, if they fall short in their obligations because they need to address security threats deliberately created by the US, the US government starts moralizing.

I bet China is also owns military hardware the US didn’t approve of. They’re just like Venezuela. SMDH.

Chinese sailors just screaming “Worldstar!” while an aircraft carrier sinks.

What are the odds that Donald Trump decides his best way out of this is to throw Hegseth under the bus and extradite him to Iran?

The surplus labor value must be extracted.

It’s like a high speed police chase of a serial parking ticket delinquent barreling through a pre-school. In other words, I do believe this is happening.

Among many other things, they both might be distractions from eachother. It’s a snake eating its own ass.

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I feel like this news is so new that I wouldn’t be surprised to hear by morning that Iran isn’t mining the strait. Trump could just be talking. Is there something to know that I missed?

Back in my lib/baby Marxist days I used to laugh at the idea of the axis of evil. I assumed there was no connection between Iran and DPRK. I think I have a better understanding now of their relationship to American imperialism and it seems unlikely that they wouldn’t have a relationship.

Was there anything stopping Iran from having a nuclear weapon other than them choosing not to make one?