The US administration comes off as so staggeringly, astonishingly, unbelievably stupid that I feel this has gotta be some sort of op to make them look weaker than they are. Because my god… If even half of this is true, there will be a hundred year’s worth of books analysing how a state could rot so thoroughly as to be dominated by utter failsons, devoid of thought, living in their own fantasy, making decisions based on their absurd manifestations. It’s genuinely fascinating.

This is just how bureaucracy within an empire in decline looks like. Usually there is a lag between when the bureaucracy is cooked and when the empire actually starts declining since an incompetent bureaucracy can still coast along on the foundation build by previous less incompetent bureaucracies or it’s a combination of being lucky and not fucking up hard enough to overcome that good fortune.

The US bureaucracy probably has been this incompetent since the mid 90s, if not earlier. It’s just that mid 90s US can afford to fuck up and still come out on top. Now, not so much.

The diplospeak doesn’t mean much when the PRC is already sharing intel with the IRI. They’ll continue the “peace and harmony” dance like they always do for every single conflict.

There is not a single conflict in the world where they do not say the same thing. The US calls for freedom and democracy while the PRC calls for peace and harmony. Both are equally meaningless statements. Even if Washington DC is a smoking crater wrought by Dongfeng missiles, the PRC foreign ministry will still call for peace and harmony with the US.

One hi-def satellite photo of a US base is worth more than every single mealy-mouth diplospeak that comes out of the PRC.

An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed six U.S. service members in the early hours of the war with Iran was more severe than has previously been revealed

Just straight up admitting they’re covering up numbers and quietly releasing redactions long after most people stop caring.

Interesting commentary on the differences between Yemeni and Iranians with respect to martyrdom by a Yemeni who has studied in Iran:
https://xcancel.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/2031387251255459855

The West still doesn’t understand the nature of the Iranian people.

I studied in Iran, and no Muslims love martyrdom like the Iranian people.

We Yemenis are brave , we don’t care; we don’t think emotionally.

The Iranians think with great emotion; there is a great reverence for martyrdom. You hear their stories about the children of martyrs, and they amaze you.

They believe that the martyrs live among us and help us, but we can not see them.

The family of a martyr is treated well by everyone they believe that the martyr made them treat them well . If a problem arises and is then resolved, they believe the martyr solved the problem, and of course, all of this is by God’s will.

The matter is profound for them, not superficial like it is for us Yemenis or other Muslims

That’s why I repeat, Iran triumphed when its leader was martyred.

He ignited everyone’s hearts and filled them with emotion, and now they will all support Khamenei out of loyalty to Khamenei

TN: A century is many decades.

Also his mom. She died after sinking into a coma.

Dubai influencers abandoning their pet to their deaths:
https://xcancel.com/domdyer70/status/2030885084685910418

Rescue volunteers reported being overwhelmed. One said she received 27 messages in a single day from owners asking her to take their animals. Vets were flooded with requests to euthanize pets whose owners couldn’t or wouldn’t take them. Rescue groups like K9 Friends Dubai and War Paws called the situation heartbreaking, especially in one of the wealthiest cities on earth.

It turns out Fenrir’s binding had a secret 7th material.

My gut feeling is 1/8 of USians completely buy into his rhetoric. Plenty of people are genuine religious nutjobs or want him to openly call for genocide. They want him to say “woe to the vanquished” or quote Thucydides after bombing an Iranian orphanage. It’s when gasoline and groceries go up that will make them have second thoughts.

“Make our assassination attempt on Khamenei successful so we can restore hereditary monarchy in Iran.”

monkey paw curls

Imagine being this pathetic:
https://xcancel.com/SMohyeddin/status/2030458368381309378

Vancouver’s Iranian diaspora community. Seig Heil.

It never left! How is it that, when international law has never been more clearly a fiction, China are still liberal idealists?

It’s just diplospeak. They don’t actually believe in that shit. The PRC will continue to advocate for peace and harmony and shit while giving Iran satellite intel.

Instead if Raisi hadn’t been assassinated.

I feel bad for him.

I don’t. This useless chump has been taking up space for far too long.

“You will never pay off your Dodge Charger, GI.” - Tehran Tina

No injuries reported.

No injuries if they get vaporized instantly.

Weaponizing cringe for the war effort.

Is it time for “Hezbollah has been severely weakened after the assassination of Nasrallah” peeps to fill out the Hezbollah apology form?

India might have fed intel to the US sub that sank the destroyer:
https://xcancel.com/ryangrim/status/2029702048363499733