I agree with that, there is certainly an element that the material abundance from superexploitation allows the liberal middle classes to be completely ignorant and incurious about the world and geopolitics, in a way that they treat it as an optional interest or almost a personality trait, unlike those suffering under the boot who have no choice but to be confronted by imperialism.
[cash register noise] $1.1 BILLION 
Ah, summoned again. My Lord does so enjoy that, as is His prerogative. I’ll assume you’re done for now.
Well he was imitating Disney in many other ways
The most important thing if Trump annexes Greenland is that any Democrat that comes after won’t give it back.
I know, liberals will be physically incapable of remembering the event, let alone processing the contradiction, but it will still be an extremely visible example of imperial interests superceding every trapping of the US’s sham democracy.
And I also think, as the US gets more overtly brutal in winning its gains, even if the total body count is lower than in previous wars that had better PR, it will be harder to justify keeping those gains after the bloodied glove of the previous president is discarded and a fresh one put on, especially if they want to keep doing their cyclical Dem/Rep good cop/bad cop routine. Then again, we might just be heading towards the endgame now where the facade of pretending to care about international law is discarded by both parties.
“I-I don’t understand, I thought I would be standing in the front line and hitting people with a sword!” “PUT ON THE ROBE AND WIZARD HAT”
I still remember the moment I joined the dots and realized that all those horrific cartel torture methods originated with Operation Condor and the School of the Americas.
Desperately awaiting the moment a CIA agent gets to experience first-hand the very techniques his predecessors came up with.
The difference is that Russia joined a civil war on the morally correct side, to end an ethnic cleansing perpetrated by neonazis
Between their military and police force, which are in many ways functionally interchangeable, the US accounts for over 60% of the world’s military budget. This is the effect of bringing to bear a century of total global domination and the power and experience gained from that, particularly in special forces operations. The staging and planning of this attack probably ran into the billions of dollars, not even counting the actual purchase price of the weapons, ships and aircraft involved, or the training costs of personnel, or the cost of putting up the spy satellites they will have used, etc.
It’s certainly surprising they could outright capture and extract him, rather than just bomb him or gun him down, but when you look at the total volume of military hardware used to pull it off, it’s not that hard to believe.
Alright gang, let’s split up and search for clues!
Gašper, Tomaž, take these grenades and go look at the bottom of that mineshaft
This might not count as news, but having talked to various friends and relatives over the holidays, I’ve managed to collect some purely anecdotal economic data, and the obvious conclusion is that the inevitable collapse of Europe is grinding slowly onwards.
Workers and whole teams at companies in multiple industries are being made redundant - including important technical roles that have my friends confused as to how the company is even going to run now. Projects are being put on hold or shuttered. Tradesmen are competing for fewer jobs. A multi-year, multi-million dollar contract between an automaker and an advertizing firm just evaporated. There are fewer clients, smaller cohorts coming through training programs, less money in budgets for the kind of elevated make-work that the European middle class subsists on.
Of course, no one I talked to, even discussing a few of these things in the same conversation, can link these events together, let alone conceptualize this as a tingling in the extremities, the warning signs of the entire continental economy’s impending death by gradual, trickling blood loss from the killing blow of Nordstream. They all think it’s just a bad year, rather than the best year anyone’s going to have ever again. Not ‘ever again’, I must correct myself, in a mere 97 more years Europe will have completed its century of humiliation.
I’m afraid I must ask you to cease and desist in the use of this character.
Peanis is a registered trademark of Beanvel® and will soon be joining the Beanis™ Cinematic Universe (BCU©) - as soon as we have finished this third fourth fifth round of rewrites and reshoots.
Critical support to the British Army for doing everything in their power to fuck up British soldiers
$375 for a scanning electron microscope??? 
The ‘human waves’ style of spycraft
The dragon’s teeth got made, they just… didn’t quite make it to the front line
Black Lodge ass motherfucker
China’s aggressive embrace of clean energy technologies, at a faster pace than even its own government expected or planned,
Beijing’s central planners, having underestimated the country’s swift adoption of solar and wind energy,
The country’s government-owned electricity transmission giant, State Grid, was caught unprepared.
Can’t miss a single opportunity to imply that central planning is too slow and lacking in foresight to keep up with economic trends, when the literal entire point of the article is the exact opposite.
“State Grid is good at building things, but not six years ahead,” said David Fishman, an electricity consultant in Shanghai.
In a whole country of Chinese people, I’m glad they could find someone an anglo name to tell me how to feel.
Europe should […] become an exception—a place that offers support to the victims of the new BRICS superpowers
Jesus fucking Christ, to the wall with him
I keep seeing a constant churn of “Look how many flag-draped coffins we spent on helping the US in its imperial wars!” posts on the front page of reddit, and I’m trying to decide whether it’s organic Eurolibs indignantly pointing out their own servility, or a concerted effort by some intelligence group. It has all the consistency and persistence through a couple of news cycles of an organized propaganda push, but who would be behind it?
It’s not hard to imagine the EU or an individual Euro country has the capacity to put this together and that they would have a reason to do so, but reddit is most heavily astroturfed by US intelligence agencies, who should be able to bury these posts if they wanted. Are they allowed because of disagreements within the US national security apparatus on what to do about Greenland and Europe? Do the euros have enough power to post through it regardless? Or does the US simply not care?
My most conspiratorial theory is that it’s the US itself pushing these posts, because even while they superficially seem to be negative towards the US, they’re actually reinforcing the idea of European loyalty towards their imperial masters, and that it’s Europe that most wants this relationship to continue, in defiance of the US who wants to break with them - and once the current crisis is gone, or Trump leaves office, the Eurolibs can joyfully pledge their fealty even more strongly to the US now that it’s ‘back in safe hands’.
And the wild card is that it’s Russia trying to put a wedge between the US and Europe, but compared to the liberal imagination, Russia’s propaganda efforts in reality are much weaker and less subtle than this. It would still be extremely funny to accuse Euros of spreading Russian propaganda and trying to sow discord between the Western powers with these kind of posts.
Of course, it could just be organic and I’m still somehow underestimating the craven, kicked-dog moping of the European technocrat class.