I would guess, more likely, people will just claim to be doing things independently unless they succeed in an action without being caught. The only change this will bring is that the activists will announce in court “I denounce Palestine Action, I just spray painted that bomber jet because I like the color red.” That’ll work for a time before judges start calling it a terrorist network and start Guantanamoing the activists

When did people say that Pal Action was performative? Damn, they’ve been the only non-preformative western group since oct 7th. The winds of history and all

As a huge Deng fan, is it not critically different for the second country relative to the first one? The first country to do so was out of necessity, the step backwards to take huge leaps forward which temporarily traded prosperity and socialist ideals in order to achieve a level of production which would grant an ability to gain influence and independence on the global stage in the future. But Vietnam could just turn to China for the same development without capitulating to the US, and it would likely benefit much more. China had no China next to it when Deng made the shifts. Does this not change the action entirely?

I still think that Vietnam likely is making a fine decision, but comparing it to the Opening Up of China feels odd when the circumstances are so different

So just some military guy willing to give up the game for fame, but likely isn’t speaking from some deep knowledge but instead just from his assumptions which happen to align with imperial interest.

Thanks for the explanation though! Appreciate it being so well described

Who is this guy just saying things out loud??? Does he have any power or just some guy who’s willing to give up the game?

goooooood question, I wanna hear him say it. I can imagine it already. It’s going to sound so odd, I can tell. Something like mom-danny

Mamdani, do one of several very funny options. Publically invite him to once again eat meatballs, ban meatball contests to everyone except for Sliwa (this one has my preference), or make it a vegan meatball eating contest and make participation required to vote next time.

Doomers gonna doom.

Think of it like this: that was such a scary and realistic option that the US was forced to immediately stop. That means they can still keep this card. That’s only useful if “development genius” takes are also good, but it seems to me pretty valuable that Iran keeps that card instead of immediately giving it away (the west would find some other path and start using it/get used to it)

Would Stalin not have accepted more chances to take that action? Stop the invasion again and get another couple months? Stalin was convinced, rightly, that the more days they had the more their industrial capacity would make up for the lacking “current” status, and that at a faster rate than the Axis. For Iran and China, it’s the exact same at the moment. Every day breathing and able to continue producing is a day of winning a larger war. Is that exactly what Iranian leaders are saying? I doubt it. But it’s why the hardliners are going to accept this if possible

This is some anti-materialist bullshit. This is how one can interpret a few small parts of much larger movements, but is not at all how reality looks. Crucify me of this aligns with reality in 3 months but I don’t believe this for an instant

Oh I did not mean that he would push the socialism button, just that he will be willing to do some MMT stuff for Russia to stave off the capitalist crisis that’s coming which could hurt the war effort.

The real question is: will Putin ride to the occasion and do something anti-lib to maintain stability in such important times? Because Putin seems to me to be someone who, not out of the good of his heart but out of his interests in the Russian nation, will do some firing of libs and powerful monetary moves to get out of it unscathed.

How would this even look? Russia and China become enemies because they sell to countries which happen to be enemies? I don’t think either Russia or China would really care too much about that with each other. And both would choose each other over India or Pakistan, I think.

Nice! Thank you Iran

How do we know??? I haven’t seen this yet

Neutral Party here, you’re both talking past each other but I also don’t understand what either of you are trying to say hahahaha

Whoops ignore that, in my head I had written something about utilizing radioactive material in other weapons (like the US in Iraq) more generally. Removed the again, because I have no example of a dirty bomb definitively being used

Yeah dirty bombs are a different beast, and I hope nobody ever uses one because it’s absolutely useless and despicable warfare. Airburst nukes are astonishingly destructive and should also never be used, but at least the land is fine to use again within a short period of time

In good news, nuked areas realistically don’t see that much dangerous fallout for too long. This is not to downplay the destruction, but many have this view that it’s similar to nuclear meltdown areas, but that’s just not true at all. It’s like several orders of magnitude less drastic in terms of lasting radiation no matter how you measure.

Would prefer no nukes, of course, as any sane person. But if Israel causes themselves to get nuked through their actions, I’m not gonna be as upset as I’d be if Palestinian land experienced a nuclear meltdown and spread of the material which results from fission.