India has a very large component of people who will glaze every country on earth that acknowledges India’s right to existence or whatever. These people will simultaneously love Israel and Iran because both trade with India. There’s nothing going on in terms of understnding foreign policy.

Cats are true Multipolarity enjoyers, they’d gladly start selling oil in RMB if that got them more snacks.

every accusation is an admission etc etc, it really is textbook at this point.

No you don’t get it, this is actually a deeply scathing critique of Israel because by comparing Israel committing genocide to hurricanes and earthquakes he is stating that it is within the inner nature of an Israeli to be genocidal, something inherent that cannot be prevented. Unfortunately it also implies all Israelis are immortal, because (like earthquakes) there is nothing we can do to stop them. Too bad.

Much bigger news than it seems to be. Beijing ignoring the American sanctions regime is the beginning of its total unraveling. If countries are faved between choosing the people who control the money and the people who sell you all your goods, they’re gonna choose the latter every time out of necessity.

When you 100% verified for real have “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz [trust fam]:

The US has warned shipping companies of possible sanctions if they pay Iran for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The US has emphasized that even disguised schemes—including charity or indirect payments—are unacceptable - Reuters.

Actual source on this is here, idk why news wires never include links to the actual source these days when most of the time it’s an actual press release or whatever by a government agency. https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/935556/download?inline

He’s changed his mind. At the end of the day he does seem like a committed academic (even if he’s a bit uh… slow) and has realised that his theories on the “End of History” and the like were plainly incorrect. He said the following in 2018:

This extended period, which started with Reagan and Thatcher, in which a certain set of ideas about the benefits of unregulated markets took hold, in many ways it’s had a disastrous effect. At this juncture, it seems to me that certain things Karl Marx said are turning out to be true. He talked about the crisis of overproduction… that workers would be impoverished and there would be insufficient demand.

That said he’s still a lib, and a #slavaukraine lib at that; he even met with the fucking “Azov Brigade” fascists.

It is marginally true, yes. The US exports more oil than it needs. BUT, its refineries are not well equipped to refine much of the light oil that is produced by the United States, and instead are more “optimized” for the heavier stuff (see https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54199) which the US then imports. Plus, gasoline and oil prices are global, so even something on the other side of the world affects prices. Why? Because even if US crude costs like $50 to make, they could sell it instead to people in Vietnam or wherever for, let’s say, $150. So they can ship it over there, so US based sources have to bid up to that price, or maybe a little less (because the oil company would have to physically ship it there, so that hurts their profits a bit), let’s say like $130. So there’s some regional variation in price, but only to account for the cost of physically shipping the oil further. See https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/45 for all the different “benchmark” prices. They’re all close in price.

It’s astounding how literally everything he said as “color” is not true. Like, not a single one of the things he said are even remotely true or relevant.

1. The United States plainly does not have control of the Strait of Hormuz, as if it did there would already be “pre-February 27 Freedom of Navigation,” so he himself has already negated his first point (not to mention the dozens of Iranian ships that have been able to successfully run the blockade per https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/30/tracking-the-shadow-fleet-how-iran-evaded-the-us-naval-blockade-in-hormuz)
2. This one is partially true, but there’s been a dollar shortage since the beginning of the year which was engineered by the United States (and which Bessent himself admitted to creating! https://xcancel.com/militerenstitu/status/2020077436000461023) so this isn’t anything new and certainly nothing the “Iranian Leadership” is unaware of.
3. This one, as far as I can tell, is not true at all. Haven’t seen much reporting out of Iran since the internet ban, but Iran can refine its own gasoline so I can’t imagine there’s any serious gasoline shortage. Food as well is unlikely, Iran is pretty food secure. Maybe this one is “true” because Bessent never says that it’s about Iran, and there are 100% gasoline and food rationing “in place” in various countries around the globe because of the war, many of which are “American allies.”
4. Plainly untrue. Even the PM of Germany is on record saying the Iranians have “humiliated” the Americans and that the war was stupid and unjust.
5. you sure about this one buddy?

Plus the idea that Iran’s leaders are “trapped like drowning rats in a sewage pipe” rather than pretty cozy in one of their numerous missile cities, massive complexes build into mountains of granite with electricity and plumbing and hell probably cinemas for all we know, is patently ridiculous. An embarrassing post from an embarrassing man.

BREAKING: President Trump has “rejected” Iran’s proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz and the US has prepared a plan for a “short and powerful” wave of strikes on Iran, per Axios.

Have these morons learned nothing? The Epstein Axis are not the folks who get to determine if their “limited strikes” are “short” or not. I know this is just more bluster in Trump’s pathetic flailing to construct an off ramp, but it’s insane that every time they can just pretend that they can shoot off a few “powerful” airstrikes that will do anything, and somehow Iran will just not respond?

I mean just weeks before the Ramadan War kicked off, the Saudis and the Emiratis were basically engaged in a proxy war with one another in Yemen and elsewhere. Would not be surprised to see that get going again.

No chance. The UAE are the true dogs of USAmerican empire. The Saudis very well could flip sides and sell oil in RMB, but the UAE will go down with the ship. They’re more culturally Israeli than Arab.

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

Sad to see this end, thanks for posting this. Always been enjoyable.

To be fair to the user above, “rulers feuding with Popes” was absolutely a thing in the 19th century. The status of Rome during the unification of Italy was a huge issue so much so that the Italian state went to war against the Pope and conquered Rome. Prior, the French even intervened to restore Rome to the Papal States after a brief revolution where they tried to found a new “Roman Republic.” The so-called “Roman Question” on the status of the Pope and who ruled Rome wasn’t officially resolved until 1929.

Glad to see Lindsay Graham is joining #GlobaliseTheIntifada, calling for a global blockade thereby destroying the Zionist Entity’s ability to survive.

What’s funny about this is also they’re shutting down the train station that serves this stadium for eight hours every match. Only ticket holders for this one match can use Penn Station. The problem? Penn Station just happens to be the most used train station in the Western hemisphere, with 500,000 (!!!) people using it to commute every day. No trains in or out except this World Cup train for eight hours on a random weekday. What are the half a million people who commute into New York City using Penn Station gonna do for those days? Who the fuck knows…

Well I hope everything goes spectacularly then! If you apply the kind of detailed work you do here to the job I’m sure you’ll do great.

??? The J50 and J36, both different sixth generation fighters being built in China, had their maiden flights in 2024. They exist. They’ve had half a dozen semi-public prototype flights. They’ll be put into mass production before the end of the decade. The F47, meanwhile, is only on paper. No prototype exists. No flight (scheduled for 2028). Nothing. How could the Chinese “copy” something that doesn’t exist?

Hope you come back comrade, always enjoy your posts. Take all the time you need.