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  • There has to be a limit to what Europeans will take, right?

    You would be surprised. If their behavior toward Ukraine is any indication, you shouldn't expect anything other than to see a doubling down on pro-US, pro-Israel policies, no matter how much it harms Europeans.

  • More evidence that the podcast unfortunately leans heavily to the ultra-left/白左 side.

  • Look at the amount of Geran drones Russia launches every week. And they produce more than they launch. Iran likely has similar capabilities. That is not an unrealistic number.

  • by all accounts Iran can churn out a thousand shaheds in a year

    That would be a tiny number. Russia produces more than that in a week, and almost certainly so does Iran.

    looked it up, supposedly Iran can produce 400 shaheds daily.

    That's much more realistic.

  • For context, there is still disagreement on whether the vdv were wiped out to a man in the takeover/withdrawal from hostomel or the other way around.

    Unserious statement. There is no disagreement unless you choose to ignore all evidence and believe only moronic Ukrainian propaganda.

  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    Gen-Z village head brings new life to her hometown

  • This is nothing unusual for those of us who have been following the Ukraine conflict since the start. There were times when there was an absolutely insane amount of bots. Russian speaking spaces were (and still are) heavily targeted. Even now there is always some Ukrainian psyop even in "pro-Russian" telegram channels. You can't prevent all infiltrations, but with time and experience you learn to recognize the bullshit.

    Right now there is a big blitz of botting and information warfare, but eventually it will calm down and there will be concrete on-the-ground results that will be impossible to deny (like how Ukraine can spin all the tall tales and put out all the deep-fakes it wants, but sooner or later Russian advances get undeniably geolocated). It's why i recommend stepping back and waiting if you are unsure what is trustworthy at the moment.

  • Just a little reminder to all: Best practice right now is to disbelieve everything you read in the western media and stop reposting western MSM articles or social media rumors for the time being. Full stop. Unless it's coming directly from the Resistance, treat it as disinformation and psyops.

    You wouldn't believe, repeat or distribute Nazi newspapers if you were a Soviet citizen during the Great Patriotic War. You wouldn't listen to Voice of America radio broadcasts if you were a Vietnamese or Korean soldier fighting against the US invasion. Don't do the equivalent of that today!

    A war is being waged not just against Iran, it is being waged against YOU and your mind. In today's day and age even images and videos can be faked. Information warfare is very sophisticated. You are not immune to it. So remain calm, critical and patient.

    The fog of war will lift eventually. Until then the best you can do is maintain informational discipline. Do not write or post anything that is not in accordance with the Resistance's line. Agitate against the war, discredit the imperialist aggressors and do not undermine the morale of your own side.

    ¡Patria o Muerte!, ¡Venceremos!

  • West Asia @lemmygrad.ml

    Chinese traveller experiences everyday life in Iran

  • It was 24 Feb 2022.

  • The same infrastructure just doesn't exist elsewhere in the region. You can't just magically re-route the pipelines. They would have to transport oil by truck hundreds of kilometers through the desert to ports that are not set up for those volumes of export anyway. This transport infrastructure takes years if not decades to build.

  • I like how China's PLA is so often involved with disaster relief and does so much work to help people, rescuing them from floods and earthquakes and the like. That very much appeals to me. If i could be in like the engineering corps where i could build roads or bridges or something that would be really cool. But yeah, in a capitalist country i would rather frag the nearest officer or go to jail than serve.

  • That's awesome! I'm not into dancing personally but i do think it looks cool. Definitely good exercise, keeps you healthy that's for sure.

    I love how there are always old people dancing and exercising in public in China in the mornings and evenings.

    Wish we had that here. But for one thing we don't really have the public spaces for it the way China does, and also you would 100% have someone making a complaint to the police about you if you tried gathering people together in the middle of a city for that. They'd probably tell you you can't play loud music and that you need a permit as a registered sport club. Once again the irony of the realization that China has more freedom than we do in the West...

  • Well said. If the only way you keep people on your side is through violence and intimidation, you are inevitably on a clock to where eventually you are no longer strong enough, and then the people you repressed will take their revenge.

    No one stays strong forever. Neither people nor countries. Eventually you will decline and someone else will be stronger than you. That's why it's best to treat others well when you are in a position of strength.

  • It can be that. But more often i think it's western chauvinism. The belief that whatever its flaws, the West's system has to be ultimately morally superior, and therefore any system that is different has to be somehow worse. You have to believe there is something about those other systems that is sinister or evil, or else it would be too painful admitting to yourself that you live in the worse system, and that the suffering you endure (and cause to others) is not actually necessary and unavoidable because the alternatives are not all worse.

    So you can admit that the government and media are lying to you about the things they are doing in your country, but surely they cannot be lying about other countries too, because then you would no longer have anything to hang onto that makes you feel superior.

    China is just the biggest of the foreign "others" in the present day, but it's not exclusive to China. You see the same willigness to believe propaganda about Russia, Iran, DPRK, etc.

  • Same. Every action comes with a reaction. The more aggressive the US gets the more pushback there will be. They are accelerating their own imperial decline.

    There are good reasons why, for so long, the US largely refrained from blatant aggression (except where they could weave a credible narrative to justify it as "defensive") and direct use of hard power coercion, and preferred soft power subversion instead.

    It wasn't because they couldn't use hard power - if anything they were more militarily dominant in the past - but because domination through economic superiority is preferable. It creates much less resistance.

    The imperialists of the past were no less brutal or ruthless, but they weren't stupid. They understood that maintaining western hegemony depended on the illusion of international law.

    The fact that they are now having to resort to direct aggression is the opposite of a sign of strength, it's a sign of weakness and desperation.

  • It's r/China so it's actually pretty good for Reddit standards. I liked this comment in particular:

    You are now in the position of a flat earther on the space station. You can see with your own eyes the shape of the earth. So why are you insisting it's flat?

  • Nothing to see here. Just another confused liberal.

  • When you start from the axiomatic assumption that the anti-China propagandists cannot be lying, you have to assume that it is reality itself that is lying to you.

  • In my estimation, the western empire acts quite a lot like a cult as narrative and loyalty goes.

    You've really hit the nail on the head. It is exactly like a cult. Up to and including the threat of very real and brutal consequences as a result of ostracization by the cult.

    See: EU extrajudicial sanctions against people who have a different opinion on Russia-Ukraine than the one allowed.

    They will literally try to starve you and your family with no trial and no legal recourse. And people in the cult will justify and celebrate it.

  • Of course they would have, if the US imposed a blockade and criminally hijacked tankers off the high seas. What are they supposed to do, pick a fight with the US Navy? It's not a question of will, it's a question of capabilities. Material reality. Maduro does not have superpowers to magically teleport oil to Cuba and neither did Chavez. I haven't seen the interim administration of Venezuela do anything so far that Maduro or Chavez wouldn't have done in the same circumstances.

    It's obviously not ideal, but you have to play the hand you are dealt. For now Venezuela and Cuba are both practicing strategic patience. They are betting they can outlast whatever the US can throw at them in the short term.

    Because everyone can see that, in the long term, the US is in decline.

  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    Japan to install missiles near Taiwan: Are China tensions set to spike?

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2026/2/25/japan-to-install-missiles-near-taiwan-are-china-tensions-set-to-spike
  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    Iran Calls Trump's Bluff as Deep State Rebels Over War

    simplicius76.substack.com /p/iran-calls-trumps-bluff-as-deep-state
  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    Just a small example of China's grassroots-level consultative and participatory democracy

  • Russia @lemmygrad.ml

    Russia's perpetually collapsing economy (according to Western media)

    www.moonofalabama.org /2026/02/russias-collapsing-economy.html
  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    Why Southern China Has So MANY Dialects (& the North So Few)

  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    Why and how is the Western media lying about Jimmy Lai?

  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    Hong Kong court sentences Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison

    news.cgtn.com /news/2026-02-09/news-1KCgok1U95m/p.html
  • Science @lemmygrad.ml

    Real Images Of Venus Show That Something Is Seriously Off With The Planet

  • US News @lemmygrad.ml

    Why are more and more Americans becoming homeless?

  • Funny @lemmygrad.ml

    Are ski jumpers enhancing their penises to fly further? WADA is ready to investigate

    www.nytimes.com /athletic/7024688/2026/02/05/ski-jump-penis-enhancement-wada/
  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml

    War is peace: How the Nobel 'Peace' Prize justifies US wars & interventions

  • Europe @lemmygrad.ml

    European nations cannot be sovereign within NATO

    www.thomasfazi.com /p/european-nations-cannot-be-sovereign
  • Europe @lemmygrad.ml

    Europe’s energy suicide

    www.thomasfazi.com /p/europes-energy-suicide
  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    Iran releases names of 3000 killed in January unrest after days of fabricated and politically motivated reporting by Western media

    www.tehrantimes.com /news/523434/Killing-with-sanctions-lying-with-statistics
  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    NATO advises Northern Europe to start developing offensive information operations

    tass.com /world/2079603
  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    In 2025 China installed more than twice as much solar capacity as the rest of the world combined

  • US News @lemmygrad.ml

    The American police state is becoming more violent as the system breaks down