You seem pretty confused about who made lemmy and why. The devs and the project itself have had explicit political stances from the beginning and that's a great thing.
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Yeah and Putin probably faked the US moon landing too.
The capital composition of the US military industrial complex has evolved quite a lot since its birth during the preparation for WWII and the primary industries involved that produced basic high use materiel like artillery shells and bullets had to diversify and switch operations to other commodities, primarily more high tech (although not necessarily useful or quality tech), less quantity, higher price stuff because they'd go bust after the stockpiles and quotas for shells etc were full.
If anyone did an economic history of US MIC companies there would be a lot of merges and repurposing of the old shell factories etc since they're very useful for long term combat in land warfare, not so much for just restocking a standing army that uses some in exercises.
Basically you have vampiric companies diversifying outside the war economy context that created them so there's no need for industrial scale production on a war economy level and they switch to producing far fewer but more Gucci missile systems and components.
But somehow Putin is the overlord of the corporations? Or do the corporations control Putin who then controls Trump? Other than "electoral failures of my preferred bougie party are definitely not people voting for the other one but a secret international enemy interfering in the elections while our victories are always legitimate" how exactly does this conspiracy theory work?
Yeah because bougie vote blue no matter who zombies are huge conspiracy theorists and have been claiming that "Putin haxx stole the elections" since 2016 exactly like maga qanon believers believe Biden stole the 2020 elections. The US middle class is a politically deranged class of an empire in decay so no wonder you both try to blame external enemies and unseen sinister forces all the time.
They basically just said "starting the cold war was a good thing" with all that lmao. Literal cold warrior liberal.
But you went to both and got the grand tour and somehow everyone spoke earnestly to your western ears and said "we hate it here, all day I wish for some McDonalds and Starbucks democracy but the Kims are blocking progress"? Are you openly advertising that you're a spook?
It's painfully easy to figure out that the wildest stories about NK are circulated by SK as propaganda based on "anonymous sources", stuff like NK executing their football team for embarrassing the nation etc. There's never external corroboration for these tales that only fools believe without evidence but western media rush to circulate.
Also little reminder for context, SK immigrants to the US after the Korean War were primarily such far right extremist scum that they're the only group that got holed up in their exploitative little liquor shops in ghettos during the LA riots and shot back at the protesters with rifles. And low key helped start the riots when one of those extremely racist Korean shop owners shot a 13 year old black girl in the head over a (false) accusation that she had stolen a soda.
Because having access to both sides is better than being forcefed the pure unadulterated truth of White House propaganda and Trump's truthsocial posts.
Oh wait, westies do that logic juggling where somehow it's just the president and his party that are liars but that is somehow not systemic and not propaganda because it's their side doing it lol.
Absolute fucking westoid: "this Confucianist (culturally not so much religiously in NK) society that I don't understand at all does things even slightly differently than our representative republican bipartisan grift completely corrupted by capitalism that we have the audacity to call democracy??? (classic eurocentric 19th century "scientific" racism where the social systems of Europe were automatically the peak of human social development and everything else was automatically backwards, inferior, oppressive etc)
Then it's an autocratic oppressive regime that commits heinous crimes against its citizens and it's also evil (westoids need good and evil because their understanding of the world doesn't go beyond LOTR)."
Great collection of US foreign policy buzzwords and cliches that paint a suggestive emotional picture without invoking a single historical fact or example. Can't use things that can be disputed as easily as pointing out that they originate in South Korean propaganda.
Now let's see you doing the same for all the monarchies in Europe, the Gulf and Asia that the US is fully aligned with including dictatorships in the past, what they did with prisoners etc. Don't forget to include that Murica has the greatest ratio of prisoners in the world and designs laws that put (primarily black) people to jail over bs victimless crimes like drug possession or just "paraphernalia" and keep them there for years. Can those people vote in your grand democratic white state? Go on you democracy warrior.
Oh also make a brave attempt to explain why there's a significant tendency among NK defectors to commit suicide in SK. Are they missing evil oppressive regimes?
The power of your imagination is way more powerful than any Russian propaganda when we're talking about a news agency like TASS that dryly reports news and quotes, directly equivalent to Reuters and AP. And I can directly compare all the ones I mentioned with Russian and Chinese ones. I can even compare results between the crappy western search engines and yandex on foreign policy topics and you'll be terminally embarrassed by how much the western algorithms censor and downgrade.
Pretty disappointing to see NATO shilling coming from disroot but I can't say I'm surprised unfortunately.
The what now? That's not a job for China. Invading to depose the brutal regime of Charles and restore demuhcrasee is only for the good ol US of A.
Seriously calling their surreal bicameral system where one house are actual landed aristocrats "democracy" and not crappy almost-republican monarchy is misinformation. Don't get me started on the endless list of medieval crap they maintain as lifelong paid professions with some bizarre paragovernmental authority like guardian of the king's underpants and stuff like that.
Okay let's assume that the republican dumbfucks all get the Thanos and the US is suddenly eternally ruled by the "we came, we saw, he died haha" dembots. Percentage of change in American foreign policy? Absolutely zero.
It's just that Bush started two big, full blown wars instead of Clintonite "humanitarian interventions" with bombs and the Dems were able to temporarily play the performative anti-war card but Obama turned that card to toilet paper especially with Libya.
As opposed to Reuters, BBC, CNN and NY Times, all private entities fully aligned with US and NATO foreign policy? Who died and made western media more credible than anyone else's lmao.
Radlibs would eat me for saying that because they're enjoying some kind of bs "I told you so" despite still having fits over even the slightest criticism of Ukraini and Zelensky (despite their darling being openly a rabid zionist who said he wants to turn Ukraine to the Eastern European Israel and transform the country into a US aligned arms manufacturing haven) but it genuinely doesn't seem like Trump fully wanted direct involvement.
Libs just love piling up shit on hated figures without any regard for accuracy. Trump is a NY jetset high lifestyle irreligious libertarian who gets his most massive ego boosts from doing stuff that show off his swag, hustling, deal making skills i.e. showing off his CEO smarts. He's got company boss "you're fired" and "I'm the boss and I get to tell you what to do" authoritarianism, not the classic yankee army loving gung ho militarist authoritarianism type. His entire world view is about business and sees foreign policy and diplomacy more like deals and personal discussions with other country CEOs and doesn't have a single clue about impersonal socioeconomic forces. It's not super unrealistic specifically for him because he can go directly talk with the heads of industry and do direct dealings with the other bougies, he doesn't find it scandalous at all because he doesn't seem to think he's a politician now.
So I don't think he really wanted to get involved, and even as an AIPAC creature I don't think he sees the existence of Israel as some kind of ideological or religious priority, it's all about how much it costs for him. But he definitely doesn't seem to be able to overcome his ego if it gets bruised, or when he gets duped by Bibi or when he feels he has to follow orders etc. More like "don't make me look like a powerless loser and I'll just do this one showoffish strike and we're done".
The attack on Fordow probably didn't even break windows, he absolutely knew it would be ineffective and it seems more like theatre and like "okay I did a strike, it's the best we can do, now stfu already Bibi because going any harder at it will make it a regional war and we can't afford that and supplying Israel at the same time, pick one". And just did that to get out of the pressure.
His original plan was almost definitely based on bs intel from Israel and neo-interventionist zionist goons he has around him all supposedly expecting Iran would fold right away, saw the trap, couldn't get out due to internal politics so pick a theatrical action that (unverified) preannounced to Iran to make sure the retaliation would also be symbolical and won't be pressured to escalate just to save face.
Now he's overselling the strike while lowkey desperately asking for ceasefire but in a grandiose grandstanding way to hide that any further involvement in the region would get the US armed forces constantly removedslapped in a PR nightmare, with terrible logistics, risking completely losing both Iraq and Jordan to the eastern bloc etc.
It's not that Trump cares about peace or something, he cares about getting clean, fast wins by coming up with some business style grift order sent to underlings and any further escalation is not going to be clean, fast or a win. I don't know why libs are so damn blind, his whole vibe in general and about this specifically is transparent as hell.
You could send him bits of obscure history of real US gov ops over time, like small parts of the book Acres of Skin on human experimentation in US prisons. Having said that though, social isolation correlated with mental illness is an highly exacerbating factor so don't push it too far, not worth losing a friend over.
Where are the nafo chodes to point out that NATO "is a defensive alliance what's wrong with defense why not expand it everywhere to protect people XD"?
Small shops aren't the means of production but the profit extraction still operates through robbing wage slaves of the surplus value they create. The petite bougie bosses you're trying to shill for are some of the most reactionary elements that go straight for fascism because it promises them protections from international capital (which is defined as a conspiratorial cabal unlike domestic capital hence their almost anti-capitalist rhetoric sometimes). They're also some of the most cruel because they directly cheat employees that they know and interact with personally.
The US doesn't have small enough nuclear penetrators to even try hiding something anyway, they can use tactical warheads as bunker busters but they can't be meaningfully hidden. Meanwhile all these Iranian installations have been built with conventional bunker busters in mind so the existing American GBUs that must have been used may not have caused much real damage after all even if they double tapped the exact same spot.
We need Robespierre and Danton memes asap.