Based. When it comes to people of similar ideologies getting together 1+1<2. The confidence of know you are on the right path will encourage you to double or triple down. These dudes should become Best Bros Forever. Traoré will benefit immensely from Maduro’s experience with securing gains from outside interference. I feel like Maduro could use a bit of encouragement to take the kid gloves off when dealing with domestic counter revolutionaries and I think Traoré is just the guy to encourage that.

I’d love to see pictures or video of the americans faces as they walk out. There is something cathartic about seeing disappointment on the faces of such horrible people.

How I think this meeting will go:

China: are you going to drop the tariffs?

usa: we are prepared to consider it as part of the negotiations

China: Ok well, keep considering it and let us know when you change your mind.

The advantage usa gains isn’t against Russia and China directly. Its against everyone else. usa, Russia and China aren’t going to nuke India/Pakistan if they nuke each other. Everyone knows where the missiles are going. If they aren’t the target they wouldn’t want to set off the MAD cascade. Everyone would just watch.

usa has been proved to be a paper tiger. (they can’t even subdue the 10th poorest nation in the world) If they want to force their will on a smaller nation they just can’t do it anymore. Their economic weapons have been thwarted and workarounds are in place. Their navy is losing billions of dollars in jets to a nation who’s entire air force is a hand full of helicopters. Their tanks and troop carriers have been proven to be 2nd rate and their recruitment is in the toilet. Modern anti air is better than american jets or stealth tech. Regime change and Color revolutions just don’t work anymore. The empire’s power is slipping through its hands like Jesus holding a marble and everyone is watching.

The one thing that nobody can argue against is the american nuclear arsenal. (Russia and China could but don’t want to because it would be messy) But usa can’t use nukes to bully people because they have been locked by a unwritten rule that nukes are only to stop people from attacking you. The international rulebook is in the process of being shredded. The ICJ ICC and UN have been trashed by israel. Genocide is back on the table but the one thing that could turn everything around is if america used its nukes offensively. The whole world would turn against them if they crossed that line.

So how do they get past that blockage? How do they get the only tool they have left out of the tool box?

They get someone else to crack the seal first, break the taboo. but it can’t be done in a way that brings condemnation. The use of nukes needs to be justified. So if both sides have and use nukes? That’s a victimless war crime.

Then usa does a demonstration (which would be Yemen and they’d claim they had a nuke) and then anyone not explicitly protected by a large nuclear power is prey to nuclear blackmail. Canada and greenland would be part of america in months.

Dr. Strangelove wasn’t comedic fiction it was satire. In other words it was only funny because it was true. Nothing has changed.

Let’s all hope that China and Russia’s links with India and Pakistan are enough to reign them back in and force them to talk. Sadly I don’t expect much sanity from the Hindu supremacists in India and it really feels like they are the ones in the driver seat on this. “Ethno-nationalism, not even once.”

Of course it’s a stupid plan. So was arming the anti-communist mujahideen in Afghanistan and we all know where that went. So was provoking russia in Ukraine. So was imposing tariffs on China. When have warmongers ever cared about collateral damage or things spiraling out of control? When has the stupidity and potential for backlash ever stopped the white supremacist imperialists from doing anything?

Hey remember like a week ago when the threat of nuclear war wasn’t imminent? That was nice.

I’m 99% sure the terrorist attack in kashmir was done by the CIA. I feel like they are trying to provoke a nuclear exchange between 2 nations that wont set off the MAD response as a way to normalize the use of Nuclear weapons. I think this was part of the plan with the war between israel and Iran but Iran didn’t take the bait.

I think the USA wants to break the taboo on nukes because they are convinced it is only way america can actually win a war but it wont work if they are seen as the people who started using nukes first.

rule over the remainder with an iron lung?

This made me laugh.

I don’t Think trump is trying to become a dictator. I think trump truly believes in the invisible hand of the market. He’s fallen for the propaganda that “the problem with Capitalism is that it’s never been tried. Governments are always getting in the way. If we just let go and allow the market to be free to self regulate all the problems will go away.”

He is the quintessential failson confusing propaganda for the truth because they are able to exist in a ideological bubble detached from reality.

“They sell us about five times more than we sell them. So their factories are closing down as we speak,” Bessent said. “We’re going into the holiday season. Orders are placed for that now. So if those orders aren’t placed, it could be devastating for the Chinese.” -Bessent

This guy is so stupid. Imagine believing that Being on the demand side of the equation gives you more power than being on the supply side.

People will be upset over a few factories shutting down. For sure. It’ll suck for some chinese workers.

But the other side of that coin is empty stores before Black Friday. How many retailers are going to finish the year in the red if they cant get products to sell? How many consumers are going to be mad because there is nothing to buy or what there is is 10x the cost because there is no supply? There is nobody to replace those products and even if there were Trump’s tariffs have pissed the entire world off because he put them on everyone.

We might see scarcity protests in usa this christmas. Honestly I think Trump might actually “drain the swamp” just not in the way he was hoping for.

This is just the kind of info I was hoping for even if its a bit scant and overly editorialized.

“Up to 15000 men” That is a pretty serious force to have in Russia and nobody was able to prove it.

Drones captured footage of large North Korean formations advancing steadily, five to six meters apart, under heavy Ukrainian artillery fire – including cluster munitions. At first, it seemed the group had been wiped out. But hours later, survivors emerged from the snow and resumed the assault. “Seventy percent of them got up and pressed forward, covering up to eight kilometers in a single day,”

“Once one wave stalled, another would follow with the same relentless rhythm and fatalism,” a Russian battalion member remarked. “What drives men to fight like that? It must be something stronger than fear of death.”

Fucking brutal.

Tariffs get dropped by usa. China demands that Trump post hog in order to begin negotiations.

There were stories but there was 0 tangible proof until the Russian MoD confirmed it. That is some serious discipline. I’m curious to know how many men were deployed and how many casualties they had to better understand how big of an achievement this was.

99% sure she didn’t kill herself.

HAHAHA! That is excellent but I was thinking more like the Woman yelling at a cat meme.

I want to watch amercica during a nasty musk/trump breakup. That sounds like a really good time.

They just keep pretending that nobody is even thinking about tariffs. Like a reporter asking a Chinese spokesman if there are plans to lower Chinese tariffs gets a meaningless 10 minute platitude about “strengthening trade links with our partners through synergy” When american officials ask the Chinese officials they start talking about bring an end to the wars in ukraine and Palestine or removing sanctions on Cuba and DPRK.

I call bullshit. Theres is no way Putin is going to give up on territories that are part of russia by constitutional law. Reuters is reporting its dreams as fact.

If this isn’t just made up bullshit it is a trick to show the us that the zelensky regime is incapable of dropping its maximalist demands and being realistic even when Russia offers them a really good deal.

Counterrevolutionaries can eat shit! Burkina Faso has the anti colonial and class consciousness to foil any attempt to re-establish reactionary rule.