I mean, with the exception of the fact that the Soviets were grinding out a victory in Afghanistan by holding as the cities and bombing the Mujahideen in the countryside into submission. Gorbachev didn’t have the stomach for it because he stupidly wanted to become Sweden
Petro’s administration gives me hope that it’s possible for leftists to address climate collapse even within the framework of bourgeois democracy. Hopefully the rest of the Global South follows suit with coalitions like his
Only the Khmer Rouge immediately turning on Vietnam after the war can approach this level of cuckoldry
Didn’t the resistance ask him to open a front in the Golan after Oct 7 and he said no in order to pursue normalisation?
That’s a fair criticism - doomer is not really a useful term. It just sucks that the information environment being as it is means getting flooded with contradictory accounts all the time. But no one, not the western media, not resistance media, thought this was at all possible not too long ago.
Damn, that helicopter crash might be the most important air accident in history
Idk I feel like you’re dooming too much. The US always has primary and secondary objectives for their evil operations and they would definitely have preferred a fully comprador Iraq rather than a weak state with the PMFs openly fighting them. It has yet to be seen if Syria will end up the same way but I think it’s more likely that happens than they end up with a fascist Lebanon-type regime. I feel like Turkey would also rather go after the Kurds first than Iraq, no?
“Self-defense” like the Marco Polo bridge incident was self-defense
I think you misunderstood what I’m saying. He still has those cases pending against him. If there’s a 1% chance he goes to jail when he ends these genocides, but a 0% chance while he keeps them going, he has every incentive to continue a perpetual state of war until he can coup the supreme Zionist court or whatever. Especially while Biden bends over backwards for “lethad aid” in every way possible.
I don’t understand your point about the proxy. You’re saying the Palestinian/Lebanese resistance is fucked because they’ve got no supply now but they also shouldn’t have sent troops to support one of their most important supply lines? How does that work?
Also, the IRA managed to get weapons smuggled overseas from Libya. Just because an important route will become more difficult (and a strong enough state to prevent smuggling is going to take a while) doesn’t mean it’s instantly Joever ™️.
I didn’t say he was and I’m not parroting anything. Notice how you said popular again, as in he was super unpopular before the genocides and pursued them because Israel loves genocide.
I don’t think Israel went full Sherlock Holmes and predicted the future about it being bad for the resistance. The PFLP and the communist factions in Gaza supported the operation. It’s that Israel’s prime minister doesn’t want to go to jail so he needs to keep war going as long as possible - another leader would likely have pulled out months ago and not attacked Lebanon Iran and Syria. The craven bloodthirst of the Biden admin, unprecedented even for the United States, is what allowed the genocide(s) to continue for this long - as opposed to the cowardice of Iran giving them no backstop.
Hamas and Hezbollah are still in a relatively strong position, it’s not time to doom because an incompetent unpopular regime got Afghanistan-ed.
Yes it’s a very common take but I don’t think it’s correct. Bob basically makes this exact speech when arguing with Helen in the house, and then proceeds to nearly get his entire family killed to sate his own ego. Syndrome is literally a consequence of Bob’s superiority complex not allowing him to treat a normal person with dignity.
I think that @plinky is right in that they clearly aren’t Marxists, but I also think you have a “geopolitical” view of how states make decisions. While they are influenced by the idiosyncrasies of individuals, governments are effectively a tangled, writhing mass of competing class interests and the decisions made reflect this and nothing more.
Iran/China continually tries to achieve rapprochement with their mortal enemies not because of some rationalistic calculus (which would be incorrect anyway), but because there are capitalist interests that push them to do so. In the case of Iran under Khomeini they had more of a planned economy so those interests superseded this of mercantile businesses who would benefit greatly from removing sanctions. China is in a similar situation which was eroded by their integration into the global market.
Only a country like the DPRK can choose to pursue self-reliance via a socialist dictatorship, and this it was able to survive an apocalyptic crisis and become effectively impregnable to imperialism.
do you have a source? seems insane to believe that anyone would honour israel’s attempts at negotiation
I assume not responding to Haniyeh’s assassination and then the new president basically saying Hezbollah’s gonna lose
More like “living space”.
What the hell are you talking about?
If it’s up to the congress, that’s probably way better than it being up to the court especially considering the health, labour, and education reforms he got passed. (cue but at what cost)