I think Trump is petty enough and terrified of embarrassing himself like Biden did in Afghanistan. I know it would be pulling out just like Afghanistan, but from his pov it is less a direct debacle of his leadership. He will totally still support NATO and the MIC will get its contracts as they rebuild their stores.

imagine he has a stroke that night and dies the next morning. He would once again be a man upstaging Hillary

He has a plate in his head now tho. He is golden

Exactly. It really seemed at first like it was saying that 9/11 was a warning shot

It took me a sec to realize that they did not mean it the way I thought. I was like “hell yeah!!”

Yeah they lost their coastline in the Pacific War and never got over it. What is funny is the most momentum on this front in well over 100 years was because of Evo. Evo brought it before the UN in 2013, it was turned down but still he went farther and expanded access to Chiles’ ports more than anyone else. I know it was seen as a failure to follow through on a major promise by Evo, but still.

Bolivians have songs for school children to sing about taking back the coast. They are super invested it getting it back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrp_OxnbBn0

OMG the navy was involved? This really is a farce.

It kinda seems this general was on his own. OAS even immediately disavowed him, which sure they always do when they fail, but this was quick. He did not even have real support in the military. Sometimes you wake up and think you are Caesar

First as tragedy then again as…well you know

Oh thank god we are back.

Taking the site down during a coup as a joke was not OK

also good update

https://x.com/TheNewsTrending/status/1806088874122174768

I mean what has the navy had to do since WW2? Combat wise Korea had nothing really, Vietnam had small patrol craft, there was the Cuban blockade I guess, Iraq the most use we got out of them was using our remaining Battleship to launch missiles, Afghanistan is landlocked.

I am sure this time the EU will force Greece to follow the standards of say France and Germany’s laws for “cohesion” just like they did when Greece wanted to break from EU standards to save its economy. Totally not gonna let this slide, but destroy the nation for trying to escape debt peonage

On the bright side, it is heartening to see Iwata’s influence and decency still influencing devs today

The US has its nukes on everyone’s borders, floats its ships through their waters, flies through their airspace. This is not an escalation. Allied nations send vessels through one another’s ports all the time. Russia does this regularly. This moment is intense so it is getting attention and there is a case for not doing it, but it is not escalation. Keep in mind the DPRK has had submarines go to Cuba in the past 20 years.

I remember early in the pandemic when I was still on non-political boards’ politics sections and the most left leaning person there, who I got on with quite well, kept saying he was pissed at what he called Third Worldists who wanted a nation other than the US to find a cure. It already seemed stupid to complain about people merely wishing for China or idk even SA to find a vaccine that works, but he would get really firm about it when I asked “well if it has to be somebody wouldn’t it be better if it is someone who won’t try to use it as a cudgel?”

In hindsight I feel very vindicated, this is the exact shit that one could predict would happen. The US no matter who made a cure, would hold it over poor countrys’ heads and try to prevent usage of a vaccine if it is made by their enemies. You cannot hold the apolitical “I just hope someone, anyone, finds a vaccine” because we do not live in a world in which something so life-saving is going to be treated as property of all of humanity. It cannot be apolitical, it cannot be separated from the empire and its goals

Making it way more efficient. Its funny how when you look into things you find human ingenuity and not just “eh capitalists probably did it for no reason”.

‘Israel’ has responded by assassinating Hezbollah (and Iranian) leaders, but the Resistance just names missiles after the martyrs and send more.

Epitome of a heroic people

Felix is right

what does ordinary Gazan actually mean here? even just the armed combat wing alone has pretty large numbers in relation to the population of Gaza. do schoolteachers and bakers stop being ordinary when they pick up a rifle? is there some idealized apolitical Palestinian?

https://x.com/ByYourLogic/status/1799261626903990648

They’re not animals.

Unlike the Germans

Their eyes