the zionists are living in fantasyland to think Gaza being theirs could turn this shit around. what, they’d get to build offshore oil rigs in a decade or two? how is that going to replace the people and materiel it loses to take it?

Nobody ever accused fascists of being remotely rational or sane.

But at the same time a settler colonial project fundamentally includes land occupation, its the #1 requirement.

Do the emote usage struggle session next.

Looks like the “tankies” were once again proven to be correct when we said that this conflict wasn’t about freedumb.

You’re not wrong but I think this was obvious when every AP news article couldn’t avoid showing a photo of a Ukrainian soldier wearing a swastika back in June 2022 or something.

We’re far beyond the point liberals care about Ukraine either way lol.

How do they “win” when they kill everyone? They don’t gain anything from this. They won’t get a victory screen when they kill more people.

Seems obvious to me, the purpose is to kill them all to take the land, they proud themselves on taking occupied Palestinian homes since day one.

The victory condition is clear, kill everyone and take the land, use the land to create a greater zionist state and use that as an even stronger foothold to cleanse the rest of the ME.

Not much that can be said without evoking nihilistic thoughts tbh.

Personaly I thought COVID was a real opportunity and there would be a lot more severe consequences from it, specialy when things were about to hit the cool zone(mass evictions etc) but the world sucessfuly managed to enforce the business as usual rhetoric(even China caved on Zero covid), sweep everything under the rug and move on.

Those who lost family members(despite precations) got fucked. No justice or consequence. This is the preview you need. We will ignore and dismiss as much as possible. Those who revolt or start seeing the problem will become targets. Ecofascism will find the easiest answers and the left is completely unprepared.

The nihilism comes from realizing perhaps we’re dead set on this path for some time now, its not a recent change and probably nobody alive today had a real chance of fighting to avoid this fate.

I want to be optimistic about this but its quite improbable that China is willing to die on the Cuban hill out of nowhere for little gain when they’re currently giving up on the arguably far more important(materially if not ideologically important) Russian hill e.g they’re letting US sanctions on Chinese banks affect trade with Russia.

We’ll see but I smell they’ll do something like honorary member or some shit and give marginal diplomatic or whatever benefits, maybe disguise it as foreign aid or something.

is there anything to this beyond a silly interview though? Besides China is closer to the US now than probably any time over the last 3 years maybe even 5 years, hardly a win-loss situation.

Prozd

The @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net approach would be to praise America for subverting that Chinese plan, and I can’t really say that’s terribly wrong, but the Biden admin October Surprise-ing itself due to potentially dramatically raising oil prices also doesn’t seem very productive.

Oil prices are not likely to go higher no matter what(nukes flying into Saudi Arabia excluded).

OPEC+ is currently doing “voluntary” supply cuts. The majority of these cuts are coming from SA and they are under pressure as a result of the long term downtrend they’re having a budget crisis.

Right now the issue is some members(inc. Iraq/Russia) have to do their own production cuts to compensate for previous overproduction. However if there is no compliance SA is threatning to cancel their cut which could move oil even lower.

For now all members are reassuring they’ll comply with the cuts which is what SA wants to see, but if this doesn’t happen the only destination is lower prices. Alternatively any major real war will be a great relief for them as these cuts will then be delayed/reduced overall. It also means there is more than enough supply ready to counter any crisis.

The underlying downtrend is driven by the weak Chinese demand narrative and it wont change in the short-medium term, at the end everyone knows China is the only real growing economy.

It can’t be understated, Saudi Minister Warns of $50 Oil as OPEC+ Members Flout Production Curbs(WSJ)

I’m 6 episodes into Make Heroine ga Oosugiru!(makeine) and its quite a good surprise in every way. At this rate it is definitely one of the best of the year. Surprisngly top tier production and it doesn’t feel like it was wasted on “just another light novel”.