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freagle ,

No, because the very simple logic doesn’t work out. War destroys production.

freagle ,

Don’t threaten me with a good time

freagle ,

Supply/demand. If you overproduce, prices come down

Supply chain costs. If you increase shared infrastructure, costs come down, and if you have SOEs, prices come down.

Deflation is not exclusively driven by lack of spending.

freagle ,

usni.org/…/coalition-kill-chain-pacific-lessons-u…

The US Naval Institute is talking about the final piece of the “Pacific coalition kill chain”. If you’re not seeing news about it, perhaps you’re the one soaking in propaganda.

freagle ,

Blue MAGA is so ridiculous. Who was the first president to ever approve arm sales to Ukraine? That’s right, Trump. The Obama/Biden administration said it was too provocative to sell arms to Ukraine and would escalate tensions with Russia. And then Trump took office and broke the taboo because he didn’t care if Russia found it threatening. Good luck fitting that into your “Trump is so clearly Russian asset” box.

You’re worried about Trump cutting aid to Ukraine? Guess what, it’s already been getting cut. That’s the direction this is headed. Because the president doesn’t decide these things unilaterally - it comes from the DOD. You think the DOD is just gonna watch presidents do whatever they want around the world and just “oh well guess we die now”? No. You think Biden personally developed the strategy for how Israel advances US interests in the region? No. These things operate on the scale of decades, not 4 years at time. The presidents just choose between the options the JCOS provide them.

And as for the genocide of Palestinians, it’s going to happen no matter what, this has been demonstrated clearly. Choosing presidents will not change the outcome. We need to end the existing power structure, not participate in it.

freagle ,

LoL. What a ridiculous take. The answer is because DPRK, like Ukraine, occupies a buffer zone between Russia and the West. The stronger DPRK is, the safer Russia is, simple as that.

freagle ,

Why would they even bother buying artillery ammunition from North Korea

The question you literally ended your comment with

freagle ,

Fuck outta here you miscreant

freagle ,

Fucking moron. You literally wrote a question and turned into a rhetorical question, grammatically incorrectly, and you think that’s a valid dodge. Fuck off, you have nothing to give except regurgitated propaganda and the arrogance of ignorance.

freagle ,

Ok Hoxha, let’s get you home

American intelligence withheld information on Moscow terror attacks out of fear of exposing intelligence sources or methods (www.nytimes.com)

The adversarial relationship between Washington and Moscow prevented U.S. officials from sharing any information about the plot beyond what was necessary, out of fear Russian authorities might learn their intelligence sources or methods.

freagle ,

Do you have any idea what the USA’s spy network has done? Do you have any idea how many thousands of families and millions of people have been torn apart, some of them murdered in their entirety, others just having their kids murdered in front of them, thanks to the work of USA intelligence? Fuck them

freagle ,

So they fight America’s enemies and ignore America’s allies… And they have plausible deniability from the narratives that are produced by the West… And if you try to incorporate narratives from Russia or China that’s just propaganda…

Honestly, it’s a wonderful system of mind control the West has developed.

freagle ,

Spain? No. A Spanish politician said it was indirectly the responsibility of ISIL, but ISIL mouthpieces just said Spain deserved it.

France? Predominantly lone wolf attacks, not a lot of confirmation that they were ISIL, often they were called “suspected ISIL members”.

Germany? I can’t find anything about ISIL/ISIS attacks on Germany.

freagle ,

The fact the you find it hilarious when you see evidence that directly contradicts your assumptions should be a clue as to where your defense against coming to grips with reality lies.

If Assange helped Trump at the behest of Trump’s very powerful ally, why would Trump want to kill him?

Maybe the answer is that Assange did not actually help Trump at the behest of Trump’s very powerful ally. Maybe the answer is that Putin is not Trump’s very powerful ally. Maybe both of those things are true.

You are literally receiving the world’s best propaganda from the USA which has a 100-year history of developing sophisticated anti-Russian propaganda and you’re choosing to believe it despite Assange actually publishing documented evidence of US war crimes that put him in a position to be targeted by the most violent military intelligence apparatus in the world and you want to believe the story being told by the intelligence community through their mouthpieces in the government and the news media despite having direct evidence that contradicts your position?

Yeah, real hilarious.

freagle ,

Are you saying that people should be reading EVERY news site and then post what they see from any and all sites that make good content? How do you recommend they do that labor, use a news aggregator? Are you daft? This is how news aggregation works!!! Some individuals with real lives become deep consumers of a few specific news sources, select the best content they find and submit to aggregators like Lemmy. You and I benefit from 2 dozen of these people, each with only a handful of news sites they can review in their limited time and because there’s 2 dozen of them we get news from 30 - 50 news sites in our feed.

freagle ,

Beijing is responding to the USA continuing to find ways to inflict pain in China.

freagle ,

Is this just money laundering considering how much the USA gives to Taiwan?

freagle ,

Remember when that mozz character was arguing with me that Russia was clearly being hurt by sanctions because they couldn’t repair all their American-made planes because the sanctions prevented them from buying parts? At the time I argued that was a bad indicator of financial troubles considering the USA was having actual problems with Boeings and their response was an article that predicted planes in Russia would start falling out of the sky in 6 months.

Yeah, that was a fun debate.

freagle ,

That’s because none of the opposition leaders are actually threats. They killed plenty of opposition leaders while your parents were alive, though. Martin and Malcom are the two most obvious ones.

But before that, when there was a labor movement, lots of people got killed for being on the wrong side of power.

And finally, the USA doesn’t have a USA out there funding and inculcating opposition leaders, connecting them with spies and mercenaries, and building movements to create a coup.

freagle ,

Said unironically despite the USA having euphemisms like “extraordinary rendition” and “black sites”, within days of a whistleblower being found unalived, while the USA seeks extradition of Assange and can’t guarantee they won’t kill him, while Manning rots in a cell and Snowden is living in exile.

freagle ,

Says the country where literal Nazis invaded the capital building and forced the elected president to flee for his life while John McCain and Victoria Nuland were handing out cookies in the square and celebrating a great day for Ukrainian “democracy” followed by 8 years of those very same Nazis shelling ethnic Russians living in Eastern Ukraine. Fuck off.

freagle ,

That’s… That’s not what’s happening here. The USA is a rapacious, murderous, destructive, extractive, abusive force. The only reason third-world countries ally with the USA is because the alternative is suffering constant harassment, invasion, terrorism, collective punishment, coup attempts, and civil strife. This has nothing to do with some people in the USA Congress acting as a lightning rod for public ire about defending Ukraine, because the USA defunds ALL of its proxies in ALL of its proxy wars across the history of proxy wars. No one except the American people are gullible enough to believe that the USA will actually back them up a conflict. Europe has been aware of this for probably 50 years, but the rest of the world has been aware for at least a century.

freagle ,

We knew that at least a year ago with Starlink, didn’t we?

freagle ,

Right, like the USSR, China, DPRK, and Cuba

freagle ,

LOL, it’s so funny how close you are and yet how far you are. When the USSR was dismantled by compradors in power and they invited the USA to come in and liberalize their economy, they suffered millions of death of poverty and their life expectancy dropped 10 years in 10 years, literally as bad as if they had been invaded and literally worse than what COVID did to the USA. So Putin gets elected on the narrative that he will reassert Russia’s sovereignty and not allow the USA and Europe to continue imposing austerity, causing mass suffering, and then he does so. Everyone in Russia gets a better life after Putin takes office. And since he’s KGB, he knows exactly how the USA is trying to infiltrate Russian politics and ensure a puppet government is in place. And yet, you can’t see how Putin is doing exactly what you’re saying Germany should do: prevent undemocratic forces from taking power by using his authority to do so.

Maybe one day you’ll get it. The USA is the fascist core and Europe is the birthplace of the USA as well as the USA’s luxury market and historical globe spanning power base. Every other country outside of them is doing absolutely everything they can to prevent the USA from taking away their ability to operate as a sovereign state, and in a lot of places that looks like authoritarianism. But in the end, it’s literally anti-fascism.

Don’t believe me? Look at the voting record in the UN for resolutions condemning the glorification of Nazis. The USA votes against it every single time.

freagle ,

Jesus the copium. What’s actually happening is that Russia is able to rely on decades old technology because it was built to work and built to last, so 40 years later they can use it in modern warfare and it’s still effective. This also means Russia can allocate its resources to outproducing the entirety of the West when it comes to artillery shells, which is actually what’s winning this war.

The idea that sanctions hurt Putin personally so he had to buy an election is also ridiculous. He’s now a wartime president, just like GWBush was, so getting reelected is even easier now than it was when he was merely the president who reversed the 8 years of declining life expectancy after neoliberal economic reforms destroyed Russia.

Your brain must be a never ending Disney movie.

freagle ,

Uhh, it was literally illegal to do commerce on the Internet until the mid 1990s. They changed the law in 1996 I think.

freagle ,

I mean, you say this, but liberals and even some leftcomms think Russian and Chinese propaganda are totalizing phenomena and that the USA has more liberty and is mostly reacting to the behaviors of the evil foreign geniuses who are also incompetent. So having Reuters publish this story is pretty important. More so given how much Reuters has participated in previous propaganda campaigns.

freagle ,

If elections changed anything they would be illegal

freagle ,

Russia had no effect on US elections. Please update your understanding, it’s years old now. The Mueller report was clear on this point - Russia’s connections were far deeper and more effective (in both directions) with the Democrats than the Republicans

freagle ,

Really, someone physically in the space with direct experience of the event in question is not evidence? It’s because he’s brown and worships a god from the wrong part of the world, isn’t it?

freagle ,

Read the fucking Muller report or a summary of its findings re Russia and you’ll have your answer

freagle ,

thenation.com/…/questions-mueller-russiagate/

brookings.edu/…/what-the-mueller-report-tells-us-…

Despite the Russian influence campaign, Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes.

So, despite Russian attempts at manipulating the population, Clinton lost because of the electoral college, an institution designed by the founders to ensure that minority land owners would always be able to override the popular will of the masses. Russia’s political meddling is demonstrably far less effective than US meddling globally.

freagle ,

There is no evidence (that I’ve seen) that Russia targeted swing states and swing voters specifically as you seem to be claiming. That was the accusation levied against Trump and Cambridge Analytica and even that claim fell apart for lack of evidence.

The point is that you retorted “it’s election interference all the way down” when replying to a comment about how the USA should not be involved in arbitrating elections in other countries. You then went further to say that election interference stops at countries like Russia because the elections are fake.

But A) Russian interference in the USA is not the same as USA interference in Venezuela. Evidence: Russia did not actually manage to effect the election, only some of the discourse around the fringes. Meanwhile, the USA backed a coup in Bolivia and literally sent trained mercenaries to support them, and prop up the fake president, Juan Guaido, in order to create the problems that they can then solve with violence, coups, and puppets. And B) the USA has been interfering in Russian politics for decades, including supporting Navalnhy with literal logistics, security, and financing.

So get your fake “oh you’re so disrespectful in your communications” pearl clutching liberal bullshit outta here and stop trying to pivot your way into a safe space where your world view remains intact. If you want your worldview to be unchallenged, then stick to watching the tube and leave the discourse to people who are willing to be wrong for the sake of an accurate understanding of what’s happening in the world.

freagle ,

Fuck outta here

freagle ,

Uhh, that assumes Biden is against the genocide.

freagle , (edited )

220 years ago, in 1804:

  • Haiti gains independence from France after years of slave rebellion
  • The Nguyễn dynasty emperor Gia Long changes his country’s official name from Đại Việt to Việt Nam (France colonizes Vietnam 50 years later)
  • The Napoleonic Code is adopted as French civil law
  • Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate
    • Napoleon invades Russia via Ukraine only 8 years later, recognized among the most devastating military endeavors globally
    • The casus belli was stated as enforcing sanctions against the UK
  • A formal ceremony is conducted to transfer the Louisiana Purchase from France to the USA
  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition embarks
  • Aaron Burr killed Hamilton
  • The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reformed the way that candidates for President and Vice President are chosen, is ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption
  • Morphine is first isolated from opium

It’s stunning how much of the past exists in the present. Some might even say all of history exists in the present. France’s relationship to the above cannot be ignored in the present day for obvious reasons - so much of what happened based on just 1804 is relevant to the current news cycle.

freagle ,

@mozz

America is driving Germany’s deindustrialisation (unherd.com)

The cat is out of the bag. After months of denial, it is now conventional wisdom that Germany — and Europe more generally — faces deindustrialisation due to the end of cheap Russian piped gas. “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End,” reads a headline on Bloomberg....

freagle , (edited )

www.vdma.org/viewer/-/v2article/render/81411795 shows a net 10% decrease in orders across the entire machinery and plant engineering sector as of June 2023, but that net comes from an increase in domestic orders of 9% and decrease in global orders of 18%. It also indicates that there were over 30% fewer orders from all of Europe. Meanwhile, kloepfel-consulting.com/…/vda-umfrage-automobilin… shows that, in May 2023, in a survey of 128 automotive industry companies, 0% planned to increase their investment in Germany with 27% planning to shift their investments out of Germany. And here we have evidence that total energy consumed in Germany dropped 8% in 2023, mostly because of high energy industry doing less.

here’s evidence as of July 2023 that it was already happening, and here we see their economy faltering in an analysis from Sept 2023.

freagle ,

Lol

freagle ,

A million civilians AND the birth defect rate went through the roof after the war AND they destroyed every single piece of infrastructure they could find including water and power AND they used chemical weapons like white phosphorous which is the modern equivalent of napalm

freagle ,

So freedom of speech is when speech is illegal. Got it.

freagle ,

Classic liberal - public politics on government property is exactly like McBurgers.

It was a public event, on public land, in public property, and it was about politics. It couldn’t have been more germane to the context. He also didn’t “stand on the counter”. The fact that he was asked to leave for doing anything other than cheering and clapping is the problem

freagle ,

Which country enslaves the greatest portion of its population? The USA through its prison system

The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.

The New York Times is one of the newspapers of record for the United States. However, it’s history of running stories with poor sourcing, insufficient evidence, and finding journalists with conflicts of interest undermines it’s credibility when reporting on international issues and matters of foreign policy....

freagle ,

Cope harder. NYT has had CIA inside it’s operations for decades.

nytimes.com/…/cia-established-many-links-to-journ…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/…/0277939083900833

theguardian.com/…/correspondence-collusion-new-yo…

…wikipedia.org/…/CIA_influence_on_public_opinion

…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_The_New_York_Times_contr…

You are confused when you think of media companies as free standing independent entrepreneurial phenomena that might be temporarily corrupted by the government.

The press was originally a function of the government, an extension of writing originally being a function of the government-religion complex. By the time the colonies were being established in the Western hemisphere, the press was controlled mostly by the merchant class in England to influence public opinion towards their own enrichment, including inciting the public to demand military adventures and giving the military cover (see the Opium Wars).

The press has, for centuries, been a part of the ruling class’s governance suite because of both it’s historical basis and it’s function in society. It’s terribly easy for the government to destroy anyone publishing against them, especially in the early days of the newly formed American state, by using accusations of sedition and direct violent confrontation. After the initial violence of the revolution, the methods of control became a blend of fiscal and grassroots violence (e.g. the KKK). As the contradictions of capitalism continued to drive the emergency of liberatory ideologies into seats of power (like the media) control needed to become more subtle, so it grew to include military intelligence, culminating (to our knowledge) in COINTELPRO, but very obviously continuing with the establishment of the Five Eyes framework and the revelations of WikiLeaks, Manning, and Snowden.

The citizens of the USA are the most propagandized people in the entire world, and the NYT is part of that propaganda network.

freagle ,

Man, if tenant civil rights are null and void under Xi then the people must really hate their government, eh?

freagle ,

No one is arguing that Ukraine isn’t part of Europe. If that’s what you understand the point to be, you’re a moron. Invading a single country in Europe and squatting on the border is not invading an entire continent. Stop your fear mongering.

Russia never set out to capture all of Ukraine and hold it. That’s what the West said their mission was so that they could then report that Russia failed. Russia’s objectives are being met in Ukraine, specifically not allowing NATO to amass forces on their most vulnerable border.

Russia is not going to invade Kiev and take the whole country in 6 months because that’s not their goal. It’s essentially an indefensible position if they do it.

You think that Europe is united? Italy and Germany are dealing with the rise of fascist parties to power. European industry is in shambles. England, the historical birthplace of modern steel industry, can no longer produce steel. Germany is deindustrializing. France’s African neocolonies are throwing them out.

Meanwhile the Western sanctions regime has failed completely, Russia has stronger alliances than ever, weapons production in the West has been shown to be completely incapable of meeting objectives while Russia’s production and weapons partners have demonstrated their clear superiority.

You can keep making up objectives and then claiming Russia failed to meet those made up objectives, but that doesn’t change the fact that Russia has no designs on invading Europe, has demonstrated their resolve and their resilience, and exposed the West as a paper tiger.

freagle , (edited )

I’m so glad that you get to go through the exciting and enjoyable process of learning!

Most of these links are Western mouthpieces with zero love for Russia, and they all agree that Russia is growing despite sanctions, that Russia has beaten the sanctions, and that the sanctions are just not working.

npr.org/…/russias-economy-is-going-strong-despite…

www.voanews.com/a/…/7478952.html

www.dw.com/en/…/a-68268264

politico.com/…/russia-economy-west-sanctions-0014…

ft.com/…/d304a182-997d-4dae-98a1-aa7c691526db

Did you drink the cool aidand swallow the bottle…

Americans are the most propagandized people in the world. Being accused of drinking the kool aid by a fellow American is a funny joke.

You can just imagine how much Putin had to bend over for Winnie the Pooh to get access to the parts and weapons tech he so desperately needed

I love that your evidence that Russia is not well off and that the sanctions are working is your imagination. I mean, good on you for being so honest about it.

The only thing that will save Putin is when his asset is back in the white house after the election.

jacobin.com/…/russiagate-christopher-steele-dossi…

jacobin.com/…/russiagate-donald-trump-mueller-rep…

www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1R72SJ/

Try again, mindless drone.

P.S. Next thing you’re going to say is that the frankentanks Russia has thrown out on the battlefield is yet another sign that the Russian economy is booming …

Your inability to actually anticipate the very easy Western news that debunks your garbage takes, and the complete miss on what you thought you would be responded to with should indicate quite clearly that you have no fucking idea what you’re talking about.

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