I was conflating two different things in my head, the 1588 battle of gravelines where the Spanish armada was heavily damaged by British fire ships and storms and British naval power in the age of steam. This was a bit before the age of steam, which was more around 1770, 200 years later. Britain did adapt to the age of steam a lot better than the Spaniards did but I was incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Armada

A good example is to contrast Colonial Spain to Colonial England. One was locked in the decaying form of colonial conquest due to an over-reliance on Gold/Silver and religious control (Spain), while the other headed full speed into the Industrial Revolution and capitalism despite it ravaging and destroying their society and populace (England).

Spain valued stability and good conditions for Spaniards in the core over adapting new industrial developments because they had a de-centralized feudal-like structure with powerful conservative aristocracy, whereas England had no qualms about feeding the English population into the meatgrinder via mass proletarianization and going full speed into the void, and had the centralized system to enforce it.

This obviously came to a head when the Spanish sail armada was destroyed by English steam ships.

Libs will really believe anything about DPRK and justify any action against DPRK. It's the free-for-all wilderness in their mind, land of no rules and no gods

if you don't want to scare the normies i wouldn't use russian lol

you replying to the right comment?

This is one of the reasons why death threats online are so inadvisable. Not only is it rude and anti-social behavior, it also just doesn't make any sense from a pragmatic point of view even if you were somehow threatening somebody that deserved it. You're giving them a warning and flagging yourself to law enforcement, and opening yourself up to legal repercussions. It's Lose-Lose and makes no sense to do unless you're just a thoroughly unpleasant and anti-social individual with no intent to follow through, just wanting to scare people.

I mean, they were supporting Israel by keeping its economy afloat when they could single-handedly nuke it into the ground. Every breach of BDS is support of genocide, it really is that simple.

Is it even possible for us to legitimately buy stocks in a sanctioned company?

This is the real reason they stalled and dragged this out as long as they could. They don’t care if normies think Chomsky or Dershowitz are pedos but they DO care if Epstein and Israel get combined conceptually in the mind of the public

Leadership capitulating and giving all these concessions doesn't necessarily mean it was an inside job though. The US did take losses (they lie about having none) and the US also suppressed the air defenses with SEAD/DEAD, cyber attacks, electronic warfare and likely sabotage. Hundred or so Venezuelans and Cubans were killed.

It is funny to see the meltdown on rightwing anti-semitic spaces (such as /pol/) if you can stomach lurking in them. They are actually in existential despair that they've been sheep led around by pedophile zionists. It's good for a laugh

I don't see the epstein stuff as a path to any kind of working class power, it's more just a grim symbol of our times. A slice of life of modern capital. Good as an anecdote and example, not good as an obsession.

Apparently that's a super rare trait