The US also has a "politically neutral" military. Many here won't appreciate me using that term, because - yes - the actions of the military are not separate from politics.

Nonpartisan is probably the better word.

China has a political military (or so I've been told), to avoid the downfall we saw in the soviet union.

The government of China technically has no military but the CPC has the PLA.

They can’t even define what a Latino is

Easy they speak a Latin derived language and are from the New World. So Latinos are from Quebec.

China will be in alpha centauri before the US lands on the moon again.

China is the only real industrial power left. We don't need any fancy terms like electrostate which means nothing since they're trying to relate to petrostates but it isn't really analogous. China is just committed to modernization and electrification of industry. Also, you might eventually here about the "electroyuan" which is equally stupid since the yuan's international value will not be coming from renewable energy but from china's general industrial capacity.

I'm trying to think about what happens after the negotiations inevitably fail. We will see Ansarallah fully join the fighting but that's probably it for large changes. The smaller changes are that Iran had time to process and analyze their tactics (especially the SAMbushes) and the US got more missiles and time to repair their aircraft. To reference Brandon, I don't think anything fundamentally changed. Am I missing something?

The American terrorist regime really is trying to burn the whole international order down because Trump believed whatever the last person told him and started bombing Iran. I have trouble seeing an offramp for this anytime soon since birth sidesare locked in.

Can't believe Iran is denying their right to return.

I don't know what right wing grifter thought of selling this but they were right that the hogs would buy iterally anything. Even this shit.

If these people are willing to buy this, then what happens after Trump dies? Do they go back to their sad and alienated American lives? What do they attempt to fill the gaping hole in their soul with?

Cold hard facts tankies aren't ready to accept.

It was morally wrong for the Native Americans to defend their territory and kill settlers.

It was morally wrong for the North to fight the Southern states and they should have been allowed to secede and continue their barbaric Dixie pseudo-aristocracy.

It was morally wrong for the Red Army to defend the Soviet Union from the Nazis and liberate Europe from fascism.

It is morally wrong for the Palestinians to fight for their national liberation.

It's wild that Iran seems like it has entirely stopped caring about what The Great Satan thinks and will directly strike military bases if the US helps Israel. I kept thinking that after Oct 7th and Israel's response to it, that there would be no going back and the nature of the occupation of Palestine would change going forward. Now I know that the fascists really will suicidally destroy their own project and are willing to burn the entire middle east to ashes around them. We can't predict what will happen at this point. There truly is no way out but through.

To everyone in the middle east, stay safe.

I don't know how someone of Indian descent can say that with a straight face.

He's literally the right wing boogeyman Stalinist college professor in the actual existing flesh. He's written books defending Stalin from the perspective that Stalin could basically do no wrong.