Reminder that DuckDuckGo is far from perfect. They censor and derank or hide Russian news sources since the SMO started as "disinformation" and have admitted as much. They likely censor and derank other anti-empire outlets and sources as well without admitting it. I actually think they may be worse than Google in this particular regard as they did it as a libbed up "ethics" stand as part of the whole Russia-gate nonsense.

Not to say continue using Google but I'd be wary of using DDG for anything anti-empire or politically contentious.

Sadly not practical most likely. They'd need to physically burrow into the FBI's basement and they have tremor sensors that would detect tunneling anywhere near there. Not like they're going to scan all this stuff and put it on the most hackable portion of pentagon dot mil or something. Those boxes have disappeared into a deep hole of the deep state bureaucracy. I'd guess just the threat of release will keep all the blackmailed pedos in-line so having quick access isn't even seen as a need.

I can hear this in his voice and it's hilarious.

True but also I think in a war with China those won't matter as much as some combination of drone production, missile production capacities, ability to get those through the enemy defenses (counter-jamming, electronic warfare, tactics, etc) AND/OR your ability to take down drones and missiles effectively and not too expensively (resource-wise not cost-wise). The US isn't going to fight a ground war against China in a conventional sense. It's going to be on the high seas, a world war probably across many island chains with naval logistic and control of the seas and air more important. But who knows.

So drones + fighters + other air assets + missiles + naval assets and the ability to leverage them, use electronic warfare, dirty tricks, secret weapons, combined arms, etc to overcome the enemy and strike deep and hard or maintain superiority.

Probably. On the other hand they do like radicalizing people so they can use them as an excuse to outlaw or further surveil or attack organizations so it's not impossible they were really hoping to paint MLK with the communist brush and if they had to literally turn people into communists around him to get that to work they were quite willing to do so. Hoover in particular was desperate for it so absolutely wouldn't have been beyond trying to create some communists if it meant giving him more ammo to take down the civil rights movement and MLK.

unless they're literally just been lying they've been struggling really badly to do this, they constantly keep missing their production targets by a ton

Production capacity is not yet online. Shockingly it takes time to build factories and get them producing, however the work has been put in, ground has been broken and Ukraine increasingly has a skilled workforce for this kind of thing. They're not online right now but likely will be as I said within 3 years if not less which is plenty of time for the China conflict or any plans by Europe to do a charge at Russia in future as they keep talking up a war with Russia being inevitable.

placing your fancy new arm production facilities (even underground ones) within striking range of Russia's missiles while planning to go to war against them again would be so stupid

Three things

1. Germany is also within range of Russian missiles if they want to hit them. This isn't really a negative against Ukraine at all.
2. It's quite possible they don't intend to go to war with Russia and it's all a big part of the propaganda campaign to get NATO whipped into shape for war with China.
3. Russia has not show the ability to completely take out Ukrainian production, especially in the far ~~east~~ west. They have to use very expensive weapon like Oreshnik or Kaliber to strike that deep. Fact is they have an intelligence gap with NATO. NATO has incredible supremacy in intelligence gathering both geo-spacial via satellites all over the place as well as hacking, infiltration, human-int, etc. Frankly Russia is still struggling to find and strike the drone workshops and factories that Ukraine uses.

I really have to wonder if it isn't intentional at times like these. I know the way the bourgeois electoral theatrics work is it isn't something that should be consciously known by the participants but the Democrats at times REALLY seem to be openly taking a fall and planting their face while wearing a smirk and then saying "aww shucks" with a comic laugh to their base full of fools while winking at the Republicans and the camera.

‘- massive expansion in terms of dollars and terror of state power against immigrants. I’ve been skeptical about efforts to terrorize, imprison, and deport immigrants due to the critical function they serve in the economy, but now…. I don’t know

I am genuinely beginning to think they want to do a return to white supremacy thing. They kick out the immigrants, immiserate the population including white people, take their healthcare, force the neurodivergent to work and then exploit those groups to fill the roles previously filled by immigrants while whipping people up with "at least we're a white nation and can be great again" rhetoric which the hogs will be excited about. Of course they won't kick them all out, it's not possible or desirable but they'll use the terror to further suppress their wages and living conditions and any chance of bargaining power, push them into a pseudo-slavery like arrangement. They'll push them to back of house, they'll push them out of view where they can be exploited in the worst conditions out of sight while pushing the aforementioned whiter workers under more exploitation into the front of house work immigrants previously did so the ILLUSION of the immigrants being gone is maintained.

Zionist entity sought to kill Khamenei according to a TV interview in the entity Source: Russia Today

Apparently they weren't able to because he went into serious hiding. He didn't contact or accept contact with any of the new people who replaced the assassinated IRGC generals. There was a report a day or so ago about there being problems reaching him for negotiations because he didn't have any comms where he was and it was difficult to get to him so I believe this and this also shows the lengths the entity will go to decapitate its enemies. If he'd been a little less serious about protecting himself and remained in operational command they'd have dropped a bunker buster on his head just like Nasrallah IMO. This also I think is a serious threat in the near future if Bibi gets another indictment dropped on his head or whatever and would likely lead to the war they desperately crave which would force a US intervention. They said they'd do it without US approval too. Iran needs air defense.

Trump: Prepares for war of aggression, talks aggressively of containing China, inherits island chain forward operations encirclement from decades of American policy of encircling and hemming in China with bases and partnerships including missile deployments and forward bombers and radar. Arms separatists on Taiwan, violates the basis of diplomatic relations, is president of incredibly war-mongering empire with long history of aggression including wars against three neighbors (Vietnam, Laos, Korea) in the past 75 years. Has think tanks openly plan wars of aggression against China and talk of how long they'll have military supremacy against them in a war.

Xi: Sees this stuff happening and prepares for purely DEFENSIVE war against this incredible and long-telegraphed aggression which he and previous administrations have done everything in their power to delay including taking economic hits and keeping their heads bowed to keep trade up between the powers. Talk is very diplomatic in tone, attempts to resolve tensions diplomatically, encourages trade and interconnectedness and globalization to decrease chances of conflict, talks of win-win cooperation, has exactly one foreign military base and its a tiny one in Africa next to a much larger US one.

Bourgeois propagandists: These are exactly the same, this is all coming down to aggression from BOTH sides (but really those sneaky Chinese who are forcing us to do this).

Very interesting they're letting him actually do this. I would think the bourgeoisie would not like this kind of hit. He still has time to do "incredible deals" whereby these countries agree to buy $100 of US goods and he drops the tarrifs while tooting his horn but things do kind of look like the bourgeoisie (those near levers of power anyways) are serious about forcibly decoupling and reshoring pronto to be able to fully enact the plan of isolating, blockading, sanctioning, and trying to turn up the pressure on and destroy China or at least prevent their rise and displacement of US power.

I mean it's either fail children running the show which I still can't buy because they'd love their enemies to think them more foolish and incapable than they are and we don't have that luxury OR the whole plan for drawing back, child labor, small yard, high fence, using the sword of empire to attempt to force the world to buy more US stuff to displace competitors OR they're on some sort of dark enlightenment trip and think capitalism is over and the only way to avoid socialism is turning the barbarism machine way up and trying to create some sort of techno-feudalism or something else at home.

Why does it matter? Well if they're just incompetent then indeed the fall of the US is in order in the near future but options 2 and 3 spell very, very, very dire times for those in the imperial core as it's a very orderly managed decline that's liable to be able to potentially draw it out many more decades into the future and inflict incredible amounts of suffering on those of us stuck here in the mean-time (beyond just treats being more expensive).

Just imagining it now: "I spent over a year as a guest of Hamas and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

No, they're going to coach at least a few of them into making up stories about horrors and atrocities and put those obviously staged and coerced "stories" on blast in the western news media. And if they can't coach any into that they'll just make it up like theremoveds and the western media will keep repeating it and using it to bash pro-Palestinians over the head.

On a related note. Bets on whether this ceasefire results in the ICC/ICJ washing their hands of the whole thing or the US managing to lean on South Africa enough to drop the case? Because I just can't see the west not pulling out all the stops to brush this whole thing under a rug and say it's in the past.