Just reminding viewers that his name doesn't matter. It's the state he represents that did this and which should be held to blame for it as the clear and obvious result of decades of propaganda, aggression, and build-up. Not one man.

Salami-slicing tactics. That's it exactly. It may buy them 6 months of peace from the US but not the zionists and the US will eventually return.

Best outcome is the US doesn't join, Iran continues attacking the entity and due to internal contradictions with tons of their settlers fleeing not to return near-term it begins a slow decline and stagnation towards collapse.

Middle outcome: Neither side really wants to fight to the end if the US doesn't join and instead they agree to a truce, things go back to being very tense, Iran buries its dead martyrs, the zionists buy a shit-ton more THAAD type systems to attempt to deal with hypersonic strikes. Maybe Iran signs a poisonous deal with the US to agree not to build nukes, maybe they don't, the can is kicked down the road but this may benefit China and the global situation though it does little to help Gaza.

Worst outcome: We could be merely months or a year or so away from complete US dominance and control of west Asia/the middle east. And if that happens the chessboard has been set for the final showdown with China and China's position is not great while the west's will be extremely strong as they'll control access to nearly all the world's markets, the world's resources, etc while China will at best have some factories that need inputs from that world the US controls, and need markets from that world the US and NATO have slapped gates on. And at that point China no longer has the leverage, the US does. And China's only choice in that situation is to fight a massive, far-ranging war against a well entrenched, well planned empire on the high seas, against various islands, bases, etc in west Asia, in Africa, etc. And in the process likely have to fight a huge number of western puppet militaries who react to their US hosted bases being attacked because those bases have been intercepting/sinking Chinese shipping and the west will as always act like they were enforcing legitimate "sanctions" from their "rules based order" and act like China is a rogue bandit state. By seizing the gas supplies the US also hopes to prevent China from having the fuel to run its military as widely and wastefully as the US will be able to.

There are of course things that the west needs to do for that worst outcome to come to pass, complications like creating alternate sourcing of rare earths for their military or using subterfuge and front companies to build up a huge stockpile before such a conflict. The US does seem to be preparing its proles for worsened conditions and the return of dangerous industry. RFK is not a mistake or an anomaly he is there to sicken and poison the bodies and minds of the proletariat, to kill people sooner, to lower environmental standards and get people to believe its okay because you can just drink a toxic itself miracle purge dye or something and make yourself healthy again. Same with buying off the pharma interests with AI approval of their drugs.

One bright ray is the resistance of the Walmart heiress and other consumer brands to Trump's tariffs as its hurting their business and profits but intra-bourgeoisie infighting cannot continue forever without a winner and frankly if I had to bet I sadly feel the imperialist aligned faction will likely come out on top against concerned parts of international capital and the consumption driven interests like retail. They're in bed with the deep state, the intelligence apparatus.

The problem is the US sends in most important things by air.

I don't think the US put hellfire missiles on a slow-ship to the zionists. Destroying the docks will only prevent delivery of goods too big to put on USAF transport planes. I'm pretty sure all the bombs in the NATO arsenal can fit in those, any munitions, usually a good number per plane delivery can fit there. Not sure if the US can supply air defense systems in those planes but I think the zionists have enough of that and just need refills more than anything else.

Let's recall this is the nation that did the Berlin airlift, a massive middle-finger fuck-you we can just supply everything by air because we have that much capacity, that much logistical power, that much money we can just burn it doesn't even matter. So I'd say sadly short of them destroying all airfields capable of taking AC-130 type transports there isn't a lot Iran can do to stop the US resupply.

Serious boot coming down shit. Next it'll be if you're wearing a mask at all (even not near a protest) you can be arrested for rioting or some bullshit like that, conspiracy, whatever. Probably go after the antifa medics next and say simply if you're not brawling with police (or our reactionary militia thugs) you wouldn't need first aid gear and therefore you're materially enabling protest.

Trying to think of another example of a country going this hard on people just doing support role stuff that's not directly weapons or improvised weapons.

Pretty much my thinking. The Vatican isn't going to paint a target on themselves, the chic thing of corporations (and Vatican is just one big child abusing, criminal corporation in a sense) trying to pretend to be woke and progressive has been tossed aside. Some parts of Europe are still clinging to a veneer of it but the far right is rising rapidly even in France and I think that within 5-8 years at most you have much more reactionary governments in power across Europe and the Vatican won't want a pope that's out of step on that.

The fact also is the idea that Francis vetted these people and made sure they were ideologically committed to his way of thinking seems a bit spurious, it is so like the rad-lib to want to have variety, to accept reactionary people to the right of your position because they're with you on one particular thing or they seem on a personal level to be likeable and not horribly corrupt and a true believer at least. So I would not be surprised if even without the shifting global trends that happened.

Francis was notably picked in 2013, that was in Obama's second term, world-wide there was this propaganda feeling that America had made a decidedly progressive permanent turn by electing a black man not once but twice and so they wanted to follow on with that. Now with Trump, with the rise of "trad" among the incel-o-sphere and man-o-sphere among young guys, with the alignment of the big corporations with Trump with the big tech bourgeoisie literally lining up behind him it would make sense to put in someone more appropriate for that setting.

Probably a pope that's more outspoken on calling trans people evil because that's a popular thing now unfortunately. And maybe even one who is willing to be openly anti-China and help lead the religious proles on a crusade against the Asiatic communist power. Because let's be honest, with all the secret society shit, the ties between the Vatican and European aristocracy and bourgeoisie it's hard to believe there aren't powerful people not at all affiliated with the church weighing in on the choice and what they NEED to see in who the next pick is with the electors before they go into seclusion.

But they have to let their master and owner use them for those purposes. That's why it bought them. Certainly Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait derive their legitimacy from US propping them up is my understanding. And Turkey is literally a member of NATO.

No reason not to do this but at the same time no reason to expect it will work. If the US attacks Iran it will be through one or multiples of these countries not from the gulf.

This really seems like it's setting the stage for fraud. For just creating a situation where large chunks of this can be siphoned off and this fact either hidden or attributed to devious foreign devils. Meanwhile Musk and friends have added a mysterious several billion dollars to their wealth.

Should have been a pardon. Could have commuted this much earlier in the presidency and at this point he has nothing to lose. No career, few years of life left, no reason for Biden not to do it.

Acceptance is meaningless.

Democrats accept it yet they also are trapped within the confines of what is possible in a liberal capitalist empire which means nothing is done. So they protest, they ensure that the fact it is an issue is /SEEN/ and that they are /seen/ being on the right side of it but do nothing or enact plans that were supposed to be enacted 30 years ago to actually work and are far too little, too late now.

So yes eventually even reactionaries will accept it but then they'll pull the Google CEO move which is to say well it's too late now so might as well double down on AI and other pollution and hope some technology of ours magics up a solution for us and then when that doesn't work in 20-25 years and the worst of it is hitting they'll say we had no way of knowing and blame China and various bad guys and a few token dead white people who are beyond the reach of any justice.

We're heading over the cliff, we're over the cliff and one of the drivers insists it's just a dip in the road while the other horrified is scolding them for driving off the cliff but insisting they needed to take that turn they missed when they headed over the cliff, they're insistent that they take it at the next opportunity despite that option of course being long past.

That's not happening. This is meaningless talk.

They're still withholding the machines and maintenance to the top end processes from China on national security grounds. They've already committed economic suicide. Germany is blaming Ukraine for the Nordstream attacks.

They lost their chance for independence this decade with the blowing up of Nordstream and when they all jumped onboard with anti-Russia sanctions and supplying weapons. The US has an interest in keeping the war in Ukraine burning or ending in a Korea type situation without a clear winner to keep Europe off Russian gas and reliant on US gas. Meanwhile the US poaches their talent, empties their industry into its pockets (some goes to China but that's the way the cookie crumbles), and so on.

The idea of an independent Europe is laughable, it was happening but in too weak a way to ever succeed and the us sabotaged it easily and will again. After Ukraine the US is going to use Taiwan as an issue, there will be a big thing about it declaring independence, Europe will of course have to "stand with European values and democracy" and antagonize China and commit more economic suicide in decoupling from China to abide by US suggested sanctions, and so on. Europe is cooked. They're going to go to the hard right parties after that happens since the left is not allowed at which point they'll either start doing imperialism with the US while brutalizing migrants or they might actually take a more skeptical stance against the US and adopt a more mercenary position under the banner of white supremacy and reaction. Either way I'm sorry to say I don't see socialism in Europe this decade or probably even the 2030s.

Governments in practice enjoy immunity from private lawsuits.

The only way for this to have any meaning would be if his government sued them on their behalf, won, then seized some of those government assets from the zionist state under their jurisdiction or moved to have them frozen by friendly nations who complied and handed them over or to arrest relevant officials and extradite them. Needless to say the west will NEVER do this to isn'treal or its intelligence agents, certainly not for fake-China which is only kept around for use as fodder and unsinkable aircraft carrier against real China.

This company is fucked (well maybe, they'll probably just rebrand) but this won't be the end of western fuckery. Let's not forget the hardware spy implants the NSA put in Cisco gear shipped to China in the early 2000s to mid 2010s (and potentially elsewhere as they were spying on Germany and other "allies"), Cisco protested, might have even launched a lawsuit but there was nothing they could do to stop it or to get compensation from it.