Seriously folks, tossing aside potential liberation theology allies is not praxis.

Because the US cannot both declare freedom of navigation as the most important part of the straight while also blockading non-US allies which they’ve explicitly threatened to do. If you approach it from a realpolitik angle like you are right now, then it justifies Iran’s actions in closing the straight from that very perspective. The US will not get to have it both ways. Either Iran was justified in closing the straight in response to US aggression or the US is violating international law and general principles of trade.

Jesus Christ. I certainly didn’t have this on my rapidly flailing bingo card of the US punching itself in the face.

Smell your own cooking.

In the end it’s hard to argue for the so called liberal democracy that was often extremely corrupt compared to Thomas Sankara style populism there.

Didn’t stop the guy who did win from sucking off Trump anyway even though he didn’t get the endorsement:

A passionate supporter of President Trump, Sam led Sheriffs for Trump in 2016 and was the President’s N.C. Campaign Chair in 2020.

https://www.sampagenc.com/

How much of what? Which ruling class?

Ex: healthcare and childcare is unaffordable and collapsing everywhere(though obviously not to the level of the US) because patriarchy refuses to accept that it’s something that once employed half of the population to do and is obviously going to be extremely expensive to maintain so they just expect free social labor to fill the gaps. This is true even in China. But the “ruling class” when we talk about patriarchy is hard to draw lines on.

You guys aren’t quite as turnkey as, say, Japan. They’ve got reprocessing and rocket production from JAXA and really would have to just put together an implosion device.

I wish LNG was that simple. Most of qatar LNG production comes from dedicated natural gas fields(the North field) but they also have quite a bit co-extracted with oil. That requires big facilities to compress it. Without them they’ll just flare it like they did in the past and dump the CO2 right into the atmosphere with no gain.

I do not I just can’t believe these neolibs are that fucking bold faced about it. Like I get sacrificing one manufacturing industry for another. That’s industrial policy, even if it’s often corrupt. But this is sacrificing a manufacturing industry for its owners. It’s just… stupid. The British crown subsidizing East India company adventuring level stupid.

Germany’s need to support the car industry, one of the country’s biggest employers, has made its approach to barriers to Chinese imports less black and white.

It voted against an EU decision to introduce tariffs on Chinese EVs in 2024 and this month was spared EU tariffs on imports of the Chinese-built Volkswagen Cupra Tavascan SUV in exchange for undertakings on the minimum price of the vehicle.

I’m having a hard time parsing this. It’s supporting the car industry offshoring as an economic boon for one of its biggest employers?

To your cat, these actions are as incomprehensible as putting on pants.

Fucking dp world. They self describe as end to end and are tied up with a sex pest. I couldn’t make this shit up.

And even that hasn’t been too quiet since it’s election campaign season.

I don’t think anybody had air superiority in that conflict, but Pakistan was more effective in standoff strikes than India anticipated. Defeated implies that Pakistan could’ve run sorties into Indian territory and that really was not the case. And if it was the case, the likelihood of it suddenly going nuclear was high because it threatens second strike capability.

Well you’d have to become an apprentice mason to find out.

I need to get me a molasses service set like that.