

In a sane world yes, but in reality there’s a lot of racism and notions of white supremacy at play here.


they also lost a hog


Europe being hostile towards China isn’t exactly news though. It’s the break up of the Atlantic alliance that’s the real story.


This was is a really good objective lesson in materialism. We take so many of these fragile supply chains completely for granted until they break.


Right, that was the point I was making there. The only scenario where it would make sense for Iran to mine the strait would be if they couldn’t control it otherwise, and it’s pretty clear they’re in firm control right now.


Imagine believing that countries ruled by literal pedophiles, who are completely unaccountable, have a more fair system than China or DPRK 🤡


Iranian president wrote an open letter to Americans https://time.com/article/2026/04/01/iran-war-president-open-letter-american-people/


Why would Iran mine the strait?


And that’s precisely why I support Chinese system.


cause that’s how lemmy parsed the title out, and I didn’t bother to check if it got it in full
If people are using them for recruitment and education, that’s a good thing. We’ll see if this ends up building into anything substantial.


only in the court of public opinion


here’s an explanation from a former British diplomat for you https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/keir-starmer-agrees-to-deploy-5000


Their involvement is the same as the one of the getaway driver’s involvement in a robbery.
do go on