not beating the accusations of huffing gas there

Have you been to feddit lately?

it sure did https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/footage-iranian-down-f16

I mean it’s stealth in one spectrum. Evidently the geniuses who designed the flying Cybertruck didn’t consider other spectrums like thermal.

The funny part is that I bet Trump admin didn’t know either. It’s like when he started the tariff war and then started discovering how dependent the US is on China.

Not really sure how that works in practice given that Europe isn’t exactly self sufficient, especially in terms of energy.

Thank you for taking your valuable time from huffing gas to grace us with your profound insights.

EU is not really an export power in any meaningful sense. But even if that was true, you could make exact same argument with the US which directly competes with Europe on exports. Europeans have had absolutely no problem sticking their heads up American ass as far as possible.

Meanwhile, everybody is free to run their internal economy the way they see fit. The whole premise of free markets and capitalism was efficiency. It was supposed to naturally outcompete planned economies like China. If the model isn’t actually working then Europe could acknowledge that and emulate what China is doing instead of whinging. Or accept that they have an inferior model of economic development.

Finally, the EU very obviously doesn’t give a fuck about protecting its economy. If it did, it would’ve never allowed itself to become so dependent on energy imports from the US. The EU kept paying lip service to the idea of going green, but refused to invest into stuff like wind and solar because it came from China. Now the EU finds itself being bent over a barrel by Americans. And it’s frankly well deserved.

do go on

• https://www.newsweek.com/most-china-call-their-nation-democracy-most-us-say-america-isnt-1711176
• https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2021/0218/Vilified-abroad-popular-at-home-China-s-Communist-Party-at-100
• https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-26/which-nations-are-democracies-some-citizens-might-disagree
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230511041927/https://6389062.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6389062/Canva images/Democracy Perception Index 2023.pdf
• https://www.tbsnews.net/world/china-more-democratic-america-say-people-98686
• https://web.archive.org/web/20201229132410/https://en.news-front.info/2020/06/27/studies-have-shown-that-china-is-more-democratic-than-the-united-states-russia-is-nearby-and-ukraine-is-at-the-bottom/

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.