What? That pikachu thing? Like Detective Pikachu I think?

Why would Putin accept a ceasefire? He might as well keep pushing until he wins.

What’s this purple cat nonsense?

It’s clear Israel is deadset on the war. Iran might as well get on with it.

During the beginning of the COVID pandemic the USDA calculated what it would cost to give every American citizen with food insecurity a full nutritious diet, it came out to $190 billion a year if utilizing the current SNAP infrastructure or $100 billion if organized and distributed via US National Guard at the state level.

I’ve heard the theory that Trump 45 was mostly Ivanka and Jared Kushner while Mitch McConnell playing as the attempted puppet master (and in many cases succeeding). But now (for various reasons) they’re out of the picture, I think Trump 47, literally has no true plan nor ideology, he just wants to do whatever allows him to score victories.

He’s a “conservative” only by virtue of being both a billionaire and a sexist bigot, but he isn’t ideologically invested. He just wants to feed his legendary ego, that’s it.

I went out with an Indian lady for years and still have Indian friends (in India) via our relationship with her, and this is of course totally anecdotal, but I was told that the government had hoped for a nationalist response but most people are terrified of ACTUALLY going to war with Pakistan, and men are seriously discussing fleeing to Europe/North America (for the wealthy) or neighboring nations (for the average poor). This isn’t what the Modi regime had hoped for.

I think Putin was ready to make a deal but his terms and conditions, such as, removing sanctions, respecting its borders, sovereignty, either end NATO or invite them as a member and respect them as a major world power, or whatever… was too much to ask from Washington.

I’m paraphrasing but Angela Merkel was asked why she supports sanctions on Russia for “invading” Crimea even though the US does it all the time… and she responded something like, “We know the Americans are bad but they never do anything to us.”

Exactly. This isn’t the same US as that hyper competent Empire of the First Cold War. The US is ruthless, sure, but lacks discipline.

Trump doesn’t want to end the war in Ukraine so much that he’s trying, and it’s so obvious everyone can see it, to ally with Russia against China. But Putin isn’t dumb enough to fall for that, Trump is inherently an imperialist and so won’t agree to a circumstances which will hurt the American Empire. Therefore, it’s likely that all of the negotiations are going to flounder out.

But I will show revolutionary optimism.

Lol, like “British Honduras”, now Belize.

And that’s that Russia hasn’t called a general mobilization nor switched to a war economy.

If Trump dismantles NATO, he might, ironically enough, be the best US president ever.

They’ve been brainwashed into thinking the Democratic Party is as far left as humanly possible and anyone who disagrees is a lowkey Republican.

I’m honestly surprised it has gone on as long as it has, isn’t Ukraine struggling to conscript anyone under 25?

Start where you desire.

It might unironically be Hasan’s burner account.

It’s madness how they’ve been able to condition the West that we can just keep attacking Russia militarily with no consequences.

China has one enormous weakness it can not yet be bold in the ways Russia is. Oil/Petrol.

The PRC is not oil-rich in the same way Russia and the US are, so they import most of their oil via tankers from West Asia/North Africa (commonly known as the Middle East) and there are two potential chokepoints, the Straight of Hormuz in Djibouti (probably RIGHT NOW the biggest weak point, so much that both China and the US have military bases there that are practically in front of each other) and the South China Sea, which contains a bunch of faithful bootlicking nations such as Singapore and Australia.

China is working on several pipeline projects, but I am certain that the US is doing everything possible to stop it.