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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The US instigated by pushing NATO expansion, sure, but nothing justifies Russia’s invasion. And Ukraine is certainly not to blame.

1000%, categorically, US puppetted Ukraine to blame. They forced secessionist movement with apartheid ethnostate laws, and condoned nazi massacres, after 2014 coup.

Russia should have done so diplomatically if they were genuinely interested in security assurances

US/NATO is proud to have refused all discussions with Russia. They gleefully rejoiced in colonizing 2 additional slaves for the US, as a result of refusing all Russian security concerns.

Ukraine is currently fighting for its own independence, they have every right to resist Putin’s illegal invasion by any means possible.

Having the right to defend themselves or the choice to not suicide their people, doesn't change in any way that they fully instigated the fight. Russia has the right to self defense, and to liberate people from nazi oppression too. Certainly US/NATO exercised those rights for Kosovo/Bosnia on far less obvious grounds of who instigated.

The US choosing to exploit the situation into one similar to Afghanistan doesn’t change the morality of Ukraine fighting against an invasion, annexation, and genocide.

You don't get to use genocide word for this conflict. US using Ukraine proxies to diminish Russia is not for benefit of Ukrainians, and has full responsibility for all deaths. Liberating people from nazis instigating a fight is a clearer moral imperative.

Blaming it on Ukraine is the same as blaming Palestine or Vietnam or Algeria or Ireland during their fights against Imperialism and Colonialism.

Blaiming Russia is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I think they have a lot of airbags added. Side and middle including in the rear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

A version of this car will be in UK this year but for $L20k. Seems too much, but exact specs unreleased.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Ukraine war was 100% provoked by US and Ukraine, and just goes to show the programming extremes of anyone who doesn't understand this, and how paralyzed they are to make actions for their survival.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

The Princeton cuts are a slap in the face to all those who need better seasonal precipitation forecasts,” said Rick Spinrad, the administrator of NOAA during the Biden administration, noting the importance of such forecasts to the agriculture, transportation and energy sectors.

This is a big one, though seasonal forecasts tend to be iffy. Overall, property owners/potential buyers should have an idea of how bad it is, or going to get how soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

My theory on tipping points with ocean to air temperatures is that El ninos cause a step up in air temperatures now. This happened in 2015/2016, where air temperatures stayed above 2015 levels every year afterwards, even if 2016 record stayed up for a long period. 2023/2024 was another step up. Ocean and air temperatures help each other set summer records, and that ocean heat persists into fall/winter to help moderate winter air temperatures, that makes spring have a head start on new summer records, or at least keep the new el-nino set baseline, until another step up the next el-nino.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Most nations are victims of US empire, including EU before this unjustified attack. The golden billion's media bubble ignores 7B rest that has China as a greater friend. The cultural programming that makes Europeans think US is a force for good is a massive weakness that captures their subservience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Tying oneself fully to China to escape the US will put countries in the exact same bind they are in now, just under a different regime.

US unjustifiably attacking EU with tariffs, and seizing Greenland to be in a better position to attack it militarily, is several aggression steps above trading with China opening its markets to Europe. Wine, cheese, Airbus, autos. Europeans can gain a much better standard of living than Americans from Chinese clothing, very cheap energy (solar with 90% of the deployment costs in local economy) and batteries that can actually reindustrialize Europe compared to submitting to US extortionist energy.

The most important benefit of accepting Chinese market opening, and accepting Chinese FDI, is forcing the US to capitulate from a depression that is limited to US. Europe can be much more aggressive on Boeing and construction/farming equipment from US. Can appeal to Japan to fill in the latter void, but China likely capable. US software licenses and playstores, and social media fines/revenue taxes. Can coordinate with their banks on aggressive shorting of US financializations before announcing punishments.

US behaviour only improves after it is destroyed, and EU/global capital can help rebuild it cheaply. It does not improve with EU meekness towards US.

While EU programming towards Russophobia is deeply ingrained, 2021 relations were far more productive. EU cannot hope for better US relations without a return to normal trade with Russia, which any rational people would understand as eliminating any counter threat from Russia resulting from insane Russophobia. EU can spend a lot on its own defense industry for jobs and financialization purposes, and this is more likely due to people's Russophobia programming, but there is so much more productive spending, including subsidizing industry, such as Airbus as an example.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

JFK movie, Oliver Stone, got a lot of it right, with mob cutouts including Jacob Rubenstein. The Israel motivation is the threat to force zionist supremacists to register as foreign agents, and disapproved of Israel's nuclear program. Global peace rhethoric, and lack of full war on Cuba, Laos, Vietnam made a lot of other enemies within US.

The obvious coverup of the assassination, was not to protect a small gang of agitators where involvement would end, unless they could rat out higher ups.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Ok, ok. Trump absolutely loves you just as much as you love him, double if you're uneducated. He told all of the businesses that they should lose money on sales and go out of business instead of raising prices. It's those businesses who are assholes. They haven't even started manufacturing in US, and hiring white Americans to make t shirts yet, and its been a whole week! If you support Trump, then boycott businesses who pass on tariff costs, because they just don't love you/America as much as he does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Apparently, any and all blatantly false national emergency declarations just sail right through any checks and balances. Martial law is just as easy. Surely a fentanyl tweaker Mexican anti fa supporter will be accused of rape at some point.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

CIA with Israel killed JFK. Israel picked Trump as the most supportive of genocide. It's fair that every other politician would still support it, though perhaps not as far as a war on Iran.

The CIA is a "US Corporatist global champion deal facilitator". But Trump has picked loyalists at the top of intelligence and military apparatus. Unlike the past, where best people, defined as pure warmongering evil devoted, had these jobs, current batch of diaper licking appointees lose their jobs if "crazy daddy" impeached/exterminated from policy relevance.

So none of "JFK's checks and balances" apply today. Russia war not as important as maximum zionism.

 

While Project 25 does have extremism in it, it is a stretch to claim that destroying the economy, and standard of living, has enough conservative anti-elite benefits that compensate for destroying both economy and electoral politics. There will be no manufacturing investment in US under a depression.

 

This is great news that can bring Ukraine back into its natural security/trade relationship with Russia.

 

US stock market can crash much harder than it has so far. US companies depend on brand reputation internationally that is not hated. $8T of foreign US sales is not exports from US. A lot of stock market hype at start of year was based around data center investments using ridiculously expensive GPUs, that are extremely likely to be hit with chip sector tariffs before the datacenters are built.

Big 3 industrial exporters are Boeing, Caterpillar and Deere. They all have international competition from non hated countries. A uniting force to boycott these companies and US defense equipment is certain, no matter how slowly it develops. All traitorous US sycophants will be deposed.

Fed's Powell today says he will be slow to cut rates, due to expected inflation. They are certain to cut rates fast to catch up later.

Stock market represents the "fairly liquid" national wealth of the country. Banks, PE, Insurance, Pensions depend on it.

Housing is the more permanent wealth of the country, but it depends heavily on stock market valuations. People turn stocks into down payments. People losing money in stocks, may need to downsize, and people losing jobs, obviously with more urgency. Banks/US financialization highly dependent on housing sector.

Immigration deportations and tariffs will put significant consumer pricing shocks that have high impacts on jobs from selling fewer units and unaffordability. Tourism boycotts is more services jobs lost, and small business income hits. The best response to affordability problems is higher wages and profit margins, but that increases inflation/affordability problems more.

A smuggling based economy is likely to develop, with increases in crossborder shopping. This can affect big retail/online stocks and jobs, and malls/commercial real estate crisis that is also a banking crisis. Selling on craigslist/ebay is a jobs/GDP/Tax hit.

US economy has been fundamentally shit for over a decade. Deficits/debt out of control, and stock/housing wealth increases masking widespread stagnation of incomes/affordability. Promises of massive tax cuts for wealthy/corporations are deficit increases. Recession is deficit increases. Stock market crash is deficit increase. Combination of global hatred, and fundamental unsustainability, means support for US debt will fall. In 2008, China was the US's saviour by validating its debt/bailouts/QE. The effect of a debt crisis is skyrocketing interest rates that discourage all investment, and crash housing and stock values more. Harm to global trade and wealth reduces US wealth.

A path to a mild recession involves revoking all tariffs soon. The US brand damage/hatred will persist, but fade over time. US control over democracies that are its colonies, makes a total submission of world self destructing itselves a possibility, but citizen boycotts/hatred will persevere through traitorous rulers subjugating them, and US/ally collapse more certain the longer traitorous sycophancy lasts, because it is unsustainable.

Allianz (European Insurer) declared out loud the obvious collapse that results from global warming hitting 3C. Just 1.5C is enough to contribute to US collapse due to housing/land values not being sustainable in face of repeated destruction/low ag yields.

 

only big misread, is US priority to pivot to Iran instead of China.

 

Giving a foreign power full decisions over military operations is certain to kill all of your troops if any damage can be hoped. To the last Ukrainian.

https://youtu.be/74TX_8nHhUs

 

The Zelensky U turn is the most significant. Russia has demanded UN receivership of Ukraine in order to conduct elections. Zelensky is mostly interested in a snap election where his CIA selected opponents can be too slow, or UN allowed peace (labelled pro Russia by Europe/CIA) candidates can't get a foothold.

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