NYT is reporting that Pezeshkian wasn’t even informed of the missile launch until after it happened. I don’t doubt it, I would do the same thing if I was the IRGC. Need to find a little baby box with some jangly keys and IMF Loan paperwork to keep him busy and distracted and prevent him from fucking anything up for the resistance

It seems like Israel or it’s proxies might have tried to bomb a Russian weapons shipment in Syria. But geopolitically speaking, what would Russia have to gain from giving security guarantees to Iran that worth the risk to them of a world war?

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I am Nostradamus

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More than 20 F-35 aircraft of the Israeli Air Force were hit during the missile strike of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the territory of the Jewish state.

I doubt this is true, I imagine that they’d have sent most of them up into the sky to prevent this from happening. The airbases might be cooked but the number of planes hit must be like single-digit if it’s not outright zero if Israel is even remotely competent (I know that’s a hard task to ask of them but still).

If the libs win, why does the west bother fighting rather than integrating? Pathological racism?

For example, the PMI index in the manufacturing industries fell to 49.5 points in September.

Worth noting that this is in line with the average worldwide manufacturing PMI; except for a brief blip earlier this year, the world’s been in a manufacturing recession for a couple years now. I’d imagine it’s mostly Europe dragging it down, but they cannot (yet) be dismissed as an economic force, they are a pretty significant part of the global economy. So that has inevitably had knock-on effects everywhere else.

Other than that, this is a fine glass of Russian doomerism. Classic, sweet, lovely mouthfeel. I’m not a fan of the part at the end where they imply there’s a year and a half left, usually my Russian doomers give the country only a few months before total collapse, but that’s all I really have for criticism.

The first four points are good, then it starts getting more and more deranged, but he manages to bring it back by pointing out that Ukraine and Israel bomb civilians on purpose (Zelensky’s “victory plan” for Ukraine included the terror bombings of Russian cities using NATO weaponry), then it descends into derangement again, but he manages to bring it back with the last point, which is the key to everything.

“The starting point for all US strategy since the 1970s was that Democracies no longer can field a domestic army with a military draft.

This is incorrect.

Imperialist democracies can’t field a domestic army with a draft. I’m quite sure that you can field a domestic army with a draft as long as the cause is just though. The issue is that you can’t fight wars people don’t want.

These are some banger deraged ramblings

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I used to think otherwise but as i’ve grown older i’ve come to understand that most of the time the only way that people learn that the stove is hot is by burning their fingers. China’s going to need to get burned quite a few times, just like Russia and Iran, before they really understand who they’re dealing with. Honestly the only country that has always understood exactly who the West is and how one must deal with them is the DPRK. Everyone else has to learn the hard way, sometimes many times over.

The region is already full of client states of the empire that took centuries to install. if a regional war erupte some of them might not survive and the military forces of the west will get kicked out as well. Let’s not talk about the oil infrastructure that will get destroyed and will take god knows how long to rebuild. Western economies are already suffering especially with a sanction war looming with china. I can go on and on on how it is a bad idea.