Jabril

If anything, it's just burning through the existing weapons to justify giving money to make new ones. That seems to be the biggest accomplishment of the last several years of NATO engagements, burning through everything that they had and banging the war drums to drum up another round of capital injections paid for by increasing austerity in NATO nations. It seems increasingly likely that we will reach a point in the next decade where NATO is doing their last ploy for power and realizes that someone stripped the copper out the walls of the MIC and never actually replaced those weapons they burned up to pay for golden parachutes at Northrop and Lockheed.

Is university not an option? All the things he is looking for can be found there, there's a decent amount of money to be gotten just for going, and worse case scenario some debt that gets deferred for years isn't the end of the world. If he doesn't have a degree he could make the most of it by starting with community college before transferring to a four year, and if he does he could do graduate school

The north Koreans had to take the bodies back to mount paektu in order to fuel their juche necromancy

Thanks for putting this together, it is very helpful to have so many great sources in one place

I really don't think so. Iran is one of the longest continuous civilizations on Earth, they have a lot of pride in their ability as a nation and aren't likely to go running to all their allies to fight their battles for them unless the situation is very dire. This was the first real direct back and forth and Iran made Israel look very weak all on their own. Israel had to expose their spies and agents and use all the tricks up their sleeve to catch Iran off guard, years of work to set that up and it could be very difficult for them to get away with it again. Vijay Prashad did a good interview on The China Report about this

ce n'est pas un chemin direct vers l'Iran

I like your drawing of a pipe

Imagining a Brady bunch deep fake of Trump saying rusha rusha rusha,

I think this is a great example of the type of rhetoric that attempts to seem like material analysis but is really just idealist nonsense.

Let's look at it more closely:

How is someone seriously suggesting the world's third largest nuclear power defending Iran is a bad outcome

A good sign of idealist nonsense is saying things that aren't true as if they are true. I didn't suggest that China defending Iran would be a bad outcome, I said people demanding China to do such a thing when Iran itself isn't a consenting party is nonsense.

You are apparently one of these people, so you've decided to attempt to refute my points by initiating your critique with a thing you made up. This is peak idealism, things you made up in your head to justify your emotionally driven perspective, devoid of materialist analysis but full of really aggressive language which does well to fire up other idealist nonsense believers.

A great tactic for twitter or something but not a material analysis. It's all vibes.

when literally the point is Iran getting their own nukes to defend themselves.

the need for nuclear deterrence is existential compared to self defense via conventional military weaponry, something China is indeed supplying Iran with.

China has done a lot to defend Iran, internet strategists might not appreciate it unless they can see a PLA pilot shooting Israeli jets out of Iranian airspace but internet strategists are also typically absolute losers who have no experience in anything they talk about.

The point made is Iran is China's major trading partner not the US. There is nothing to ignore here other than the fact China is the one getting fucked if they lose Iranian oil. You're asking us to justify why China wont act out of material self interest as if its an own. China is the one that constantly boasts about win-win relationships. I guess Iran is winning when they get bombed and China watches... respectfully obviously.

I think this one really shores up my previous statement about pretending one knows what another nation should do, as a random person on the internet who actually doesn't know anything about what they are talking about. China is certainly acting out of its own self interest at all times, if anything this is precisely why they aren't intervening in more obtuse and flagrant ways, which is what most people criticizing them are actually asking them to do. To want China to do more than they are currently doing is to ask them to go against their own national self interest and very likely against the well being of their billion plus citizens. Now you are saying they are going against their self interest by not doing that, a real contradiction isn't it? Does www.hexbear.net user BynarsAreOk know about China's self interest more than China? Time will tell.

When the Palestinians call for a global revolution or global resistance to zionism that does not include Beijing either, clearly because Hamas didn't send a delegation to Beijing asking for a Chinese liberation force? Deeply unserious.

Can you find me some statements from Palestinian resistance organizations against China? Maybe one of these 14 groups that went to Beijing last year to sign the Beijing Declaration:

Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine Palestinian People's Party Palestinian Popular Struggle Front Palestinian National Initiative Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command Palestinian Democratic Union Palestinian Liberation Front Arab Liberation Front Palestinian Arab Front Vanguard for the Popular Liberation War - Lightning Forces (As-Sa'iqa)

Are you a representative for one of these orgs? Are you a member, did you express criticism to your organization's leadership for going to Beijing to meet with these other orgs and come to a unified position? Did you say, "Hey Musa Abu Marzouk, what the hell are you doing? Don't you know China is the real enemy here?"

Kazakhstan is a partner already so realistically it would be them

I don't know if OP is talking about xiaohongshu specifically, I do agree that they are usually very good at presenting the info and discussing it in a comradely manner. Edit: nevermind, they are talking about xiaohongshu specifically per a comment below.

Especially compared to the people who come to mind with OPs post who are very aggressively saying stuff like "China is basically the US now because they didn't get go to war with Israel for Iran." Most users here with that type of perspective ignore the people they claim to defend, and allege to speak for them anyway. Iran didn't ask for help and didn't need it at that moment, why should we assert that China needed to do something when Iran itself wouldn't assert it? One example of many

I could never afford to eat at a place like this but after reading the article, it's kind of cute. They just try to personalize meals and experiences for each guest. The word vetting is used in the title but there is no mention of anyone being denied the ability to eat there or anything like that.

One example was that they saw the guest likes penguins on social media so they adopted a penguin (donated money to a penguin facility in exchange for an "adoption certificate") and bought a penguin plushie and gave them to the guest.