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Significant materiel support would also ironically reduce the state's own ability to control the rising discontent we're seeing across the nation right now. They have the capital to either suppress domestic unrest in the long term or support mini satan but I would argue that they cannot sustain both for any significant lengths of time.

Yes. One of the early post Oct 7 observations was the rapid decrease in settler immigration to the point that their own government statistics showed I believe a net outflow for a short time. With the resurgence of violence the well connected and privileged will simply go back to whatever country they hold dual citizenship with. Resources and brain drain will follow and unless the US is willing to inject obscene amounts of money into them even with its own fiscal condition collapsing the clock is ticking for them. It was arguably in their own best interest not to start any shit that could possibly result in a population collapse but their own bloodthirsty nature just couldn't keep itself in check.

Arguably there is no winning for the west assuming Iran doesn't just roll over and die like Syria. For Europe supporting Isn'treal will result in internal strife and issues in regards to Ukraine and run contrary to their own beliefs of an imminent Russian invasion.
For the US it would mean potentially another lost decade fighting a war in the middle east while putting China on the back burner and diverting resources from the Asia and Ukraine Project which they can barely sustain as is. Failing to support the EU against Russia would also continue to strain relations after the tariff wars as well leading to further EU internal strife.
This is on top of domestic issues in the US itself caused by the current administrations numerous policies which will be exacerbated if americans start returning in body bags and trade continues to be disrupted especially if oil ends up spiking exacerbating inflationary issues. At best they can either abandon the Middle East more or less altogether or have a sort of tactical retreat ala ukraine and try to focus on China or they go all in on the ME and attempt to back off the trade war policies thereby abandoning any near term goals in East Asia.

Yup seeing images of settlers violence against the innocent always makes my stomach churn so this is certainly a nice change of pace from the usual doom and gloom.

Doomers complaining about no declaration of war from Khamenei two hours ago in shambles.

An alleged close up clip of an impact near tel aviv. Think you can seen some attempts at interception at the beginning as well.

Lol r/LSC isn't even that leftist in terms of overall community. Lots of lib brained takes especially on any AES related posts.

Another great example about how disconnected the average westerner is from the material condition that most of the world faces. If you even take a second to look at the conditions that were necessary to preempt revolutions like that seen in China, Russia, Haiti, or as we see now the resistance of the Palestinians it becomes quite clear the question is not whether there will be medicine for sick children or whether child support comes through. The reality is that there will be NO hospitals and NO organization to even process the concept of child support. The liberal tendency to put the cart before the horse and insert their idealized concept of revolution into what they think revolutionary times might look like is what I personally see as one of the greatest divides in thought between them and some of the older relatives in my family I have had the chance to talk to. For my older relatives that lived through the war and revolution it was do or die. Just goes to show how far away any real chance of revolution is here in the west.

Yup. On the diaspora end the surge of sinophobia and blatant racism during covid definitely didn't help but at least it's made it easier for me to change some people's opinions.

This coincides with my own observations and from talking to friends and family on the mainland some large changes have occurred and only accelerated especially since COVID.

1. Many people are very proud of the country and what China has been able to accomplish in the last half century or so. The old image of the mainland being some sort of backwater is more or less gone. The material gains and improvements of the lives of the people are impossible to deny and the accomplishments in science, culture, and many other fields is likewise impossible to ignore.

2. Opinion of other nations especially the west and America are a lot lower as a result. This isn't to say that most people hate or dislike the west. It's more so a quiet disappointment in a lot of ways. For example I was talking to a cousin of mines about visiting Tokyo and her response was that it's pretty mediocre. The prevailing opinion is that many places are nice in terms of unique atmosphere or culture but there's really nothing you could not find in some province on the mainland. Between this shift in perception and the restriction of air travel by the west it's no surprise that domestic tourism has become such a behemoth since COVID.

3. These opinions have made it harder for the more liberal minded individuals to make any argument that are pro-western. The shiny western model that was so progressive and new 40 years ago has definitely lost its shine. I think public opinion while not explicitly leftist are leaning more and more towards that side. Even more reactionary members of the chinese diaspora I have talked to are having a much harder time justifying or defending their old positions especially if they have visiting the motherland in recent years. Overall, I think it will be interesting to see the natural development of socialist soft power in the coming decades and how it may affect our own ability to enact revolution and change in the west as the failings of capitalism become more and more obvious.

Just to add some more context and info that was left off from this English summary.

The new "Company Law" allows companies to use capital reserve funds to make up for losses in accordance with regulations, breaking the current "Company Law" that does not allow the use of capital reserve funds to make up for company losses.

The new "Company Law" further improves the provisions that shareholders, directors, supervisors and senior executives should bear liability for compensation when a company illegally distributes profits.

) The new Company Law adds a new liability clause for damages caused by directors and senior managers to third parties due to the performance of their duties, in order to strengthen the responsibilities of company directors and senior managers and improve the level of corporate governance.

This new 公司法 amendment was passed last December and seems to not only strengthen worker powers but also seems to increase liability for upper leadership. If you're interested in reading more from a Chinese language source this is the new law in full text: http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2024-01/02/nw.D110000renmrb_20240102_1-14.htm. and here is a summary: https://www.zhonglun.com/research/articles/52526.html Translation software works well with both.

Honestly, coming to this site and seeing comments like this is one of the only few ways I can get external validation that it's not me that's going crazy. Keep on fighting the good fight comrade.