a low level war with the pro US factions(cartel members)

Ironic, given that those cartels are then cited by people like Lindsey Graham and Pam Bondi as the reason why Mexico is a problem for the US.

Except for the hiding part. This is quite open. I’m assuming all the billionaires are goin to pour money in a republican campaign which highlights this during the general electon. But perhaps, if his ground game is good enough, it won’t matter. Inshallah.

It’s not just about removing that quantity, it’s about removing controll of those large oil deposits from a non-US-vassal state, which is willing to sell in other currencies then dollar and thus weakens the modern form of tribute which the world pays the US be needing dollars to buy oil and thus making the entire world compete to sell goods to the US in exchange for green paper which it can just print.

Thought it speaks for itself. Iran is hampered by reformists liberalism and their tendency to trust the West, so this might be an interesting internal development.

Obviously the editorial line is in favour of English millionaires, but the political line they believe in doesn’t imply that they are wrong on verifiable facts. (In other words: don’t trust their spin, but their reporting can still have value.)

I’m on hexbear, I’m also attacking myself then.

It’s a joke about the stress we’re dealing with when trying to make sense of a complicated issue we spend a lot of time on and the quickly oscillating emotional states we’ve all felt.

That’s nice to hear.

It’s obviously a non-serious remark, there’s no reason to feel attacked.

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Do they still exist (in a meaningfull way)? I remember a veeeery long time ago they had a bunch of their cadres arrested under terrorism charges after doing fundraising for the PFLP.

I really love their pamphlet Some Points on the Mass Line, everyone should read it.

Better analysis than most of the doomers here.

What exactly is the Chinese plan for overthrowing imperialism? And can you elaborate on Iran refusing help from China?

Given that Symour Hersch’s predictions so far have come true, I tend to believe his sources. That means that we are now in the initial fases of regime change, which implies a total war.

Some even end up getting off without charges too because Elbit refuses to show up in court.

That’s strange. Why wouldn’t Elbit show up? on’t they want those protesters locked up? What do they have to lose by showing up?

China has been Indonesia’s largest trading partner since 2005, 20 consecutive years. That in on itself suggests something more going underneath the surface.

That says a lot about the efficiency of China, it doesn’t say much about Indonesia. Half the world has China as their biggest trading partner, that doesn’t make all of them anti-colonial.

For Indonesia, decolonization has been part of our daily life, we have been doing it every day, in all aspects of life, economics, education, technology and sociocultural. The Western domination is everywhere and we fight it every day. (…) For Indonesia, decolonization is not just an agenda to look for truth, it is much bigger than that. To be an independent country we have to turn away from the Western guidance and get back what the colonizers took from us.

The current president of Indonesia is the son of a minister in the genocidal regime of Soeharto and he married the daughter of Soeharto. He also actively participated in the East-Timor genocide and the Truth and Reconciliating Comission of East-Timor said that he played a very significant role in the genocide in their country. He personally commanded the unit that shot the marxist and anti-colonial president of East-Timor Nicolau Lobato, which led him bleed to death. He also participated in the abduction of children in East-Timor, to be raised by families in Indonedia.

I just really have a hard time believing that this regime is anti-colonial in any meaningfull way.

Indonesia is the only postcolonial country without a sizeable comprador diaspora or colonial-era Western educated comprador elite with sizeable power. That isn’t to say there aren’t comprador and reactionary forces within Indonesia

I think this is quite a strange statement, given the overwhelming reactionary charachter of their government apparatus. The current Indonesian state is a continuation of the perpetrators of the genocide on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) (It was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world, and to make sure they killed all 1 million members, 2 millions people were murdered) and the perpetrators of the East-Timor-genocide (which killed about 1 in 4 people in East-Timor, and also had anti-communist motivation). The army still operates a museum which legitimises and celebrates the murdering of the PKI, and to this day, people who participated in it are revered as heroes.

Indonesia still has paramilitaries and has a national cultus about why it was correct to exterminate the communists. I would argue it’s low-key one of the most fascist states in existence.

For those interested: The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins is a great book about it, the documentary The Act of Killing is is an incredible film about the purpetrators and the culture around the genocide in Indonesia. It’s completely crazy. The filmmakers tell some of the perpetrators of the genocide on the PKI that they want to make a lauding film about them, which they find a completely normal thing, and they happily participate in the reenactment of events, happily sharing details about theor old war-stories such asremoved minors and killing their own family members. The documentary is about how they behave when told the lie that it’s going to be a positive film about the genocide, and how normal everyone finds this.

probably tied to try and divert progressives in Spain from the corruption scandal unveiled last week affecting some of the closest members of PSOE to Pedro Sánchez

I think it’s the reverse: these scandals are coming out now, just when it became clear that the Spanish government was considering not agreeing with the 5%-rule.

They need unanimity to decide that 5% becomes a NATO-rule.

An Indian revolution might be in the cards in the coming decades

I want to believe, but the communist movement in India is much weaker than a decade ago. The different communist parties in India now have 9 members of parliament whereas they had 59 in 2004. The CPI(M) currently governs 1 state (Kerala), while it lost the governance of Tripura and West-Bengal - in West-Bengal it’s position deteriorated quickly from being the dominant political force for multiple decade, to complete irrelevance and zero representatives in the regional parliament.

What do you think of the perspective that Arnaud Bertrand has on China’s lack of involvement in the Iran-West-conflict?

He says: pentagon planners lament the fact that the US might fight another war in the Middle-East, which obstructs their desired pivot to China. They don’t like that the US is spending recources on fighting endless adversaries everywhere while China keeps focusing on expanding their industrial capacity. In essence: a conflict with Iran is a distraction if you want to prevent China from becoming the hegemon.