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Obviously by agitprop, Putin wants to be the first to win the new Cold War without even firing a single shot.
It may be working in the short term but in the medium term MAGA may be imploding as real people get their faces eaten by leopards and become disillusioned with the movement.
Also it's a cult of personality meaning it requires active maintenance by the leader, meanwhile Trump is actively melting and may not even have enough of a personality to count eventually.
Reminds me of an old soviet joke:
While that may be true there is a near universal fact I have observed with cults. When the original leader dies they bleed manpower well that or they fracture like a khaganate, though that can be stopped with sufficiently competent successors, I greatly doubt anyone can hold this particular mess together.
I think Trump's main leverage was the Epstein files and the people that thought they would be "exposed" for associating with him. Trump learned from Roy Cohn (there's someone to read up on.. the guy was an absolute POS) to lean into people that were a bit dirty and use their shame (something Trump has almost none of) to control them. Couch Fucker Vance has squat and if Trump croaks or falls totally apart, the House and Senate are going to eat him alive once he assumes the Presidency..
That doesn't mean much. It just means the next snake oil salesman that appeals to their base emotions will win their dumb hearts.
Regular, factual and continued education is the only way out of this mess. Note the present dismantlement of said Department.
All those snake oil salesmen are looking ning up for the 2028 primary, and it's going to be entertaining.
Trump will endorse his son, so that he can win, Trump can be Chief of Staff, and they'll hire a woman to be assistant Chief of Staff, and make her do all the work, and fetch coffee. If he wins, Trump will sit at the Resolute desk, and Jr will sit at a card table with a folding chair. Every day will be bring your senile father to work day.
Vance will have Usha deported, and marry Erika Kirk, who will divorce him when he flames out for president, after getting caught with a rentboy, pissing off his Sugar Daddy Peter Theil, who will break up with him, and then spend a billion bucks destroying his life.
Rubio will stagger around wide-eyed and clueless as usual.
MTG will make all of her appearances dressed like a Star Spangled Rodeo Clown.
And then there will be 20 other MAGA narcissists in line, whose candidacies will all fall apart one by one, as their campaigns fall apart when various scandals come to light.
And the Dems will put up several worthy challengers, several terrible candidates, pick the worst one, and lose.
A bomb only explodes for a few miliseconds. The problem is the damage it does persists.
This case it's a dirty bomb.
China's way ahead.
I hear there was a power outage in Zhenjiang and everyone I didn't like on the Internet disappeared
Nice try Xi.
Indeed. They have our infrastructure by the balls. As soon as we try and stop them from taking Taiwan, if that even happens, we will stop having water power and gas in short order.
After 8 hours without water hospitals stop working. Think about that for a minute.
Wait what
In what way does China control the infrastructure? That's concerning
Is it like, they make the software and can killswitch it?
So, water and power infrastructure use shitty old industrial control systems, are most if not all are on the Internet, run at a financial deficit, and are generally not well maintained. They don't have the time, funding, manpower or knowledge to decrease their attack surface nor to operate manually rather than via the junk ICS they're using.
They (volt typhoon) practiced in mennasotas infrastructure and iirc sat in there 300 days and they had full control. They're using several novel attack vectors, have as of August, built a presence in police, fire, hospital, electric, power, and gas infrastructure.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-badbox-20-android-malware-infects-millions-of-consumer-devices/
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa24-038a
https://cybersecuritynews.com/amazon-catches-north-korean-it-worker/
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa25-343a
The gun is loaded. They're still working for more complete control. The timeline is 2027ish, or whenever China attacks Taiwan and the US steps up.
The attack is expected to be everywhere at once, that way neighboring towns won't be able to give aid because emergency services will be overwhelmed. Mutual aid agreements will fall apart.
Did you know that hospitals stop functioning entirely when water is cut for 8h? A hospital COULD function with water trucks, but not in the case of concurrent attacks.
CISA lost 1000 of it 3300 staff, and they were overtaxed before.
It's bad. Get a lifestraw or Sawyer mini.
I've not even touched on salt typhoons pwnage of telecom and network infrastructure.
Get a Meshtastic radio and a couple handhelds. Baofeng makes very approachable stuff.
The US military is self sufficient, but neither they nor the nat'l guard are equipped to help with this kind of attack.
I can't really share much more right now but there are plenty of reputable sources available online for all this. Just don't start googling before bed. Do yourself a favor.
Would this be dangerous for China to do? It IS a war crime to deprive most of a nation of water.
But would China actually be in real danger, or would the UN just yell at them and do nothing?? Or would there be a war against China?
That's a real good question, one to which I don't have an answer.
It seems to me like there would be a great deal of risk for them to do that.
But then, why are they making so much effort to position themselves to shut off water, power, and gas?
Maybe they'll use it as a prelude to an outright attack? It's hard to know for sure. This seems like at least part of their motivation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/xi-and-putin-s-taiwan-invasion-files-leaked-full-scale-2027-plan-confirmed/vi-AA1SB2cc
But surely they have some secrets.
That does make me wonder what China's outcome of that would be. At this point, the US has alienated so many allies, I have to wonder if we'd still have their full backing or if it would be conditional on tariffs.
Edit: Just saw this in a chat: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3337652/chinese-military-simulated-battles-near-mexico-cuba-and-taiwan-cctv-report-shows
The US is in a precarious international situation here
Some countries would side with the US, and some would oppose China but not side with the US
I feel you're 100% correct about this. The most concerning part is how fluid the situation looks to be. Too much uncertainty.