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Poor little Ukraine isn't getting as much war money eith the shutdown deal. What has the world come to

Since this week is Greece, I just want to express my frustration with Yanis and nominate him for the cuck ranking. Dudes new party sucks and he really won't give up on the whole "this isn't capitalism" bullshit

In the end, Feinstein's legacy isn't about her policies or the lives she touched. It's about how magnificently she epitomized stagnation.

Updates on my Marxist reading journey: I'm waiting for my books to come in the mail and I read a bit of Engels yesterday for the first time and OH MY GOD he is so much easier to read than Marx. I only read an introduction to the creation of the middle class in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific and I felt like it was a contemporary writer the whole time.

Also I finished Wage Labor and Capital and now I'm seeing that, if value increases for one thing, it comes from the decrease in value of something else in everything. Like things only improve at the expense of another. Is that dialectics? Lol. Anyway I'm obsessed with reading now more than I have been in a long time, perhaps because I feel challenged. Let's see how long it lasts; I have a LONG ass reading list so I feel like I have to read as fast as possible before my brain randomly decides that it doesn't care anymore.

US tries to play hardball with India

I don't know what the state dept is smoking

aight my beautiful news mega do yall have a link to the study finding little evidence there was any russian interference in our elections

If Trump loses in 2024, he's going to run again in 2028 and it will be the peak of grotesque Trump comedy. He will be 82 by that years election day

Biden’s Middle East deal is a disaster, from Hoffman at the Cato Institute (shudder), writing in Responsible Statecraft (news site of the Quincy Institute). Some weird cope in here about Russia and China but it is an indicator of what the ghouls are fighting about in the upper echelons of the United States.

The Biden administration is currently considering going where no other president has gone before: offering a formal security guarantee to Saudi Arabia and helping the kingdom develop a civilian nuclear program in return for Riyadh normalizing relations with Israel.

President Biden and his team argue that the United States has a national security interest in brokering such a deal, even if that means massive and unprecedented concessions to Riyadh.

Biden and his team are wrong. Entering into a mutual security agreement with Saudi Arabia would represent a catastrophic miscalculation. A security guarantee for Saudi Arabia would entrap Washington as Riyadh’s protector despite a fundamental disconnect between the interests and values of the United States and the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia seeks increased security commitments in return for formally normalizing relations with Israel, a country with which it is already strategically aligned. This is part of a deliberate strategy by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) to exploit growing fears in Washington that the United States is losing influence in the Middle East relative to other actors such as Russia or China.

As the Wall Street Journal reported, “in private, Saudi officials said, the crown prince has said he expects that by playing major powers against each other, Saudi Arabia can eventually pressure Washington to concede to its demands for better access to U.S. weapons and nuclear technology.”

And yet, though Russia and China have expanded their respective footprints in the Middle East, neither Moscow nor Beijing can fill an American void in the Middle East, nor do they desire to. States within the region are aware of the limitations facing Russia and China. Saudi Arabia and other U.S. regional partners have cultivated Washington’s anxiety about losing its position relative to Russia or China and are pressing for major policy concessions, resulting in a type of “reverse leverage.”

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This is precisely the lens through which Riyadh views its possible entry into the Abraham Accords: as a way to pressure the United States into granting the kingdom sweeping concessions and guaranteeing Washington remains its ultimate protector over the long term. Washington’s ongoing support for actors like Saudi Arabia has resulted in a vicious cycle: by committing itself to propping up the underlying sources of regional instability, the United States repeatedly finds itself having to confront challenges that are largely the product of its own presence, policies, and partners in the Middle East. Making things even more obscene, Washington may be deepening its commitment to these illiberal states at a time when it has become clear that the region hardly matters to U.S. national security.

How to be a successful NATO leftist influencer:

1. Talk like an irl Twitter poster in a smarmy voice with epic one-liners

2. Dunk on culture warriors like Matt Walsh and every vile TikToker you come across on your feed

3. Continue to dunk on those clowns through Twitter so people can screenshot your epic wins

4. Make sure to be a little edgy and poke some fun at people to your left in order to let your growing liberal fanbase know you aren't THAT kind of leftist

5. Mention Marx and other famous Left-Wing intellectuals to simultaneously keep your left-wing credentials

6. Slowly pivot to defending the Liberal Party of the country you live in: Dems, LibDems/ Labour/ , Canadian Liberals, German Greens, Australian Labor Party, etc. But focus way more on the American Democrats because 90% of your fanbase will probably be American

7. Make sure to let everyone know that China and Russia are bad country's with bad policy's. You can reference the Soviet Union and talk about how good it is now that it no longer exists

8. Finally begin to call out tankies and purge any leftist in your communities

You have now become a successful left-wing grifter and you can either continue on the Liberal path or eventually give the right-wing grift a shot if you want even more money at some point.

Edit: I forgot to add a step of making videos on how various pieces of pop culture are actually leftist from video games to Hollywood films

Maintenance guy at my apartment is Cuban. Fled during the special era. I'm wondering if he noticed my theory books. I hide my Blowback Fidel poster when he comes over

Biden won't actually make it to the UAW picket line today. Somehow he'll be blocked by Republicans so that he can throw up his hands and say "I really wanted to go but I can't".

This is the KHive playbook

Buying up American farmland not part of China’s agricultural investment strategy, US panel told

Buying American farmland is not part of China’s current agricultural investment strategy, US lawmakers heard at a hearing by the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday. “We’re seeing investments in farmland in places in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, as well as Russia. But by and large, China’s foreign investments in farmland have bypassed North America,” said David Ortega, a professor and economist at Michigan State University.

There was also “no clear evidence” that foreign land ownership was causing American farmland prices to rise, Ortega said. Nor did such ownership threaten “our ability to produce food”, he added. Foreign ownership accounts for about 3 per cent of privately held agricultural land in the US, and Chinese entities own less than 1 per cent of that amount.