Didn't Isreal get a lot of their nuclear program from straight up stealing blueprints from the American program? Think I remember a few of the insane right wingers on twitter making that point before I blocked them all and Elon deleted my account.
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Anyone else familiar with the claim that Israel has nuclear missiles aimed at major European cities?
A decent chunk of Arabs speak french and follow french news, so in combination with the Baguette Satan's insistence on always antagonizing their arab populations it's probably a more logical choice than it first appears.
Haven't had a chance to post in a while, so just quickly telling everyone that I had a kid about a month ago, and recently finished my paternerty(?) leave, so my posting should begin to become more regular again as I go back to working my boring office job.
Do most countries in SEA actually have any type of grievance with the ROK? As far as I know the only "enemies" that are close them are their brothers in the north and then China whom they accuse of supporting the north, while also trading so much with China that it makes up a sizeable amount of korean exports. Also i thought that Korea was much angrier with Japan than Japan was with them.
I mean, did Canada have a significant ethnic minority that people were afraid of the same extend that white america feared black/brown america? A lot harder to do white flight if the people who remain in the cities are also white. The only real ethnic conflict in Canada in the immediate post war period was between the French Canadians and the majority Anglo Canadians, and even the palest englishman is not really all that afraid of a french guy.
Obviously not correcting you, just wondering if my explanation makes sense, since Canadian history isn't really a thing that people can passively pick up for the most part.
Is Nicaragua about to be couped again? I can't imagine a smaller country in latin america being "allowed" by the Americans to join anything that is China-led.
Isn't it completely hopeless to get this kind of agreement with South Korea, given their reliance on the Americans for basically anything? Or is there some anti-american push from the neoliberals in charge of South Korea that I don't know about?
That movie was fucking weird. It looked like they changed script halfway through and suddenly you had a Jackie Chan movie rather than the way more interesting Nothern Ireland / IRA movie that the first half was about.
Also when I watched it while visiting my parents, I had to restrain myself from singing the IRA songs, since the movie doesn't really make them out to be the good guys and my parents are mega libs.
Shortly after writing my comment I took the time to listen to the TrueAnon ep with the same author (Ep. 290 - "The Beast" I think it's called). And the author makes some pretty compelling points, in particular about the very term "cartel" being incredibly misleading as a name for it, especially given the propensity towards infighting that regularly happens. Also the quote from El Chapo's son was pretty funny in a dark way.
Anyway what I'm saying is: Listen to TrueAnon on this, the author really seems to know his shit. Also Brace and Liz are somehow better at interviews than most other podcasts I listen to, which is strange.
The difference is that Ian Miles Cheong lives in Malaysia and AFAIK has not set foot in America since like 2016. At the very least Andy Ngo actually lives in the US and can justify his persecution fetish by pointing at Antifa in portland or w/e.
So I can't access that book currently, but is the argument that the US invented the concept of the organized drug cartel wholesale, or that the West doesn't understand that any specific cartel is mostly just a loose grouping of self-interested narco-producers and traffickers.
The Moroccan royal family has been firmly on the side of Israel ever since Israel began fighting against the Arab republics. Along with loving all that sweet Israeli millitary gear that Morocco buys from them to use against the Sarawi indepedence movement in Western Sahara.
It's also pretty disgusting how like half of Morocco seems to dream about leaving morocco to move to France, as if most of the Moroccan economic problems aren't due to the fucking frogs in the first place.