Hyperreality

They were getting more radical anyway.

It's important to remember that there are no 'good guys' in this whole shit show.

Iran was probably involved in the October 7th attacks. Some media even reported the IRGC claimed it was a reprisal for the death of Soleimani, although Hamas (and later Iran) denied it.

Just because the Israeli government is filled with Jewish supremacists and fascists, doesn't mean the Iranian's are the good guys. For example, they tortured and executed up to 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, a similar death toll to Israel's in Gaza.

Too much military industrial complex money in politics.

It's shocking to realise how much of capitalism is just irrational bullshit tulip mania nonsense.

Sure, AI's going to change the world, but some of the valuations are absurd.

Israelis aren't watching Al-Jazeera and they aren't protesting because of human rights abuses in Gaza. They've been largely insulated from that as their media focus on the hostages and what happened on October 7th.

Things are escalating towards a larger war.

Like China, but don't like China.

Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia. Although Vietnam remains officially committed to socialism as its defining creed, its economic policies have grown increasingly capitalist, with The Economist characterising its leadership as "ardently capitalist communists". Under the constitution, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) asserts their role in all branches of the country's politics and society. The president is the elected head of state and the commander-in-chief of the military, serving as the chairman of the Council of Supreme Defence and Security, and holds the second highest office in Vietnam as well as performing executive functions and state appointments and setting policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam#Government_and_politics