well drumpf is a fake billionaire πππ because he's an idiot businessman π a small loan of a million dollars covfefe ππππππ so that five figure fine will really hurt him!
it will be so incredibly funny if Trump's polling numbers go up after all this.
chuds freaking out because their beloved leader, the most innocent man who has ever existed, was imprisoned by the woke communist dictator Brandon, while the libs are freaking out even harder as their election prospects continue to sink despite - maybe even because of - putting Trump in prison. I thrive on schadenfreude, so watching both sides eat shit is really 
President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia, but only near the Kharkiv region, US officials say.
this just feels like a reconfirmation of what Ukraine was already doing. they were already shelling Belgorod
I've been increasingly getting less worried about NATO involvement for this exact reason. They simply do not have the ability to fight these kinds of wars anymore, neither in terms of top-level command and doctrine, nor in terms of possessing the troops and equipment necessary. The one thing that NATO possesses is a lot of aircraft, but all aircraft has to land at some point, often on actual airfields and not just roads, and that makes them vulnerable against a near-peer enemy. The NATO idea of how to fight a war and conduct an offensive was put into practice during the summer counteroffensive last year and that was one of the greatest failures of the entire war so far, with the only actual gains, such that they existed, coming when Ukraine abandoned it and went back to the way they were fighting before.
I mean, look at fucking Yemen. Before that debacle, I was at least willing to listen to the people who believed that the US could really pose a big threat to China if a war began there. Now that an entire Western mission came together, fell apart almost instantly, and then the remaining tatters failed to even dent the military of one of the poorest countries on the planet posing a major threat to a critical strait, and that the US has failed to even construct a single pier when they weren't being actively shot at, the mere concept of the US trying to meaningfully challenge China just seems ridiculous.
So, don't fear conscription in Western countries - they don't have the ability to acquire or build the vehicles and guns for the troops to use at this point, let alone all the infrastructure that would have to be created around training those troops effectively (by NATO standards). And don't fear NATO involvement in Ukraine somehow defeating Russia. Fear what will happen if NATO marches in, thinking this is just like other wars, and not learning that they shouldn't put all their troops and equipment in one place because concentrating forces is a critical error for both sides in this war - and that NATO force getting fucking annihilated in a couple hypersonic missile strikes. Because it just might become nuclear sooner rather than later, and then we all better hope that Posadas was right.
The US has a shitload of resources, such as oil, metals, lithium, rare earths even. Somebody who thinks that the reason why the US invaded the Middle East was primarily for oil will be very surprised when they learn that the US is actually an oil and gas-producing titan, higher than many petrostates even.
The problem isn't "oh golly gee, we just can't find this resource so we have to invade other countries for it!" The problem is that the profitability of extracting those resources inside the US is low, while in countries with fewer labour protections, the profitability is much higher. Additionally, training workers for more advanced jobs like refining lithium and rare earths can be a significant problem because apparently the capitalists don't wanna bother with it, if the failing plan for American workers to work at Taiwan-built chip plants in Arizona or Nevada or wherever they're trying to build it is any indication.
just like the western "realists" who are unable to predict or respond to crises because they regard everything as a political/ideological/national contest ("the cold war was a battle between capitalism and communism!") and neglect economic factors like imperialism. just something about these kinds of disciplines that is unable to comprehend a critical part of the global system
The Faroe Islanders are up to something
American total electricity generation hasn't meaningfully increased since like 2000 and I don't think anybody here believes that it'll be going up any time soon, especially with the renewable energy tariffs. So basically they're gonna turn these things on and it'll be the Texas blackout disasters all over again
Yemen has announced the targetting of 6 ships. 3 in the Red Sea, 2 in the Arabian Sea, and 1 in the Mediterranean sea - the oil tanker Minerva Antonia. Of the 6 targetted, the Yemeni government has said only 1 (in the Red Sea) was hit and damaged.
βIranβs technical know-how to produce such anti-ship missiles is now at the disposal of the Yemeni military forces,β Tasnim said. Tehranβs first locally manufactured anti-ship ballistic missile, the Qadr missile, was developed over ten years ago by late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Brigadier General Hassan Tehrani-Moqaddam. According to Tasnim, Yemenβs Muhit missile β revealed in a military parade in the capital, Sanaa, in September last year β is directly modeled after the Iranian Qadr missile. The Muhit has a range of around 400 kilometers.
The Armed Forces of Yemenβs Sanaa government β which is militarily aligned with the Ansarallah resistance movement β has possessed surface-to-air missiles for several years. Following the start of the Saudi-led coalitionβs war on the country in 2015, the Yemeni Armed Forces revealed its Qaher missiles, which were converted from surface-to-air missiles to surface-to-surface missiles.
Washington and other western nations accuse Iran of smuggling weapons to Ansarallah in Yemen. However, Yemen has been under a tight Saudi-led blockade for nearly ten years, making bringing arms into the country extremely difficult. Sanaaβs Armed Forces are also still in possession of weapons stockpiles from the Soviet era and have been known to locally produce weapons.
Additionally, inside Gaza, it seems Hamas is indeed making the capture of Israel troops a trend - so Israel is doing the classic doctrine and killing their own troops before they can be captured.
Is there anything specific that they've said that Ukraine should be able to hit? Because I haven't seen Ukraine have the slightest restraint in hitting Russian territory with anything before; Russian airfields, oil refineries, early warning stations, railway stations, civilians in towns, etc. I'm unsure exactly what this move would allow that wasn't previously being done. Or is it just the belief that being able to do it with NATO weapons instead of drones and their own missiles would magically have more measurable success?