The Atlantic is hysterical because China refused to become the economy the West wanted:
cheap labor forever,
low-end factories forever,
a consumer market for Western brands forever,
and never a serious industrial competitor.
Now China makes EVs, solar panels, steel, machinery, robots, and advanced manufacturing products at scale — and suddenly affordable goods are a “global threat.”
Please.
The West subsidizes banks and calls it stability.
Subsidizes weapons and calls it security.
Subsidizes farmers and calls it protection.
Subsidizes chips and calls it strategy.
But when China supports real industries that produce real goods for real people, it becomes “distortion.”
So no.
China is not taking everyone down.
China is exposing how little the West has left once cheap moral lectures stop working.
🇺🇸🇺🇦US Hands Out AI Drones to Ukrainian Nazis
▪️Western media has widely reported "medium range strikes" on Russian targets by AI-enabled drones with claims that it is complicating logistics specifically to Crimea;
▪️Many sources, like the BBC, cover up the US role altogether - others like France24 not only admit the "Hornet" drones were developed by the US, but that they were handed over to Ukrainian military units like Azov who include in all their drone footage Nazi-insignia watermarks;
▪️France24 admits: "The US-designed Hornet was developed by the American company Perennial Autonomy, which was founded and financed by former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. This drone is frequently used in US Army training exercises. However, in July 2025, Perennial Autonomy – then called Swift Beat – made a deal to supply Ukraine with drones," and that, "Elite Ukrainian units like the Azov and Khartia Brigades have been posting images of Hornet drones striking Russian supply convoys;"
▪️While the US-made Hornet drones give Ukraine this ability, Russia has already been using AI-guided drones for battlefield air interdiction operations along with vastly greater numbers of FPVs, Geran, as well as many times more missiles, guided glide bombs, and guided rockets;
▪️While both sides have the ability to complicate each other's logistics - only Russia has the additional manpower, armor, and other equipment required to actually exploit it and translate it into territory gained and attrition imposed;
Sources:
BBC - Ukraine using AI drones to strike vital convoys supplying Russian troops (May 30, 2026):
https://t.co/SiEJvIGI0I
France24 - Ukraine: How a kamikaze drone partially operated by AI is attacking Russian convoys (Jun. 1, 2026):
https://t.co/HEddSKGXT4
The Telegraph - Ukraine crisis: the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists (article not only admits Azov are Nazis but admits the Wolfsangel they use is inspired by WW2 Nazi military formations - 2014):
https://t.co/W2CF6dG4MB
Wikipedia - Wolfsangel:
https://t.co/jeZweKx5Mr
The Russian attack on Ukraine was unprovoked? No, that is a full lie!
Kiev sent the Azov batallion to Donbass to kill ethnic Russians who lives there as proper Ukrainians.
The world has reported this, seen it and decided to quickly forget it.
Lest we forget, here is a reminder. To all my haters: l found someone to summarise ...
The terrible Ukrainians are doing unspeakable things.
@NotNativeGuy@AislinToo@cutoffs_io You know nothing!
Ownership structure of foreign corporations in either countries is similar.
Fuyao Glass is operating like many American corporations in China.
@HatTrick72678@AislinToo@cutoffs_io I'm a Nigerian! So what??
You're dumb to think being an American means you have more intelligence & access to global information than others.
If you're so smart, how come you have people in your Senate & Congress for many decades?
No wonder your archaic policies never change!
😡
@HatTrick72678@AislinToo@cutoffs_io Typical dumb American! Your response was expected.
You can't live with the fact that the "Chinks" are rescuing your corporations from collapse. 😝
You demonize the CPC, pejoratively calling it CCP, b'cos you refuse to accept they made China become an economic & tech superpower.
GLI SPENGONO IL MICROFONO IN DIRETTA.
#UE#Europa#Ucraina#Russia#NATO
Sub. Ita 🇮🇹
L'europarlamentare Grzegorz Braun, osa alzarsi e dire una verità scomoda al Parlamento Europeo:
«Smettete di fingere di aiutare l’Ucraina. Prolungando questa guerra con armi e miliardi, state solo sacrificando altro sangue ucraino e distruggendo il futuro del continente.»
Il microfono viene spento all’istante. Parla nel vuoto, mentre la sua voce viene cancellata davanti a tutta Europa.
La presidente di turno, con arroganza da regime criminale, gli risponde che non può sostenere quella posizione, perché equivarrebbe a «fare il gioco della Russia», un Paese «senza libertà di espressione».
Il paradosso è mostruoso.
Ti spengono la parola.
Ti censurano in diretta.
E lo fanno nel nome della democrazia e della libertà di espressione.
È il livello di ipocrisia che solo un’istituzione ormai marcia fino al midollo può raggiungere.
Questa non è più l’Europa
dei popoli.
È un’oligarchia ideologica
che non tollera dissenso, esattamente come i regimi che dice di combattere.
Basta.
È ora di dire basta a questa Unione Europea autoritaria, bugiarda e suicida.
Italiani, svegliamoci.
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
@angertab "Russian disinformation"??
The US-led West controls 80% of the int'l info-space! Western search engines, which dominate global search, except China, essentially permit you to see what they decides are facts.
Just Google #Starobelsk, or a Twitter search. You get almost nothing!
@AislinToo@cutoffs_io Do you have any idea there are several dozen US corporations operating in China, & own property & companies there, earning almost $1T in annual revenues?
Tesla, Amazon, Apple, Starbuck, Nvidia, etc..
Well, China can play your moronic game too.
One of the most concerning aspects about the United States’ Iran War strategy is that it significantly underestimates the availability of Iranian response IF the economic pain from the blockade and Operation Economic Fury become severe.
This is one of the core reasons why I hold the belief that Iran is not particularly concerned about mass domestic uprisings, and why they are not moving an inch at the negotiating table.
Throughout the past month in particular, the term “escalation dominance” has been used so many times it’s almost a joke at this point. But it is true.
Iran has a plethora of options they COULD use if need be, and each of these options would be downright catastrophic for the global economy.
Most notably, and this is something people have been talking about since the very first day of the war, is that Iran could quite easily shut down the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. In effect, this would more or less double the current global economic crisis spiral. As we have seen with maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, just a few drones or missiles is enough of a threat for vessels to halt their navigation.
Iran can cut undersea Internet cables. This is something that they themselves have threatened just in the past few weeks. Again… a pretty extreme move, but for a country legitimately facing an existential threat from what they consider to be the “Great and Little Satan”? I’d count on it.
They can strike and destroy even more Gulf energy infrastructure. Time and time again, we see that U.S. defenses that the Gulf countries depend on for their safety fail to be able to effectively protect against Iranian attacks. The only reason the global energy crisis is not far worse, is purely due to restraint from Iran.
These are only a few of the MANY options Iran would have to escalate if need be.
At this time, however, Iran seems MORE confident in their control on power. Not less.
Just this past week, Iran reactivated the Internet for the population after a historically long shut down. Now, to be fair, it is still heavily filtered and restricted, but this is not the action of a government fearful of being overthrown.
The Iranian stock exchange also reopened just a few weeks ago, and just last week saw the first time all positions ended the day in the green. If Iran was fearful of mass chaos, reopening the stock market would not be the move they would take.
All of these are actions of a regime MORE confident in their support from the people… not less.
But IF, and it is a very major if, they find that they miscalculated on the economic warfare battle between Iran and the United States. IF they find that they are losing the battle of the Dueling Blockades… then they can escalate.
Iran has calculated that they can endure economic pain far longer than not just the United States, but more importantly, the global economy. And so far? They’re 100% correct.
Inflation in Iran, while absolutely eye popping at ~80% year over year, has not notably risen since the blockade was imposed. In fact, over the previous 11 months, inflation averaged out to about 6.5% month over month. Since the blockade? About 8%. Bad? Absolutely. Notable worse than Iranian’s were already accustomed to? No.
Exchange Rates between the Iranian Toman and the U.S. Dollar also has not been impacted… hardly at all? On February 27th, the exchange rate between the Rial and USD stood at 172,050:$1. Terrible, obviously. But now a full three months into the conflict, and 51 days into the blockade? 173,900:$1. Total percent change over the last 3 months? 1.08%. Month over month change? 0.36%.
Oil well shut-ins? Oil storage capacity issues? Give me a break.
So, while the United States and Iran continue to wage the Battle of Blockades, while the global economy hangs in the balance of the outcome, Iran does not need to cross their fingers and hope the same way that the Trump Administration does.
If the time comes? Iran will escalate.
Hard.
El verdadero desafío para Occidente es que China gradúa miles de ingenieros cada año y los incorpora rápidamente a sectores productivos. Esa capacidad técnica impulsa gran parte de su crecimiento económico y tecnológico. 🇨🇳 #Geopolítica#Economía
@NeverTr74704466@Justice4Wo@Terenceshen Israel bombed Iranian embassy in Syria in 2024. Where was your condemnation of Israel, and advocating for military action against Israel?
It's this selfishness, double-standards & hypocrisy that's made many nation detest the US government, & citizens like you.
@NeverTr74704466@Justice4Wo@Terenceshen Iran didn't attack you, you supported the repressive Shah of Iran against the people of Iran!
In 1953, you sided with the British to overthrow the democratically elected president Mossadegh, & reinstated the monarchy. You think the Iranians love you for that?