A Yeti

Solidarity 🚩

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

I'm unsure if Isaac Chotiner has ever interviewed a dumber-sounding human being, good Lord.https://t.co/4mW4Fahaxa

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

An attack by Trump + Netanyahu that violates international law on a fabricated pretext, killed innocent civilians & children, destroyed world heritage sites, spiked prices for consumers and sparked attacks on innocent neighbouring countries, is absolutely not “worth it”.

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@RadioFreeTom @FogBelter @DemFromCT So what were the "operational successes?"

The murder of over 100 school children?

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@RadioFreeTom Cope

Iran defeated the combined forces of the United States and Israel.

You weren't betrayed. You didn't stumble. You just lost.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

In order to believe the war was an “operational success” but strategic failure you have to take seriously Trump’s claims that he sunk the Iranian navy or whatever.

Let’s be serious: Operationally, in reality, Iran destroyed our bases and drove away our aircraft carrier groups. They scared our troops into hotels. They closed the strait by force. We never succeeded in stopping them from firing missiles. Our planes and helicopters and MQ9s were downed.

An F5 got through our air defenses and lit up our Kuwaiti base; our allies responded by accidentally shooting down 3 of our planes.

In the past, it would take a Soviet level of direct censorship to get the press to describe that as operational success.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Again the Iran deal is not the “defeat,” it’s **an acknowledgement of defeat**, the defeat already happened and was decided on the battlefield because the US attempted regime change/civil war and failed. The MOU is simply acknowledging reality and thus a necessary and good step.

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@RichMendezJr She was and is right

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@fredder @avilewis Zzzz

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@BertaLovin @avilewis There is only one country in the world which has used nuclear weapons against another and it isn't Iran

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@nullcast357 @avilewis No one loves death more than the United States and its allies

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Fascinating argument by Bloomberg's top energy analyst Javier Blas 👇: he argues that China effectively saved the world economy during the Iran war by absorbing the brunt of the global oil supply shock on its own, without visible economic damage.

According to his calculations, China "cut its average daily waterborne oil imports by the same amount as the combined oil consumption of Germany, France and the UK."

And, still according to Blas, they "did so without suffering economic harm" because they could rely on many levers: their huge strategic petroleum reserve, a massive surge in EV usage, their remaining coal-fired electricity capacity, and coal-to-chemicals replacing lost feedstocks.

Had China not been ready to absorb that blow, a good argument can be made that the economic damage to the West, and the world at large, would have spiraled far beyond what we saw.

Effectively, China's energy strategy at all levels (petroleum reserves, EVs, etc.) and its ability to withstand huge supply shocks paid off for everyone, not just for them.

It sounds awfully familiar: in 2008 too it was China's stimulus package and continuous buying of US Treasuries that averted a complete breakdown of the global financial system.

So twice in 20 years the country the West loves to present as a "threat" to the global economy effectively saved it from a US-made global economic disaster 🤷

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@SwampCommunist You're just revealing your ignorance of theory or of the modern state of teaching or both.

Professors work for a wage, they do not rely on ownership of means of production nor do they employ others.

"Has a relatively good job" is not the definition of bourgeois.

[The Cosmopolitan Patriot 🌎 @AndromedaPip]

@SwampCommunist @IqrisL64399 This is Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto saying that lawyers, physicians, priests, and poets have been turned into proletarians. So why not professors?

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@SwampCommunist @IqrisL64399 The reserve army of labour for professors also known as teaching assistants, research assistants, graduate students, and other otherwise members of academia who have been forced to take up lesser skilled work but are nevertheless ready to replace professors in an instant?

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

Suffragettes in the UK carried out dozens of bombings and arson attacks between 1912-1914 that killed at least four people

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@AshVsEvil1 @NahidPoureisa Participation is helping reveal the petty, racist nature of the United States for those who aren't already aware.

And surprisingly many people are in that category.

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@ryangrim @christoaivalis To be fair...

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@jessisajew lol

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@MikeTappTweets @ZackPolanski States have a legal and moral obligation to prevent genocide.

Your government is complicit both in the genocide itself and also in efforts to crush any dissent.

Do you support your government as it does these things?

[A Yeti @PhilippAchtel]

@Solana_Emperor @eurofootcom He's a human being unlike you