Alternate Skiffy

Subversive anthropologist

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

📍🇯🇵 NEW:

Japan’s record defense budget threatens to destabilize northeast Asia.

The Defense Ministry’s 2027 8.9T yen (~$56.5B US) budget request sets a new post-WWII record and could climb to up.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Danish Military Museum Sends Two Soviet-Era Armored Vehicles to Ukraine

According to TV2, the Panzermuseum East museum has provided Ukraine with a BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle and an MT-LB tracked transport vehicle, both dating from the early 1960s. The museum's owner, Allan Pedersen, stated that Ukrainian specialists will be able to bring them to combat readiness "within a few days."

The BMP-1 retains its standard 73mm gun, while the MT-LB, previously used as a radar vehicle, will likely be "modernized with equipment for intercepting missiles."

The TV2 report notes that Ukraine has repeatedly contacted the museum requesting military equipment and has made similar requests to other European museums.

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

Lavrov in regards to the Lithuanian FM's statements about attacking Kaliningrad:

"They need to somehow confirm that they exist. Only in contrast to the famous philosopher who said 'I think, therefore I exist' - these just exist" 😎

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇪🇸‼️🚨 SPAIN WANTS TO DEPORT WORKING WHITE GIRLS - KEEP AGGRESSIVE ILLEGALS

These girls speak Spanish perfectly, work, and pay taxes… yet face deportation. FFS

Where is the meme “This is how liberals would protect the border if the immigrants were hot girls?” … fits well

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

It’s scary how normal and acceptable this fascist bigotry is in American political culture. This is a sitting congresswoman.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Only 2% of the French population actually resisted NAZI occupation of their country while 10% actually collaborated with it. In the Netherlands only 0.5% participated in any act of resistance. Some things are not a surprise if you know your history…

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: President Trump Is Ready to Withdraw from the War Against Iran If the Strait of Hormuz Is Reopened - WSJ

Donald Trump has told his administration that he could Leave without having Reached a Nuclear Deal with Iran

[George Szamuely @GeorgeSzamuely]

Kosovo comes from the South Slavic word "kos," meaning blackbird. The medieval Serbian place-name Kosovo is generally understood as "field of blackbirds" (kos + the possessive/relational suffix -ovo), hence Serbian Kosovo Polje — "Field of Blackbirds."

Replacing the "o" in "Kosovo" with an "a" doesn't make the name Albanian or sound Albanian.

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇷🇺⚡Overnight, the Russian MoD carried out a devastating strike on the port city of Odessa. Warehouses, fuel storages and military used infrastructures were destroyed.

The crucial bridge connecting the ports of Odessa to the Ukrainian military southern grouping was also damaged.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

"The United States needs to initiate a dialogue with Moscow on shaping a new European security architecture in order to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, George Beebe, former CIA director for Russia analysis, said on Glenn Diesen’s YouTube channel."
https://t.co/ME5fhyQRBI

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The thing your argument cannot account for, my friend, is the infrastructure.

Full blown capitalism does not build more than 50,000 kilometers of high-speed rail and make it available to the general population at subsidized prices.

Full blown capitalism does not connect more than 1.1 billion people to the internet through decades of state-directed investment in telecommunications infrastructure.

Full blown capitalism does not direct its largest banks to lend at policy-determined rates to strategic industries regardless of short-term profit maximization.

Full blown capitalism does not look at a global pandemic, determine that it needs a domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity, and produce and administer 3.5 billion doses primarily through state-organized distribution.

What you are describing as "full blown capitalism" produced outcomes that full blown capitalism, in its actual existing form in countries where it actually operates, has specifically and repeatedly failed to produce.

America has no high-speed rail to speak of.

America has 4% of the world's population and nearly 20% of its prison population.

America has the highest healthcare costs in the world and the worst health outcomes among wealthy nations.

America has bridges rated structurally deficient in every major city.

This is what full blown capitalism actually looks like when it runs a country without a state strong enough to direct it.

What China built is visibly different from that.

Calling it the same thing is not analysis.

It is the refusal to look at what is actually in front of you because looking would require updating a framework you find comfortable.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

This is so very sad. Joe Biden shouldn’t be sitting at home dying of cancer, he should be sitting in a cell in The Hague dying of cancer.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin:

“You said that the dollar was used as a weapon. It is true, and we see that. I think it is a great mistake by those who do it.

Since the use of the dollar, which is still the most important tool in global finance, as a political tool undermines trust in this currency, thereby reducing its capabilities.

We are not the ones who do that. It’s others.

We are not rejecting the dollar or fighting against it. But if they don’t let us work with it, what else should we do?

We should seek other alternatives, and this is exactly what we do.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That was 10 years ago

Imagine 10 years from now

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Despicable

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Andy Burnham is not going to institute a written UK constitution.
He would have to address not just Scotland but Lords reform. He is much too big a coward to touch either.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇾🇪 Fresh off early morning strikes on Saudi, the Houthis are pounding Yemen’s Al-Mukha Port

The port serves as a key logistics node for the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and National Resistance Forces

Writer: Ian

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Todo el mundo habla de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, pero EEUU bombardeó Tokio meses antes, perpetrando el bombardeo no nuclear más destructivo de la historia con napalm.

100.000 asesinados, 1 millón de civiles quedaron sin hogar, 267.000 viviendas fueron quemadas hasta los cimientos.

¿Sabías que EEUU probó esta arma con napalm a conciencia contra casas de madera japonesas en una simulación en Utah?

Literalmente desde la Universidad de Harvard desarrollaron el arma con napalm y luego diseñaron maquetas de casas de madera japonesas, replicaron un pueblo de Japón, probando y cronometrando cuanto tardarían en arder, pura maldad.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

American media activist:

The United States can always find money for everything, except for taking care of its own citizens.

Wars? Tax breaks for billionaires? Ballrooms? No problem.

Healthcare? Childcare? Food? That's none of our concern, to hell with it all.

[Leshka.eth ⛩ @leshka_eth]

🚨 BREAKING

BUFFETT JUST DUMPED ¥285 BILLION IN JAPANESE BONDS

RIGHT BEFORE JAPAN REVEALS ITS NEW GOVERNMENT DEBT TOTAL ON MONDAY

HE DEFINITELY KNOWS SOMETHING BAD IS COMING