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@ggreenwald US creates “terrorists” to use them as proxies. 9/11 needs to be further investigated

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The word they always reach for is "provocation."

When North Korea tests a missile, that is a provocation.

When Iran enriches uranium, that is a provocation.

When Venezuela nationalizes its oil, that is a provocation.

When Cuba maintains its political system for more than six decades, that somehow, still, is a provocation.

The word "provocation" implies that there is a "neutral baseline" that is being disturbed.

What is the neutral baseline?

American military bases in 80 countries.

The largest naval force in history patrolling every ocean.

The dollar as global reserve currency enforced by financial architecture that extracts value from the periphery to the center.

The IMF and World Bank imposing structural adjustment programs that have, for more than forty years of documented evidence, consistently transferred wealth from poor countries to rich ones.

That is the baseline.

A country asserting its sovereignty within that baseline is called a "provocation."

The baseline itself is never called a provocation.

Because the main character does not provoke.

The main character simply exists.

And the people who respond to the main character's existence are, by definition, the ones causing the problem.

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@RNDTHOT @Eng_china5 Cope harder. 🤡

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@shivaat @ProudSocialist Cry us a river

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Truly intelligent leadership would recognize how dangerous, futile and wasteful US policy is - but unfortunately the US does not have such leadership.

The US corporate-financier elite are like groups of chimpanzees fighting over fruit trees in the jungle, their primitive minds incapable of comprehending the possibility of simply planting more trees and having endless abundance for everyone and then some...

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 What China's Long March 10B successful launch/recovery means within US plans to encircle, contain, & confront China...

▪️One of the US' remaining advantages is its ability to launch more payload to orbit each year than China and Russia combined - allowing it to not only build larger constellations of satellites like Starlink and its fully militarized version, Starshield faster, but in the event of orbital warfare (anti-satellite operations) the US could replace their own faster than China and Russia can even deploy them in the first place;

▪️When China ramps up its actual launch cadence with launch reusability, it will be able to at least match, if not surpass the US;

▪️This will benefit China and its allies like Russia tremendously with both larger and more capable constellations than the US, as well as the ability to eliminate US satellites and replace their own at a higher rate;

▪️That means there is now another rapidly closing window the US has to exploit before this transition takes place, and this advantage is neutralized;

▪️The only question now is how long will it take for China to catch up, and what will the US try to do in the interim to exploit its current advantage before it no longer exists?

▪️The likely window closes around 2030 - another reason the US keeps projecting "war" with China - because 2030 is the point of no return, not just for space, but AI and whatever other advantages the US still has;

▪️For people wondering why China isn't going to war with the US over Palestine or Iran or wherever else, it is likely because Beijing tracks China's rise as inevitable, UNLESS, it does something like step into a war the US wants to fight with China sooner rather than later...

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@RNDTHOT @Eng_china5 Where are all the high-speed trains in the US? Where are the 900 mile charge EV batteries?

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@GBC_Press China has denied the fascists running the US government the rare earth minerals needed to make their war toys. Thank you China!

[Matt Bracken @Matt_Bracken48]

7/
Final thoughts on the Iran War of Choice:

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@Matt_Bracken48 @imetatronink Why should God help them? They’re on the wrong side of history.

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So you wanna put boots on the ground in Iran? Give them what-for? Finish the Job!

Let's start with baby steps. Kharg Island is 600 KM past the Strait of Hormuz, and it's the size of Iwo Jima. Qeshm Island is bigger than Okinawa. Both are in artillery, drone and missile range of Iran.

During WW2, we pounded Iwo Jima with battleships for weeks before landing 70,000 Marines. 19,000 were WIA and 7,000 were KIA. It took a month to wipe out Japanese resistance.

In 1945 we landed 180,000 Marines and Soldiers on Okinawa. It took three months to subdue Japanese resistance. The U.S. suffered more than 30,000 WIA and 12,000 KIA.

But what the hell, I'm sure a force of around 10,000 U.S. troops can capture Kharg or Qeshm, while being shuttled in by helicopters and tilt-rotors. From staging areas that are in easy drone and missile range from Iran.

Or maybe we'll just bum-rush our amphibious ships loaded with Marines straight into the Strait of Hormuz. For Kharg Island, tack on a 600 kilometer run parallel to the cliffs of the Iranian coast. It should be a piece of cake.

The FOX News military geniuses are all sure this is a great idea, and it seems like Trump is listening to them. God help our deployed Soldiers, Sailors and Marines

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@CenturionsOath As an American, I’d rather have what Belgium has. Fuck off.

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Imagine bragging that the US has aircraft carriers instead of universal healthcare. Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth, and it’s not even close.

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@Lina_rays1ya Fuck you

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@VoteMarsha Stop communist China from doing what? Making the products that sit on Walmart shelves? Producing the best EV’s on the planet? Your dumbass constituents deserve you.

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The Communist Party of China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Meanwhile, in capitalist USA, billionaires are becoming trillionaires while 70% of Americans struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and groceries.

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@_MAGA_NEWS_ FAFO

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@FmrRepMTG How does a sovereign country that prints its own currency “go bankrupt”?

Answer - It doesn’t and it can’t. It’s a choice as to whether this fascist country wants to provide for its citizens or not.

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@SenSanders The US has alot to learn about communism

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@Sir_Grok @MrImranPk You pussies can’t hold the strait open now