Today, YOU are the gigachad.

Best you can get are NATO leftists saying it’s still good Assad went down despite what’s there right now

This includes mamdani’s wife, who made subversive propaganda against Assad, paving the way for the slaughter we saw earlier this year. Free Syria indeed

Turkey, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Bahrain, Jordan, Azerbaijan, the Ukraine, “israel”, Germany, UK, Italy, France, Canada, USA #1 global terrorist…

The list goes on.

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Spot on

mamdani goes to rikers the day before his inauguration

“luigi, we have one last job for you”

tfw the democrat who said they’d do something principled but backs down once they realize it might take some political will beyond posting

Yeah it’s not happening, the mayor of New York can’t just order someone’s arrest on an international warrant issued by an authority the US doesn’t recognize, or order anybody’s arrest period. Mamdani can’t enter into obligations on behalf of the US. If he could that would mean giving a mayor the power to represent the country in foreign affairs, or to put it another way, handing over national sovereignty to NYC. Obviously, there is no legal framework for this. The only even remotely plausible path is for the NYC DA (who is not Mamdani) to indict Satanyahu for crimes that occurred within the jurisdiction of NYC, and have a NYC judge issue a warrant, two things that are not going to happen, because of the elephant in the room: diplomatic immunity. If Mamdani ordered Satanyahu’s arrest he would essentially be leading NYC as a rogue city attempting to exercise the powers of a state - legally speaking, rebelling against the authority of the federal government. He would be serving his head to Trump on a golden platter, with the latter’s DOJ indicting him on multiple capital offenses.

If he touches Satanyahu he will be at the very least spending the rest of his life in federal prison, if he doesn’t just get JFK’d (legally! after being sentenced to death)

TLDR: Attempting to arrest Satanyahu could end up with Mamdani being executed by firing squad

The problem here is we are thinking of The Crime but sure this man has been involved in numerous other crimes. Or at least, some sort of of probable cause could be found. You don’t need to prove anything to arrest someone, just have a little bit.

Even arresting him for j walking or loitering or a case of mistaken identity because he fit a description for another person would make mamdani a hero around the world.

The next important question becomes: who is the deputy mayor?

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

• yewtu.be
• inv.nadeko.net
• yt.artemislena.eu
• piped.video

I don’t think it makes any difference whether mamdani arrests him immediatly on day 1 or on day 500, the consequences and costs are going to be exactly the same so he might as well do it as soon as possible

Cops here are fucking bastards. They entered my home without a warrant, pushed my mum to the ground and gave her a ticket for “rebellion”. And I’m white so i can’t imagine how they threat minorities.

She was stopped by police officers. “Shut your mouth, you dirty female dog,” some officers shouted at her. When she showed that she was still bleeding, a policewoman replied contemptuously, “Shut your mouth, I’m not a doctor.”

Fuck

yea fanon talked about the mediteranean syndrom 50 years ago and we’re still at that -_-

i swear I’m scared for my wife

Apparently the poor guy was afraid to eat the food because the other inmates would spit in it

Here it is: https://xcancel.com/Europe1/status/1980639799141675489

(of course it was on the far-right rag that is Europe1)

Nah they are fully aware of what prison’s like they just never expect to do any time in it since they are the “good ones”.

lmao

Yes, supposedly they are just investing all that back into other AI firms!

Softbank basically made infinite money (like over $100 billion) by investing in Alibaba very very early with only $20 million. Ever since they’ve been playing with house money. And now they are basically a wing of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund too.

they can still mobilize enough high-tech systems to blow your country to bits if desired and there is nothing you can do about it. Iran serves as the example, all those years preparing for the US strike and when it came, they could do nothing about it.

While I understand what you’re saying generally, Iran is not exactly “blown to bits”, is it? We have yet to see the US successfully carry out the doctrine you’re talking about. So let’s not give them too much credit until they actually demonstrate they can do it.

This is precisely why some got nukes. This is a country that hasn’t had a year of peace for a reason. Their pockets are deeper than the crevice where their souls are supposed to be

The tech gap is very concerning. When Venezuela purchased the Su-30s in 2006, and the S-300VM/SA-23 a few years later, it was enough to deter the US in effect, to make it not worth the effort with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ongoing. But it’s now almost 20 years since the first Su-30 purchase, and the USA has advanced in military technology significantly, and Venezuela hasn’t, Russia can’t really give them anything significantly better either. Su-30 vs Su-35, S-300V vs S-400, it doesn’t close the technology gap significantly. China has supplied a couple of search radars, but that’s it, they don’t export their high tech stuff like J-20s or the latest HQ-9C air defence. Pakistan has the most advanced Chinese exports currently. If there’s no one on the international stage that has the capability or willingness to arm it’s allies with the latest and greatest, we end up in this situation.

Bleak

I get that a lot of people are referencing Vietnam and such, even Maduro said so. But back in Vietnam the technology gap was big but it could be closed, after all, the MiG-19s and MiG-21s weren’t all that inferior to the Phantoms. The vietnamese AD systems were very good and claimed a lot of kills. In the ground the equipment was comparable. Despite a US advantage on firepower and technology, the vietnamese could close the gap with their own high tech systems (althrough available in limited numbes), sheer resilience and appropiate doctrines. Today I think the technology gap gives one side a tremendous firepower advantage over the other, so much so that “normal countries” have no way of closing it right now.

Not just that. Sadly the surveillance capabilities have absolutely advanced in leaps and bounds.

Back in Vietnam the resistance could dig tunnels in the jungle and at night the US generally couldn’t have anything approaching total visibility. These days with modern satellites, high altitude and low altitude surveillance via drones and manned planes they US can have just incredible visibility of movements even in jungle using things like IR sensors and motion detection. So if they say plan to fight a protracted battle against a direct US invasion it’s going to be hard if they haven’t extensively prepared before now because the US is going to spot and know where any new major construction on bunkers, underground tunnels, facilities, etc are and can see assaults heading towards cities ahead of time with way more warning than in Vietnam. Frankly there is huge gulf in US capabilities then and now and the relative levels of support the two countries could expect. Vietnam was getting direct military aid from the USSR and China who was just over the border, Venezuela has no nearby superpowers that aren’t across an ocean or two to supply them and Russia is currently quite occupied dedicating its production capacity to Ukraine while China is unlikely to want to get involved and certainly won’t be likely to go into smuggling or blockade running over a wide ocean to do so.

Frankly I do think the US could succeed in seizing the capital city, turning it into a green-zone and pacifying the area around it long enough to set up a comprador government that’s recognized internationally and arming and training the local reactionaries. They’d face years of insurgency obviously but with US air cover they could perhaps manage to seize the oil producing regions or at least deny their ability to export (perhaps through US led interdiction, declaring all the oil belongs to the US set up comprador regime and leading to the US blockading and stealing anything sent out at sea).

But as I think about this I think it’s about many things and given how many are very important it doesn’t look good:

• Oil control (and the economic power that comes with it considering all the gulf states are US vassals when push comes to shove)
• locking down control of South America in the cold war with China in terms of raw resources but also in terms of being able to lock China out of markets there
• Reasserting themselves in the face of an inevitable Ukraine loss to intimidate their enemies and show they still got it and can and will still fuck you up if you don’t obey them
• Direct testing of weapons systems refined and suggested by the Ukraine conflict to prepare for and further refine them for a conflict with China in the future

Best hope for Venezuela is that they try to decapitate and kill Maduro and those closest to him (preferable obviously for us that they don’t totally succeed), take out some of their military but then quickly get bored, declare mission accomplished and leave and either a still living Maduro or whoever succeeds him and declare they’ve dealt with the “drug trafficking”. They may yet still think they can just use special forces to achieve a coup and comprador government being put in place after decapitation of the civil government and military as well as degrading of most military capabilities and not want to commit to boots on the ground. As long as local reactionaries can be foiled, prevented from receiving weapons and acting the US can be frustrated into giving up. Though the US will likely turn to economic weapons to try and turn up the heat on Venezuela and get the people angry and amenable to regime change or at least apathetic to the US forcing it.

Not much. Venezuela have advanced air defences, but in very limited numbers. Their most numerous air defence systems, the S-125/SA-3, are modernised cold war relics. The Venezuelan F-16s lack radar guided missiles, and the Su-30s are outclassed by F-35s. Maintenance and spare parts are an issue for both aircraft types. Anti ship capabilities are limited to shorter range missiles launched by Su-30s, or Iranian made patrol boats. Venezuela doesn’t have any ballistic missiles, also the range to hit the continental US is almost double that of Iran vs Israel, and greater than Yemen vs Israel. Some kind of air bridge from Russia or Iran for supplies is not feasible, neither state has the airlift capacity. Russian government officials were bragging about maybe sending one or two Pantsir S1/SA-22s over, and repairing existing air defences last week.

The biggest bargaining chip Venezuela has to play are the 5000 Igla-S/SA-24 Man Portable Air Defense systems (MANPADs). That’s a big number and could complicate low altitude flights/operations by helicopters and close air support. It could also end up outside of state control in the case of a collapse of the Venezuelan government.

What Russia could do at most is supply Venezuela with longer range anti ship missiles, a P-800 Oniks battalion with ground launchers for instance. Or the air launched version, the Kh-61. Or some ground launched Kalibr cruise missiles. But I think that’s very unlikely. It has just as much of a potential to start a conflict as it has to deter.

Sabotage the Panama Canal.

There were plenty of reports before the attack on Iran about Trump reconsidering, backing out, etc. It’s put out there on purpose to muddy the waters and get people to let their guard down. Only true military deterrence will prevent an attack at this point.

CNN says the doubts are about the legality of strikes on mainland Venezuela, and that the administration is seeking a new legal opinion from the Department of Justice that will make it legal. But who knows at this point. The media space is full of contradictory articles.

What the Gerald Ford Carrier Strike Group adds is more air defence AEGIS assets, more Tomahawks, and most importantly, 60+ F/A-18E/F aircraft for various missions, bomb trucks that can provide constant close air support or an intense bombing campaign from close by. It’s on the move currently.

Teaser? This is the effort post.

It has never been so dry. The more revolutionary pro-resistance parties self-sabotaged by committing to a more sectarian program, and they lacked the discipline that Hezbollah for example display when dealing with other sects in society. Communists are more committed to a general secular program rather than any revolutionary program, which leads to weird alliances with Adnan Al Zurfi’s more pro-US gang that includes even zionist freaks. It’s not looking good, but it’s a damaged society from the atrocities of Saddam Hussein and later the Americans and ISIS. It will take time.

From my observations, the Iraqi election process is as fair as it gets with the state of democracy across the world. Every nation that tries a fair democratic process is plagued by similar issues when it comes to propaganda by outside actors and widespread media manipulation. The main sources of media manipulation and propaganda when it comes to Iraq are the US and Iran, with both pushing in pretty much opposite directions. The US continuously pushes in the direction of secular liberalism through its media tools, and Iran pushes for more religious Shia nationalism and pro-resistance interests. Things are definitely getting a little less sectarian, as evidenced by the victory of PM Sudani’s party in Nineveh, Arabs voting for the Kurdish PUK in Kirkuk because they like the governor, and Sunni-led Taqaddum dominating western Baghdad. I definitely agree with the idea of sectarianism needing to die before divisions across class lines emerge and solidify. The resistance shot themselves in the foot with committing themselves to a more sectarian program, which seems to have alienated a large portion of middle class Shia voters who are annoyed with disruptions to daily life by armed PMU groups and are generally happy with the current progress under PM Sudani. I think that the results in general indicate that a large section of society are moving towards voting for economic interests rather than sectarian interests.

It would be very funny if the EU starts some shit with China for purely ideological reasons and the US just stays neutral.

Would actually be pretty ideal as it would further crush the EU as a competitor to the US, do some damage to China and leave the US with the power to go to China and say basically either give us some concessions or maybe we join them, but play your cards right and we won’t stop your retaliation either. Maybe they try and force the EU to decouple from China first. It destroys the EU but the demand of the EU combined market eventually creates just enough impetus for friend-shoring some large amount of stuff to India, the US, Asian vassals (Japan, occupied Korea, etc). Meanwhile the US is spared the pain, reaps a mightly profit and can do its own decoupling much more softly because the EU already took the gut-punch to make it viable for them. Would really accomplish a lot of US goals and leave EU in such dire straits the US could poach their top minds and talent, force their NATO vassals into wars abroad with China over resources in the 2030s to seize as much of the world as possible, and build up climate fortress USA for the coming climate change hell that awaits us all as we plunge into 4-degrees C warming and beyond.

It’s like Russia which was possibly a test for this. They made the EU decouple hardest from everything but energy they absolutely couldn’t do without while the US stepped in to sell them alternatives, force them to buy US weapons, and drew them closer and deeper into NATO subjugation under the US while harming Russia and the EU maximally with the US profiting from the sidelines. Russia is also best seen as a practice for modern combat against China, to learn what it will look like, and to whip up demand and impetus for re-arming NATO and creating the production capacity needed to stay in a prolonged fight with China.