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@firasmodad That's not relevant to western governments criminal attempts to brand anyone who opposes them as terrorists and thus to justify being able to murder them at will, and deny them any legal rights. It's sophistry and also illegal under international law.

The IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood are both threats to the West. One can be strategic about this and say the Shi'a are a lesser problem than the Sunnis. But they should be seen as equals.

@highfields2020 @ClarkeMicah @GypsyBoots8 What you think about the deal is fucking irrelevant, retard.

@DerUntermutt @ClarkeMicah @GypsyBoots8 The JCPOA… really? You’re using that pile of dogshit deal as proof?

.@gypsyboots8 Yes, at the end of February Iran was negotiating in good faith, according to independent intermediaries the talks were making progress. Then, with no declaration of war, the USA and Israel assassinated the government and began armed attacks on Iran. Imagine what you’d say if it had been the other way round.

@RestoreBritain_ You should be proscribed and deported, bunch of spineless cretins

We must proscribe the IRGC, and deport any foreign nationals with direct links to that appalling organisation.

@morris_que14 What Chinese air defense system were the Iranians using? Everything they used was native.

Why would he need to do that? didn’t Chinese AD systems already miserably failed over the skies of Pakistan and Iran?

@highfields2020 @ClarkeMicah @GypsyBoots8 Wilful ignorance is not forgivable, so no. Iran abided by the JCPOA in good faith until Trump tore it up.

@ClarkeMicah @GypsyBoots8 Forgive me but I doubt the Islamic Republic have ever negotiated anything in ‘good faith’.

@GypsyBoots8 @ClarkeMicah The hard evidence is that america massacred the Iranians' head of State and his family, and then 150 schoolchildren, in the middle of negotiations, when the foreign minister of Oman had just said Iran had agreed to no stockpiling and the negotiations had been successful.

@ClarkeMicah So you believe in Iran's good faith and doubt America's. You cannot possibly have hard evidence either way, so you have made a choice.

@RokoMijic >government is bad by nature You just made that up and it is basically an a priori claim that underpins your entire argument. I can just as easily, and with far better evidence, claim that government is good by nature.

This guy is like "I'd be happy to pay high taxes if the government used it wisely", "politicians need to be held accountable for how they spend public money", "social welfare is too high" But he still fundamentally *doesn't get it* The whole reason we have - private property - firms that can make a profit if they do well, or go bankrupt if they do badly - personal finances and salaries rather than communism is because it's hard to hold governments accountable. Government is bad by nature and it should be minimized. There's no such thing as a well-run, large state. A well-run state is a small state that gets out of the way and lets other mechanisms with greater accountability do the work.

@mattforney (you)

It took the threat of a blockade to get Iran to completely fold. They lost, they know it, they're finally admitting it because the alternative is not simply physical annihilation, but economic annihilation. Every one of you idiots who believed Iran's propaganda has no idea how the brownoid mind works. The brownoid is hot air. He is sound and fury, signifying nothing. When the legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey was sent to Egypt in 1956 to report on the Suez Crisis, he spent the first two days hiding under his hotel bed listening to bloodcurdling radio broadcasts about how the Egyptians would bathe in the Israelis' blood and spear their newborns on their bayonets. He then realized that Arabs talk like that when they're haggling over cab fare. A lot of threats, a lot of chest-puffing, but nobody ever throws a punch. This is the Iranian equivalent of izzat collapsing. They have been completely exposed. Not only can America glass their entire country, a prolonged blockade will sever them from the world economy entirely. The rest of the world has already adjusted to the Strait's closure and is now buying oil and gas from the U.S. Those are customers Iran will struggle to get back even when the Strait is reopened. The human factor is now being priced in. If you're literally anyone else in the world, do you want to buy oil from a country run by 84-IQ savages who throw a sperg fit, lob missiles at neutral countries, and demand a toll like medieval highwaymen? No, you don't. You're going to buy from the U.S., which has a larger supply and is stable, trustworthy, and won't threaten to sink your ships in the middle of an autistic tantrum. Put simply, this war has completely crushed Iran not only as a military power, but as an economic one. Even if the IRGC clings onto power, they will be a poorer, weaker nation as their customers trade with America instead, and what customers they DO get back will have America dictating the terms of trade. To use an old Cold War term, Iran has been Finlandized. No Iran. The world has moved past the need for Iran.

@AcademicAgent_X Because they think they can use a pause in hostilities to their own advantage, clearly.

Don’t get why Tel Aviv isn’t being pounded again. Explain. If the deal is off there’s no ceasefire?

@Camrjohnson Foreign minister of a fake country with English as its official language takes the principles of the anglo-american system as his own, news at 11!

Fascinating comments on The Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, and shipping by the Singaporean Foreign Minister. This is taken with great credibility here in Asia.

@mdubowitz Hilarious acting like the US was a good faith party in any of these, as if the US was over-conciliatory! Ha! What utterly ignorant and deranged nonsense. You ought to be committed.

Let’s hope the final offer and walkway approach continues. Don’t be Albright chasing Arafat. Don’t be Kerry chasing Zarif. Don’t be Carter hoping the ayatollah will suddenly become reasonable. Final offer delivered. The White House switchboard is there if they want to call.

@AnalyticaCamil1 Hard to take thousands of casualties when you withdraw from your bases and hide your troops in hotels behind the native civilian population.

Are you illiterate?

@HarstelTobias @MagellanQuest It's tourism bro. Tyrol was poor AF during first half of the 20th century and absolutely flush with cash today. Pimped out their landscape.

@MagellanQuest Yes, its not religion, but geography, today richtet part of germany is catholic south, in 19th century when Max Weber was alive it was protestant north, thats what misled his assumptions

Protestantism may have mattered. But Europe’s wealth was not built by theology alone. What really shaped the continent’s core was a dense corridor of cities, ports, rivers, industry, finance and state capacity: the Blue Banana. Religion was one layer. Urban density was the machine

@MagellanQuest >not this fucking retarded banana theory again 😩

@Beacon160172 @RealTXPolitics That is fake and debunked many times.

@RealTXPolitics This is what she is promoting

That boy literally has Ruhollah Khomeini on his shirt bruh…

@usutav The whole premise behind that diagram is fucking retarded. I say that while also knowing fuck all about Hungarian politics.

Not that I'm well-versed in the domestic politics of Hungary, but clearly „Magyar is just Orban without the corruption“ is a misrepresentation.

@Chris38200459 @grumpymunster @blagden_david Made in china though

@grumpymunster @blagden_david Bet it was a Bosch power tool, though.

The main reason Britain isn’t “speaking German” is the courage, ingenuity, and forbearance of Britons - especially those in the RN, RAF, Army, and intelligence - to defend and exploit our fortuitous geography (a 21-mile-wide moat). But, if we’re doing allied contributions… 1/2

@coryfromphilly English industrialisation was indeed very successful in turning England into one of the most disgusting and hellish pits of misery and filth the world has ever known.

Why do people always leave out England and America as cases of "rapid industrialization"?

@yo_ean Americans: number 1 in eating and working and drugging themselves into an early grave.

So the average guy in Mississippi worked ~35% (405) more hours per year to arrive at a lower gdp/capita than Germany Meanwhile their life expectancy is 10 years(!) less. In effect they work 12 years more only to die 10 years quicker. I find it inappropriate to laugh at that...

@aleksandrkustof @polidemitolog The idea that Russia is a threat to anything but the Baltic States is quite frankly farcical.

@polidemitolog Europe's military strength is nothing without the U.S. It's almost laughable in comparison with Russia. The EU has little chance of matching Russia anytime soon - a superpower able to wage a conventional war while still retaining the power to completely annihilate its opponent.

The question: what is Europe going to do without the US in NATO, is the wrong one. The US is already not guaranteeing Europe's security. The only question is how quickly Europe restructures its own perfectly adequate resources to contain Russia without the US.