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Sad how modern world is trying to replace human connection, supportive friends and community ties with therapy. Therapy does not cure alienation and a lack of sense of community. A healthy, supportive commune is a prerequisite for a healthy individual life.

I'll try to explain this patiently. If you think Pakistan is aligned with the neocon sanctions regime on Iran, that may be because you've never read anything on Pakistan outside of news headlines. Pakistan has lost billions economically due to secondary sanctions on Iran that have forced us to import expensive oil & gas from the GCC instead of meeting energy needs via cheaper pipelines from across the Iran border (look up the abandoned Iran Pak gas pipeline). We are thus deeply invested in a deal that ensures sanctions relief for Iran, which could help resolve massive energy & trade constraints on our economy. Since the US started its China-focused strategic partnership with India in the 90s, Pakistan's ties with the US have largely been transactional, based on commercial & financial compulsions (exports and IMF) & often fraught counter terrorism cooperation. It's China that Pakistan has a strategic partnership with, that it gets 80% of its weapons & 50% of its FDI from. You think Pakistan would jeopardize its decades-strong iron brotherhood with China (google that phrase) & its own regional strategic & economic interests to destabilize Iran on behalf of india-allied Israel just for the hope of some handouts from an unreliable madman like Trump? No Pakistani government or leader could contemplate that. Most policymakers in Pakistan - irrespective of political alignment - are eminently aware our national interests lie with Eurasia, BRI and the emerging multipolar order. We may require some short term tactical cooperation with the US (for financial & India-related reasons) but our geography & strategic positioning is irrevocably tied to China, Iran & the emerging multipolar order. As a member of an opposition party, I have zero interest in supporting the current Pak regime, that I have spoken against for years, whose electoral rigging I've personally exposed, that I think has done a terrible job economically. But domestic political differences do not mean I'm going to ignore obvious strategic & economic realities & our collective national interests to paint Pakistan (as you all do) as a 'US vassal' in careless & ill informed ways that could jeopardize a peace deal that serves both Iranian and Pakistani interests in the long term. Whatever your feelings about the current Pak regime, would urge you to refresh your own perspective about the country as a whole by investigating the facts I've listed in this thread.

I knew it was a stinky Indian with his tongue up Israhell’s butthole even before I clicked on the writer’s profile

To the Pakistani journalists suddenly peddling pro-US "peace" narratives: If Trump is such a peacemaker, why the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and constant threats of destruction against Iran? We must question Washington directly. Otherwise, it looks like the US is using Pakistan’s shoulder to fire its own gun. Pakistan must maintain strict neutrality

There's an Israeli influence operation called "Generative AI for Good" that creates AI "victims" of Iran to agitate for regime change. They just held a conference last week in NYC. Here's a short clip of one of the deepfake propaganda videos they released a few weeks ago.

Traore is correct to ban NGOs. These operate as agents of imperialism designed to colonise civil society in targetted nations. Getting rid of them and building revolutionary institutions in their place is a truly progressive move by the Burkinabes.

Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing. I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean. orange-anselma-35.tiiny.site Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵

Listen, Pakistanis. For fifty years the Saudis sold their oil only in American dollars and poured those petrodollars straight into America’s hungry hands. In return America gave them the ultimate shield: weapons, intelligence, and ironclad protection for their golden palaces. America grew fat on easy money and global power while the Saudis slept safe behind the world’s most expensive bodyguard. Then the Shale Revolution changed everything. America no longer needed Saudi oil the way it once did. The old bargain cracked. The expensive American shield slowly withdrew. So the Saudis went looking for a cheaper one. They found you. They struck a deal and stationed Pakistani jets and thousands of your soldiers on their soil to guard their throne. In return they did not give you grants or free money. They gave you deposits: five billion dollars parked in your central bank, nothing more than a temporary loan dressed as friendship. Your blood for their deposit. Your soldiers for their safety. Your army rented out at basement prices while their palaces stay golden and their princes untouched. This is how cheaply Pakistan is being sold. The same hands that once helped build the petrodollar machine are now buying protection on the cheap from the very nation that suffered most under it. Wake up. Your most precious asset is being traded away too cheaply. How much longer will you allow it?

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence. They understand individual violence. One person harms another person. There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain. What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination. The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead. They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones. And that architecture was designed. It was negotiated. It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not. This is violence. It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger. But the deaths it produces are just as dead. And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument. You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense. They will not thank you for it. They will defend against it with everything they have. Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position. It is an identity catastrophe.

Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.

Pakistan does not recognise Israel as a country. Hence what defence minister @KhawajaMAsif said was completely consistent with Pakistan’s official policy. The pearl clutching is ridiculous, every thing he said he right and true. Everyone in Pakistan agrees so there should have been no pressure to delete it. May his righteous fingers be always on the trigger of the bomb.

Should I run away from my wedding tomorrow to go and attempt to meet Araghchi 😭😭😭

Israel discovering the most polite opinion of an average Pakistani about Israel

My mom done said “JD Vance kitna khoobsoorat hai. Noor sa hai iskay chehray pe jesay koi musalman ho.”

i think we should all consider a full boycott of usa, including of their cultural exports. books, movies, shows, music, everything. it’s not a culture we should engage with.

Right of return but for Israhell back to hell 🔥

The US worships capital. Dow Jones takes precedence over dignity, people, and literally any other interest. Iran has nothing to lose, nothing but the chains of imperialism. They will always emerge victorious and US will always be humiliated InshaAllah

Iran: Happy with the victory and graciously accepting Pakistan’s offer with no pressure whatsoever. Some youthia from Lundikotal:

Reposting this. Pakistan's position in this conflict is the product of a rare and unrepeatable combination: a Muslim-majority nuclear state with a Shia minority large enough to give Iran cultural stakes, a Sunni majority large enough to give the Gulf states political comfort, a border with Iran, a defence pact with Saudi Arabia, a strategic partnership with China that Tehran values, a warming with Washington that Tehran cannot afford to antagonise, no American military bases on its soil, a military that proved itself in live combat less than a year ago, a competent political leadership and a foreign minister who has grown into the moment, and a diplomatic tradition of studied neutrality that every party in this conflict has at various points relied upon.

Calling it a total “internet blackout” is misleading. What has been restricted is *international* connectivity, not the domestic internet: national websites, banking systems, and local alternatives to platforms like Uber, YouTube, and Google remain fully functional. The adoption of alternative digital infrastructures is not uniquely Iranian. States that perceive themselves as vulnerable to imperialist cyber operations or disinformation campaigns in hybrid warfare adopt this strategy. Reliance on domestic platforms in this context is a matter of digital sovereignty and resilience.