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The greatest European mistake was to abandon its rich tradition of right wing economic statism and corporatism in favor of unregulated American financial capitalism.

Nobody is talking about this!!!! Father Pierre was trying to help displaced people and families, last month, and was killed by Israel. He stayed to serve his congregation, and other Lebanese displaced and impacted by the invasion. He lost his life because of it.

In Syria, Muslims enter the house of a sick, elderly Christian woman and demand that she convert to Islam, or they will confiscate all her medicine and let her die. Christians are humiliated and murdered on a daily basis in Muslim countries. Meanwhile, Muslims in the West cry about ‘Islamophobia.’

@Handre California has far better well designed cities. Far superior weather and beaches.

The greatest economic experiment in America plays out daily between California and Texas, and the results scream one truth: markets work, bureaucrats don't. California collected $220 billion in state taxes in 2023 while Texas managed with $78 billion. You'd expect California's superior public services to justify spending nearly three times more per capita. Instead, California leads the nation in homelessness (181,000 people), hosts crumbling infrastructure despite the nation's highest gas taxes, and watches middle-class families flee to states that don't treat productivity as a crime. Sacramento's bureaucrats burn through $600 billion annually (state and local combined) yet somehow can't keep the lights on during summer or prevent human waste from covering sidewalks in San Francisco. Texas collected far less but delivered what people actually want: functioning infrastructure, reliable energy, and the revolutionary concept that you keep most of what you earn. Since 2010, Texas gained 4 million residents while California hemorrhaged over 500,000. This isn't random migration; it represents human capital fleeing confiscatory taxation in search of economic freedom. Tesla, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard didn't relocate to Texas for the weather. Voluntary exchange creates wealth while coercive redistribution destroys it. Every dollar California's legislature redistributes first gets extracted from someone who earned it, then filtered through bureaucratic machinery that consumes massive resources while producing zero value. Meanwhile, every dollar Texans keep in their pockets gets invested, saved, or spent according to individual preference—generating real economic activity. California's political class promises paradise through taxation while delivering dysfunction through redistribution. Texas proves you can fund essential government services without turning citizens into tax cattle for an ever-expanding administrative state.

@DefensePolitics US spends more in defense than everyone else combined. With unlimited money and resources, of course they can train the best pilots and acquire the best equipment. Total US casualties in US military history since WW1 is less than 500k. Meanwhile Russia has lost 50+ million

@DefensePolitics The technological gap between the two armies is wider than it was in Iraq in 1991. Back then Iraq had a relatively well equipped and combat trained military. US lost 10,000 aircraft in Vietnam because the technological gap was even smaller.

I just want to note how insane it is that the US lost 1 plane in combat to the enemy after a month of operations, in this Iran War (not including the loss of the tanker, the 3 x F15 shot down by Kuwait) In the 1st Gulf War, 7 planes on the allied side was shot down in the first day of Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991) - 1 x F18C - 2 A-6E - 1 x F14A - 2 x Tornado GR1 - 1 x F-15E

@AMK_Mapping_ Will the front line move rapidly if the Russians take Orekhov? It seems like a major fortified fortress. Assuming Orekhov is under Russia, would it make it possible to advance to Zaporozhye and begin to surround it?

Update: This Russian attack on Orikhiv that I reported on March 15 ended in failure, just like all the previous ones. At least 15 armoured vehicles were used, most of which were damaged/destroyed. No progress was made as a result of the attacks, with only some smaller gains being made on the flanks from separate assaults involving small groups of infantry. With the season of motorbike assaults now arriving, I expect we will see additional attempts to reach Orikhiv in the near future using this tactic instead.

@carole033 Go to hell old hag. Disgusting piece of trash. Yugoslavia was broken up for no reason by scum with mentality like yours.

If Djokovic is genuine in wanting reconciliation with Serbia's neighbours, he could begin by acknowledging the Bosnian genocide orchestrated by the Serbian regime rather than obfuscating the facts and suggesting a symmetry of guilt. His position is disingenuous, to say the least

@GuntherEagleman Shame on you for using those terms. What an idiot.

Iran striking a Black Hawk is about the WORST decision one of the goat fckers has ever made.

This is who the Prime Minister of the UK and the King of England welcomed and shook hands with. Jolani is former Al-Qaeda, whose men in Syria butchered Christians, Druze and Alawites only a few months ago (see thread) I feel sick.

@BeijingDai Putins strategy would've worked in 2014.Back then the Russians would've walked into Kharkov, Dnepr, Zaporozhye and Kiev. Most of Ukrainian army would've joined the Russians as they did in Crimea. After 8 years, that obviously didn't work in 2022. Ukrainians got brainwashed

Does anyone still remember that in January 2022, Russia sent troops into Kazakhstan? That operation was a huge success for Russia. Russia put down the large scale roit, propped up the current president Tokayev, and completely pushed the old president Nazarbayev's influence out of Kazakh politics. I now believe that Putin's decision to launch a surprise raid on Kyiv's airport in February 2022 was deeply influenced by that success. And clearly, Trump's decision to take action against Iran is similarly tied to the success he had in Venezuela just two months earlier. So, as the Chinese saying goes, a loss may turn out to be a gain and a gian may turn out to be a loss, you never know. 塞翁失马焉知祸福.

Terrifying revelation. A prominent British journalist concludes that Israel's cruel closures and economic strangulation are a deliberate attempt to drive Christians completely out of Jerusalem and Palestine. It is a systematic ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land.

In the middle of Europe. They created Bosnia. Here are Bosniaks, calling for the beheading of Christians. Serbs dared to fight against those jihadis and they labeled Serbs 'genocidal' for daring to fight against their project.

Banja Luka, Republika Srpska vs. Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. These two cities are in the same “country,” just about three hours apart. Banja Luka is mostly Serb, while Sarajevo underwent ethnic cleansing of Serbs and is now majority Muslim.

A UN official says the head of the Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria is a "success story".

@GeopoliticalDZ @voddy420 @squatsons Instead they didn't allocate forces needed to capitalize on those chances and instead sent 180k troops in 7 different directions. Horrible planning and strategy. There was no need for Sumy, Chernigov and Kiev directions. The best units shoud've been used in Kharkov and the South

@GeopoliticalDZ @voddy420 @squatsons Faulty intelligence in the beginning of war is the sole reason why Russia is in this mess. It was a poorly executed invasion against the enemy which was not prepared for it. The units in the South collapsed and Russia had the chance to take Zaporozhye and Nikolaev in 1st week

Russia has fairly successfully weathered the SMO storm economically, geopolitically and domestically. The long term attrition strategy will eventually allow the Russians to win out but Russia is failing in its deterrence of strikes on its territory and the potential of a ballistic armed Ukraine capable of reaching Moscow. I do not understand the rationale behind avoiding assassination strikes or targeting key infrastructure points which could devastate the Ukrainian war effort. It reminds me of a parent of an insolent child who has little to no ability of controlling said kid. The screaming, kicking and spitting is dealt with by a calm “we don’t do that sweetie” instead of a swift smack. Oil is up and the U.S. has changed the global dynamic. If Russia is providing targeting data to the Iranians that would at least be reciprocal retaliation but I personally believe, from an analytical position, that now is the moment for all nations at odds with the U.S. to push the envelope and put immense pressure on the belligerent hegemony. In Ukraine it would be simple and yet there seems to be a political withholding that will allow for significant damages in the future. I guess the Russians are waiting for the Ukrainians to kill somebody really important before they start targeting key Ukrainians themselves.

@voddy420 @squatsons The safest people in Ukraine are Politicians and high ranking UAF officers. They have 0 fear even after conducting dozens pf big assassinations and terror attacks in Russia! Ask yourself WHY?

@voddy420 @squatsons Russian intelligence has been trash this entire war. No high ranking UAF officers have been killed. They can't even hit GUR pr SBU HQs . There is no desire to win the war. No nationim history has conducted war like this. Its embarrassing

This all began with Yugoslavia. I said at the time the dismemberment of the former Yugoslav state and then of Serbia would pave the way for imperialist war after war. And so it did. And would until it was stopped. And so it now is being in Iran. #Yugoslavia #Serbia #Iran