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@temulazarus
Professional saunier Block me = I win







do men realize a lot of them have bpd as well and it’s not just a girl thing. lol

Your periodic reminder - which is getting pretty frequent lately - of the precarious existence of even the extremely powerful in China. Pam Pondi can go to the private sector, while her counterparts in China usually go to torture chambers.

US generals gets fired: welp time to work for Lockheed Martin Chinese generals get fired: welcome to the gulag, welcome to the interrogation room, welcome to jail times.


If this is China, and Xi removed 3 Generals at one time from their positions - what would be the headlines in the WSJ? - "Xi Jinping Strips Three Generals From Politburo in Escalating Bid for Total Military Control" - "China's Xi Purges Key Generals From Elite Politburo Ranks, Leaving Leadership Vacuum at the Top" These would likely be accompanied by analysis pieces framing the move as part of Xi's pattern of "disappearing" elites, comparing it to historical purges under Mao or Stalin, and questioning the impact on PLA readiness, nuclear forces, or invasion plans for Taiwan—often portraying it as a sign of weakness or instability rather than decisive leadership. So no adverse analysis of Hegseth firing 3 Generals in Western media and how the Iran War is going badly with (hidden and rising) body counts for US soldiers?











Beijing invited KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun to visit China isn't just political theater. The main purpose is to reinforce "Taiwan skepticism" in Washington so that US policymakers would question Taiwan's will to defend itself. 1/n



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Why so few effective Iranian attacks on Israel? Is it that they don't have the weapons to do so, or that the Arabs are the Ayatollahs primary targets? Few give a satisfying answer to this

















