TLDR: Hezbollah is the main force preserving Lebanese sovereignty, and was the main group who freed Lebanon from former Israeli occupation. Far from being an Islamic extremist group, Hezbollah actually fights against Salafi jihadists like ISIS (who the US and Israel funded and assisted).

The US also used the China Initiative against white, American chemist Charles Lieber, whose chemistry prowess is second only to the scientist here. Lieber is now also looking for opportunities in China.

The anti-China shotgun blasts are hitting even non-Chinese scientists and pushing them to go go China.

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They’re not made by Motorola (which is Chinese). They were made by Gold Apollo (which is Taiwanese).

To be specific, the original Motorola company split into Motorola Mobility, which is owned by Lenovo and sells phones, and Motorola Solutions, which is American, sells telecommunications systems, and definitely does work with Israel.

This was a really hard lesson for Hezbollah to learn to always buy shit from certified anti-imperialist sources and not from fake China. China should airlift Huawei devices to Hezbollah to replace them.

On the other hand, the Axis of Resistance has never had a better excuse to annihilate Israel in response.

This is a much more severe, successful repeat of what the US tried to pull against Lula in Brazil, with Bolsonaro as puppet. The new, US-backed president of Ecuador is now trying to change the constitution to allow US military bases in the country.

It seems that in reaction to the Latin American pink tide in the 2000s, the US pretty much backed and funded the entire conservative wave afterwards.

For more info on how this relates to similar events in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and elsewhere, BadEmpanada made a good recap here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrvEha9C_Js

I’m pretty sure killing the Russian president (and likely his cabinet, which would always be nearby) is plenty of justification for nuclear war.

I’m sure if Russia bombed the White House and the president, nukes wound start flying immediately.

I think Huawei’s talking about their new triple-folding phone, the Mate XT. The phone unfolds like a z-fold brochure from a regular phone into an iPad.

This triple folding finally lets folding phones match real tablet sizes, which might make them finally an attractive option for consumers who want to merge their phone and iPad into one.

At this point, Palestine has the right to nuke Israel if they could. Equivalent retaliation for the bombs.

China’s rail actually makes money and is paying off their debts! What will all the Westoid collapse narratives say this time?

US physicians like the for-profit insurance system because they are paid 2x or more than in single payer systems. For example, I know Canadian physicians who doubled their pay upon moving to the USA. It is a bribe by insurance companies for doctors to be apathetic towards capitalist suffering.

Here is the context video on his main channel for why he’s frustrated at Hasanabi for not being more hardline on Palestine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WSd-blcw6YI

I don’t think this is that big of a deal. Some of y’all are reacting way too strongly at this.

Just so we’re clear, he is very much not an ultra. His takes towards Global South states are much too well-rounded for that to be true.

BadEmpanada is just pissed that Hasanabi isn’t even more of an advocate for Palestinians, which is a fine point of view. If it makes some people advocate more strongly for Palestine, that’s always a plus.

His main channel does pretty great work. For example, he has really good videos on Israel, Kurzgesagt’s pro-capitalist climate change propaganda, and how Wikipedia lies about the Holodomor ‘genocide’.

This event is quite a blatant attempt by NATO to pressure Telegram into giving them a backdoor, which is a good sign that they didn’t have access previously.

One must ask why Signal, Matrix/Element, Session, and Tor haven’t faced such attacks despite being based in Western countries.

For example, Tor is developed by the US government to protect their spies, and was opened to the public to shield spy web traffic.

Are there any true anti-imperialist alternatives? For instance, Wechat is made in China, but doesn’t have any mechanisms to protect user info.

This is a huge misconception lots of people have with nuclear bombs. All modern nukes are around 0.5 megatons, so no modern nukes are Tsar Bombas. That means each nuke cannot wipe out more than a ~5 mile radius max.

Humans have already tested more than 2000 nukes and we’re still here.

Here’s the video from Brian Berletic you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCh8-nE7Z0

The key source they both are referencing is the NYT bragging about CIA bases in Ukraine: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html

There is no ‘stretch’ about this if even the NYT is talking about it in the open.

The Global South cannot get nukes fast enough. The only way to deter the US is to show that it will get glassed by everyone if it tries any shit.

Luckily the US’s non-existent industry can’t really sustain a prolonged nuclear arms race (e.g. how slow even conventional US munitions are being built). Back in the Cold War, the USA used the nuclear arms race to waste Soviet industrial resources. Now, the Global South can flip the same strategy on the US.

Agree. As parents get richer, their methods always seem to be ‘better’ simply because they have more time and money to invest in their kids. People always talk about how parents should give their kids ‘enriching childhoods’, but completely ignore that enrichment costs shittons of money.

This is a great article. Cross comparisons like these are excellent tools for revealing blatant media bias.

So what if the USA loses 20%? All it does it change the calculus for US capitalists a little bit. It is still a great deal for deleting China.

You are confusing the rather ambiguous definition of a “city” in the USA with the actual distribution of people in said “city”. US city populations aren’t distributed like Hiroshima/Nagasaki, they’re much more spread out (Even then, the US’s bombs weren’t enough to kill everyone in the municipal city area). Because of US sprawl, it doesn’t take just one 0.6 megaton warhead to eliminate a city’s inhabitants, it takes 4+. For example, New York City technically has ~8 million residents, but it takes ~5 0.6 megaton nukes to cover the entire city. As cities get smaller populations in the USA, they get much more spread out, making this problem worse. As another example, take Virginia Beach, a “city” that is 100% suburbs. Just to kill all residents, it also takes another 4 nukes. At this rate, China will very quickly run out of nukes in a casualty v. casualty exchange with the USA. If we approximate that each city takes ~5 nukes, China can currently only eliminate 20% of the US population at maximum as you estimate.

The problem is that we can apply the same density-maximization to the US nuking China, in which case everything looks much worse. China’s cities are much larger, much denser, and there are way more of them. Because China is denser, the US simply gets more bang-for-the-buck per nuke. In that sense, the US could cripple China much faster than the other way around by killing many more people with way fewer nukes.

In my calculations, I assume that both nations seek full elimination of the other. As I explained in my other post, over time there are diminishing returns per nuke as nations run out of dense population targets and trend toward sparser targets. That is why I calculated using average population density.

I have already addressed the environmental destruction / nuclear winter talking point below. In short, new research, experiences from the Kuwaiti oil well fires and various wildfires, and the switch from flammable wood to nonflammable concrete and steel in city buildings combine to show that nuclear winter simply would be nowhere as severe as initially predicted in the 1980s. Fallout from nuclear bombs only lasts around a week due to short half-lives. Assuming decent amounts of prior preparation of necessary supplies and tech in hardened bunkers (which major Cold War countries did kinda do before), it is survivable, especially if China only kills 20% of the US population in certain centralized cities. At current, there are plenty of Wyoming farmers who would survive unscathed, put up some greenhouses, and weather out the storm.

Previously, China could get away with low nuclear bomb counts because it could depend on Russia and/or court the West. Now they can’t do that. Russia has its own worries in Europe, and the USA is hellbent on destroying China. The USSR has shown the number of nukes required to go against the USA alone. China is clearly responding to these concerns by building up to at least 1000 nukes, which should increase the cost to the US to ~30% of its population based on your estimates. I see no downsides with such an act.