Proxy and ally, gotta distinguish between those two on some level here, I would say; if only to make a point about the differences between mutual benefit and a predatory relationship. Anti-imperialist people in Russia are aligned with anti-imperialist people in China for good material reasons, but are still distinct peoples, cultures, and interests outside of that allegiance to the same anti-imperialist fight. Ukraine has no good reason to be allying with the US and throwing its people to their deaths, in order to fight Russia; its an act of destroying itself upon Russia in a way that only benefits its masters, not itself. The two have tried to broker peace before and had the west sabotage it.

Unless you want to argue allyship between western neo-nazis and Ukrainian neo-nazis, then I guess you could say there's some kind of allying? But clearly, then, not the kind of allying a person would want to be endorsing.

I'm curious if anyone knows how similar he is to Bernie Sanders? I've heard the two compared before vaguely, but I'm not very clear on the specifics. They both seem to inhabit that space of saying things like, you know, "maybe we shouldn't destroy the world in a nuclear holocaust" and being called a radical for doing so. Or like, "I watched Star Wars and while I'm not totally sold on the rebel alliance, I do at least disagree with some of the things that Emperor Palpatine did." And then people are like, "How dare you support those Death-Star-destroying rebels." (Maybe joking a bit with that second example, but I'm not sure it's far off if you make it analogous to geopolitics.)

But I feel like somebody said once he's a bit more to the left of Bernie. Not really sure.

Beijing is conducting espionage activities on what Western governments say is an unprecedented scale, mobilizing security agencies, private companies and Chinese civilians in its quest to undermine rival states and bolster the country’s economy.

Reads like pure projection. Like if you change the wording to:

Washington is conducting espionage activities on what anti-imperialist governments say is an unprecedented scale, mobilizing security agencies, private companies and American civilians in its quest to undermine rival states and bolster the country’s economy.

It's basically just what the US has been doing for decades.

I'm sure China is doing some covert offensive things. It'd be a bit odd if they weren't considering they can't have any lasting peace while the western empire is still going. In that sense, it's more like defensive offense, most likely, in the same general meaning as Palestine trying to survive a genocide when they take out an occupier tank. Some of it's probably real, some probably fabricated to manufacture consent for cold war, but either way, the characterization of it reads like very clear projection.

I don't even know what to say. Just thinking about the amount of planning going into this terrorism.

If true—and it's sure not hard to believe it is given the endless fucked up stuff western colonialism and imperialism has done over centuries—all I can say is, they make ghouls look like casper.

Every day I have to wake up and deal with the fact that this is considered a real country.

Bronk said that "it's so much cheaper and easier" to invest now in the capabilities to deter Russia than it is "to actually invest in the forces capable of fighting an extended war for six months, a year, two years."

This is the important part, isn't it. "Invest more money, but don't worry about the long term, just hand over the cash, the short term is what matters here."

"Bully returns home, tells mom it was traumatizing when victim fought back."

Pretty sure he's been showing visible signs of cognitive decline since 2020 elections. The sad part for people who aren't genocidal imperialists, is I'm not sure how much it matters either way. Supposing that he's not all there, a clear-minded Biden would likely be making much the same decisions, considering his past record in politics. So either way, he's still a piece of shit doing immense harm, whether he's all there mentally doing it or he's somewhat of a stand-in for it by this point.

After seeing western empire news repeatedly call the genocide they're doing to the Palestinian people a "war", I'm getting to the point I just assume that if they call something a war, they are talking about something they or one of their proxies is being violent about and they are both sidesing it to make it sound less bad.

Reminds me of Parenti talking about JFK assassination and the gangster nature of the state.

Have had it on my mind cause of other stuff recently too, like this: https://x.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1791581687178281026

Billionaire CEOs didn't just reach Mayor Adams in a private chat urging him to arrest pro-Palestine Columbia students, they also offered PRIVATE staff to help NYPD. The Mayor accepted.

Members of the group also coordinated with Israel's war cabinet, UN ambassador and former PM.

Or the Boeing whistleblowers who keep being unalived.

Then this thing from Blinken: not directly threatening starvation, but implying what will happen if you go against them.

Then was also thinking about how imperialist media has accused Russia of being a gangster state before and the whole "every accusation is a confession" thing.

Nothing to make flying feel safe like an airplane quality whistleblower being unalived.