No cuck n chad ranking this week, maybe next week as well unless something funny and cool happens. I'm travelling to Bashar Al Assad's based Syria this week and staying for a while. I'm changing jobs soon and got a relatively fat paycheck for doing that and also around two months off in between jobs. So I decided to take my wife to Syria and Lebanon, where it's quite cheap, and I live for free there with random family members, and I sort of got addicted to the Middle East when I last visited. In exchange for no rankings, you'll get cool stories and possibly some pics if the internet situation permits and I feel comfortable doing so. If I die in an American or Israeli airstrike on Damascus, tell Bernie Sanders that he's a cuck and bury me next to Prigozhin.

Did anyone post this?

Zzzzelenskyyyy quoted in the Economist: https://archive.ph/LsGEy

I just saw a video of the NAFO meetup in Lithuania and holy shit. These are the people posting about how indestructible NATO is? They're the sort of people that street gangs in my country would send 14 year old boys after to beat them up as a joke. I have a feeling that the people posting SLAVA UKRAINI on Reddit are cut from the same cloth lmao

I bring a sort of "constantly bringing up the Chilean coup" vibe to 9/11 that liberals and chuds don't really like

Allende was a threat because he was a marxist, and it is a FACT that all marxists don't know Basic Economics (TM), so he was going to run Chile down completely and plunge them into stone age. So We (TM) had to intervene to avoid this, we had to grab this shady general Pinochet, give him money and training and direct him to coup Allende and install a decades-long dictatorship in place, so that WE can run Chile down by OUR terms.

Bank of Canada study finds it is more profitable for countries to ignore sanctions on Russia than comply

The Bank of Canada has published a study that concludes that as not enough countries have joined the sanctions on Russia, it is more profitable to ignore sanctions than comply.

The study looked at what affect on a country non-adherence of third countries to the sanctions regime affects the sanctioning countries. The study concluded if an insufficient number of countries support restrictive measures, Russia loses less, while those countries that are friendly are better off thanks to increased trade of goods that can be sold at higher prices.

“Our welfare analysis demonstrates that the sanctioned country’s welfare losses are significantly mitigated, and the sanctioning country’s losses are amplified, if the third country does not join the sanctions, but the third country benefits from not joining,” the study found.

To illustrate, the study’s calculations conclude that if a critical mass of countries were to join in restricting Russian gas purchases, Russia's GDP growth would decline by 9%. However, as long as only European countries comply with the measures, Russia's per capita GDP is reduced only by 4%.

At the same time, those countries facilitating the trade of sanctioned goods see substantial gains in their balance of trade. A raft of countries have seen their trade turnover with Russia explode in the last 18 months, including most of Central Asia, Turkey, China and even the Baltic states, which have become a gateway for goods to Russia. Despite the war with Georgia in 2008, today the small country in the Caucasus is more economically dependent on Russia than at any time since its independence thanks to booming trade.

Over 20,000 feared dead in Libya flooding.

If only they had a government that could fight disasters.

“We came, we saw, he died” - The most bloodthirsty ghoul imaginable. I hope their ghosts await Hillary in the afterlife.

You guys remember the 2014 coup in Ukraine? They put Poronshenko in power from 2014-2019. Here he is wearing a Nazi black sun.

https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1702382472615567735

Looks like the French plan of ignoring the Nigerien dismissal is not going well. The military is now stopping food deliveries to the embassy as the staff are blockaded inside.

Encouraging news coming out of Germany as a statute erected for the erstwhile dictator and strongman Angela Merkel collapsed overnight. German freedom fighters have yet to comment on this historic event.

Erected just two years ago near the CSU stronghold of Nürenberg the statue depicted the german despot on a horse and was over 2.7 meters tall and made out of concrete weighing 1.5 metric tons, the german government have not yet commented on this historic event presumably out of a fear of 'Gesichtsverlust'. Still the pictures of Mother Merkel, a subtle reference to the lesser book 1984 by writer 'George Odergut' are making the rounds on social media and may be what will make the german people cast of the authoritarian one coalition government that has kept the reigns of power for decades.

notceps reporting live from outside of germany

"Here is a direct translation of a speech Osama Bin Laden gave outlining his reasons for doing 9/11."

"You can't trust what Bin Laden says, he's not reliable."

"OK, I guess that means he might not have done 9/11."

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In portugal 2 red wine depots broke and red wine is just flooding down the street like a river it's crazy 🇵🇹

Hell yeah Gunther

Courtesy of the failing New York Times:

Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say

As a result of the sanctions, American officials estimate that Russia was forced to dramatically slow its production of missiles and other weaponry at the start of the war in February 2022 for at least six months. But by the end of 2022, Moscow’s military industrial manufacturing began to pick up speed again, American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose the sensitive assessment now concede.

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In October 2022, the United States gathered international officials in Washington in an effort to strengthen sanctions on the Russian economy. At the time, American officials said they believed the sanctions and export controls were working in part because they deterred countries from sending microchips, circuit boards, computer processors and other components needed for precision guided weaponry as well as necessary components for diesel engines, helicopters and tanks.

But Russia adapted quickly with its own efforts to secure supplies of the needed parts. Today, Russian officials have remade their economy to focus on defense production. With revenue from high energy prices, Russia’s security services and ministry of defense have been able to smuggle in the microelectronics and other Western materials required for cruise missiles and other precision guided weaponry. As a result, military production has not only recovered but surged.

Before the war, one senior Western defense official said, Russia could make 100 tanks a year; now they are producing 200.

Western officials also believe Russia is on track to manufacture two million artillery shells a year — double the amount Western intelligence services had initially estimated Russia could manufacture before the war.

As a result of the push, Russia is now producing more ammunition than the United States and Europe. Overall, Kusti Salm, a senior Estonian defense ministry official, estimated that Russia’s current ammunition production is seven times greater than that of the West.

Russia’s production costs are also far lower than the West’s, in part because Moscow is sacrificing safety and quality in its effort to build weapons more cheaply, Mr. Salm said. For instance, it costs a Western country $5,000 to $6,000 to make a 155-millimeter artillery round, whereas it costs Russia about $600 to produce a comparable 152-millimeter artillery shell, he said.

Putin called the entry of Soviet troops into Prague and Budapest a mistake. During the EEF, the moderator of the meeting said that the Czech and Hungarian authorities claim that the USSR carried out a colonialist policy towards these countries.

“This part of the Soviet Union’s policy was wrong and only led to tension in relations,” Putin said. He declared the inadmissibility of policies clearly directed against the interests of other peoples. And he said that Western countries are doing this.

In 1956, Soviet troops crushed a rebellion in Hungary by entering Budapest in tanks. After this, the pro-Soviet Janos Kadar came to power. In 1968, Soviet troops also entered Czechoslovakia - the USSR authorities feared that due to the new political course the country would withdraw from the Warsaw Pact.

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Hexagonal world news service best world news service ty

Update on how it's going with reddit.

Just received an invitation to a moderator survey that was essentially entirely about activity on the site and happiness of mods with modtools... This happening 2 days after the 1 month mark for the disaster isn't a coincidence, they probably intended to wait 1 month to let it play out and see what happens before reacting.

My assumption is that they're absolutely fucking panicking about this right now because it's definitely a disaster.

Interesting to watch the consent manufacturing machine in real time in regards to the Uyghur genocide canard.

The early "cultural genocide" allegations were nearly identical to taliban Islamist agitprop videos produced in 2014, but since the Taliban has "moderated" (they're still pretty despicable to be honest) and established trade ties with the PRC, the narrative has shifted to one of forced labor.

Initially I think they were pushing to restart the ETIM via Afghanistan similarly to how they created the Mujahideen, but this proved impossible and their controlled radicalism pipeline in Afghanistan just became ISIS-K (which exclusively does the bidding of American foreign policy and is transparently an op).

Now the long term strategy seems to be economic sanctions targeting Xinjiang intended to inspire radicalism among a newly disaffected young male population.

Of course, I don't think China is entirely blameless in the situation. I do believe they engaged in coercive overpolicing practices with a very "war on terror"-era mindset specifically in Xinjiang, but at the same time they also promoted stability through economic development, which the US has never cared to do.

The critical difference is that China offered suspected radicals vocational training and infrastructure while the US has only ever offered arms proliferation and illegal torture which just creates generations of resentment that ultimately results in people flying planes into buildings.

So when is Pringle gonna stop pretending and show up again in some random location with a brand new wig and fake beard on? It's starting to get a little concerning how long he's played dead.

In authoritarian China they arrest foreign academics on false pretenses, threaten them, and then try to bribe them to do traitorous activity

Sike, Australia did it to a Chinese academic.

The armored train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has crossed into Russian territory ahead of the summit with President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed in the early hours of Tuesday.

Meanwhile Ukrainian Nazi Podolyak (i mean why does he look so much like him anyway) is back with another openly racist racism against China and Indians. My theory is that he must be the designated government shit talker just to keep the nazis satisfied so he keeps dumping this nonsense every couple of weeks otherwise they will go mad without their regularly scheduled racist statement on TV or something.

"You see, the problem with India and China is that they're just stupid realy."

‘What is the problem of India, China and so on. The problem of these countries is that they do not analyze the consequences of their own steps. The weak intellectual potential of these countries. Unfortunately. Yes, they are investing in science, yes, India sent a Lunar Rover today, and it is already traveling on the surface of the Moon. But this does not mean that this country[India] understands exactly what the modern world is.

Sure India has many problems but some pathetic Ukrainian Nazi boy is the last credible person to argue about it, even the libs were calling you the "most corrupt country on EU" just 18 months ago like fuck off worthless Ukrainian nationalist nonsense.

What if there had been no coup in Chile in 1973?: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2023)

If there had been no coup in Chile, there might not have been coups in Peru (1975) and Argentina (1976). Without these coups, perhaps the military dictatorships in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay would have withdrawn in the face of popular agitation, inspired by Chile’s example. Perhaps, in this context, the close relationship between Chile’s Salvador Allende and Cuba’s Fidel Castro would have broken Washington’s illegal blockade of revolutionary Cuba. Perhaps the promises made at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Santiago in 1972 might have been realised, among them the enactment of a robust New International Economic Order (NIEO) in 1974 that would have set aside the imperial privileges of the Dollar-Wall Street complex and its attendant agencies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Perhaps the just economic order that was being put in place in Chile would have been expanded to the world.

But the coup did happen. The military dictatorship killed, disappeared, and sent into exile hundreds of thousands of people, setting in motion a dynamic of repression that has been difficult for Chile to reverse despite the return to democracy in 1990. From being a laboratory for socialism, Chile—under the tight grip of the military—became a laboratory for neoliberalism. Despite its relatively small population of roughly ten million (a tenth of the size of Brazil’s population), the coup in Chile in 1973 had a global impact. At that time, the coup was not just seen as a coup against the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, but as a coup against the Third World.

Replied to a NAFO with a map of Ukraine's advances in the recent counter offensive. They got mad and started calling me racist and antisemitic for no good reason.

musk-crimea stuff is so mind-numbingly dumb. i saw a meme claiming he was responsible for "civilian casualties" because apparently if you fail to assist a murder you're responsible for everything the person you didn't help murder ever (allegedly) does

but further, how is Ukraine not to blame for using foreign, private, civilian assets for a military operation? who in their right minds would conceive of so essentially relying on assets your government has no control over?

(cw: police violence, sa) Ex-law officers plead guilty to charges of torturing two Black men in US | Al Jazeera (Aug 14 2023)

In January, the officers entered a house without a warrant and handcuffed and assaulted the two men with stun guns, a sex toy and other objects. The officers mocked the two men with racial slurs in a 90-minute torture session, then devised a cover-up that included planting drugs and a gun, leading to false charges that stood against the victims for months.

Yeah so it's not just my imagination that things have gotten bad on , there seems to generally be agreement among mods over the disaster in the data: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/16icvv2/1_month_of_disaster_a_survey_response/

Shoutout to that guy from my work who named a bunch of equipment after JRPG characters

Apparently this was as far back as years ago so I'll probably never meet you but hope you're having a good life

US at grave risk of China tech war retaliation

The US imported US$33 billion in capital goods from China for electricity generation and distribution in 2022, items that are no longer manufactured in the US.

Substituting domestic production for these items would entail long lead times and exorbitant costs, industrial officials say. In the event of a full-scale trade war, a Chinese ban on critical components could cripple basic US infrastructure.

“The vulnerability of supply chains for critical infrastructure is acute and self-inflicted. The US and its allies have allowed themselves to become captive to Chinese cartels that control production of electronic components, high-powered magnets, printed circuit boards, computers, drones, rare earth metals, wind turbines, solar cells, cellular phones and lithium batteries… In fact, nearly every element of the technology-based digital smart grid is dependent on Chinese-made components,” Brien Sheahan, a former top US energy regulatory official, wrote in April.

US defense contractors also depend heavily on China. In a June 19 interview with the Financial Times, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said his company had “several thousand suppliers in China and decoupling is impossible. We can de-risk but not decouple,” adding that he believed this to be the case “for everybody” in US manufacturing.

Hayes added, “Think about the $500 billion of trade that goes from China to the US every year. More than 95% of rare earth materials or metals come from, or are processed in, China. There is no alternative. If we had to pull out of China, it would take us many, many years to re-establish that capability either domestically or in other friendly countries.”

It is a good article there is more and some graphs.

You can spot the exact date the American capitalists decided to offshore manufacturing to China lol.

Ukraine took back a village near Bakhmut that had less than a hundred people before the war and it’s apparently significant enough to be on Wikipedia’s current events portal lol

Vladimir Putin ‘gratefully’ accepts Kim Jong Un invitation to North Korea

Russian president Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to visit North Korea made by Kim Jong Un during the two leaders’ landmark talks this week, the Kremlin and Pyongyang state media said on Thursday. Such a visit would be Putin’s first to North Korea since 2000 and would highlight deepening relations between Moscow and Pyongyang that have dismayed the US and its regional allies.

I hope Kim Jong Un hits his hotel room with a Juche mind control weapon

The lib consensus seems to be that Putin is hoping Trump wins the 2024 election and pulls the rug, forcing Ukraine to accept defeat. I can't help but wonder if Putin is planning almost the opposite. Steamroll Ukraine in 2024, before the US election, shocking the West. Trump can then use that complete failure as ammunition to secure victory. Frankly, I think a second Trump presidency is already pretty likely, and that little nudge might push it into "sure thing" territory.