the question everybody wants to know, how many people do they want to kill

Much obliged, watching it right now.

again, i'm sorry that happened to you.

Yeah, that's the thing about Obama. He was a backstabber, someone who'll smile outwardly and then pull off successful OPs everywhere. There's something about the american psyche and self image that makes that kind of warlord very palatable to liberals but disgusting to reactionaries.

As much as Trump successfully positions himself as someone he isn't - an anti-war hawk - the real support comes from the self image of a guy who 'talks tough', a 'madman' that 'makes the world afraid'. When in reality Trump starts as many fires as anyone else, is not any more liable to wind down the Gaza Genocide or the Ukraine War than Kamala, but simply sucked ass when trying to pull off a coup in Venezuela. Trump brags about blocking Nordstream 2 when Biden harvested Europe's financial economy by blowing up NS1, couped countries like Pakistan, got american troops in Perú, and so on and so forth. Biden is a hawk in truth, whereas Trump is the image of a hawk and also a fuck up.

i'm sorry that happened to you, hope things get better for you comrade.

think about it this way:

the stated goal of US hybrid war against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and so on is to so impoverish and destroy these populations so much that they rise up against their governments. cruelty is not just the point, its the means.

the most basic criticism you can make is really simple. do the impoverished, sick, and starving populations of a country under sanctions have the energy to organize a revolution? no, they are focused on survival. at most you can have engineer societal collapse there, but not an organized revolution.

that is because revolutions are born of contradictions that go all the way up to the ruling classes. the french revolution saw even wealthy members of the third estate in hunger. the russian revolution was borne out of the catastrophe of WW1 and the inability of the tsarist state to deliver even for the lower nobility that did all the administrative work. likewise with an egyptian revolution its not enough for the country to spiral. the military caste that rules the country needs to be spiraling as well. thats where junior officer coups come from.

we could be seeing the final days of a regime that is only as strong as glass. but we could also be seeing business as usual for a political regime that builds itself a versailles in the desert while cairo turns into a mismanaged slum.

egypt is one of those post colonial countries under an aggressive occupation by its own armed forces, whose members own and control everything. i don't see a revolution happening unless the egyptian economy spirals and the west just forgoes any sort of 'prop up financing'. at that point the army cadres would be stepping aside and letting the revolution happen.

I vaguely remember Obama, still as president, making a speech where he says in no uncertain terms that 'the US shouldn't go into Ukraine' because 'it's way more important to the Russians than to America and therefore Russia will put much more into than the US ever will'. Which goes to show that the guy was a pretty good steward of empire whenever he didn't listen to his dumbass secretary of state. If someone knows what I'm talking about, much obliged.

if your teeth are sucking they might be something else

are demons stupid why would they make you want to read the bible

they had the foresight to determine fundraising futures. something you terminally online anti capitalists can never understand

I think the answer is that it doesn't. Lebanon's military is kept weak because it is a divided country along sectarian lines, on top of which american sanctions make sure the country's forces cannot be modernized and armed. As such, a vaccuum was created, likely intentionally to ensure Israel faced no opposition. Ironically leading to the formation of a national resistance movement that kicks Israel's ass all the time. Let's not forget that Israel has been talking about annexing territory up to the Litani river since the 50s. Gotta steal that water.