you're behind the times. netanyahu just keeps tweeting about how there will be no palestinian state whatsoever in the west bank. he should start using the word lebensraum by the end of the week.

From what I understand, China is rather decentralized. The central government sets up policy demands, and the local governments have ample freedom to fulfill them. If Beijing says 'we want you to implement X amount of solar panels in farms and buildings', the governments can do whatever. Tax incentives, subsidies, privatization, nationalization, and so on. And then the governments have to fund most of it themselves. Local governments of China aren't above calling bourgeois or criminal elements and doing a quid pro quo because the central government doesn't fully fund everything either.

Ecuador's situation, and I guess Mexico's too, is so unthinkable to me. The last time the government had cause to clamp down on excessive crime around these parts was in the years preceding the Rio Olympics / World Cup. The government literally called up the big criminal orgs and told them to just move to the next towns over for a bit, or to hold back from faction warfare while police were stationed everywhere. The one group that rebelled against the arrangement got their shit kicked in by the armed forces without delay.

Even then they didn't cross the rubicon like in Ecuador. Burn a bus, sure. Rush around with big motorcades in broad daylight, ok. Attack police? Of course. But in Ecuador the groups thought they could do a coup.

A carshop is the one thing you'd expect to find in a sanctioned country like North Korea. From what I understand it's the same as in Cuba. You can't just acquire new parts or cars with relative ease, so you gotta have a cottage industry of people who are very adept in maintaining or fixing those cars. I remember this (very normie, and not, like, a leftist or something) explaining to me that the cubans invented some sort of common fix'er upper thing that carshops tend to do in Brazil.

Like I don't even doubt there are special facilities for tourists in NK. Can't you have a mental breakdown in a less mundane place?

Operation Ever Given is a go

kissinger is still electable if you vote for him

good news. the UN security council has finally agreed on a resolution that makes no demands. israel calls it equivalent to 17 9/11s.

in more serious news i can't believe the US congress is about to cancel culture george santos

will we ever post harder than this?

the nakba is putinist propaganda. not because it didn't happen, but because signal boosting it serves putin. i don't make the rules.

ww3 starts and quickly ends as everyone realizes their equipment has been reverse-engineered... but how?!

the f-35 has been upgraded into the unmmaned drone division and you terminal leftists think thats a bad thing