US drones, like everything else, are good for counter-insurgency. It's like the Bayraktars. They aren't bad at what they do. They do a lot of damage to the PKK, the insurgencies in Ethiopia and, as it turns out, the Armenian Armed Forces. Iran's Shaheds are just the reverse, they are tools for asymmetrical warfare. So you see that sort of weapon in the Ukraine War on both sides, and with Yemen's sanctions enforcement operation.

The problem as always is paying premium after buying the hype of a perfect, silver bullety wonder weapon.

to paraphrase the good vlad ilyich

'wow shit's going down, very quickly too'

ask him if firefighters are in the 1%

continue on to talk about teachers, but before letting him say that 'some teachers are really shitty at their job' ask them if he truly believes there are no driven teachers being rewarded with the shittiest financial means the country can get away with

continue opening the conversation with other occupations, like nurses and construction workers. and ask him, how many nurses it took for a driven and passionate hedge fund manager to make his first billion

don't even bring up concepts like class war or anything, just talk about the material reality and embody what you want to say rather than explaining it

If China sends 23300 balloons at the US, the balance of payments will finally collapse from all the trillion dollar missiles they'll need to shoot them down.

So, uh, quick question: if enough states remove Trump from the ballot does that mean we'll have to start posting 'This is how DeSantis can still win' memes?

worldnews leads investigation on confirmed and undeniable russian asset

The proposal was shown to key figures in the House and Senate from both parties. Longtime lawmaker, Rep. Joe Wilson, has even expressed open support for it while others who were privy to the details of the text have so far kept a low profile, saying that publicly coming out in favor of the program could derail it.

“Israel is trying to keep civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as low as possible, but Hamas is not allowing the refugees to leave and Egypt is unwilling to open its borders,” the plan’s authors write in the opening paragraph.

They later go on to explain that “the only moral solution is to ensure that Egypt opens its borders and allows for the refugees to flee from the tyrant control of Hamas. The US Government provides Egypt with approximately $1.3 billion in foreign aid, and these funds can be allocated to the refugees from Gaza who will be allowed into Egypt.”

Of course there is a history that explains why that is the case, but the fact that it is Russia and China bringing Pakistan into BRICS feels like more than a foreign policy failure on India's part. It feels like a raison d'etre failure overall. It's like if Brazil and Argentina still pretended to be rivals anywhere outside of a football stadium. That is not to say that Pakistan is an easy neighbor to have, but by God these indian nationalist channels online are so hysterical about muslims. It feels like a dead end for India, which is an 'union of states'.

Love the 20-40% of comments on MoA's latest piece on 'sub-imperial power' trying to make it about jews instead of capitalist elites.

The esoteric racists online are already saying that Millei is 'good but under jewish control' and I'm assuming that's a preview of right wing discourse.

looking at US polls. i wonder which american ancap used a monkey's paw to abolish presidential reelections.

it even has a kosovo flag on it AAAAAAAAAA