Hey, you don't need to convince me. I'm well aware. But I'm not in the Whitehouse

Yeah, real big brain move, isn't it? Remove the only possible point of friction between China and Iran by cutting off the supply entirely yourself.

Maybe, but Westoids don't understand actual military strategy. Oil is the start and end of their thinking. And Kharg island has a port thats responsible for 90% of Iranian exports. Nevermind that even if the US does take Kharg island it would have zero effect on Iran's control of the strait.

These types of statements are purely for the purpose of market manipulation rather than having any material basis in reality.

Could this be a reaction to Ansar Allah?

Not saying you're wrong but messy is exactly the modus operandi of US(CIA)foreign policy. Destabilization and intervention is the name of their game and popularity or popular support is not a consideration of theirs when pushing an agenda. Although, Canadian law enforcement, particularly CSIS, have a long history of collaboration with American surveillance programs and policing. If the price is right our corpos won't hesitate to sell out to the americans.

The beast is coming home. I think you're going to see a huge resurgence in the separatist agenda in Alberta, Canada also. It's no coincidence that Alberta expresses the most pro-US sentiment amongst the Canadian provinces being home to the tar sands. Once the US withdraws from the ME we're going to see a lot more focus put towards people closer to home. Canada, south America and Greenland.

Surely carpet bombing an entire country will force them to surrender, it's worked everywhere else they've done it, right? ....right?!

There's no way they are surprised people are quitting a job that isn't paying them. Like, I knew the corpos live in a dream world but...seriously?

Ok, Well then the example used is contradictory to the point trying to be made. Because Russia made it pretty clear from the day the USSR was illegally dissolved to now that it wouldn't accept NATO making any moves on Ukraine. And it was well understood within NATO itself that Russia would, in fact, move to confront it in Ukraine.

It would have been more accurate to simply put the conversation into class context and say the bourgeoisie rarely say what they mean to the proletariat and default to libspeak to candy coat reality.

I'm sorry this is extremely funny given that Russia said for months that they would never invade Ukraine, including in talks with the US and Europe (to the point that a lot of us on here in the news mega naively believed them, including me), only to launch a war that has lasted 4+ years with no signs of stopping. And at the start of the war, Russia tried to have their special forces enter the Ukrainian capital and perform such "personal attacks" aimed at the political class of Ukraine as part of denazification

Uhh, you're leaving out a giant chunk of context here that lead Russia to do what it did. And this all goes way back before 2022. It goes back before 2014, even. Let's not forget historical materialism and the universality of contradiction in our analysis and understanding of events that come to pass.

Yes, Russia invaded Ukraine. But that wasn't the start of this. Anyone who says that also says Palestine started the war in October of 2023.

Welcome to international relations and geopolitics. Everyone is trying to play, deceive and fool the other parties. To think otherwise is naive, and Russia of all nations would know that. The US knows it. This is not a shift in anything, but rather a return to the norm. China talks openly about decapitation strikes with hypersonic weapons on Taiwanese political leadership in the media, and this was before the US war in Iran, and operation in Venezuela. So they know it too.

I can agree with this to an extent. Though no other actor engages in the scope and scale of clandestine operations that directly violates the sovereignty of literally everyone as the Americans. Being in the traditionally dominant position they have been, they set the tone and the precedent and others have to act accordingly.

I know it's just the distance but these missiles always look like they're so slow at night