BRICS need to start pushing de-dollarisation urgently given the current geopolitical situation. They had a golden opportunity in 2022-2023, and decided not to. That decison could bite us in the ass...

Hopefully Trump winning will kill the liberal delusion that we in the global south can reconciliate and negotiate with the imperial triad of the USA, Western Europe and Japan. Especially the USA of course. Fear of Trump seems to mobilise the liberals in situations where they'd otherwise stay quiet.

The first actual evidence of North Korean troops being present in Russia has just been released, with a video showing soliders speaking what sounds like Korean, and getting outfitted with Russian military gear likely in the far east of Russia, near the border with the DPRK. I wonder what will happen with these troops, are they in Russia just for military drills, or will they be deployed to the front lines.

I think if they do end up on the front lines (which seems more likely as time passes), it is a negative signal for stability in the Korean peninsula, and shows that the DPRK are preparing for war and want battlefield experience in a modern conflict. This would likely be in response to the military escalation by the ROK, who unveiled the gigantic bunker buster Hyunmoo-5 IRBM, a missile the weight and size of an ICBM, but with a range of only 3000km, while simultaneously flying drones over Pyongyang this month. The message is clear. This is a first strike weapon designed to take out the leadership of the DPRK in a decapitation strike, and the ROK can track them with surveillance drones.

The DPRK's reaction to this massive escalation in the media has been to deny the effectiveness of this weapon and call it useless, but to me the actions taken by the DPRK in response (stating that reunification is not possible, blowing up roads connecting to the ROK, artillery on high alert) show that they think the opposite with regards to this escalation. If North Korean troops end up fighting in Kursk or Ukraine, it would be one further sign that the DPRK are preparing for war and improving their combat readiness.

The videos from the Apache helicopter incidents are very disturbing. In one case, a Hellfire missile strikes a car as about a dozen unarmed people are seen exiting the car. Mass Hannibal directive was in effect...

The dude went on a camping trip with a range rover and caravan, along with a rented boat, and that's somehow worth making a fuss according to the FBI?

Liberals have completely lost their minds saying that the Trump shooting is fake. Really going full BlueMAGA now. Spectators died and there's videos of the shooter's body on a rooftop. It happened.

In case you missed it Zelenskyy pushes allies for direct involvement in Ukraine’s war with Russia.

Some rather legitimately impossible demands from Zelenskyy in there:

“Russians are using 300 planes on the territory of Ukraine. We [Ukraine] need at least 120-130 planes to resist in the sky,” Zelenskyy said, again calling on Western allies to supply with additional air defence systems. Ukraine is waiting for the delivery of US-designed F-16 fighter jets.

He just asked for 130 fighter jets from NATO? What the actual hell! Ukraine only had 170 jets in 2014 before the war started. Does any NATO country except for the USA even have that many spare jets? Zelenskyy is asking for an entirely new air force to fight Russia, direct from NATO. He really sees NATO as Amazon Prime for arms shipments or something.

He [Zelenskyy] said if countries could not supply the planes straight away, they could still fly them from neighbouring NATO states and shoot down Russian missiles.

Ukraine was also negotiating with international partners to use their weapons to strike Russian military hardware at the border and further inside Russian territory, Zelenskyy said.

“So far, there is nothing positive,” he said.

Did he just ask for European airforces to directly participate in the war? Is he out of his mind?! Of course NATO said you you clueless fool!

The "Reddit atheists" have become the cultural Christians now. Dawkins refers to himself as a cultural Christian. A new generation of of Reddit atheists will just produce the same result, more secular people invested in cultural conservatism and imperial hegemony. As Samir Amin writes in Eurocentrism:

Contrary to a widespread Eurocentric preconception, however, secularism is not peculiar to Christian society, which demanded its liberation from the heavy yoke of the church. Nor is it the result of the conflict between the "national" state and a church with a universal vocation. For during the Reformation, the church is in fact "national" in its various forms--Anglican, Lutheran, and so forth. Nevertheless, the new fusion of church and state does not produce a new theocracy, but rather, one might say, a religious secularism. Secularism, even though the reactionary ecclesiastical forces fought it, did not root out belief. It even, perhaps, reinforced it in the long run, by freeing it of its formalist and mythological straightjackets. Christians of our time, whether or not they are intellectuals, have no problem accepting that humankind descended from apes and not from Adam and Eve.

The kind of secularism promoted by "Reddit atheists" does not reduce the belief and support of traditional Christian or Western values or Eurocentric thought, in fact it reinforces them, because now people are free to believe in those values without having to engage in anti intellectual stuff like denying the theory of evolution or the big bang, or believing that mythological parables from the Bible are meant to be taken literally.

We don't need "Reddit atheists", we need materialists.

Overall this piece by the intercept is basically stenography of the press releases by the US State Department. Every statement is sourced by them. Also, the picture of the ballistic missile in the article is not the whole missile, but simply a booster stage.

There's actually a silver lining here. The less that LGBT rights are associated with the US and the collective West, the better.

https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1745343078133612603

https://nitter.net/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1745343078133612603

John Fetterman calls out South Africa for the genocide of white farmers.

This guy has gone completely off the rails. There is no genocide of white farmers in South Africa. About 60 farmers are murdered a year in the country, usually by criminals. Many of those who are murdered are not even white. Yes this is a major rural security issue, but it is in no way a genocide, not even close.

The Canadian instance is landlord cental apparently

That is the most normal hairstyle I've ever seen. In South Africa I see much more elaborate hair styles literally every day, and it's super cool.

Racist ass chick fil a bosses