Yes I understand that but it still doesn’t explain the trend between 2020-2024.

It’s never going to happen.

If what they say about 11 million illegal immigrants in the US is true, then the toll of the economy is going to be extremely heavy, not to mention the resources it would take (physically impossible) to deport 10+ million people.

The 1950s was a very different time for America, when it was an industrial powerhouse coming out of the war economy of WWII with very strong labor backbone to support its industries. No such condition exists in today’s America.

Trump is selling a dream to his supporters that can never be realized. At least the Democrats are smart enough to destroy the European economy through Ukraine so they can import European refugees into America to replace the deported immigrants, if the plan were to go ahead, just like what happened after WWII.

wtf is tourism with Taliban a thing now?

Scoop: U.S. wants to use Hezbollah's weakness to elect new Lebanese president

U.S. officials say the White House wants to take advantage of Israel's massive blow to Hezbollah's leadership and infrastructure to push for an election of a new Lebanese president in the coming days.

Why it matters: Lebanon hasn't had a president for almost two years, which has increased instability and exacerbated the political and economic crisis in the country.

• Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, top militia commanders and other Hezbollah members were killed by Israeli airstrikes in recent weeks, weakening the influential militia.

• The Israeli attacks killed more than 1,100 people in Lebanon, including dozens of women and children, the Lebanese health ministry said without specifying how many of the people killed were Hezbollah members. Hezbollah in recent weeks stopped publishing the number of casualties it suffered.

Good old regime change was likely the decision for Israel to assassinate Nasrallah. I kept thinking about what Michael Hudson said the other day that Terrorism has become the only non-Atomic war alternative for the US empire to shape the geopolitical conflicts to advance its interests.

Honestly feels like half of news mega heads would probably ramble like this at the dinner table after two glasses of their preferred alcoholic drink.

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Middle East Exploding, Ukraine Crumbling! the US Take Action?

Michael Hudson had a normal one today. Even Richard Wolff was like wtf.

Also a lot of interesting anecdotes of Hudson (who apparently still live in the 1970s) during his time at the Hudson Institute (no relation, named after Hudson River) dealing with the neocons.

Judge for yourself if these are banger quotes or the deranged ramblings of a madman:

• “The United States doesn’t want to see a ceasefire, it wants to use Israel as a catapult; everything that happened today was planned out just 50 years back in 1973-74. I sat in meetings with the head of Mossad who then became Netanyahu’s chief military advisor. The whole strategy was worked out essentially by the Defense Department by the neoliberals and [Henry] “Scoop” Jackson - the ultra-right wing neocon who sponsored them all.”
• “The starting point for all US strategy since the 1970s was that Democracies no longer can field a domestic army with a military draft. America is not in a position able to field enough of an army to invade a country.”
• “That means today’s tactics are limited to bombing, not occupying countries. Neither the Israeli army or any other army are really able to invade and try to take over a country the way armies did during WWII.”
• “The US wars haven’t scaled back because it has a fallback position - it was going to rely on foreign troops to do the fighting as proxies instead of itself. The first example was to create the Wahhabi Jihadi fighters in Afghanistan and Jimmy Carter mobilized them against the secular Afghan interests. Carter justified this by saying, yes they’re Muslims, but after all we all believe in God, so the answer to the secular state of Afghanistan was Wahhabi fanaticism”
• “The US realized that in order for a country to fight to the last Afghan, the last Israeli, the last Ukrainian, you really need a country whose spirit is one of hatred.”
• “Herman Kahn’s (model for Dr. Strangelove) greatest achievement was to convince the US empire builders that the key to achieving their control of the Middle East was to rely on Israeli as their Foreign Legion.”
• “The US realized then that the only kind of full scale war that a Democracy can afford is an Atomic War, but that only works against adversaries who can’t retaliate. The result of today’s military alliances means that any attempt to use nuclear weapons is going to risk full scale nuclear war. What is left for the US? There is only one form of non-Atomic war that Democracies can afford, and that’s Terrorism. You should look at Ukraine and Israel as the Terrorist alternative to Atomic War.”
• “The whole idea of Ukraine and Israel is to bomb civilians, not military targets. It’s a fight to destroy the population under an Ideology of Genocide - that is absolutely central and not an accident.”
• “Zionism has been Christianized and has accepted the hatred of the Other”
• “There cannot be peace in Asia or in Ukraine, because then the status quo would remain and the US would not be able to take over these countries as satellites; peace would mean dependent countries gaining independence”
• “Many neocons at the Hudson Institute, 50 years ago, were Trotskyists or their fathers were Trotskyists and they have picked up Trotsky’s idea of Permanent Revolution; but instead of the Permanent Revolution spreading from the Soviet Union, the neocons believe the Permanent Revolution is the American Empire itself spreading to the entire world.”
• “Who wants to live in a world where we can’t control? Who wants to live in a world where we can’t siphon off their economic surplus for ourselves? That’s the kind of mentality we’re dealing with.”

Alexander Lukashenko advises students to study Marxism in order to understand life.

And earlier, meeting with Alexander Dugin, the President of Belarus said that nothing better than Marxist-Leninist philosophy has ever been created.

We completely agree, Alexander Grigorievich. It will be impossible to understand the current socio-economic life and see the prospects for the development of the world without Marxism.

lmao owned

Russian telegram:

Iranian agency ShafaqNA: More than 20 F-35 aircraft of the Israeli Air Force were hit during the missile strike of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the territory of the Jewish state.

More from Telegram:

Iranian media claim that 20 F-35 fighters were destroyed by hypersonic missiles during strikes on Israeli air bases.

It was also claimed that a concentration of Israeli armored vehicles in the Gaza Strip was destroyed (the IDF likes to display its equipment in large groups).

Iran emphasizes that it specifically targeted IDF military facilities and gas platforms, so there will not be a large number of civilian casualties.

Aside from the fact of strikes on air bases, it is currently difficult to assess the extent of the actual damage. It will be interesting to see satellite images of the facilities if some Western company publishes them.

Iran will naturally exaggerate the effectiveness of the strikes. Israel, on the contrary, will understate and emphasize the work of the air defense. At the same time, the parties will continue to exchange threats of new strikes.

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Iran informed the US and Russia of its intentions before striking Israel. No civilian targets were hit.