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The only interesting part of the "missing chapter of the 2024 DNC autopsy report" that the NYT published today is the general election voter shift from 2020->2024. They did it, they got more votes from wealthy white suburban voters!

Hello people of the news mega, I come to you, after quite a long absence, with some Serbia 🇷🇸 News that I haven't seen reported on here and that I believe is interesting to you all:

Lets begin with the bad and moronic story. In an attempt to play both sides in the Israel war on Iran, Serbia officially sent Theodor Herzl's grandparents remains (!?) to Isr**l to be buried. This comes a few weeks after the same country sent the only European delegation, besides Russia and Belarus (and the Caucasus nations if you count them as Europe), to the burial of Ayatollah Khamenei and a few months after the same bunch of psychopaths decided to build a factory with Isr**l's Elbit Systems. This of course all comes at the same time that Satanyahu has a whopping -50% support among the population of Serbia (Putin is unsurprisingly first, followed by Xi).

In equally bad (but in an evil way) news: Ethnic cleansing is steadily going along in Kosovo. All the drama with Serbian documents and license plates has ended by now, and the American puppet government has walked away with total control of all the institutions in the Serbian majority north. Now, the government is conducting illegal demolition of Serbian property, similar to one demonic entity also backed by the West.

Finally, today marks the last day of Operation Storm (wikkkipedia link for those interested), during witch the fascist government of Croatia finalized their grandfathers ambition and managed to complete the ethnic cleansing of the land by completely displacing 200 thousand people from their ancestral homeland. As is tradition, this date is marked with celebrations in the little Reich where last summer half a million people (out of a population of just under 4 million) attended a neo-Ustaše concert.

https://xcancel.com/policytensor/status/2084055981583908910

I agree that the "save munitions for china" argument is silly--because it's very clear that the United States is totally unprepared for a major power war, can't fight a war with China in the near or medium term, & needs to radically rethink its defense strategy. The reason to stop wasting munitions in the ME is because it is just that, a waste. There's no clear strategy & the U.S. would be better off just leaving.

This is correct. The Iran war exposed important limits to U.S. military power that should prompt American policymakers and military planners to rethink many of their long-held assumptions.

Agreed. What long-held assumptions must be revised? Here is what we have learned since February:

• A. The mature precision-strike regime is definitely here. The second missile age is strategically defense dominant in the sense that it is biased in favor of the situated power and against the power projection of the visiting world power. This is by definition a multipolar world.
• B. The US command of the global commons is gone. There are now zones of denial near the great missile powers where the US does not enjoy unimpeded military access. These great missile powers are poles of the multipolar world.
• C. The problem of base vulnerability has emerged as the paramount problem of US force posture. The US is in the process of closing down its bases within range of Iranian SRBMs because they are too vulnerable to Iranian precision strikes. The problem of base vulnerability is even more pronounced in the Western Pacific, given the scale of Chinese missile capabilities. Both the HAS solution advocated by the defense intellectuals and the air force's idea of agile combat employment (ACE) are mathematically challenged. All China needs to defeat HAS and ACE is field sufficient missiles and drones to neutralize both. I have shown how US bases in the region will not survive the first week of a Chinese counter-base campaign, even with their present limited missile order of battle. (https://hexbear.net/post/8408736/7149062)
• D. Deterrence in Asia is dead. Not because the interceptor magazine is depleted, but because it was wildly insufficient to begin with. In the era of precision-mass, active base defense cannot work in the vicinity of the great missile powers.
• E. The second missile age has ended the sanctuary era. Iran has proven that the US cannot count on in-theater rear-area sanctuaries. Given China's present and future conventional ICBM capabilities, there will be no sanctuary at all in a war with China. This means in particular that attacking launch sites on the Chinese mainland will almost certainly result in missile strikes on the US homeland.
• F. Ultimately, all the foundations of the unipolar world have vanished. The US has a long way to go before the means and ends of US military policy and force posture are reconciled. The US needs to revert back to a grand-strategy of hemispheric defense. There is no recognition of this in the establishment although sane voices are beginning to emerge. But the imperial political culture means that the adjustment process will be long and painful.

Important legal precedent set in the UK today, antizionism is protected by the UK equality act 2010.

https://xcancel.com/Tracking_Power/status/2084576698092163259

I am very interested in how this will affect the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which was adopted by the Labour Party in order to purge antizionists from the party.

IHRA's definition of antisemitism includes the following:

• Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

• Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

• Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.

• Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

Burkina Faso expands budget as mining reforms boost state revenues

The lack of any kind of :traore: emoji remains a stain on Hexbear. Anyways, the new mining strategy in BF is pretty impressive and working out great for the country. There's two major sides to the strategy.

By bringing a big chunk of these mines under Burkinabe control, the state's been able to create a huge budget windfall that's even allowed the development of a sovereign wealth fund, a massively valuable tool for self-directed investment.

The state is socializing the benefits of already centralized mining systems AND formalizing, organizaing, and strengthening existing decentralized systems. Sounds a little like socialism to me

A close reading of the Graham Russia sanctions bill shows that Congress is poised to give Trump incredible new tariff powers—basically the tariff nuke

A bill supposedly aimed at Russia is really an unprecedented new tariff power grab—yet prominent Democrats are backing it.

A new, bipartisan bill could allow Trump to drop 100 percent tariffs on virtually any country he likes, for as long as he likes, and with pretty much bulletproof legal authority to do so; which means even the Supreme Court couldn’t bail out Congress (or the rest of us) next time.

The bill discussed in this newsletter passed the Senate 86–11 on Friday afternoon. Efforts to strip the tariff powers from the legislation (led by Sens. Ron Wyden and Rand Paul) failed. The bill now goes to the House

a little thread about why we're seeing so much leaking from the American side on munitions, https://x.com/ripplebrain/status/2085921767034376236 (privated account)

One thing I don't really see people talk about is the idea that a military is an institution unto itself. It has its own concerns and priorities. There are factions within it with competing interests and ideas about how things should be done. When you try to force an institution like that to do something that violates the ideas it has about itself, embarrasses it, or compromises it, you will get a backlash of some kind.

New Glenn explosion linked to rocket engine valve

Blue Origin (the rocket company owned by Jeff Bezos) had its only orbital-capable rocket explode a few months ago on the launch pad, resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history. It's looking like the problem is a design flaw in an engine called the BE-4. A New Glenn rocket uses seven of those engines to lift off from Earth.

This is turning out to be a huge problem for the US government, in particular the National Reconnaissance Office. There's only three rockets certified to launch US spy satellites. SpaceX's Falcon 9/Heavy, Blue Origin's New Glenn, and ULA's Vulcan Centaur.

Falcon can't launch satellites that need to be loaded vertically because it's transported to its launch pad horizontally, and a lot of the really delicate US spy satellites have to be kept vertical in Earth gravity for engineering reasons. New Glenn is grounded and needs its entire launch complex rebuilt from scratch. And Vulcan Centaur uses the same BE-4 engines supplied by Blue Origin (and was already grounded for unrelated solid-booster nozzle-explosion reasons).

tl;dr: the US isn't able to launch a lot of its advanced spy satellites, and might not be able to for another year.

China's Intelligence Service (MSS) has warned Spain about evidence suggesting that Israel's Mossad is behind the crisis involving Moroccan "immigrants" who have invaded Ceuta. Mossad's objective is allegedly to punish Spanish opposition to the US war against Iran.

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MSNBC report on the conditions aboard the Lincoln. It's been deployed for nine months. The Ford spent 11 months at sea, up from an original 7 month deployment, before they pulled it out of the Middle East. That was the longest deployment of any aircraft carrier since Vietnam.

Highlights so you guys don't have to watch cable newslop:

• Nonfunctional toilets
• Moldy showers
• Broken laundry facilities
• No hot water for weeks at a time
• Food shortages
• Low stocks of hygiene items like soap, toothpaste and deoderant
• Exhaustion
• Low morale due to the extension of the deployment with no clear end in sight

Link (locked account)

The CBC is engaging in more hypocritical sinophobic fearmingering regarding Chinese scientific vessels in the Arctic. Remember that Canada as one of America's dogs regularly engages in "freedom of navigation" exercises sailing warships down the Taiwanese strait yet broadcasts the alarm when Chinese vessels use that same so-called freedom of navigation.

Also another funny nugget in the article, they point out that China and Russia don't recognize Canada's claim to the northwest passage while conveniently leaving out that neither does the United States (as well as most maritime states)

https://archive.ph/aXEhw

Navy retiring USS Fort Worth halfway through lifespan

The $400 million littoral combat ship only entered service in 2012, but suffered from myriad operational problems and had less than two years at sea

Hey, wait a minute, that map...

Kuwait isn't shaped like that, it's not so round, it's like the profile of a hood. Lebanon should be a bit longer and its mountain range shouldn't bend through Syria toward Tadmur. Jordan is lacking its panhandle, it should border Iraq. Syria shouldn't have that protrusion on its southeast and it shouldn't border SA. Qatar should border SA instead of UAE, and it should be almost elliptical. It looks like the illustrating entity gave up on the UAE border.

The Sea of Galilee is absent, the Dead Sea is way too small, and Lake Nasser doesn't run that straight for so long. Most importantly, the Strait of Hormuz is shown as 125+ km wide- that's not even a strait anymore, which is the central dynamic of this whole plot!

The pinpoints don't match up to their coordinates either. The coordinates of Leviathan (1) should place it west of Tamar (2), and Burgan (8) should be south of them both and west of Ghawar (3) and Khurais (4). Ghawar's longitude puts it east of Khurais. Sitra (9) should be north of Ma'amoul (10) and Gordy North (6). The list goes on. No more than one or two of them can be placed right, and probably none of them are.

What's the point of a map if it doesn't display things in at least some remote semblence of an affine geometry? Useless ass slop.

El-Sayed has an early lead (52.7% at 17.2% in) in the Michigan senate primary. He touted as a "progressive" and he sounds good on Israel, but...

El-Sayed generally opposes United States military aid to foreign countries, but has cited U.S. actions during Russia's invasion of Ukraine and in Serbia during the 1990s as examples of beneficial U.S. intervention.

"Yeah US military actions are bad 90% of the time, but them supporting Nazis and bombing Serbian civilians was cool and good actually."

https://x.com/ripplebrain/status/2084630980577382427 (privated account so you may not be able to open it)

Reuters reports that the US Army has used "virtually all" of not just its Precision Strike Missiles, but also its ATACMS. It's not surprising that the PrSMs are gone, they were only available in the double digits when this war started, and other news sources reported they had exhausted the entire magazine months ago. The exhaustion of ATACMs is more notable. But this is not surprising, and Reuters directly confirms one of my central theses of how the US has been conducting strikes since the resumption of active hostilities last month. Areas in Iran's southwest, near the border with Kuwait, have been hit with high frequency and much larger strike packages than anywhere else in the country. CENTCOM's "14 consecutive days of strikes" narrative was undergirded by HIMARS strikes from Kuwait, to the point that ATACMS and GMLRS probably comprised the outright majority of munitions expended. This reduces risk to personnel, because HIMARS are highly mobile and can shoot and scoot out of the way of Iranian retaliatory strikes. And it allows CENTCOM to claim it's keeping up the pressure on Iran. The issues with this should be obvious. Only a tiny fraction of Iran's territory is within ATACMS range, and the area the US Army can hit with GMLRS is even smaller. It's impossible to seriously attrit the Iranian military this way. And now there are few, if any, ATACMS left in the entire American stockpile. CSIS estimated there were less than 800 ATACMS left in the US stockpile in April.

WIP map for a piece I was working on about this exact subject. Not sure it's as relevant now that Reuters has directly confirmed the thesis

https://www.euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7088/Israel-wipes-genocide-evidence-in-Gaza,-carting-off-rubble-and-remains-in-100-trucks-daily

The State of Israel removing debris, rubble, and possible evidence from the scene of this international crime before the war and campaign against the people of Gaza has concluded and also crushing the debris is not cleaning up but indicates an intent to destroy evidence.

Even if the remains of buildings, culture, and human beings are ground into dust and the state of Israel manages to remove traces of its people, there is no getting around a census of Gaza, nor dismissing the overwhelming evidence and intent demonstrated to the world the past 3 years the state of Israel.

MoA has a great piece explaining how China is not falling for the US AI bubble:

There is also a difference in attitude. Where U.S. financiers like Larry Ellison are striving for some god-like general artificial intelligence, the Chinese (and some European) developers and financiers are much more interested in solving real world (industry) problems.

A robot to fill the dish washer can operate sufficiently without being able to solve mathematical conjectures. Moreover its internal AI model will have to run on a local GPU and not inside some far away data center.

An abundance of resources has allowed U.S. model developers to build huge, very capable, but enormously expensive general AI models. Those companies have yet to find use cases that will pay for the cost of running these models.

Instead of reaching for the stars, like U.S. companies do, the Chinese are out to solve down-to-earth problems.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/its-the-math-how-china-is-avoiding-the-ai-bubble.html

damn man, Colombian mercs are just getting absolutely chewed up in Ukraine... most of these are just in July too, so much in just one month

https://lostarmour.info/mercenaries

from the comments there (machine-translated):

Arrests of Ukrainian mercenary recruiters have begun in Latin America.

UKMTO reports a cargo vessel was struck by an unidentified projectile near Oman. The incident occurred 20 nautical miles northeast of Al Khasab at approximately 6 pm E.T. on August 3, according to military authorities cited in a UKMTO warning.

The vessel reported over VHF Channel 16 that it had been hit. The warning did not provide details on casualties, damage, or the vessel’s identity.

Also, Shaheds in Iraq, missiles and/or Shaheds in Kuwait. We still don't know if those Shaheds are the dealmaking kind or the hormuzclosing kind.

Under the current deal being discussed between Iran and Oman, Iran would control all inbound traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, using a corridor within Iranian waters, while charging for maritime service fees

Outbound traffic would use a route close to Oman, but Iran would still supervise the passage of vessels and retain the right to intervene if necessary. – New York Times

https://archive.ph/GtNXB

In fiery meeting, military families confront acting Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln

Family members of sailors and Marines challenged Navy leaders on Thursday night over their concerns about mental health, supply shortages and water contamination aboard the aircraft carrier on a record deployment in the Iran war.

cont'd in response

The provincial government of British Columbia has declared a state of emergency due to the worsening wildfire situation. A fire near Summerland (population of 12,000) blew up overnight and has forced an evacuation order for the whole town.

CBS News - Trump says U.S. was "all set for the biggest attack since World War II" when he called off Iran strikes. President Trump on Wednesday reiterated his claim that the U.S. was set to launch heavy strikes on Iran this past weekend before he called them off and announced a new round of talks. While speaking at a rally at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas - Mr. Trump said:

"We were all set for the biggest attack since World War II, and they called me, and they said, 'Please don't do it, let's talk.'"

The president claimed that the U.S. is "knocking the hell out of" Iran, but said that he would "rather make a deal, because I don't want to kill people." Last week, multiple sources told CBS News that the U.S. and Israel were preparing for a new round of joint strikes on Iran. However, CBS News learned Saturday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke with Mr. Trump and cautioned him against conducting the strikes.

Hours later Saturday evening, Mr. Trump announced in a social media post that he had agreed "to cancel the attack." The president said he had received a request from "Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off" because the parameters of a possible peace deal had "been agreed to." On Tuesday night, Mr. Trump told reporters that a deal was potentially close, and could come as soon as Wednesday or Thursday.

I edited it a bit so I Trump's longest comment could be quoted.

Al Jazeera - US stocks near record high, oil falls as Trump claims Iran talks under way. The US stock market has surged to the cusp of its all-time high amid conflicting signals about the status of negotiations on ending the US-Israel war on Iran.

• The S&P 500 climbed 1.5 percent on Monday, leaving the benchmark index just shy of its closing record of 7,620.90 set on June 2.

• The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 2.1 percent, closing 4.3 percent below its all-time peak of 27,093.90, also set on June 2.

• The narrower Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks 30 blue-chip companies, rose 1.3 percent to hit a record high of 53,178.41.

• The broad-based rally continued in after-hours trading with futures tied to the S&P 500 rising more than 0.2 percent.

“I am extremely surprised by the magnitude of the rally,” Melissa Brown, managing director of Investment Decision Research at SimCorp, told Al Jazeera. “It comes against the backdrop of relatively negative sentiment and without a real fundamental reason to support it.”

More - https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/4/us-stocks-near-record-high-oil-falls-as-trump-claims-iran-talks-underway

I truly love how markets are wholly disconnected from reality. What could go wrong? In other news - to make the update easier to read - I edited it to create the list.

The Saudis are claiming that the resistance is planning a big strike on their country soon. They are saying "missiles being moved right now". That would be very interesting indeed!

Trump's plan for Venezuelan oil has failed. Seven months after major US oil companies were called upon by the White House to invest $100 billion in Venezuelan oil exploration, only two drilling rigs are active, the same number as before the US intervention. US oil companies refuse to invest heavily in extracting Venezuelan oil, which is heavy and economically unviable compared to oil from other locations, such as the Gulf or the state of Texas, for example.

Thus, even possessing the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela has not attracted as much investment as Trump imagined it would after his intervention in the South American country. In addition to the high extraction cost itself, Venezuelan heavy oil is more difficult to refine, requiring specific facilities for this type of oil in refineries, an operation that would demand large-scale investments. Even with oil prices at record highs, it remains cheaper to produce and refine oil from other sources, such as the Gulf, Texas, the North Sea, and even Brazil's pre-salt reserves, which have finer and higher-quality oil compared to Venezuelan oil. - Wall Street Journal

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How many thousand times is Trump going to say "We won. They are destroyed" and/or "We're about to get a good deal. Best deal. Excellent deal." and/or "We are going to destroy them."

AP - Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday

Yemen smoked a bunch of Saudi mercs who were preparing an invasion force.

#Statement from the Yemeni Armed Forces

CENTCOM is asking if you have any ideas how they could still win this ? .

For the first time in years, due to Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and Yemeni attacks against Aramco facilities, Saudi Arabia’s oil exports to the United States have fallen to zero barrels

• Middle East Spectator

Looks like things are still popping off in Madison.

And a long article about the local convergence of the anti-data-center and anti-ICE movement, as well as some Pittsburgh bullshit.

It looks like something hit the Berri Gas Plant in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The plant is on fire, with a massive 125 MW flame detected on NASA FIRMS. The extent of the damage remains unclear, and it is unclear who is responsible

My guess would be Iraqi militias, or maybe the IRGC was feeling bored?

https://nitter.net/The_Aftershock_/status/2086351877575201077

People Against Genocide broke into the Aberdeen facility of Ultra I&C, a supplier to Elbit Systems and the Israeli military.

The action takers destroyed equipment, recorded documents and barricaded themselves inside.

They are currently still inside the plant.

The US is busy replacing the MQ-9 Reapers damaged or destroyed on the ground by Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. 3x MQ-9s have flown over from Syracuse, New York, United States, to Salti since the 2nd of August. High resolution satellite images purchased by Iran showed damaged MQ-9 Reapers on the ramp/apron, and hangars loaded with the disassembled MQ-9s in shipping containers (nicknamed the coffin) destroyed. OPSEC failure by the US to have the disassembled MQ-9s tracked so easily last time, the containers visible on high resolution satellite images outside the hangars. Now they're flying over MQ-9s already assembled in the USA, not assembling them in Jordan.

CROW 31, MQ-9

CROW 21 and CROW 11

Satellite imagery from the attack, note the loading of MQ-9 coffin into the hangar above the one destroyed, and damaged MQ-9s on the apron

NEW ALL-TIME HIGH: Kshama Sawant has a 67% chance to advance in the WA-09 primary

🚨TROTSKYIST REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS IN WASHINGTON🚨

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/04/us/elections/results-washington-us-house-9-primary.html

US Army Delta Force soldiers are allegedly operating undercover in Brazil to supposedly plan a future operation to kidnap President Lula. The allegation was made on August 9, 2026, by candidate for federal deputy Jeffrey Chiquini.

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The Guardian - Six Saudi-flagged supertankers have changed course in the Gulf of Aden in recent days amid threats from the Iran-aligned Houthis, Reuters reports. The tankers, which were empty of cargo after returning from destinations in Asia, opted to avoid transit through the southern Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint by sailing in formation toward southern Africa, according to automatic identification systems data collected by Reuters.

The Houthis of Yemen, who control the capital Sana’a and much of its Red Sea coastline, announced on 20 July that they were implementing a blockade against Saudi ships. They have since claimed to have been behind a number of strikes on Saudi tankers.

So this is the "Apology" from Ukraine to Iran's FM Aragchi that stopped a retaliatory attack from Iran.

https://xcancel.com/andrii_sybiha/status/2082148247033033175

"I called Iran’s Foreign Minister @araghchi for a frank conversation. Diplomacy is about direct conversation, even when it’s difficult. I stressed that our goal is to avoid unnecessary escalation.

I reiterated that all of Ukraine’s actions are aimed solely at defending our country from Russian aggression and never intended to target civilian vessels or people.

This is also true with regard to Iran’s statements about their national who died and a civilian vessel that was targeted in a recent incident. Our goal is to counter Russian aggression, which is the root cause of all incidents, and it is Russia who bears full responsibility for all provocations and casualties.

I emphasised the necessity to refrain from any escalatory steps, as well as to end any support for Russia’s war against Ukraine. This war is illegal and it must end.

Our position remains unchanged: Europe and the Middle East deserve stability, security, and peace."

-Either build the bomb or continue getting attacked and your civilians killed.

• US bullies Panama into sabotaging Chinese investment in their country

• China quietly gets Panama to step back from ledge

Big win for China and sends a clear message to Latin America: You don't have to let Trump bully you into sabotaging your commercial relations with others. Trump's plan in Latin America is to force countries to sabotage investment from China, while offering nothing to replace it (US lacks the capacity). US puppet regimes are left holding the bag when their economies collapse. Think tankers are freaking out.

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Trump said negotiations "are going on right now". President Psycho mentioned "decapitating" Iran and said it was their "last chance".

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said Iran faced "decapitation" if it did not agree a pact to end the conflict between the two nations, saying Tehran had one last chance to strike a deal. "I think we're going to maybe get something, but I want to give them every last chance before decapitation," he said, reiterating a threat to launch a major attack on Iran. Earlier on Monday, after Iran said there were no talks under way, Trump slammed what he called Iran's "unbelievably duplicitous" leadership.

Trump, asked about the status of the negotiations, told reporters "they are going on right now," adding that the two sides were speaking at the request of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar among others. "This is a last chance for them to sign a good document," he said, referring to Iran.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-iran-talks-are-going-on-right-now-tehran-has-one-last-chance

This Bluesky thread has more dialog snippets - https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3ms724gggok2j

Trump: "(SoH) will be opened literally by tomorrow. Completely open"

[edit] A bit later he said this is "Iran's last chance". My guess is that nothing happens tomorrow.

CBS: No new negotiations planned despite Trump comments, per U.S. officials.

Washington wildfires ‘worst disaster’ state has ever faced, says Spokane mayor

Climate collapse is hitting hard. Multiple large scale fires spurred on by strong winds. National guard mobilized.

The Aldi Forces are currently on a Big Offensive and are Swooping South from their Bases in the Midwest. The Wallmart Superstores , once thought of as a line of unassailable Fortresses ,are now falling like the Tercios at Breitenfeld under the unrelening Low Price Artillery thats concentrated on Grocery Breaches , taking over more and more of Suburbia. Downtowns meanwhile are more and more locked down from Trader Joe and its ideoloically infused Urbanites.

Now what is facinating here is that ALDI & Traderjoes , isnt even the big Fish , basiclly they are like the ostrogoths & Visigoths , Desperate refugees pooring into the Empire because they are themself hunted and chased by the ominous LIDL.