All white male sexpats in the Global South are sexpats until proven otherwise.
AssortedBiscuits
The US is overextended and is trying to remedy this by simultaneously retreating from frontiers and consolidating its backyard. This is how the US is simultaneously being pushed out of Africa while tightening its grip in Latin America. The US can't hold onto both Africa and Latin America in its current state, so it makes the unfortunately wise decision of letting go of Africa while tightening its grip of Latin America. You can see a similar dynamic between East Asia and West Asia. Of course, this is only a strategic retreat. The US still has ambitions of global hegemony. Like all weakened entity, it will rebuild itself and bid its time until the opportune time to strike back.
The US is (probably) not going to formally annex Greenland for these two reasons:
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Denmark is already a US vassal
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The US already has a military base in Greenland
Still didn't stop that sexpat Aussie from showing his ass lol
The easiest tell that Euros won't do shit and do as they're told is the fact that buying Chinese or Iranian weapons, let along Russian weapons, doesn't even cross their minds. With a thoroughly deindustrialized economy, by what means are they going to throw out the Burgerlanders?
So they'll continue to buy US weapons, and they'll do as they're told like good little vassals.
They Suffered under Pontius Pilate: Jewish Anti-Roman Resistance and the Crosses at Golgotha. Fernando Rubio, 2023. This one takes a look in detail at the Gospels' stories, arguing 1) Jesus was arrested, tried and executed by the Romans for rebellion, not the Jewish priesthood for blasthemy; 2) the early christians transformed his fellow martyrs, on his right and left, into bandits to dissociate their movement from rebellion; 3) the focus on Jesus and his divinity is a complete departure from his teachings which; 4) replace the actual socioeconomic sufferingsof the period and his parables with focus on the spiritual sufferings (e.g. transformation of "blessed are the poor" to "blessed are the poor in spirit")
I've been exposed to this argument before, and it has profoundly changed how I read the Gospels. The cracks that break it all down are two very single observations:
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The Romans by all objective accounts were the Christkillers, not Jews. It was the Romans who scourged Christ, it was the Romans who drove the nails into his body, and it was the Romans who almost ran a spear through his body in order to hasten his death.
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Despite the objective fact that the title of Christkiller should be placed upon the collective heads of the Romans, do the received Gospels actively portray the Romans as Christkillers or do they try to obfuscate this objective fact?
A lot of the parables and events also make more sense when you remember that Judea is being occupied by Rome. Jesus chasing out the tax collectors was him decolonizing a temple by throwing out Roman collaborators. Jesus telling the young rich man he's not going to heaven is basically him telling off some Roman collaborator who got rich out of selling out his fellow Judean. Judas was the ancient equivalent of a Palestinian working with Mossad for money.
Seeing all that has transpired in the last 5 years just makes you appreciate the WPK that much more.
Believing in self-determination of Taiwan is calling it what the Portuguese called it.
Cornman says a lot of things, but he still withdrew missiles from Cuba in the end.
Adventurism is worse than organized violence but better than doing nothing. The real question is whether adventurism is better than organized nonviolence. You're not going to take down the war machine by killing randos, but you're also not going to take down the war machine through peaceful marches either. Which is less effective, killing cogs that are easily replaceable or holding protests that can be easily ignored?
The news mega mentioned 4 people:
- Maduro
- VP Delcy Rodriguez
- Minister of the Interior Diosdado Cabello
- Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino Lopez
The three after Maduro are important because they would be the ones to replace him should he be killed. NATOpedia posted fake news that Lopez got killed because apparently his house got hit.
The PRC should not have collaborated with the US, but they would've been dragged down with the Soviet Union had the split not occurred. The PRC wasn't the only country to split with the Soviet Union. Yugoslavia and Albania are two other examples.