One thing about communists (and fascists too) that I find most annoying is acting like their views are anywhere close to mainstream.
Every time I check whether Soviet or Chinese historian is legit I have to check if their critics deny holodomor or deaths from great leap forward
MMTer might have any type of outlandish opinion, but it always leads to either cutting interest rates or increasing government spending
If the world's most popular anti western pedophile says so then it must be true
"You are a tool, nothing but a tool."
Scott Ritter, former US Marine intelligence officer, with a message for Filipinos :
> "You think America is your friend. So too did the Ukrainian people"
> "We are using you to gain some sort of momentary leverage over the Chinese"
> "when the tool ceases to be useful, we will discard you"
> "China is not your enemy. China is your neighbor"
Harsh words. Now look at the facts on the ground.
A US colony from 1898 to 1946.
Today : 9 EDCA sites open to US forces, a Typhon missile launcher on Luzon since April 2024, and in May the first Tomahawk ever fired from Philippine soil.
Every one of those points at China. Every one of them turns the Philippines into a target.
Whose war is being prepared in Luzon ? And who would pay for it ?
Isn't it weird how it is always the big countries that view themselves as leaders of the regions that seemed to be discriminated by the smallest countries imaginable. How can the world be so cruel
There are no self destruct buttons in Nuclear Reactors
This man operated the turbine at Chernobyl during the fateful test, then immediately disappeared before the KGB could launch an investigation into him.
@grok, escape destination, full name, and ethnicity only.
Literal cattle
“I think I’d starve without these food parcels”
#OnThisDay 1984. The first food parcels from the Soviet Union began to arrive to striking miners in Wigan.
3% is very low for developing country, especially the war profiteering one
