DessalinesIranian state media confirms death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
ordnance_qf_17_pounderFascist USA and Israel are the biggest threats to world peace. They are the axis of evil.
First two months of 2026: The US kidnaps one country’s leader, murders another, and kills hundreds of civilians in two failed regime change attempts.
Death to the burger empire.
GnuLinuxDudeThe scary part is how they succeed in their objectives. I’m still not over Maduro’s kidnapping and how they pulled it off. It’s freakish.
HobbitFoot These sorts of attacks is what the US military has been investing in capacity to complete for decades. This is why there has been an investment bleeding edge tech which costs insane amounts of money to develop.
ghost_laptopNo, insane costs are due to how the military industrial complex rules the country and inflates prices because it needs more profits. Costs do not necessarily mean more sophisticated or that have an actual improvement in the battlefield. In fact recent trends show the opposite, the cheaper the tech the better output it produces on the battlefield. It’s low cost vehicles, missiles and drones that are leading the battle, not 20 trillion F-35s.
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆Although, it’s worth noting that this was largely a stunt. The US did not have the ability to actually invade Venezuela or to topple the government.
It was indeed a stunt, keep in mind that the US spend trillions to maintain an army capable of invading other countries, it’s just not convenient for them to do so.
It’s more than just inconvenience. The US does not have a good track record fighting prolonged conflicts. They can destroy a country and make millions of people suffer, but they rarely achieve long term objectives.
I would argue that their long term objectives are usually achieved, USA pretty much control the whole world.
You’d argue and you’d lose that argument. If you think the Empire controls the world then you’re clearly not seeing or you don’t want to see how it’s collapsing. If they would have accomplished their objectives they wouldn’t have a single opposition force in the world, yet there are plenty. Maybe you think the world is white people only? Because they do have control over all of their colonies and they are all white Westerners.
The day US government will be unable to successfully attack a different country every month i would start to argue that they power is collapsing
queermunist she/herAttacking a different country every month isn’t really a sign of strength.
Militarily the US is very powerful, but its actual influence is on the decline.
Attacking a different country every month isn’t really a sign of strength.
They are successfully attacking a different country every month and getting away with it with almost none repercussion. If this is not a sign of strength what else is?
Militarily the US is very powerful, but its actual influence is on the decline.
To me it looks like only the public perception of US government is on the decline, most world government are still aligned with US
If this is not a sign of strength what else is?
Not even needing to attack.
They are attacking few countries they have no control of yet
They didn’t need to do that before, they could just sanction and ignore them. That stopped working.
the US absolutely doesn’t control the world, the war in Ukraine and recent attempt at a trade war with China is a great example of just how weak the empire really is. The US failed to subdue Russia and their attempt to cut Russia out of the global economy resulted in a separate economic system forming with increasing amount of trade happening outside western control. Now, global majority is allied with China against the empire, and hence why we see the US desperately lashing out.
The US has hit an inflection point where the cost of maintaining the empire outstrips the plunder. All the forever wars have drained critical resources, while financial capitalism moved essential production overseas. Now the US finds that it has little economic leverage, and its material base is eroded.
“The dying serpent always bites”. The roman empire went out like this too, overextending itself with a lot of imperialist wars, then devolving into internal strife and instability until it hollowed out and everyone left.
Indeed, it does seem to be a consistent pattern throughout the ages. I imagine a big part of it is that the ruling class becomes increasingly disconnected from material reality, and they start making decisions based on how they think the world works rather than how it actually is.
the US absolutely doesn’t control the world
We are in a thread about US government killing the leader of a country on the other side of the world without any disturbance. No other country can do something like.
You genuinely think that Russia or China does not have the capability to do that? The difference here isn’t that the US is more capable, it’s that it’s a rabid dog.
russia and china don’t have the capability to launch a full scale attack on a country on the other side of the world. US government is able to attack iran because they have control all over the region and in between
Russia and China are nuclear superpowers, they can turn any country into glass. Meanwhile, the US isn’t even able to produce weapons on its own with importing critical things like rare earths from China which the US isn’t capable of producing in any significant quantity. If you think that deindustrialized shithole that’s currently being outproduced by Russia militarily is a global hegemon, then I don’t know what else to tell you.
North korea have nukes too, that doesn’t mean they have the capability to successfully attack any county in the world and kill the leader without any repercussions. It seem like you believe russia and china are better than US empire but that doesn’t automatically make them more powerful, combined the two countries doesn’t spend in war as half of what US does.
Again, if you think the US attacking countries and killing their leaders is a show of strength then you’re deluded. What makes China and Russia more powerful is that they have actual domestic industry, and can produce their own weapons. The US cannot do that. Meanwhile, spending a bunch of money on war just shows how inefficient the US military industrial complex is. Here’s what the reality looks like euronews.com/…/is-russia-producing-a-years-worth-…
The US is just a clown country run by senile pedophiles.
What makes China and Russia more powerful
You sound brainwashed on either russian or chinese state propaganda
The US is just a clown country run by senile pedophiles.
So are most countries
that’s an amazing counterpoint there to the fact that Russia alone is outproducing all of NATO 🤣
How many artillery shell were used to kill Ali Khamenei? You sound like a propagandist arguing that north korea army is the strongest in the world because they outproduce everyone in bayonets.
The Burger Reich isn’t much better at producing missiles than it is at producing artillery shells. Perhaps you don’t understand that artillery shells are much easier to produce than missiles, and if you can’t even produce the former you have no hope of producing the latter in any quantity?
politico.com/…/iran-weapons-trump-troops-defense-…
You sound like an utter ignoramus.
If you argue that the burger reich doesn’t have the capability to invade a country you are ignoring what is happening just right now and you are downplaying the threat. US government isn’t running out of munitions, a prolonged Iran war could lower their stockpiles to a level that could make the country more vulnerable (war industry propaganda to boost military spendings)
The US is absolutely running out of munitions. The reality is that the US lacks the industrial base to keep up with the rate of use. Industry accounts for mere 9.5% of the economy. Steel production in the US is barely higher than Russia, and the US is unable to produce stuff like rare earths on its own. People seem to buy into the mythology the US has created around itself, but numbers don’t lie.
"According to a deep dive by defense writer Mike Fredenberg, along with all the other diminished capacity, the standard missile (SM-3) variant was down 33% "
Their definition of being low on munitions is that they don’t have enough to win ww3.
RamenJunkieFailed to subdue Russia
Russia’s own corrupt ineptitude did that one mate. Russia should have taken Ukraine in days and its been years. They have not even gotten Zelenskyy.
And it was never a direct conflict with the US.
Your ability to regurgitate propaganda is impressive. Yet, it shows utter lack of capacity for critical thinking. Only an utter imbecile could think that a proxy war with NATO would last for days. And why would they go after Zelensky, what would that accomplish exactly?
A🔻atar of 🔻engeanceKidnapping Maduro didn’t accomplish any of their stated objectives in Venezuela. It looks like the White House didn’t even confer with energy companies about the viability of expanding their oil production?! They flipped their script immediately afterwards and claimed they won. You’d have to be a doomer to believe it.
UltraGiGaGiganticThe real battle happens before any shots are fired.
Weed turns you into a bot if you don’t take breaks #nothatingjustsaying
The scary part is how they succeed in their objectives.
US government spends more than a trillion dollar on war each year.
No, they didn’t succeed. Their objectives were regime change, that didn’t happen. You could at the most say that Venezuela is now more cohoperative but they didn’t install a comprador.
Death to the burger empire.
You’d be surprised how long dead ideas live
Yeah, more accurately they are the active enemies of world peace.
ripcordNo. Most of what Russia does on the world stage is good, it is one of the biggest supporters of many global south countries and one of the few remaining bulwarks preventing US imperialism from running completely roughshod over the global south. For example right now, see Cuba and how Russia is providing support and oil as the US tries to starve them of energy and starve them to death. You may have been taught Putler=Voldemort, but no, Russia at this point is acting largely as a force for good in the world.
When they stop murdering children in Ukraine, which they can do literally any time they want, then I’ll believe you.
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How about when Ukraine will stop sending their children to British pedophile rings under the guise of protecting them from evil rusha.
That’s tankies for you, US bad Russia good. Even when they do the same shit, no ideological consistency regarding the actions only consistency regarding which regime they unquestioningly support, they’re just Bizarro Maga.
We live in your head rent free huh.
And no, our ideas aren’t simply “x is bad”, without violent resistance we’d have slavery, white women would be chained to the kitchen, workers would have never got a 40h work week, etc. We don’t have a consensus on Russia and many will defend it harder because it’s funny to piss off people like you, but Russia is nowhere near as bad as the US, and we wouldn’t have modern Russia if it weren’t for the US as well.
Look at the numbers of people killed just by western sanctions alone, it’s over half a million a year. The US has removed democratically elected leaders too many times, like Salvador Allende in Chile or even Mosaddegh. They’re starving Cuba RIGHT NOW. But I guess unless mainstream media tells you our lives matter you just don’t care.
So yeah, slander us all you want, but we’re nothing if not ideologically consistent.
No you live on Lemmy lol, luckily I rarely have to interact with you irl because you’re all terminally online.
“Nuh uh, we don’t actually like Russia we just pretend to because trolling is our only reason for living. And also they are good and the fact that they’re bad is the US’ fault!” Lmao ok hun.
“The US has done bad things too and I know you just said that both are bad and it’s the actions themselves you should decry but whatabout that huh? Huh?”
Yes child, it is bad the US is doing what they are to Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. Now your turn, Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, Litvineko, Nalvany.
We can play this game forever, my point is that I don’t believe you really care about our lives in the global south, considering you seem to ignore that the vast majority of conflicts involving Russia wouldn’t have manifested without western imperialism. We lose people all the time through sanctions and regime changes and IMF imposed austerity. We don’t celebrate Ukrainian civilians dying, the war that common Ukrainians no longer want to fight won’t end as long as the west refuses a deal.
Yes yes “if it wasn’t for the US then Russia would be perfect good boys, don’t you see? They have to bomb apartment buildings and rape Ukranian civilians because the US (which is supposedly somehow also a vassal state to Russia now because Trump) is the Great Satan!”
I’ve heard it all before. We also wouldn’t have had to go into Iraq if it wasn’t for “WMDs” and wouldn’t be in Iran if it wasn’t for their nuclear program, it’s their fault really! -And other state sponsored lies your western counterparts believe. You’re absolutely no different from them you’re just on “the other” team. What’s next “they had to kidnap Ukranian children because they were checks notes nazis” is it?
AmnesigenicYou’re losing and you know it
LMFAO