Transform2942
@Transform2942@lemmy.ml
I sail the high seas of the Lemmyverse, posting snarky + Lefty comments
- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 10 hours ago:
And then JFK blocked it and nothing happened to him and that’s the end of the story and these plans were surely never implemented
- Comment on Don’t ‘blackmail’ us: Europe rejects Trump’s demand to help clean up Hormuz mess 1 day ago:
I’m sure any day now the Euros will be announcing their independent foreign policy and diversified economic ties
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 2 days ago:
I don’t speak for anyone else regarding the Ukraine war. When this war started I originally favored the Ukrainian side.
Frankly, now is the time for hyperbole. The Ukrainians are still critically short of men. That has been true for years and keeps getting worse. If I was trying to be persuasive maybe I would be more circumspect but as I mentioned I don’t really care right now.
If the Ukrainians really had any chance of winning, they would not bother with media counter-offensives, wunderwaffen obsession, or absurd inflation of Russian casualties.
It definitely is not whataboutism, it’s literal cause and effect. Doing years of ethnic cleansing is causus belli.
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 4 days ago:
New day, new patience apparently.
The increase in oil price and softening of US sanctions will benefit the Russians, but it won’t make the war economy sustainable.
According to who? The sanctions can’t be “on the verge” of working and also not be that important at the same time. We’re talking about TRIPLE revenue on a per-barrel basis (so far!). Sanctions work by slowly choking out the supply of dollars until an economy suffocates. A flood of new dollars DOES completely reverse years of sanctions. So unless you believe the sanctions were not working (which I do by the way) then this matters a lot.
Western armories are running bare, but the same is true for the Russian ones. Both Ukraine and Russia are mostly using equipment as it’s being produced, and both Ukraine and the rest of Europe has been ramping up production capacity.
Do you remember years ago when the Europeans themselves came out and said the Russians were outproducing the entire West in artillery shells 3-to-1? Do you think that only applies to artillery shells? The West has DEINDUSTRIALIZED after decades of neglect, outsourcing, corruption and financialization. The energy crisis in Europe is only shifting this into high gear.
Both Ukraine and Russia are mostly using equipment as it’s being produced
What evidence is there for this? You think the Russians have only made 2 Oreshnik missles? You think they are only making a few hundred Gerans a week?
The high energy prices are a problem in Europe, but compared to the situation in Russia (or Ukraine, for that matter) there’s nothing EXTREME about it.
This is honestly laughable. Europe is dying under the weight of their own vassalage. What do you think it means to have the highest energy prices in the world? How does that effect an industrial economy? Why did Volkswagen stop production at their main plain for the first time ever? Now it’s about to get MUCH WORSE because Europe was extremely dependent on Quatari LNG. That LNG isn’t waiting for the strait to open, it’s already not being produced and liquefied, leaving a permanent gap in the world supply.
The reason peace negotiations have been hopeless, is because the Ukrainians and the Russians can’t agree on where the war is headed
Well you could say that. The West believes it’s own propaganda which has been propping up this war for 3 years when it was already lost (the writing has been on the wall since the ill-fated Zaporizia counteroffensive). The pattern of big huge hype about any territorial gains, trailing off into ashamed whimpers in the press, has been followed in every disastrous “media counteroffensive” since: Kursk, Kupiansk, and now Dnipropetrovsk. THE UKRAINIANS ARE CRITICALLY SHORT OF INFANTRY AND HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS. LOOK AT REPORTS FROM ANY GROUND-LEVEL COMMANDER ON THE UKR SIDE. NO AMOUNT OF PRESS-GANGED RETIREES CAN CHANGE THIS.
Who is right is up to us
Spoken like a European
every single demand that the Russians have is against some pretty fundamental international law
Was it against international law when the Banderites engaged with their war against Russian speaking civilians in the Donbass for 8 years? Do you still not know about this because of how completely the wool has been pulled over your eyes by the western media? It’s game over. The media narratives are collapsing under the weight of their own failure. This conversation doesn’t matter any more for the fate of the current war, I’m only bothering so we can all spot the patterns if and when the West attempts to do this bullshit again.
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
3 factors:
- Whether or not you believe Russia’s economy was “just about to collapse from sanctions”, that is all up in smoke now
- The Western armories were already running bare. Now, Ukraine will probably never receive another air defense interceptor. There won’t be any tomahawks to give.
- Ukraine’s European backers were already under tremendous economic strain from having the highest energy prices in the world. They are EXTREMELY exposed to this current energy shock.
The combined forces of the West were already losing before suffering this massive economic shock and gigantic military expenditure
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
I do not have the patience to have this stupid fight today. Ukraine is definitely a US proxy. Every president since George W Bush has been eagerly promoting and escalating this war.
The war in Iran has sealed Ukraine’s fate. All the cards they had left to play have now been neutralized. It doesn’t matter how much propaganda you believe about this war because it’s coming to a rapid conclusion
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
It’s a dark time. I don’t judge you. DMs open if you want to talk
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
This comment does seem for real, I’ll bite
Hasbara is the name for the Israeli propaganda machine, especially the paid influencers
What I’m describing is in the direction of the worst-case scenario, there are many other scenarios that could unfold - nobody knows.
I personally think suicide is THE difficult moral and philosophical question, I will certainly not be claiming there is an easy answer and I don’t personally like the standard responses like “permanent solution to a temporary problem”
Why did you choose to make the difficult choice to go sober?
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
You strike me as a hasbara troll, not someone who’s actually depressed. I’m not good at talking people out of suicide anyways.
If you really are thinking of ending your life, talk about it with a trusted friend instead of some assholes on the internet like myself
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
Now you’re starting to get the gravity of the situation
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
The line has already been drawn. The only meaningful wildcards are the Turks and the Egyptians. The question you should be asking is how long until the gulf monarchies run out of unperishable food? That hits much sooner than the Global fertilizer crisis, we won’t feel the business end of that until harvest season in the northern hemisphere
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
Honestly, I wrote my comment with a questioning tone because I wasn’t sure if your original comment was being sarcastic or something. I guess people don’t understand that this Iran war is much more serious than Vietnam and Afghanistan put together, on top of the Ukraine war still ongoing
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 5 days ago:
The global empire of capital is trapped in two losing wars of attrition and keeps on desperately escalating in both cases?
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 5 days ago:
The only thing that I think is unrealistic about this is drugs are rarely sold on credit. The most common way people get into life-threatening debt is underground gambling
- Comment on The reason 2 weeks ago:
Trump is a science experiment from a mad historian trying to prove and disprove the great man theory of history at the same time
- Comment on Who are the Russians named in the latest Epstein files? Vladimir Putin, for one. 1 month ago:
- There’s a very transparent operation going on right now to distract from Israeli involvement in Epstein files, do not see it?
- Speaking of transparent operations, this “Meduza” was founded in Latvia in October 2014…
- Comment on Who are the Russians named in the latest Epstein files? Vladimir Putin, for one. 1 month ago:
Any flimsy pretext we can find to talk about Russia instead of Israel
- Comment on Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Ran Kremlin’s Largest Honeytrap and Blackmail Operation 1 month ago:
We can trust the good people at United24 to point the finger in the correct direction
- Comment on PSA 1 month ago:
Thank you, that makes sense!
- Comment on PSA 1 month ago:
Wait, I read about dysphoria 10 times a day on the fedi, how is it a TERF dog whistle?
- Comment on Head of Amnesty International Agrees Trump-Led US Is ‘Destroying World Order’ 2 months ago:
When exactly did a world order that constrained the US empire exist?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Does it mean deconstructing the imperial apparatus for manufacturing consent?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Funny, I’m actually sick of boot licking liberals who simp for the US empire and it’s its prostate vassals
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 2 months ago:
Yeah, the bet was only 32k. Honestly surprising more people didn’t have this idea
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 2 months ago:
Good Take
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 months ago:
So I definitely agree that one a nuclear exchange happens things get extremely complicated.
I do NOT agree that makes any sort of equivalency between this Zionist first-use doctrine (if it exists) and Dead Hand.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 months ago:
So your whole argument is that in a nuclear exchange it could be hard in practice to identify the initial aggressor, therefore there is no meaningful difference between a nuclear first strike and a nuclear second strike? Is that what you are saying?
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 months ago:
Ok so no this is completely wrong.
Russia’s “Dead Hand” is a “guaranteed second-strike” that activates only if their nuclear C&C is destroyed. This system is precisely designed to reinforce the logic of MAD and is thus counter-escalatory.
This from the Zionist entity is the complete and total opposite in every possible way. They talk about it as though it is defensive but this is a first-strike capability. They don’t just target their enemies but their allies too. This is the most grotesque and despicable extortion leveled against the whole world
- Comment on Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port over weapons shipment from UAE, issues warning to Abu Dhabi 2 months ago:
Another death knell of Pax Americana
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 months ago:
Huh didn’t know that, thanks