Discussion about the 5th gen war
General strike, [x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2009367926542094803](millions of people on the streets), [x.com/ABridgen/status/2009856365150249418](government buildings) and [x.com/LeoKearse/status/2009912564952772643](mosques have been stormed and burnt to the ground).
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Seeing what's going on in Iran is insane.
Things have escalated massively over the past 24 - 48 hours and looks like the regime may genuinely be overthrown.
Iranian regime have cut off all internet, phone lines, electricity and even street lighting to try and quell unrest. This has had no effect.
MSM largely silent. Almost everything coming out of Iran is through Elon Musk - Free Starlink to Iranians is bypassing the internet blockade, and X is providing real time updates to the outside world.
Most recent news (although unconfirmed) is of a US military build up in the middle east, and a recent post from trump that the [truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115872214156165257](US stands "ready to help").
We might be about to see the revolution and overthrow of the Iranian regime.
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@adam-l I mean maybe, right? It’s a new paradigm so who knows what it will actually look like.
There’s more to, I assume, Russia’s isolation than their expansionism. For a start, the EU and member states almost committed suicide virtue signalling against Russia with the sanctions on Russian oil. The liberal hegemony of the EU has been so complacent over these decades that it hasn’t thought to buttress its position against aberrant behaviour from more powerful entities like the USA.
In short, Trump is calling it out. What the hell are you going to do about it? The EU can’t survive enforcing sanctions on the US, they didn’t prepare for it, like they didn’t prepare for Russian expansion.
Despite this reality, the EU still aren’t signalling a kind of unity or preparation. They’re absent, high on their own supply. In a pragmatic universe, that’s the definition of an unreliable partner. So “we” either shake of the malaise and face the reality of the situation, or we get consigned to the history books.
I know which I’d rather.
Read MoreMight does indeed make right, and all of the post-modernist gnashing of teeth over moralising and charity will be quashed by empirical evidence.
It's been bothering, so let me ask you. Real question.
Are you aware of the consequence the solidifying of this position will have? Namely, that Americans won't be able to travel safely through the world? They will practically be imprisoned in their own country for their own safety.
That's no theoretical hypothesis, it's what is actually happening with the citizens of another country which I will not name, that overwhelmingly support their government's aggressive expansionism.
@adam-l luxury beliefs exist out of luxury but a luxury hotel loses a lot of glamour when the power goes out.
@adam-l It’s relief that the atrophy of a failed system is showing signs of death, at long last. We don’t get to experience the future if we wallow in stagnant economies and unimaginative cultures.
@adam-l If that is the only outcome of the potential future, we’d deserve every single piece of misery foisted upon us.
@Stigma this sounds so much like the exhilaration of the masses at the outbreak of WWI.