I get what you are saying and agree mostly, however I think it is important to understand that war is generally deeply unpopular with working class people (who aren’t fascists and/or settlers with reactionary brainworms) and fundamentally, communism is the anti-war perspective. It is true that anti-imperlialist wars and wars of liberation ultimately serve the anti-war cause, but the people fighting and dying on both sides will be the working class- and unlike other systems, Socialist power and authority ultimately is rooted in the opinions of the masses… not to mention the toll the entire world pays from nuclear holocaust. The US unfortunately had unchallenged nuclear arms for a few critically important years. The first open conflict between the socialist world and capitalist class after WW2, The US war in Korea, for example, began a little less than a year after the Soviet Union got the bomb, and we don’t really know what would have happened if the USSR got atomic weapons later or not at all. Would the DPRK even exist?

…must be in response to the CPRF admitting that Khrushchev’s secret speech was wrong and bad…

lol, aren’t like 30% of the settlers there US citizens?

I appreciate your perspective and effort.

I am not an expert and don’t really have a firm grasp on internal Iranian politics, but I am skeptical the Iranian people wouldn’t have supported something like this against ‘israel’ the first time they were attacked…

Part of my thinking behind this is how moved so many in the imperial core were by witnessing the genocide. I know people make a lot of rightful criticisms about the working class and the left in the imperial core, but that thinking tends to gloss over the historic gains too- for the first time since the us war in vietnam era there is a mass anti-imperialist movement. And even more interestingly, it isn’t simply an anti-war movement driven in part from fear/anger over the draft/american deaths. The USian movement for Palestine has shifted a huge number of younger, working class libs towards a distinct anti-imperialist consciousness… I only bring this up to say, I can’t imagine those images are less stirring or less provocative in Iran. I would think they would also be less censored than they are in burgerland. Where anti-imperialism is likely to be more viscerally rooted in peoples consciousness, and people could conceivably make the connection between their own history of confronting US imperialism and the nightmare in Gaza that is also a product of the US. then again, I am sure Iran’s working class has contradictory politics, and there is probably a ton of nuance I am missing. I just don’t really see Iran as being such a weak state that it could be toppled so easily… but I admit I don’t really have any good understanding of whether that is true- i am mostly basing things off of how Iran has endured every conceivable attempt by the US to undermine it. I think only Cuba and the DPRK have been subject to the same level or more subterfuge than Iran. (of the existing states the US is hell-bent on destroying)

I was just remembering how the apartheid state had occupied a whole new swath of Syria, including the tallest mountain in the region. Is there a possibility of Iranian attacks extending to the occupation forces there… like, would that help ease pressure on Hezbollah and any resistance forces in Syria, or is that all moot at this point. I could see why the Iran would want to focus on tel aviv and the entities core military/industrial/energy facilities, but wouldn’t it also be more difficult for the entity to defend its periphery and potentially lead the entity to make a caluculated retreat from the area?

On another note, this whole thing is really making it feel like Iran could have ended all this a long time ago by responding this way the first time around. I know hindsight is 20/20 but if all this was going to be made inevitable, it would have been better to go whole hog on the resistances terms rather than Israel’s. Like if Hezbollah was still fighting and taking out the entities defensive infrastructure, Iran would probably have even more unfettered ability to strike targets deep in Israel, no?

Is there any way a wider war between Iran and the apartheid state helps to stop the genocide in Gaza? Like couldn’t iran target troops/bases/operations in/around gaza? or is that just wishful thinking?

second question, why doesn’t iran target israel’s air defenses and runways first? or did they?

there are small business loans that are usually cheap govt backed programs

dc was only a few weeks ago— it will probably be months or even in the coming year by the time the us security state has shifted its weight in the direction of the movement and set up as many cointelpro style operations as possible… the idea that nothing has happened yet, so it won’t happen is silly… things are just gearing up

honestly, it is probably mostly symbolic. putting their own tax dollars into US state propaganda isn’t something I would have guessed any other nation-state would do- but a lot of european countries are occupied by the US military and heavily dependent on their economic system, so it tracks

they are jr. partners in imperialism. they made a bargain with the devil and hope that their master is only acting out temporarily. they desire the status quo because their ruling class felt it suited them.

those advisers coming out against the Biden administration would have had a lot more power behind their words if hey hadn’t waited over a year until Biden’s term was over… for their silence I think they just as much deserve to go to The Hague

I peed my pants in solidarity as I read this

so it sounds like they want to make a distinction without a difference… but china and the us may both be upset- the us for having 100% of its parts manufactured in china still… china for trying to “leave china” to avoid tariffs… the cost of moving assembly might still be expensive and take time to occur. anything that takes more than a few business cycles, let alone 4 years when the political situation could change. apple has deep pockets from all the chinese labor they have exploited, so maybe they could get away with that, but what would it even accomplish?

I don’t think it will actually happen. They have been saying for some time that it would take at least a decade to move the supply chain out of china- and I think that is an overly optimistic one given that they are probably basing their predictions off of how things went in china, where they are used to effective state support and a highly educated workforce. … there are other issues, like how all of the glass utilized in smartphones is made by like, one factory/company in china…. China could also just utilize the infrastructure there to sell what is effectively the iphone but without the rentier rates charged by apple… that isn’t even getting into the mineral resources smartphones require- like rare earth metals that china controls the production of

idk, maybe they are saying that to get trump off of their back, or help him save face… and/or ease skittish investors

It’s true, brainwashing does imply that the brain had been sullied beforehand

having baphomet on the patch would have gone so hard and would have been 10x cooler though

this was already a thing. they called it the up to the mountain, down to the countryside movement

This party is pro-ukraine (pro-nato) and does not stand for the liberation of Palestine and the end of the apartheid state of “Israel” … I can’t think of any positions that are more discrediting than being in the imperial core and not being anti-imperialist

I don’t know who this is an indictment of, but the failure to form a nascent marxist pole at this point feels embarrassing. Germany had a strong (actual) left before the rise of fascism… obviously the left wasn’t strong enough, but now it seems like even the “left” in Germany are more comfortable with serving US imperialism than any talk of socialism. Is this assessment wrong?

Trump: “First of all, during the trade war, everybody has problems, even you. But you have nice ocean and don’t feel now. But you will feel it in the future. God bless –”.

Xi: “You don’t know that. You don’t know that. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. We’re trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel.”.

Trump: “I’m not telling you. I am answering on these questions.”

Xi: “Because you’re in no position to dictate that.”

Lin Jian: “That’s exactly what you’re doing.”

Xi: “You are in no position to dictate what we’re going to feel. We’re going to feel very good.”

Trump: “You will feel influenced.”

Xi: “We are going to feel very good and very strong.”

Trump: “I am telling you. You will feel influenced.”

Xi: “You’re, right now, not in a very good position. You’ve allowed yourself to be in a very bad position –”

Trump: “From the very beginning of the trade war —”

Xi: “You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.”

Trump: “I’m not playing cards. I’m very serious, Mr. President. I’m very serious.”

Xi: “You’re playing cards. You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War III.”

Trump: “What are you speaking about?”

Xi: “You’re gambling with World War III. And what you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country that’s backed you far more than a lot of people said they should have.”

Lin: “Have you said thank you once?”

Trump: “A lot of times. Even today.”

Lin: “No, in this entire meeting.”

Trump: “No.”

Lin: “Offer some words of appreciation for the paramount leader of China who’s trying to save your country.”

Trump: “Please. You think that if you will speak very loudly about the trade war, you can –”

Xi: “He’s not speaking loudly. He’s not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble.”

Trump: “Can I answer —”

Xi: “No, no. You’ve done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble.”

Trump: “I know. I know.”

Xi: “You’re not winning. You’re not winning this. You have a damn good chance of coming out OK because of us.”