Maybe he still considers Qing-dynasty superior?

Pump it! Depressing news straight into my Veins!

Afghanistan staring into the void right next to Iran:

Do some screenshots of this new domestic Venezuelan platform exist / is there a URL for it?

starlink use Starlink satellites to determine the position of the receiver

Why is this option not enabled by default instead of the old GPS? I assume the starlink positioning system is harder to jam than GPS? For me this indicates this fix does not work well.

Copper exports by country

Chile has a huge lead in copper export. Chile has a pro-US government at the moment.

Can Aluminium wire be used to replace copper in times of crisis/ for lower costs? Afaik Aluminium has lower conductivity by volume compared to copper, but would that be a major drawback?

The token could be pegged to a commodity basket or a neutral index to prevent domination

Currency baskets … I think some “stable-coin” startup tried to do this in the US, the basket would include all power blocks currency (Dollar, Euro, Renminbi, Indian Rupies …) , but was quickly banned.

Reminds me of the British empire selling textile products to India. Where can I read more on this, in Marx “Capital” or from Lenin?

I don’t think this is a good idea

… unless this alliance get nukes it will be defenseless against the super-power to the North.

a larger Danish contingent

How many? Oh. They can not focus their entire attention on Greenland because of the Ukraine-War. Now Denmark has an interest to quickly end the Ukraine conflict to focus on the US, right? (And the US the opposite interest)

Good point; I think foreign occupation leading to native resistance is a core part of Imperialism (and how it ends). The suffering of the resisting population powers the system.

Canada and the U.S.A.

It may be true, but they hardly need to react like a white supremacist being called black.

Can you expand on what you mean by that? I have seen some horrible memes (for the slop section on hexbear maybe) about some Pro-Protest account about supporting to “erase all Sunnis” (Pelavi was not radical enough), become Zhoroastrian again, and stop “worshiping Arabs (and their religion)”.

Also I knew an Afghan personally who told me he was treated badly for racist reasons in Teheran.

As far as I know:

• Pakistan Iran relations are not that great - they bombed each other over Balochi separatist movements, and do not trade much, heck even India trades more with Iran than Pakistan, despite a shared land-border?
• Pakistan - China relations are stronger than Iran - China relations. While Iran-India relations are stronger than India-Pakistan relations.
• There are some fringe racist Persian/Iranian factions that despise Pakistanis (and Arabs) for being “browner” compared to Aryan lineage, idk. Maybe I read too much twitter.

Source? Not seeing anything on Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile Al Jazeera:

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/13/why-iran-is-not-repeating-1979

Protests by themselves do not cause revolutions.

Revolutions occur when mass unrest intersects with elite paralysis or defection. That happened in 1979, but it has not happened now.

There will be a point where Canada either ceases to exist as a sovereign entity or stands in defiance. Why are Canada and the US different nations to begin with for the last 250 years?

Exactly. I think Venezuela is difficult for the US to invade, just because of oceans and jungles and distances; boots on the ground style. Prolonged wars with mass-logistic kill-chains always happen along direct land borders. One might argue the Sino-Japanese war negates this, but Japan needed to prepare a base in Manchuria and Korea for decades prior.

he survives this with just a jail cell

I will be very interested if he faces prosecution in the future. How well is the US in punishing corrupted politicians in general, are there precedent cases that show the system has teeth against people in power after Epstein?

Nobody fucking cares what those morons think of him especially Mamdani himself.

Sooner or later Mamdani will be confronted with them as a popular opposition symbol.

one-way ticket to invasion by Americans

… this will be inevitable the moment they take Greenland.

As an outsider, right now I would say Steven Miller and Rubio are the most competent and “normal” by US standards. They will likely survive in the post Trump era and lead a republican minority until their moment comes. They will also criticize Mamdani in NYC.