Exactly, they were already coordinating with various countries to let ships through. I believe the number of ships has been steadily increasing. Every agreement Iran makes cements their newfound sovereignty over the strait including this ceasefire.
Israel already rejected Iran’s terms for a ceasefire and is continuing to attack Lebanon.
Personally I think it’s worth a little space to have peace of mind. Also depending on where you live having a few week supply of food and drinking water in storage is generally recommended in case of a natural disaster.
That said, if you’re in a western countries that produces most of its own food you’ll probably be fine. Those countries produce such an incredibly surplus that much of it gets diverted towards animal agriculture. If you can afford meat and dairy now you’ll probably be able to afford rice and beans if prices rise.
It would be a hell of a lot more sustainable if we ended animal agriculture.
I’m not telling anyone not to vote but why do you think voting will stop fascists now? It never has in the past. Normal people had to fight and die to stop it.
Maybe if democrats treated fascism with the seriousness it deserves we would be okay. However, instead of jailing Trump and dismantling his movement, Biden decided to give unlimited support to a fascist government committing a genocide.
I hope you realize how disingenuous democrats are when they tell you to vote against Trump in 2028 as if the election hasn’t been rigged by that point.
Honestly, I think it comes down to a form of genocide apologia. I think most reasonable people might ask, “If Biden was willing to lie in order to help Israel carry out a genocide, why wouldn’t he or any of his associates lie in order to protect the corporate profits even if it meant American people would be murdered en masse?” At that point, voting for a democrat feels like choosing to get stabbed in the back so that you don’t get shot in the face. Sure, one might be better than the other but I don’t think anyone wants to be making that choice.
However, if you think your own life has a greater intrinsic value than the lives of people in Gaza you won’t see it the same way. Yeah maybe you would prefer if the Democrats didn’t help murder children abroad but that doesn’t mean they would do the same to you and your children.
Yeah, my only advice is stay close to your family, friends, and community if you can. It’s pretty clear to me that Democratic Party officials have no real interest in fighting fascism so it really doesn’t make sense to put any hope in them. Luckily you don’t really have to.
Fascists by their own inflexible nature will eventually force people to fight back in meaningful ways. Any kind of bonds you create with other people can become the basis upon which organized resistance thrives, whatever that may look like. Even though it’s not really organizing, sometimes I think acts as simple as baking cookies for your neighbors does more to prepare for the fight against fascism than voting for a Democrat does. lol
I honestly think he could get away with it if real and verifiable pictures of him abusing children were to be leaked. Most of the news media is controlled by people sympathetic to Trump and he’d wield the power of the state to go after anyone who doesn’t fall in line. As long as it doesn’t threaten capital, right wing judges aren’t going to rein him in. His sycophantic base would be eager to believe in narratives of it all being AI even if those claims were easy to disprove.
That said, the war he’s launched against Iran is beginning to have a major impact on the global economy. He only has so many tools to buffer the US from the consequences of that war. The sickening thing is, it’s much easier for Americans to have moral clarity on the horrors of imperial violence once it starts to negatively impact their standard of living.
Only a couple a years ago the US ambassador to Bolivia was arrested for being a Cuban spy. I’m sure they’re still punching above their intelligence agency still punches above their weight. I’d be curious to know how they can actually leverage that strength if Trump really decides to go after Cuba.
Honestly, I don’t think this is really meant as a cover up. The war crimes he’s committing are far more atrocious than anything he could have possibly done with Epstein. It would be like trying to distract from an assault by becoming a serial killer.
The reality is Iran and Cuba have been on the hit list of the American right wing for almost half a century. Trump is just such an arrogant narcissist that he thinks he’s uniquely capable of making those bloodthirsty dreams a reality. The idea that prior republican administrations didn’t go to war with Iran or Cuba because they knew the US wouldn’t win doesn’t event occur to him. The sycophants and yes men he’s surrounded himself with in his second term are also too cowardly to tell him.
I’m not sure why people like you feel so confident that some small segment of vocal lefties lost the democrats the election. They are such a small percentage of the actually voting population and strategic voting is just not how most people vote.
The reality is many democratic voters were simply not motivated to vote for an administration that was more interested in supporting a genocide than dealing with the riding cost of living. You can argue that’s stupid or irrational but that won’t affect how voters actually vote. You might as well be yelling at a brick wall. It won’t change anything.
The fact is that Biden, Kamala, and other high level members of the Democratic Party knew that supporting a genocide might cost them the election. They did it anyways. They cared more about Israel’s ability to bomb children than they cared about protecting the American people from a second Trump term. The blame lies entirely with them.
The purpose of the law is quite literally the opposite of what you’re suggesting. Have fun living in in your sinophobic fever dream.
White people aren’t a monolith because race is a pseudoscientific construct. It has no meaningful relationship with ethnicity or ancestry. If you don’t know the difference between race and ethnicity in America what gives the confidence to speak on how ethnicity works in China? lol
What do you even do think Han is? lol To think that this law is a tool of Han supremacy is to ignore that it doesn’t actually encompass the idea of ethnicity as it exists in the West. Most people that would be identified as Han do not share an identical culture or even language. What this law talks about ie “the common language” is a construct created by many people who spoke other Chinese languages first. It’s wild how ready you are to speak with such authority about a country you seemingly know next to nothing about.
You have to understand, this law explicitly protects the rights of minority languages. Also it’s important to understand that mandarin is kind of a western construct. It encompasses many different dialects that are actually distinguished in China.
What is known as “the common language” which is what this law mandates schools teach is a constructed language. It shares similarities with but is not identical to the dialects of Heibei province and Beijing. Most Chinese people do not learn it as a first language anyways. The common language itself, is not a new invention either. Its origins can be traced back basically for as long China has been a state. With the lingual diversity within China, it’s long been necessary for administration and interregional commerce to be conducted in shared language.
The government now is attempting to extend that to common people given the nature of Chinas modern economy and media landscape. This is a wildly different context than American settler colonialism where indigenous language not only did not receive any supports or protections but instead was actually banned. If you want to be critical of American chauvinism do not embrace it when interpreting the actions of another country. If you want to criticize China you need to actually understand it first.
Well good thing then that China’s laws aren’t written in English yeah? The actual title of the law does not carry the connotations you think it does.
What do they have to lose though? The moment the US starts bombing again the missiles start to fly. It’s tit for tat. That’s been their strategy this whole time. I don’t think they expect the US to take negotiations seriously at all.
I do however think Iran wants to appear reasonable to the rest of the world. Under the ceasefire, they still expect other countries to coordinate with them to get ships through. That was already happening prior to the ceasefire but now it’s clear that’s what they expect from everyone. They’re forcing the world to acknowledge Iranian sovereignty over the strait which is a pretty serious win if they can keep it.