It’s really not that complicated, they likely had a contract to move the oil at x price, but with oil prices being artificially inflated to ridiculous levels thanks to Seal Team Trump the sub contractor likely charged someone way more for the product without informing Iran of the change, in hopes of pocketing the extra cash; forgetting the only reason they have a job at all is because Iran allows it.
Prepping communities have little to no knowledge on the subject which is why people avoid them and why most advice you’ll hear outside those communities is so different.
91.4% of American citizens are better educated than the founding fathers. Yes that includes pretty much all of MAGA.
About 7.25 billion people are better educated than the median American colonist as of 1776.
Education has not reduced in any way. In fact thanks to China this is the single most educated period in world history, by such a wide margin no other period can be reasonably compared to today, including the 20th century.
‘So why don’t we have blah blah people of higher calibre blah blah classist propaganda blah blah dummies’
We do have plenty of intelligent people. All of them capable of empathy have either killed themselves or are in STEM and have no interest in politics or commerce. All of them incapable of empathy are the owners of the current Amerisraeli hegemony that rules a large part of the world with indescribable amounts of violence and evil. Because most people have empathy (yes, even the ones you hate), they cannot fathom how people without empathy actually think and behave. Because a lack of empathy is an absolute necessity for success under capitalism, even in politics under capitalism, those without naturally rise to the top.
Americans especially are taught from a young age to never rebel, to never fight back, to never play dirty, to never try to change the status quo. They are taught this despite being told mythologized stories of the founders of their country doing the opposite. This naturally aligns with empathy, which effectively filters out Americans into those that will succeed in business and politics, and everyone else that will live under them, forever.
This is the only misstep in education. Not teaching the truth of the ‘founding fathers,’ and not teaching how and why they succeeded, and how and why revolutions do not ever end. Which to be fair to the last point, it took another 80 years for philosophers to realize that, after the US failed to actually be different than the kingdoms it rebelled against.
Done. I held up my GPS-enabled smart phone I paid $50 for 10 years ago to my eye line, better yet I was able to get a real-time preview of the angle of the picture to ensure everything’s in shot.
So now I have to stab every person wearing airpods if I don’t want to be spied on by the Five Eyes intelligence agencies?
Every day I’m thankful US tech is less and less popular outside the west.
They called me crazy for insisting on ensuring all of our companies files compress to 10,000 separate 64KiB xz compressed files. Well who’s laughing now?!
This just in, when you divide the world between 'The US and its allies" and “The entire rest of the fucking world,” the second party might make decisions that are not based in morality but survival.
The US has decided those are the two powers that exist on the planet. This is the problem with a unipolar hegemony, especially one that is fascist from every viewpoint except internally.
Russia is an awful right-wing imperialist capitalist country. No country should deal with it. Except, you know, all of the ones that could be victims of the US and thus don’t have the luxury to pick their friends.
No, quite the opposite. I would encourage you to learn how to read one day.
Authortiarianism is a made up concept to separate the American public, who during the 1940s very much wanted to side with Nazi Germany and did not want to enter the war, and the ‘Axis of Evil;’ so that the American Military Industrial complex, against the wishes of its people and despite having the exact same ideology as the average fascist, could enter the war and make one of the largest transfers of wealth from poor to rich in world history happen.
It has no actual definition that excludes any government. Meaning it’s a meaningless distinction when you cut through the propaganda Nothing an ‘authoritarian government’ has ever been accused of doing is exclusive to them; and by a prima facie reading of the term gives you the difference between lower case a anarchism and actual society – i.e. nothing useful when discussing the merits of ways to run a society, just the fact a society exists.
Cuba is a democracy. China is a democracy. There’s plenty of propaganda that says otherwise because they do not do their government in English and Americans are the least linguistically capable peoples in the history of the world so it’s difficult for you people to check anything. Because learning spanish is just too difficult. There’s plenty of differences in how those democracies function compared to ‘liberal western democracy’ or US democracy. None of them are more ‘authoritarian’ than the others.
Still not seeing any meaningful difference posted besides your tautological reasoning. All government is inherently authoritarian. That is how government inherently works and is defined. It can’t not be.
Saying some governments are magically different because they are isn’t anything logical. It’s repeating 1940s era propaganda made exclusively to make Americans feel like they weren’t so bad.
So you failed given every European country and the US also has that. (as much as China or Cuba at least.)
No, the mistake I’m making is pretending any person using the word ‘authoritarian’ has thought for two seconds about the word or what it means. Hence why I’m trying to encourage those to think beyond the propaganda and instead actually dive into the philosophy it’s trying to obscure.
Authoritarianism, also known as ‘any two or more humans living together,’ is a meaningless buzzword invented in the 1940s to try to differentiate American and Fascist societies to get Americans on board with fighting their ideological clones across the Atlantic.
It has no static definition that meaningfully separates any society from any other society.
Define authoritarian in a way that excludes the US and Europe but includes any country you listed.
If Europe were nuked in 1945 instead of Japan we’d have been in world peace for 80 years.
The F-15IA can be taken out by S-300s and even squad-level anti-air. Given their failures in Iran (who has undoubtedly now shown every freedom fighting group in the region how to counter them) that seems like a pretty bad purchase.
This is like buying tanks in 2026, unless your only targets are unarmed civilians you don’t really have a chance anymore. And while israel has been the single most significant source of civilian deaths since WWII, completely overshadowing all of the US’ other nightmarish actions, they still gotta take out a few military personnel if only so they don’t lose as many people when jacking off their own dead for their creepy breeding programs.
Imagine that, people will just come up with alternatives to your technology if you try to price gouge through export tariffs and restrictions.
Goon and Guns you say? I’ve heard of Skeet shooting but this is ridiculous!
Haha, this is awful and I hope for the safety of the Kenyan people.
To repeat, given the local mod team doesn’t understand Rule 4 of their own community.
Zelensky is objectively a zionist. The Ukrainian national identity is inexorably linked to Zionism.
Zelensky, because of his zionism. Is a nazi. This is an objective fact.
This is not in support of Russia. You can criticize Ukraine and its Nazi Leader without supporting Russia. Zionism is bad no matter who does it.
So they’re just run by a nazi? Because Zelenski is a Nentenyahu level zionist that wants to turn Ukraine into the new Israel.
unironically everything you just said is correct.
You are brainwashed little redditor.
Yes, unironically. It’d eliminate most security risks currently inherent to Windows while allowing for decent customization. It would also greatly accelerate WINE and ReactOS, giving legacy software a smooth offramp from insecure older versions of windows to Linux.