You pretty much nailed it, it’s not even headcanon, it was confirmed in DS9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSW8WndZcYU

If Putin is miscalculating in such a spectacular fashion with Iran, then he’s likely also miscalculating somewhere in Ukraine and in Russian politics itself

That leads to only one thing; a pissed off Russian military, a military that has been traumatized by one of the most brutal wars of the last 75 years, a military that most likely isn’t going to keep tolerating one miscalculation after another from it’s out of touch leadership

First of all, DO NOT PRETEND Chinese military aid is not a literal weeks old development that may or may not be sustained on Chinas part, there is zero evidence China provides military aid to the broader Axis outside of Iran and we have NO data on the scale of aid it provides to Iran and as far as diplomacy goes, look at Chinese support for PA puppets and tell me that’s for the benefit of Palestinians and not western defined stability mongers. As if China didn’t tacitly back the Abraham Accords, get real

Now we do have data on the billions China pumps into Israel and the Arab comprador regimes, that’s reality and I couldn’t give a rats ass about the phony, liberal brained, game theory, capitulationist attitude Chinese foreign policy wonks have toward the middle east

Socialism in China, developmentism in Africa, economic open doors with the rest of the world, and complete reactionary collaboration against the Arab working class, that is China’s foreign policy

And you call that analysis “Orientalism” for not pretending China is a friend to Arab workers, you dont know what that word means

If you make billions with the butchers and strike breakers of Arab workers then yes, you’re an enemy of MENA workers, no matter how much socialism develops in your homeland

Japan is boomer country par excellence

They ain’t gonna do shit except eat an American induced recession and blame young people for not having kids

The ‘they said, we said’ situation involving the drone bombers aside

YES China is an enemy of the working classes of the middle east, China is still trading with Israel and Arab comprador regimes, that’s a fact

Sorry if that bricks your brain and makes you reach for nonsensical comparisons like the “fentanyl conspiracy”, Chinese foreign policy on the Middle East is pretty clear; western defined “stability” at all costs and pumping billions more into Israeli and Gulf state coffers

China produces the parts for Irans drones too, are you gonna complain about that next?

It’s almost like Chinese foreign policy famously works cross purposes with itself; on one hand selling Iran “drone parts” and on the other maintaining a 10 billion dollar trade infrastructure with Israel despite 20 months of genocide

As long as the independent life of a nation is suppressed by a foreign conqueror it inevitably directs all its strength, all its efforts and all its energy against the external enemy; during this time, therefore, its inner life remains paralysed; it is incapable of working for social emancipation.

Engels sniping these reactionary cockroaches from a century-and-half away

The crowd that wants to drone strike and bomb every queer person in the middle east for being the wrong ethnic group is whining about queer people NOT wanting to do that

Hilarious and obscene on these chuds part, the greatest killer of Palestinian queer people has been Israel

As long as this obscenity persists, China is an enemy of the collective working classes of the Middle East

The old critiques of “Socialism in One Country” are hitting real hard right now

lmao she can’t read the room for shit, this racist, genocide supporting, euphemistic drivel doesn’t even work on chuds because they’ve moved on to outright nazism and open glee at mass child murder

This soft-nazism would’ve played moderately well among democrat aligned progressive circles circa 2012, but now it has the same valence as someone saying in 2020 George Floyd deserved to die because “he didn’t listen”

75% of democrats despise Israel, the same soft lib demographic she’s cultivated, she’s gonna get torn apart for this

Anti-vaxxers literally sacrificing their children to win shower arguments in their heads

Wtf is a “European Naval Force” is this what they’re calling mercenary companies these days?

I wonder what bullshit the resident western educated neolibs in charge of those client states will spin to explain away their patron crashing their export led economies

“Actually tariffs are good when Americans do it because it creates austerity here at home, which helps exports”

Huh? Whatya say yoouuu zoomie?

THE FUTURE IS NOW! OLD MAN!

The Mark of Shame I call it

They know their time in Palestine is over and they’re already setting the stage for another occupation

He doesn’t need to court people who already agree with him, he needs to court soft libs and apathetic voters who mistrust politicians, neolibs expects him to act like Sanders, talk tough and deliver nothing, when he says shit “actually billionaires will fuckin work for and with me” he throws the media for a loop and gets to expand on his platform without having to explain ad nauseam why billionaires deserve to die

Unlike Sanders he’s an actual intelligent and strategic politician, because of the simple fact he understands how cynical media actually is unlike media illiterates like Sanders and AOC, another sign that there’s a real Marxist under there

He’s dogwhistling, and doing a pretty good job of it