DPRK flag spotted in Ukraine. Mil summary YT 10:20s

They say its just Russian trolling for now. The narrative seems like ever increasing Russian cope which I don’t understand why, I admit its wierd but also I don’t quite think someone right at the front(see the video geolocation) has time or reason to be bothering with internet memes, just a weird situation imo, why would you carry a DPRK flag around just in case?

To me this seems like the funniest narrative of the past year imo. Its going to be so funny to watch all these silly mil bloggers experts trying to justify the extremely obvious reasons why DPRK was willing to send some small amount of troops.

Meanwhile SK is officially taking the matter seriously South Korea summons Russian envoy to protest North Korea troop dispatch.

Related article from Michael Roberts(Marxist economist) mostly on these same criticisms.

IMF and BRICS: no return to Bretton Woods(10/20/2024)

IMF is worried about growing inequality and poverty and wants some form of change which we know wont happen.

Meanwhile BRICS is actually just Chinese economic dominance, there are still internal conflicts, no US-China decoupling yet and as a result dedollarization is debunk(so far) as everyone still defaults to the USD.

How long would you survive as president if the first thing you did was to remove “In god we trust” and the cartoon evil pledge of allegiance.

lol Ian with a history of going so hard against cheaters even without concrete evidence but then he doesn’t even wait 2 seconds to go out and immidiately defend this as overreaction.

Putin submitted the draft of the agreement with the DPRK just this week. This is a good time for circunstancial evidence like this.

Yes this seems quite clear if its all true the DPRK wants field experience and it may have been what was already agreed back in June. If Russia is truly commiting to a defensive alliance with the DPRK then its not at all unlikely Ukraine war cooperation was part of the deal.

I also don’t understand why people want to be so opposite to this idea, the DPRK is doing exactly what China should be doing imo. One country is arming and preparing for war while the other watches the world burn and decides now is the time to get in bed with Wall Street while crying US bad every UN meeting.

As for your point on stability, I wonder the significant of these recent SK drones crossing the border not because of stupid pamphlets, but because its obvious at the very least SK may have learned from Ukrainian tactics. These are quite obvious field tests and could be a warning sign.

I think one thing that should be mentioned about drones is that Russia is not omnipotent and has suffered from the occasional successful Ukrainian drone attacks, indeed some hits on Russian airbases was a terrible look e.g Morozovsk recently. Russia says there was no damage but you’re shifting the goal post Ukrainians and the west are stupid and incompetent and shouldn’t have managed to even get there remember? Famous Russian cope exists from the very start of the war too.

Of course it doesn’t mean Ukraine is winning(or is even capable) but these are lessons that must be learned like the fact Russia lost a number of ships now. Doesn’t change the war but it shapes the future understanding of war.

I’m willing to bet the DPRK understands this threat now can’t be ignored. The same kind of strikes on DPRK infrastructure could be devastating so the logical conclusion is the DPRK wants to be ready for a snap war declaration if such an incident happens. It doesn’t have to mean they’re willing to go on the offensive overnight for no reason, but that they’ll take no excuses or justifications for SK aggression.

That article is from last year and since then NVDIA is now “worth” 11% of the US GDP as a consequence, so I can kind of understand how you can see this as some sort of “miracle”.

What is the opposite of capitalism realism? Capitalist absurdism? We are increasingly seeing events and trends that defy even previous well established mainstream rethoric.

Surely they’re already believing or soon will turn into the old too big to fail rethoric, everyone prepares for the crash that never comes. When it does come its not a crash at all but a “pullback” only. The line only goes up, you may lose all your money but as long as Blackrock servers keep running the HFT algos Wall Street will be open every weekday at 9am.

At some point yeah, its like believing no matter what happens the church will always be there etc. There is some argument the closer we are to climate collapse the more we will regress towards fantasy escapist beliefs. The world is shit but AI will save us is just what a 14th century peasant would be saying about the church and god during the Bubonic plague. We haven’t changed.

I’m not sure if its smart to give him any credit and I’m definitely not going to check on his work, but that graph just lining up perfectly with these major events seem both very compelling and too good to be true.

Yeah China gives too much of a shit about global opinion. They absolutely should stop pandering to this international rules shit they do so fucking often.

Like literaly who cares about US cyber attacks when you should be the one hacking the US to shit. We need escalation and retaliation against the US not appeals to liberal civil order shit. But China loves to do this and the worst part is I think they believe it works lol.

Pointing to American hypocrisy is a low hanging fruit and quite meaningless at this point.

Flight sim is probably the most expensive PC game category except from maybe whaling in certain games for lootboxes.

A large storage drive is a given for most, even sometimes dedicated drives and its not that expensive these days. It realy isn’t 2000-10’s anymore, storage is incredibly cheap now. Have a main OS SSD + 1 dedicated storage HDD is a given.

My experience with XP11 is that the barrier is the knowledge and dedication to do custom scenery(ortho) compared to what MSFS gives out of the box. You’re paying quite a premium for MSFS’s convenience and massive coverage.

Mistaking her for Feinstein who looked like a literal frankenstein monster kept alive on drugs and puppet strings.

the zionists are living in fantasyland to think Gaza being theirs could turn this shit around. what, they’d get to build offshore oil rigs in a decade or two? how is that going to replace the people and materiel it loses to take it?

Nobody ever accused fascists of being remotely rational or sane.

But at the same time a settler colonial project fundamentally includes land occupation, its the #1 requirement.

Do the emote usage struggle session next.

Looks like the “tankies” were once again proven to be correct when we said that this conflict wasn’t about freedumb.

You’re not wrong but I think this was obvious when every AP news article couldn’t avoid showing a photo of a Ukrainian soldier wearing a swastika back in June 2022 or something.

We’re far beyond the point liberals care about Ukraine either way lol.

How do they “win” when they kill everyone? They don’t gain anything from this. They won’t get a victory screen when they kill more people.

Seems obvious to me, the purpose is to kill them all to take the land, they proud themselves on taking occupied Palestinian homes since day one.

The victory condition is clear, kill everyone and take the land, use the land to create a greater zionist state and use that as an even stronger foothold to cleanse the rest of the ME.

Not much that can be said without evoking nihilistic thoughts tbh.

Personaly I thought COVID was a real opportunity and there would be a lot more severe consequences from it, specialy when things were about to hit the cool zone(mass evictions etc) but the world sucessfuly managed to enforce the business as usual rhetoric(even China caved on Zero covid), sweep everything under the rug and move on.

Those who lost family members(despite precations) got fucked. No justice or consequence. This is the preview you need. We will ignore and dismiss as much as possible. Those who revolt or start seeing the problem will become targets. Ecofascism will find the easiest answers and the left is completely unprepared.

The nihilism comes from realizing perhaps we’re dead set on this path for some time now, its not a recent change and probably nobody alive today had a real chance of fighting to avoid this fate.

I want to be optimistic about this but its quite improbable that China is willing to die on the Cuban hill out of nowhere for little gain when they’re currently giving up on the arguably far more important(materially if not ideologically important) Russian hill e.g they’re letting US sanctions on Chinese banks affect trade with Russia.

We’ll see but I smell they’ll do something like honorary member or some shit and give marginal diplomatic or whatever benefits, maybe disguise it as foreign aid or something.

is there anything to this beyond a silly interview though? Besides China is closer to the US now than probably any time over the last 3 years maybe even 5 years, hardly a win-loss situation.

The @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net approach would be to praise America for subverting that Chinese plan, and I can’t really say that’s terribly wrong, but the Biden admin October Surprise-ing itself due to potentially dramatically raising oil prices also doesn’t seem very productive.

Oil prices are not likely to go higher no matter what(nukes flying into Saudi Arabia excluded).

OPEC+ is currently doing “voluntary” supply cuts. The majority of these cuts are coming from SA and they are under pressure as a result of the long term downtrend they’re having a budget crisis.

Right now the issue is some members(inc. Iraq/Russia) have to do their own production cuts to compensate for previous overproduction. However if there is no compliance SA is threatning to cancel their cut which could move oil even lower.

For now all members are reassuring they’ll comply with the cuts which is what SA wants to see, but if this doesn’t happen the only destination is lower prices. Alternatively any major real war will be a great relief for them as these cuts will then be delayed/reduced overall. It also means there is more than enough supply ready to counter any crisis.

The underlying downtrend is driven by the weak Chinese demand narrative and it wont change in the short-medium term, at the end everyone knows China is the only real growing economy.

It can’t be understated, Saudi Minister Warns of $50 Oil as OPEC+ Members Flout Production Curbs(WSJ)

Brent crude was up 5% today, seems like a big jump(it is definitely unusual) but the actual price is still well below and barely recovering from the recent crash.

Keeping in mind in the past these sorts of geopolitical events would have sent oil to near all time highs, these days its barely a bump up. Brent crude needs to go from $73 right now to at least $85 before things start getting interesting again.

You should ignore for a moment the same theories people keep posting here and look at what people like Rand corp actualy say about Russia.

Here this is a great paper by them. Postwar U.S. Strategy Toward Russia(2024)

It shows exactly what they consider to be the relevant points about Russia today. In general these neolibs always see Russia as a geopolitical rival, they don’t believe to have “won” per se because there is a deep fundamental distrust and a belief(also racist) that they’ll never be truly on board with US interests.

The chart on that page is excellent actually.

I’ve highlighted the key points from both groups below.

As you can see, its both frightening and elucidating how painfuly obvious they are about their goals and how they consider getting there.

Ukraine is a plan gone wrong and that plan is to contain Russian interests. For example, they’ve appropriated Imperialism mean a vulgar term completely opposite to Lenin’s. Rand corp ghouls and everyone in Washington truly believe Russia is an imperialist competitor.

Here is another of their research papers from 2019

Despite these vulnerabilities and anxieties, Russia remains a powerful country that still manages to be a U.S. peer competitor in a few key domains. Recognizing that some level of competition with Russia is inevitable, RAND researchers conducted a qualitative assessment of “cost-imposing options” that could unbalance and overextend Russia. Such cost-imposing options could place new burdens on Russia, ideally heavier burdens than would be imposed on the United States for pursuing those options.

In the Geopolitical Cost-Imposing Options they included “Provide lethal aid to Ukraine” as medium-high cost and success rates.

In Economic Cost-Imposing Options they put “Impose deeper trade and financial sanctions” as high and clearly listed “Increase Europe’s ability to import LNG from sources other than Russia” which was literaly the opposite of what happened and the reason for EU’s crash.

Further below you can read the section Land and Multidomain Cost-Imposing Measures and basicaly note how all options revolve around increasing US military presence in Europe and more militarization of NATO.

It is clear to me these people would not be suggesting this back in 2019 if they didn’t think Russia was a real competitor.

Of course I don’t think these people are particularly correct or even 100% truthful, but to have a pulse on what neolibs think does require to read and listen to what they actualy say.

Unfortunately we have not moved on from what Michael Hudson popularized in '22. The idea the US somehow wanted this war just to destroy the EU is not accurate. For example the US did not believe energy prices would skyrocket, they even tried the price cap so they could reduce Russian profits and stop the inflation crisis worldwide.