Because Trump still says reasonable things once in a while that is not completely detached from reality. The bar is that low. Desperate people will believe in anything.
It’s the same reason why many people in China and Russia like Trump, because once in a while he says stuff like this (there is even a tag that says this clip was the 12th most popular video on Bilibili at one point).
Israel is betting on Iran not wanting to be dragged into a regional war. The economic situation has’t been great for Iran with all the sanctions, it’s going to get even worse if a war is to happen (not to mention that many will be looking to flee the country if economic conditions continue to deteriorate). Most countries are not like Russia that can sustain itself and possess conditions that render it highly immune to Western sanctions (and even then, the impact is not insignificant).
So you end up in a situation where everyone is dragging their feet because they don’t want to start a war. And this is precisely what allows the US and Israel to keep calling everyone’s bluff and getting away with it.
Besides, everyone knows what the Zionists are capable of doing if they are truly on the brink of defeat. It is an ideology of ethnosupremacy with ethnic cleansing the Palestinians as their end goal, and the defeat of Israeli military would certainly mean the end of its ideology.
What do you think the believers would do when they have come to realize that their ethnosupremacist ideology can no longer be allowed to exist, that their dream of an Israeli state without Palestinians would have to be abandoned? Blowing up the world with nukes becomes the only option left for them. It is a rational decision for the irrationals.
Trivia time:
Hunter Biden met his business associate Devon Archer through Christopher Heinz, John Kerry’s stepson and heir to the food company.
Archer and Heinz were friends in Yale and founded the private equity firm Rosemont Capital together.
Archer, Heinz and Hunter Biden then founded Rosemont Seneca Partners together.
Hunter Biden and Devon Archer would then go on to serve on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy firm. Heinz reportedly ended his business relations with both because of this.
In 2016, Vice President Joe Biden got the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin dismissed by threatening to withhold a $1 billion dollar loan to Ukraine. Shokin had been the top prosecutor investigating the corruption case of Burisma Holdings.
In 2019, Trump would get impeached by the Democrats for threatening to withhold a $400 million military aid to Zelensky unless he agreed to investigate the Bidens and their connections to Burisma.
It’s crazy to think about the whole connection between the Heinz food company, the Democrats and the war in Ukraine.
I wasn’t going to respond, but let’s not throw around accusations here about “bait” and whatnot.
That question was inspired by Trueanon’s latest episode that covered how RT was recently caught trying to fund American right wing grifters like Tim Pool and his likes in a most incompetent and hilarious manner.
It wasn’t so much about how Russiagate made Trump win, but the fact that Russia is indeed trying (and failing) to influence the American political right. How hard is it to believe that some incompetent Russian intelligence officer named “Eduard Gregoriann” came up with some half baked plans that the Republicans fell hook, line and sinker for?
I simply asked if Project 2025 (which I don’t take nowhere as seriously as libs as I don’t think it will ever be realistically implemented) somehow had a Russian connection given its naming conventions (something I picked up on reading Soviet military history), but that was enough to invite a whole load of angry comments from Russia defenders on Hexbear which I truly did not expect.
Yeah people forget that Russia is a neoliberal hellhole.
It was also extremely demoralizing with an attrition rate of 90%. Only a few thousand made it to Yan’an, and most people they started out with would perish along the journey.
The feat was extraordinary, and what determination it would take to keep the revolution alive at all cost. Nobody even knew what the future would look like for them, the challenges ahead of them, let alone their ultimate victory!
Well the screenshot says 26 days of non-stop walking. If you factor in rest and sleep, it could easily be a 2-3 months endeavor at minimum.
The Long March was nearly a year, and yes I agree, not even remotely comparable given that the Chinese communists were trekking through uncharted wilderness of the mountain ranges.
I shudder to think what would have happened to world history if they had just decided to give up instead of keeping the revolution alive at all cost.
Well this site is probably the only place I feel comfortable asking stupid questions like this, but clearly I forgot that Hexbear is full of Putin’s strongest soldiers and treated as though I had just asked an idiotic question (it probably was).
Honestly I think American communists (if such a group even exists) should really prepare for a potential Long March if it ever comes to that.
This is nothing (~1500 miles on foot, likely on paved roads as well) compared to the Long March where Chinese communists trekked over 5600 miles through the most treacherous mountainous terrains across China while being pursued by the KMT set out to kill them.
Slightly unrelated, does anyone knows why podcasts like this never bothered to release their transcripts?
These episodes were scripted after all, so it’s not like they have to do extra work to get it down in written form. I’d even pay good money to purchase them but this has never been an option.
As someone who much prefer reading than listening because it’s so easy to miss small details when your attention wanders off for just a few seconds, it’s kinda frustrating. The same with the Revolutions podcast - so much details are packed into every episode and it would have been so much better to just being able to read them.
The Soviet Union and Russia use numbers as designation for many of its projects under development, and they are not assigned a name until serial production phase. Here’s an example of Soviet ship project numbers that follows this convention.
This extends beyond military projects though. In the USSR/Russia, research institutes are designated by numbers, as well as hospitals and schools etc. You don’t go to Libertyville High School, instead in Russia you go to “School 57” (Школа № 57).
China also largely follows the same numbering conventions for military projects, institutions, hospitals and schools.
That too. American politics is more like an entertainment in China haha.