mkultrawide

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 20 points 6 hours ago

Famous words said before the invasion of Ukraine.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I also think there is a good chance that the US wants to provoke China into their own quagmire, but I don't think the US wants that right now. Taiwan is still integral to chip manufacturing, and I don't think the US is ready to support the logistical requirements necessary to accomplish their goals, which is why I think China mobilizing now would make the US pause what it's doing. The US is not ready to have to fight on someone else's timeline at the moment.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 28 points 18 hours ago

Most likely not anytime soon. I also think they would be more inclined to do some sort of embargo and/or blockade first to show Taiwan what life without the mainland is actually like.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 38 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (32 children)

I stated it last time when the US was gearing up to bomb Iran, but I think that China mobilizing it's military seemingly in preparation for an invasion of Taiwan would basically cause the US to abort any Iran operation. I don't think we have the capability to fight those two wars plus whatever it is we are doing in Ukraine.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 38 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

1 Trump casino in Havana in return for an end to the embargo.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 49 points 3 days ago

I watched the video, and it sounded to me like the boos started when the US was announced and before they even showed JD Vance. It wasn't as uniformly boos as Israel's entrance, though.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Who the fuck do these people think they are" also crossed my mind in regards to what I assume is mostly Italian fans booing for exactly the reasons you said lol

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 97 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Gotta say, there's something funny about the US getting booed at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, and seeing a bunch of American liberals pretend that the fans were only booing JD Vance or saying that American athletes shouldn't have to come out and say that just because they are representing the US doesn't mean they support the US government. Funny how the latter doesn't apply to Russia.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mainly meant the WWE thing as a joke but yes it's possible they are waiting until the Winter Olypmics are over. My personal opinion of Trump is that he probably wouldn't care about doing it during the Olympics, but who knows. This strikes me more of them realizing they need more a resources now than they had during True Promise 3.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

What's happening is that the US has no intention of actually negotiating. Debating negotiating terms is a classic stalling/wrecking tactic. This is all just political theater to give the US and it's allies cover to say "we tried to negotiate but they were unreasonable, so now we have to go to war".

Now would be a serendipitous time for a couple Iranian missiles to "accidentally misfire" at a GCC oil refinery or tanker ship IMO. The US is stalling because they seemingly take the Iranian threats to make this a regional war this time seriously, and don't feel they have enough assets in place.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 50 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (23 children)

He is saying on twitter that it was for posting the below email from Jeffrey Epstein to Deepak Chopra:

I haven't checked whether this email is real or if he was trolling, but Chopra does show up in the emails several times

EDIT: It's real.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This reminds me of when there were all those rumors swirling around about Rasputin's debauchery and the corruption of the Russian monarchy, something the peasantry was very willing to believe, and then Lenin and the communists came out to throw water on all of that on behalf of the monarchy and called it a psyop.

 
 

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EDIT: Apparently the prior portrait was not of Nat Turner, despite what Google and some other websites said.

 
 
 

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