“orange man tweeted something about China”

Throwback to this article which was very insightful when it was published a few months back.

The MAGA Effect on US-China Relations: Strategic Ambiguity on Steroids

Six months before Trump was elected president, Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that led Project 2025 – a sort of road map for Trump 2.0 – had actually recommended a policy of deliberate ambiguity toward China to determine the tempo, tenor, and contours of Sino-U.S. competition in the coming years.

A bipartisan think tank, Brookings, echoed that recommendation as Trump was forming his cabinet.

Regardless of whether the ambiguity is strategic or not, the very unpredictability of Trump’s approach – a barrage of explosive and often contradictory public statements, a rapid shift from threats and provocations to warm personal diplomacy – makes it exceedingly hard to forecast what he might ultimately do.

Some researchers have suggested that Trump’s seemingly irrational and volatile behaviour makes him an ideal conveyor of a U.S. policy based on the strategic ambiguity that gained much currency during the Nixon’s administration and was described as the Madman Theory. It dates back to at least 1517 when Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in The Prince that sometimes it is “a very wise thing to simulate madness.” The inklings of an idea that appeared in the work of Machiavelli eventually inspired a coterie of Harvard University scholars that included Henry Kissinger to ponder the limitations of rationality in grand strategy during the late 1950s and early 1960s – a rational U.S. president would seek to avoid a nuclear confrontation at all costs, but a “convincingly mad” one could credibly threaten large risks and therefore make the adversary blink first.

What is certain is that the U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity vis-à-vis China predates Trump’s presidency. In the last ten years, Washington’s attitude to China shifted dramatically. From viewing it as a partner in global governance to describing it as a strategic competitor, to labelling it a systemic rival that poses direct challenges to U.S. interests.

Triumphing for the oppressed Palestinian people and their Mujahideen, and in rejection of the crime of genocide perpetrated by the Zionist enemy against our people in the Gaza Strip.

The missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a military operation targeting Lod Airport, Israeli named Ben Gurion Airport, in the occupied area of Yaffa, using a hypersonic ballistic missile. The operation successfully achieved its goal, thanks to allah, forcing millions of occupying Zionists to flee to shelters and halting air traffic at the airport.

The Yemeni Armed Forces assure all our faithful and struggling Yemeni people that, with Allah’s help, they will continue to fulfill their religious, moral, and humanitarian duty toward our people in Palestine until the aggression against them stops and the siege is lifted.

They will also, with trust in Allah, confront every Israeli aggression against our country with further supportive operations for the oppressed Palestinian people, including the continued ban on Israeli air traffic to and from Lod Airport.

Sana’a, Dhu al-Hijjah 2, 1446 AH May 29, 2025 AD

Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

http://t.me/army21ye

Fire article. Khaled Barakat is always excellent 🔥

Yes

(Zionist outlet)

Ryanair cancels 200,000 plane tickets to occupied Palestine after extending flight suspensions.

Earlier this month, Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said his airline was “losing patience” with security disruptions at Ben Gurion Airport and may consider diverting aircraft to service alternative destinations.

“I think we’re running out of patience too with Israel… flights to and from Tel Aviv,” O’Leary told analysts following the release of full-year results.

“If they’re going to keep being disrupted by these security disruptions, frankly, we’d be better off sending those aircraft somewhere else in Europe,” he said.

The narrative of struggle and steadfastness that all free people of earth should internalize: the resistance can and will liberate Palestine. ‘When’, not ‘if.’ The question is how many more children will be slaughtered by zionist monsters before this promised victory?

Direct action against the appendages of zionism is a material contribution that can and will save lives.

Everyone should aspire to be compared to Yahya al Sinwar after “sending zionist dogs to hell.”

Screen grab from an Iranian TV segment on Elias Rodriguez who denazified two zionazi embassy staffers last week.

The enemies could drop bombs on Yemen and Lebanon and Gaza but they will never be able to fly so freely over Iranian airspace. That severely limits the types of weapons they can use and the damage they can inflict. JDAM cant even fly 100km.

Unless the US launches an ICBM they aren’t getting the kinds of ordinance required to do that kind of damage all the way into the Alborz.

Iran has underground missile cities and nuke cities that are deeper and more sophisticated than anything in Gaza or Yemen. Anything less than nuclear weapons will not be able to destroy them. The channel I linked has a large selection of videos on various different missile cities that we know about. This one is about the Karkas centrifuge site.

The enemies needed how many bunker buster to assasinate Sayed Hassan Nasrallah? And his base in Dahiyeh was not even that deep, all things considered.

“Bombing nuclear sites” would actually mean bombing power plants, sanitation systems, and other infrastructure to attack the people, which is the same thing the empire has always done.

The dream of “Kurdistan” is just as racist and artificial as “Israel for the Jews” or “Ukraine for Ukrainians” and I’m tired of pretending its not.

We always love sources 🙌

User Cinaa42 posted anti-Resistance rants in last week’s news thread and then conveniently disappeared after I asked for sources for their claims. The user ignores sourced evidence and materialist analysis in favor of starting fights about minute issues.

As far as I can tell, nobody else has posted sources in either of those two locations, which reflects poorly on the state of things.

Still waiting on your sources.

🟢 Hamas: —

600 days of aggression, genocide, and starvation… We call for a sustained global movement until this massacre is immediately stopped.

Let the coming days—Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (May 30, 31, and June 1)—be days of global rage until the genocide and starvation against civilians, children, and women comes to an end.

We value the global movement in support of Gaza and the rights of our people, and we call for intensified pressure by all means to stop the aggression and starvation. Let voices be raised loudly against the occupation and in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.

As the occupation continues its brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip, escalating its war of genocide and starvation against unarmed civilians, children, and women for 600 days, in blatant violation of all international norms, laws, and divine principles, and in arrogant disregard of all UN resolutions and the positions of states that have condemned its crimes and called for an end to its aggression— we, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), renew our call to the masses of our nation, to the free people of the world, to those of conscience, and to international bodies and institutions, to continue and escalate all forms of global mobilization in cities and squares worldwide against the aggression, genocide, and starvation of our people in the Gaza Strip.

Let the coming days—Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (May 30–31 and June 1)—be days of global rage, through demonstrations, marches, and mass sit-ins in all cities and public squares around the world, raising voices loudly to denounce and reject the crimes and the war of genocide and starvation against our people, and in support and solidarity with Gaza, Al-Quds, and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Tuesday, 29 Dhul-Qi‘dah 1446 AH Corresponding to May 27, 2025 CE

(Translation by RNN)

I’m the most pro-Russia poster on this site

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Resistance and Liberation Day: May 25 – The Anniversary of the Zionist Defeat and the First Arab Victory

https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/05/5819/

Has anyone read the Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine by the PFLP? The tripartite framework described is from before anyone on this forum was born…

The position of the PFLP that the author is citing is from over 60 years ago, which is made clear in the article. It was the theoretical basis for the PFLP EO (external operations) led by the martyr Wadi Haddad which carried out a variety of operations that were nothing like “9/11”.

Leila Khaled was part of one such operation.

Did you read the article?

According to the PFLP, the enemy camp is a triad: The Israeli Entity (Zionist movement), global imperialism, and Arab reactionaries. This, the Front argued, was a precise diagnosis of the conflict. Consequently, it maintained that targeting the enemy should not be restricted by geography, since the enemy itself had made the entire world a battlefield.

Behind the Enemy Everywhere: Return of Palestinian External Ops? by Moussa al-Sadah