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Aaron Bastani

@AaronBastani

Co-Founder @novaramedia. Author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Next book on politics and economics of an ageing planet.

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Murderous terrorism maiming innocents. But it will be celebrated by a lot of people on here because it’s Iranians. At least 103 dead. Rest in peace. bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

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I’ve never understood this argument. If people vote for them then, in a democracy, those people deserve representation, yes.

Perfectly sensible to have a threshold which must be crossed, like 5%.

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But how is this possible? People were sharing stock video of the U.S. navy on social media with the Team America music?!

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Iran will fight Israel till the last Arab and Israel will fight Iran till the last American is a good formulation.

Meanwhile Europe will get millions of displaced people and energy inflation. What an utterly bizarre set of circumstances Britain's political class cheers on.

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'The Russians are basically using these drones like another type of artillery round, whereas the Houthis use them more like intermediate missiles.”

Super informative article about Iranian drones in Arab News

arabnews.com/node/2174446/m…

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Ever since 9/11, we have just taken it for granted that certain countries can send drones or bombs into foreign sovereign countries, across national borders, to kill people they’ve decided, without an arrest or trial, are guilty of crimes.

But most other countries can’t do this.

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Normally armies go to great lengths to cover up their war crimes.

The Israeli army isn’t only a very rare exception - they’re the first to turn their war crimes into online fodder for public amusement.

Why? Because they think, quite rationally, they can get away with anything

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'The West imposed on Russia a war stimulus it should have embraced itself. It did not, and as a result this winter is a bleak one for Ukraine.'

Excellent article from Aris Roussinos - I don't disagree with one word. unherd.com/2024/01/the-wo…

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Russia importing a lot more precision machine tools (bolstering Chinese capital goods industry - predictable). This means they’re building up a robust and enhanced capital structure. The sanctions/war appear to spurred Russian economic development rather than hindering it. 🇷🇺

Russia importing a lot more precision machine tools (bolstering Chinese capital goods industry - predictable). This means they’re building up a robust and enhanced capital structure. The sanctions/war appear to spurred Russian economic development rather than hindering it. 🇷🇺
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It's quite extraordinary that the very people who 20 years ago provided intellectual justification for the war on terror (to the point of overtly arguing that empires are justifiable) now complain that it accelerated the decline of the West!

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