Since everyone in the west is Disney-brained, maybe something like storm-labour or storm-worker a-la storm trooper. Pawns of the empire.

What about westoid? Lol

A society of thieves. I don’t know what they expected.

Have a nice week, comrade! (՞•Ꙫ•՞)

I agree with you. I use the term “civil war” in the context that most of the fighting was between Vietnamese resistance and Vietnamese collaborators. That is my understanding, anyway. It was not my intention to minimize the role of western colonialism in the struggle.

Edit: In response to China having a “civil war”, the Kuomintang was similarly supported by the West.

The entire Max Payne series is top notch in my opinion.

As comrade pup mentioned, Vietnam did have a civil war. Most of the fighting during the war took place between the north backed NLF and the US backed puppet government in the south. The US has used its cultural hegemony to inflate the role of US troops on the ground, just as it did for WWII.

We must remember that the war carried on until 1975. It has understandably taken time for the country to recover from this.

Vietnam has followed a very similar path to development as China. They too experienced the limits of socialism without access to the capital and advanced education needed to develop the productive forces and have moved to a market socialist economy in order to resolve this key contradiction. This does not mean that the CPV are a bunch of “capitalist roaders”, just like the CPC are not a bunch of “capitalist roaders”.

A couple of important recent developments in Vietnam:

• In 2025, all substandard housing in the country was replaced free of charge to the owners, beating the target deadline of 2030.
• A level of bureaucracy (the district level) was completely eliminated from the CPV, giving more control to the commune level to manage their affairs and budgets. Things like bridge repairs can be handled immediately at the local level without the need for bureaucratic approval processes which can take multiple years.

It takes time to educate the masses and education is necessary in order to decentralize and reduce bureaucracy. This is what is happening now in Vietnam and it is unlocking the potential for the country to further develop its productive forces just as happened in China.

Vietnam has always stood in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Their stance on this matter has not changed.

Kkklana LMao

I don’t think it’s lazy. This is a common thread that weaves throughout the entire history of European colonialism. Their racist ideology repeatedly causes them to underestimate their enemy. In the case of Iran, this has reached a completely new level of absurdity.

Combine this with the empire’s decline and we’re witnessing a defeat the scale of which the US has never before experienced. Trump is the perfect embodiment of this arrogance.

استکبار

Estekbâr (Persian: استکبار, from Arabic: اِسْتِکْبار) is a Persian noun meaning arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, or vainglory.

I don’t know either lol. Cute though :)

I went searching for the full resolution image and found the official release from Hubble. The article is recent, but the image is dated 2024. I guess they just had it hanging around for a couple of years.

https://esahubble.org/news/heic2607/

Have a nice week! ʕ̯•͡ˑ͓•̯᷅ʔ

Klarna at the pump!

I’ve been using the “nightly build” for a while and love it. The Libredirect integration is killer!

Asked by a reporter why the U.S. didn’t tell Japan or other allies about its decision to strike Iran before it did so, the president said: “We went in very hard and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? OK, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

Classic Trump. Might be the funniest thing he’s said his entire second term.

I think you mean Greater Kerala 👀

As of writing, the price of a barrel of oil from Oman is $153. This is much closer to reality than Brent Crude which, as I understand it, is a futures contract and vulnerable to market manipulation and speculation. $200 per barrel isn’t that far off. Even if the war ended tomorrow, we could still see this happen since it takes time to ramp up production again and a lot of infrastructure has already been damaged or completely destroyed.