Even AI slop is upvoted as long as it keeps the copium flowing.
The "muslim world" isn't going to collapse because a bunch of inbred aristocrats in the Gulf lose their ability to buy expensive escorts, Ferraris and Luis Vuitton bags.
This 'crown prince' is a retarded dusty clown light-years away from internal Iranian elites. He's making a quick buck while he has a chance and I don't understand why people keep posting this shit like it matters.
The only thing that ever decides anything are the decisions among internal elites. And what sort of fighting goes on in those circles isn't something you can find on X unless there is an actual insider posting actually truthful information, which no one would do.
Every country has a deep state. It has all the power. This deep state isn't a monolith.
France cannot rely on the US.
Seems like half the posts here are "this is Trump showing the EU that they have to rely on themselves" and the other half outraged that some country is doing it's own thing.
It's one or the other. Choose.
If you cannot rely on the American hard-power foundation, that means that the foundation doesn't exist defacto.
Which means things are going to change for the better in the long term. But let's not pretend that the foundation exists when it doesn't
The real problem is unproductive rent-seeking. Pure capitalism would mostly solve it only in theory. In actual reality, what we see everywhere in all systems is the growth of a parasite elite.
In socialist systems this parasite grows much quicker by design (socialism puts parasites first by decree).
But the current banker class that financialized away the awesome might of US industry are the same sort of parasite