Temporarily ungagged Grok seemed to know

So free markets are a terrible idea now and countries practicing import substitution weren’t impoverishing their people.

US hypocrisy at it’s finest.

you’re preaching to the choir here.

It’s all fun and games until people stop using your currency to buy oil.

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Imperialism, so hot right now.

Some liberals don’t even think there’s a problem. They think movements like MAGA and Brexit are just low information voters being riled up by algorithms and populists.

Hopefully they’re not Hasbara bots

Can anyone recommend this? Is the camera any good?

It’s easy to think that the Middle East is chaotic because of what’s going on now but the region was at peace for over 500 years under Ottoman Rule.

Western Imperialism and Israel are the reason the region is a mess.

The British handed over Palestine to the UN. There would be no UN if Germany won. The UK might have just handed over Palestine to a local friendly Arab monarchy like Jordan

Germany was not interested in the Middle East. They wanted Lebensraum in Eastern Europe and Russia. The Gulf Monarchies would have sold them oil in the same way they have been doing to the US as hegemon. There may have been joint ventures like Saudi Aramco but there wouldn’t have been CIA coups and regime changes because there would be no Soviet threat.

Literally every problem in the Middle East stems from the Zionist colony established by the Western imperialists and the subsequent Cold War between the US and Soviet Union.

Assuming the Sykes Picot division held and pro Western monarchies in Iraq, Egypt and Iran remained in power, what reason would there be for military coups to depose Western monarchs? Without Soviet support and the threat of Israel, what would be propelling Arab nationalism in the 1950s?

The axis powers had very little interest in the Middle East prior to 1939. Hitler wanted Lebensraum in Russia and Italy was interested in Africa. There’s no reason to believe they would start wars in the region if the Gulf Monarchies were willing to sell them oil.

In this hypothetical reality, I’d imagine the Middle East would largely be run by monarchies, with deep ties to Germany and Italy.

The Middle East would be a lot more peaceful I can tell you that.

The article suggests the only way to avoid government shutdowns is through satellite internet which makes Starlink a lot more valuable.

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Same. There are one or two things that don’t work on Linux yet or are buggy so I have Windows on a separate drive. I hardly use it though.

Side order of “establish my proxy in the region as Imperial hegemon”

The only people making Iranians suffer at the moment are the Zionist fascists and their US proxies. They’ve already killed 1200 people in their unprovoked attack, including with terrorism and car bombs.

Don’t forget Trump telling the ENTIRE city of Tehran with a population the size of New York to “evacuate”

Installed Linux Mint a few months ago and have been dual booting. Hardly use Windows at all now.

Linux is exactly what an OS should be.