/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2845480
silence, algae

>>2845492
I disagree

>>2845481
A regional power turns into a middle power by defeating an established power. The parallels are obvious.

>>2845495
masochism

Might be the right time to share what Trump said two days ago with the Strait of KHAMÄÄÄS staying closed lol

>>2845497
Parallels to what

>>2845502
The Battle of Tsushima, the Russo-Japanese War.

>>2845481
Even an empire at the height of its power can fail to subdue an insurgency. In a sense there's no shame in it, since the basic tasks of counterinsurgency are often impossible to achieve regardless of a state's military might, economic power, or diplomatic influence. But failing to win a conventional conflict against a rival government is a definite sign of decline.

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>>2845380
Because "power-projection" is a joke. It's just threatening and bullying. It only works if people believe you are a loose cannon that will actually back up your threats. Then the countries that do like USA, Russia(USSR), keep getting BTFO anyways.

Like I was seeing someone saying about:
>China will take Taiwan and then their submarines will rule the seas and break American hegemony!
or something like that. Like if China just starts sailing their warships around the world more that means anything. Wouldn't matter if they sailed their ships to the Carribean. The major world powers won't start shooting at each other because they can't risk provoking an all out war.

>>2845497
Maybe stop trying to understand world politics by comparing it to early Victorian era world politics. Or maybe why limit yourself? I'm sure you can find some Bronze Age story to find parallels to. Maybe something in the Holy Bible even?

>>2845498
Projection, I’m not enjoying the slop, it’s inevitable, it’s like the weather or getting laid off

>>2845514
>inevitable
teleology

>>2845509
Obviously, America lost face and izzat and whatever, but that's been happening every day Trump has been in office regardless.

>>2845516
Yes, I’m not a postmodernist

>>2845517
>America lost face and izzat and whatever
India derangement syndrome

>>2845525
because I used a word?

>>2845509
>Maybe stop trying to understand world politics by comparing it to early Victorian era world politics. Or maybe why limit yourself? I'm sure you can find some Bronze Age story to find parallels to. Maybe something in the Holy Bible even?
The Russo-Japanese War was something that happened after the Victorian age. Russia's defeat gave further impetus to the revolutionaries in Russia in 1905, the one Big L called the "dress rehearsal" to the February and October Revolutions. The Japanese would go on to play a small, but important role in WWI and an outsized one in WW2. These are all one or two generations removed from living memory.

>>2845509
>Maybe stop trying to understand world politics by comparing it to early Victorian era world politics
ok then, the hormuz crisis is americas Suez Crisis. moron

>>2845384
"The problem of poverty is not that we are unable provide for the poor but that we are unable to satisfy the rich"- Treatler

>>2845540
the hormuz crisis is actually america's hormuz crisis
>ships stuck unable to provide for their sailors
>widespread oil panic prices
>larger attacking nation villainized and humiliated worldwide
>doesn't achieve any apparent objectives
there's some differences but the similarities are hard to miss

David Hearn had just finished a loop around Hains Point on Friday as part of a 52-mile bike ride when he swung by the Lincoln Memorial to see the refurbished Reflecting Pool for himself.

Noticing a piece of the new “American flag blue” liner that was partially detached from the pool bottom, Hearn said he reached into the water to see what it felt like. Moments later, as the Bethesda man prepared to leave, U.S. Park Police officers arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. He is scheduled to appear in D.C. Superior Court on July 9.

Hearn’s arrest ignited a social media flurry as President Donald Trump and his allies blamed the pool overhaul’s problems on administration opponents. Emily Miller, a conservative journalist, posted a 2 minute and 8 second video on X, which showed Hearn detained by two members of the National Guard and subsequently surrounded by Park Police officers.

“Man arrested for vandalizing Lincoln Reflecting Pool. He grabbed the hose that female National Park Service workers were using to clear the algae,” wrote Miller, who confirmed via text that she had filmed the encounter but declined to speak on the record.

In an interview Saturday, Hearn, 67, denied damaging government property and said he had never touched the hose, though he acknowledged that his bike tire may have.

“I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn said. “I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.”

Hearn, wearing biking gear and a helmet, can be seen in the video with his hands cuffed behind his back. Fragments of conversation are audible. But a pump operating in the background drowns out much of the exchange.

Asked to describe his actions, Hearn said: “I reached in there, and I was able to grab the end of that flapping piece, the already peeling piece. It was still attached to the bottom. I didn’t remove anything.”

Hearn is a three-time Olympian who competed in the canoe slalom. He won two world championships in whitewater racing before retiring from active competition in 2002.

The century-old Reflecting Pool has become controversial following the president’s decision to refurbish the concrete basin with a new liner. As government workers in recent days tried to combat an algae bloom in the reopened attraction, a new problem surfaced: chunks of the pool liner broke free.

A few hours after Miller’s video went public, the president in a late-night Truth Social post blamed “Radical Left Lunatics” for “Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool.” Trump promised the algae problem would be quickly resolved and other repairs made early next week.

The president also accused Jonathan Karl of ABC News, who has reported on the pool’s mounting problems, of “trying to rip the rubber off of the surface” of the pool.

Karl declined to comment.

In 1996, Park Police arrested Hearn for canoeing on the Potomac River after heavy rains left it near a record high. A federal judge dismissed charges of failing to obey a lawful order because the river where Hearn was canoeing is governed by Maryland not the federal government.

On Friday, Hearn said he was detained for almost five hours at a Park Police facility on Hains Point before being released shortly after 9 p.m. He was reunited with his bike and rode home.

>>2845554
They're literally deploying the national guard around the reflecting pool to stop people from touching it or taking pictures of it. Absolute clown country

Canadians plan chimpout against America.

Someone tell Haz and Maupin.

>>2845557
>waddle waddle waddle
Female soldiers are cyute!

>>2845557
look those fats.

americans are fat and eat burger.

>>2845557
>the distractions are just as stupid as the things we're distracting from
true

>>2845559
based

>>2845562
the people coming back from the world cup are going to be 100lbs heavier and suffer from withdrawal symptoms

based unions

>>2845557
skinniest natguards from san antonio

>>2845557
why do they walk like ducks

>>2845572
They're really bottom heavy

>>2845572
dummy thicc

>>2845569
Finally some good news, man

>>2845559
>Canadians jealous they can't have 4th of July BBQ with us
>Decide to have anti-4th of July BBQ
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>>2845569
good on em

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>>2844721
OOOOH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEEE

This psycho Ben Gvir was one of the top trends on twitter yesterday, but not a single one of the Zio media reported on it. Crazy how something can be one of the most talked about news stories of the day and they'll just pretend like it didn't happen.

Literally only The Hill:
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5931949-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-hezbollah-ben-gvir/
Aljazeera reported on the UK's response today:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/20/uk-condemns-israeli-minister-over-inflammatory-lebanon-remarks

>>2845587
>zionists protect zionism from scrutiny
fork found in kitchen

>>2845559
Based
>>2845581
We already have July 1st cunt
>>2845585
Fat chicks don't count.

>>2845572
FAT!

>>2844878
>maybe third worldists are right america doesnt deserve socialism just death.

No "Third-Worldists" are spooked westerners or glowies. That sentiment doesn't actually come from the actual victims of American imperialism but from embittered Westerners and/or glowies.

>>2845618
prove it

>>2845621
Name a third worldist party based in the third world.

>>2845618
prove it

>>2845307
Yeah and those "innovations" really aren't that impressive and the people who believe it to be so have been bamboozled by AI hype. I mean seriously a Military AI was foiled by people hiding in cardboard boxes for god's sake.

Like what >>2845290 said, so many CEOs and Government officials are failson retards who easily bought into the AI Hype.

>>2845621
>>2845630
Shut up bot. You just repeat the same bullshit. And like >>2845625 said, "Name a third worldist party that's actually based in the third world".

>>2845618
prove it

When Biden and the Dems pretended to be mad at Israel everyone knew they were lying. When the Republicans pull the same trick everyone is fooled. Explanation?