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rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
Americans: we elected the blue candidate, the evil red candidate is no more!
The global south: my country was bombed and my family was killed under every color of candidates you elect.
Americans: ohh my gooooddffd stop ruining my funnn it was differentrtt back then🙄 🙄🙄🙄
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
“Why do you care about our politics?”
Because you park 750 bases in 80 countries, bomb whoever you want, sanction entire nations for sport, and then cry when the rest of the world has an opinion. Fuck off.
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rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
I never want to hear another American compare their media's malpractice to North Korean propaganda ever again. Westerners are more aggressively propagandized than any other population on earth.
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I remember Americans singing and dancing during their "No Kings" protests a few weeks ago. Now their leaders are considering a nuclear strike on Iran. They're probably going to sit this one out. What a bunch of jokers.
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
Americans who literally kidnapped the Venezuelan president to steal the Venezuelan People's oil, are accusing the Yemenis of plundering the revenues of the Yemeni people.
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
Americans bully every country on the planet and then tell everyone "they hate us for our freedom"
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
October 17th, 1961 Algerians in Paris wore their most expensive and best clothing. They dressed up and went to protest in the most respectable way. The French still didn’t seem them as worthy of respect or civilized. French police detained 12,000 of them and killed hundreds and threw their bodies in the river. Still no one was ever brought to justice. October 17, 2026 you have these right wingers complain how uncivilized the protestors are and that they’re looting and rioting.
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Pete Hegseth says a US military budget of nearly $1.5 trillion is “absolutely critical” to counter China – a “one-time generational investment” to “fully rebuild” the US military, with a new four-star Autonomous Warfare Command and drone swarms.
Does the US actually need to counter China? China is not a military threat to the US or anywhere else. It hasn’t fought a war in almost half a century. It doesn’t bomb other countries, overthrow their governments or occupy their territory. Its foreign policy rests on firm foundations of peaceful coexistence, non-interference, win-win cooperation, and dialogue.
The US, by contrast, has the largest military budget in world history, spending more than the next nine countries combined. Per capita, it spends about 20 times what China does. It has more than 800 overseas military bases, around 300 of them in the Asia-Pacific region, many of them arranged in a neat semicircle around China’s coast. It has nuclear-capable bombers in Guam, tens of thousands of troops in Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, and a navy that routinely patrols the Taiwan Strait. So who’s threatening whom?
What’s the US looking to build? Drone swarms and autonomous warfare for a Taiwan Strait “hellscape”. Hypersonics. The Golden Dome missile defence shield. Together, they add up to developing first-strike capacity: the ability to attack without fear of retaliation.
China, by contrast, has maintained an unconditional no-first-use policy since it tested its first nuclear weapon in 1964, along with a commitment never to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. Its military doctrine is “active defence”, the principle of “attack only after being attacked”.
Contrast the investment strategies of the US and China. In the same week Hegseth asks for $1.5 trillion to pursue hegemony, China is rolling out 25 trillion yuan in investment across its “six networks”: water, power grids, computing, communications, logistics, and urban pipelines. China’s investing in a bright future for its people, while the US invests in the apocalypse.
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
Again, most of you here simply cannot understand politics and governance because you lack historical consciousness.
First, you cannot wrap Singapore in the same colonial context as nations like India, Kenya, or Nigeria. Colonialism is fundamentally about invading and conquering a territory to extract natural resources and exploit cheap labor. For this reason, Singapore does not even qualify as a traditional extractive colony. It had virtually no natural resources, no agricultural hinterland, and no minerals to begin with. It was merely a mosquito-infested island with a negligible population. No imperial power was going to waste scarce capital building extractive logistics there because there was absolutely nothing to extract.
Singapore only became useful because the British Empire needed a strategic chokepoint to counter Dutch dominance over the spice trade and the Indonesian shipping routes. Because of this, unlike in India or Nigeria where the British built logistical networks solely to funnel looted resources from the interior to the periphery, Singapore actually received real, functional infrastructure. The British built massive warehouses to stockpile coal and station military fleets for their imperial campaigns in the region. To effectively counter the Dutch, they constructed world-class deep-water wharves, mechanized cranes, and extensive dry docks to service global shipping. Furthermore, Singapore was heavily fortified because Hong Kong was deemed too vulnerable and too close to the expanding Japanese Empire. Consequently, the British poured their imperial naval defense investments into Singapore instead. You simply cannot compare the brutal British subjugation and extraction of Indians, Nigerians, and Kenyans to the strategic militarization of Singapore.
Secondly, even after the British Empire dissolved and passed the imperial torch to Washington, Singapore's strategic usefulness in the Pacific continued to play a critical role in its economic development. During the height of the Vietnam War, Singapore served as a massive logistical staging ground for the American massacre of millions of Vietnamese. American oil majors literally built world-class refineries in Singapore specifically to process the aviation fuel needed for US warplanes dropping bombs on innocent Vietnamese villages. It was to Singapore that wounded US troops were flown for medical treatment. Singapore opened its doors so wide to the American war machine that, even after America lost the Vietnam War, US tech companies and defense contractors rewarded them by establishing manufacturing hubs and technology transfers in the country, which further accelerated their economic boom.
Today, Singapore has shifted its geopolitical posturing. It has transitioned from being a direct military outpost for Western empires into a premier money-laundering haven for corrupt global conglomerates. In fact, it is so deeply entrenched in corporate tax evasion and illicit financial flows that it is widely dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia." Singapore is exactly where you go to set up an offshore shell company to evade paying taxes in your home country. The state shields that stolen wealth from global regulators while happily taking its percentage.
I understand Singapore's true history, which is why no one can ever gaslight me into believing they attained their current level of development through sheer hard work and meritocracy alone.
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
bby girl this is not serious analysis, you are just propagandised 😭 “without American dominance there is chaos, mass death and barbarism” is literally the empire’s mythology about itself. you have mistaken the view from inside the palace for a description of the world.
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
Every liberal who has ever claimed that the U.S. doesn’t behave as an empire and cares about human rights owes me an apology I stg
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
🇺🇸🇮🇶 US "Troop Withdrawal" is not the Same as a "US Withdrawal"
1. US troops leaving Iraq are simply redeploying to safer positions within West Asia vis-a-vis Iran missile/drone strikes;
2. US administrative, economic, covert, & proxy networks are deeply embedded across Iraq and will not be withdrawn - exercising significant influence over Iraq - the US simply removed the most visible & vulnerable elements of US power as it continues its regional war on Iran;
3. When/if sovereign Iraqi interests and their allies begin uprooting these other aspects of US control, including oil revenue literally routed through the US - then positive change might be taking place;
4. The US under Biden likewise withdrew troops from Afghanistan during his administration - not a retreat from pursuit of global primacy, but preparations for larger & more dangerous conflict elsewhere including against Russia in Ukraine - US troops leaving Iraq are likely only part of a similar restructuring ahead of continued/escalated global war...
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that the UK's National Security Act, which MI5 just invoked here 👇 in relation to a Chinese research institute, goes WAY further than Hong Kong's National Security Law that the UK have spent years criticizing as "dystopian".
This case is very illustrative of this: MI5 just has to state with zero proof whatsoever - and they didn't provide any in this case - that an organisation is linked to a foreign intelligence service and, from that moment on, as per section 17 of the UK Act, accepting anything from them, money or even mere information, exposes you to up to 14 years in prison.
More dystopian still, according to the act, you can be prosecuted even if you never received a penny or never actually did a single thing for the organization: merely agreeing to accept something from them is enough.
And there is no minimum threshold for what counts: anything with "money's worth" qualifies.
So in this instance, say that you meet someone from this Chinese research institute at a conference and they offer you a coffee: under the UK's National Security Act merely saying "yes, sure" could, on paper, land you up to 10 years in prison, even if it turns out that the conference center doesn't serve coffee, and even if you had no idea about MI5's warning on this institute (according to the act, you "ought reasonably to know" since MI5's warning exists)!
But there's even worse: the act was significantly expanded this summer to also include restrictions on speech.
Which means that now, merely expressing an opinion supportive of an organisation the Home Secretary has "designated" can get you up to 14 years in prison, if done for a purpose you "ought reasonably to know" was prejudicial to the UK's safety or interests.
So say that Shabana Mahmood, the current Home Secretary, following up on MI5's warning, gets this Chinese institute added to the list of designated bodies. From then on, an academic who tweets to defend this institute - for instance saying that they contributed positively to UK research - could, on paper, be prosecuted for "expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive" of it, with up to 14 years in prison - on the theory that they "ought reasonably to know" that defending them was prejudicial to UK interests.
And the worst part is that, once an organisation is designated, the accusation behind it never has to be proven in your trial: the designation alone does the work. The designation itself only requires the Home Secretary to "reasonably believe" the MI5 accusation and Parliament to vote it through, and no court is ever asked to decide whether it's true. Which means that the intelligence behind it - or lack thereof - never has to be proven or even shown to you, the court or the public.
This all goes way beyond Hong Kong's National Security Law: for instance we just had the trial of Jimmy Lai where the prosecution had to prove beyond reasonable doubt, through witnesses and years of evidence, that he had lobbied foreign governments to act against China.
Under the UK's new regime, the foreign-power link just has to be asserted by the government and parliament, and in court this assertion is all that's required without a shred of evidence about it needed before the court.
By the way, I'm not making any of this up, you can read the National Security Act yourself here and see that everything I wrote is rigorously accurate: legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/202…
Breaking: MI5 has just issued an “espionage alert” accusing a Chinese institute of using British academics to spy on British AI research
The China General Technology Research Institute has “very strong ties” to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, its civilian intelligence and security service, MI5 says in the alert
“MI5 has identified that the primary purpose of CGTRI is to fund academic research that directly improves MSS technical capability for espionage,” the alert said
It added that security officials have identified more than 100 UK-linked academics who have contributed to CGTRI-funded projects, on topics including AI, cybersecurity, covert communications systems and steganography, the concealment of secret messages
“This activity supports MSS espionage, which poses a threat to UK national security,” the security service said
MI5 warns British academic institutions that they should review any collaboration with CGTRI and said that academics and university staff should be aware that following the alert, any future work with the institute could breach UK espionage laws
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
It’s so insane that NATO is still pushing the “we are just smol bean defensive alliance” line when Mark Rutte is out there boasting about how NATO partners made Operation Epic Fury possible and in the future Europe should be taking care of things “in their own backyard” like Iran and Yemen without Daddy America.
NATO spokesperson Alison Hart: “I can confirm that Russia sent a non-paper to Nato and that we have sent a response, noting that Nato is a defensive alliance and none of our activities or exercises pose a risk to any part of Russia. We strongly denounce the threat of force, including any irresponsible nuclear rhetoric.”
“Russia’s use of hybrid tactics is a sign of desperation. But we will not be dissuaded from our support to Ukraine. We have what it takes to defend every inch of Allied territory and remain strong, ready and able to counter any threat.”
rubyinthewild🇸🇬 retweeted
Always nice to have blunt force real-world confirmation of the extent of the influence the US still wields in the world, given people are *still* making appeals to 'local agency' when absolutely blatant colour revolutions erupt in the Global South. Like in Nepal...
