PPCC: Pisitófilos Creditófagos. Invierno 2025

[Saturio]

Kristi Noem destituida.

Pero le ha creado un cargo "Special Envoy for the Shield of Americas" que parece que tiene sede en Florida.

Supongo que para que no se ponga a bitchear.

[sudden and sharp]

El desternillante hermanamiento con los tuiteros turcos tras las amenazas de Trump: "No quedará un español calvo, es nuestro deber"
https://www.publico.es/tremending/desternillante-hermanamiento-tuiteros-espanoles-turcos-amenazas-trump-quedara-espanol-calvo-nuestro-deber.html


 

[AbiertoPorDemolicion]

Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU

Joder con el chino... (hay que ficharle para el foro)

5:54 right. Right? So let let me explain what I mean. Match you have a lot of people. Okay? When you have a lot of people, you
6:01 create a lot of inequality.
6:06 Why? Because there's competition for resources. There's too many people.
6:12 Okay? And this often leads to debt and slavery.
6:19 And as a result, your people become complacent, lazy, indifferent. They're
6:25 competing against each other. They really don't like the government. Okay? So, they're not that really that motivated
6:31 to do anything to work or to fight wars, but especially to fight wars. So, this
6:37 mass looks like looks like an advantage in the beginning, but over time it becomes a disadvantage. Right?

6:44 Organization um means an elite. The problem with this
6:51 is that over time the elite become parasites.
6:58 Why? Because the way the way they make their money is through rent seeking.
7:03 Rentseeking just means that you have power and you seek to monetize your
7:09 power by exploiting the mass. All right. So basically landlords
7:16 are a classic type of rentseeking elite and so they don't really work but they
7:23 make a lot of money because they own the land because they control all the resources because they control all the
7:28 capital and that forces the mass to go into slavery

7:35 The problem with this is that everyone everyone wants to be part of the elite and there are too many elite over time.
7:43 Okay. So even though you have elite the uh power is a zero sum game
7:49 it's a hierarchy and so this leads to the idea of elite

8:29 And that's what's happening in America today where the Democrats and the Republicans they hate each other. They
8:35 refuse to get along. It leads to political polarization. Okay. So another saying this is that an
8:43 empire over time becomes insular. They don't care about what happens outside the world. All they care about is what
8:49 happens in Washington DC and as a result um they make a lot of stupid mistakes.



!!!!Está hablando de las Clases Medias Extractivas!!! (y esta vez yo no he sido)

[Derby]

No hay plan.

https://www.ft.com/content/e24fec42-3fd1-4a53-bca8-59a1abd42395

Donald Trump has no ‘phase two’ plan for Iran war, says US senator

Intelligence committee member Mark Warner suggests administration has failed to outline next steps in briefings


Workers clear rubble from a damaged building in Tehran © Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

The Trump administration has given no indication that it has planned for the aftermath of its military campaign in Iran, a top senator briefed on the war aims has warned.

“I have never had, from any of the briefings, any description of what phase two would be,” said Virginia senator Mark Warner in an interview on Wednesday.

As the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, Warner is a member of the “gang of eight”, a select group of congressional leaders who receive high-level intelligence briefings on major national security matters.

His warning comes against the backdrop of a widening war, as Iran and its proxy groups in the Middle East have rained down hundreds of missiles and drones on Israel and Gulf states, targeting US embassies and military bases, energy infrastructure and hotels in retaliation for an expansive bombing campaign by the US and Israel.

Secretary of state Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe briefed the group — which includes lawmakers from both chambers of Congress and both political parties — three days before Donald Trump ordered the start of the US war on Iran. Rubio, who was previously the top Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, called each member of the gang of eight again shortly after the assault began in the early hours of Saturday.


Senator Mark Warner said he ‘never had, from any of the briefings, any description of what phase two would be’ © Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg

Before an Israeli bomb killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, the US intelligence community had spent years contemplating what would take his place if he or the Iranian regime fell, Warner said.

“We’ve been asking for years, including Marco when he was on the committee: ‘OK, if they’re gone, who’s next?’” Warner said of the future shape of the Iranian regime. “And the general sense was: it could be worse.”

An effort by Democratic lawmakers to stop Trump from taking further military action in Iran without congressional approval failed in the Senate on Wednesday, after all but one Republican senator voted against a war powers resolution intended to rein in the president’s power.

But Republicans on Capitol Hill have also privately expressed scepticism about the administration’s decision-making and questioned whether the White House sufficiently contemplated an endgame or anticipated the repercussions of the fight they started.

“If we bomb, disrupt and exit, there is no telling what could happen over the course of the summer,” said one Republican member of Congress, who added they were “worried” about a possible “doomsday” scenario of retaliation from Tehran and its proxies.

“I don’t know that the administration could have possibly thought it through,” the lawmaker said.

The five-day war has brought the shipping route to the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz to a near-standstill and severely disrupted air traffic in the region. The onslaught of Iranian missiles and drones in nearby countries has meanwhile spurred the US to urge the evacuation of its citizens from the entire region, with limited means available to them.


The war has severely disrupted air traffic in the region © Jakub Gavalak/EPA/Shutterstock

Trump had initially threatened to attack Iran in January, to bring “help” to nationwide protesters there, as the regime cracked down on nationwide demonstrations and killed thousands of people. A day into the aerial bombardment this week, Trump announced that he had fulfilled that promise.

Even if the intensive bombing of Iran kills most of the regime leadership, analysts say a regime change via aerial bombardment is unlikely to succeed and impossible to control.

Consecutive US administrations have maintained only a weak understanding of the alternative powers inside Iran, where the regime has brutally suppressed its opposition for decades.

“One of the concerns that we’ve had is not having a lot of visibility into the Iranian resistance,” Warner said. The US has had “to rely on our Israeli allies” for that intelligence. And while some of Washington’s European allies have maintained diplomatic missions in Iran, and valuable insights into the country’s internal dynamics, “I’m not sure how much of that is being fully shared” with the Trump administration at this point, Warner said.

Administration officials have said in recent days that their objectives are to destroy what might remain of Iran’s nuclear capabilities and their ballistic missile stockpiles and to prevent the regime from threatening other countries, whether by weapons or by proxy groups. But lawmakers are unsure how the administration will measure that.

Defence secretary Pete Hegseth has said repeatedly that the US and Israel “will have complete dominance of the skies”, said Warner. “Does that mean bombing them back to the Stone Age? Is this taking out all command and control? Is it taking out the grid and utility system? I don’t know.”

Warner is quick to assert that he is “as firm a supporter of Israel as anybody on the Democratic side”.

“The [assassinated] supreme leader [Ali Khamenei] is a bad guy. I’m not going to shed any tears,” Warner added. And Khamenei was “obsessed” with Iran’s nuclear programme. But the irony “is that he was the person that was restraining any kind of weaponisation”, Warner said.

Hegseth told reporters on Wednesday that the military operation has no fixed timeline and no predictable end date. “You can say four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three,” he said at a news conference. “Ultimately, we set the pace and the tempo.”

[asustadísimos]

[https://youtu.be/KEMry1onKlo?t=1283
China sí está en la guerra.]