Despite being a video-essay channel, this channel has good economic analysis of the conflict.

tl;dr current indicators suggest they will continue to increase production as they build domestic production to deal with sanctions, but if it continues for more than a couple more years, it will decrease 10 year growth projections.

Dick Cheney, aghast that Americans could allow someone as Islamophobic as Trump to represent them.

If you understand it as a trial where a president who has done something wrong is held accountable according to the law, then no that’s idealist nonsense.

If you understand it as a mechanism that allows 50+ senators to replace the president with the VP if they want to, yes.

Their role is entirely dependent on maintaining the cult of personality and calling for the blood of those who are accused of dysloyalty.

You’re not looking at this from a systemic perspective.

Their role is winning their own elections. Everything else must be secondary, since if it wasn’t they’d be replaced by someone else who does.

I’m talking about the people who run the machinery of the evil empire that turns the suffering and continued immiseration of billions into profits for the shareholders of the most destructive companies, I’m not under any impression that these people have morals I can recognize.

The US party system is extremely effective at keeping threats to capital out of power.

The country is 3 corporations in a trenchcoat. If Trump threatened the corporations those same republicans campaigns need to get elected, those republicans would have to either lose their seats or get rid of Trump.

How many of those senators depend on MIC lobbying to keep their seats?

There’s lines a president can’t cross, threatening the jobs 50+ senators is one of them.

Successfully removed from office, not the ceremonial bullshit the dems do for the aesthetic.

Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before?

In the US? The closest you’d get is JFK, if you think Allen Dulles was behind the assassination, and not just the coverup.

Outside the US? Constitutional coups after a country goes against US interests happen so frequently that it’s not even noteworthy.

What would that do, exactly?

Replace Trump with JD Vance, who I’m sure will be more amenable to the interests of the capitalist class.

Trump would be impeached if he tried. You think Raytheon and Boeing can’t buy enough congressmen to impeach him?

We are analyzing why Musk would get his business out of Taiwan. One possible reason is that Elon expects Trump to defend Taiwan, since either China not attacking or a very quick Chinese victory leave businesses largely intact.

The purpose of the western allies handing Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany and Poland was to enable Hitler and Poland to go after their stated enemy, the USSR.

This is why none of the western powers all broke or were unwilling to sign mutual defense pacts with the USSR, and France and the UK tried to join the winter war on the side of the axis, but were only stopped by Sweden denying them passage.

It does not apply here at all.

No, I’m not talking about the Russian occupation of Crimea, if you weren’t following the news back then, you can filter google news by year.

In 2014, we got a peace agreement in Ukraine and now, we have war

Minsk II agreement was never enforced, they were fighting literally until the day of the invasion.

But a stable peace would require the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine to go to Russia or an independent state, both the Russian and Ukrainian paramilitaries that started this to be disarmed and prosecuted for war crimes.

1991? When the US backed Yeltsin’s coup, causing the breakup of the USSR, the greatest non-war-related humanitarian disaster of the 20th century, and paved the way for Putin to come to power?

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That they have no intention of defending Taiwan would be my guess.

You’re reading this backwards; war would cut US interests in Taiwan. If anything, this is preparing for the US to try to defend Taiwan.

A war with China would not be good for American business interests in Taiwan.

It’s wild how unpopular peace in Ukraine is among liberals.

They’re joking, except in 2004, the republicans have lost every popular vote since 1988, so typically when the republicans win it’s a clear failure of democracy. This time the candidate with more votes actually did win.

It just speaks to how dogshit the Dem strategy of chasing the <10% of republicans who claimed they didn’t like Trump was.