@503bartley @cstross @ianbetteridge Say what you will about the sovereign medium-sized powers outside the NATO/Zionist consensus—Brazil swings back and forth, and it sure is hard to cheer for Russia, China, Iran, India.... But it is important to the world for them to present an epistemic alternative to the neoliberal psyops juggernaut.

Which is why Putin's Ukraine and Trump's Iran are such astonishing strategic blunders. Breathtaking stupidity almost to match the appalling criminality.