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They’re a 90% Shia population with Sunni monarchs, who formed crowds to watch the first strikes on US bases, started rioting against security forces after the crackdown response and outlawing media of the attacks, and just yesterday recorded a patriot missile flying directly into a neighborhood and exploding. This feels like a real pressure cooker for the bahrainis, which would explain the intense escalation to the death penalty.

Also I imagine anyone living within a few square miles of a base in the region will realize there’s a chance their home could end up as the crater of a stray patriot missile.

sarcasm

Wiz Khalifa must be shitting himself at this point, Bahrainis were already forming crowds to cheer on the very first Iranian missile hits.

I believe it’s common for urban communes. The commune’s size depends on it’s location i.e. urban, rural, or small village. There’s a number of good articles about the communes in monthly review:

These communes bring together communal councils, elected representatives of 200-400 families in urban areas (and 20-50 families in rural areas), to manage social services and production in a self-sufficient manner. Currently, there are almost 50,000 registered communes in Venezuela, concentrated in the countryside and the sprawling urban barrios.

https://mronline.org/2022/12/06/what-is-the-future-of-venezuelas-communes/

Kinda ironic because Israel claimed they had access to all of Iran’s CCTV cameras but produced no footage from the protests.

He seems to fall in the bucket of leaders who are status quo for peacetime but garbage for wartime. I don’t know how anyone could let that statement go out, they literally could not fight without hitting bases on gcc soil. It’s probably the most baseline condition to understand in the war…

These guys are blowing money out of their asses between shit like this, venezuela, tariff wars, ICE, the Iran war. I bet we’ll see more DOGE bullshit soon because of it, people are gonna go nuts this time around.

Ironic cause I’ve seen ice use their face scanning app to try and intimidate people in real time by saying their name and asking about personal things, only to realize the app misidentified the person lol

Yeah plus casualties are still relatively low, there will undoubtedly be more war crimes like the school in Minab, and day 1 there was a nationwide protest movement.

IIRC HRANA were the ones claiming 40k killed in the protests, which is extremely high for a few days of police crackdown. Those are numbers seen in bombing campaigns, indiscriminate genocides, years long conflicts, etc.

Could be agricultural equipment / products, but who’s to say. I had a previous boss who ran a small trucking business and I remember a specific time in the car with him pissed on the phone because one of his drivers got stuck in the mud with a load during a drop off.

Yeah plus women don’t even have the right to drive, most of the population is foreign slaves brought in for construction and service jobs living in walled off ghettos to keep them out of sight, it’s insane.

Reading this jackasses unintelligible ramblings while hurtling toward ww3 and remembering his role in all this is such an insane feeling

I think there’s a chunk of diaspora + Iranians there that they are really trying to coax with Iran Intl, Pahlavi, and other media. A lot of these folks have thrown rationality out the window for ideological fervor. I’ve already heard diaspora in this category say they believe the elementary school was actually bombed by the IRGC themselves, very similar to the first hospital bombings in Gaza being blamed on Hamas for those who remember.

It’s also worth noting their are overtones of MAGA and Zionism in the pahlavist groups. They have attacked the apartments of people with Palestinian flags on their balconies, they wear MIGA hats and they chant supporting Trump and are still openly supporting the US/Israeli agression.

Yeah I kind of feel the same. The war powers vote is being delayed by Dems, the F-22s and EC-130h have been deployed… I have a hunch we might see it happen soon

Man I’ve seen a couple news pieces about people getting caught for conspiring to leak seemingly negligible stuff. I had no clue China allegedly got the f-22 and f-35 plans - and then got the guy who flew them and instructed pilots to come down and talk shop for 3 whole years. That’s insane!

I’ve seen a lot of talk that Arab monarchs are skating on thin ice. It sounds believable - they’re literal monarchs in the 21st century and Gaza seems to have forced some anti-imperial consciousness and contradictions to the forefront across the globe.

Top democrats are trying to stop the Iran war powers vote.

While some minority of dem electeds may want to prevent a war, the establishment / decision makers are silently pro-war and want to avoid going on the record. If they delay the vote they can conveniently feign opposition for their base after the deed is done.

Man definitely using that one in my next campaign lol

Yeah theyre definitely recording data to develop counters any time new stuff enters the equation, so i imagine that weighs heavily into the war planning.