Pentagon Spending Crisis: Billion Dollar Weapons Lose to Simple Tunnel Networks
The 2025 strikes on Iran revealed a uncomfortable truth: America's most advanced weapons are no match for simple tunnel networks. This analysis explores how underground warfare—from Hamas's Gaza labyrinth to Ukraine's defensive tunnels—is systematically neutralizing high-tech military superiority. A superpower built on technological dominance faces an ancient defensive strategy it cannot overcome.
Tariff Isn’t A Dirty Word; Wars With Iran and China Are Inherently Unwinnable
For years, China has led the world into a fairer trade system through huge investments in soft power capital. Through the creation of BRICS, China and its partners proved that the days of the IMF and US-dominated trade agreements are over, that a nation need not sell the soul of its people to Western companies and US dollars. This is why we do not stand a chance in a trade war with China. Where our international trade policy is based on whims from different Capitalist administrations and their benefactors, China’s is based on a scientific, practiced understanding of how global trade politics work; where we have a stable of supplicant stooges, they have the brightest minds in economics who have trained in the best universities across the world. The likes of speculators like Elon Musk, Peter Navarro, or Scott Bessent are no match for a purpose-built national policy aimed against the antics of them and their ilk.
The Trade Wars Are Here, And It’s Worse Than We Thought
What many of us had long suspected has been ultimately proven correct, and as the trade war begins in earnest we will all begin to see just how insidious these tariffs will be in our every day lives. US oil companies export premium crude abroad for outrageous profits in less-developed countries, meanwhile importing cheap, sour crude for more rigorous refining at a profit at home. Do you believe that increased US oil drilling will lead to cheaper prices here, or larger profits for the oil oligarchy? Will US manufacturers lower prices for Americans or simply destroy/restrict their products to stretch out their always unreachable profit goals? Do you have the $1200/year that these tariffs are expected to cost US consumers? Can you spare $100/month to make the US administration feel good about itself?
Occupied Palestine = Slaveholder America
The dream of the Zionist is an ahistorical Palestine that they can romanticize into a brave, but anachronistic people who were minor elements in the Manifest Destiny of an Israel that occupies all the land “between the Sea and the Jordan.” Now the occupying power has been forced into a choice, reaping the gruesome rewards of their hybrid reservation-plantation system of exploitation; seeing that the only way to ensure their dominance in the region, to halt resistance to their injustice, is to eradicate the indigenous population entirely through either bombs, poison, or exile into the Sinai Peninsula.
Iran Is The Only Adult In The Room
While Israel and its Western allies resort to reckless escalation and violations of international law, Iran has emerged as the region's most measured actor. Tehran's restrained response to Israel's assassination of Iranian officials—targeting only military installations while avoiding civilian casualties—stands in stark contrast to the West's decades-long pattern of unchecked aggression. As the Biden administration continues arming proxy conflicts while preaching peace, Iran alone demonstrates the diplomatic maturity the situation demands.
Terrorism in Russia is Nothing Special, or Surprising
The fact is that terror like that seen today in Russia is no different than that seen anywhere else the roots of imperialism have begun to suck the ground dry; places like Prague, Serbia, and Germany saw in 2023 alone just the same impacts as Moscow today. At home, do I need to provide examples of the nationalistic hate that is flooding our society with violence? I’m sure we can all name at least 3.
TikTok, Trade Protectionism, and You.
It is ironic, of course, that our great Capitalist nation, the bastion of industry and free competition, has resorted to the tactics of the dreaded “socialist" to maintain their power; doing as they always do and cherry-picking the policies that they think work best for their own interests while remaining wholly blind to the inconsistencies of their logic.