yeah exactly

You have to remember that the regimes in Europe are not actually representative of the public opinion. They’re deeply unpopular polling under 20% in France, Germany, and UK which are the major European powers. And as the energy crisis hits, Europe might actually enter revolutionary conditions. The standard of living is collapsing, everybody can see how the wars are destroying their standard of living, and how the US is raping Europe. The US is not winning in the court of public opinion in Europe in any sense.

And for the US, it’s difficult to say how it plays out, the question is going to be how the US manages to navigate its own economic crisis that’s now brewing. the economies of the vassals crashing will necessarily spill over as well as imports and exports become affected. So, that will feed into the domestic crisis as companies start shuttering and laying people off.

It’s certainly possible the US becomes a full on fascist dictatorship, but the big question is how it will manage material production. Trump’s attempt to reshore industry was a spectacular failure, and industrial base in the US is actually shrinking faster than before the tariff war. The US is also highly dependent on China for a lot of critical inputs like rare earths. And as the US retrenches, it’s going to lose much of its ability to extract labor and resources from the Global South.

Finally, should Iran prevail in West Asia, that could be the final blow as the US will lose control of the Gulf and petrodollar will be broken with shipments through Hormuz having to be settled in yuan.

I’ve also seen some people suggesting this actually, and honestly it’s starting to look plausible. The rescue narrative gets so much more interesting when you realize the pilot would’ve had to walk 172 km in a single day to get to the location from crash sight and other pilot. And the video of the jet getting shot down clearly shows they both ejected at the same time.

The two points on that Google Maps screenshot show the crash site of the downed F-15E in central Iran (lower black circle) and the location where the second crew member (weapons systems officer) was supposedly rescued by U.S. special forces (upper red pin near Shahrekord).

Seeing how unhinged Trump is and that he’s continued to escalate, I do think it’s more likely than not Iran will blow it up eventually.

kind of yeah, incidentally I experimented with a similar idea in a more restricted domain and it works pretty well https://lemmy.ml/post/41786590

No, nitrogen wasn’t lined up. This is a widely reported problem. It’s not a type of fertilizer that gets stored. And it’s not one section of one country, it’s majority of Gulf states at this point which accounts for roughly 20% of global supply. The issue isn’t even passage at this point, it’s that production has been shut down.

Meanwhile, US farmers are already seeing fertilizer shortages and fuel prices going up. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/business/fertilizer-prices-iran-war-farmers

Western interventions are a whole separate problem for developing countries. That doesn’t detract from food production issues in any way.

Hearing voices from Africa would be incredibly educational, especially for people in the west.

I’m guessing they’re gonna do it if the US attacks their infrastructure further. They’re using the threat as leverage.

Perhaps in the US, but China is starting to rival US media on the global stage, it’s far more important economically, and it’s not starting constant wars around the world. I really can’t see how the US image recovers at this point.

Basically, the idea is to use a symbolic logic engine within a dynamic context created by the LLM. Traditionally, the problem with symbolic AI has been with creating the ontologies. You obviously can’t have a comprehensive ontology of the world because it’s inherently context dependent, and you have an infinite number of ways you can contextualize things. What neurosymbolics does is use LLMs for what they are good at, which is classifying noisy data from the outside world, and building a dynamic context. Once that’s done, it’s perfectly possible to use a logic engine to solve problems within that context.

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O7

we might actually start dealing with the climate crisis in a meaningful way

It’s not gonna be that long. The planting season is happening right now, and we’ll see the effects of that by summer and fall. And if there’s still shortage by next planting season, then we’re entering a structural shortage. The LNG plants are going to take years to repair, so this isn’t a blip as you put it.

And you’re right that some regions like the west overproduce and throw out food. Here, it will be possible to be less wasteful if the governments step in. However, some developing countries will have genuine shortages.

Basically, the dynamic has been that the US used its massive global media penetration to push its propaganda. Today, Chinese media is starting to break out globally creating a counterbalance to the American narrative. And at the same time, American image is starting to visibly crack first in Gaza and now in Iran. I’d argue the trend is now irreversible. China is in a great position to demonstrate leadership during the economic crisis, and its solar panels, batteries, and EVs will be salvation for many countries.

Iran has already demonstrated that the US has pretty much zero ability to intercept their missiles. An interview with an expert on the subject if you’re interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN1cp0dYTDc

Do you ever get tired of being wrong, maybe try a bit of research before you open your mouth. Almost 50% of EU electricity generation in 2024 was from renewables.

This is what’s called lying by omission kiddo. Let’s just look at the total energy mix, and it’s a very different picture isn’t it https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/interactive-publications/energy-2025

if they want to sell to the EU the rules apply and China is relying heavily on increasing EU trade now that the USA has tariffs on China.

LMAO that’s not how it works Einstein. The idiots in EU can do idiot things inside the EU. They don’t get to tell Chinese people how to live. But yes, you can certainly cut yourself off from the biggest industrial economy in the world and see how that works out for you.

Chinese people’s high relative wealth is due to high property ownership rates in the country, about 90%. The people in China only actually own the buildingz the government owns all the land, leasing it out for 70 years at a time with no guarantee of renewal. In Ireland I own my house and the ground under it until I sell it.

Oh man, wait till you learn about eminent domain. It’s gonna blow your mind. https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/losing-your-home-and-homelessness/compulsory-purchase-of-property/#5bb406

Incorrect again my friend, the UN votes on the Russian war proves this. Not even China votes to support Russia, they typically abstain like the cowards they are.

• https://usrussiaaccord.org/acura-viewpoint-krishen-mehta-the-ukraine-war-viewed-from-the-global-south/
• https://archive.is/2023.02.23-211202/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/23/world/russia-ukraine-geopolitics.html
• https://archive.ph/4kbWG
• https://www.eiu.com/n/russias-pockets-of-support-are-growing-in-the-developing-world/

Try to put more effort into our trolling not to make it so transparent lol. Have a great day buddy.

It would be like the single most popular thing the Iran could do at this point.

I mean what are they gonna do, move the data center out of strike range?