President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for limited strikes inside Russia in response to North Korea's deployment of thousands of troops to aid Moscow's war effort, according to two senior U.S. officials.
The easing of restrictions on allowing Kyiv to use the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, to hit targets inside Russia is a significant reversal in U.S. policy and comes as some 10,000 elite North Korean troops have been sent to Kursk, a region of Russia along Ukraine's northern border, to help Moscow's forces retake territory gained by Ukraine.
The Biden administration fears that more North Korean special forces units could follow in support of this effort.
The move precedes by two months the return to the White House of President-elect Donald Trump, who has signaled he intends to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, though without offering details of how he will do so.
One U.S. official said the move is in part aimed at deterring Pyongyang from sending more troops. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un must understand that the initial deployment has been a "costly" mistake, said the official, who like others interviewed for this story spoke on condition of anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity.
This is a good and dramaphilic move by Biden: Let Ukraine go hog wild for the next few months and Putin can't really do shit but hold on and wait for Trump's turn.
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The modern LGBT movement, regardless of your moral compass, is a glimpse of the ideal in a dystopian capitalist technocracy.
They signify the quintessential consumer, one who's identity is derived from the brands, movies, fashion, gay clubs etc. in a symbiotic relationship with the capitalist system, as opposed to previous organic identities derived from Tradition.
A trans person, for instance, is a being who lives, day to day, on a cocktail of hormone pills & ointments, whose life is punctuated suddenly by a series of violent surgical interventions, all designed to make of them a man or woman. This is the end of our civilizational narrative concerning the sexes (and indeed all identity).
Traditional, organic identities have been replaced by synthetic, disaggregated attributes (hormone level, facial structure, sexual organ etc.)
Now that man as such has been replaced in his war-making capacity by the genderless professional soldier (drone) & woman in her child-bearing capacity is to be replaced by the artificial womb, what are we left with but disembodied attributes?
This is in line with the nature of unfettered Capitalism. To unfettered capitalism, all forms of tradition and and identity are limits to commodification. It's nature is to take limits and turn them into barriers to overcome. Trying to maintain tradition or national identity within unfettered capitalism is like trying to force a river backwards.
Any anti capitalist movement needs to not only address the material aspects of capitalism like wealth inequality and exploitation, but also the meta narrative of hyper modernity itself, which has been brought forth by Capitalism.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/17/ukraine-russia-north-korea-atacms:
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