/u/skeletorsass was saying this earlier and seems to know more about it.
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Either that or instead of providing them with bulk info they just give them a root password and say have fun.
I am absolutely certain it is. Meta has an extensive history of collaborating with US and US allies intelligence.
EVAngelicals after Isreal starts a nuclear war:
Americans, is this a normal time to raise a flag? I'm not informed enough on your weird flagfucking rituals but it seems late in the day?
I posted this edit on a reply below
The reactionary countercurrent in 1989 was preceded by a series of failures in economic policy. Before the USSR's liberalization in the Gorbachev era there was already a (probably survivable) economic decline. Changes in trade policy, in particular the massive reduction of subsidies in 1985-1986 caused massive economic problems in the already struggling Comecon nations, who had largely based their economies around receiving these subsidies (particularly energy subsidies, their industries were massively energy-inefficient). You can see this in the periods in which structural adjustment started in most Soviet allies around the world (a lot of people don't seem to realize that most started 1986-1990). This economic decline led to larger public discontent thanks to widespread goods shortages (and is the real source of Poles pissing their pants screaming about shortages).
Additionally, there was the ideological component. If you're a communist ally of the USSR to the point of typically adopting their party line (as was the case in European socialist states), and the USSR just utterly internally capitulates ideologically, what the fuck do you do? The beacon of revolution is now saying they want to transition to social democracy. How do you maintain a strong face? Repudiating Stalin was ideologically problematic, but openly repudiating communism as a whole relegates communist parties to the trash.
The whole Soviet bloc was leaning on the USSR and couldn't stand independently without it. Some third world revolutionary states survived via structural adjustment. Cuba suffered greatly but managed to survive. China had distanced itself and became more autarkic and independent. The DPRK had as well, but not as dramatically. The other socialist states outside of the USSR's camp (Albania, Yugoslavia) were too dependent on their leader's personalities for socialism to survive without them.
I guess they would according to the nothing ever happens gang
Totalitarianism is when you don't roll over for America like a good dog and take care of your people instead
an indigenous man as the possible president of the court
I think a key thing to understand here is that while Pakistan is historically often in the US pocket, it still has its own interests and those are more existential than anything the US can offer/threaten. The fact that the US and Israel have been aggressively cozying up with India creates a fundamental contradiction for Pakistan that can't hold. The specifics of how it plays out this time are somewhat up in the air IMO, but there is a reckoning imminent regardless.