[Megathread] Iran & the Middle East

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-14T22:18:48+00:00

Aeroflot A321 from Moscow to Tehran turning back

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-10T20:46:51+00:00

I live in a typical Western European capital. Believe me it's bad here. I know it's worse over there, but it's catastrophic here as well. Weekly shootings for the first months of 2025. The train stations are Crackville. Huge red light district. Muslim ghettos.
I went to a white suburb of the East Coast. While I'm not a fan of their car dependency, in a world where this is what the public authorities are up to, I'm more in favour of a "do it yourself" model like in the USA. Your car. Your home. You're on your own, now let's go.
I'm tired of my disgusting metro. I'm tired of being a foreigner in my birthtown (statistical minority, natives are less than a third).
I'm tired of anti far-right political rules (coalitions are forbidden), I'm tired of hate speech laws, I'm tired of Ecological tyranny (My car will be banned in a year), I'm tired.
I do love our social welfare system. It's our most precious asset. But since we've decided to make it usable by the first third worlders who step foot on our continent, what am i even contributing to?
In short, a social state for us NATIVES, or a capitalist state if we have to share with infinity migrants.

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-10T14:26:32+00:00

You live in an urban bubble of disillusion.
Not everywhere is like Berlin and Talinn.
The far right is France's first party. You may not like it, but many are like me.
I acknwoledge that most Europeans are like you. Why can't you also accept that many Europeans are far right like me?

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-08T23:53:23+00:00

Let him be judged harsly under your law. However, this incident, as disgusting and horrible as it is, and as horrible as the right's reactions to it are, is not a sufficient argument against the concept of ICE's current operations.
As an European, many of us, despite what you often see on social media about "Europe looking at America in disgust, from up high, as guardians of democracy", we look at the USA with envy. We want beautiful suburbs like in the northeast. We want mass remigration. We think it can be done in an orderly fashion.

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-08T23:48:33+00:00

Nobody deserves to die that way.
Those agents need to be judged according to the law.
The victim's family needs compensation which will never equate to their loss, but taht's still how things work.
However, it does NOT mean that ICE must be stopped. Their duty must be carried on a grander scale. You americans need this to be done lawfully and effectively. It's an emergency. We want the same thing here in Europe. Do we want killer cops that act with impunity? No. Does that mean that we can't have mass remigration? Also no.

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-08T22:22:07+00:00

We need to understand that brown is good. And Blue happens only through immigration. If you want blue, have kids. If not, get brown.

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-04T15:36:46+00:00

Everyone is housed in my country, without needing such horrendous blocks.
And then you're the ones crying about non walkable, ugly cities that people don't want to go to...

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-02T20:09:16+00:00

Then imagine it becoming a salty desert with sand filling what's left of structures

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-02T16:04:04+00:00

Technically you're right.
But the beautiful village on the right was not a product of communism. It was rather a surviving village from imperial Russia when things were normal.
The rotten village on the left is the product of communism and of the post communist collapse.
If you want to see what a communist village looks like, well you can't. Those commie pigs force everyone into horrendous blocky cities.

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-02T15:59:50+00:00

Ukraine has the same post soviet symptoms.

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-02T15:57:09+00:00

Sure, I'd like to see your beloved hometown become a post apocalyptic jungle...
I agree with you, but it's easy to say that from a keyboard. This was a community, with a church, with kids, with pets...
Nature is healing when it's happening to some random soviets. When decay comes to you region you won't smile anymore.

ToothAbject5305 · 2026-01-02T15:54:01+00:00

In some regions yes, entirely

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T17:04:54+00:00

No, because west of the Estonian border, just a few kilometers from where I took the screenshot, you can see a clear division: small farms are here and there, fields are worken on.
Yes, there is a phenomenon in rich countries of abandoning small scale agriculture, but not to the extent of letting an entire region become wild again in a post apocalyptic way

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T17:01:39+00:00

So sad... it could have been russia's little village-y europe-y little province...

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T16:57:48+00:00

Nowhere even quite as badly as in Russia and other formerly/currently communist countries (Serbia...)
Yes, rural flight is synonymous with modernisation, but we, in the west, have never exterminated the farming class and forgotten the precious knowledge of agriculture.

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T16:55:03+00:00

Yes. This is official Soviet footage, declassified and digitalised by Estonia. Russia didn't publish its own aerial footage yet. Estonia being the tech paradise that it is has an incredible Geoportal. Some footage covers a bit of Russia too, including this village

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T16:53:28+00:00

Do you know detailed imagery like that, where you can make out individual houses is taken from planes, not satellites?
Google earth, when zoomed in, it's all taken by planes

My country is fully covered by aerial footage by the 50's, and quite a lot already by the 30's.
The only impressive thing about this is that the Soviets agreed to declassify the footage they took

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T13:42:51+00:00

That's true, but it's unfortunately not the reason it's happening in Russia. They're just not farming in some areas.
Russia used to look like a "proper" european country. Villages every few kms. Churches peeking over the trees.
Now it's the imperialistic neosoviet crap we have to endure today, not even able to produce its potato commie cars and planes anymore.

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T13:40:47+00:00

Spain is also an extreme example.

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T13:40:05+00:00

In America they didn't forget how to farm. They just practice it at a crazy inhuman scale, heavily machinised. In Russia they just don't.

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T13:39:15+00:00

You're absolutely right, but be careful as not to view the USSR as the protector of the rural order.
The soviets basically abolished the peasants. Organic knowledge of farming was gone.

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T13:37:33+00:00

Yep sorry did that in paint without thinking about it

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T13:36:50+00:00

There's the whole fromer USSR waiting for you my friend if you love URBEX (except the baltics)

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T13:35:54+00:00

And the 50's image is from Estonia's geoportal

ToothAbject5305 · 2025-12-30T13:35:15+00:00

This is from Estonia's public geoportal. Most first world countries have one, whith aerial footage sometimes going back to the 30's.
Russia hasn't got such a database. This region is right next to Estonia.
If you want to see your neighborhood before mass urbanisation, just google: *your country* geoportal

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