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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi had vowed to take revenge against Trump over Soleimani's killing. Iran released an animated video of former US President Donald Trump being targeted by a drone on a golf course. The video was showcased on Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's official site. I found this animation video very funny and laughed, the Iranian leadership has a very dark sense of humor when they feel an injustice was committed against them out of vanity and selfish reasons and that nobody has been held responsible or accountable for it or that they have been adequately compensated for it out of the inflicted trauma and pain.

In short, as far as I saw, it had and realized the intended effects by: 1. pissing off the right people 2. caught their attention and reminded them in a short-term memory historical amnesia atmosphere 3. was really humorous and entertainingly eye-catchy in the way it managed to execute* (no pun intended ) ) doing all of the aforementioned things above.

But in all due seriousness props for them for twisting the knickers of the MAGA people in the comments below with this in their feeling like their selected leader is invulnerable to kill with impunity or sent by God to do so - by demonstrating to them and showing them they could do tit for tat - less privileged stage Blue pissing of the hypocrisy of a more privileged stage Red/Blue and even some Orange in the right straight to the point no bullsh#t way, as I interpreted this.

Inshallah! So be it!

I just wrote several critical Twitter comments via an Anon profile emotionally triggered regarding the celebration of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Srpska entity within the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, calling out the illegal and worrisome secessionist behavior displayed on the official military parade in Banja Luka with Serbian state and republic flags being waved there instead of only the standard tricolor Republic of Srpska entity ones and the seeming striking parallels with German fascist 20th-century ideology of the citizens of that entity being treated and behaving the same as the Volksdeutsche with their waving of Republic of Serbia state flags and being redefined in the same fashion as the German Nazi state-defined all Germans living outside of Germany without German citizenship as being ,,culturally, spiritually and ethnically German" - Volksdeutsche (Nazi term coined in 1938 by Hitler) instead of up until then defined Auslandsdeutsche (''Germans abroad'') - and therefore eligible for becoming German citizens and becoming part of the new German Reich - the Volksgemeinschaft established across German borders (in the case of the Serbian government propaganda in the media that's reffered inconspiciously with a seemingly neutral branding attempt of a dangerous, poisonus thought terminating cliche of an ideological construction ('Verbemittel' as the Germans called it) to as ''the Serbian World'' or the ''serbische Welt'') - and the Serbian state in the Republic of Serbia is now approaching in the similar fashion to these Bosnian Serbs in Federal Bosnia as almost not yet explicitly defining them as - Volksserbische in Bosnia and elsewhere - but agatiting on that basis of it being their true homeland and mother state for their violent secession and unification with the Republic of Serbia - these things are not explicitly advocated and forced but floated around as ideas oftenly in the media explicitly or implicitly by the Bosniak Serb leadership or Serbian leadership here until the time is right for forwarding them into a plan and the moment for their execution. I deleted those comments on a news portal where I got the news of the events that took place on the anniversary afterward in act one can say of cautious self-censorship when I am not ready yet to engage with people openly with this in public with well-refined arguments and intellectual clarity and also because I didn't want to pick a fight with some closeminded rando who would find me forwarding parallels to such a proposition outrageous and would proceed to do ethnic gatekeeping and ethnic purity tests and questioning my loyalty to ''my'' country and state (the same indistinguishable thing in these people's critically unquestioning and taken for granted minds when they use the same monolithic term state in their everyday discourse and conversation) for me holding such an opinion and views about these upcoming and development of events, needless to say afterward an hour after that Avast Anti-Virus Program issues me a warning that my internet IP is vulnerable to being watched and data collected from it by government agencies since I don't have a VPN program installed. So I am wondering if I can ask am I being too paranoid about this and if Avast somehow noticed that I deleted the comment so it on that basis recommended the VPN to me as a part of a marketing ploy or is there real suspicion when I wrote something like that, that a government agency can track my IP, data and my location in Belgrade, as Avast warned me that it was vulnerable to outside exposure and that I should get a VPN deal via Avast and get that PayPal account with my Bank via my debit credit card so I can pay for the monthly fees of the maintenance that service up and running together with the fees of maintaining my foreign debit Credit Card and PayPal account since its worth the monthly cost if it ensures the protection of the privacy that my IP and that isn't being monitored or tracked to protect the privacy of my IP location if I want to freely comment my opinions and comments online on some websites without the risk of being tracked by some agency. Thanks for anyone for the energy in giving me advice on resolving this possible issue and what should I take into account when considering this decision for getting a VPN and covering the monthly fees of its yearly subscriptions! Much appreciated!

Thanks for recommending that also, I will definitely check it out!

Watch: current sitting Kazakhstan President Tokayev forwards a very questionable claim to the other council chair Presidents and PMs at the CSTO members official meeting called up because of the Kazakhstan Jan. protests and political crisis that there were 20 000 terrorists including foreigners at the protest and among the protestors but that there wasn't any evidence found to prove that there were this many of them since their comrades probably snuck into Kazakh morgues and stole their bodies (supposedly to resurrect them later using the dark arts of necromancy, that the terrorists mastered, so they can raise more Zombie terrorists to plague the country in the Kazakh Jan 2022 Zombie terrorist outbreak): Take a note also at the puzzled opened eyes look at 0:18 mark of the clip that Armenian PM Pashinyan is also giving him as if to convey through facial expression: ''Did I just hear that right? Is this guy really saying what he is saying?'' and then right after in the video he proceeds to swiftly raise his eyebrow as if to say convey with that expression to other parties at the meeting: ''Are we really going with this explanation/excuse at the end guys, really?''

Yeah, thank you for the recommendation that it is worth the monthly price with the benefits you receive in internet privacy and security if you are worried that your activity might be monitored and your data collected. Thanks also for recommending to check up on some Reddit forums regarding some questions I might want to check up on before I decide to get my CreditCard up and running and get a VPN deal with some provider. I am less worried about Big Tech companies since I am not a US citizen collecting my data through and despite the VPN, then my own current government agencies spying and monitoring on my online activity, e-mails, etc. and collecting data my personal data online because of my political views regarding the current situation in the country and where it is potentially headed in me able to safely call out their fascist behavior and system where ever I am at.

I couldn't tell for certain if I answered honestly and self-introspected enough and brought out all the memories that were perhaps murky or repressed on all the questions regarding my perceived childhood relationships with my mother who passed away and my father, though I can easily say that on the material/care front they both provided and focused on me a lot as a single male child and my father especially emotionally of being at least always there for me as a security and care guarantee when I was growing up even after my mother passed away when I was 7. For the relationship front, I've never been actually in any concrete romantic relationships ever in my life just flirted and had sympathies, platonic romantic feelings, and sexual attractions on/off to more or fewer degrees depending on the context and the passing of time towards a few girls I knew in my life but never actually engaged and formed an actual romantic relationship with the opposite sex, so on those questions I had to answer regarding on how I would hypothetically feel towards, expect and want from my hypothetical future partner so the questions I choose to think about and honestly try to answer as much as possible of how I feel towards certain propositions that were posed as questions happening within a relationship are not perhaps a 100% accurate representation of my actual personality in a relationship since it lacks the actual past or lived experience component of it. First Run: I got Anxious/Preoccupied but didn't get a graph representing the exact value and quantity of this relationship personality type on an X/Y axis after I did the test. I might redo a second run trying to answer more concentrated, honestly, and attune with my actual feelings when I unearth and express some more of my stuff from my memories and feelings towards the degrees of attachment and expectations and demands from relationships from myself and other people in the near future after I fill up my journal with entries about my thoughts and feelings regarding some subjects and topic relevant to my current life. One more Question: Does preoccupied in this test mean preoccupied with myself or in the potential would-be relationship?

Would you consider would it be useless or naive for someone not living in the US to readily take upon an internet security deal or a VPN from some other provider if one is suspicious that one's own online activity is being monitored by government agencies in his own country where he is currently located? I am asking because I am considering and pondering in my head is worth it now or relatively soon in this year to get a VPN subscription deal myself to protect my IP from my online activity being monitored by the government agencies in my own country.

Ik sometimes how it feels, I feel you, when watching Serbs and Bosnians and Croats do the same thing to each other as well, don't. Take care and worry about your own people and fight and hold your own government accountable, that is the best thing and most conscious thing you can do and any of us can do in any given situation, and only afterward then can we have the power to help others people abroad besides our own in a meaningful way. We dehumanize and kill each other because we don't really know ourselves and our own situation and how it came to be and therefore we don't understand and misunderstand others that are actually a part of us and aspects of our own deeply repressed selves when looking at reality objectively as a whole. We need to deeply understand and accept ourselves first, of who and what we actually are first, and only then can we love and understand others, but this can't come into being if we're forced to do this by some perverted, twisted and untruthful version of this imposed by others who also don't understand themselves and therefore us and do this for their own self-serving purposes and agendas for us to buy into so they can easily manipulate, control and dominate us. True love and understanding of other people is not forced upon but must come out naturally and organically out of our self-arrived insights, knowledge, understanding, and self-realization about the true nature of our relationship with them. In short, true love is not and can't be forced, it is therefore no longer love by that definition but forced bondage and dependency, it is naturally arrived at by the personal self-realization of the individual about the nature and origin of his relationships and reason he has formed them in the first place.

This is a Putin and Russian nationalist stage Blue government propaganda line of ''Malorossiya'' and ''Novorossiya'' about the people in Eastern Ukraine and Belarus, I just want to warn you that you are consciously or unconsciously repeating Russian government talking points why intervening in Ukraine is justified to them that has unpleasant and scary connotations for the people living in Western Ukraine and Ukraine as a whole. They see this as justifying a bellicose stance towards them in wanting to secede and reunify part of their country with the Russian state. Just warning you kind-heartedly and out of concern of the way you use or heard some phrases being often repeated or used in the media that they are actaully part of the ongoing Russian government propaganda campaign against Ukraine and part of its people and the Belarussian people also of why they shouldn't rise up or protest against their government.

Screwing up, due to entertainment distractions, online addictions, immaturity, perceived mental problems and turmoils, lack of experience in socializing and seizing opportunities and making good friends and later allies, and depressive episodes in finishing my studies in sociology and giving enough exams in it year after year and getting a BA degree in the field, but we shall see. All is not lost. I am 23 and I will be 24 in 6 months.

@hyruga @JosephKnecht I will have to definitely check out the remaining ones and write out notes on the remaining ones I have in mind, that I personally think I had the most trouble with, Sloth and Lust, after a break I took from this series. @hyruga This sounds like the survival efficient aspect to it that you are mentioning in relation to the cultivation of personal character and one's life's work and purpose, but in terms of spiritual development and advancement as a person, I think holding onto and repeating consciously or unconsciously the patterns of these 'thoughts' and 'states of being' as manifested in your life and your experience of it is tantamount to achieving greater results in self-introspection and self-understanding on some deeper metaphysical and epistemic levels. For example, the miss of Wrath that Hedges was talking about and discussing with Yusuf was aimed to point in ways how it manifests itself unconsciously in social groups and people as a form of possession, that they unconsciously approach other people and their lives from that state of their being and how it harms not only themselves but people around them in cultivating an unhealthy atmosphere and discourse around various topics and concerns of social importance and furthering and expanding the links in the chain of hurt, as Leo termed it, without forgiveness or in some way to find a way of letting go and purging that wrath. He was aiming to show these are deeply unconsciously manifested in people's beings and that anger is just the consequence of their outside manifestation with something that is deeply embedded and not settled from within. I understand your point since at the time of posting this I kinda felt in that paranoid way that if I don't stop succumbing or giving in to the temptation of these self-gratifying habits they will eventually lead to my self-annihilation, decay, decline, and eventual destruction, but since then I have tried to approach them using a more consciousness centered manner of how I feel about them and think about them and in a sort of trying to let that pass away, understand and have compassion and understanding for myself why do they manifest and are here in the first place and to slowly let go of it and ween myself of these habits during a prolonged period of being consciousness centered, abstinent, patient, understanding, pragmatic and purpose-driven for some other realistic goals and plans that I can realistically partially succeed by and achieve in the coming years in my life. In short, I have slightly let go of the dogmatist approach towards it and my understanding of my mistakes and faults up until this point and their origins , that you are warning me off as a piece of friendly advice, if my assessment is correct. I think Pride can be more or less present in the cultural programming in accordance and in regards to a certain level of dvlp or consciousness stage of the society you currently live in as demand from the nature and character of the ideology that is propagated and amplified in that said society for its citizens and how they should perceive and feel towards their collective identity and the society in which it is cultivated - wher is a fine line for example in a stage Blue society/country between patriotic feelings towards your nation of birth or origin and prideful national exclusionary close-minded ethnic narcissism and ignorant arrogance?

Hamza Yusuf: ‘'It’s a misnomer to call them deadly sins, because they are not really sins, they are states of being.’’ Chris Hedges: ‘’Well, Evagrius never called them ‘sins’ . Yusuf: He called them ‘thoughts’. Interesting and very helpful summation series I found via Chris Hedges covering all of the seven of the seven deadly 'sins' or 'thoughts' (there were actually originally eight according to the early Christian theologian, monk, mystic Evagrius - which included the Deadly Thought of 'Melancholy' or 'Self-Pity' or 'Self-Loathing' as the eighth one but later more mainstream church theologians like Saint Gregory excluded that one out) and their origins, theological, metaphyiscal, moral and ethical significance and their presence and manifestations in modern societies across the globe in an one hour interviews with each guest with theological expertise on the topic. ''Renovatio editor-in-chief Hamza Yusuf—conversing with scholars, leaders, and writers—explores one of religion’s most enduring conceptual frameworks, the Seven Deadly Sins. These conversations, filmed to capture their warmth and intimacy, shed light on how the sins manifest themselves within us, illustrate their devastating consequences on our culture, and elucidate their corresponding virtues for all of us who struggle with sin.'' I watched and compiled notes/transcript one the first one I watched which was the sixth one about Wrath which featured Chris Hedges as a guest and notes which I took from that episode on Wrath will post here in a Word Document and I will also post the link to the site where all the episodes of interviews on each of the seven sins are and will post subsequent notes I take and compile in my Word files of the other episodes that cover the remaining sins which are of relevance of me or I see as personal priority to contemplate on in my own life: On the Third Deadly 'Sin' or 'Thought' (as Evagrius calls them): WRATH. https://zaytuna.edu/renovatio/7-deadly-sins The Seven Deadly Sins WRATH - Hamza Yusuf.docx

Thanks for sharing this video from Second Thought, it was very educational and filled up on some of my blind spots and enriched some of my understanding regarding theory.

Serbian Fascism is on the rise here as well, war criminal Ratko Mladic murals painted on most places across the Capital and elsewhere in Serbia and Republika Srpska, also protected by government loyal and controlled police, from being removed by anti-fascist activists or ordinary local citizens and building apartment owners calling on cleaning service to their residential building where they were painted by hooligans connected with orgs connected with government and is a very traumatic and harmful genocidal figure for most Bosniaks or people of Muslim descent or background living here or in this region openly celebrated and displayed here as a war hero and whose legacy is being rewritten and historical revisionism being actively done to suit an ideological worldview is actively done by the government propaganda filled to the brim with former war profiteers also.

Nor did I claim that you were a part of the UK government just that there exist orgs, activists, and movements who you can help, make friends with, or support in order to bring into light your government shenanigans who you pay taxes to and whose economy you stimulate with whatever work you are doing into the light and for something about it to maybe be done or for something in it to change. That's what I claimed it could be done with the notion of taking action while criticizing others for not doing so, not directed at your personal character and lifestyle, etc. I Agree, and I misinterpreted your intentions and motives for helping improve the understanding, compassion, and communication of different people engaged in this thread then so I deeply apologize for that for making it sound with the way I phrased it that you feel that I personally attacked you and your character and your life's work. MB, apologies for this, indeed in this thread seemed that they started to get heated up and derailed.

For anyone interested in what led up to this Kazakhstan situation and international crisis, I recommend reading up on this. It is a Kazakh socialist's activists in Kazakhstan's perspective though but I found it had a lot of nuances to it and an interesting perspective on the causes and origins of this current situation: https://lefteast.org/a-color-revolution-or-a-working-class-uprising-an-interview-with-aynur-kurmanov-on-the-protests-in-kazakhstan/?fbclid=IwAR0JF6_S9WtBEqWP4ZW2eW68TPEBtFnbJpRpNYIxEJW69Umdq5uuO8ZWYwI ''The workers of Zhanaozen were the first to rise. An increase in the gas price served only as a trigger for the popular protests. After all, the mountain of social problems has been accumulating for years. Last fall, Kazakhstan was hit by a wave of inflation. It should be taken into account that products are imported to the Mangistau region and they have always been 2-3 times more expensive there. But on a wave of rising prices at the end of 2021, the cost of food rose even more, and substantially. We must also take into account that the West of the country is a region of solid unemployment. In the course of neoliberal reforms and privatization, most of the businesses there were shut down. The only sector that still works here are the oil producers. But for the most part, they are owned by foreign capital. Up to 70 percent of Kazakhstan oil are exported to western markets, most of the profits also go to foreign owners. There is practically no investment in the development of the region: it is an area of total poverty and poverty. And last year these enterprises began to undergo large-scale optimization. Jobs were cut, workers began to lose their salaries, bonuses, many enterprises have turned into just service companies. When in the Atyrau region the company Tengiz Oil fired 40 thousand workers at once, it became a real shock for the whole of Western Kazakhstan. The state did nothing to prevent such mass layoffs. And it should be understood, that one oil worker feeds 5-10 family members. The dismissal of a worker automatically condemns the whole family to starvation. There are no jobs here except for the oil sector and sectors that service its needs. Kazakhstan has actually built a raw-material model of capitalism. The population has accumulated a lot of social problems, there is a huge social stratification. The “middle class” is ruined, the real sector is destroyed. The uneven distribution of the national product has a considerable corruption component. Neoliberal reforms have all but eliminated the social safety net. And most likely, the owners of transnational corporations calculated – 5 million people are needed for servicing the “pipe”; the whole 18+ million Kazakh population is too much. And that’s why this revolt is anti-colonial in many ways. The causes of the current protests are rooted in the workings of capitalism: the price of liquefied gas really rose on electronic trades. There was a conspiracy of monopolists who benefited from exporting gas abroad, creating a shortage of it and an increase in gas prices on the domestic market. So they themselves provoked the riots. However, it should be noted that the current social explosion is directed against the whole policy of capitalist reforms that have been carried out over the last 30 years and their destructive results. This is not a Maidan, although many political analysts are trying to present it this way. Where did such amazing self-organization come from? This is the experience and tradition of the workers. Strikes have been shaking the Mangistau region since 2008, and the strike movement began back in the 2000s. Even without any input from the Communist Party or other leftist groups, there were constant demands to nationalize the oil companies. The workers simply saw with their own eyes what privatization and foreign capitalist takeover were leading to. In the course of these earlier demonstrations, they gained enormous experience in struggle and solidarity. The very life in the wilderness made people stick together. It was against this background that the working class and the rest of the population came together. The protests of the workers in Zhanoazen and Aktau then set the tone for other regions of the country. Yurts and tents, which protesters began to put up in the main squares of the cities, were not at all taken from the “Euromaidan” experience: they stood in the Mangastau Region during the local strikes last year. The population itself brought water and food for the protesters. In Kazakhstan today there is no legal opposition, the entire political field has been cleared. The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was the last to be liquidated in 2015. Only 7 pro-governmental parties remained. But there are plenty of NGOs working in the country, which actively cooperate with the authorities in promoting a pro-Western agenda. Their favorite topics: the famine of the 1930s, the rehabilitation of participants of the Basmachi movement and collaborators of World War II, and so on. NGOs also work on the development of nationalist movement, which in Kazakhstan is completely pro-government. Nationalists hold rallies against China and Russia which are sanctioned by the authorities. Back in 2017, a monument was erected in Kyzyl-Orda to Mustafa Chokai, the inspirer of the Turkestan legion of the Wehrmacht. Today, the state is radically revising history. The process has especially intensified after Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to the USA a few years ago. The pan-Turkic movement is also becoming more and more active. More recently, i[on the initiative of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Union of Turkic States was established in Istanbul on Nov. 12, 2021. Kazakhstan’s elite keeps its main assets in the West. That’s why the imperialistic states are absolutely not interested in the downfall of the present regime; it is already completely on their side. Nazarbayev’s resignation as president to head the Security Council was motivated by the desire to create the appearance of democracy, including to the West. In reality, he maintains full control over all the branches of power and only increased his power while at the same time completely avoiding responsibility. President Tokayev is a decorative figure, a pawn within the ruling family. Undoubtedly, the current protests can lead to some factions attempting a palace coup or similar actions. You can’t reduce everything to conspiracy theories. You shouldn’t idealize the current protest movement either. Yes, it is a grassroots social movement, with a pioneering role for workers, supported by the unemployed and other social groups. But there are very different forces at work in it, especially as workers do not have their own party, class trade unions, a clear program that fully meets their interests. The existing left-wing groups in Kazakhstan are more like circles and cannot seriously influence the course of events. Oligarchic and outside forces will try to appropriate and or at least use this movement for their own purposes. If it wins, the redistribution of property and open confrontation between various groups of the bourgeoisie, a “war of all against all,” will begin. But, in any case, the workers will be able to win certain freedoms and get new opportunities, including the creation of their own parties and independent trade unions, which will facilitate their struggle for their rights in the future.'' - this is the interview excerpt from the activist Aynur Kurmanov from that whole article in short if someone is only interested in reading his take on the causes of the whole situation there now.

How about you take some action and join an org, group, movement, or action calling into the independent investigation of actions of ''Tony Blair and Associates'' consultancy groups receiving millions of pounds (pardon dollars) from the former Kazakh autocratic president and his family that fled the country now into Dubai and joined with the former Afghan US puppet president, into the PR for covering the state crackdown and police brutality and massacres of Kazakh oil workers in the Zhaonzen massacre, the same workers that were now first on the firing lines to protest a sudden increase in the spike of not just gas prices but also other crucial living commodities prices because the government lift price control mechanism and state subsidies for domestic gas prices for regular Kazakh citizens and workers in order to leave it to the prices determined by the international market and because of the easing of electronic bidding reasons conducted mostly by Western oil companies who have large stakes and shares in the Kazakh state oil industries and have a large private oil industry there or for the Tory MPs to disclose from who have they received funds for book deals and PR firms writing favorably on the previous and ousted Kazakh autocratic government and president and what did they do with that money they received and they then stashed on their tax havens on the British Virgin Islands and later spent on what? or call on them to investigate and pressure by joining or donating to some group or org. pressuring the UK government into the investigation of the origin of the vast sum of money and funds of former president Nazarbayev's and families real estate empire worth 80 million pounds sitting in the UK I think you should stake into consideration what actions, education, and information you yourself can take but are not doing so and not going to immediately blame and moral grandstand to others who are suffering through this now for infecting everyone with their victim mindset in this thread when their own government's officials sources of economic power and wealth were propped up and protected by your own government officials https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/how-tony-blair-advised-former-kazakh-ruler-after-2011-uprising

Not your fault of course in the slightest I phrased it in a way that can be easily interpreted as intentionally directed antagonistic towards you as a person, not just your opinions, so it's my fault for approaching it in such an emotionally numb way in the first place and reacting to and responding to it from such a place that also had an effect in the way I phrased my thoughts. So I can apologize for that for stoking up that unnecessary emotional turmoil. Yeah, that's the problem I think on one part where people can find enough of the trustworthy spaces of people where they can openly talk about their intent and motives behind such bad phrase response and openly discuss from which part of their shadow or life experience it may unconsciously stem from them to have such a seeming strong opinionated, worded and emotional response coming off of them. Thanks for the compassion and understanding ?

@Danioover9000 The protests and fearlessness and radicalism of the people taking down the statues, making citizens arrests of military personnel protecting the regime, and storming the palaces of their former corrupt rulers are a good sight to see of people purging away their political apathy, fears, and exercising their inherent democratic power en mass but it led to not a good situation and precedent overall now with CSTO intervention. What's maybe worrying if one is to trust the assessments, opinions and predictions of socially deemed experts with expertise on the topic in relation to one's own mind is that this current unfortunate unfolding of events in Kazakhstan may embolden Russia and its proxies to launch its planned military intervention/invasion into Eastern Ukraine to severe it in half at the Dnieper River at approx the 4-minute mark in the video in the majority Russian speaking and friendly areas in late January or in the beginnings of February as this former senior Pentagon advisor and retired US Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor (and seeming Trump supporter/loyalist) seems to claim and forward a prediction about:

Why are you asking them for insight into the situation, they can be semi-enlightened at best into it, the real SAGE you should be asking about this is this meta-perspectivist:

I would also say that the Gulf States can't be so assured now of not having an attempt of a people's uprising happening to them as well sometimes soon over the undemocratic and authoritarian natures of their own governments seeing that it can happen to an oil-rich country such as Kazakhstan and that their own people might be inspired as well by this and see that it is possible to stage a successful uprising and revolution.

Oh, it's just 6, then where the hell have I read that there are more and just assumed have blurted out that random number 13 beforehand. Yeah, I get your point but the phrasing is still very double-standard and hypocritical in terms you see how the NATO alliance is reported, nowhere is it reported or explicitly stated that it is a US-led military alliance or stated or phrased that way that it is, in fact, a military alliance. And it can go beyond military organizations, you can see reporting of BRI, as being a China-led economic project and plan, phrased in the way that is somehow unwilling or imposed and not incentivized or voluntary on the part of the countries participating in it, to give an example. You can always detect with the way in which they accentuate either the word ''Russia" or ''Russian'', "China'' or "Chinese'' when reporting on something those countries are engaged in that it has our ''enemies'' or ''rivals'' tone slipped into it and New Cold War narrative atmosphere cultivation among the public and tinge slipped in every report reporting on an issue wherever those two are claimed to be featured as the ''usual suspects''.