Demanding the PLA to go marching to Iran's aid of course would be silly but it's clear Iran is suffering a severe deficit in their air defense and are very much in a vulnerable position if no one steps to help them in that area at least. It's not going to stretch the US empire all that much if they decide to simply start wrecking havoc on Iran with B2 bombers. I don't think anyone who doesn't already hate China is going to be upset if they start sending Iran Pakistan level military aid.
Seems like they are trying to play good cop bad cop to the Democrats and sweet talk Russia into agreeing to the same empty one sided agreements that they have in the past. Even if Trump really is genuinely pro-Russia, Russophobia still runs deep in the US and his position to push for a true 180 with Russia is fragile. While it is mostly a democrat thing, it isn't like there isn't any Russophobic republicans, and while a decent amount of Americans might want to stop sending money to Ukraine, few actually have a positive view of Russia.
I think that Stalin might of understandably acquired a somewhat rose tinted view of the Western allies during their cooperation in WW2, then very quickly got reminded again who they were post war with Truman's actions, the rise of McCarthyism in the US, the sheltering and recruitment of former high ranking Nazis into NATO and so forth.
If Tibet isn't free because it's part of China then neither is any province, county, city, town etc. in any country ever. Guess we all ought to become anprims and do away with civilization altogether.
Geopolitics aside, China's location and densely populated coastline made it an ideal commercial shipping hub whereas the USSR/Russia's cross country logistics and sea routes are very cumbersome and awkward. China also had a massive spare labor force.
I know a friend who left his retail job to work in a coal mine here in the US. Unsurprisingly he didn't last long and went back to his same retail job.
Well then, round of applause to Finland and Sweden for making themselves obliged nuclear targets in the case where this person isn't just speaking sore loser bullshit.
The current German government vibe to me the same way as a bunch of upper corporate managers. Devoted to liberalism/capitalism like cult followers and happy to use their citizens the same way as wage slaves at a retail or fast food company.
It paints a much clearer view of history when you view the Axis's surrender to the western allies as being more of a realignment then a true surrender.
It means that some people on the nakedly pro-capitalist right don't understand that his social democratic positions are also defending the interest of capitalism and are the last line of defense against people taking actual socialist positions.
Bring it up to liberals and all you will get are the usual double standards. They'll bring up the Uyghur genocide as if it's a big gotcha revelation that everyone hasn't heard about at least 1000 times already, while simultaneously performing Olympic level mental gymnastics in order to explain why Israel's actions are actually benefitting Palestinians somehow. They are cheerleading the West like it is their favorite football team and will continue doing so until the absolute bitter end.
The liberal quantum superimposition. One moment are they berating your ideology for being violent and supposedly killing gazillions, the next moment they are outright calling for gazillions to be killed.
China got cut out of the list by a couple of spots, it's number 10 at 44.2%. The US is unsurprisingly low at 10.3% but France somehow managed to be lower at 8.9%.
Demanding the PLA to go marching to Iran's aid of course would be silly but it's clear Iran is suffering a severe deficit in their air defense and are very much in a vulnerable position if no one steps to help them in that area at least. It's not going to stretch the US empire all that much if they decide to simply start wrecking havoc on Iran with B2 bombers. I don't think anyone who doesn't already hate China is going to be upset if they start sending Iran Pakistan level military aid.