Sodium_nitride @ Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml

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With the amount this man flip flops, he could power a hundred MW generator. Although this is to be entirely expected for anyone who remembers Trump's first term.

I was told 6 months ago that capturing territory in Kursk would force Russia to the negotiating table and down voted when I predicted this would not happen.

For years, realist thinkers have been banished to academia or ignored. ...

Every single example of the "realists" in this paragraph have them being the ones telling politicians to avoid war and expansionism, the exact opposite of the "strong bullying the weak"! I think it is kind of insane how this is how "realism" is characterized in liberal media. And that too as a "strong bullying the weak" ideology! Liberals have unironically become full on bush-era Neo-cons.

George Kennan argued against NATO expansion in these pages in 1997, predicting that it would inflame Russian militarism and undermine Russian democracy.

Damn, I didn't know people predicted the Ukraine war that far in advance.

What’s brought about this turn? In part, it is insecurity, the motivation of all bullies.

Day 1041 of me painfully begging people to stop psychoanalyzing their enemies.

Even so, the United States and its allies are stronger than Team Russia and China if they stand together.

I'm beginning to think that when this author decries "realism", they think "realism" means "being in touch with reality".

While Mr. Trump embraces some elements of realism — giving in to the strong and sacrificing the weak — his tariff wars and threats against peaceful neighbors could end up being as costly as the military adventurism of the previous liberal order. Rajan Menon, a professor emeritus at the City College of New York, told me that people who expect the Trump administration “to follow the playbook of realism” by showing restraint “are going to get very disappointed.”

Other than the continued use of nonsense categories like "strong" and "weak", I actually agree with this paragraph.

After Athens sacked Melos, word of its brutality spread. Its allies turned against it. Athens lost the war. Noble ideas, it turns out, do matter.

I know nothing about the history of war but I would be surprised if this is how it actually played out.

About China, and I’ll try to word this as unbiased as I can, from what I’ve seen it’s not a state known for complete freedom of speech. In my country, some Chinese critics are harassed by “Chinese police stations” or radical lovers of china who seem to believe any critic is a death threat. In contrast, people from the country I’m from openly defy and mock ourselves (a bit too much if you ask me).

I'm not yothos, but the "freedom of speech" you guys have in the west should more accurately be called "the jester's privilege". You are allowed to say whatever you want, until what you are saying genuinely threatens the state or capital, in which case you get into legal trouble.

I've seen the police crack down on protests with my own eyes at my own university. I've seen the independent student media outlet we had get silenced, and have its editorial team disbanded and replaced because they criticized the university's policies. What does it matter that the students can mock their country and university when the actual avenues of power we had were suppressed? We know that nothing we say truly matters and we are powerless. So we laugh. We mock. It is the soothing balm we use to cope with the pain of knowing that our future is fucked. Our planet will burn and our societies will be overrun by fascists.

In China on the other hand, the government simply listens to the people, which is evident from both the speedy development of the country, the application of mass line methods and high approval ratings of the government. Having consistently high approval ratings of a government across decades is not something any western "democracy" could ever hope to brag about.

special asset krasnov

I love how libs spam their jokes so obnoxiously they stop being funny.

Would be against Ukrainian constitution to have elections under martial law, not to mention impossible to arrange or supervise.

The term dictator is used today to almost always mean that someone wasn't elected to the highest office of their country. Since Zelensky's term expired a while ago, he is a dictator in that literal sense. Arguing that his dictatorship is legal doesn't really matter.

What does matter is that for quite some time now, the average Ukrainian citizen has had no choice about the direction that the country should be going in, especially in regards to whether they should sue for peace right now or how to end the war.

Of course, that's discounting the obvious that bourgeois republics are not really democratic to begin with, but even from the standards of bourgeois democracy, Ukraine fails.

To have open borders requires a majority of people the be free to pass from them.

What's so special about 50%? Why not set the bar at 60% or 40%? Or 99% or 1%?

I think the real poetic justice would be for china to defeat the imperialists's strategy of distorting world markets to their benefit by resisting such distortions. Let the imperialists ruin the foundations of their own power. The capitalists will subvert market forces while socialists master them.

God I hope that the US doesn't somehow force the EU to import American agricultural products. Food safety is the one thing that the EU seems to actually do right.

What other countries? England? Germany? France? The industrial center has moved to China.

There are plenty of other countries with decent levels of industrial manufacturing in the global south. India, Brazil, Russia, Vietnam come immediately to mind. But that's besides the point, since by the time that the US collapses, more global south countries will join the ranks of moderately/highly industrialized countries.

It won’t be called America

Well, uh, the thing that comes after America would be helped by the rest of the world. America would be gone, but the land and the people won't be.

In order to further safeguard itself, Xu expects China to provide financial subsidies and tax breaks to the tariff-hit agriculture and manufacturing sectors.

Really hope this doesn't happen. There is no need for the Chinese to maintain such an extreme trade imbalance anymore. They shouldn't be wasting their resources to make exploitation by the imperialists (chronic net drain of resources from China to imperial core) easier.

The whole reason why they are winning is precisely because they are not trying to get other countries to bow before them.

Not really. In the scenario of the US no longer being the world empire, I don't see why the US couldn't enlist help from other countries to re-industrialize. It could rebuild industrial capacity and educational capacity in parallel if say, it imported capital from China. You could drastically cut down rebuilding times with a planned economy.

Lol even funnier

I don't know why you are being so obtuse. Aparantly, you can only be called an ally of america if you are being paraded around Washington or something.

Americans providing weapons and training doesn't count, because the structure for providing this isn't to your standards.

We’re currently more of a “global power” then they are.

There's a reason why the peace talks for Ukraine are between the US and Russia and the EU isn't invited. Nobody takes Europe seriously anymore. The only thing resembling global power that Europeans have is their remaining colonies.

Implying that Zelenksy has little support from Ukrainians by claiming he will be hung by his countrymen

No, he will be hung by the banderites and ultra nationalists regardless of how popular he is.

And even then, his popularity depends on the war going well, which it is not, so he will become much less popular at the end especially if he makes a bad deal (which the us will force on him).

CBSA officials seized some eight million grams of drugs compared to five million taken by U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) officials last year, government data shows.

Even when using SI units, Americans just have to make it weird somehow. 8 million grams? Who the hell uses grams like that? Just call it 8000 kilos or something

Ukraine didn't take peace deals throughout the war because they thought the Europeans and Americans had their backs, and would let them into NATO for security in the future.

Now the Ukrainians have lost hundreds of thousands of people, huge tracts of land, and are about to be looted so hard it will make the looting of Russia after the dissolution of the USSR look like a cake walk.

The Ukrainians fought for a lie. Rule no. 1 of geopolitics. NEVER trust the Europeans or Americans. They will always backstab you.