zephyreks @ zephyreks @programming.dev

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They pulled out of the Middle East and now need a new enemy to justify the defence budget.

Following the Second World War, they had the Soviet Union to blame and the War on Communism. Then it was the War on Terror. Now? Well... Now it's the War on China.

There's a video of a single Chinese guy whipping a single Kenyan guy who worked for the single Chinese guy's privately-owned restaurant in Kenya, for which the Chinese guy was fined KSh 3 million for. The same guy who had two other employees without work permits. Not exactly a good generalization of "Chinese" rather than just "shitty guy in general", nevermind of "China" as a country... And frankly it's a rather racist generalization.

China's Belt and Road aims primarily to build out infrastructure of developing countries so that their economy expands and they can buy more Chinese goods. Infrastructure is incredibly profitable, in general (each dollar spent on transportation is estimated to return something like four dollars in government returns). If infrastructure costs go down, returns go up: would you rather spend $10 billion on two dams or $20 billion on one dam and "oh look you ran out of money to build the second dam and your first dam is breaking because you didn't have experience and oh no you don't know how to fix it because you've never run into this problem before." That's the primary sell behind the Belt and Road: they're cheaper, they're less likely to fuck up, and if they fuck up China can audit the problem and fix it. You shouldn't be restricted in what infrastructure you can build by what you domestically have the capability for, because building domestic capability is extremely expensive and extremely time-consuming (and, well, let's just say that developing countries aren't called "developing" because they're swimming in money).

China doesn't profit off of exploiting resources extraction as much as it does off of manufacturing products. China's spent a lot of effort to make sure it's domestic supply chains are robust, but they're running out of room to export to the West. They have a strong incentive to make developing countries have stronger economies so they can buy more Chinese goods to grow China's economy. It's simple economics.

Buddy might want to look at the original comment. Is it only whataboutism if it's against white people? Sounds racist to me idk

Ah yes, because Reuters is clearly propaganda and is clearly only telling part of the truth to support the Kremlin narrative.

Armenian's been courting the West ever since Pashinyan took power. His entire campaign was basically courting the West.

Don't pull your revisionist history bullshit on me. Pashinyan led his country down this path and is now paying the price.

If the people in power are what they are, what does it matter what everyone else is? It implies that people in power don't get in power without selling themselves to corporate interests.

Turns out that when you ally yourself with the West, Russia doesn't see a reason to provide you with as much support as when you align with Russian interests. No way!

400 billion dollars and they didn't develop a post-ejection procedure.

Washington Post taking out of it's ass. Again.

What else is new?

This is good. India is more or less peaceful, other than some extrajudicial killings in foreign countries and slight wars of territorial expansion.

Reuters, truly some Kremlin propaganda.

The New York Times is Kremlin propaganda.

The video is public and so is the orientation of the camera. The missile came from the direction of Ukraine. If Russia has the capability of sending missiles that can literally pull a 180 degree midair turn, do you really think they'd use that on a market?

Foreign police stations? Nah...

How about foreign assassinations?

Then India and North Korea should be on the Security Council 🤷‍♀️

The entire US is built on corporate espionage of British secrets.

Corporate espionage is literally the way countries progress when disadvantaged. That doesn't mean that the less developed country can't criticize the more developed country for corporate espionage.

You shouldn't arrest children in a classroom with other children.

Who knows who could get hurt in such an altercation?

Most of the West is deeply neoliberal.

That sounds like humanity to me.

I'm happy to move over from programming.dev to lemmy.ml

India's too important for the West's aspirations to contain China, so if India decides to do some extrajudicial killings in an "ally" country that's just the cost of doing business.