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.

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.

The article is about political pressure, as I said, about accusing Israel critics of other crimes and thereby trying to shut them down.

Yes, criticising Israel is illegal as you have yourself just stated. The exact legal mechanism which the state uses does not change this.

On Friday, the Indian Express newspaper reported, opens new tab citing documents it had accessed, that the $21 million Trump referred to was disbursed to neighbouring Bangladesh, not India.

Honestly bigger news, given the recent events in Bangladesh.

The whole war was started because the Russians consider Ukraine in nato to be their red line, and the war was lost by Ukraine because the NATO leadership never seriously considered putting Ukraine in NATO if that meant direct war with Russia.

So no, it isn’t a realistic goal at all. The war ends only when either

1. The Ukrainian state collapses
2. A deal is made in which Ukraine does not join NATO
3. Ukraine pushes back Russian forces so much that they collapse the Russian government.

Scenario 2 seems to be the most likely outcome.

My brother/sister/comrade in christ, read the article this comments section is centered around.

Free speech gave the USA Trump.

Not at all. The things that Trump says are acceptable to the ruling class of America. Even without free speech (which the US doesn’t actually have), Trump would never be the victim of censorship laws.

I didn’t make the title. I just put the headline of the article as it was written.

Turns out it’s legal

Why would that be relevant?

The actual unique part about it is that China seems to be turning around the logic of encirclement on its head.

US allied forces periodically conduct similar exercises near the coast of China (with build up of weapons as well), using the justification that they can do whatever they want in international waters.

Even Australia sends helicopters and other military equipment off the Chinese coast. The Chinese have decided to give Australia a taste of its own medicine.

The German army’s battle-readiness is less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, military officials, lawmakers and defence experts told Reuters.

:)

If I was a lib and had to take this many Ls as they have taken starting 2022 I would also loose my mind.

Sending weapons, ammunition and equipment to Ukraine, as well as accelerating Germany’s own drills, took a toll on the available equipment, he said.

No shit sherlock. You choose to expend equipment now you have low equipment stocks. I’m flabbergasted.

a lack of a sense of urgency

Because there is no urgency. Nobody in the leaderships of any of the countries involved with Ukraine were under any illusion that Russia would invade and conquer Europe or some shit. This is further proof.

Defence ranks third after immigration and the state of the economy in what Germans see as the most pressing problems for the new government, according to a survey by public broadcaster ARD published in January.

Fuck this shithole libbed up population of loosers. Yeah I know that’s overly harsh and generalised, but the overwhelming spinelessness of the Europeans has completely worn my patience thin.

This would enable Germany to swiftly expand its troops to around 460,000 in the event of war - nearly double what it could muster today. “Given the casualty rates we are calculating with, the Bundeswehr will be bled out within months,” said CDU lawmaker Roderich Kiesewetter, who was a colonel in the German forces before turning to politics.

Openly calling for hundreds of thousands of Germans will die. Will the Germans resist in any way? No.

Smaller, radical parties AfD and BSW could potentially form a blocking minority of one third of the seats in parliament, and prevent agreement on new special funds to bankroll higher investment into the Bundeswehr.

If the AfD ends up doing harm reduction, it will definitely prove Stalin wrong. Social democracy is not the moderate wing of fascism, fascism is the moderate wing of social democracy.

The only Europmeans who have been taking this seriously are Poland and the Baltics, as they know the horrors of being under Russian occupation.

Ah the horrors of being freed from fascism and given actual social security nets with industrialization! How terrible! We noble westerners should increase our military spending to make sure these things never happen again.

We will defend the rising tide of fascism, genocide in the middle east, and crippling austerity to the last man standing!

China’s aerospace sector is advancing, and it’s not clear the recruitment has been specifically prompted by the discovery of the asteroid. SASTIND did not respond to requests for comment.

Absolute clickbait article