AssassinsMace
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That music made it look like a Benny Hill skit.
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plawolf
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Literally the only good reason for having India in BRICS is the Russian delusion that it’s better having them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in. But the reality is that India is pissing and shitting all over the place inside the tent that it’s honestly hard to see them being able to make any bigger of a mess from the outside.
The big Indian arms buy from America might just be the last straw for the Russians, who were probably holding out hope to be able to score one last big order from them to help shore up their own domestic arms industry.
To be honest, it could be a massively beneficial thing for Russia to loose the last of its hopes for more lucrative foreign arms sales so that they finally swallow their pride and make wholesale purchases of Chinese arms to properly revamp their whole military.
That could be a massive boost to Russia’s MIC in the long run if they secure ToT as well, which they should be able to negotiate. As that massive tech upgrade would be similar to how all the Russian arms purchases China made in the 90s and 00s massively sped up China’s own military modernisation.
If the grand geopolitical trends continue and maybe even accelerate, China will need the Russians to be able to fully hold their own against NATO in Europe as a full partner, rather than being a liability needing the PLA to come and bail them out.
While the Russian ground forces are battle hardened in Ukraine, their air force and navy in particular needs major improvements across board, especially in 5th gens, AWACS and UCAVs for the air force, and modern air defence destroyers for the navy.
I think that is the only credible scenario where a ceasefire would make sense for Russia in Ukraine, where both sides pause the war and massively arm up for round 3.
AssassinsMace
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Time to see Unitree robots dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller or Beat it.
I don't think Ironclad has been right much.
As much I would enjoy seeing India getting kicked out from BRICS and replaced with a better I, it's probably not happening.
As much I would enjoy seeing India getting kicked out from BRICS and replaced with a better I, it's probably not happening.
I love how the delivery guy joined in as well.
I swear it’s doing rh peter Parker dance from Sam Raimi’s Spiderman 3
lol BRICS without Arab support? not even SCO can exist if Arabs turned against it. and this South Africa will get real treatment much beyond Qaddafi Libya. Arabs have alot of moderating influence on many countries but the opposite is also true. when Russia want to show things to Arabs they built separate pavilion outside the trade show in UAE and offcourse not every thing person can write but the direction of Soft Power is obvious.
Sadly it's not true, India is staying stuck in BRICS.
@tygyg1111 another channel that offers insights on India, not as funny as Mr. Hunzi though
Where doesn't China already employ most of these principles?
But they are not winning, no?
Okay so assume covid was a biological weapons attack by US. What was the covid that swept the west and India, killing orders of magnitudes more than in China and incurring much greater economic losses? Either China's counter bioweapon or a case of mustard gas being blown back into your own trench by the wind?
Either way, China successfully demolished a lot of hostiles in the covid saga with much less losses.
There are more middle easteners than ever in history handing over their economy, security and even lives in combat to help China.
No no no not people, NATO nationalists. Nazi inheritors. Not people. They don't "believe" it anymore than nazis believed concentration camps were resorts or that Soviets were the real antisemites. It's all just a tongue in cheek game for them, they know they are evil but make tongue in cheek references claiming others are worse.
China has the same expatriation rate to US as Germany. That's not very high, and as an academic nation, at least during peacetime, it makes sense that at least some students will engage with the other big names in academia.
You always need to ask yourself what is the cost of doing a particular influence operation. China isn't blindly spamming them because the government is accountable to the constituents(taxpayers). While the west throws shit at the wall and hope some sticks.
Yeah, together with salafists, they incited ISIS to attack Xinjiang, killing a few hundred Chinese. But at what cost? They lost that particular ISIS chapter wholesale, they boosted Xinjiang's safety and global standing, and now there are emboldened terrorists that have killed tens of thousands of westerners, even blatantly massacring soldiers and prisoners in Israel, the land the west views as a holy cow. And now the salafists are so cowed by China's display of strength, that various islamists are falling over themselves to make deals with China... Iran, Saudi, Qatar etc.
And in covid yes, they created some vaccine scepticism and managed to not let NATO countries at least become fully sinovac reliant, despite this being the gold standard. At the cost of millions of their own lives.
So you see everything has an associated cost and nothing is truly free. I'd bet that if China isn't doing a particular intel op, it's because China's actually functioning department of government efficiency is nixing it.