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Abominable

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Might sound harsh, but Russian culture/language in Central Asia is a national security danger for these (central asia) countries.

They have seen how Russia used the Russian-speaking populations in Ukraine to annex Crimea and create a frozen conflict in Eastern Ukraine.

The CA countries are alarmed by such development, which is why they try to quickly and forcibly promote their own language/culture.

Its the same problem that China has been facing for so many decades in SEA. ALL these countries have had their hands in blood to guard against the *possibility* of China using its diaspora to attack/influence them.

There is no solution to this for Russia. The more it intervenes and uses the protection of Russian speaking population as a pretext, the more its neighbours will try to remove Russian language/culture from their countries
There's a big difference between speaking Russian as a second language and considering yourself Russian. There are Russians in Ukraine who consider themselves Russian. Its different to a Kazakhstani or Armenian speaking Russian as a second language.

Kazakhstan used to have a lot of Russians. I believe at the dissolution of the USSR there were more Russians than Kazakhs. Most have left now.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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Just the largest: Japan functionally recognizing Taiwan, AUKUS, the EU white paper on China, etc

And the EU is doing export controls and foreign investment reviews, Japan is hosing US marines re: Taiwan (setting up a tripwire and guaranteeing American intervention), Australia flipping from FTA time to war time, etc, etc

The US is simply taking steps, from the world's most professional bureaucracy, to ensure a favorable political environment. Just like how the US told Europe in the 1980s to not do a Russian gas pipeline didn't mean the US-USSR power shifts were favorable to the USSR lol
Lol I don't know why you insist on gracing us with your butt worthy insights @sleepystudent. You're many iterations have met it's demise yet here you are popping up like weeds. You sure are a very persistent fella. It's interesting to see your efforts go to waste in trying to indoctrinate us with your Pax Americana and American inevitability along with the usual China will collapse soon posts as if these efforts are going to pay any dividends or even help your country achieving it's strategic objectives.

The current conflict will be long term and no one can foretell how things will unfold or even have any certitude on the actual outcome.

You're not here trying engage for an objective debate but more debasing the conversation due to your penchant for trolling and cherry picking the news and information to suit your narrative. If it was that easy to beat China then what's the concern. I mean, shit man, just sit back, chillax and smell the victory coffee already. Lol

For a supposed confident country and with such a hyperpartisan fellow like yourself you sure act super insecure.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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Very presumptuous to think American laws apply in Texas. It is mexican sovereign territory. We all know it.
I rather this come to pass to Wake up the delusional Chinese (that's still living in denial about American intentions and objectives) thar America only wants and wish the best for China let alone the Chinese people. They must understand that America seeks total domination and defacto subjugation of China since the Delano Roosevelts profited from the Opium trade and Truman was blamed for "losing China".
 

meldrion

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I think its difficult to compare leaders as they had very different jobs to do. Hu and Xiang were there to oversee a rapid build up of Wealth and Power and were not overly concerned by how it was achieved. Xi however is installed to oversee the perilous process of overtaking the USA as the worlds primary economy (and by extension power). The keys words to this are steadyness, stability and resilience and many of the measures we now see in the Chinese economy have the hallmarks of building resilience all over them.
100% agree. In China we have a saying that every generation have their own tasks 一代人有一代人的使命. I would be very surprised if Deng the “master engineer of reform and reopen” could not see the problems his reforms would cause, but obviously at the time he and his successors deemed development more important. In fact, I don’t think any society can emerge not ridden with corruption and other problems with that kind of rapid development for such a long time. At one point it was not very clear whether we could turn this ship around as planned and it was scary. Luckily, Xi does his tasks very well, and here we are. I don’t think corruption will ever be eliminated, but corruption as a common phenomenon in China is definitely left in the past.
 

james smith esq

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Many are saying that the Russian action in Kazakhstan has its roots in their action in Ukraine. However, if the reports of an internal power struggle are accurate, then it seems, to me, to more resemble their initial move into Afghanistan!
 

horse

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Many are saying that the Russian action in Kazakhstan has its roots in their action in Ukraine. However, if the reports of an internal power struggle are accurate, then it seems, to me, to more resemble their initial move into Afghanistan!

Family Feud.

:oops:

I thought this was sort of funny. :p


They even had a Chinese angle in there near the end.
 
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Phead128

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Moderator - World Affairs
Many are saying that the Russian action in Kazakhstan has its roots in their action in Ukraine. However, if the reports of an internal power struggle are accurate, then it seems, to me, to more resemble their initial move into Afghanistan!
Yea, sounds like typical former Soviet autocratic incompetence and power struggle. You can't blame everything on the CIA, although they do stick their finger in everyone's food (including HK and Taiwan).

Quite frankly, it's pretty startling that CSTO's first official foray is a police action in one of it's member states, RATHER than military intervening to protect Armenia from Azerbaijan. Such a weird organization. Basically like vassal-overlord relationship.
 

Aniah

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I am no expert with respect to certain capabilities of any one's countries military but I must say I like the look of Taiwanese military uniform and I quite prefer the looks it conveys better than their PLA counterparts. I don't know if the soldiers on this clip are part of a special group/forces but they seem to look more "polished" and "professional" not to mention that they look a more competent force because to my eyes they appear with a certain command attention (their vest looks thicker/more protection compared to the PLA) compared to the PLA minus the PAP. Am I talking out of my a...or what.

Every time I see something like this from the Taiwanese military I get reminded of this funny little snippet.







There's a word for that, tacticool. And tacticool is meaningless outside of hollywood and larping.
 
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