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It is difficult to condemn the desire to end war.
It is impossible to argue with the references to the UN Charter, given that, in addition to sovereignty, there is also the right of nations to self-determination.

But any peace proposal has a chance of success if three basic conditions are met:
1. Participation of both parties to the conflict. And this is not.
2. Take into account the historical context. And it is like this: the country of Ukraine never existed until 1991. It is a fragment of the Russian Empire.
3. Accounting for current realities. And they are as follows: Ukraine is in a half-life phase and part of its territories has returned to Russia.
The broker who is ready to admit these obvious things has a chance of success.
All the others are nobody.

However, the negotiations themselves are not yet necessary. The enemy must crawl to his knees, begging for mercy.

-Dmitry Medvedev

jwnz said:

"Urbanisation in China is unfinished, furnishing expenditure as a percentage of disposable income is still lower than in Japan, the US and India..."

Perhaps that simply means furnishing costs in those countries are over the top and Chinese are enjoying the lower costs in China.

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I'm actually looking forward to the cabbagisation of electronic bidet toilets, as we desperately need these in all western countries

The religion of the West, and the myth by which the anglos utilise to exercise dominion over the rest of Europe and those who call themselves “white nations“- is the religion of white supremacy.
When reality disproves this obvious self evident self serving lie, the western mouthpieces are quick to denigrate any scientific success made by non caucasoid non white races

*shocked* How could China stockpiled 18 months-worth of food??!! That means China must be getting prepared for war with the US!!!


Seriously, all those blobs in DC should read some books about China's 5000 year-worth of history. Truly laughable exhibit of outright idiocy and ignorance on a country that they want to go to war with.

ACuriousPLAFan said:

*shocked* How could China stockpiled 18 months-worth of food??!! That means China must be getting prepared for war with the US!!!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1687904327304642560

Seriously, all those blobs in DC should read some books about China's 5000-year history. Truly laughable exhibit of outright idiocy and ignorance on a country that they want to go to war with.

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Better to stock up on food than to have a 2 ply toilet paper.

The US seeks to turn Southeast Asia into a united front against China, despite China representing the region’s largest trade partner, investor, source of tourism, infrastructure developer and even defense supplier;

Washington is using a combination of political and economic coercion including ongoing political interference and regime-change operations to politically capture the region, similar to what the US has done in Eastern Europe to create a united front against Russia;

US-funded opposition parties are attempting to seize political power across Southeast Asia while US-funded media platforms and organizations consolidate control over the region’s information space;

The US also funds opposition groups dedicated to blocking or delaying infrastructure projects including joint projects with China covering everything from dams to railways;

Through programs like Fulbright and Chevening scholarships or the US government’s Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) the US is creating cadres political, business, and media administrators serving US interests in the region at the cost of the region’s best interests;

Southeast Asia may suffer the same fate as Eastern Europe, a region irrationally opposed to Russia at the cost of its economic, social, and political stability;

In order for Southeast Asia to preserve its sovereignty it must create national and regional security arrangements to block US interference, regain control over national and regional information space, and create education systems capable of producing the human resources required to administer sovereign states rather than maintain or expand US vassalage;

Even a Neutral Indonesia Could Get Dragged Into a China-US War​

Indonesia could unwittingly be drawn into great-power military conflict due to its strategic location, especially if a China-U.S. clash happens in Indonesian waters.

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Countries will have to choose between America and China.

How Colonial Empires Approached the South China Sea​

The South China Sea islands were of little interest to both European imperialists and local empires – until they became viewed as a tool in geostrategic and nationalistic posturing.

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Stierlitz said:

The US seeks to turn Southeast Asia into a united front against China, despite China representing the region’s largest trade partner, investor, source of tourism, infrastructure developer and even defense supplier;

Washington is using a combination of political and economic coercion including ongoing political interference and regime-change operations to politically capture the region, similar to what the US has done in Eastern Europe to create a united front against Russia;

US-funded opposition parties are attempting to seize political power across Southeast Asia while US-funded media platforms and organizations consolidate control over the region’s information space;

The US also funds opposition groups dedicated to blocking or delaying infrastructure projects including joint projects with China covering everything from dams to railways;

Through programs like Fulbright and Chevening scholarships or the US government’s Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) the US is creating cadres political, business, and media administrators serving US interests in the region at the cost of the region’s best interests;

Southeast Asia may suffer the same fate as Eastern Europe, a region irrationally opposed to Russia at the cost of its economic, social, and political stability;

In order for Southeast Asia to preserve its sovereignty it must create national and regional security arrangements to block US interference, regain control over national and regional information space, and create education systems capable of producing the human resources required to administer sovereign states rather than maintain or expand US vassalage;

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Another example of a utter lack of imagination and innovation in current US leadership and strategic thinking. I honestly struggle to think of any recent examples where the US has demonstrated anything other than crude copy-pasting of old ideas and concepts, even when it’s an extremely poor fit to the current situation, as is the case here.

NATO was a useful counter against the USSR because it contained many powerful industrial powers with strong militaries, economies and industries, which were close enough to present a genuine land threat the USSR heartland.

South-East Asia, even in an US wild dream scenario where they can put as side their own massive internal and mutual issues and rivalries, are simply no military threat to China. Nor does it offer any critical source of resources that China needs. Nor is it all that important to Chinese economic development.

This is really a F-tier area since the upside are so limited and the amount of resources needed to be committed to bring any meaning tangible benefits are so massive as to completely eclipse the gains.

For the US to devote resources to such a low-tier area means they are either desperate for ideas, and/or all their better prospect areas are already tapped out.

plawolf said:

Another example of a utter lack of imagination and innovation in current US leadership and strategic thinking. I honestly struggle to think of any recent examples where the US has demonstrated anything other than crude copy-pasting of old ideas and concepts, even when it’s an extremely poor fit to the current situation, as is the case here.

NATO was a useful counter against the USSR because it contained many powerful industrial powers with strong militaries, economies and industries, which were close enough to present a genuine land threat the USSR heartland.

South-East Asia, even in an US wild dream scenario where they can put as side their own massive internal and mutual issues and rivalries, are simply no military threat to China. Nor does it offer any critical source of resources that China needs. Nor is it all that important to Chinese economic development.

This is really a F-tier area since the upside are so limited and the amount of resources needed to be committed to bring any meaning tangible benefits are so massive as to completely eclipse the gains.

For the US to devote resources to such a low-tier area means they are either desperate for ideas, and/or all their better prospect areas are already tapped out.

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Not to mention it's not like their plan of bringing on South-East Asia is going anywhere near smoothly.

So it's like a executing a shitty plan D, but failing/having immense trouble in doing so as well.

Stierlitz said:

Through programs like Fulbright and Chevening scholarships or the US government’s Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) the US is creating cadres political, business, and media administrators serving US interests in the region at the cost of the region’s best interests;

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This isn't going to have the effect they think it will have.