War with Russia

[HMS_Dave]

If that is true we should all buy the Daily Mail.

It was useful during the pandemic.

 

[dutchguylivingintheuk]

Unsure why you bothered writing paragraphs after paragraphs trying to prove me wrong, when they don't align with your own conclusion above which agrees with mine.

I guess it is a kind of therapy? You probably also find it comforting for not coping alone - as evidenced by Rusty finding it appropriate to say less than nothing, the snail attributing Mongol invasions to the Chinese, and brian celebrating the political prowess of a clown who chose the destruction of his country and people over neutrality:

I stand by what i said earlier however we have had elections in the US and in that light my analaysis Russia will now gets what it wants is based upon. i again also add that i don't think it will be a lasting solution. I thin Russia will attack again if Trump leaves office.

Aeschylus wrote 'the first casualty of war is truth' in 500 BC, .

You post are indeed good evidence of that.

This.

Due to extensive financialization, lower home ownership, etc. in the West, the real distance is likely even more stark - it is far from crazy to believe the actual size of China's economy is already that of US' and EU's COMBINED.

Pretty useless if nobody wants to replace dollar with yen as they tried multiple times. But if you are an repressive movement you can build all kind of stuff and tell your population to breed,(they have nothing else to do other then work anyway) do you want a slow clap for that?
A discussion like this wouldn't be possible they are told the govement knowns what's good for them. So if this government would do the same you would be jailed.

A Trumpian epiphany* seemingly unappreciated by the current crop of donkeys leading Europe, is without prosperity there is no security, far more so than the other way round as peddled by the Neocon hymn sheet. Modern China is proof of that, so was the USSR.

* well globe-trotting billionaire businessmen can have different perspectives to career political ideologues, I suppose... But alas it is one thing to know the problem and another to solve it.

Whilst for your pitch for USSR/RPC tyranny would be great by means of how you are defending every step, however in the real world things are a little bit different and no i'm not saying the world before or after trump is a great place but if you listen to people who actually where born in China and escaped that hell romanticizing repression like you do isn't the answer either.

It's still better to live in a free world. so we can vote idiots in power like Trump, Starmer, Cameron, Biden, Johnson etc. (and yes i mis a few recent tories because they got into power by party votes not elections.