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that and China is going to come out of this better because they're likely belt-and-roading Russia right now with all that military aid. They want Siberia and unfettered access to the arctic circle, which benefits them in the long term more than getting Taiwan, which is more of a want than an actual need. Siberia and arctic circle access is a need.
When Putin kicks the bucket, they're going to be getting that land and will be more capable of taking it by force if Russia objects. Why put that military power into taking Taiwan when you can have access to some of the largest natural gas and oil reserves on the planet that will make taking Taiwan easier in the future? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Russia is preparing for a very long war. While much of the European defense buildup can be attributed to Ukraine, the effects of inflation and the cost of living crisis have pushed far-right parties towards the mainstream. The far-right won big in the recent European elections, Le Pen's RN will probably win the French Presidency in a few weeks time, The AFD, despite being overtly neo-Nazi, still won big. Orban is still in full control of Hungary. The Turks have turned heavily against US support for Israel and now uses Russia as a counterbalance. The UK will swing to the left with Starmer very soon. Only Meloni's far-right Italian government is proving to be more trouble than originally envisaged for the Kremlin.
And then there's Trump. He's leading in the polls, and Biden's base is lukewarm at best, whether it's because of inflation or Israel.
I would say that Russia has many things going for it in the long run. And while China probably hoped for a swift Russian victory, a forever war in Europe would tie down US forces and military spending towards a faraway continent. With the EU dependent on the US for energy, it will never regain the competitive advantages for industries that previously relied on cheap Russian energy. Chinese businesses will eat them in Europe and elsewhere, accelerating Europe's industrial decline, even if they put up tariffs to protect themselves.
And here's the biggest thing: China will never allow a West-leaning Russia, including the possibility of US troops near China's borders. Because if that happens they would be truly surrounded by all sides. And the Chinese knew this well because they once proposed to Reagan the stationing of secret US bases on Chinese soil near the Soviet border - there's a reason why the PLA operates Blackhawk helicopters and C-130s, and has a license to build the M-16 rifle.
If China has to bail out Russia, it would. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
More like he's realizing it's more lucrative to "back" Russia and eventually get Russian Territory out of the deal. China plays the long game. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
> Just one example: the war in Ukraine has been eye-opening regarding how many artillery shells are expended per day just to hold the line.
The reason why artillery has been so important to both sides so far is for two reasons: neither has gained true air superiority, and it's in their historical doctrine.
Western/NATO doctrine relies heavily on air dominance and maneuver warfare. Both of which, if done well, make artillery next to useless.
It's how we fucked the shit out of Iraq twice. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
im wondering how we tried to trick them into invading taiwan. by recognizing it as a nation? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
The problem with invading Taiwan is I’m ready to invade someone else an hour later. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
If you want to be a world super power than you need to be able to project power. You aren't a world superpower and your Navy ain't shit if all you can do is bully your local neighbors.
What is China going to do when we choke them out of international trade on the ocean? Is anyone going to brag about how many ship they have then? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Mainland Taiwan | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
The way they both recognize the “One China policy” is some major mental gymnastics. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
But they *really* want to send their kids here for education and the high life. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
>What is China going to do when we choke them out of international trade on the ocean?
that is part of the reason for the belt and road initiative, creating alternative international trade routes overland. and yes its ultimately probably the main reason why China does not plan to invade Taiwan anytime soon unless there is some major geopolitical change(like the USA suddenly deciding to just abandon its commitment to defend Taiwan) | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Deadliest Catch: Kremlin Edition | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
It's not without some element of truth. If you believe your geopolitical adversary is a rising economic, technological and military power, and you believed that war is inevitable, would you take the fight to them now, or wait until they get stronger?
If you remember the Reuters article about the US disinformation/psyops campaign against Chinese vaccines, it's that US military commanders are more than willing to take the fight to China today, overriding the objections of State diplomats and ambassadors, if they're allowed to by the White House. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Will be naive if you don’t think US has their hand on most political play. War is still the money printing machine | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Most Puerto Ricans disagree. In fact, most Puerto Ricans want the opposite: for PR to become a US state. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Who knows what a country would do when facing utter and total destruction. What does it matter at that point that Taiwan will be “on their own.”
Chinese culture has proverbs to describe such insane action. And we also call it MAD. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
meanwhile Putin: "Oops, I did it again". | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
You mean this?:
>If you want to use "imperialist apologism" as a synonym for "basic socialist theory," then sure. Imperialism and capitalism are based on the idea of infinite growth. Modern socialism, which I subscribe to, acknowledges that limits exist.
You might realize that I'd be asking where you mentioned socialism before that, since this I asked because this comment brings it up apropos of nothing.
Anyways
>What resources did the US steal from Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan
Well, the USA lost. Hard to exploit a country that either forces you to give up or resists long enough.
As for Iraq, have you noticed that the new government is just a quiet US puppet? Instead of the loud pan-Arab Saddam who raised the Iraqi literacy rate higher than many US states, got women the vote, and lowered poverty significantly through, one might say, *socialist* means.
>If you say something stupid like oil, boy you have some reading to do because Afghanistan doesn't even have oil reserves and Iraq hasn't sent any in the last 3 decades.
It's interesting that you spout off about how I don't undersatand geopolitics, yet you have no idea how any of those 3 were connected to the imperialist machine. For one, Vietnam was a source of cheap labour, and while it still is because of living costs, the price of manufactiring there has risen steeply since the revolution. Iraq, as mentioned, and Libya as well, were loudly anti-interference - this causes problems for companies which want to leverage US threat into low royalties for resource extraction in neighbouring countries. As for Afghanistan, post-9/11 public sentiment provided a cover for the US gov't to transfer billions of tax dollars to the weapons industry.
Its like you think that every conflict is contained in its own little bubble, yet it's called geopolitics because each system affects others.
>Because of this, you paint any discourse that doesn't fit your rigid-but-misguided view of geopolitical justice as "supporting imperialism" even if you're pointing your finger to execute fellow leftists and anti-capitalists.
"Justice". Give me a break. Millions more died because of the US than would ever have been saved in any of their interventions.
If you support the murder of civilians for the crimes of a few, you're not "on the left".
>I want a world where people are taken care of and aren't exploited by ultra powerful corporate entities. I'm also not going to pretend that a fellow worker is my enemy just because they don't want to pick a gun and die to achieve that goal. It's not realistic, and neither are your higher standards
First, "higher standards" refers to comparing the USA to the rest of the West. An extremely low bar: UK/Spain/Dutch colonial (genocidal) history, France's current active colonial activity, Germany from like the 1910-1945, Russia's colonial (genocidal) history in Siberia and East Asia and actyive colonial effort today in Ukraine, etc. **Y'all need higher standards.**
And specifically to this:
>I'm also not going to pretend that a fellow worker is my enemy just because they don't want to pick a gun and die to achieve that goal.
Classic coward behaviour from someone with something to lose.
“The white liberal differs from the white conservative in one way. The liberal is more deceitful and hypocritical than conservatives. Both want power; but the white liberal has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s (sic) friend and benefactor.” - Malcolm X
Put into a modern context:
Talk is meaningless. Words alone accomplish no meaningful change. Action does. If you and your friends are unwilling to take action, then you are no better than the imperialists and fascists you pretend to be against. You're the German conservatives and liberals who preferred the Nazis to the Communists, because the Nazis let them keep and expand private property. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
It's worth noting that Taiwan is the last remnant of the pre-civil war China. Not the other way around. The mainland's government were the ones who rebelled during communist revolution. Taiwan's all that's left of the government from before that. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
> Basically the military industrial complex got a booster shot without any loss of life
except you know... the ukranian ones... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Sure China wouldn’t be able to recover, but the same would likely apply to the US. It’s lose lose. The current situation already has all the SEA nations gravitating towards the US. They have no choice given Xi’s sheer idiocy. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Here’s the thing. People do. Can you imagine a cheap ass electric car with a modern interior and no more gas money? For a large discount too? Basically the new Model T. China will have those and already does. The US is trying to ban them from selling the U.S.
Remember Huawei? Yeah they were spying on us (which our government does literally all the time ) but the U.S. was super happy to destroy competition in the U.S.
Not to mention making Tik Tok sell.
As a U.S. citizen our government doesn’t even try to deny anymore that they’re tracking everything we do (including this comment) but for some reason we really believe them when they say it’s to protect us. It’s just destroying competition.
Xi is a dictator piece of shit but let’s call it what it is. Two superpowers just doing business. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
The names sticking for all the wrong un-cute reasons 😱 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
I invaded it one time for a little while. It was nice. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Inception double reverse uno tricked him into Not invading | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
I seldom recognize Taiwan any more, lookin' all Singapore these days. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Or not. The point is that Xi turned the whole situation around. Now it is USA being the bad guy, and China is being brave and defiant… by not starting war and simply continuing what they were doing. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
LOL. HK was a purely political handover. That's not how things would likely go down across the Strait. They've tried that method. They ship TW citizens living in the mainland back home for elections with voting instructions.
Which is to say, "the same fate as HK" is pretty low on the 'bad outcome' totem pole if things went south. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
This is why I watch minecraft civilization videos. Their stories are better than any fucktardery the real world political landscape is capable of. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Kind of difficult. Imagine if, let's say Texas separated and the US never formally recognized Texas as a sovereign state because for all intents and purposes Texas is American.
Than, China comes in and says that Texas is not part of the US and is its own country - even if it is de facto. That changes the balance because it went from maybe reconciliation and unification to a never situation.
At that point the US would have to consider a military option to reunify. That's why it's putting them in a tight spot about invading Taiwan or not.
Frankly, I'm hoping the US backs off on this. This is to no one's interest and I highly doubt the US is going to be able to drum up that much international support for anything in Taiwan - maybe Japan? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Explain how a country hypothetically getting taken over cares about international backlash. Edit: you understand the concept of MAD right? ... You're either extremely dumb or a troll. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
It isn't difficult.
Does the United States threaten to invade the United Kingdom and claim England is part of their territory and London is illegitimate since the Americans won the Revolutionary War?
Taiwan is not and has never been part of the PRC. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Give em a break, they read thru the CliffNotes really fast, okay? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
That's a terrible analogy hahaha. I see where your logic is going but that's a very different issue in terms of the emotional impulse.
That's debatable and honestly not something I care to debate either - people can argue about it till the cows come home for all I care | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
♪ In West Taiwan, born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days... ♪ | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
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“Just to eat it’s 1,000 lb liver”
The great white shark liver is absolutely massive - fyi | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
You can’t fill a container that’s already full, of themselves. You can’t help someone who doesn’t want it. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
How else can you explain it? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
I’m an actual dumbass that’s what I meant lmao I just had a brain slip | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
You have died. Restart?
No. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Buddha himself said that it's supposed to be a philosophy and not a religion. This guy is a fucking scamming piece of shit, same with every other Dalai Lama ever. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Feeling bad, mate? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
That is part of it, but that’s like that last stage. They do other stuff first to find the area | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
It's not up to them, it's whoever is closest to him.
It's a really weird process. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
In what western country is it culturally appropriate to tongue kiss family members?
If you have to make shit up to prove your point, then you dont have one. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
You do you, dude. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Too busy smoochin' | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
I don’t think you have a choice. If he knows how not to, then he needs to share. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Kidnapping the Pachen Lama gives China a degree of control yeah, because traditionally hes the one who find the next Dalai Lama, so China has a "legitimate" way of picking a successor. Even if the Dalai Lama refuses to reincarnate or something China can always pull him out and make him say "heres the Dalai Lama I found totally by myself". | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Not really. According to the tradition, he didn't pick the Panchen Lama, he identified the reincarnated Panchen Lama.
If he's still alive, it's still him, wherever he is. If he says he's been reincarnated again and identifies another kid, and then it turns out the current one isn't dead, it could be quite embarrassing. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
He has more kids tongues to suck.
I’m starting to believe all major organized religions are just cover for kiddie diddlers | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
> There is even one sect whose ideal rebirth location is in one of the hells, because that is where there is most need for help.
What sect would that be? I'd like to read more. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
So they aren’t cheap dates. Got it. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
A worm | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
"I could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and ask a child to suck my tongue and still get reincarnated" | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
For real this shit feels like watching a sitcom lol. Almost surreal to remember this is real life we're talking about. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Is this his way of saying, he has no intention of committing suicide at the moment? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
The second part of your comment hits the nail on the head. Buddhists don't believe in the Christian sense of souls that move from body to body. The Dalai Lama doesn't talk about reincarnation as if he would be personally reborn. Reincarnation is actually tied to karma, a network of causes and effects as the universe is unfolding itself since the big bang. So when you say that his reincarnation is more closely related to a set of worldly circumstances involving another child, that is literally what the Dalai Lama means. And because ego is an illusion, he is not really the Dalai Lama, but at the same time, all of us are Dalai Lama, since we are all part of this universe and its karmic network. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
He’s got a lot of wabi sabi. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
I'm actually having trouble finding information on this, so it may have been one specific monk rather than an entire sect. The story that I read was about a monk who said he began seeing the Pure Land (one of the highest worlds you can be born into, where everything is peaceful and a Buddha will transmit to you the highest levels of Dharma) while dying, and begged his monks to pray for him to be reborn in hell. There are a number of Pure Land sects, so I am not sure which one in particular held this story. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Lmao 🤣 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
I'm not, have yall seen the state of the world? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
I get where he's coming from. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Dalaï Lama is playing Ragnarok Online confirmed | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
"I announce Dave from Wisconsin as the next Dalai Lama" | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
My mother in law has been spotted several times off Greenland over the last few hundred years. Trust me on who takes this prize. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Yeah because he doesn't want to get arrested by china. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
cost you an arm and a leg for sure | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
coming back to a generation with no ears was... not what i expected... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Yeah orcas are basically the police ,kicking ass and asking later | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Jaws should’ve between called orcas of death .were mostly told about shark safety and what to do .
But orcas, it’s between you the ocean and aqua man | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Been studying Buddhism and Vedanta and now Hinduism for years. Poorly, but it starts to seep in over time. Chances of me becoming enlightened during this lifetime are essentially zero. The effort I put in now greatly increases the chances it could happen during the next rebirth. I will spend the rest of this life reading spiritual books, listening to teachers like Swami Savrapriananda, and doing psychedelics to stay open. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Exactly. The six year old kid who was named the Panchem Lama was kidnapped. No one's seen him in 30 years. China installed their own candidate. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
So to continue the analogy, they brought Isabelle instead. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
He has made mention that he has been considering India. Very hard for China to find his reincarnation there, and it precludes the poor Panchen Lama they worked so hard to steal. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
If he does reincarnate, he's decided he won't reincarnate into a place where China can find him. India is most likely.
As to an alternative to the Panchen Lama.... Up in the air. A council has been considered. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
That sounds like an upgrade. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
om ah hung hrih om mani padme hum | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
with the important detail that when bodhisattvas are born in hell that it is not an "ordinary birth" as a samsaric being obscured by negative karmas
They are not "in hell" though they may seem to be. They are still bodhisattvas and if they have realised the nature of mind the will not perceive the hell realms as separate from the pure lands
one can read Delog: Journey to the Realms Beyond Death to see a first hand account of what this means
om mani padme hum | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
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Jesus, what nonsense.
When people scream "Fascism" at every right wing move eventually people stop listening, that's what will actually bring about the rise of Fascism, the inability to understand and communicate with people with different views and values than yourself. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
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Ohhhh, so they *slowed* the rate to the slowest pace of slashing and burning of a vital part of the planet in the past 6 years. Wow. Bravo. 🙄
I mean, yeah sure it's "progress" but saying that you're merely slowing the rate in which you burn through a nearly irreplaceable precious location for no good reason is hardly something I'm going to clap for. Lemme know when the rate at which they're destroying the "lungs of the world" drops to 0. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
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Last time, NK was dropping shit on SK with balloons. I wonder if he is after that technology. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
"No problem master Putin. You give nuclear bomb me suck harder." | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
How much do you get paid to try and sow discord?
Edit: and china sucks | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
They’re standing on their own two feet now, that I agree with. (After decades of theft)
Im not underestimating the war economy,I don’t think it’s possible as an American to do so lol, it wouldn’t take long to take Taiwan so I don’t think it’ll take much ramping up, we’d just bomb all the semi plants and peace out lol. If they wanna start WW3, fuck em let’s go. Japan and all their neighbors don’t like em and we can literally starve them out with a blockade | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Fuck China. They’re bluffing anyways. They still have a less than 90% food self-sufficiently ratio. And a drought or flooding can drastically change that..so yes, we still can. Their livestock would starve without feed from the Americas | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
They spelled "spies" wrong. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-18-06 |
Yeah they are real pieces of shit. Hamas ruling a unified Palestine would be the worst possible outcome in any potential future.
When I look at both places it’s clear the current leadership of Palestine is ideological worse than the current leadership of Israel, that not a ringing endorsement of Israel’s leadership though, it’s not hard to be better than a group that literally says we believe the entire world should be forced to be Muslim at the point of a gun. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
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I mean that one ship can destroy all 4 of the Russian ones. So what are they going to do | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Are you the national post writer? This is the hard hitting journalism and fact checking I've come to expect out of them. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
No, but I think I've found a new side hustle for me. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Let's give this Canadian a wide berth [cause I heard what they did in the Wars] | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
Least rusty Canadian naval vessel | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
In my opinion, it slowly happened from the mid-90’s to mid-2000’s. Then Obama was elected and they lost their minds. Then Trump was elected and everything they said behind closed doors suddenly became okay (and advised) to say out loud.
The party itself is just a giant culture war that peddles conspiracy theories. That’s it. They have no significant foreign policy or economic mandates at this point. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-17-06 |
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