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[azn_cyniq]

To their credit they would brag about supposed sexual prowess rather than threatening to, you know, kill children. That IDF guy is giving major East Area Rapist vibes…

That IDF guy is horrible, but there are many dudes from India who are just as bad, if not worse. The fact that so many Indian men have been caught harassing women on camera should tell you everything you need to know.

 

[Randomuser]

The level of entitlement some Indian migrant workers in Canada's PEI province is next level. The more they act like this the more it'll bring harm towards their community.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1793316885498298434

You have to understand despite what they say, Indians really do have ambition to take over the word. They feel bold enough to claim they deserve to be the worlds leaders and say stuff like we wuz CEOS.

Unfortunately, just ambition alone doesn't mean anything. Otherwise the Axis would have never lost WW2.

 

[TK3600]

Depends, it will feel like it. Civilization may collapse after.

It will not. Major cities will be in ruin, as well as long term radiation damage. However war goes on. There is currently not enough nukes for counter force. Once first wave hits, there will be a panic production to continue nuclear production. The ultimate number of warhead that falls will be far beyond first wave. So rest assured world do not end. If it does end, it will be caused by continued exchange, not the first waves.

 

[TK3600]

The oceans are far larger than you imagine, and the US has something known as the East Coast. There are also things known as fallout and nuclear winter. The US doesn't have the balls to attack North Korea, so US leaders will need to become a lot more psychotic/suicidal before even considering initiating nuclear exchange with China or Russia. The best strategy is to boost deterrence to the levels where they could be no doubt that the US would cease to exist if it were to initial a nuclear exchange while at the same time attempting to minimize the risks that the US would devolve to a state where it becomes insane enough to consider the possibility.

Yeah yeah, there can still be base in east coast, like on Cuba. Same mechanics as SCS and China. Hypothetically if US ally can take over SCS, it can end Chinese nuclear sub effectiveness too. Subs can be beaten with sufficient land bases. Unless US keep up with arm race, its current nuclear aresenal can be obsolete.

 

[daifo]

2 Journalist thats gone independent doing their own internet show "breaking point" reveals what "Freedom of Press" in mass media means. Basically the journalist are given talking points by the government/part elites/party donors of what they can and can not say.

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[TK3600]

Reasonable? Extremely rarely. But rational? Most of the time. I'm going to refrain from inserting some cliche Sun Tzu quotes here, but you never want to underestimate your adversary. When formulating grand strategy, you should always assume that your adversary is going to act rationally in the pursuit of their interests.

When assessing US behavior, I think people need to ignore what Washington says and focus solely on what Washington does. The narrative pushed by US dominated media will never reveal the true reasons or intent behind US actions, as information warfare is just another tool in Washington's toolbox. The official narrative is primarily intended for consumption by the masses within the US and vassal states first and foremost, and secondly to extend influence in neutral states and sow discontent in adversarial states. Washington is run by (and I'm not talking about the average Congressmen and other participants in the theatrics) highly intelligent and rational people who are definitely not drinking their own Kool-Aid.

The US has a tendency to engage in projection, and I believe a fairly accurate, "tell" for the true intent of Washington is to take a look at what the US tends to project on China.

1) "The CPC prioritizes the survival of it's regime and it's monopoly on power rather than the interests of the Chinese people." -> "Our political elites prioritize their own survival and their monopoly on power rather than the interests of the American people."

2) "China engages in mercantilism and doesn't play by the rules of the rules-based international trading order." -> "We plan to revert to mercantilism and protectionism and abandon free trade since it no longer serves our interests to do so."

3) "China practices neo-colonialism and exploitation of the resources of developing nations through debt-trap diplomacy and dealing with corrupt dictators that regularly engage in human rights abuses." -> "We intend to monopolize the practice of neo-colonialism through our use of the IMF and military backing of corrupt dictators that will suppress dissent for us."

4) "China's naval buildup and aggressive actions in the SCS belies China's intentions to dominate trade and the nations of the regions and is a challenge to our belief of Freedom of Navigation." -> "We intend to maintain control over maritime trade and critical sea lanes throughout the world."

5) "China's window of opportunity of forced reunification is running out and will invade Taiwan within the next decade." -> "Our window of opportunity for maintaining our hegemony is running out and we intend to provoke a conflict in the Taiwan Strait within the next decade."

6) "China uses its economic clout to further it's political goals through economic coercion." -> "Sanctions and control of the global financial system are our means to achieve our political goals and coerce nations to act in our interests."

All of the US's actions should be viewed in the context of great power competition between the incumbent dominant world power and the rising world power. Of course, the US may make miscalculations here and there and conflicts of interest may arise within the different factions (ie the Israel lobby) that comprise Washington's political elite. Ultimately, discussions on China's grand strategy for navigating this great power competition will be far more productive if we can ignore the narrative pushed by the Western liberal media, detach ourselves emotionally, and view Washington as a rational actor in pursuit of maximizing its own interests.

I am sure US government is full of very intelligent people, but they are either not in charge, or wasting intelligence in unproductive areas. You dont need 150IQ to see failures like Afghan withdrawl. I am sure there is some smart intentions behind the withdrawl, but it do not translate to actual operation. Just as there are countless brilliant weapon program that inevitably fails. The structural problem is terminal, and it worsens exponentially over time.

 

[Chevalier]

The level of entitlement some Indian migrant workers in Canada's PEI province is next level. The more they act like this the more it'll bring harm towards their community.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1793316885498298434

That's not even the best part; the best part is that the organisers had to ask the indian protestors to stop sexually harassing the women who came to support them. At some point indians are gonna instal 'bobs and vagene' and monitor lizards as a human right.

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[horse]

Interesting. Coincidentally, I had just watched Scott Ritter and Carl Zha arguing passionately over the US vs China war fighting mindset. In that argument Carl Zha also brought up this Mao quote that men, not atom bombs wins wars.

Just my 2 cents on this, how men wins wars and not the atom bomb, we need some context is what I believe.

Who was Mao Zedong? He was a revolutionary. This was what he believed. Breaking eggs to make an omelette, mobilizing the people.

After the Great Helmsman died, China went in another direction, and as the saying goes, the rest is history.

The point is, this Mao quote, has been dormant for over 40 years.

Sure, we may bring it up once in a while, otherwise it really has little or no meaning for most Chinese nowadays. The world has changed.

But recently, this phrase is making a comeback, because of context. The world is changing.

We can sense that. Maybe it is not a revolution, but we surely know things will be different. The International Court of Justice from the request of a nation in the Global South, is making a power move for a favourite son.

What wins, what will win next, will not be atom bombs. Will ideology win next? Who knows? That is just how unsettled the situation is in the world today.

 

[Randomuser]

Didn't Mao also say Political Power comes from the barrel of a gun too? He also wrote an entire book about guerrilla warfare.

Maybe his point was you need weapons AND you need people with the right mindset to use them properly to win. His rival the KMT had far more weapons and even weapons. Yet they did not have the people with the right mindset to actually win. Thats why the KMT keeps choking. First losing to the communists and now they can't even handle the DPP.

There are a lot of guys who have far more and better weapons than their opponents and yet still lost coz the quality of their men was just really bad.

 

[Sardaukar20]

Americans are entertaining the thought of Nuclear War because they are convinced that somehow they will not suffer as much damage and die in it. They unironically think China's nuclear missiles won't hit them or blow up all of the states. America has more nukes? So? Mao heard they same stuff and he said we have enough to blow up the world one time so anything after that is redundant.

I heard this level of arrogance with Ukraine earlier on. Now they are toning it down because all those hyped American mercs who were supposed to make easy mince meat of Russians are coming back in bodybags like nothing. The Abrams which was supposed to send Russians running are now ending up in Moscow as relics.

Ultimately its just arrogance. Making them know their real mortality and watching their face change is priceless. Just like how Anglos like to hide away in their island when things get tough, Americans have the same coward like mentality. They can't take it when things actually get tough.

It also doesn't help that many contemporary American flims, novels, and video games depict post-nuclear war as being quite survivable in the US. Apparently radiation in the US gives you superpowers, but radiation in other countries gives you cancer. That's probably one of the reasons why people in the US are getting desensitized to the horror of nuclear warfare. Another is a screwed up society, which made people desire for the world to end. Many Americans are getting interested in prepper culture. And the elites are building bunkers. Their mentality have recently changed from "we don't want nuclear war" to "we can survive it".