If you ask me, they should've stayed grounded for another 400 years. As for inviting guests, IMO only for partner nations that are close enough, trusted enough, and sufficiently open enough to Chinese influence.
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manqiangrexue
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But you're too focused on anti-intellectualism. That is not Trump's main selling point at all. He could have been anti-intellectual or not; he could do no wrong as far as his followers were concerned. They elected him because he is an angry loud white man fighting against a changing world and that is who his followers are and that's who they identify with. Whether or not he's anti-intellectual is a detail.
Whether or not Americans were trusting of expertise is not a binary. They had their trust and distrust before, and the lost trust and gained distrust under Trump because he led them there. He had the power and influence to guide them in the right direction and they would have loved him all the same for the reason outlined above. The CDC wasn't seen as a public enemy before him. He didn't have to do any of the stupid shit he did and he would have still had all his followers and perhaps some more, because his anti-intellectualism is turning off some people who are on the fence due to how stupid he sounds. If he weren't that way, he could keep his base and win more. Once again, the people who love him will always love him as long as he's an angry loud white man, but those who are undecided can be swayed if he were a bit more intelligent and less anti-intellectual.
At the core of it is really America's emerging class warfare. Trump's popularity is really not that different from Bernie Sanders'. The two seemingly opposing sides are both anti-elites, but what the elites have managed to accomplish thus far is to make the two sides hate different aspects of the elites. The right hates the elites' intellectualism and progressive lifestyles, while the left hate the elites' wealth and privilege. The right in turn celebrate the elites' wealth and privilege, while the left celebrate their intellectualism and progressive lifestyles.
At this point with overwhelming military superiority, a Fascist US President, and a population where even the moderates have been radicalized to prioritize revenge for October 7th over any remaining decency, Israel has basically carte blanche to exterminate Gaza's population. The method they are going about here is cruelty at its worst and one of those instances that makes one question whether humanity deserves to endure as a species. The calculus is of course you can't just simply put a bullet in every Gazan, since ammunition costs money and materials, and needs to be reserved for future conflicts such as with Syria or Egypt. Using more powerful bombs on large concentrations of Gazans is a level of brutality that would invite condemnation from even the current US administration.
Instead what we have here is a monopolization of the food supply going into a wartorn area and limiting its distribution to a starving population of 2 million to only four points, thus increasing their desparation. The IDF also controls the times when food can be distributed, you miss the time you don't get food, only adding to the desparation of an already desparate population. All the while desensitized Israeli guards have begun treating shooting into crowds as a spectator sport. And yet even with this danger present at each of the aid stations, you still have to show up. Because if you don't you starve, simple as that. This daily cycle of starvation, violence, and desparation creates a feeling of degradation, reducing the entire population of Gaza spiritually to the level of beasts.
It is nothing more than pure psychological terrorism meant to make one thing clear to Gazans, the place they have always called home is now a black hole of hopelessness. Let's not forget before the Nazis embarked on the final solution, demoralization through pyschological terrorism was primarily employed such as simultaneously making life inhospitable for Jews while also banning them from emigrating.
The ultimate intent is of course, to make the entire population of Gaza pack their bags and leave. What's morbidly funny here is that the neighbouring Middle Eastern nations are not equipped to take them all in, so ding ding the West can expect another migrant crisis. Even more morebidly funny, is that the Far Right in Europe would actually want such a scenario, because despite advocating closed borders scaremongering about immigration is precisely how they stay relevant. Call it Europe's version of how Republicans hate Latinos, but still ensure a steady stream of them as cheap labor for their corporate donors.
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If you know the west then you know nothing like what Israel wants will happen. The west is NOT taking 2 million Gazans. The west will also not allow complete starvation and killings either. They still have to keep the so called moral high ground.
Israel will make Gaza suffer for a while then leave just like they have left before. Hamas will regain its strength due to all the suffering and then rinse and repeat.
Just curious, why does China give so much leeway to the UK, allowing companies like HSBC to continue holding market share despite so many outright moves by the UK government?
Seems like they are just as bad as the US, but the Chinese government just ignores them
Seems like they are just as bad as the US, but the Chinese government just ignores them
From Mao "letting the oligarchs fight each other".
Letting those bloody Hegemon taste their own Colored Revolution medicine...lolIn a Western democracy the only way to achieved a meaningful change is to weakened the oligarchy ruling class and let them fighting each other, since they always practice divide and rule among the populace and dictate national policy. Its the easiest way cause in this modern era where public opinion and sentiment lasted only 2 weeks before a new news cycle, starting a revolution is very difficult and may take years to accomplished.
antiterror13
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41 years? did India send their astronaut 41 years ago?
We've finally found something India's good at. That is a commanding performance.