German embassy in china posted a pro-israeli tweet
Many Chinese are commenting that it is not the job of the German embassy in china to promote another country
Zionists are trying to do damage control. They know their image is shattered, so now they go everywhere with their stooges to convince everyone that the Apartheid is the victim (even on this forum). The German FM in this post got one thing absolutely correct though: "Israel's security is a fundamental interest of our country". That's correct because the formation of Israel was the final solution of the centuries old
Jewish Question that plagued Europe, and it's preceding solution didn't go so well.
I feel that folks get to hung up on "forms of government" or "system of government" but the truth is that there's no best performing form of government, there's no one system that's universally valid. From what we can see, liberal democracies don't work when a country is poor, full of uneducated or undereducated people, and haven't forged enough cohesion through shared values. Trying to slap liberal democracy on these types of societies is a fool's errand. Look at Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, much of Africa, etc. Liberal democracy is a product of economic development and not a tool you use to develop. Like someone pointed out, it's a luxury many can't afford to have.
The most important thing is the quality of leadership, if the leadership is competent (prizes growth and development) and is not corrupt mixed with an authoritarian form then this enables a poor country to develop quickly. However, this form of authoritarianism won't work in a country that has developed a middle class, a highly educated population, and has created cohesion through shared values. China seems to be an exception to the rule but I would argue that while it doesn't have western style liberal democracy, it has established a unique meritocratic democracy that is focused on policy rather than politics. It seems to have wisely navigated a potential clash with its middle class by inviting it into the CPC and thus carrying them along in the decision making process. China is democratic through policy rather than politics. I think this approach should be studied in the developing world.
Maybe there are "best performing governments wrt time". I would argue, just as it was argued by a founding father of Pakistan a hundred years ago, that democracy is a mask placed on the face of a monarchy or feudal/oligarch dictatorship, especially as it developed in Europe, i.e. giving citizens access to education in mass brings them to a point of seeking freedom and equality with the dictators/monarchs/feudals (which threatens the latter); then this democracy concept is used as a facade of equality while the grips of authority remain in the hands of the ruling aristocracy. And we see this today in many forms, i.e. aristocrats are rarely prosecuted for crimes, or given petty punishments.
I don't know how Chinese system works but it appears to me that there is one single party that is concerned with developing the country instead of multiple parties concerned with development and/or competing against one another. The way I see it today in Western countries is political parties more concerned with defeating their competition instead of development. 4-5 years between elections doesn't help either because you don't wanna start projects that will bear fruit when your competitor is in power (i.e. policies are short-term; long-term planning is avoided).
Northeast - suffers from snowstorms/blizzards and frost
Midwest - suffers from tornadoes
South - suffers from hurricanes
West - suffers from earthquakes and large fires
West nowadays is suffering something even worse than earthquakes and fires: irreversible drought.
Libya proves the point that trying to install democracy without civil society cohesion and education is a waste of time. It had those things under authoritarian rule but has since been destroyed and it's attempt to revitalize it under democracy has been chaotic.
Saddam also had a highly sectarian population in stable cohesion. Now Iraq is a democracy and the sectarian violence there is the worse the world has seen in some time.
First, countries that run persistent trade surpluses—as China is currently doing—are charged interest on their earnings. This interest is transferred to countries that are running trade deficits to help them develop their infrastructure and industry. Secondly, countries that run trade imbalances past a certain magnitude are forced to revalue their currency to eliminate the trade imbalance."
If I was a "merchant banker" from that "highest IQ" race, I would ensure the countries running surpluses continue do so indefinitely so that I can continue to profit off their interest payments. In order to achieve this, I'd make sure the interest payments of surplus countries are going into my banks in the deficit countries and aren't being used to develop the latter.
I wonder if this was calculated because Republicans and other right wings, proud boys etc... do not like Jews at all. They won't like hearing him call out Jew haters because they are that. They support Israel as a nation for killing those in the Middle East who are anti-USA but they don't like Jews and their closed off societies in America. However, Trump could also realize that they hate Kamala so much that he's not going to do enough damage to sway their vote away from him just by saying that.
Might be something as simple as pandering to the powerful Jewish community. As they say in Hollywood, "if you want to win an Oscar, make a movie about the Jews or Holocaust". White supremacists may be large in numbers but they aren't very bright and lack influence in politics; Jews, on the other hand, are tiny in number but have huge influence in every sector of the country (you could call them king-makers).
But America and co weren't trying to install "democracy". They were aiming to just destroy Libya as it was a non-western aligned nation, it also wanted to create a shared currency called the "gold dinar" so that it could sell its oil without using burger bucks. The west just simply wanted it destroyed so that it could be easily exploited and ensure that the petrodollar wasn't challenged. Its the usual playbook.
The biggest threat to hit the Western world at the time of Gaddafi was his plan to unite Africa which was actually gaining traction and working. If that momentum continued uninterrupted, it would devastate European economies into the dark ages because these are built on and operate on Africa's exploitation. France, which still operates colonies in Africa, would be the biggest loser, hence their leading the charge.
Florida is doomed, the only ones enjoying living there are the gators and crocodiles because they live in water. The state already been hit by 3 hurricanes in a single year, this one looks like is going to bad and course because US allies have priority over taxpayers money, the state has invested very little on disaster infrastructure and climate change infrastructure
I don't care how many hurricanes hit me, I will never buy a Chinese EV.
- Uncle Sam
China has rejected India's proposal of moving SCO summit out of Pakistan
As a Pakistani, I always feel china is doing more for us than we are doing for them which makes it a very one sided relationship. Hopefully this changes.
It will never change unless the organization at the top changes. That organization is built on a British system, a colonial residue that the founding fathers abhorred yet the country refuses to concede. Imagine seeking independence from a colonial master, and then appointing colonialists as your executive officers.
Pakistanis, in general, are duped into the false belief that the only way to progress and success is by association with the West. They are not independent thinkers; they are slaves. The top brass - politicians and generals - send their children to the West for i̶n̶d̶o̶c̶t̶r̶i̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ education, where they also become hostages so their parents are forced to do the bidding of the West. Promises of fortune and foreign estates lure them in. Ever heard of that general who studied at a military college in China? Neither have I.
