I don't understand why you even bother to engage with our beloved @pmc when he's set and clear with his geopolitical takes on the matter.
None of those restrictions ever prevented terrorists from carrying out attacks in Europe or America, they just switched to alternative compounds or purchasing methods. You'd think a former US military would have enough experience with IEDs to know fireworks would be a terrible choice.
yes ministry will make recommendation and Putin will support it but once it goes into implementation stage than all stake holders will be consulted as this thing pass through soft power. when Putin get stuck than that soft power bails him out whether in Syria or Ukraine or demographic policy of early births or exit of women soldiers from Ukraine. Putin is always late in understanding soft power.
I read that stuff regarding Soft Power because it is my interest and i cannot spoon feed all the analysis but with current demographic trends there will be 200m to North of Kazakhstan and 250m to the South and this Turkmenistan will have to deal with there requirements. forget about 5 to 10 years down line if today Arabs decide they can create a state whose one side is at Caspian sea and another side at Arabian sea and Arabs are the center of the world in energy trade. why do you think they will be less ruthless in Central Asia when they dont care about Mideast and North Africa?
The West is so arrogant and they wonder why the world is so not under their control. When you read about polls that show how Westerners don’t like China, what is it that they don’t like? Are Chinese causing wars around the world like the West does? Do you think Westerners intellectually study what’s happening in the world? No, they don’t like China simply on the basis that China doesn’t know its place by not blindly following everything the West says and does. They get upset like when China does its own thing from the West. That basically tells them they’re not in control of everything like they rightfully believe is theirs. They get upset when Chinese don’t watch the same movies they do in making them as popular as Westerners do. Those simple things shows how much control they think they should have in the world. That’s why you see like the EU get angry when China retaliates against their actions against China. China is suppose to understand that they’re only doing it for China’s own and the world’s good so China isn’t suppose to retaliate. They spun the same nonsense regarding EVs questioning if they were made with slave labor but it was really about how they were just saving their own economic self-interests using humans rights as an excuse. But they get upset because they think they can never lie and because they can say it and not have their tongue explode into flames for lying, their intentions must be true which Chinese don’t automatically believe like they do. They hate China because Chinese don’t have as much faith for Westerners as Westerners do for themselves.
