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Phead128

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Vietnam is adopting Standard Gauge Railway (same as China's gauge railway) for all her high-speed rail in the country, North to South, including ones connecting to China itself.

Anyone with a modicum of understanding of geopolitics knows that Game Over, GG.

Not even Russia-China shares the same Rail Gauge connection - yet China achieved that with Vietnam. If you read Western pundits, you would think Vietnam would never adopt HSR/gauge size tech of China due to adversarial relations - this is farther from the truth. Yes, they are unusually silent too.
 

JamesRed

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The geopolitical conditions were different, though. Nixon wanted to use China as a bulwark against the USSR and Vietnam, Clinton wanted access to cheap manufacturing as the neoliberal shareholder value-maxing push of the 90s depended on it and didn't think they would ever pose a threat and would be ever content with just being a source of cheap labor.

There is also the fact the way the Chinese state is structured allows for a unifying force capable of directing resources towards goals, India needs a Cultural Revolution-level event and get rid of its caste system before its able to achieve anything they claim.



I read an analysis that pointed out that this round of dismantling the US propaganda and regime change machine is fueled by techbro hubris and ignorance, and it seems that way.

According to it, Muskrat, Thiel and their incel techbro army sees stuff like USAID, RFE, RFA and VOA as relics of the Cold War not relevant to the current world(could be somewhat true for VOA and Radio Freewhatever) and that the internet is enough to achieve the same goals. This would jive with the fact that they probably live in a bubble of their own farts and completely ignore that the majority of the people in the world in the places they want to influence(that isn't the anglosphere and honorary aryans) don't have running water, let alone regular access to the internet and cant afford Starlink.

They must think twitter and reddit are the real world.
I'm pretty sure X is more real world than things like USAID/RFE/RFA/VOA. Those institutions are controlled by a small group of people that seem completely detached from reality. There's little lost in their absence.
 

sheogorath

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I'm pretty sure X is more real world than things like USAID/RFE/RFA/VOA. Those institutions are controlled by a small group of people that seem completely detached from reality. There's little lost in their absence.

USAID was still getting shit done, though. While the projects had woke sounding names, they were facades for regime-change and comprador training and they had people on the ground in most of the globe so they were actually touching grass in the areas of interest.

The same can't be said about techbros.
 

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Compiled by Ray Dalio. China outranks entire EU, in second place.
it's weird how this list doesn't even include Israel. if we rank countries by their overal strength then we have to include everything. not just their economy or military but also their influence. the second weird thing I noticed is that he ranked Singapore at 11th place higher than countries like the KSA, Turkey, Italy. Singapore is a prosperous city for sure but in the end it is just that, a city state. if we make a list of which country is more prosperous Singapore would probably be number one maybe but this is a list of the total strength not a list of economic perfomance.
personaly that is how I would make the list:

1-USA.
2-China.
3-Eurozone.
4-France.
5-UK.
6-Russia.
7-Israel
8-Germany.
9-Japan.
10-South Korea.
11-Saudi Arabia.
12-Italy
13-Turkey.
14-Brazil.
15-India.
16-Indonesia.
17-Spain.
18-Canada.
19-Asutralia.
20-Malaysia.
21-UAE.
22-Singapore.
23-South Africa.
24-Mexico.

France and the UK have larger more prosperous economies than Russia. plus they are members of the EU & NATO and thus have more influence than Russia in Europe and unlike Germany they do have nukes. France's nuclear arsenal is independant unlike that of the UK which is dependent on the US that is why France is higher than the UK. France's and the UK's military and nuclear arsenal is sufficient for self defence and deterence and while their military is smaller than that of Russia however that is done by choice because the UK & France would rather spend on welfare and keep the military spending at a minimum which is a wise thing to do.

Israel is a prosperous nuclear state and while it is small however Zionist influence basically has the entire west (including the US) by their balls. it is this influence that makes Israel a capable state otherwise it would have been closer to the bottom of the list.
 

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"Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with Belgium, saying it has been "consistently undermined" by the European nation during the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Brussels has been leading calls for European nations to sanction Rwanda over its support for the M23, a rebel group at the centre of DR Congo's crisis.

The authorities in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, have given Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country.

Belgium, which is the former colonial power, has said it will respond to these measures and labelled Rwanda's decision "disproportionate".[...]"
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Randomuser

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it's weird how this list doesn't even include Israel. if we rank countries by their overal strength then we have to include everything. not just their economy or military but also their influence. the second weird thing I noticed is that he ranked Singapore at 11th place higher than countries like the KSA, Turkey, Italy. Singapore is a prosperous city for sure but in the end it is just that, a city state. if we make a list of which country is more prosperous Singapore would probably be number one maybe but this is a list of the total strength not a list of economic perfomance.
personaly that is how I would make the list:

1-USA.
2-China.
3-Eurozone.
4-France.
5-UK.
6-Russia.
7-Israel
8-Germany.
9-Japan.
10-South Korea.
11-Saudi Arabia.
12-Italy
13-Turkey.
14-Brazil.
15-India.
16-Indonesia.
17-Spain.
18-Canada.
19-Asutralia.
20-Malaysia.
21-UAE.
22-Singapore.
23-South Africa.
24-Mexico.

France and the UK have larger more prosperous economies than Russia. plus they are members of the EU & NATO and thus have more influence than Russia in Europe and unlike Germany they do have nukes. France's nuclear arsenal is independant unlike that of the UK which is dependent on the US that is why France is higher than the UK. France's and the UK's military and nuclear arsenal is sufficient for self defence and deterence and while their military is smaller than that of Russia however that is done by choice because the UK & France would rather spend on welfare and keep the military spending at a minimum which is a wise thing to do.

Israel is a prosperous nuclear state and while it is small however Zionist influence basically has the entire west (including the US) by their balls. it is this influence that makes Israel a capable state otherwise it would have been closer to the bottom of the list.
Saar. How dare you put Bharat at 15 and not even in top 10! I'm going to directly @ Modi-Ji on X telling him to take immediate action against you! Then you will understand not to mess with us.
 
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