Cant see it happening in the way you have been describing.
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@emblem21 bro to answer lets make a comparison what is the barometer for appointing a gov't official. In Xi China MERITOCARCY in Biden Woke American its Incompetency. Which ever party wins in the 2024 presidential election the same thing will happen cause the Americans are BEREFT of Competent Leadership to choose from, it permeated from the top downward with political mobility is being restricted and CONTROLLED by the elites (lobbyist).
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Yeah brother, cannot disagree.
Maybe we can even summarize it down further.
Pillars 1 thru 4, that essentially throwing money at the problem. That is kind of a typical Liberal tax and spend policy, throwing money at the problem. Today it is more like print the money to throw at the problem.
With pillars 1 thru 4, if anywhere it involves foreigners, and the foreigners do not comply, then the coercion starts again. Forcing TSMC and Samsung to reveal their trade secrets and underwear, that is what they wanted, when they could not get what they wanted.
Last pillar 5, that is the strangest one of all. When China joined the WTO, it gave all the concessions. The United States set the rules. Then China excelled in this globalized environment. The rules of globalization was set by the United States. Even with the trade war, which was started by the United States, they set new rules with that trade deal. In Afghanistan, everything was set up by the United States, even their retreat. The Americans routinely ignore history. All these events all happen under the rules set by the United States. Now they say they will set more rules.
Guess this time it will be different!
These five pillars of how the United States will deal with China can be summarized into three principles.
1. Throw money at the problem.
2. Use coercion.
3. Ignore history.
Then the Liberal media would praise this plan.
Tell that to European farmers. The Russian counter sanctions were a massive hit. There were shortages in Russia as a result for like 1-2 years but Russian agribusiness supplies all their needs now, and Russia are even exporting their food surplus to the Middle East.
Russia produces more wheat today than the Soviet Union did when it still had Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Those European producers were not as lucky and a lot of them went bankrupt. The pork and poultry suppliers for example.
Russia isn't Saudi Arabia and a lot of the gas is used in their own economy to produce goods and services. If Europe doesn't want cheap gas, then industry will move towards where the cheap energy is. This is already happening to a degree.
That is bullshit. You are reading too much Western propaganda. Russia's Gazprom wants long term stable fixed gas price contracts. This way they can properly fund gas field expansion and pipeline network construction. It is the EU which started a natural gas stock exchange in Amsterdam and bought the US propaganda about cheap US LNG. Guess what, that US LNG previously being sold below cost is now gone, with US both reducing its production and exporting what they do have towards Asian customers more willing to pay. At the same time both the Netherlands and Norway gas production is shrinking. Geez, just like Gazprom had warned for at least five years now, and used as rationale to build Nord Stream 2. The EU made its own mess here. Russia is for the most part not seeing benefit from those stock market gas price increases because they are locked into long term gas supply contracts. It is mostly the LNG speculators who are profiting. Gazprom has limited exposure to the LNG market to begin with. They mostly sell gas via pipe.
Russia is building gas pipelines to China. If Europe doesn't want the gas, there is a much larger market available. Power of Siberia 2 aka Soyuz Vostok will be connected to the same Yamal gas fields which export gas to Europe. They will be able to switch gas from one customer to the other at the flick of a switch.
Russia does not need any more dependents to feed.
Ukraine is now the poorest country in Europe and is at the level of some African countries. There was a massive population exodus from Ukraine to all over Western Europe. Millions of people. If that is winning, well, you have a funny concept of winning.
They might have pretensions but in case of conflict they just lack strategic depth. In case of full scale conventional war they wouldn't last a week. But like I said, Russia isn't interested in feeding dependents. It is much better to keep their mineral wealth to themselves thank you very much.
They are doing as well as they can with the crummy hand they have been dealt with. If things were like the US wanted the Caucasus would have split into an Islamic Caliphate and the Russian Federation would have further disintegrated with perhaps Siberia being next.
Russian citizens don't live lives of luxury but they are way, way, better off than they were in the late 90s.
@gelgoog bro nice rebuttal and may add 1 more even though I'm not Russian, Sanctioning Russia makes her more powerful, self sufficient and therefore in geopolitics a MAJOR PLAYER. A mistake which the West instead of acknowledging are trying to double down, wishing and engineering a return to Yeltsin Russia era. That's why they hate Putin so much...lol
@bajingan bro I'm not a religious person but the stars are aligned for a Rising China with blessings that keep on giving.
All of which had been facilitate by the West...lolMy understanding western hubris played a part especially during the Yeltsin era where the west really exploited Russia economically. It was on the edge and if it does fall off, spiritually (orthodox church), culturally and socially it will be like the situation currently prevailing in Ukraine were malaise is prevalent. Putin saved Russia and for that the West had an axed to grind cause their project failed.
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@bajingan bro I'm not a religious person but the stars are aligned for a Rising China with blessings that keep on giving.
My understanding western hubris played a part especially during the Yeltsin era where the west really exploited Russia economically. It was on the edge and if it does fall off, spiritually (orthodox church), culturally and socially it will be like the situation currently prevailing in Ukraine were malaise is prevalent. Putin saved Russia and for that the West had an axed to grind cause their project failed.
Bro, the stars are aligned, and the Gods are smiling...
You know jack shit about how Asylum works.
You can translate it by google translate on Twitter.
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BTW. In my opinion, recent action by Belarus by bringing migrants from the Middle East to the border of Poland is to make trouble for UE.
Firstly, for sanction, UE gave Lukaszenka and Belarus.
Secondly, It may be a pretext for the EU to make further sanctions, and Putin may react by finally incorporating Belarus into Russia in a worst-case scenario. In either way, Russia will have more leverage over Belarus. Maybe Russia can install in Belarus a big military base.
Some videos from the border and not only.