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dxq4412 said:

Speaking of ending conflict, personally, I think that now it is the Russian side that may be less willing to promote peace talks: Russia’s domestic economy and finance are basically stable, the people have been mobilized, domestic affairs are basically controllable, and the vast majority of third world countries are basically neutral. This year, Russia’s economy may even grow positively, while Western Europe’s politics and economy are generally not good, not to mention the United States. If the war continues until next year, then Biden might as well withdraw from the election. If I were Putin, I would definitely try to drag the war into next year.

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It will drag for long for sure but it always depend how the conflict evolve. Escalation to nuclear weapons is a no-go for Russia but NATO are poking wildely. Russia’s economy is surviving but on a tight rope, the sky is not out of clouds..

Do they want the situation to escalade to that point ? Where and when they will stop ?

Ukraine ''leadership'' don't care at all and if they got anything to escalade the situation they will use it for sure. Clearly, Russia leadership would not want escalation to a state of a NATO direct conflict (beside zealot Medvedev). Right now any nuclear reactors in posession of Ukraine is a ticking bomb for Russian advance.

manqiangrexue said:

OK, last time, I saw a Yahoo article with over 90% of the comments pro-China and I thought it was a fluke or that that issue was too easy for people to see that the US was in the wrong but this time again??!! Same thing, everyone saying the US started the tech war and now it's crying that China fights back, does what the US was always doing. I used to post on Yahoo comments before posting to SDF and the place was an absolute shit hole with Americans saying everybody should be bombed if they don't tow the US line. There appears to be some big big changes after they disallowed comments for a while and now everyone on there seems to realize that the US is just a big bully who cries everytime he gets a taste of his own medicine. I wonder what brought about this change.

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There are like 14 comments total... If they were all Wumaos it would set the SeeSeePee back around a dollar.

siegecrossbow said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1660967482495213569

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Haha, just like I said, he is indirectly spitting at Biden: ‘You Democrats don’t even think about getting a penny of budget from my House!’

Atomicfrog said:

It will drag for long for sure but it always depend how the conflict evolve. Escalation to nuclear weapons is a no-go for Russia but NATO are poking wildely. Russia’s economy is surviving but on a tight rope, the sky is not out of clouds..

Do they want the situation to escalade to that point ? Where and when they will stop ?

Ukraine ''leadership'' don't care at all and if they got anything to escalade the situation they will use it for sure. Clearly, Russia leadership would not want escalation to a state of a NATO direct conflict (beside zealot Medvedev). Right now any nuclear reactors in posession of Ukraine is a ticking bomb for Russian advance.

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Yes, now the whole thing may start to become strange: Biden will become more and more eager to end the conflict for next year’s election, Ukraine will do more out-of-the-box actions in order not to be sold out by Washington, Russia will keep building fortresses and be calm, old Europe will be like a mental patient, wanting to hit Russia but not wanting to escalate the situation, and new Europe basically has a look like they are the real permanent members of the UNSC…

It is a dog and pony show. Kevin McCarthy would eventually have a deal with Biden. If not, Republicans can kiss the next election goodbye. No matter what right-rings advocate for, the reality is majority of Americans aren't buying Republicans' narrative. Republican presidents have accumulated as much debt and spent as much on wasteful wars and projects and even cut taxes with no constraint. You just don't get to be a fiscal conservative when there is a Democrat president.

In order to get the US fiscal back to order, there are both needs of increasing taxes on wealthy and cutting expenditures. Republicans won't have any tax increase. Democrats refuses to cut entitlement programs. Social securities and medicare are both funded by taxpayers social security and medicare tax. So there are not much left to cut except defense budget but defense budget is a no for Republicans so the US would never be able to resolve its debt problem. In the end of the day, it is just a dog and pony show for their constituents.

NATO official visits Taiwan as patchwork approach to countering Beijing emerges​

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Written by a very pro-US hegemony stenographer named Chris Horton but this should make clear that supporting Russia and Belarus to counter Europe should be followed upon by the PRC.

dxq4412 said:

Yes, now the whole thing may start to become strange: Biden will become more and more eager to end the conflict for next year’s election, Ukraine will do more out-of-the-box actions in order not to be sold out by Washington, Russia will keep building fortresses and be calm, old Europe will be like a mental patient, wanting to hit Russia but not wanting to escalate the situation, and new Europe basically has a look like they are the real permanent members of the UNSC…

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Russia cannot sit there and waiting, peace need to be negociated on a long list of their term to be acceptable. Sitting and being on the backfoot while Ukraine are poking them even on thier territory is not the position they can negociate that.

Reaching the Dnieper from north to south could be manageable if Ukraine don't remain neutral. It's probably the minimum in that situation. They are pretty far from the score.

KYli said:

It is a dog and pony show. Kevin McCarthy would eventually have a deal with Biden. If not, Republicans can kiss the next election goodbye. No matter what right-rings advocate for, the reality is majority of Americans aren't buying Republicans' narrative. Republican presidents have accumulated as much debt and spent as much on wasteful wars and projects and even cut taxes with no constraint. You just don't get to be a fiscal conservative when there is a Democrat president.

In order to get the US fiscal back to order, there are both needs of increasing taxes on wealthy and cutting expenditures. Republicans won't have any tax increase. Democrats refuses to cut entitlement programs. Social securities and medicare are both funded by taxpayers social security and medicare tax. So there are not much left to cut except defense budget but defense budget is a no for Republicans so the US would never be able to resolve its debt problem. In the end of the day, it is just a dog and pony show for their constituents.

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Defeat us, defeat the Chinese Communist Party, make the Chinese people bow down to Washington, completely open up China’s financial market, and the US debt problem will be saved.

manqiangrexue said:

Is this a serious question? Mexico is a cheap labor economy. America is a fake money import economy. They complement each other.

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cheap labor compared to what? The labor standards are converging and Mexico investments are at record.

manqiangrexue said:

I have very few positive things to day about America's medical system. They made huge huge mistakes led by Trump, but they are recovered now and America's economy is still way stronger than Mexico's.

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stronger compared to Mexico? Is Mexico doing debt negotiation. does Mexican universities needs so much international students.
have you looked at record immigrant flows both legal and illegal. look up Reagan 1986 amnesty.

manqiangrexue said:

For example, whom?

Mexico has a large trade surplus with the US because Mexican cheap labor makes things while American fake money buys things.

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Mexico is gaining skills and investments in factories. These will ultimately lift there wealth, life expectancy.

manqiangrexue said:

Yeah but that's unrelated to the discussion. The point is that Mexicans immigrate to the US because Mexico has a large economic hard power disparity with the US.

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so show me how many and what skills. didnt i put the link that 1.6M Americans resides in Mexico and they have the busiest land border.

manqiangrexue said:

Cite any article that says it's a standard to measure country's competence based on their airport capacity and their ability to hire ground controllers. Who, other than you, recognizes this "standard?"

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Aviation is the strategic industry both for US and Arabs.

manqiangrexue said:

Completely irrelevent fact.
This has already been shown again and again. Mexicans from poor unskilled laborers to PhDs are all attracted to immigrating to the US. Americans, far fewer in number, are attracted to the cheap cost of living in Mexico. There is no data as to their degrees or whether they are even still employed but in order to take advantage of that, they must make money by American standards and spend it at Mexican standards, something which is only possibly if they are retired, working remotely for an American company while physically in Mexico or management sent by a US company operating in Mexico. Americans, even the unskilled, don't go to Mexico to do menial labor because it makes no economic sense.

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The places which are Tourist and Safe will be expensive as more tourist and investment flows to Mexico. Americans need ever more help from outside and you think they can go to Mexico and help them.

manqiangrexue said:

This is entirely your unsubstatiated imagination. It shows that you have absolutely no mental self-check that you write nonsense like this while you ask other people for sources and data.

Canadians do not have a strong desire to immigrate to the US. When COVID struck, Americans were trying to get into Canada but the immigration office was overloaded and denied them. On the South, Mexicans were still coming into the US and Trump was shouting to build the wall to keep them out.

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There were close to 1m Canadians residing in US and that was before Covid.

manqiangrexue said:

That's all hard power.

No, intelligence is also hard power. Only charm is soft power. You are very very confused about what soft power is; you think that having the workforce to become a manufacturing hub or to build an economy is soft power, when manpower and management are all hard assets and skills, making them hard power. You have always failed to define soft power and continue to show no understanding of it.

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Management and manpower are created by Society through values which is Soft Power. You dont need an MBA to be an effective leader. some countries can do manufacturing, construction and farming better than others..

Atomicfrog said:

Russia cannot sit there and waiting, peace need to be negociated on a long list of their term to be acceptable. Sitting and being on the backfoot while Ukraine are poking them even on thier territory is not the position they can negociate that.

Reaching the Dnieper from north to south could be manageable if Ukraine don't remain neutral. It's probably the minimum in that situation. They are pretty far from the score.

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Uh, that’s my mistake. I didn’t mean to say that Russia would do nothing and wait for a favorable treaty to be automatically delivered. I just meant that Russia is not as eager to break through the front line and anxiously seek ways to capture Kiev as the West was told, but just sit calmly on its position and build permanent fortresses, waiting for wave after wave of Ukrainians to rush up and die.