Her mistake is not being part of the western elites shouldn't have been a poor teacher. Should have become a corrupt democratic official.
Her mistake is not being part of the western elites shouldn't have been a poor teacher. Should have become a corrupt democratic official.
It was a shithole even before all the wars, GDPs per capita of Belarus, Iraq and even Iran were higher than Ukraine back in 2013.Ukraine's GDP per capita was less than Belarus (sanctioned like crazy) and Iraq (Invaded by the US) in 2022.
To think the safety of the world rest in the shoulders of crazy nut cases that represent a 1/3 of the USA who are the most likely to participate in the purge should it ever come around. Really, I am surprised that mad max has yet to happen when the nation have completely devolved into tent cities and people literally walking around drugged like zombiesSo. 1/3 of Americans are batshit crazy.
That's yet another confirmation of the "Keyes Constant" (aka Crazification factor) which says 20-30% of the US population are simply batshit insane.
What's infuriating is that they had everything they needed within their borders to be a Middle power like France or Japan. Fertile soil, oil and gas,nukes,heavy industry and technology,Warm port etc but their population and elite where obsessed with being accepted as one of the west that they practically ran it to ground.It was a shithole even before all the wars, GDPs per capita of Belarus, Iraq and even Iran were higher than Ukraine back in 2013.
the irony is that there’s a significant chance that the Indians will cowardly not turn up to fight China when the balloon goes up, so that the west betrayed their own ideals for nothing.India the hypocrite gets a pass from the super hypocritical west when it comes to their democracy loving treatments of their Muslim population.
Nah, they could at best become like other Eastern European states (e.g. Poland) - not really relevant politically but have decent living standards. Still MUCH better fate.What's infuriating is that they had everything they needed within their borders to be a Middle power like France or Japan. Fertile soil, oil and gas,nukes,heavy industry and technology,Warm port etc but their population and elite where obsessed with being accepted as one of the west that they practically ran it to ground.
Polish can never build advanced high bypass jet engines even if their life depended on it let alone nukes, Ukraine before the war could do both and that was with decades of mismanagement, corruption and negligence, They even had the third largest nuclear weapons stockpile and a half finished nuclear aircraft carrier at the time of formation retards sold both for scrapsNah, they could at best become like other Eastern European states (e.g. Poland) - not really relevant politically but have decent living standards. Still MUCH better fate.
I had a look across the political spectrum to get a feel for what each major party's supporters are saying and basically:
ALP (the current government) side - Albanese is handling Australian-China relationships much better than Scomo and this is another win by Labor, hopefully wine to come soon as well
Liberals (the opposition) side - China is doing this so that this same card could be played again in the future and Labor is falling for it. We should diversify our exports to other countries.
It's curious, neither side are pitching this as a straight up victory in trade war, both side of the political spectrum seems to believe the decision was firmly in China's hand and quite a lot of people seem to wish for return to normal trade relations in other areas to follow (wine, tourism, education etc).
I would've thought there would be more chest beating over this. From China perspective this could be United Front "ally with lesser enemy to strike at the main enemy" type deal to cause rift within 5 Eyes, in additional to any pragmatic reasons due to price fluctuation and Ukraine war.