This is like the second stage of a biblical plague - first the Supapowas, now floods
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I don't think China was ever going for green tech because of climate change either. It's just a cover to bring about an "integrated electric society". No more fuel, electricity directly transformed to movement/logistics.
China is the world's largest energy and energy tech/storage producer. A society where electricity is the new oil makes China the new Saudi Arabia.
And even if no one else is as highly enthusiastic or have the ability to fund a whole society transformation to electric, completing the transformation still has huge geopolitical implications for China.
Current China is oil sufficient with minor rationing using land routes from allies. But that's with nearly a billion cars/trucks wasting oil. When all of those are electric, every bit of oil China produces or imports would go solely to aerospace and navy, meaning China can through strategic petroleum reserve alone be near indefinitely sufficient.
Didn't they say only corrupt 3rd world countries like China experience flooding due to stolen infrastructure?
What terrible flooding in Duolunduo, China.
You know, I actually think this could be China's strategy, to get ready to invade Taiwan or destroy TSMC factories.
Let's play Sun Tzu.
What is important to President Trump?
A lot of things, but two things top the list, and that is President Trump cares about the stock market, and President Trump cares about the white blue collar worker.
Without chips, the economy will tank, causing the stock market to fall; and factory production will stop, leading to layoffs.
China will get far more aggressive these coming years in regards of how to handle Taiwan, especially they do not like the current guy there.
In the end, they do not care about Taiwan, compared to the stock market, ie their own money, or their factories, ie their jobs.
So we see how aggressive both sides will be.
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This kind of take never made sense to me since most of first world experiences flooding almost annually, as long as I can remember.
We need that and a face palm emoji.
^^^ This! Too many people believe there will be a change towards a more peaceful foreign policy. I'm expecting the SCS to heat up and the Philippines would likely be the next candidate to follow Ukraine's footsteps. I don't expect anything significant will happen on the Korean peninsula due to Russia's backing. And then there's South East Asia with some low intensity destabilization efforts (IIRC).
But, the greatest focus will be against Iran because of Trump's power base. Netanyahu needs to hold out a bit longer until Jan 2025. I'm not sure if there is enough time for Israel as things aren't looking great for them.
Petrodollar. The power of the US dollar is coming to an end but it'll take some time for it to happen.
Not true; Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine (-ish). The guy almost started one against Iran with the assassination of the Iranian diplomatic envoy to Saudi Arabia. Tehran was smart enough to not take the bait.
Rather risky move if true. Just look how much backpeddling after the attempted assassination. The "Get Trump!" idiots didn't realize someone will eventually carry out what they've been advocating for the past several years. It's too early to comment on the USSS. It's either they allowed it to happen or, it's pure incompetence.
We can handle another Cold War but, don't expect it to be like the first one. IMHO, we're already in another Cold War.
More on Vance and why he is very bad news times for everyone everywhere in the world.
Case study: my country
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Below actual results in 2015, 2019 and 2023 when "conservatives" won, defended and lost power against "globalist liberals".
Polish parliamentary election, lower chamber results - proportional method, multi-mandate districts
- PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, lit. Law and Justice) - the "conservatives"
- democratic opposition (various parties, forming coalitions against PiS includig other conservative factions) - the "globalist liberals"
year turnout PiS, seats PiS, cast votes PiS, eligible voters democratic opposition, seats democratic opposition, cast votes democratic opposition, eligible voters 2011 48,92% 157/460 29,89% 14,62% 302/460 65,80% 32,19% 2015 50,92% 235/460 37,58% 19,12% 208/460 44,37% 22,59% 2019 61,74% 235/460 43,59% 26,91% 213/460 48,51% 29,95% 2023 74,38% 194/460 35,38% 26,32% 248/460 53,71% 39,95%
Polish parliamentary election, upper chamber results - FPTP, single mandate districts
year turnout PiS, seats PiS, cast votes PiS, eligible voters democratic opposition, seats democratic opposition, cast votes democratic opposition, eligible voters 2011 48,92% 31/100 26,94% 13,18% 71/100 57,34% 28,05% 2015 50,92% 62/100 40,28% 20,51% 38/100 41,48% 21,12% 2019 61,74% 48/100 44,56% 27,51% 52/100 45,28% 27,96% 2023 74,38% 34/100 34,81% 25,89% 65/100 47,92% 35,64%
Polish parliamentary election, lower chamber trends
year turnout PiS cast votes PiS, eligible voters PiS, seats dem opposition, cast votes dem opposition, eligible voters dem opposition, seats 2011 to 2015 +2,0% +7,69% +4,50% +48 -21,43% -9,60% -94 2015 to 2019 +10,82% +6,01% +7,89% +0 +4,14% +7,36% +5 2019 to 2023 +12,64% -8,20% -0,59% -41 +5,20% +10.0% +35
According to Vance when 19% of eligible voters gain 51% seats that's democracy but when 40% of eligible voters gain 54% of seats and force accountability on the previous government then that's not democracy.
The political opponents are also arrested on criminal charges relating to misuse of public funds for private gain as well as illegal funding of political campaigns. And those are not some minor incidents. The corruption under the previous government was completely out of control and out of proportion.
Poland had historically very low turnouts in parliamentary elections. From 1991 to 2015 the highest turnout was 52% in 1993 and lowest was 40% in 2005 when the current political system with a dominant duopoly (PiS backed by Republicans and PO/KO backed by Democrats) emerged victorious. The elections in 2019 and 2023 were an anomaly, and in particular in 2023 the participation from the youngest voters was particularly high, higher than some of the other groups.
But that's only half of the problem. Knowing the broader context shows just how dangerous and malicious the "Trumpian" right is in particular and what their tools are.
How did "conservatives" win in 2015? They were assisted by Americans who were in the process of buying out Polish media outlets and also used other assets e.g. Israeli online troll networks and used spolier tactics that were a completely unknown in Polish politics but were a standard play in American FPTP. A soft coup.
Since 2015 (actually earlier) an overt two-pronged assault on Polish media (from the "conservatives" and from American capital) put Poland below US in terms of media freedom indices. Believe or not, thanks to two decades of democratic reform post 1991 and EU requirements Poland in 2014 was ahead of the US and UK in press and media freedom in Reporters Without Borders ranking.
2014: Poland #19, US #46, UK #33
2016: Poland #47, US #41, UK #38
2022: Poland #66, US #42, UK #24
This however is not all. It gets worse. American right expects everyone to adopt their values and give a lot of money to that aim.
Polish "conservatives" won in 2015 and immediately proceeded to copy Republican policies of systemic transformation in a state that is based not on English common law and Westminster system but French post-revolutionary model with Civil law. They started treating Polish constitutional tribunals as if they were American SCOTUS. Except that SCOTUS is for life and interprets constitution while Polish tribunals have term limits, reconcile laws with constitution, and also are by law required to work with the European tribunals since Poland is a member of EU and accepts the common legal framework (acquis communitaire). This created complete legal chaos because what works in American system can never work here because we use completely different rules. Also American system is divived between two interpretations of the constitution. We have no such split in the EU - civil law is a positive law i.e. it always changes and adapts to democratic process. "Literalism" in the EU is completely different than in the US. It means what the law means currently and whether a change is required or not. Not what it is supposed to mean forever.
That was what caused the EU to sanction the "conservatives": the overt and deliberate attempt to destroy the legal system, undermine separation of powers and democratic process. But if you follow "Polish" media or "Polish" internet you may be very confused about it all, because you're already within the American-run Overton window which is how Poland went from #19 to #66.
Another thing which the "conservatives" did to harmonise with their American paymasters' ideology was to ban abortion in case of fetal defect. In Poland, unlike the US, regular abortion was already not legal since 1993 (legal before) They did it by using their illegal tribunals because a regular bill could be too easily overturned.
Finally the "conservatives" also began to normalise an attempt to take Poland out of the EU. For those who are not aware, Poland is one of the most consistently pro-EU countries in the Union. (Interestingly American-controlled media normalised the rhetoric giving it the impression that it's a rational position and forcing politicians to debate insane ideas with pathological liars. This way something that is completely against Poland's national interest is being presented as a valid position, just in case DC needs to use it for leverage).
In spring of 2023 level of support for the EU was at 87% and it has never fallen below 65% no matter how the question is framed for political purposes in other surveys. But there was a time when "Polexit" was openly discussed in public ("conservative" controlled) media and commercial outlets. Insanity!
And that is why 74,58% of eligible voters went to the polls and removed "conservatives" from power. But J.D. Vance doesn't acknowledge that because his side lost and he will do everything to put them back in power as soon as he's VP.
The attitude that they had toward Poland extends to every other country in the world.
Except Poland is a NATO ally and one of the most pro-American societies in Europe, as well as one of the very few countries with a sizeable pro-Trump faction. Even at the current moment with "liberal globalist" government in power Trump and Republicans would have better reception to their interest in Poland than in any other major country in Europe, with the exception of (perhaps) Meloni's Italy.
So if that's how they treat us... just how would they treat everyone else???
And as a closing note - if his wife isn't enough, this was Vance's political advisor for his 2022 run:
You're adding to the "democratic opposition" votes Konfederacja party, which this guy comes from
Not just in the Republican Party, but within democrats too, many of them hold senior level positions. I don’t know why Chinese people are less interested in politics or running for office.
tu lang tun, 土狼屯
CCP (Canadian Conservative Party) clearly losing mandate of heaven, terrible to witness.