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manqiangrexue said:

Buying weapons from the Christians that the Christians can shut off at will. Retards.

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where you get this idea they are against Christians?.
The flights from Gulf Emirates to India dont discriminate whether a city is Hindu dominated or not. They look at the Skill of the people.
All that BRICS meetup will have more Arab countries or the countries they want to see them there. ( it does not matter whether they want to join or not). If you dont read the history than obviously you will laugh at trucks.
There is no place for any person whether its Saladin of 12 century or Saddam Hussian of 20th century except for hired mercenary doing the bidding for Gulf Emirates. This Arabian Peninsula has well defined borders and any one trying to be leader at there expense gets endless kicks.
This is visible Soft Power. The un visible i am not bringing.

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"As you know, we have also sent a frigate to the Red Sea because we are interested in freedom of navigation for many, I think, understandable reasons. But with one difference: the Patriot battery from Saudi Arabia can return to Greece within a few days, and if you transfer a battery to Ukraine, it is not sent back. So, for us there is no question of sending Patriot and S-300," Mitsotakis said.

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pmc said:

where you get this idea they are against Christians?.

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By the fact that Christians and Muslims have killed each other in history and Christians are arming the Israelis to kill Muslims. Why? Are they so stupid that they cannot differentiate friend from foe anymore?

pmc said:

The flights from Gulf Emirates to India dont discriminate whether a city is Hindu dominated or not. They look at the Skill of the people.

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Did you write this for someone else? This has absolutely no meaning or place in a discussion with me...

pmc said:

All that BRICS meetup will have more Arab countries or the countries they want to see them there. ( it does not matter whether they want to join or not).

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They've got money and they've got oil so they're invited, just like many countries that don't even have these things. But if they don't want to come, they can go and nobody will miss them.

pmc said:

If you dont read the history than obviously you will laugh at trucks.

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I'm just laughing at you.

pmc said:

There is no place for any person whether its Saladin of 12 century or Saddam Hussian of 20th century except for hired mercenary doing the bidding for Gulf Emirates.

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There is no place for any person? What the f does that mean?

pmc said:

This Arabian Peninsula has well defined borders and any one trying to be leader at there expense gets endless kicks.

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So... it has no leader? Scattered tribes then? I'd agree that the Arabs are nothing but scattered tribes with no power to fight or shape the world.

pmc said:

This is visible Soft Power.

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Visible soft belly only.

pmc said:

The un visible i am not bringing."

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The "un" visible? LOLOL How poorly educated you are. Yes, don't bring your "un" visible imagination. Keep it in your prescription cabinet.

pmc said:

"As you know, we have also sent a frigate to the Red Sea because we are interested in freedom of navigation for many, I think, understandable reasons. But with one difference: the Patriot battery from Saudi Arabia can return to Greece within a few days, and if you transfer a battery to Ukraine, it is not sent back. So, for us there is no question of sending Patriot and S-300," Mitsotakis said.

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Pathetic imported equipment at the mercy of others to allow them use or to be shut off at will. And an even more pathetic mindset to brag about it. True powers make their own weapons.

The app’s executives proposed giving the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south. The administration declined, setting up an existential legal fight.

To save itself, TikTok in 2022 offered the U.S. government an extraordinary deal.
The video app, owned by a Chinese company, said it would let federal officials pick its U.S. operation’s board of directors, would give the government veto power over each new hire and would pay an American company that contracts with the Defense Department to monitor its source code, according to a copy of the company’s proposal. It even offered to give federal officials a kill switch that would shut the app down in the United States if they felt it remained a threat.

The Biden administration, however, went its own way. Officials declined the proposal, forfeiting potential influence over one of the world’s most popular apps in favor of a blunter option: a forced-sale law

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that could lead to TikTok’s nationwide ban.

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Bytedance denied the allegations in Chinese, though tbh I trust WaPo over Bytedance here.

coolgod said:

Bytedance denied the allegations in Chinese, though tbh I trust WaPo over Bytedance here.

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This is propaganda from Western media.

Essentially the story was saying that TikTok was willing to give itself away, like it was worthless.

Chinese companies are worthless, and deserve to be banned, dismembered, and owned by Americans buying it cheap.

See how the propaganda works.



That is how it works.

Dehumanize the Jew, then they went after all the Jews in those dark days.

Here is more of a dirty commercial play, which will not work.

manqiangrexue said:

For sure the British are evil and Western colonialism caused many problems of the world but how are you going to move forward? Has no one moved forward from it? Blaming the past and and blaming those with ill intent towards you is always an easy thing and an exercise in self-soothing but it is never the thing to do to move forward. To move forward, the situation at hand needs to be assessed and the question that needs to be asked is, "What do I need to do to achieve my goals." If Muslims asked themselves that with a logical rather than theological mindset, they would realize that the current problem they are facing is exactly what I said it is, and the solution is also exactly what I said it is. Blaming the British is like drinking and doing drugs to make the current reality less painful; blaming yourself and working hard is the fighting spirit that can change that reality.

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Its not purely historical, the meddling by foreign powers have never ceased. Any regime that begins the process of independent development and institution building that does not become a vassal to a foreign power is ruthless toppled or couped. Outside of East Asia, do you see a single developed state that was a former colony, outside of oil-rich vassal states?

coolgod said:

To save itself, TikTok in 2022 offered the U.S. government an extraordinary deal.
The video app, owned by a Chinese company, said it would let federal officials pick its U.S. operation’s board of directors, would give the government veto power over each new hire and would pay an American company that contracts with the Defense Department to monitor its source code, according to a copy of the company’s proposal. It even offered to give federal officials a kill switch that would shut the app down in the United States if they felt it remained a threat.

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This is all propaganda, because this already all happened, but to other Chinese companies under different circumstances.

ZTE after the Trump administration fined them for breaking the deal they had with the US government, allowed a compliance officer from the US government to oversee their operations IIRC.

Huawei offered a deal to the US government that they will sell their stuff pertaining to 5G to only one US company to stay in business in America, and not be banned there. The play from Huawei's angle was obvious, if not banned in America, then not banned anywhere else. In hindsight, none of it mattered. Huawei was just too strong.

Then there is another angle to a propaganda story, which here they talk about a kill switch. That kill switch has been in the news due to the fight with ASML in the middle of that fight, who allegedly have a kill switch too. The propaganda is suppose to make people believe they are more powerful than they really are, so to continue the fight, even if they are losing. Look at Ukraine, they keep fighting, and they keep dying, that is good propaganda they doing in Ukraine.

Lastly, we know this is propaganda, because this is an old story from 2022 according to them. No one can keep a secret in America. Kind of interesting why they bringing it up now.

BoraTas said:

Some US Army soldiers passed the Atlantic ocean in 110-ton LCMs for this pier. Imagine spending 37 days on the ocean in a small and flat-bottom vessel. I bet they won't enlist again. One of the said landing craft also ran aground while trying to rescue the tugboat which itself had run aground while trying to rescue the pier.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1795485022813880722

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Modern American engineering and manufacturing prowess in a nutshell.

manqiangrexue said:

For sure the British are evil and Western colonialism caused many problems of the world but how are you going to move forward? Has no one moved forward from it? Blaming the past and and blaming those with ill intent towards you is always an easy thing and an exercise in self-soothing but it is never the thing to do to move forward. To move forward, the situation at hand needs to be assessed and the question that needs to be asked is, "What do I need to do to achieve my goals." If Muslims asked themselves that with a logical rather than theological mindset, they would realize that the current problem they are facing is exactly what I said it is, and the solution is also exactly what I said it is. Blaming the British is like drinking and doing drugs to make the current reality less painful; blaming yourself and working hard is the fighting spirit that can change that reality.

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You sound like someone from 150 years ago blaming Chinese culture and Confucianism for why China fell behind the west. Most Muslim states are developing, but expecting every country to be as technologically advanced as China is honestly ridiculous.

Look at countries like turkey, Iran, the UAE, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia for Muslim countries that are investing in technology and developing their countries. Of course there's also cases like Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. But for many of these countries I'd argue that their mistake is not being too religious to focus on technology and work, but that they are too proud to submit to a powerful backer. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan are in the state they are because they were attacked. In the case of Iraq and Syria, attacks came despite a secular state trying to deemphasize religion. Some of them are simply innocent victims

Minm said:

You sound like someone from 150 years ago blaming Chinese culture and Confucianism for why China fell behind the west. Most Muslim states are developing, but expecting every country to be as technologically advanced as China is honestly ridiculous.

Look at countries like turkey, Iran, the UAE, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia for Muslim countries that are investing in technology and developing their countries. Of course there's also cases like Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. But for many of these countries I'd argue that their mistake is not being too religious to focus on technology and work, but that they are too proud to submit to a powerful backer. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan are in the state they are because they were attacked. In the case of Iraq and Syria, attacks came despite a secular state trying to deemphasize religion. Some of them are simply innocent victims

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To be fair, 150 years ago there were genuine issues with the way Chinese culture and Confucianism were practiced.
Primarily, the belief that one's own ways were the best and only; all others are either wrong or will be revealed to be wrong after enough time has passed.

The arrogance that arose from centuries of this style of thinking is what led to corruption, subversion of the state's purpose (to serve the people, not the ruling elite) and misjudgment of the dangers that were approaching, ultimately leading to the disastrous events of the century of humiliation.

The reason that China was able to get back on its feet so quickly (in historical terms) was precisely moving to identify and overcome any inherent blind spots (the 1949 version rather than the mid 1800's version), leading to where China is today - a rising global power on it's way to unseat the leading legacy powers, and through peaceful self development to boot.

FriedRiceNSpice said:

Its not purely historical, the meddling by foreign powers have never ceased. Any regime that begins the process of independent development and institution building that does not become a vassal to a foreign power is ruthless toppled or couped. Outside of East Asia, do you see a single developed state that was a former colony, outside of oil-rich vassal states?

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And they're not going to cease. Strength is developed from within. If they can't do it, they're gonna be under a boot forever. My solution is how to get out. Doing anything else, whether it be blaming history or hostile powers is to continue accepting failure.

Minm said:

You sound like someone from 150 years ago blaming Chinese culture and Confucianism for why China fell behind the west.

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Indeed, if I went back in time to become Emperor, I would have instilled a culture of discipline and scientific endeavor that would have fortified China into a military power with jet fighters and nuclear weapons before the West ever dared set foot on our land with their ugly old steam-powered machines. Weakness is always wrong and China fell behind the West due to a period of weakness and decadence.

Minm said:

Most Muslim states are developing, but expecting every country to be as technologically advanced as China is honestly ridiculous.

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I never expected them to be like us, but at least they could stand up like North Korea.

Minm said:

Look at countries like turkey, Iran, the UAE, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia for Muslim countries that are investing in technology and developing their countries. Of course there's also cases like Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. But for many of these countries I'd argue that their mistake is not being too religious to focus on technology and work, but that they are too proud to submit to a powerful backer. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan are in the state they are because they were attacked. In the case of Iraq and Syria, attacks came despite a secular state trying to deemphasize religion. Some of them are simply innocent victims

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None of these countries that you mentioned have developed any significant technology. Turkey is the best and I'd say they have a chance at fighting Israel but they are still heavily reliant on foreign technology. Nothing here compares to the height of Muslim power.