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Bellum_Romanum said:

WTF is this Sheesh man! The man is flat from the front and back! He's not even f...ble in his female form!

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To be fair, he was homeschooled for a while according to this 2014 article:

It reminds me of what you or another user said about these tech bros years ago: a bunch of weirdos who got power due to the rise of high tech and taking out their rage on the world (especially women) from their lonely years in high school

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Bellum_Romanum said:

It's not a surprise why most Latin countries remain stuck in the endless cycle of poverty, crime, prostitution, and corruption because they are truly incapable (not all) of exercising COMMON SENSE!

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I mean I guess there is a cultural reason why Corruption is rampent in Latin America is because they got it from Spain. The Spanish Government including the Royal Family is corrupt.

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I mean I guess there is a cultural reason why Corruption is rampent in Latin America is because they got it from Spain. The Spanish Government including the Royal Family is corrupt.

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All former Spanish colonies are all corrupt, because religion played a major part of propagating corruption. Just look at the Catholic teaching, you need to pay alms for religious services, from the moment you were born (baptism) to raising a family (wedding) till your death (funeral wake).

tokenanalyst said:

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It's about time Beijing starts asserting itself more decisively in these kinds of situations that are primed to unravel and be exploited by the usual suspects—the Western powers and their allies—who have a clear interest in destabilizing countries vital to China's economic development and connectivity.

China can no longer afford to let those adversaries dictate the terms, the pace, and the framing of every conflict. Right now, Beijing is perpetually on the back foot: always reacting to their moves and countermoves, constantly playing defense while the other side shapes the battlefield. Worse still is the narrative control game. The West routinely portrays China as both the malevolent instigator (aggressively pursuing total domination) and the pathetic, desperate loser (a totalitarian, dystopian regime on the verge of demographic collapse, begging for acceptance it will never get from countries and peoples that view it with deep aversion).

This double-bind narrative isn't accidental—it's a deliberate strategy to delegitimize China, isolate it diplomatically, and justify containment, sanctions, and proxy conflicts. By staying reactive, Beijing allows adversaries to set the agenda: they provoke, China responds, the media spins the response as "aggression," and the cycle repeats.

How China process and proceed their moves within her periphery is going to be an interesting dynamics to witness.

plawolf said:

Yep, China just effectively announced a 3 year count down.

It’s not an immediate ultimatum, but China doesn’t fuck around when it comes to top national security issues. So in 3 years max, you can bet the PLA will be ready for the modern updated version of Operation Downfall.

It should be noted that just because China has set an effective target date of 3 years from now, it doesn’t mean the PLA can’t go tomorrow. China already have the hard power military capability to precision strike any concrete Japanese push towards a nuclear bomb to prevent breakout, as well as the means to launch a full invasion of the Japanese home islands to ensure full eradication of the nuclear threat. But to do so now will be costly for China. These 3 additional years is meant to radically reduce that cost in blood and treasure to China to launch such a war.

The best part is Trump could still potentially be in charge at that point, so he can eat one last giant Taco for the road, or he could potentially seize this opportunity to suspend the constitution and cancel elections until the crisis is over, effectively making himself Emperor Trump. No doubt those considerations have been actively embraced in Chinese strategic planning.

This war isn’t inevitable, far from it. But when China sets itself such grand multi year plans, they don’t hold back and tend to utterly smash their targets. While many might scoff at the suggestion that China can take Japan today, I think far fewer would question it in 3 years time.

It’s kinda interesting to think we may actually have a potential timeframe for when China will push for the Taiwan question to finally be answered. And the first moves on that game plan might be to take Japan and reunite Korea under Kim, thereby maximising the chances of a peaceful reunification.

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Why 3 year that particular number, not 5 or 10?

TK3600 said:

Why 3 year that particular number, not 5 or 10?

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Almost certainly a whole catalogue of reasons, but the most obvious being:
- Based on genuine assessment of how long it might take Japan to achieve nuclear breakout
- Trump will still be in power, which makes the broader strategic calculus a lot easier as he is a known quantity. In 5 years, there will be a new President which adds massive uncertainty on how they might behave and respond.
- PLA internal wish list of what additional next gen platforms and munitions stocks they might ideally want for such a mission and when those assets can be procured in the required quantities.
- Economic and industrial consideration on the length of time needed to secure alternative domestic supplies of whatever core products China still buys from Japan, America and Europe to minimise economic pain and industrial production disruption from the inevitable trade disruption such a war will cause and likely resultant Western sanctions. A stretch objective might be to provide viable alternatives to Japanese supplies on a global scale to offer to neutral 3rd parties to minimise global complaints from economic damage spillovers.
- Length of time needed to liquidate and evacuate Chinese state assets in jurisdictions under western control to minimise economic losses from western looting under the Russian model.
- Length of time the diplomatic corps thinks is required to establish a credible degree of international acceptance if not outright support for Chinese actions.
- Chinese strategic estimates on when America might try to initiate kinetic confrontation as a last gasp effort to overturn the inevitable future projections of continued full spectrum leapfrogging by China to the point where Chinese hard power becomes overwhelming.
- Chinese nuclear armament expansion targets for when China can achieve nuclear parity with the U.S. in terms of deployed nuclear warhead numbers.
- Chinese ABM defence key milestone completion dates.

The list could go on and on.

Bellum_Romanum said:

Yeah... but idiots like Simu Liu—those ABCs (American-born Chinese) and CBCs (Canadian-born Chinese) flooding into Canada and the U.S.—are so deeply wedded to the "liberal heterodoxy" that they only see the good while willfully overlooking (dare I say glossing over) all the hideous crimes these countries have committed. They swallow whole the cadswalloped myth of "equality" and "fairness," fully repudiating their country of origin and culture in the process, all so they can be cast as the "good Asian/Chinese."

Despite this total cultural and identity castration, they're shocked to realize that none of it is enough to gain entry into the club of HUWHITENESS—especially for Asian men. Unless you're literally willing to get your barn doors entered and suck on those executive lollipops, your roles will be strictly limited to the emasculating, effeminizing parts Hollywood and society hand out.

That's the real price of admission they're still pretending doesn't exist.

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Very typical ABC/CBC. No sympathy for any of them.

The real question to be asked here - which the FT doesn't cover - isn't "how could China dare make caviar cheaper" but rather why Europeans kept it artificially expensive for decades (or simply didn't even try to scale).

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Robin Brooks complains like a real loser.

taxiya said:

It sounds like that China is building the case of "Japan's WMD problem", similar to US building the case of NK's "nuclear problem". US also built cases of Sadam's WMD and Gaddafi's WMD. NK's nuclear weapon is real, the other two are far-fetched or outright lies but they all serve the same purpose of justifying various actions from sanction, containment to destruction. We can't predict how this card works out but it certainly can be played over and over whenever needed.

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Does nuclear weapons really make sense for Japan? In 2024, Japan's net population loss is more than 900,000.

Japan’s Births Predicted To Hit Lowest Level Since Records Began​

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Data analyzed by demographic experts suggests that Japan could be on track to record fewer than 670,000 births in 2025, according to the Financial Times.
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By comparison, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare recorded 686,061 births in 2024—a 5.7 percent decline from the previous year—while the number of deaths outnumbered births for the 18th consecutive year, resulting in a net population loss of more than 900,000.

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