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Phead128

Phead128

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GZDRefugee said:
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MOFA needs to shut the fuck up. Nobody who has a passing understanding of history and geopolitics believes that the world ever operated on anything besides law of the jungle. They were handed the perfect conditions to undermine the legitimacy of the status quo and they decided to blow it by spouting some useless virtue signalling bullshit.
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This is standard language for international diplomacy, which has its own protocols and rituals, this is not some arm-chair geopolitics reddit forum.
iewgnem said:
Lets not get history involved, compared to basically every empire in history the entire span of peak US power from 1990 to 2015 is a blink. Even the Spanish Empire commanded global authority for longer...

US is a classic lottery winner that blew all their winnings in an instant because they never really earned it
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I've always wondered why British empire, Roman empire, and American empire have such low endurance, and you can see why with American and their export controls against China. The moment they sense they are weak, they go apeshit, which backfires, a vicious cycle of decline. Rather than competing, they resort to protectionism, banning, or outright annexing/stealing resources. Like you said, they got lucky as virtually unscathed in WW2 and pissed away their advantage within a generation of end of Cold War....a sight to behold. The lottery winner who blows their fortune is really a good analogy.
 
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tamsen_ikard

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Puss in Boots said:
What exactly is the ideology of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard? Does the party it is loyal to uphold "serving the people" as its core belief? Please do not compare such an army and party to the PLA and CPC; I believe this is disrespectful to the latter.
If a political party is corrupt and outdated, it should be allowed to disappear or reform; it should not be allowed to linger on simply because it is a force resisting the United States.
I do not oppose political parties taking drastic measures in critical moments, but first, that party must prove itself worthy of the people's trust.
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You make me laugh. Every single force in the world will have "serve the people" in its motto. This is boiler plate language.

Your pointless idealism doesnt work in the modern world of realpolitic. This is the world trump and wolf warriors. Your idealism is history.
 
Puss in Boots

Puss in Boots

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tamsen_ikard said:
You make me laugh. Every single force in the world will have "serve the people" in its motto. This is boiler plate language.

Your pointless idealism doesnt work in the modern world of realpolitic. This is the world trump and wolf warriors. Your idealism is history.
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Bro, I think you are a true cynic.
Just because your life lacks ideals and beliefs doesn’t mean everyone else should be like you, and you definitely shouldn’t look down on those who are willing to strive for what they believe in.
 
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fishrubber99

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Puss in Boots said:
What exactly is the ideology of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard? Does the party it is loyal to uphold "serving the people" as its core belief? Please do not compare such an army and party to the PLA and CPC; I believe this is disrespectful to the latter.
If a political party is corrupt and outdated, it should be allowed to disappear or reform; it should not be allowed to linger on simply because it is a force resisting the United States.
I do not oppose political parties taking drastic measures in critical moments, but first, that party must prove itself worthy of the people's trust.
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As far as I know, the IRGC is more similar to what the PLA was like before Jiang Zemin banned the PLA from engaging in or owning businesses. They have ownership of large chunks of Iran's economy (telecom, infrastructure, energy, etc) so they have an interest in maintaining the status quo.
 
_killuminati_

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Phead128 said:
This is standard language for international diplomacy, which has its own protocols and rituals, this is not some arm-chair geopolitics reddit forum.
I've always wondered why British empire, Roman empire, and American empire have such low endurance, and you can see why with American and their export controls against China. The moment they sense they are weak, they go apeshit, which backfires, a vicious cycle of decline. Rather than competing, they resort to protectionism, banning, or outright annexing/stealing resources. Like you said, they got lucky as virtually unscathed in WW2 and pissed away their advantage within a generation of end of Cold War....a sight to behold. The lottery winner who blows their fortune is really a good analogy.
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Those are raiding empires. As long as raiding continues, they prosper. Just like the first generation Mongols. Advancements comes from loot, not from competition or self-driven/internal developments. Romans weren't totally dependent on raiding. British and American decline is caused by recent raiding failures, one after another, and losing potential for more global loot.
 
Bellum_Romanum

Bellum_Romanum

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bsdnf said:
Not surprising. Dumb tank "researchers" promoting anti-China narratives often have Chinese wives or are of Chinese descent. The same logic applies to ICE officers marrying non-white wives.

They use it as a pass.
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One of the most prominent WHITE SUPREMACIST founder in America was himself married to a Filipina. He also lived in the Philippines and saw how the people of that country treated him with such great magnanimity and adoration that his literal sense of self exploded and reimbued the the idea that white = right.
 
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