solarz
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There's a reason the makeup industry is worth billions.
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The problem is India has resold its Russian oil to EU after refining them and made a tremendous profits which your EU president is pissed off and threatened to impose restrictions against India. As for price cap for China, those gas is from the US and Australia, how do you impose price cap on them especially your EU importers were begging all over the world during the winter in order to secure more gas supplies.
Just remember that it is your unilateral sanctions and price cap that were imposed upon Russia, the global south, India and China don't need to adhere such price cap. Therefore, Russia might need to offer a discount but if the price of oil and gas went back up then Russian economy would be benefit and rebound.
I don't see it as a blackmail after all it is the EU that imposed a total sanctions, confiscated Russian assets, and threatened to end all Russian gas and oil imports. I find it very funny that some Westerners would find it is perfectly OK for the US and EU to impose sanctions and do whatever they feel like it but when Russia retaliated it is called blackmail. It is this kind of imperial attitude that made the West looks ridiculous.
I never think EU would freeze to deaths. I do think EU would pay a tremendous price for these sanctions and abuses of financial system. And EU did pay a hefty price. EU nations' economy has been bad and inflation is still very high. Many heavy industrial are forced to relocated which would have long term effect on EU's economy.
Russian economy would depend solely upon energy and commodities prices not EU sanctions or price cap. If energy and commodities prices continue to go downward then Russian economy would suffer. If not, then Russian economy would recover and grow. Don't overthink your useless price cap. It would just cause Russia a few dollars a barrel oil it sold and there would be many takers.
That's a good development and hope that "transitory" inflation hikes happening all over Europe would finally come down.....I'll wait and see how long and if this trend continues, otherwise you're being a little too celebratory when the people in Europe are hurting right now due to inflation caused by the war in Ukraine due to the increased of energy costs.
manqiangrexue
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I can spoil my wife if I want and I can afford. Kitchen, lab, office my wife is a shark everywhere she goes. Her competence out-did all of the men in her graduating PhD class so you fellas go to the kitchen and make her a sandwich while she works on her career. And don't talk about shit you don't understand:
Man up and do it like I did for getting married. I know not everyone can do IVF 4 times to build a family LOL. The conversation was not about how to have kids; it was about how to combat extreme feminism so what I said had completely sufficiently covered the topic.
That analogy was completely nonsense and uneeded. It literally added a strange complication to an otherwise straight-forward situation. The answer is that you tackle a national emergency with everything you have, science, technology, traditional values, government policy implementation, EVERYTHING.
Russia and China don't need the West. The West needs us.
“In April last year, the IMF forecast that the Russian economy would contract by 8.5% in 2022 and by a further 2.3% this year. As it turned out, GDP fell by just 2.1% last year, and this year the IMF is forecasting a small rise of 0.7%"
“The sanctions are a joke. Russian-Chinese trade rose 41.3% in the first four months of the year to $73 billion, financing Putin’s war. China’s exports to Russia were up 153% in April 2023 alone; their rise more than cancels out the decline in German and French trade, as Robin Brooks, of the Institute for International Finance, points out.
“China’s trade has also shot up with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Turkey, all with easy, porous access to Russia.
“No wonder Russian society hasn’t imploded. There may no longer be any McDonald’s in Moscow, but sales of Chinese cars are buoyant. We were told Russia couldn’t survive without Western technology, but it is switching instead to China’s rival systems.”
You're not going to convince anyone here that are not just skeptical of EU b.s. since you people are nothing but an appendage to American hegemony but understood on realpolitik level why Russia had to take such a drastic action against Ukraine since sooner or later, Ukraine like it or not will be integrated with NATO plain and simple. If the shoe was on the other foot, the U.S. would also treat such a scenario close to their periphery an existential threat as the case with Cuban missile crisis to deny this logic is just denying reality.
I expect nothing but a report from you that Russia will now cease to exist as a credible country in the coming months, weeks, or even days in the way you wrote your post so confidently striding in here like a peacock.
Once the EU money going to his country stops and starts going to the Ukraine instead he will be more pro-Putin than all of us combined.
It’s more likely they will mald until their head is more shiny than a well polished bowling ball.
solarz
Brigadier
I hope you were just being facetious about the IVF part, unless you're also planning on hiring a surrogate mother?
Without an external enemy, the Anglo led Atlanticist West fails; they are effectively the Kilrathi from Wing Commander.
Re: women, feminism and China. I'm only going to say a short bit about this topic before going back to the News:
China has its own culture of 'feminism' as opposed to the protestant christian inspired proselytism that Western feminism (1st,2nd., 3rd,4th wave) defines itself as being and China's feminism is prosocial, family oriented and balanced by the need to do one's duty, to one's parents, family and to oneself. This is typical of a Confucian culture; South Korea is a confucian society that is being converted to a protestant christian society ie americanised with all of the assorted ills that go with americanisation. South Korea will eventually go extinct but this is by design of the Western Atlanticist powerbrokers who want a smaller population to control and are afraid of massive Asian populations anyhow.
On the other side of feminism, we also have the natural female desire to want to only procreate with the best human mate out there and thanks to western anglo propaganda, the Chinese woman is being told that white males are the superior mates out there (actual statistical results to the contrary), not to mention the consistent appeals to narcissism inherent in a consumer culture "show off your LV bags and white bf to your peers and get kudos".
Solution: Increase national pride and prestige, which means having to counter western propaganda; portray western males as weak, sexual predators who have tiny pee pees; execute westerners who sexually assault Chinese women in China and abroad. An 'all of society' attack by the US demands an 'all of society' response by Chinese civilisation.
Addendum: the cheap and easy solutions offered by some, such as polygamy and reduced services of abortion simply delays the impending social catastrophe be it in the form of civil revolt (polygamous societies tend to be more violent) or religious hysteria and misery eg america forcing women to carry miscarriages to term.
Now, back to the daily news:
Weapons to defend China and its allies against the predation of Westerners
To protect interlinked trade routes such as the new silk road:
manqiangrexue
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You think that's a small number? LOL Compare with how many Americans are undocumented doing menial labor in Mexico, then you'll see how big the number is. And Mexico doesn't stop Americans from coming in unlike the other way around.
You have a funny imagination while asking others for proof and numbers. White farm owners, Mexican workers. Chinese restaurant owners, Mexican workers. Korean supermarket owners, Mexican workers. We all have family/historic connections with Mexicans LOLOL
No more exports to the US. It's not hard for Mexico to increase the value of its currency; its whether or not it was the correct choice for the economy and that remains to be seen.
Your link gives absolutely no data about what percentage of people are from where. It's 100% your imagination that the majority of people entering the US through Mexico aren't Mexicans. You. Are. STUPID.
Also, it's not even the point. I just randomly selected a whole bunch of countries, Mexico being one, to represent nations where people usually desire to immigrate to America for better living conditions. Even if it's not Mexico, my point is still there. It's really not debatable that immigrants come to America for a better life. This debate is a total waste of time because of your lack of basic knowledge.
Are you really so stupid and ignorant that you thought it would be hard to find this information?
No, they represent labor availability and cost.
You are the stupidest person here; you think Musk isn't smart??? LOL The dude created Tesla from his own electrical engineering PhD. You're over here pretending Mexicans don't want to enter the US for a better life, but for soft power... from a country that hates Mexicans. You are stupid, not him.
Ok
He scouted many places for his investment and decided against Japan for demographic reasons. Soft power is not in sight.
No, actually the opposite. The more you write the more you don't know what you are talking about.
They bought the fleet with their money. It's hard power. Nobody "allowed" them to have a fleet.
WHAT??? How do you wipe it out? Go to war? You make no sense as always.
$200B investment. Money = hard power.
They have no leverage with the West. They can get banned if they piss off the West. That's it.
Turkey+India=Arab leverage...? Your whole sentence makes no sense. I'm quite sure your "brain" is mashed potatos.
Yes? Why not? LOL No conflict, nobody cares. What can Qatar do that Kuwait cannot? Throwing money into and supporting Western events for favor is not soft power; it's submitting yourself to others.
I will correct your English. You meant to say, "Each and every topic, I cannot be educated."
Because the Germans went from "Master Race" inventing the best war machines in the world to being America's bitch talking about liberal values right after they got their asses beat.
Seriously why are you so stupid? Germany wants to get rid of gas???? They want to buy gas.
No relevence
What soft power? Taking US orders is the only thing Germany has been doing. Imposing? It hasn't done that since 1945.
It's bound by it's WWII commitment to never chase offensive military power. The only hard power it can chase is economic, and now that's crippled. Soft power? What soft power? It gets ordered around by the US and EU and can't even build its own country.
Once again, you confused increase salaries with soft power. People go for the money. I have never heard of any Dubai soft power. What can it do and what is the proof?
Extremely stupid and untrue comment. What level? People get paid hundreds of millions of dollars as CEO.
Money is money. Those driven by ideology/nationalism will work for their own country no matter what. Your soft power is useless to persuade them. Those driven by money sell themselves to the highest bidder. Only the hard power of money will persuade them. Soft power is useless as always.
To. create. a. sustainable. long. war???? Who wants that?? Countries want swift overwhelming victories. That is achieved by hard power. If, for some reason, you wanted to sustain a conflict, you also need the hard power to continuously supply your troops. There is no room or need soft power. That's like talking to your enemy while he's killing you. It's stupid.
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