got banned at india defense net for a week because i thought it was funny playing some Serbian youtube war songs that have been taken down on youtube before but have been re-uploaded...... which was you know.
Ukrainian War Developments
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forgot to mention, I did mention my positive views about the current CCP, Xi, and current China's role in the world to some American friends and strangers as well. Most of the time I can make it to where they know I am not brainwashed. Often I can convince them that the CCP has done a few good things for China. But no one has leaped from 'CCP did good things' to 'CCP is good.' I think the reason is that Americans (and west in general) are deeply ideological and believe that democracy, political freedom, and political human rights are more important than anything else. I just don't see any Americans in my own life would accept trading some political stuff for stability and livelihood, commonly accepted in China, would ever make sense. That's why there might be less than 100 Americans that actually appreciates the CCP being a meritocratic, effective, and moderate force in China. We are talking about Chas Freeman, Lyle Goldstein, Ray Dalio level that knows what they are talking about. If you look at common prosperity, American think tankers, investment bankers, and academics just really don't get it. they actually think it's Mao's communism coming back. It's mind boggling.
Anyone think it’s a good time to buy the shit you want because I am feeling inflation is about to go into overdrive.
In the short term, the economic impact to Russia will be quite bad. With China making most of the industrial and consumer goods, it should allow them to mitigate the worst of the impact. Over time, Russia will learn to cope. This will also be very detrimental to Europe and the U.S., If the U.S. only allow them to sell oil but not to buy anything from the Western world, the Russians can always turn off the oil to Europe. Even a reduced shipment will be very painful. so I think there will be a lot of exceptions to the SWIFT lock out. If they are able to survive this, more countries will dare to risk U.S. sanctions since there is a system on the other side that is already working and able to allow the country to survive.
I had thought Tokmak was already in Russian hands? Is this just old?
last year it was 15% in US
maybe 50% this year at the rate things are going lol
That's what makes this forum unique: Chinese exposed to both Chinese and western culture/values. Average years of edu is probably sky high as well.
Thanks to quality member and great moderators, glorification of violence, racism, and sexism here is pretty tolerable.
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