US conflict in the Americas
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Chinese intel is never their strong forte, they have a different principle foundation of not meddling others not because they are saints but they are realists and pretty follow Mao's 'you do yours I do mine' control the parts they can control (which is not a bad thing)
This is quite a bad and irrelevant take.
China ran an empire that had no real external challenges. In the ancient world, it was mostly internal conflicts and pathetically weak external threats.
The first time China met against properly organised external threat in the form of European imperialist powers, it resulted in China's greatest decline and turmoil in its entire written history. In the modern era, those European/Western imperialist powers are even stronger than they were in the past and even more organised. They do not fight among each other for scraps anymore they act in line as a unit. There is bulletproof loyalty and unity when it comes to the Western alliance even non-western people fall in line because they get live the benefits.
There is quite a lot of "cope" and bad takes in this forum sometimes where we project China's phenomenal material capability with its ability to navigate geopolitics. China is a total loser in geopolitics and gets its name dragged through the mud all the time.
We need to understand this if we are to fix it. It's the job for Chinese leaders to understand this properly and figure out solutions. If they can't, may as well be a Japan level underling. At least people can live well. Alternative is to go absolute scorched earth. I personally think Chinese leaders have all this in mind but understand the relative standing of power here is not entirely in its favour when it comes to matching not only the US but also every single one of its allies combined.
They actually do have this luxury because they are considered the wealthiest and most "proper" people. This is what centuries of brainwashing does. They will absolutely be able to control and exercise dominion over Latin America. Covertly or otherwise, they will manage to achieve this.
I agree that the US appears to want to cash in some of the good guy points in exchange for some material wealth and power. They'll take the perception hit but will survive it. They need more money, resources and energy to compete with China and no one is able to threaten the US backyard. It'll be their farmland - data centres, resource wells, cheap labour. It's a clash of empires now. USA vs China. Difference is USA surrounds China with military bases and China isn't able to extract benefits from its region at all. Mostly done at loss. Do you guys know how charitable China is to countries in SE Asia and Africa? How many free handouts that could have benefited China that were given away for zero gain? Buy a few words of favour here and there but material resources wasted on trying to flirt with nations. US just takes it all and takes it for free. You can't beat that.
New photos of Maduro's kidnapping. Posted by @万年炎帝 on Twitter.
Assume they are not real unless it's from an official account.
The US based news and social media accounts are upstream in the news circulation chain in this case. If such photos had been released, we would have seen them all over these photos.
Trump and Hegseth's ad-hoc Situation Room at Mar-a-Lago during the kidnapping. Posted by the same guy on Weibo.
Look at the screen in the background lmao
Look at the screen in the background lmao
Umm those look to be indeed real. Maduro's attire certainly matches.
Just in case anyone ever questioned that most of X was just a propaganda platform actively influenced by Western but especially US gov.
Yes I understand they can look real (and in fact, they likely are real). My point is that in this case, they should be sourced from other places, not 万年炎帝
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