• larrikin99 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Putin can’t rock the boat guys. Trump is just a week away from making Ukraine give him Donetsk oblast! Giving Cuba the nukes back would jeopardize everything.

        • MizuTama [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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          3 months ago

          I’ve seen him help various states such as the Allied Sahel States but didn’t think he was going to posture towards a direct U.S confrontation.

          And China seems to have taken Socialism in one state to the extreme. I got Chinese intervention right above U.S left getting our act together.

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          3 months ago

          Subscribing to the international law model is equivalent to inviting foreign capital in to invest in China - it’s using the opponent’s energy against it.

          One thing that has been true for a while now is that while the US claims to be all about international law, it violates it constantly. But the US continues to use it justify sanctions and violence and rally many countries to common cause.

          If China also subscribes to International Law and behaves better than the US, why would it be any different than say Luxembourg or Zimbabwe doing the same? Because of economics. As China ascends to the dominant economic position in the globe, and as it becomes capable of protecting other nations, more and more countries will be able to use International Law against the US.

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        3 months ago

        We’re hoping the US is actually a paper tiger. If the US defeats one of its strongest opponents, it’s a signal that the US is much much stronger than we believed, and that has massive consequences