It’s very likely that many parts of those vehicles are sold to these companies by CCP owned or partly-owned businesses, from the steel to the leather to the plastics, these cars are cheap for a reason.
Tell me you have 0 understanding of the socialist market economy without telling me you have 0 understanding.
With the amount this man flip flops, he could power a hundred MW generator. Although this is to be entirely expected for anyone who remembers Trump’s first term.
The source says
The 268 parliament members present on Tuesday voted unanimously in support of the Ukrainian president.
While the Ukrainian parliament has 450 members. The article implicitly confirms that much of the parliament is not there at the vote when it says that the threshold for passing the resolution is 226 votes.
So this article is not actually saying that the opposition has given approval to Zelensky’s term (though they might have, idk).
I was told 6 months ago that capturing territory in Kursk would force Russia to the negotiating table and down voted when I predicted this would not happen.
For years, realist thinkers have been banished to academia or ignored. …
Every single example of the “realists” in this paragraph have them being the ones telling politicians to avoid war and expansionism, the exact opposite of the “strong bullying the weak”! I think it is kind of insane how this is how “realism” is characterized in liberal media. And that too as a “strong bullying the weak” ideology! Liberals have unironically become full on bush-era Neo-cons.
George Kennan argued against NATO expansion in these pages in 1997, predicting that it would inflame Russian militarism and undermine Russian democracy.
Damn, I didn’t know people predicted the Ukraine war that far in advance.
What’s brought about this turn? In part, it is insecurity, the motivation of all bullies.
Day 1041 of me painfully begging people to stop psychoanalyzing their enemies.
Even so, the United States and its allies are stronger than Team Russia and China if they stand together.
I’m beginning to think that when this author decries “realism”, they think “realism” means “being in touch with reality”.
While Mr. Trump embraces some elements of realism — giving in to the strong and sacrificing the weak — his tariff wars and threats against peaceful neighbors could end up being as costly as the military adventurism of the previous liberal order. Rajan Menon, a professor emeritus at the City College of New York, told me that people who expect the Trump administration “to follow the playbook of realism” by showing restraint “are going to get very disappointed.”
Other than the continued use of nonsense categories like “strong” and “weak”, I actually agree with this paragraph.
After Athens sacked Melos, word of its brutality spread. Its allies turned against it. Athens lost the war. Noble ideas, it turns out, do matter.
I know nothing about the history of war but I would be surprised if this is how it actually played out.
About China, and I’ll try to word this as unbiased as I can, from what I’ve seen it’s not a state known for complete freedom of speech. In my country, some Chinese critics are harassed by “Chinese police stations” or radical lovers of china who seem to believe any critic is a death threat. In contrast, people from the country I’m from openly defy and mock ourselves (a bit too much if you ask me).
I’m not yothos, but the “freedom of speech” you guys have in the west should more accurately be called “the jester’s privilege”. You are allowed to say whatever you want, until what you are saying genuinely threatens the state or capital, in which case you get into legal trouble.
I’ve seen the police crack down on protests with my own eyes at my own university. I’ve seen the independent student media outlet we had get silenced, and have its editorial team disbanded and replaced because they criticized the university’s policies. What does it matter that the students can mock their country and university when the actual avenues of power we had were suppressed? We know that nothing we say truly matters and we are powerless. So we laugh. We mock. It is the soothing balm we use to cope with the pain of knowing that our future is fucked. Our planet will burn and our societies will be overrun by fascists.
In China on the other hand, the government simply listens to the people, which is evident from both the speedy development of the country, the application of mass line methods and high approval ratings of the government. Having consistently high approval ratings of a government across decades is not something any western “democracy” could ever hope to brag about.
the United States isn’t structured in a way where the President can go against the will of the Bourgeoisie.
I think we are overestimating the amount of solidarity and power of the American bourgeoise, partly because that’s the image of strenght they love to project.
The state always holds a dominant position wrt the bourgeoise. If tommorow trump wanted American billionaires merced, there isn’t much anyone could do to stop him.
Yes the bourgeoise control american civil society and have some influence over various parts of the government, but trump is the commander of the armed forces and has a strong movement backing him.
They kind of are, since the US military, finance oligarchy, industry and us aligned media completely dominate Canada. For the most part, trump doesn’t even need to annex them to make them into the 51rst state of America.