willing to negotate on this still,

Removing the possibility of negotiation only galvanizes someone’s will to fight back. Never put an enemy in a fight-or-die situation, because as bloodthirsty and vicious as they are now, they can get a lot worse.

Keeping the possibility of negotiation open reduces an enemy’s will to fight.

It just has to be bad enough that all of the “dual-citizenship” settlers get rattled, unsettle, and fuck off back to where they came from. It’s not a country but a project, and its viability ends if it doesn’t have enough participants.

Opened the article.

RFA? That sounds familiar

Oh it’s Radio Free Asia

Closed the article

Heard his video on Xinjiang though?

Same. I also still have my placenta and even though my umbilical cord has long ago withered and fallen off, I keep it with me just in case.

This kind of behaviour in cats can only be resolved by a lifetime of cosy snuggling and head scritches while whispering Langston Hughes poetry to him. Also known as mewlag.

I think it’s a type of dinosaur? Short for allosaurus.

I have no idea either. Anyway, enjoy getting downvoted for not being completely up-to-date with Western idpol I guess.

Yeah. Whenever I teach newspaper reading to students I go into local digital archives and grab an article from the day 100 years ago. At first I thought it would just be interesting for students to see a snapshot of their city in the past, but the articles back then were just generally shorter and more information-dense.

Their articles are often a lot shorter, too. A lot of their press releases just state the facts, the actual news. No colouring, no editorialising, no agenda. Sometimes just a couple paragraphs.

It’s interesting to compare it to English-language newspaper archives from 100 years ago, before Western Media got weaponized.

I wonder how this will play out in the eyes of the European public if they continue to re-establish and develop ties?

China is not, per its non-interference policy, going to do anything to halt Europe’s descent into fascism. Not on the government policy level, anyway. But if the agreements they start making include an end to the promotion of Sinophobia, people having a unfiltered view of the quality of life in China might have a significant effect on European attitudes.

That first and second sound exactly like what happened in Hong Kong.

The Trump regime is throwing out most of the USA’s soft power (except for entertainment media) and switching to hard power wherever it can. Going mask-off with its relationship with Europe (and NATO, Ukraine etc) is one of the ways it’s doing that.

I’m enjoying immense Schadenfreude from it; especially from all the smug European NAFO bros getting hit by the reality check that being a European NATO member means having a pair of boobs tattooed on your back.

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Starmer hoping nobody notices that his “coalition of the willing” is not a coalition of the capable.

Honestly after the way Zelensky got humiliated here, he should ask Putin to let Ukraine join the Russian Federation. It would spite Trump, it’d be funny as fuck, and Ukraine would probably get better treatment from Russia than it would under the US vultures at thos point.

The dog knows how to find you again and knows that you feed her. Have a plan for that.

Put the billionaires in Guantanamo Bay and then give it back to Cuba. Win-win.

Isn’t it such an amazing coincidence that the rebels who liberated Syria have goals and ambitions that line up perfectly with US Foreign Policy?

“We’ve liberated Syria, but Israel unliberated the rest of the Golan Heights but hey, they can have it. We don’t want to take on Israel, we want peace with Israel (who the UN says are doing a genocide on muslims) and war with China (who the CIA says are doing a genocide on muslims).”

I was gonna downvote but then I saw your choice of examples.

It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers.

I think we’re missing a couple of nuances here, no? Although it’s a stretch to call them nuance. The way Ukrainian rulers have been making money has been through privatization. And because there’s so much privatization we need to look at who owns Ukraine’s economy. It’s only escalated since Russia invaded, with national assets being sold off to foreign private sectors so cheaply that one has to wonder why they did it when the gains are a drop in the bucket compared to the direct aid they’ve been getting from Western public sectors.

If Ukraine emerges from this conflict with its own sovereignty, it’ll be sovereignty over a flag, a presidential palace and a state framework that protects foreign companies’ investments from hungry Ukrainians.