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stephenthinkpad posted:During the (early) cold war, India couldn't produce self sustain food production, America sold tons of grain to India in exchange for influence and got paid in rupee. There was nothing the US could buy with the rupees. Supposedly they brought like 100 copies of every India English language books with the rupees and the US university libraries ended up with better collections of Indian published books. a huge part of that was also food aid that the US was sending to India, competing with the USSR. The pivot to the green revolution ended that entire sordid affair.
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Apr 27, 2023 23:01
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the removal of state-affiliated media tags is going to lead to a lot of very funny moments like this imo
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Apr 27, 2023 23:14
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FrancisFukyomama posted:democratic mayors in the us seem like they all want to be Lee kuan yew but are too stupid and incompetent to do it neoliberal dipshit local governments all over the world tried to recreate hong kong, singapore and other mystical zones of wealth and free of pesky citizen power without taking into account the material conditions (geography, cold war parasitism) that led to the success of the thing they were trying to copy
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Apr 27, 2023 23:33
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well it's half right, there was a notable anti-imperialist superpower that helped decolonization efforts after ww2.
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Apr 27, 2023 23:39
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Champagne for my real friends Real pain for my sham friends
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Apr 27, 2023 23:48
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indigi posted:I’m assuming Sri Lanka doesn't have a strategic reserve of macaques they can just dip into for emergencies, what's the most they can possibly already have in captivity I'm guessing they do have an industry of some kind to supply medical laboratories. While a strategic reserve is comical, I bet they do have an inventory
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Apr 28, 2023 00:02
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omg an even better one in the replies https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1651696916403736576?t=eLXVcbXqLHDwFQjfbXEWGg&s=19
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Apr 28, 2023 01:57
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ikanreed posted:I'm guessing they do have an industry of some kind to supply medical laboratories. 100,000 is so many, I wonder if it's over a 10 year period. if they can have that many on hand in a given year the facilities would be interesting* to learn about. I imagine lab-ready macaques need a lot more specialized care and space than domesticated livestock *or, more likely, heartbreakingly sad
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Apr 28, 2023 02:05
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Hal Brands is an American international relations scholar of U.S. foreign policy. He is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Apr 28, 2023 02:06
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Can't make this up. The article is beautiful btw it's a wonderful genre piece
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Apr 28, 2023 02:07
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oh is that the most pertinent thing about how american influence on indonesia played out. that's the thing everyone who is skeptical of meaningful sovereignty of supposedly independent states under the shadow of american power should think about when indonesia comes up. interesting
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Apr 28, 2023 02:12
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SorePotato posted:Hal Brands is an American international relations scholar of U.S. foreign policy. He is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A high priest delivering a sermon on the divine mandate of US exceptionalism.
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Apr 28, 2023 03:10
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Sounds like Hal Brands needs to read The Jakarta Method
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Apr 28, 2023 03:23
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crepeface posted:omg an even better one in the replies did chatgpt write this loving article?
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Apr 28, 2023 03:33
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/defence-reveals-50-per-cent-contingency-for-cost-overruns-inside/102275806 Remember those very expensive subs for down under? Would it shock you to know 123 of the 368 billion budget is earmarked for grift? Openly earmarked. Oh wait sorry that's actually additional. Total price half a trillion, starting. Whoopsie doopsi.
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Apr 28, 2023 03:40
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Whole bunch.of mass graves from South America to Indonesia making the third world "safe"
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Apr 28, 2023 04:26
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KomradeX posted:Whole bunch.of mass graves from South America to Indonesia making the third world "safe" safe for bloomberg users, op
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Apr 28, 2023 05:01
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Truga posted:safe for bloomberg users, op man, this is depressingly true. killing untold millions and causing immense suffering so you can make some trades with fake money on a bloomberg terminal
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Apr 28, 2023 05:15
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1651726442785538050 topology is cool
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Apr 28, 2023 05:36
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Me discovering natural barriers for the first time as an adult: huh, how about that.
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Apr 28, 2023 05:43
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https://twitter.com/ANCALERTS/status/1651803063689310210 I really don't like this practice of trying to apply relationship advice to politics "China is an abusive boyfriend" just hardens attitudes and makes it more difficult to find ground over which to negotiate
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Apr 28, 2023 06:07
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taking the cosmo quiz to see if xi is my true romeo in bed
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Apr 28, 2023 06:09
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gradenko_2000 posted:I really don't like this practice of trying to apply relationship advice to politics  "A classic case" makes it sound like there's an annals of international gaslighting with many such cases
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Apr 28, 2023 06:11
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gradenko_2000 posted:
That's why they do it though
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Apr 28, 2023 06:17
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i say swears online posted:taking the cosmo quiz to see if xi is my true romeo in bed
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Apr 28, 2023 06:48
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5 belt and road tricks to drive him wild!
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Apr 28, 2023 06:51
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Underground belt & road videos where a woman in high heels stomps on an unfinished gravel truck road.
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Apr 28, 2023 07:47
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DancingShade posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/defence-reveals-50-per-cent-contingency-for-cost-overruns-inside/102275806 Just double the iron ore and coal export to China and you can make the money to afford the subs, easy.
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Apr 28, 2023 08:38
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1651726442785538050 wanna set up a secret mountain kingdom in that green circular bit in the eastern Himalayas.
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Apr 28, 2023 09:13
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It also explains how much "China invading and conquering Siberia" is such nonsense. Hell, even taking Vladivostok would be a massive pain the rear end.
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Apr 28, 2023 09:25
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stephenthinkpad posted:Just double the iron ore and coal export to China and you can make the money to afford the subs, easy. It's very important that we spend half a trillion buckaroos to defend out trade routes with China, from China. Utopia did it first and the best parody imitates life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCqXlDjx18 late edit - Mickey Mouse loving country. DancingShade has issued a correction as of 09:32 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Apr 28, 2023 09:28
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Pistol_Pete posted:wanna set up a secret mountain kingdom in that green circular bit in the eastern Himalayas. That's Sichuan, it has a population of 100,000,000 Ardennes posted:It also explains how much "China invading and conquering Siberia" is such nonsense. Hell, even taking Vladivostok would be a massive pain the rear end. Vladivostok would be doable, but the question is more like, how does it benefit China at all to piss off Russia really bad for a port it doesn't need.
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Apr 28, 2023 09:34
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actually I've played People's General and the Vladivostok map is fairly straightforward - just clear two main roads heading into the area. [technically the scenario is "Road to Vladivostok", so you don't get to fight over/in the city itself]
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Apr 28, 2023 09:40
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Vladivostok would be doable, but the question is more like, how does it benefit China at all to piss off Russia really bad for a port it doesn't need. Vladivostok also has a mountain range between it and the Chinese border and is pretty mountainous as a city. At best, they could attempt to take out the sections of the railway and roads connecting it from the north and blockade it by sea, but even then there are probably some backroads across the Amur range that would keep them going. It would be a long and bloody siege. Otherwise, the Soviets created the BAM in the first place so they could resupply across Siberia on the other side of those northern ranges. Basically, the conditions and terrain in that area make it not worth even a sliver of the effort it would take. It is just a story really pushed by the Russian opposition/West to stir up fear for pretty obvious reasons.
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Apr 28, 2023 09:43
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:That's Sichuan, it has a population of 100,000,000 one of my aunts is from there, fantastic spicy food. quite different from the normal canton style that the rest of my family usually makes the peppers are pretty famous, but just in case people don't know about them: quote:When eaten, Sichuan pepper produces a tingling, numbing effect due to the presence of hydroxy-alpha sanshool.[3] The spice has the effect of transforming other flavors tasted together or shortly after. It is used in Sichuan dishes such as mapo doufu and Chongqing hot pot, and is often added together with chili peppers to create a flavor known as málà (Chinese: 麻辣; 'numb-spiciness').
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Apr 28, 2023 09:58
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This is also why the USA was never going to invade Iran
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Apr 28, 2023 11:59
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crepeface posted:one of my aunts is from there, fantastic spicy food. quite different from the normal canton style that the rest of my family usually makes Sichuan peppercorns are like crack and I will eat anything with them.
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Apr 28, 2023 12:08
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1651907863911239681?s=20
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Apr 28, 2023 12:19
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Uh reuters I believe you've mislabelled them, they're "dreamers" now.
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Apr 28, 2023 12:50
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Are...are they sending their best?
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