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mlmp08 posted:China doesn’t really seek a war. They seek credible counter-intervention. A brilliant pull from the United States' old playbook. "Our ship was attacked in this here port, we have no choice but to preserve peace through military means." FR though, most of China's imperialist ambitions are local, for now, and the main reason they can't act on them is that the West still holds the purse strings on the global economy. China has no desire to become a pariah state again, and their global ambitions are better realized through patience as the West destabilizes itself.
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Article made it clear most of those loans are through private entities sponsored by the state. So the path is very indirect towards the Chinese state annexing anything and more by proxy. I don't think they have any desire to project much past their near sphere like the entanglements Africa would require.
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I kinda wish China experienced an Afghanistan, as that'd make taking territory by force sound like a lovely idea for them.
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I think China has about a century or so worth of observations regarding the challenges involved in staging a military action halfway across the world, through watching the US and Europe repeatedly stepping on rakes trying to do this, with far superior logistical capabilities to boot.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:I kinda wish China experienced an Afghanistan, as that'd make taking territory by force sound like a lovely idea for them. Problem is it's a lesson that apparently needs to be repeated every time there's a generational change in leadership. China's last time was in Vietnam in '79. Look how long that knowledge lasted in the US
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Don Dongington posted:I think China has about a century or so worth of observations regarding the challenges involved in staging a military action halfway across the world, through watching the US and Europe repeatedly stepping on rakes trying to do this, with far superior logistical capabilities to boot. The US had plenty of time to watch Russia, the British, the French, and ourselves in the Philippines, and we still went into Afghanistan wearing bowling shoes. China is no more comprised of rational actors and reasonable leaders than anywhere else in the world.
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Cythereal posted:The US had plenty of time to watch Russia, the British, the French, and ourselves in the Philippines, and we still went into Afghanistan wearing bowling shoes. Now's as good of a time as any to remind everyone that the response of the generation who fought in, and protested against, Vietnam were the same ones who decided to do Vietnam x2 but EVEN HARDER AND LONGER.
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twitter has told me that china is the great force of anti-imperialism though they will be greeted as liberators
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A.o.D. posted:Now's as good of a time as any to remind everyone that the response of the generation who fought in, and protested against, Vietnam were the same ones who decided to do Vietnam x2 but EVEN HARDER AND LONGER. And don't forget post Vietnam War, China decided it needed to invade Vietnam as well. They have their own Imperial ambitions and have been lording those powers over most of their SouthEast Asian partners/neighbors for ages, including cutting off water supplies. Hell, there's a reason that Vietnam has reestablished diplomatic relations with the US, including allowing the US Navy to conduct port visits. China is threatening their fishing and water rights. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-blames-maga-debt-ceiling-explainer-1234739178/ quote:“I’m not going to agree to a deal that protects wealthy tax cheats and crypto traders while putting food assistance at risk for nearly one million Americans," Biden said. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 14:41 on May 21, 2023 |
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https://apnews.com/article/china-debt-banking-loans-financial-developing-countries-collapse-8df6f9fac3e1e758d0e6d8d5dfbd3ed6 China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:twitter has told me that china is the great force of anti-imperialism though It's only imperialism if NATO does it, otherwise it's just sparkling JDPON
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://apnews.com/article/china-debt-banking-loans-financial-developing-countries-collapse-8df6f9fac3e1e758d0e6d8d5dfbd3ed6 File in: working as intended
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Jimmy Smuts posted:I kinda wish China experienced an Afghanistan, as that'd make taking territory by force sound like a lovely idea for them. They've kind of learned the opposite lesson in Nepal.
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Afghanistan is a BRI "beneficiary" so I fully expect China to attempt Operation Useless Dirt Mk III sometime within the next decade.
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Kazinsal posted:Afghanistan is a BRI "beneficiary" so I fully expect China to attempt Operation Useless Dirt Mk III sometime within the next decade. They already have diplomatic ties with the Taliban. Unfortunately their foreign policy didn't huff paint after 9/11 like ours.
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The future is a useless, dangerous, proprietary version of a subway. Brilliant job.
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Their rail is already expensive and the loving raiders took away free strip parking
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"This isn’t something from some futuristic sci-fi movie. It’s the Torment Nexus from the bestselling sci-fi novel 'Don't Create the Torment Nexus', and it could become a reality in a city near you."
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Alan Smithee posted:Their rail is already expensive and the loving raiders took away free strip parking You mean monorail? Which only serves part of the strip? Last year when I visited, I was really surprised/happy with the double decker buses they had. Constant loop running with a bunch of busses, lots of stops, hit most of the touristy areas and cheap for all day access.
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Tiny Timbs posted:The future is a useless, dangerous, proprietary version of a subway. Brilliant job. Also significantly slower and with far less throughput, I think they're only going 25 mph on the one they've built on the strip and one seat of each car is taken up by the
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Also significantly slower and with far less throughput, I think they're only going 25 mph on the one they've built on the strip and one seat of each car is taken up by the The average speed of the nyc subway is 17 mph  nvm that it's got tons of stops to slow down and speed up from and moves an order of magnitude people more in a day than the loop will run in a year or probably it's lifespan
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I've been to Vegas a few times, and I hated it for the same reason I hate most of Florida, in that the area overwhelmingly caters to tourists. There's just something really off-putting and inauthentic about places that chase those tourist bucks so hard.
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Ray Stevenson died  I didn't see a lot of his stuff later stuff, but Titus in Rome was a character for the ages.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Ray Stevenson died Noooooooooooo
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Also watch Rome. Such a good show.
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His Blackbeard in Black Sails was great too. Him getting keel-hauled was one of the most brutal but hard-assed endings to a character I've ever seen.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Also watch Rome. Such a good show. Not him, the cheerful brutish one
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1660663816739274752?s=20 Yeah, I remember those guys. The only traction they ever got was from people who also have Andrew Yang bumper stickers.
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That Works posted:LV getting ratio'd. Ah yes, the dead mall aesthetic, but undeground.
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Mustang posted:I've been to Vegas a few times, and I hated it for the same reason I hate most of Florida, in that the area overwhelmingly caters to tourists. Oh no, it's the worst city in america by a long margin. Just miserable. You can feel the sadness that just permeates the place not so much like god turned his back on it as his light never fell on it in the first place
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Milo and POTUS posted:Oh no, it's the worst city in america by a long margin. Just miserable. You can feel the sadness that just permeates the place not so much like god turned his back on it as his light never fell on it in the first place It's basically Water Rights Grift, the city
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Milo and POTUS posted:Oh no, it's the worst city in america by a long margin. Just miserable. You can feel the sadness that just permeates the place not so much like god turned his back on it as his light never fell on it in the first place Vegas is a shining beacon of righteousness compared to Atlantic City. I’d only go back to AC to laugh as it sinks into the ocean, and then piss into the Atlantic as one final gently caress you to that horrible place.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Vegas is a shining beacon of righteousness compared to Atlantic City. I’d only go back to AC to laugh as it sinks into the ocean, and then piss into the Atlantic as one final gently caress you to that horrible place. Good ol' AC. The end result of Jersey looking at Vegas and thinking, yep, we can do that but even shittier and more mobbed up.
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