Co-operation not competition.

Of course what you say here is absolutely correct, but i just want to add one caveat:

EVs don’t completely solve the emissions problem by themselves, you also need a green grid as well, and while China is working on achieving just that, the Europeans - in particular the Germans - are going full speed ahead in the opposite direction, dismantling nuclear power, replacing it with coal, and choosing LNG shipped across an entire ocean by heavily polluting tankers instead of pipeline gas from Russia which is transported much cleaner.

I am just waiting on the day when the news breaks that China has decided to block rare earth exports to “unfriendly” countries. The West has no alternatives, it would simply be checkmate.

It’s actually more than that, it means that they plan on increasing bilateral trade and economic ties in a massive way such that the old sanctions will become increasingly obsolete as they will simply develop more and more ways of circumventing them.

In effect the sanctions will still be there (because it’s virtually impossible to lift Security Council sanctions ever as the West has veto power) but they will be an empty formality. Make no mistake, these developments that we’re seeing are HUGE.

Funny you ask this because just a few months ago the Lady Izdihar channel on YouTube made a video with book recommendations on the topic of religion in the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/zpWjKdgvLrA

Of course Islam being one of the major religions of the Union features prominently in the literature.

Stolen from India and best used for dumping in harbors.

MADURO: “We paid homage to the heroes of the Chinese people, heroes of humanity, who were able to resist the onslaught of fascism, of colonialism, of imperialism… and we pay homage to the Great Helmsman Mao Zedong, always in our hearts, always in our minds.”

https://nitter.net/upholdreality/status/1702310748251210052

And they were doing Nazi shit already way before 1941. The right wing regime in Finland had been imprisoning and murdering socialists, trade unionists and communists since 1918. By the time the war started they were a straight up military dictatorship.

They did. Finland joined the Nazis in invading the Soviet Union. They helped them murder a million people in the siege of Leningrad. So stfu Nazi apologist.

I find it weird that your professor is still operating as if the situation with the Donbass was still the same as it was in 2021. The DPR and LPR are not independent states because they have voluntarily chosen to be absorbed by Russia. They have already been annexed and integrated and have just participated in Russian elections. And it would be interesting to see if Kosovo ever gets brought up in such discussions because its alleged independence and statehood has even less legitimacy than the DPR and LPR did pre-2022.

Why this double standard that when the West recognizes a state it’s legitimate but when Russia does, as in the case of Abkhazia, Transnistria and South Ossetia it’s not? Unlike the Donbass republics Kosovo never had a referendum on whether to declare independence, instead an illegitimate and unrepresentative “parliament” simply unilaterally declared it and was backed by the US and EU in doing so because their goal was to divide all remnants of the former Yugoslavia as much as possible and especially cripple Serbia to prevent it from becoming a regional power again.

In fact similar arguments could be made about South Korea and whether it is a legitimate state as it was established by a foreign power and based on the violent suppression of the population by a military dictatorship to prevent communists coming to power like in the north. It seems like the main condition that is being suggested for whether a state is legitimate or not is recognition by other states, but mainly by Western ones. And if China wasn’t so powerful that everyone wanted to have trade relations with them they would probably recognize Taiwan too, despite being the most clear cut case of an illegitimate “state”.

once you made it in its borders

Oh, is that why they choose to murder migrants while they’re still in boats crossing the Mediterranean? Nice little loophole they found there…

are by law treated the same

You sure about that? Cause i sure as hell can tell you that Roma people are not treated the same. And recently apparently Russians have become subhumans in the eyes of Europeans too, now they’ve started confiscating their personal property just like the Nazis did to the Jews. And i won’t even start with how refugees are treated, lots of EU countries won’t even let them in, and if they do they treat them like garbage, they house them in inhumane conditions and don’t even allow them to work.

Europeans do systematically kill people of other ethnic groups, they kill people in the global south all the time with their imperialism and their neo-colonialism, and after they’ve destabilized, destroyed and looted their countries they have the audacity to do their utmost, including killing them, to try and keep them out. It is no coincidence that the main founders of the EU were former Nazis, and the idea of a united Europe under German leadership, including regions ripped away from the Soviet Union to be part of this great Reich was a Nazi idea to begin with…and would you look at that, it’s exactly what we have today.

They’ve already recreated Reichskomissariat Ostland in the Baltics, complete with German troops on their soil and openly Nazi worshipping, Holocaust-denying governments that treat ethnic Russians like non-citizens, now they dream of adding Reichskomissariat Ukraine to the EU Reich too. All this under a president of the European Commission whose family was deeply embedded into the Nazi system and whose grandfather in law was one of the main Nazi functionaries in charge of organizing the Holocaust in the Ukrainian Galicia.

Based Батька strikes again.

(And oh wow, that second linked article is really something, i mean the condescension and the ignorant arrogance are just on another level…)

I’d say they’ve been sort of a running gag since 1815.

These are some excellent insights!

Shh, don’t doxx me dude! Lol

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By the way i’d put “progressives” in quotation marks, because they are just socdems by a different name. Communists are the real progressives.

In that case they need to voote harder. They need to pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.

You’re free to ask whatever you want.