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The US is increasing it’s primary energy production from fossil fuel sources (by 40% since 2010) and they’re decreasing total emissions? Sure…

Literally the US Army has published videos that claim they were involved in the Tiananmen protests.

Dude’s never been called yellow and it shows. Fuck off.

Not sure why $oro$ is marked as racism when it specifically refers to one person and has “nothing to do” with that person’s race.

Really makes you think.

Two party state baby

By the winter of 1941, Barbarossa had failed. By the time the Western Front was opened in 1944, Army Group South had collapsed, Army Group North was failing, and Army Group Center was in the process of being encircled. Germany had lost, it was just a question of when. In the meantime, the entire North African campaign cost the Germans less resources than the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive.

Friendly reminder that prior to Pearl Harbour, the US was sponsoring Japan’s war crimes in China. The US made up the bulk of Japan’s iron, copper, oil, steel, and wheat supply… Essentials for industrializing and waging war. Even with this massive economic power backing them, Japan had been fought to a standstill by 1940. By 1944, the Nationalists were more concerned with containing the Communists than they were with containing the Japanese.

In the case of both Germany and Japan, powerhouses at the peak of their power were ground down to a stalemate against a rapidly industrializing nation.

Have you picked up a history book? Taiwan literally still claims mainland China and the South China Sea as ROC territory. Maybe read Taiwan’s Constitution instead of the American media interpretation of it? It’s not my fault that you seem happier to spread ideology with American interpretations than deal with actual facts.

Encroaching on Taiwan’s sovereignty by flying in international airspace over international waters?

And yet, under the KMT government relations were normalizing. In the past, mainland China had extremely positive rhetoric towards Taiwan (and Taiwan towards mainland China). Even today, trade grows and cultural coupling grows.

Frankly, claiming that China violates Taiwan’s airspace shows a gross misunderstanding of international aviation law. American FONOPs in the area since 2016 have broken the status quo that the Chinese and Taiwanese governments were using to split the strait: if the strait is international waters outside of the 12km limit, then the air above it is international airspace by definition.

Oddly enough, that timeline also coincides with Taiwan’s government flipping from KMT rule to DPP rule.

China’s… not so wrong with this one. Under the previous KMT government, Taiwan-China relations were normalizing (not to the degree of reunification, but to the degree that conflict wasn’t really on the horizon anymore because of the economic harm it would cause). The DPP has taken a strongly anti-China stance and the result has been escalating tensions… All while bilateral trade across the strait continues to grow.

“democracy is good because it allows for freedom of speech”

This article starts with talking about the spy balloon that wasn’t a spy balloon: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre-secret-behind-chinas-spy-balloon/

“The intelligence community, their assessment – and it’s a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon,”

After the Navy raised the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic, technical experts discovered the balloon’s sensors had never been activated while over the Continental United States.

So, why was it over the United States? There are various theories, with at least one leading theory that it was blown off-track.

So… The only reason people even consider this a spy balloon is because some guy in China launched it? Wonderful.

Russia, North Korea, Iran have no reason to launch cyberattacks on China. Neither does Israel, really (their capability is far more oriented towards, y’know, their immediate vicinity). We’re left with the US and UK, but as we all know, the UK doesn’t really have international power anymore and as a result has little reason to provoke China.

When is the EU going to sanction US solar 🤔

Anyone surprised by this is kidding themselves. Only a few countries have developed sophisticated cyberattack capabilities and even fewer are actually interested in China.

Plus, ever since China went around and started executing CIA operatives in China, the US has been operating rather blind with regards to China.

Maybe drop one to show that Russia still has the capability, then another on a different city to show that Russia can keep dropping bombs for as long as it takes?

The Biden administration has overseen the sharpest rise in child poverty in America in decades. It’s the responsibility of the governing party to figure out how to get results, not how to take a feels-good position.

He is, quite literally, a Democrat. The fact that he is a Democrat sort of draws the line for where the “center” in the US is.

Your source is… the Atlantic Council? The same institution that’s well known for being a US intelligence front?

The Atlantic Council’s six fellows this year come from the Department of State, CIA, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Navy, USIA, and the Congressional Research Service

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The Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Graphika all have inadequately-disclosed ties to the Department of Defense, the C.I.A., and other intelligence agencies. They work with multiple U.S. government agencies to institutionalize censorship research and advocacy within dozens of other universities and think tanks.

• Sworn testimony as part of “The Censorship Industrial Complex,” given to the House Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

The Atlantic Council consists of a bunch of warhawks keen on foreign interference:

STEPHEN HADLEY: If I were in my old job I would be thinking about lethal assistance – yes. But you know this is why you have a CIA, you know this is why you have covert action and I would be thinking – do we want to do it explicitly to send a message to Putin? Or do you want to do it covertly? You know I think we tend now to talk too much and act too little. And sometimes it’s good if weapons just start showing up on the battlefield.

Not to mention literally racist:

JAMES CLAPPER: And just the historical practices of the Russians, who typically, are almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever, which is a typical Russian technique

Glad to know who I’m talking to, I guess. How’s the weather in Fort Briggs this time of year?

Ah yes, because crop rotation in the shit show that is northern soil would go so well. Where’s the evidence? Many Canadian soil science experts have written off the promise of boreal land: the soil would take decades if not centuries to rehabilitate.

Meanwhile, you don’t seem to understand that even small age gaps create marginal imbalances that need to be filled, which (if filled by small age gaps again) leads to a knock-on effect down the population pyramid.

Every government has corruption. Are you surprised by this? In an example that you will understand, US elections are horrendously corrupt because of rampant gerrymandering and no restrictions on corporate PAC donations. However, people still consider US elections to be “fair” and “just.” Ukraine’s elections have been no more corrupt than they usually are, which I proved to you and am happy to provide more sources for. To which point you… moved the goalposts with no evidence. At least put some effort into your argument, please.

A lack of evidence is either a lack of intelligence or deliberate bad faith.