Dear god, they are really calling it the "Countering CCP Drones Act". That name itself gives it away that the act stems from baseless China Bad nonsense.

Blinken in meetings with African nations pretty much admits that the US is too stretched to focus much on Africa. I remember him saying stuff along those lines when the Tigray stuff in Ethiopia started happening.

Germany is a like rapist who went to rehab and then believes that gives them a license to lecture others morally, except that they are still actively doing morally repugnant things themselves that are just simply different from rape specifically.

I don't care to play or learn much about the game given it's fascist fan base but I thought the bug were representative of a reactionary's idea of communism.

I wouldn't even say profit is the US's main motivation, they care mostly about dominance for the sake of dominance.

You would think they would be thankful China isn't sending Russia 500 cruise missiles a day instead but nah.

Lol, sobbing over losing influence to Russia despite Russia having nowhere near the soft power the collective West has. The West has overwhelming dominance over global media and billions more it can afford to through towards propaganda and bribery, yet Africans still chooses Russia.

Chad is also trying now too.

The beggars I encountered during my short time in Costa Rica gave me the impression that some in Latam might view westerners and the west in general as big ATM machines that can magically solve the poverty they endure if they just ask nicely and hard enough. Sadly they don't realize that the average American can't even be bothered to learn the name and location of Latin American countries other then Mexico, Brazil, Cuba and Vuvuzuela.

Yeah, we can't let those ebil commies win and turn America into a totalitarian society that controls public thought. We must rigorously instill Freedom™ into the mind of every young child.

Yeah, I noticed libs got notably more quite after the failed summer counteroffensive and have slowly been becoming more doomeristic since then. Like, before that a lot of them genuinely believed that Leopards/Abrams etc. were impervious machines that could survive indirect nuke hits and that Russia totally was done for. I also don't think any of them anticipated that Russia and it's tiny nominal GDP would be able produce more ammunition then NATO in it's entirety.

I've seen people defend capitalism unironically by arguing that you can just go run off in the woods if you don't like it, as if every square inch of land isn't privately owned.

1000 cruise missiles a day sounds bonkers, 100 cruise missiles getting used in a single day in Ukraine would be considered a colossal amount.

I know a friend who left his retail job to work in a coal mine here in the US. Unsurprisingly he didn't last long and went back to his same retail job.

Imagine the US pushing Europe into war with Russia and then at the last second is like nah, you got this, keep buying our overpriced hardware and you'll be fine.

At least in PPP Russia is already larger then Brazil, France and the UK, and Germany and Japan are both very quickly going down the shitter with no indications that they will ever bounce back anytime in the future. I don't think Russia will ever be larger then India going forward but hence 4th place instead of 3rd.

Well then, round of applause to Finland and Sweden for making themselves obliged nuclear targets in the case where this person isn't just speaking sore loser bullshit.

Wow, who could of guessed that her disapproval far-right parties stemmed only from them being "Putin's friends", rather then being far-right?

Nazis: Marxism is bad because it's jewish.

Liberals: Marxism is bad because it hates jews.

Marxists: Bruh.

Hence, one of the reasons why the "real capitalism" that ancaps and libertarians talk about has never been tried.