CTHlurker [he/him]

Do most countries in SEA actually have any type of grievance with the ROK? As far as I know the only “enemies” that are close them are their brothers in the north and then China whom they accuse of supporting the north, while also trading so much with China that it makes up a sizeable amount of korean exports. Also i thought that Korea was much angrier with Japan than Japan was with them.

Our big wet mods are pretty quick to handle those kinds of things.

I mean, did Canada have a significant ethnic minority that people were afraid of the same extend that white america feared black/brown america? A lot harder to do white flight if the people who remain in the cities are also white. The only real ethnic conflict in Canada in the immediate post war period was between the French Canadians and the majority Anglo Canadians, and even the palest englishman is not really all that afraid of a french guy.

Obviously not correcting you, just wondering if my explanation makes sense, since Canadian history isn’t really a thing that people can passively pick up for the most part.

Is Nicaragua about to be couped again? I can’t imagine a smaller country in latin america being “allowed” by the Americans to join anything that is China-led.

Isn’t it completely hopeless to get this kind of agreement with South Korea, given their reliance on the Americans for basically anything? Or is there some anti-american push from the neoliberals in charge of South Korea that I don’t know about?

That movie was fucking weird. It looked like they changed script halfway through and suddenly you had a Jackie Chan movie rather than the way more interesting Nothern Ireland / IRA movie that the first half was about.

Also when I watched it while visiting my parents, I had to restrain myself from singing the IRA songs, since the movie doesn’t really make them out to be the good guys and my parents are mega libs.

Shortly after writing my comment I took the time to listen to the TrueAnon ep with the same author (Ep. 290 - “The Beast” I think it’s called). And the author makes some pretty compelling points, in particular about the very term “cartel” being incredibly misleading as a name for it, especially given the propensity towards infighting that regularly happens. Also the quote from El Chapo’s son was pretty funny in a dark way.

Anyway what I’m saying is: Listen to TrueAnon on this, the author really seems to know his shit. Also Brace and Liz are somehow better at interviews than most other podcasts I listen to, which is strange.

So I can’t access that book currently, but is the argument that the US invented the concept of the organized drug cartel wholesale, or that the West doesn’t understand that any specific cartel is mostly just a loose grouping of self-interested narco-producers and traffickers.

At least Nixon had the courtesy to die during the Apex of the american empire, and never had to deal with it’s contradictions.

I honestly think that Trashfuture had the best theory of why the anglos are so irrational about this. If you are below the age of 60 and live in Britain, you’ve gotten used to the neoliberalism permeating government to such an extent that any time the government says it’s going to do something to help you, they just inevitably make it 10 times worse. Like seriously, you can probably count on one hand the amount of times that the UK government has tried to help people and actually delivered a positive outcome. A bunch of municipalities across the UK (counties or w/e they’re called) also used the supposed “15-minute city” moniker to justify their austerity, in a sort of advanced type of greenwashing.

So i reckon it’s primarily because all these people have ever known is an unresponsive, unhelpful piece of shit government, where no matter the party in power, nothing ever gets better. Also enduring a brutal 1½ decade of austerity that basically removed the most public service from the people who needed it, and people rightfully are deathly afraid of anything that promises to change things for the better. They simply have no more trust in the instutions of the state, and just wants the government to fuck off, since it’s perceived as something that destroys anything it touches.

Isn’t Kissinger like 20 years older than Biden?

I struggle to see a reason why he would live so long, but then again, Kissinger seems like he has been cursed/blessed to live forever until his lifeswork is destroyed.

Somehow that comment is even worse than your description of it, because the comment seems to imply that if a child shows insufficient deference to the grown man, the grown man should be allowed to almost murder her.

This is the type of post you make when you have direct experience in a major european city, but have fuck all in the way of tools to analyse this situtation, and have also given the subject zero extra thought beyond your gut reaction. I know this, because I had the exact same type of thinking when I was 19 and had just started university.

Also just a quick story time: When I had a job in central Copenhagen, there was definitely an element of class to the choices in transportation, as me and the other young grads had to take the train to work, as both of us lived some 20 odd kilometers from the office we worked in, while my boss and most of the upper management were all congratulating themselves on being eco-conscious and biking to work.

Insert Parenti speech about “Capitalism works oh so well in Latin America, Africa and Central Asia”

Morocco never quite forgave the rest of North Africa for their support of republicanism, which is also why the previous king Hassan II allegedly spied on the Arab Republics for Israel during the 6 day war. It’s honestly hard to overstate just how much the moroccan royal family sucks ass and they are only saved by the fact that the other Arab monarchies are somehow even worse.

If the US decided to rid the world of the Petro-dollar, wouldn’t that undermine the ability to export debt and inflation to the rest of the world? Or at the very least, happily speed up the dedollarization that the Yanks are so afraid of. Sure it would massively hurt the petro-states in the Gulf, but presumably they could theoretically weather it if they got given international assistance in the transition periods.

the CIA is presumbly trying to recreate that network that got got in China, and so don’t really have the time or the inclanations to help out a competing empire.

I think it’s pretty clear that a whole lot of the current situation is due to miscalculations from both sides of this conflict, in as much as you can call Ukraine a side. I don’t really know or understand what caused Russia to act the way it did, but I think it’s pretty clear from the actions of their ministry of finance and the central bank, that they did not intend for this to be a broader reckoning with neoliberalism, and the central bank is in fact fighting tooth and nail to protect the neoliberal ideologues in charge of it. I kind of agree with you that Russia probably thought the easternmost parts of Ukraine would greet them as liberators, or at least expected some kind of cooperation from them, which has simply not materialised.

However I have 0 fucking idea why the fuck Ukraine is continuing to fight a war that they are 1) never going to win outright, and also 2) is rapidly depleting the male population, which is going to hamper whatever remains of Ukraine when it inevitably have to rebuild, when a ceasefire is signed. Not to mention all the privatization and destruction of labour power is going to ensure that any gains post-war by Ukraine are going to be hoarded by the ruling class and rather than being used to rebuild infrastructure, is probably going to be used in real estate speculation in Toronto, Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles.

Thebes had the secret weapon, which was higher than average amount of gay sex which made the soldiers bond with each other and fight harder.