u/yunxiaoli

Probably fewer countries excusing the hard power they use?

Just because they occasionally kiss their victims doesn't make what they do to them first any better. It never has. But if the world's bully finally stops providing any good then maybe we can move on as a species.

Just to highlight, _**she left a two year old, a seven year old, and a ten year old**_ in one of the highest cost of living countries in order to go play soldier in a country she has never been to and has no connections to that cannot possibly pay her more than canadian minimum wage.

There's no justifiable reason, russia isn't going to invade canada next, ukraine doesn't pay their mercenaries particularly well, her kids aren't grown and her family isn't well off enough to not have either a homemaker or second income. Everyone involved's life is worse for this, except her's... She thinks she found a new family and is happy.

...you understand how tiny of an industry that is compared to nearly anything else china exports, right?

And the entire world is going towards evs, even developing countries since generators are more efficient over time than dealing with all the parts of a ice vehicle.

Some businesses might go under if they somehow can't pivot their floors to produce something more profitable, but the entire 'problem' western firms have when competing with china is that they're set up to easily pivot and expand production to different items.

China has the entire developing world, their own growing middle class, and europe for import/export. There is nothing america produces that is exclusive or the best cost, and with the us economy dying it's not like china can sell to the us profitably for a while.

Given half the references are from the same people that said a gang leader was called barbeque because he was a cannibal instead of the actual reason, I'm going to suggest there might be a bit of a propaganda problem going on there.

The gangs formed due to foreign invasion and an illegitimate state seizing power. They aren't some separate group from the people, they are the people that should decide what state they have. The primary victims of the largest gang, for instance, were politicians and un 'workers', the latter of which regularly were caught raping women and children.

The gangs are the security. Against actual evil. These aren't international cartel members or gun runners or even drug dealers. They're resistance to occupation.

Maybe, you know, the foreign troops trying to revive a us puppet state that was deeply unpopular with the people is the cause of violence.

You know as much about china as dolphins do about integrated circuits.

And a load of cars is far less heavy and less dynamically loaded than say, a crane. Or a group of construction equipment.

Again, if this worked, any single barge in existence would work better. A Wylie e coyote bridge made of hundreds of barges is too ridiculous even for the most westoid brain version of China. This is 'dem Chinese eat Muslim babies to take our jobs' level of silly.

Something heavy, slow, tread based, with easily controlled variable weight, that's cheap enough to replace if anything goes wrong and something that's been rendered useless on modern battlefields so has no further original use?

I wonder why they would use that to test barges that are far more valuable as overwater construction and resupply; rather than the absolutely silly idea of static targets for artillery, which is their only actual military function.

I mean I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. How do you people think this would function as a 'war bridge'? You'd need hundreds. If one can touch shore then just use a normal barge, not this Wylie e coyote nonsense. If one can't touch the shore, a hundred of them in an in movable chain that takes hours to align won't be able to.

China builds some cool infrastructure/construction tools

The West: Them Chinese are go'n take our chip fabs and war with the world

What do you think the US has been doing in yemen for the last twenty years?

There hasn't been a week in the last twenty years where US bombs haven't killed yemeni civilians.

The US wastes a few hundred million shooting down a few hundred dollars worth of missiles and drones, the us then wastes a few hundred million bombing yemeni civilians, increasing the number of houthis and encouraging monetary support to be given to the houthis.

They've been playing the US for over a decade and have learned from all the dozens of other people that have militarily beat the US how exactly to do it.

Always has been, actually the North Vietnamese were the rebel alliance according to Lucas, but the US has always been the bad guys in that media franchise.

So just another day?

Hey so just a question, are the Chinamen shabby, rushed and incompetent, or are those dirty commies so incredibly, inconceivably competent and meticulous to instantly hide all information that would make them look bad?

Both paradoxically must be true for your sinophobic conspiracy theory to work.

Well at least the West is choosing group suicide along with the US instead of attempting to save themselves, makes it way better for their victims.

Nearly all hostages taken by Hamas were IDF or former IDF. They primarily targeted generals and IDF bases, which thanks to Israel's Hannibal strategy are interspersed in civilian areas.

Given the number of causalities, Hamas acted, and has always acted, with more valor and more care for civilians than the IDF who are famous for sniping children and reporters.

Resistance is killing those that oppress you, even if they take off their uniform and throw a party next to your concentration camp.

They're including the entirety of China's media budget.

While I agree things like npr, pbs, and local newspapers are propaganda, you guys typically don't. So it's silly to compare the two like that.

It's like saying the entirety of the UK's tv license fee is just for state run propaganda; and that's not fair, channel 4 exists and works against UK state propaganda.

If that was the version of Buddhism he's advocating for Tibet would still be an autonomous region instead of under direct control.

They had child sex slaves and a caste system that would make some parts of India blush.