You have not told me why you put absolute faith in whatever the NYT and Wiki say about folks you don't like
I do not. You seem to think that my knowledge and beliefs come from wiki and NYT. They do not. My brain and what I can pull up links to in 30 seconds are different. The NYT was the biggest book review, and it pointed out the issues that were broadly believed. It's the logical choice for a link. I'm not going to spend a lot of time hunting for a "better" link. I'm sure I could find one, but why should I have to?
And wiki is THE general reference source on the internet. It's also a very good and reliable source as long as you stay away from items that libtards get up in arms about.
If you weren't looking for a fight with Russia, you'd be allies right now
I and many others in the US would have supported that, but it's not up to me if Putin doesn't want to fuck. If I could make Putin stop being a bitch, the US and Putin would have been like this in an anti-terrorism alliance where we jointly laid the smack down on islamic terror all over the world.
Instead, Putin decided that he wanted to reconstitute the USSR. Putin had a choice, and he chose wrong. Had Putin decided to go the path of demilitarization and economic prosperity, Russia might have a GDP several times higher than what it has now. Russia might have even joined the EU and been a strong conservative cultural force for good pulling the EU to the Right.
rather than Russia aiding the CCP.
Funny enough, Russia and China are at best frenemies, and China has been massively distancing itself from Russia and taking advantage of Russia economically since the war started to look bad for Russia in March.
Now, I know you think it doesn't matter because <ratonalization> and that China is doomed but whatever. But it's not exactly good statecraft.
It's not good statecraft to hand Putin a license to invade and conquer Ukraine as part of a devil's bargain to obtain empty promises from him to cooperate against China, when Xi and Putin have very similar [though long term contradictory, like Hitler and Stalin] goals which are naturally opposed to the democratic capitalist order.
Chinese culture is rather collectivist and it may very well be that suicide in such cultures is much lower.
Japan is collectivist, China isn't even a little. Chinese culture today is ruthlessly individualist and almost to the point of ancap. Rich Chinese famously run people over in the street and complain that the poorshit damaged their car with his body. China is a partially communist country, but the part that is not communist is perhaps the most degenerate extreme unfettered "greed is good, is you ain't cheating you ain't trying" society the world has ever seen.
There are tons of murders of schoolchildren and various scandals in China on a regular basis, but the government successfully covers them up internationally 99% of the time. It's only when the scandal gets super big that it leaks out.
I do not. You seem to think that my knowledge and beliefs come from wiki and NYT. They do not. My brain and what I can pull up links to in 30 seconds are different. The NYT was the biggest book review, and it pointed out the issues that were broadly believed. It's the logical choice for a link. I'm not going to spend a lot of time hunting for a "better" link. I'm sure I could find one, but why should I have to?
And wiki is THE general reference source on the internet. It's also a very good and reliable source as long as you stay away from items that libtards get up in arms about.
I and many others in the US would have supported that, but it's not up to me if Putin doesn't want to fuck. If I could make Putin stop being a bitch, the US and Putin would have been like this in an anti-terrorism alliance where we jointly laid the smack down on islamic terror all over the world.
Instead, Putin decided that he wanted to reconstitute the USSR. Putin had a choice, and he chose wrong. Had Putin decided to go the path of demilitarization and economic prosperity, Russia might have a GDP several times higher than what it has now. Russia might have even joined the EU and been a strong conservative cultural force for good pulling the EU to the Right.
Funny enough, Russia and China are at best frenemies, and China has been massively distancing itself from Russia and taking advantage of Russia economically since the war started to look bad for Russia in March.
It's not good statecraft to hand Putin a license to invade and conquer Ukraine as part of a devil's bargain to obtain empty promises from him to cooperate against China, when Xi and Putin have very similar [though long term contradictory, like Hitler and Stalin] goals which are naturally opposed to the democratic capitalist order.
Japan is collectivist, China isn't even a little. Chinese culture today is ruthlessly individualist and almost to the point of ancap. Rich Chinese famously run people over in the street and complain that the poorshit damaged their car with his body. China is a partially communist country, but the part that is not communist is perhaps the most degenerate extreme unfettered "greed is good, is you ain't cheating you ain't trying" society the world has ever seen.
There are tons of murders of schoolchildren and various scandals in China on a regular basis, but the government successfully covers them up internationally 99% of the time. It's only when the scandal gets super big that it leaks out.