it’s even more stark if you compare by population

yeah, I’m pretty sure that as a westerner you have zero agency over either government in practice

If I have to choose which government I’m going to share my secrets with it’s going to be the one that doesn’t have agency over me.

I’m convinced that’s precisely what drives the insane policy the west pursues. The fall of USSR and the unipolar moment that followed were the formative years for these people. The world has moved on, but these people never adjusted their thinking.

The only good Russia is one that’s Balakanized and exploited by western oligarchs.

The other option is to just not make enemies in the east, and learn to coexist with the rest of humanity.

Unlikely to end well for the current Atlanticist political establishment that sucks on the US teat in order to exist. The whole article is basically preparing the public for the austerity that’s going to come in order to ramp up military spending. All that said, I do think that the US will leave Europe to hang as it shifts focus on Asia. This was gonna happen regardless of who won, but it will be happening much more in the open under Trump.

the world is healing

There’s some truth to that, but realistically speaking I think the window of opportunity on that has closed now. The US has lost every one of their own war games against China in South China Sea. So, if China decided to take military action there’s little the US can do short of starting a nuclear war.

TSMC doesn’t care about preserving anything. The chips being made in Taiwan is their ace card in getting western support. If they ever started making cutting edge fabs elsewhere then their importance to the west would fizzle.

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some crispy fried yanks soon to follow

the least blood thirsty liberal has logged on

lol right

Labour worked really hard to fuck Corbyn over so they could have a compliant neolib in charge.

Exactly, these are complete psychopaths who see human beings as just pawns to be moved around on their grand chess board.

It’s literally an alliance of bullies.

What a weird way to say support for the western installed regime forcing Ukrainians to fight a proxy war against Russia.

The truth is that Russia already has a precedent in Yugoslavia. In fact, Russia intentionally modelled Ukraine on what NATO did in Yugoslavia where they recognized the independence of breakaway regions and had them invite NATO for help.

It’s not Trump the Europeans need to worry about, but their own politicians who made Europe a vassal of the US.