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Do they actually read Adam Smith?

more likely they read Economy 101 by a Neoliberal Ghoul who thinks poor people should die if it'd help stonks go up

by which I mean even from capitalist theory they only read a narrow cultist slice

umm, they've been fighting with ww2 surplus shovels since mid-2022

Libs are insufferable as always

What's amazing that they still identify as pragmatist realists, even though their strategy utterly failed.
Wouldn't a true pragmatist realist throw Biden/Harris/the DNC elite under the bus after such a big L? Not these bootlickers.

absolute joke

James Cowan is a former British army general and now CEO of the landmine clearance charity, The HALO Trust

I always love these non-governmental organizations led by completely independent civilians, you know you can expect impartiality from them

Why would the Russian government want to remove the current Ukrainian leadership? They're completely predictable.

Like the Kursk incursion?

With removed, Ukrainian oligarchs and army brass would have to fight in the open for the steering wheel.
Zelenskyyy was perfect for propaganda purposes, truly a gift that the Ukrainian Jon Stewart was the president at the start of the war and not a ghoulish oligarch like Poroshenko

Though I don't think Russians need to do anything else than what they've been doing to win this war and force the West to the table

Actually Ukrainian mayo is good too.
Maybe we are lost out on the supreme soviet mayo?

Also why do you care so much about finding a way to call me a liberal it's obsessive :P

First step in purging your inner liberal is recognizing that you are a liberal hahaha

Last I checked Taiwan was a sovereign nation.

Please, check again

Disputes about Taiwan's sovereignty is the most famous fact about Taiwan. You are deeply unserious.

So what? Imperialism is suddenly okay if you don't like the ruling ideology there?

My brother in NED, it's not just about a "ruling ideology", Taiwan is literally a US stronghold against China, and if you recall your geography lessons from high school, you might remember that the United States is in North America on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. If any country does imperialism on that side of the globe it's the USA, since Taiwan is called Republic of China, and most countries don't recognize ROC as the "true" China.

You may recall protests being violently repressed.

You may recall that the CIA literally foments colour revolutions against geopolitical rivals or countries who don't swear fealty to the US. Have you heard of Jacobo Arbenz? Mossadegh? and so on?

You may recall that hours ago I literally quoted that 83% of Hongkongers want to belong to China.

What are you trying to prove to me? That China is perfect? I know you don't believe that.

The point is, since it eludes you for some reason, is that it's pure projection from the West of accusing China of bad minority policies, when the West is worse in many many ways. Not that China is "perfect" whatever that means in real world policies, but the West want you to think China = BAD. And the only reason you do this hand-wringing about minorities in China is because US State Department think tanks implanted that thought in your head some time ago by bombarding you with anti-China propaganda.

The other point is that anarchists crying about tankies are just useful idiots, since the real threat to capitalist hegemony is the actually existing socialist countries. That's why the FBI and the CIA was always more concerned about Leninists than about anarchists.

House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas

again, do some self crit

the point was that many anarchists are indistinguishable from centrists when it comes to actual geopolitical issues, because they have internalized western propaganda about the West's rivals

propaganda is not just lies (though some of it is actual lies), but emphasis

nothing you've written in this thread is a genuine engagement with people who try to refute western propaganda about the west's rivals, and you've written nothing that would indicate that you're not a liberal who just likes anarchist aesthetics with a vague handwavy criticism of "nation states"

do some self crit
you were given answers in earnest, and you are not engaging with them in a sincere way

My theory is it's Blinken. He's truly the Kissinger/Albright of our times