The more unreliable Russia weapons are proving to be in a conventional war, the more likely they will resort to nuclear weapons.
Even if the Russian administration is determined to go out with a nuclear tantrum, I doubt I'd trust the design and maintenance of their systems, compared to that of America, France, and UK. It'd be a tragedy if only 1 works, of course.
Short of dismantling capitalism
This comment stems from a misunderstanding of what our economic system actually is. People have the freedom to make the best arrangements that suite them. Back in the 1600s, that was mainly subsistence farming.
automated labor profits go to the top 1% who own the automation
And this is wrong simply on the face of it. Joe Pleb wouldn't use these services unless they were a value add to him personally. So the benefits necessarily accrue to more than the top 1%.
You mean DeSantis is NOT trying to ban teaching history, including the ugly bits of slavery yet.
Making sh*t up as a political cudgel for the narrative present isn't teaching "the ugly bits of slavery". "Historians" like Howard Zinn and NHJ read 1984 as a howto manual.
strips education from the hands of educators and allows the government to dictate curriculims.
The tax payer was always in charge of the curriculum. Teachers are hired to teach the curriculum set out by the state.
simply being triggered because someone is reading or writing something you don't agree with is a step too far.
You're so far behind on this. The point of "Critical Theory" is to be relentlessly critical to destabilize social norms. And, as Marcuse advocated in Repressive Tolerance, to be as absolutely biased as possible in exercising naked group-on-group social power. Everything from your side is completely forgiven, and obsesses of minor transgressions, perceived or imaginary, of anyone who stands in your way.
Saying this is "a stop too far" is like saying that you disagree with violence in warfare. Yes, it sucks. There's no good faith conversation to be had about it with true believers.
You have me and you vote for pro-Democracy candidates who will institute real policies to make China democratic instead of just using their cheap labor for short term profits.
The CCP has absolutely no intention of allowing anything remotely like power sharing, or peaceful regime change. There's no actual civilian/military divide. There's not real government/business divide. Everything is at the behest of the CCP, which has wound itself into every institution, every school, every textbook. They are hell bent on dominating the world because they're the best, and it hurts their feels that we don't acknowledge it. They are also obscenely corrupt and brutal kleptocrats, willing to kill people and sell their organs, or commit cultural+racial genocide against entire sub-populations.
As in Russia, regime change may well mean a brutal death, like that of Gaddafi or Ceauescu.
Yes, mostly cheap energy, as well as just opposing democracy in general.
Indeed, Xi and Putin want to make the world safe for dictators like them. What happened to the Soviet Union terrifies the CCP for good reason.
The irony is, that China depends on the USA far more than the converse. Almost all their food an energy is imported through a world trade system that is patrolled by the US Navy. If the US stayed home, and say India decided to disrupt those oil tankers sailing just past it... then China would starve and deindustrialize within a year.
China's only hope for world dominance comes through a pusillanimous Western coalition that isn't prepared to stand up for liberal values. That was the great hope for the CCPs plans for Taiwan. That was Putin's hope in Ukraine.
If the West doesn't back Ukraine and punish Russia, then there will be many many more wars in the near future. I don't know why China and Russia think they should be allowed all the benefits of the Western system without playing ball. They could always shut their doors and stay home.
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