:michael-laugh: the absolute stone cold ahistorical balls to say that as if their military dictatorships weren't US-backed
"Ok you're economically sanctioned until you stop calling for a coup in our country. Good luck with 60% of your economy gone."
Why give them the dignity of dying with a weapon in their hands when a firing squad gives them the same experience
'We demand to pass!' Shreider and Prokopovich shouted. 'We are going to the Winter Palace!'
A sailor, bemused, refused to let them through.
'Shoot us if you want to!' the marchers challenged. 'We are ready to die, if you have the heart to fire on Russians and comrades ... We Bear our breasts to your guns!'
The peculiar standoff continued. The left refused to shoot, the right demanded their right to pass and / or be shot.
'What will you do?' yelled someone at the sailor who doggedly refused to murder him.
John Reed's eyewitness account of what happened next is famous. Another sailor came up, very much irritated. "We will spank you!" he cried energetically. "And if necessary, we will shoot you too. Go home now, and leave us in peace."'
That would be no fir fate for champions of democracy. Standing on a box, waving his umbrella, Prokopovich announced to his followers that they would save these sailors from themselves. 'We cannot have our innocent blood upon the hands of these ignorant men! ... It is beneath our dignity to be shot down' - let alone spanked - 'here in...
I think it was Dan Carlin on one of his podcasts that said, that while we don't have a ton of evidence, we have reason to believe in ancient times soldiers shat themselves constantly out of fear before battle. Just massive amounts of shit, all over the place.
I can see it. I mean when you think of combat back then, somebody had to be in the front slamming straight into the front of the enemy formation. Not sure how I would react knowing that I have to run forward into a charging mob where my survival is almost an impossibility
I think he'd get the same sensation being stuck doing a FTX over the weekend lmao
YES, A*STRALIA, PLEASE FACILITATE A COUP IN CHINA. BECAUSE YOU TOTALLY HAVE THAT POWER YOU FUCKING LOSERS.
militarizing the South China Sea
this means "building their own Navy", because of course when our Navy goes someplace it's called "freedom of navigation"
"freedom of navigation" is basically just like when a big brother holds his hand an inch from his little brother's face and says " does this bother you? I'm not touching you - does this bother you?"
What the fuck? A major Australian newspaper publishing an article calling for a coup in one of the most powerful nations in the world?
Yeah, I remember that. Just before the election, the unelected government was assuring the nation through anonymous sources that don't worry, we got this, even if Corbyn is elected we'll sabotage him from the inside and he'll never get anything done.
Reassuring! I for one feel great knowing that even if we elect someone the government nobody voted for stands ready to nullify our democratic choice.
Inbound Whitlam coup volume 2 except this time it's :take-a-xiat: and it's cool.
Staring at the geopolitical chess board as our pieces are slowly whittled away and shouting "The King! The King! Why aren't we taking the King! That would turn this whole game around!"
"We need a Chinese version of Yeltsin," - America's security apparatus
"Fuck that shit," - all of China
I tend to think that the USSR falling really bit them in the ass in that every future socialist project ever can point to the disaster that was Russia in the 90's and early 00's and realize hey maybe we don't want freedom
TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.
Under Yeltsin's tenure, the death rate in Russia reached wartime levels. Accidents, food poisoning, exposure, heart attacks, lack of access to basic healthcare, and an epidemic of suicides—they all played a role. David Satter, a senior fellow at the anti-communist, Washington DC-based Hudson Institute, writing in the conservative Wall Street Journal, described the consequences of this victory of Democracy: "Western and Russian demographers now agree that between 1992 and 2000, the number of 'surplus deaths' in Russia-deaths that cannot be explained on the basis of previous trends-was between five and six million persons."
Death rate visualized as a line graph. Look at the steep drop-off of the dashed line in 1989.
Don't you know the US State Department is full of the wisest people on the planet? When they decide how you should run your country, you should listen. You know they all graduated from Ivy League colleges, right?
:xi-plz:, nuke my fucking country :aus-delenda-est:
the rest of the whiteoids here don't deserve life and I am fine with being cleansed by the nuclear fire :posadist-nuke:
Right? Just knock out the US power grid. It's estimated it would take years to get it back up in full and in that time 80% of the population would be dead. Then come in and pick off any remaining resistance.
The entire non-white world needs to immediately invade the west
Right even though the people of the Eastern Bloc generally liked socialism and wanted to keep it around, a lot of their Communist parties like the SED in East Germany had become unpopular by 1989 for various reasons. The popularity of the CPC is so damn high in China, I don't know why these baby-brains think getting rid of Xi would do anything. I mean, at least propose a slightly more plausible idea of trying to discredit the CPC. I mean, that's not going to happen either, but at least it's slightly more logical if you actually understand China.
Most of the former communist states underwent extensive decommunization as part of their liberalization, which usually meant that everyone associated with the former political party was banned from government and the state-owned commons were privatized. "Removing Xi" implies a global order that imposes that on China - most of the 95 million people associated with the CPC (except maybe the right-leaning members like Jack Ma) would have to be purged by the new liberal order in order and the masses would have to be subjected to an entire generation of anticommunist propoganda.
