It’s all allegations, they never even confirmed any cultural genocide taking place in China. Why doesn’t the US just send a NATO rep to investigate and confirm or deny any events taking place?
Oh right, western propaganda
It’s all allegations, they never even confirmed any cultural genocide taking place in China. Why doesn’t the US just send a NATO rep to investigate and confirm or deny any events taking place?
Oh right, western propaganda
This is just a very general observation but it seems like a lot of the US's "allies" aren't going to back us up if the propaganda ramps up much further. I don't think Europe is gonna let us drag them into a war this time. Australia is boned though lel.
there was the bit recently with the Ukrainian president himself complaining that the US was going too crazy over Russia, so it's definitely possible. American soft power is really going down the drain, :inshallah:
Watching libs rabidly defend Ukraine, only for them to turn about and call Ukrainians ignorant assholes for not following the US line of "Russia attack imminent" is...interesting, to say the least.
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Canada is still america's lap dog.
:kkkanada: :aus-delenda-est: :amerikkka:
honestly I forget we're separate countries sometimes
edit: actually I was watching Fallout lore videos earlier and Canadians standing up against US hegemony and getting violently put down is the most unrealistic aspect of the entire lore. I'd believe super mutants were real first.
Canadians will never stand up for shit, except maybe to hop in their Ford F-150 and demand to go back to Denny's
It was something like a couple of supply lines were attacked and maybe like one politician was against it so the US was like "better safe than sorry" and annexed the whole thing.
It was more of a foreign popular protest being put down that the actual government of Canada not allowing the US to do what it wanted.
I also like this line:
C*nada is still whipped into a froth about their spook Michaels. Honestly I think the anti-China zeitgeist is worse here than anywhere.
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Only English speaking countries seem willing to follow at this point. Australia seems fully committed to follow us to the death, the UK and Canada are close behind. But even New Zealand is like “Okay that’s enough, we’re not gonna burn bridges with our biggest trading partner for your egos”
It really is an Anglo specific psychosis
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Don't know about New Zealand but the UK & Australia have both historically had Labour governments soft couped by the US. The UK twice if you count US spookery around the Corbyn election.
austrialia, has like, less people that california though right? It is just mostly empty, but looks real big on a map so people forget it is mostly just a handful of colonists, rabbits, and some mass graves of the aboriginal peoples.
this is because Americans couped the Australian PM though yes https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence
its true that happened, yes, but i dont think thats a core reason here
people talk about australia having a national insecurity complex and i think that scratches the surface of the real issue - there is a huge undercurrent of seeing australia as a lonely far-flung outpost of civilisation (ie whiteness) among the oriental savages, a real sense of incredible vulnerability. i think its subconsciously tied into that anglo fear about the crimes of our past and getting whats coming to us at the hands of those the west has exploited. you occasionally hear bursts of fear about indonesias third largest military in the world (no idea if this is true), with a definite implication that if the iNtErNaTiOnAl RuLeS bAsEd OrDeR collapsed then indonesia would definitely instantly invade. the north is full of the oriental hordes, and we would be left to the mercies of *them*. i think the same fear is the key driver of the remarkable terror over asylum seekers
britain was australias "protector" but their star has faded and that relationship got a little complicated anyway and too much of a reminder of local and regional history that people would rather not think about. after wwii, america was the shiny new power, appropriately white, and gleamingly free of old world complications. australia has grasped hard with both hands and is utterly terrified to let go, no matter what. the idea of aligning australia with an asian power bloc just doesnt compute - in large part because the idea of entering a bloc with non-whites as equals is considered beneath the national dignity, but also i think because of an incredulousness that they would accept us anyway. and as we go more and more all-in with america, that door closes even more.
its fear that drives australia, but its a more existential fear of what would happen if america let us go. i think thats the core of why australia constantly acts like americas most pathetic lapdog, and especially why china strikes a particular nerve
interestingly, this never seems to have afflicted new zealand to the same extent and im not certain why