:parenti: Those dastardly Chinese and their checks notes peacemaking.
When you realize the USA is a giant shrine to Mammon and all those covid deaths were a sacrifice to shore up the stock market, things make a lot more sense.
Alternate headline: USA leadership too stupid and ghoulish to be capable of using soft power; Aghast watching an actual first world country wield it.
:bolton: "Look, it's real simple: If China comes in as a Peacemaker that will place them in direct opposition to our status as Warmaker. A wise man once said, 'war is peace', which is what we want. But that also means (particularly in this instance) that 'peace is war'. And nobody wants a war but if those bastards come looking for a fight we'll be happy to give them one" :no-oil: :no-oil: :no-oil:
The dastardly chinese not wanting “a war” in their neighbour, true evil knows no bounds
Time to try to position myself as someone who has eaten dinner. By eating dinner.
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. :parenti::parenti: :parenti::parenti::parenti:
How do people not see this and automatically become sick with rage? Seriously I want to pay attention to shit but this is psychic damage. I'm ready to leave the US and be on the receiving end of democracy now thanks.
China intervenes in a way to stop a tragic war that has taken countless lives and left much more in ruins...but at what cost?
I've said it before but thank God for the Chinese. It's just nice to have someone sane in charge of something for once
Maybe the US shouldn’t take a position in the war if they want to broker a peace deal
https://web.archive.org/web/20230318152925/https://www.jpost.com///breaking-news/article-734655
