zephyreks

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The video is public and so is the orientation of the camera. The missile came from the direction of Ukraine. If Russia has the capability of sending missiles that can literally pull a 180 degree midair turn, do you really think they'd use that on a market?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Foreign police stations? Nah...

How about foreign assassinations?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Then India and North Korea should be on the Security Council 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You shouldn't arrest children in a classroom with other children.

Who knows who could get hurt in such an altercation?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Most of the West is deeply neoliberal.

That sounds like humanity to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm happy to move over from programming.dev to lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

India's too important for the West's aspirations to contain China, so if India decides to do some extrajudicial killings in an "ally" country that's just the cost of doing business.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's less a matter of technical capability and more one of cost. It's not like people didn't know how to build good, efficient homes before. It was just expensive.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Western economies are built on the exploitation of cheap labour abroad for both manufacturing (China, India) and resource extraction (most of Africa). In contrast, the Chinese economy is built on cheap domestic labour and cheap domestic resources so that it can build things for export. The incentive structure is vastly different, because while the West basically has to act out of altruism, it's in China's best interest to create more demand for your production.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Russia was very clear what their red lines were, even back in like 2009. NATO kept pushing the issue. Then, by their own admission, teams like the US 4th PsyOps orchestrated Euromaidan to overthrow the Ukrainian government. Ukraine might be mostly innocent here, but neither Russia nor NATO are.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Are you surprised? People in Washington are openly talking about how they should be focusing on China under the assumption that China will somehow make the decision to seize Taiwan tomorrow... As if they haven't been posturing about that literally since the end of the civil war and done nothing except increase trade, open up immigration, and increase cultural coupling with Taiwan.

The US needs an enemy to justify their extreme military budget and China is the bogeyman of the decade.

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