There’s a large number of people out there that thing “even though democrats had a disastrous four years, they will magically fund schools and give everyone a pony when they’re back in power.”
a lot can go wrong there to be sure
I think the quote refers to Dutch saying they have their own independent interests that don’t necessarily align with the US.
I mean George Floyd protests clearly showed that you can’t, but ok.
I have no doubt that Trump would keep doing more of the same. The key point is that what dems are already doing is objectively deplorable.
I think Mearsheimer does a very good job of providing honest analysis of the history of the conflict and the causes behind it https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/who-caused-the-ukraine-war
I mean Russia would continue doing trade with Cuba regardless of what the US says. And if US started sabre rattling then Russia would send armed ships to escort its cargo ones. Even the US wouldn’t be crazy enough to directly attack Russian ships trading with Cuba.
no worries, and I appreciate your perspective on this as well
lol yeah
Yeah, I don’t think Vietnam counts as any sort of occupation. It is an instance of a war of aggression by China though. I do consider it to be a mistake on the part of Chinese leadership, but the reality is that every society makes mistakes. Societies run by communists aren’t immune from that, and that’s just life.
In my view, the question is always how these societies compare to other real world alternatives. Even if we take the most critical view of China in cases of Vietnam, it’s clear that there is no comparison with the US. The path of development China took is overwhelmingly peaceful, and one that helped improved life both in China and in many other nations around the world.
This is definitely not a hill I’m going to die on. I’m willing to entertain the notion that Tibet had notional independence, but it was a nightmarish place that had to be liberated. I think the important point is whether China did the right thing here, and the answer is unarguably that yes it was.
Well I was going with the whole it was a very good thing that China intervened and liberated Tibet. It is was an intervention though. But yeah, to be clear, I think it was absolutely the right thing to do.
yeah that’s fair
I imagine Russia would. Not because they want to defend communism in Cuba, but because they would want to show that they can’t be bullied by the US. We already saw an example of this with Russia doing naval exercises with Cuba just recently. I also can’t imagine that the US would dare attack Chinese ships going to Cuba. As long as there are nations that can’t be bullied by the US who are willing to trade with Cuba there’s nothing the US can do.
This is why the financial system is such a big factor. When everybody was using SWIFT for international trade, the US didn’t have to threaten military conflict. They could just do sanctions or cut countries out of SWIFT. That was enough of a deterrent to make trade with Cuba unappealing. Now that more and more trade is happening outside the dollar, that threat is no longer there.
a self referential comment if I ever saw one
Would be a real shame if something happened to all your assets that are stored in our financial system.
That would be risking WW3, even during the Cold War the US didn’t dare blockade Soviet ships coming to Cuba.
This will be interesting to watch. Will there be a real backlash again US policies or will the countries destroy their high tech sectors to show loyalty.