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Westerner PMCs really cannot fathom doing something good without a price tag attached to it
Its all 
. They talk about debt traps, but thats what the US/IMF/World Bank do, not China
I mean China is also getting financial benefits from this. Nothing is free. But their way of financial gain doesn’t involve dropping bombs on families and insulting the native residents
Who would have guessed that entering mutually beneficial relationships would foster a greater sense of friendship and loyalty than lopsided ones based on extraction and enforced with the threat of violence?
Lucy insists that China is gonna pull a 
any day now.
It gets especially funny because "fair trade benefitting both sides" is one of the core tenets of liberalism and the one that is actually true, just libs never intended for it to be a fair trade and by now they cannot even imagine such thing in theory.
Almost half of Americans don’t even know who Xi is
5% of Americans being hexbear lurkers is a lot more than I expected
16,500,000 million of us lmao goddamn, along with 56 million who have no opinion we really have some real room to grow
The long shadow the Soviet Union cast is still being seen today. Feels like shit, just want her back 
it's not just that, Russia's recent actions have caused a surge in worldwide popularity. Turns out most of the world can immediately clock Ukraine as a fascist western proxy and think it deserves to get invaded.
Iran's popularity also recently surged after it launched its missile attacks on Israel. The masses of the world can see through the imperialist horseshit that western leftists fall prey to.
Material conditions vs. idealism
Base vs. superstructure
it's crazy to me there's an overlap of like 10-20% of the population that approves of both Russia/China AND the USA. Just naive friendly folks who have no idea what is happening I guess and are inherently trusting
It's a possibility that they polled upper class people
Polling almost always self-selects for those with resources to waste answering questions. Even paying for responses is still going to systematically exclude employed working-class people who don't type emails for a living. Are the poor unemployed people gonna trek across an entire city just to get to the university campus...for $15?
Unrelated, but I wonder why all these random samples of 700 landline voters never indicate broad support for public housing?
That's weird considering the US has a longer history in Africa than China and Russia.
But I guess most of that was enslavement of Africans and neocolonialism so yeah.
Who’d a thunk that a country full of neo-Nazis that see everyone that lives on your continent as vermin would eventually see their trade relations be impacted.
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