You'd think so but actually no, they do share a border. You can take a direct train from Moscow all the way to Pyongyang without passing through China. The journey takes about 200 hours.

At present, the longest non-stop train route in the world is between Moscow and Pyongyang, it covers 10267 km and takes eight days. Foreign tourists have to leave the train in Tumangang (North Korean border city).

Take this with a grain of salt. I would not put it past the NYT to run interference for the Zionist entity. "Israel" already have a severe image crisis with the younger generation in the US and a lot of the western media's role is to do damage control in that regard.

If they say it was the US, a) people are more likely to forgive the actions of their own government than those of a foreign government, and b) it can be blamed on the Trump administration and turned into a partisan thing.

This could be strategic narrative management the same way throwing Ukraine under the bus for the Nordstream bombing to divert blame away from the US worked in Europe, because Europeans are more primed to sympathize with and forgive Ukraine for attacking them than the US.

Just like maintaining the US's image in Europe matters more to the European ruling class, it is more important to the US ruling class to protect the image of the Zionist entity than that of the Trump administration.

In any case, the distinction is largely illusory anyway, because the Zionist entity is an extension of the US empire and serves to advance the imperialist agenda in the region, while at the same time much of the US policy in the region serves to advance the goals and agenda of Zionism. A US attack on Iran is a Zionist attack and vice versa.

The Davos WEF meeting this year is already a complete shit show, the European elites are in total panic mode, and i have a feeling the funniest moments are yet to come. Grab your popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the disintegration of the transatlantic project and the humiliation of Europe.

Europe just can't stop taking L's

China already has more free speech than the USA today.

Yup. If he is saying this now it's only a matter of time until he starts to justify interventions, sanctions and bombings, sides with cops over protesters, and both-sides the Palestinian genocide.

Unserious wannabe novelist tone, complete lack of verifiable sources, cartoonish portrayal of Russians, heroization of Ukrainian Nazis who have openly bragged about supporting terrorist groups in the Sahel...yup, checks all the boxes of three letter agency propaganda. Perfect for advancing two of their favorite agendas at the same time: demonization of Russia and discrediting of AES states' governments. These are the same kinds of outlets who write hit pieces on Ibrahim Traoré while glazing literal Nazi battalions in Ukraine.

Once you check their funding sources it becomes immediately clear what kind of outlet this is: https://forbiddenstories.org/about-us/funding/

Funded, among other highly dubious organizations, by the NED (literal CIA front) and Open Society Foundations (color revolution NGO).

In the future please read a piece like this critically and check its sources and most importantly its sources of funding before you post it. Or post it in a more appropriate com like SRS. Do better next time.

I think it's because liberals are becoming more and more indistinguishable from fascists. Fascists have been concern trolling about East Asian birth rates for a long time now, for them it's nothing new.

The source of the problem is something they cannot identify because it would mean acknowledging the inherent unsustainability of a system that produces chronic overwork, social alienation, hyper-competitiveness for the purpose of maximizing exploitation, exorbitant costs of living, and a general detachment of humans from their humanity by building artificial identities around consumption and being viewed as being only as valuable as the value they can generate for capital.

Under these conditions it is no wonder people have either no time for a family, insufficient material means to support one, or simply no desire to take on the immense additional financial and psychological burden in addition to the burden already placed on them by having to exist in this economic system. All of these social and demographic problems that people talk about when they raise alarms about low birth rates are really downstream from the fundamental economic issues, which continue to fester and to produce increasingly severe contradictions, especially in places like Japan and Occupied Korea.

The US made a proposal, Russia is making a counter-proposal. This is how negotiations are conducted. Westerners seem to think that the way it works is US and Ukraine negotiate something between themselves and just go and present that to Russia to accept. That's now how it works, that is just the same side talking to itself.

I'm simplifying here because this is the way we should be talking about this to liberals.

Of course you are right on what the subtext here was. What is actually happening is that Russia is simply playing the same game it always does: Putin being extremely diplomatic and careful not to look like he's closing any doors, meanwhile his staff, Lavrov and so on, telling it bluntly like it is, laying out what Russia's position is, what it will accept and what it won't.

The western media can spin it however they like but for the rest of the world this will look like Russia being reasonable and open to proposals, while also being realistic. Putin managed to deftly avoid the PR trap the Americans set here. And it's not like it was hard to see that this is what was coming. Putin was never just going to say flat out "no", but he also wasn't going to let himself be trapped by such an obvious, noobish ploy.

This was noob shit from the Trump team. Even Biden's people would have done a better job laying a better trap. I don't know how they thought this would work. If there is anything Russia knows it's how to maneuver diplomatically.

At the moment the current European ruling elites are so ideologically fanatical that they would probably still continue to antagonize both Russia and China even if the US did a complete 180 and made peace with both of them. It's like they are all trying to outdo themselves in the EU to show who is "tougher on autocracies". The more they harm their own countries in the process, the more they pat each other on the back and congratulate each other for how virtuous and brave they are. I mean have you heard the likes of Baerbock, Scholz or Habeck speak? These people are truly delusional and deranged beyond belief.

The EU is currently on the sixteenth package of sanctions against Russia. They keep digging the hole deeper and deeper for themselves and the only thing they know to do when something isn't working is to double and triple down. And it will be the same with China once the ball starts rolling. They won't be able to help themselves no matter how self-defeating it is, because they live in this self-reinforcing bubble where the more you outdo everyone else in stupid warmongering rhetoric and virtue signaling about "European values", the higher you rise in prestige and rank in the EU system. Just look at who the last few EU "foreign ministers" have been.

This arrogant and dismissive attitude toward Russia is exactly why this war is happening. Russia did not lie when it warned since 2007 to stop expanding NATO else the entire security situation in Europe would be destabilized. Russia did not lie when it warned that the horrific treatment of ethnic Russians in Ukraine since 2014 needed to stop else there would be serious consequences. People just like you were convinced that they did not need to take Russia's red lines seriously and that the Russians were just bluffing. And yet you continue to dismiss Russia even when they say with all seriousness that their official doctrine allows for use of nuclear weapons in case of an existential threat to the Russian state and nation. The fact that Russia so far has shown incredible restraint in responding to escalations by Ukraine and its western handlers does not mean that their patience is infinite. What exactly do you gain from gambling on nuclear apocalypse?

The US-Saudi alliance is the keystone of the petrodollar, if Russia and China manage (with a little help from the US self-sabotaging by alienating most of the world with sanctions overreach and bad diplomacy that is perceived as disrespectful and bullying) to rip Saudi Arabia away from Washington, even just partly, that could snowball into the entire structure of US global financial dominance collapsing. All it takes is for the Saudis to start selling their oil in regional currencies instead of the dollar. Of course being in BRICS is not exclusive with having good ties to the US, at least on the surface, that's why it's so appealing to a lot of countries. After all, India was able to be recruited to the so-called "Quad" and be in BRICS at the same time. But it makes it much harder for the imperialists to drive wedges between its members and isolate individual countries that it decides to target.