I suppose it could be

Hey we can't make Yogthos do all the work

Oh also major sleepy error I made there is using developmentalism as an antonym to subimperialism but if you pretend I just said "mutual development" it's fine i guess

Although Russia is still a bit of a neoliberal hellhole, it has a lot of institutions, trade relations, and physical infrastructure which are holdovers from the USSR, and its MoD's separate academic tradition & role in economic decisions + renationalized control of nuclear industry, oil etc sets it apart from more compliant states. At this point Russia has far more economic links to Asia than the western world. Of course if they'd been given the opportunity United Russia gooners would have gone for a subimperialist relationship with US + Europe and not bothered with all of this developmentalism stuff, but it's really just too large and independent for that to be permitted, making Russia the primary example of an entity the west cannot lay siege to. Lot of Russian poli sci and foreign relations teach people to make decisions based on a kind of mnemonic policy sentimentalism backed by unanalytical historical (including Solzhenitsyn-tier sources so) analogies, they've got annoying war on terror Israel policy. They have copied a lot of China's foreign relations because it produces political stability + reduces foreign diplomatic pressure (independent allies can't be easily coerced), healthy trade relationships, stable skilled workforces to build industrial capacity that can travel abroad for training, low cost of labor through infrastructure rather than exploitation, creating military self-sufficiency + providing training & technology transfers rather than overburdening yourself through suppling military aid to an isolated country. They don't have contrary foreign policy building isolated blocs that they attempt to build up into semi-self-sufficient partners, there is a mutual interest in constructing international institutions + law (which mostly de facto dont exist, coalition of the willing rules based yadda yadda) and opposing unilateral sanctions. Instead of picking different countries in the periphery to sponsor they have a mutual interest in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Sahel states, etc are able to develop. KPRF is a lame socdem party but they pressured Kremlin for intervention to stop the aggression against DPR and LPR, and have been successful in ways that the western union/antiwar protest left has not. Like Latam socdems there is more potential for something there because it's not organizing labor aristocrats & humanities washouts, it's in the global semiperiphery

I'm not ragging on people, many developmental, human, and theoretical advancements were all made possible by the USSR, it's just important to see why it was in a position to be disassembled & how some of its institutions persisted, and how it was unable to uproot imperialism, why there was a doctrinal split with China (which made mistakes too). So with all that out of the way, China and Russia now have no reason to go through a diplomatic or military confrontation, and since they're so economically + militarily interdependent, they have a zillion ways to quash anything before it comes to blows. Even simply postponing the signing of a new bilateral cooperation agreement or not incentivizing tourism would be a stage of escalation in the event of a dispute. Most likely we'll see more pressure against Russia from across the arctic circle & from eastern Euros + Scandinavians, not Russia working against China and Southeast Asian countries. Russians - even the more 4th positionist/neolib-nationalist-style Russians - are genuine about economic crosslinking, problem is their western-academia-brain-poisoned leadership has been slow to recognize how essential it is + how little western countries will compromise on their mission to undevelop & privatize the natural resources of every global south country & keep their trade links linear + how much allies like Iran & central Asia states need support in order to make international law real for the first time

China and Russia have completely different foreign policy than Cold War China and the USSR, there's been no sign of friction over China maintaining attitude of neutrality re: Ukraine, they are increasingly collaborating on infrastructure + involved in each other's supply chains. There's plenty of other stuff to worry about. I just don't see any series of events leading to tensions

Russia is even more fucked up than just a capitalist country. Like the infrastructure itself there are some institutions which retain a lot of influence from the USSR, Kremlin + central bank nonwithstanding, which is why I recommend Samir Amin's book abt the transition to and out of the Soviet mode of production. The MoD has had a major role in the economic planning of the country and it's not academically bought-out by the west. Its influence grows the longer the conflict in the Ukraine and soon the arctic progresses

Chungus director

They seem to blow up a random car or motorcycle daily

With all due respect, I put little stock in gloomy historical analogies without any materialist analysis to back them up

I have a lot to say about China and Russia's development strategies and foreign relations if we actually got into the details

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Sounds like this is an opportunity to build your case to get certain sources banned from your pet thread. Look, I don't want smoke, if you want to start beating the ass of everyone who doesn't think that Hezbollah and the IRGC have a similar political situation, go right ahead. I respectfully asked for more information that contradicts what I already heard about Israeli "air superiority" which is not a vibes-based term. This is because I do not have the time or energy to survey all of the OSINT and "alternative media" dorks, but it has become something of a sports betting fascination for you people. I am interested in stuff that falls short of air superiority! Considering that you've left it to me to beg you for a source and have started drawing chuddy lines in the sand, I can't imagine this will be productive. No, asking people if they have calmed down is not a demand for compliance with my views, it's taking the temperature.

By very last attacks I am guessing you mean the orchestrated strikes between Iran and the US. Which is again telling me things I already know which have an unresolved political intrigue angle to them.

Hm fair enough, would you say it applies to the situation between Google and Firefox? Because at this point it's clear donors are a bigger factor than any software community. I made the comparison since the improvements of Rust and the potential it has for Linux and technologies intended to replace XMPP seem to have been politicized, giving NGOs control of projects in a way that could be misused further down the line. They'll have a legitimate justification for it since they keep the projects alive.

I've seen all kinds of justifications for it. I saw one of the more highly suspicious furries claiming that they have to use Signal because so many furries are disabled that they can't figure out how to use anything more complicated (whicj other options really aren't, they just insist on Matrix which is Godawful and everyone comments on being viscerally disgusted by). People don't really need anything more fancy than iMessage. You're being babies. Just use your public borked and corrupt messengers and mentally sort them into the Facebook pile. If it's not secure from federal law enforcement, then it's not safe to have conversations on freely, since class consciousness, common sense, and human rights are illegal.