Best take I've seen here. The big countries in the world have way too much power. Problem is, if any one country has this amount of power, it automatically makes it so that other countries will also want to match that level of power.

Taiwanese media wasn't even that dedicated to Chinese disinformation up until like 2016 or whatever.

Relations were normalizing across the strait smh.

With what military lol

Hasn't the African Union already decided to not intervene in Niger?

France won't cause an international incident... right?

Which, of course, condones terrorism because Ukrainians are white and Muslims are not.

Russia isn't missing jets... Ukraine sort of, y'know, lacks air superiority. Russia is missing munitions.

Reminder that India is still happily trading with Russia by buying their arms and buying their oil. In fact, India and Russia together found ways to circumvent the oil price cap and most Indians support Russia in Ukraine.

India is not an American ally. They're neutral and self-interested as they've always been.

Sanctions diplomacy is counterproductive. Globalization worked by making countries too interdependent to fuck around.

Now? China's domestic technology capability is growing at an astonishing rate.

Post-scarcity tbh

Try Canada? Canada has been pretty open to skilled worker immigrants and asylum seekers. It's particularly easy if you speak French.

(There's also a bunch of diploma mills that will give you a student visa that you can translate into a PR after graduating)

Trains in California suck because of government dysfunction across all levels. At the municipal level, you can't build shit because every city is actually an agglomeration of hundreds of tiny municipalities that all squabble with each other. At the regional level, you get NIMBYism that doesn't want silly things like trains knocking down property values... And these people have a voice, because democracy I guess (despite there being a far larger group of people that would love to have trains). At the state level, you have complete funding mismanagement and project management malfeasance that makes projects both incredibly expensive and developed with no forethought whatsoever (Caltrain has how many at-grade crossings, again?).

This isn't a train problem, it's a problem with your piss-poor government. At least crime is down, right?

They could call the currency brics.

"Yeah, that'll be 59 brics please"

In other news, China is also widely suspected of supplying Ukraine with equipment and materials to support their war.

Turns out, China isn't a single entity but a bunch of companies that want to make a whole ton of money by profiteering off of war.

The CCP doesn't care about the conflict so long as they can claim neutrality.