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speaking of “blinkers the size of titanosaurs” as you put it, I don’t understand how you possibly cannot know this very long list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by illiac786 2y ago
speaking of “blinkers the size of titanosaurs” as you put it, I don’t understand how you possibly cannot know this very long list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_Pe...
And again, I’m not saying the US are not imperialists, and they were the most imperialists for a very long while, but I really think China beat them. They still have less means to their imperialists ambitions, but their ambitions are by far bigger than these of the US nowadays.
In the end the conversation is a bit ridiculous, they are both very much imperialists, and it also depends on how you measure it. Russia is, from a political point of view, probably even more imperialist, they just have less means. The ratio means/ambitions of china is what put them at the top of this very sad list for me.
I didn’t know about the syria oil fields, I can’t even say I’m surprised though.
- lenkite 2y agoPlease do not conflate territorial disputes with "invasion". When has China started bombing their neighbors - or any other nation for that matter ? At-least their territorial disputes are with the the nations neighbouring them and not nations across the world.
- illiac786 2y agoWell, you can call it invasion or not, it’s definitely very imperialistic.
- lenkite 2y agoWell, the recent US claim of national ownership of the Artic seabed and Bering sea in contravention of long-established conventions of UNCLOS is even more imperialistic. But, hey, its OK when Americans do it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-22/us-claims-huge-chunk-of-seabed-amid-strategic-push-for-resources https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-22/us-claims... https://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/Assessing-US-Extended-Continental-Shelf-BSharma-100724 https://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/Assessing-US-Extended-Conti...