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i wonder about pizza near Chinese MOD - it looks like Putin gets Ukraine in exchange for Trump getting Venezuela, and the next natural piece here is Xi getting

by trhway 10mo ago

i wonder about pizza near Chinese MOD - it looks like Putin gets Ukraine in exchange for Trump getting Venezuela, and the next natural piece here is Xi getting Taiwan.

empiricus 10mo ago
And then we have peace :)
- wiseowise 10mo ago
  "Bro please just give me the Sudetenland. I swear bro just let me take the rest of Czechoslovakia and I'm done. It's my last territorial demand bro I promise. Just one more annexation and the Treaty of Versailles is fixed. Please bro it's just for the living space." "Bro please just let me take Kyiv. I swear bro just one more special military operation and the security buffer is complete. It's not a war bro it's denazification. Just give me the Donbas and the land bridge and I'll be chill. One more mobilization and the multipolar world order is saved bro please." "Bro please just acknowledge the Nine-Dash Line. I swear bro just let me have Taiwan and the great rejuvenation is complete. It's totally an internal matter bro. Just one more island chain and the century of humiliation is over. Please bro just let me cross the strait." "Bro please just let me bring them freedom. I swear bro just one more regime change and the region is stable. It's about democracy bro it's not about the oil reserves I promise. Just let me install an interim president. Please bro just one more coup."
- bregma 10mo ago
  Yes. Or as Chamberlain put it, "There will be peace in our time."
webdevver 10mo ago
no way - this notion of "exchanges" isnt real, certainly i will never believe it. why would the US 'play nice', when it can have its cake and eat it too? venezuela show of force, followed by imminent regime change in iran, ukraine will get more weapons, and china will continue getting surrounded via japan. i think the people hoping to see some kind of change to the status-quo will be disappointed! pax americana alive and well.
- avh02 10mo ago
  Until the chain of incompetence slowly gets replaced top down by bootlickers and the military degrades over the years.
  - webdevver 10mo ago
    well yes, but from todays events it seems that everybody elses military is degraded, if anything. after being inundated with scenes of russian donkeys, ukranian 3d-printed drones, and hezbollah toyota machine-guns, this is a stark reminder of who the real, OG 'world policeman' is (and there is only one!) ultimately its actions that matter, and the US can punch. every dictator of every 3rd world nation is thinking super hard today about how much they really care about resisting 'US imperiaism' - indeed, whether their soldiers are even capable of preventing them from being abducted in a shock extraction by a vastly more organised and technologically superior US.
    - avh02 10mo ago
      We're talking in different timeframes

by trhway 10mo ago

i wonder about pizza near Chinese MOD - it looks like Putin gets Ukraine in exchange for Trump getting Venezuela, and the next natural piece here is Xi getting Taiwan.

empiricus 10mo ago

And then we have peace :)

wiseowise 10mo ago
"Bro please just give me the Sudetenland. I swear bro just let me take the rest of Czechoslovakia and I'm done. It's my last territorial demand bro I promise. Just one more annexation and the Treaty of Versailles is fixed. Please bro it's just for the living space." "Bro please just let me take Kyiv. I swear bro just one more special military operation and the security buffer is complete. It's not a war bro it's denazification. Just give me the Donbas and the land bridge and I'll be chill. One more mobilization and the multipolar world order is saved bro please." "Bro please just acknowledge the Nine-Dash Line. I swear bro just let me have Taiwan and the great rejuvenation is complete. It's totally an internal matter bro. Just one more island chain and the century of humiliation is over. Please bro just let me cross the strait." "Bro please just let me bring them freedom. I swear bro just one more regime change and the region is stable. It's about democracy bro it's not about the oil reserves I promise. Just let me install an interim president. Please bro just one more coup."
bregma 10mo ago
Yes. Or as Chamberlain put it, "There will be peace in our time."

webdevver 10mo ago

no way - this notion of "exchanges" isnt real, certainly i will never believe it. why would the US 'play nice', when it can have its cake and eat it too? venezuela show of force, followed by imminent regime change in iran, ukraine will get more weapons, and china will continue getting surrounded via japan. i think the people hoping to see some kind of change to the status-quo will be disappointed! pax americana alive and well.

avh02 10mo ago
Until the chain of incompetence slowly gets replaced top down by bootlickers and the military degrades over the years.
- webdevver 10mo ago
  well yes, but from todays events it seems that everybody elses military is degraded, if anything. after being inundated with scenes of russian donkeys, ukranian 3d-printed drones, and hezbollah toyota machine-guns, this is a stark reminder of who the real, OG 'world policeman' is (and there is only one!) ultimately its actions that matter, and the US can punch. every dictator of every 3rd world nation is thinking super hard today about how much they really care about resisting 'US imperiaism' - indeed, whether their soldiers are even capable of preventing them from being abducted in a shock extraction by a vastly more organised and technologically superior US.
  - avh02 10mo ago
    We're talking in different timeframes