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>One has mostly been reliable, stayed peaceful towards us and is primarily concerned with their internal matters and the countries right next to it. This is te
by uhhhhwhaaaa 3mo ago
>One has mostly been reliable, stayed peaceful towards us and is primarily concerned with their internal matters and the countries right next to it.
This is textbook international relations realism. Rising powers pretend they aren't powerful so countries don't balance against them.
Their actions are entirely predictable.
Then suddenly they will begin to do imperialism, like all great powers, and suddenly they will pretend to be stronger than they are.
- lompad 3mo agoAnd then I'm of course going to root for getting rid of them. What alternative would you propose? Currently, there's no alternative I know of, either you rely on the US or on China or both. Me and many others are doing our best building that alternative and promoting local solutions in all areas, but it takes time. And until then, I'd like to use the one that isn't threatening to steal our territory, thank you very much.
- uhhhhwhaaaa 3mo agoYou are rooting for the dictatorship that has 0 political freedom, devalues their currency and hurts their own population, they kill their people and cover it up, and have no freedom of speech. Why?
- lompad 3mo agoYou did not offer me an alternative. Please don't move the goalposts. And I'm still not rooting _for_ them, I'm rooting for choosing their services above american ones for the time being. That's quite a different thing, as should be obvious. Respond to things I actually said and not things you think I might possibly think.