So much brainworms in the comments

Thank you for your response. It makes sense.

My questions stems from the observations that: On one side: Trump was the first to introduce (economic) hostilities with China via tariffs (which got expanded under Biden) Conservatives who are into trump, and uncritically are into Putin (“traditional values”) Conservatives who are into hawks like Mearsheimer (who’s basically saying war with Ukraine bad, war with China in US interest)

And on the other side: Ukraine happening under Biden (Albeit as you mentioned, looking for the best opportunity to dump Ukraine now). Neolibs while not being particularly interested currently, at least are supportive of Ukraine.

Thus I made the connection: Trump = war with China (or at least doing another stupid first escalatory move similarly to raising the tariffs; Saying/doing the quiet part out loud) and Biden = war with Russia (albeit your response corrected that, I def see them trying to withdraw from there as well)

Spreading them thin and financially drain the reserves. With dedollarization picking up pace 's plan might work this time around lel

Is it fair to compare Biden vs Trump as the vote between war with Russia vs. war with China? (i.e. each candidate representing a different faction of hawks)

The only one that is saying this is you

I vote because I agree it’s a fun bit

I’ve seen a lot of user vote using vs . How is that vote counted?

The term was invented by defense experts John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt in a 1999 RAND Corporation study and often appears in connection with that of smart power.

You can’t make this up (although apparently you can)

Happy Birthday 🎂🎈

Take notes: Bullying libs works

No evidence of Havana syndrome brain injury, US studies find - Reuters, 2024-03-18

Top 5 Countries That Produce the Most Semiconductors: Taiwan South Korea Japan United States China

China is listed as the largest and 5th largest in your source

China has ranked first in the share of published papers since 2017, the top 10% most-cited papers since 2018 and the top 1% since 2019.

Moving the goalposts as a coping mechanism

https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2023/article_0013.html

fuck interlectual property in general, so even if China did steal IP from other countries (it didn’t), I’d respect them even more

Cope lib

China retains crown in scientific papers, widens lead over U.S. https://archive.md/BFUU0

I wonder how Saddam got into power in the first place

Is it this article?

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/obamacare-prescription-drugs-pharma-225444

I wonder why and how that “outside Russian aggression” came about

Yeah but the protection of the Russian minority was a key mandate.

You want to talk about historical context yet fail to contextualize anything shown to you. Your “spurring debate” is actually just bad propaganda

If everyone was friendly, why did Ukraine not give Russia their soverign land?

Everyone was friendly right after the dissolution of the SU. With the prospect of NATO expansion and initially friendly Russia getting declined 3 times into the alliance they added 1 and 1 together.

The people of Ukraine voted for Zelensky fighting Russian influence for this exact reason.

Zelenski got voted for because he promised an end to the civil war in donbas https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30414955 https://www.france24.com/en/20190416-russian-speakers-ukraine-candidate-talking-language

a defensive pact

Like in Yugoslavia?

Sure but you’re ignoring that the Soviet Union got dissolved and had a friendly western handpicked succesor at that point. So no more threat to UA, no? NATOs purpose was also a reaction to the creation of Soviet Russia, but what was it’s purpose after the dissolution of the SU? Why join and expand NATO when everyones friendly now?

Yes and I asked you what changed and if you can contextualize. You yourself understand that historical context is important. After all ignoring historical context would rob this conflict of it’s meaning, no? Or are you one of those rubes that believes Putin ordered an attack out of his own volition?