very much so

An excellent question, I completely missed that.

Indeed, a rare case of western media covering the side of the workers.

Seems like that’s beyond doubt at this point.

lol yeah it really ruffles their feathers

yeah I guess that narrative is over

o7

exactly, although they never even tried to deny this from what I’ve seen

unfortunately

exactly, even using western lib logic the China narrative doesn’t make sense

The problem the US has is that it can’t be everywhere at once. The US had to abandon Afghanistan because they wanted to have a proxy war in Ukraine. Now that it failed, they want to either take on Iran or start something with China. My point isn’t that US is just going to stop, but that they continuously get weaker in every regard as they continue doing this. There is a real material cost to each of these adventures, and these costs continue to add up. My view is that the downfall will be economic as opposed to a military defeat. Trump will likely accelerate this process with his open trade war on the BRICS.

At the same time, the US military is simply not strong enough to take on its main adversaries like Russia and China. All they can do is to continue chaos around the world which ultimately pushes countries towards BRICS.

As far as I know it’s notoriously difficult to cross north. I guess people could go to China and then go north from there though.

I’m not sure how accurate it is, but seems to give the general state of play

Indeed, I really can’t see how anything gets better going forward. Especially, given that we’re very likely headed for a major economic crisis in the west. Canada is nowhere close to being self sufficient in any regard.

Oh yeah, even when they discuss a nuclear war they just conveniently assume the US would be spared for some reason.

Oh yeah I can see that, especially given that the opposition seems receptive towards normalizing relations with the north.

People were definitely getting high on their own supply after a full year of propaganda of how Russians were fighting with shovels, and Russian army was on the verge of collapse. I imagine most of NATO planners also genuinely believed in superiority of western tech.

There was one strike the day after Oreshnik I think, and then Gerasimov made a direct call to US command and there haven’t been any more strikes into Russia since.

The empire is clearly much weaker today than it was at its zenith in the 90s. While the US is able to continue causing chaos around the world, the the chaos is increasingly backfiring, and the effects reinforce each other. The world is now dedollarizing, BRICS is rising as a direct competitor to G7. The US is starting to lose political control of Africa and Latin America. Meanwhile, western economies are in a crisis, and things in Europe are becoming critical already. These aren’t problems that can be solved using a nuclear arsenal. The reality is that the cost of maintaining the empire now outweighs the plunder. As a result, the core is becoming hollowed out leading to political unrest domestically.

It’s hard to imagine that either would take the bait. The most likely outcome would be that occupied Korea implodes internally.