Aa yes. Argentina, famously located in the North Atlantic, seems like an obvious candidate for NATO membership.

I understand China prefers to the take as non-interventionist geopolitical position as possible. Personally speaking, I don’t agree, but I am also not Chinese nor affiliated with the Chinese government and can’t tell them what is best for China. There’s the argument to be made that it makes them better mediators for large scale international conflict, and I would certainly prefer China in that position to the US.

I could very well be wrong, and China knows what they are doing better than I do. They’ve certainly had success in settling international disputes in other arenas, but I don’t think the same approach works here. I think the Chinese strategy works brilliantly when you can expect the other country to behave rationally and in their own self-interest, but that isn’t the case here.

It’s worse than we thought, Russia has agents operating out of Germany! They’re abducting children and forcing them to uh…live with their families!

Disappointing but not remotely surprising, I don’t think anyone expected any other outcome, but it’s another in a long line of examples that the US stands in opposition to basically every civilized country in the world.

Personally speaking, it’s exceedingly rare I am proud of my country (Japan) for standing on the right side in an international political issue, especially in direct opposition to our overlords.

U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood told the council the U.S. veto “does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood,

That is literally what it reflects. That is the ONLY thing that the veto says, you absolute ghoul.

Erdan listed the requirements for U.N. membership — accepting the obligations in the U.N. Charter and especially being a “peace-loving” state.

“What a joke,” he said. “Does anyone doubt that the Palestinians failed to meet these criteria? Did anyone hear any Palestinian leader even condemn the massacre of our children?”

Did his “country” condemn the massacre of Palestinian children? No, they celebrated them. If being a peace-loving state is a requirement for membership, it sounds like Erdan’s “country” should have their membership revoked. They can have the honour of being the second territory kicked out!

“China is going to collapse any day now and there is no stopping it, which is why it is imperative that we focus all of our efforts into making sure it happens. Preferably by buying my book”- Gordon Chang probably.

One major goal for native HarmonyOS applications in Shenzhen is to account for more than 10% of China’s total by 2024.

Ambitious, but I believe they could do it if they wanted to. I don’t know what their numbers look like right now and how close to that they reached. As far as I am aware since it is fully open-source this shouldn’t be something that Huawei alone has to spearhead. I’ve used Huawei phones before and I like it, but I have zero experience with it as a desktop OS.

How much longer until we hit the “They are all nazis and we knew it from the beginning, that is why we didn’t send troops” phase of cope?

It’s time to play “Is it a ‘manosphere’ term or is it anime fanfiction” !

Still workshopping my gameshow title.

I keep seeing this, and yet I have not ever had anyone explain to me why the fuck Russia would revive the conflict on a future date unless the west pulled some shit again.

Because their basic understanding of the war is that Russians are bloodthirsty subhumans that started the war entirely unprovoked because they just couldn’t resist invading a country for fun/they need more land (you know, as the largest country in the world). It is a pretty commonly cited refrain that as soon as this war is over, Russia is going to invade some other european country.

They have absolutely zero understanding of why the war is happening to begin with. So they just assume Russia loves war just for the sake of it.

The impact of those sanctions are going to kick in any day now, just you wait.

I am legitimately surprised it isn’t in the 16-18 range at this point yet. Though I would not be surprised if some teenagers have been conscripted anyway.

They’re also having a buy one get one free sale on bridges

Maybe my very pointed efforts to never ever engage with them finally had the intended effect of teaching The Algorithm to just shovel that shit where it belongs. Can’t say it will be missed.

Is NAFO still a thing? For one reason or another I don’t really see them anymore, was kind of hoping they’d largely moved on to their next Cause.

When your understanding of geopolitics is “Putin is a saturday morning cartoon villain and Ukraine are the heroes” you kind of have to make the most logical leaps to justify something like this. They aren’t capable of nuance.

Okay, what specific law is Tiktok in violation of that no other social media app is in violation of? Even if it were a direct mouthpiece of the CPC [it isn’t] that wouldn’t mean it is violating any laws.

“We don’t like Chinese people” isn’t a valid legal argument.

Source of what specific US laws Tiktok is in violation of. It is very easy to look at Chinese law and see that it is enforced equally across all services in the country, and that those that work within the law are welcome to operate. It isn’t protectionism, Apple is a competitor for many Chinese products but are allowed to operate because they follow the law.

Not playground legal logic.

Said social media apps could probably launch tomorrow if they followed local laws. They don’t want to, so they aren’t allowed to operate. I can’t think of a single world government that would allow a company to operate within their borders without being subject to that government’s rules.

However if they did comply and try to do it now they’d probably struggle since China made their own [arguably better in many cases] alternatives since the US companies didn’t want to play ball.

I work for an international company. Due to the nature of my industry we had a LOT of new laws and regulations to follow in China, probably more than most social media companies. We did the work to comply and we are more than welcome to operate in China. It is our biggest market by far, and growing faster than any other.

Aa, to be fair not my regular commute. I don’t go into the city normally from where I live, I work in my town. But for weekend trips or the like.

But but…how can we help the people of the DPRK if they are getting meals!? Our entire strategy involved starving them to freedom!