I’m posting the same comment in two replies here now, terrible behaviour, but yes exactly this was an attempt to force a sale and get tiktok into American ownership.
It feels very neat that America would think tiktok would ultimately choose the option where it gets more money, but that the Chinese instead choose control.
The precedent would be you have to explicitly say what you’re going to do in the first vote.
Every single person in the campaign was “oh we’d never leave the single market” and when that became an option afterwards it needed a new referendum.
They guy is going to be in power for a couple of months. Why would anyone listen to him?
Remotely at scale.
So yeah you could assassinate someone like that, or you could break every cars brakes at once and have thousands of simultaneous car accidents timed during some other infrastructure attack
Begun the guano wars have
The really grim thing about this ignorant comment is that everyone did
Russia has Crimea because they did negotiate last time. They surrendered land for peace. And that’s why it isn’t happening again
This specific idea seems to be a mix of climate change denialism (they want us to stop driving) mixed with COVID time authoritarian scares (forced internment, stay at home etc) and while we know Russia has helped push parts of these ideas before or pushed this after I think this one really did originally come direct from the right wing American billionaire owned think tanks.
This specific idea caught on for some reason but they’ve been chucking out variations on this crap for years
Maybe the American propaganda pushers don’t make French language versions
You’re right about a Russia/NATO war being unwinnable for Russia. Even the current military of Europe alone would be enough to see off Russia.
So, what is he warning us about? I see two (not exclusive) things he could be doing.
Trump winning in America would cause such stress on NATO it would fragment, and even if they kick America out it still looks weak so they want all of Europe to beat the 2% requirement to try and keep trump’s USA in NATO.
Second, he’s warning of war with china. This is where my money is.
Op has a pencil in the top right, looks like it was edited
Link to show invading is not trivial https://thediplomat.com/2021/05/why-a-taiwan-invasion-would-look-nothing-like-d-day/
Enforcing a blockade around an island full of long range anti ship and air defences, aided by the US military, is extremely hard. Also and more importantly it’s a very long dragged out war that gives Taiwan time to build allies, and the west to organise, which will make it harder and harder to enforce.
Finally you’re replying to someone saying the war will take a long time, which you initially disagree with then go on to talk about an embargo which more than agrees with it. It’s going to take ages to resolve if they attack and it’ll almost certainly include Russia distracting NATO in Europe. I dearly hope china sees sense and gets rid of xi before his desperation for personal achievements in his lifetime causes the nation and world a lot of pointless suffering
The us military is constantly experiencing warfare.
If anyone in that pic turns out to have been swimming naked it’ll be the chinese
The only take that makes sense
I sometimes wonder if they’re just bad at it, so the astro turfing is obvious. The people posting have to be immersed in and understand the western site to blend in while remaining loyal to a very different kind of home communication and they often don’t manage it, and if they do that difference makes them stand out.
While we have dozens of western police show up in any discussion of police violence to explain that it’s really hard. Not even astroturfing, I think, just people being themselves. Aside from being obviously police their posting style blends in perfectly, if there were western astroturf campaigns I think they would blend perfectly and use much more subtle techniques
Concern trolling over the weight of trains is neither so we have at least three sides here
Is it the screaming when they get dragged under a hgv? It’s very annoying yes
It took two hundred years or so to cause this, It might take longer to fully fix but that’s why we start right now.
I see the murders out in force in this thread, so keen to stop innocent civilians being killed they cheer on people…shooting at civilians.
Hamas attacking Israel civilians is wrong Israel attacking palastinian civilians is wrong Houthis attacking civilian sailors is wrong
Is not complicated and anyone who can’t see it needs to go outside and rub themselves in grass.
Great at raising money, even better at giving it to nvidia