CTHlurker

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[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I don't know how much of Putins economics is him being a neobliberal versus him just making the calculation that his entire ideology is "don't rock the boat too much. The country needs stability" which means he never takes advantage of moments of radical transformation untill things are almost passed. He does however seem to learn slightly quicker than the Western politicians, but that doesn't really say much.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this a threat to any generals bank account? I read this as mostly hitting the grunt-level troops and the GOP is pretty open about not giving a fuck about those guys.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love to have my future stolen away because Biden needed to coddle the crucial "jetski-shop owner" demographic

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

It's a lot easier to get popular support against the people who colonised you and whose language you still use, rather than the far distant one that austensibly helps keep "jihadis" in check, which I assume the locals are also somewhat interested in.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Her mother's maidenname was G(h)oulston, which I think ended up being pretty apt.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

He taught me English, so I can sort of blame him for my burgerbrain and the fact that I was an insufferable lib from 15-22

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I mostly know about her from that podcast, as well as a bunch of Wallstreet guys making memes about her. The general wallstreet meme-thinking aboutb her seems to be "how the actual fuck are you still in business".

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't that basically what happened with Ark Investment or whatever that fund was called? The one led by Cathie Wood, who claimed something about her investments being backed by God, because she prayed before making any decisions and felt guided by His Hand or some shit.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the all-hands meetings I had to attend when i worked at a university last year. Legit had to listen to some sanctimonous administrator talk about ensuring that Other Countries^tm^ did not "steal" our researchers. When i later spoke with a coworker about it, I joked that "how dare China pay more and offer better working conditions" and the guy just shrugged and said that he didn't really think it was a problem per se, but that the University was afraid of how it looked when everyone was looking elsewhere. I then countered by asking if we could maybe somehow hope to match these offers, and he just shrugged again and said that we had no hope for that kind of thing. Shortly after I had to attend a meeting about a new faculty facility that had gone over budget by roughly 250 million dollars, so wouldn't you know it, we're broke now.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Algeria's statement may have been more about the potential for spillover, since Algeria, like the rest of the Maghreb, is always fighting against small insurgent groups who retreat into the desert and in the event of a war in the Sahel, is probably going to grow much stronger as any weakening of the governments there will allow them to recruit more and more desperate and angry people.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I don't know how to say this, but international law is not really a specific set of magical words that everyone has to respect at all times. It's more like a set of guidelines that smaller nations have to abide by, while the big guys get to do whatever they want. If Russia has an agreement with the people currently holding the reins of power in Niger, there is nothing preventing them from stationing troops (sorry, "mercs") and using them to guard extraction projects that Russia wants. Also, Russia is currently the most sanctioned country on Earth, so I struggle to sort of see what the west plans on doing against them, in particular in light of the general antipathy that West Africa feels towards Europe.

Thirdly, stationing troops in another country as a "tripwire" force is also something that the Americans and other NATO countries have been doing for a while now. Otherwise the miniscule force in the Baltics make no sense, because their one job is to die so that the Americans can declare war on the basis of "their" soldiers being attacked.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Uncritical support for China in their war against the Techbros

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