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China is increasingly moving away from large-scale construction projects in the BRI and is now moving onto high quality, smaller deals, and ones to do with metals in developing countries for the green transition

Has anyone seen any analysis on why the change in approach for BRI?

Serious peer conflict planning for the US almost always involves nuclear weapons for a reason

You've been de-dollarised

If she's still around next time Dems are in the White House I wouldn't be surprised if she tries for CIA Director

I think Russia, like China, sees a lot of win-win opportunities in the Caucasus and Middle East - a more stable Eurasia would benefit everyone in the region, and severely impair the ability of the US to throw their weight around even outside the region.

You can see the importance of the region by how hard the US has tried to destabilise it since the 1950s

The latter - I'm waiting to post a few of the recent Naked capitalism articles, e.g. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/08/the-road-that-could-ignite-a-war-in-the-caucasus.html

user pining for their safe spaces, how novel and surprising

I oppose authoritarian ideologies; I believe in free market

Curious, you oppose authoritarian ideologies but are happy to let a dictatorship of capital and inherited wealth suck up everything except the table scraps.

Not a European or American here, but I love how Europeans shit on Americans as though the continent wasn't full of collaborators and haven't seen a rightward turn since the collapse of the USSR

I'm a centrist... between the ultras and the rightists

And also gives options without it needing to be a thing!