This is the same transition that the West had on China a few years ago. When it becomes clear that you won't become another puppet of the West and want to carve out your own interests, the West immediately flips on you.
zephyreks
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the Taliban is creating a large-scale camera surveillance network for Afghan cities that could involve repurposing a plan crafted by the Americans before their 2021 pullout.
I see that the Taliban is taking notes from it's Western occupiers. London has more security cameras per capita than Beijing and Los Angeles isn't far behind. Kabul is slacking.
Black people can't possibly have a better grasp of what's going on in their backyard than white people on the other side of the planet.
Who's consuming? China, the single biggest driver of increasing oil consumption for the past few decades, is predicted to hit peak oil this year and their oil demand is collapsing due to the massive market share of EVs in the Chinese market.
You mean, African countries aren't happy about austerity measures under IMF loans? No way...
Yes, but think of the profits.
Where are those profits going? Definitely not to you, that's for sure.
The US is basically saying "we've seen all the evidence Canada has, but Canada is on its own because we don't want to piss off India. If India wants to cooperate, that would be great"
The Indian position on Sikhs is more radical than the Chinese position on Uyghurs. That's.... Depressing.
That's literally the role of the government, though.
US politics is basically neither side compromising on the basis of ideology and saying it's the other side's fault.
That's a far more condemnable position when you're the actual government than when you're the opposition.
Are people ignoring that Russia is substantially more populated than Ukraine? Ukraine isn't winning a war of attrition.
Fuck off. Your inconvenience is not worth more than their livelihoods.
Moving white people to Russia is racist? Huh.