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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Debt colonialism doesn’t equate to the kind of cross bonding and trust that leads to actual solid alliances.

    China’s naked imperial ambition gets in the way of it ever actually establishing meaningful, trust-based ties with other nations.

    These countries take advantage of infrastructure loans, but the reality of what China is actually doing (screwing these countries with debt they can’t pay then taking back the infrastructure in order to establish a foothold globally) is sinking in with these countries.

    Belt and Road is simply a way of using debt to sieze land that China can’t take through brute force. Has absolutely nothing to do with “western chauvinism”, the CCP is toxic to geopolitical progress, especially if you are actually concerned with helping developing countries grow into independent, stable and self-sufficiency.
















  • Nothing made up, you joined into a conversation that starts with someone claiming the Taliban is “stabilizing” for Afghanistan. Someone listed many egregious atrocities committed by the Taliban that highlight how absurd that claim is. Your response then implied the Taliban was the same as the US and pretended you couldn’t tell the difference.

    So you’re either claiming the US was the same as the Taliban, thus also a “stabalizing force”. Or you’re claiming the US committed mass rapes and executions.

    Or, you know, the third option of you don’t actually give a shit about Afghanistan and just saw an opportunity to try and vaguely disparage the US.

    But let me guess “nO.”