Starting to warm up here so been trying to take the kids outside more. Really hate winter since there’s so little to do especially with kids.

It was but there’s been a lot of news so it’s been getting missed by a lot of people

I do have an alternative and it’s

But I’m sure they’d have issue with that too lol

Iran already announced that Chinese (and Russian) vessels will be allowed to pass so now it’s just a straight win lol

Yeah I wasn’t sure how much support china would provide to a long war if their oil supply was threatened but this removes that concern.

Yeah that’s the approach I’m trying and it’s working, just can’t rush some things unfortunately.

Trying to slowly change my more reactionary/Liberal in laws to come around leftists ideas is always so frustrating.

Can get them off the worst ideas but speaking good of socialism/communism has to be with such a light touch it goes over their head a lot.

Always set the bake timer, it’s saved me so many time lol

Not surprising and just another reason to hate this dude.

Russia/Putin only get critical support from leftists because they tend to support the anti imperialist block through trade and weapons sales and by countering NATO. They’re pretty clearly not going to revive communism and the anti LGBTQ stuff is horrible.

Putin isn’t supporting the block that because he secretly wants the USSR to return it’s just the position they’re forced into because the west won’t let Russia join as an equal. So they’re in this weird spot of being a capitalist country that could be as bad as the US if they had the means but end up being an ally because they’re rejected by the West and don’t have the means to rival the US as a leader of world capitalism.

Material conditions could change in the future though and I’m sure there will be some split down the line between Russia and AES countries unless Russia is able to have a 2nd October revolution.

Same feeling, I don’t like him at all but felt like he some sort of send off was appropriate compared to whatever this was.

Makes sense why the Warriors made the deal they did then. I knew the situation wasn’t great but this was worse than I thought.

It’s common to hear that the USSR got over extended supporting global communism too much but realistically they could have kept that up had they not had the economic problems they did.

China today has much better economic positioning than the USSR for a variety of reasons so I really think them not helping more is a huge mistake but part of it is that while they defensively an in their region they can likely match the US they can’t do that far from home right now.

I’m optimistic this could change as China is able to get to parity with the US on military power projection. I know they have plans for building nuclear powered aircraft carriers which is what they need realistically if they’re going to actually militarily intervene to help say Venezuela or Cuba due to their distance from China.

IMO the next 10 years are going to show if China is actually willing to take on the mantle of the leader of global commmunist movement like it needs to.

Yeah the tanking teams getting stars was a fun surprise, we’ll have to see how it works out next year.

Heard raptors aren’t gonna make CP3 report so we’ll see if he’s a buyout candidate. Not sure who takes him tho.

Yeah I feel like Vuc to the Celtics is bigger than it seems just since they had no one good to play center and have still been doing pretty well so far.

I don’t either lol I kept waiting to post it cause I was waiting for the rest of the details and that was just it.

I get Kuminga wanted out but there had to be something better and if not let him have a run the rest of the year then to improve his worth, think there was still a year left on his contract right?

Yeah I like their moves, feel like there doing what they can to sort out the future so it’s not as grim as it was looking

It 100% looks worse lol. Saw somewhere it means the Luka return was basically the same as JJJ but the Mavs got lucky (or given) with the pick that got Flagg.

Not too surprised Giannis stayed since the offers will be better in the summer.

JJJ and AD getting traded to where they did was definitely a surprise though. Also surprised Ja didn’t get moved but the market for him is the lowest it’s ever going to be so guess it makes sense to try and get more this summer.

Yeah that was a huge mistake by them, Zubac is a good replacement but they should have just paid Turner.