The mental gymnastics these people are capable of are truly phenomenal. It’s incredible to me how anybody could look back at the past three years and not recognize that western media lied about absolutely everything. And now that it’s clear Russian army isn’t going to collapse, and that Russian economy is growing faster than the west, their new thing is that it’s all cause Russia has a war economy now. As soon as the war ends, that’s when the collapse happens. It’s exactly the same behavior we see with China collapse narratives, where people ignore all the failed predictions over the past 30 years, and confidently cling to the next collapse theory.

Right, the US is cutting their losses so they can focus on China here.

Sure, but it correlates well with it

Only in a sense that western nations that have been traditionally exploiting the Global South have enjoyed an overall higher standard of living as a result.

Yes, but only since Deng reforms. Before them China was a stagnant country

That’s completely and utterly false. I can recommend a book on the subject if you genuinely want to learn about the development of China https://redletterspp.com/products/chinas-great-road

At this point you don’t really have to because all the countries the west got used to exploiting are now starting to organize with BRICS being a prime example. What you can point out to people is that the ability to exploit other countries isn’t going to last forever, and as the exploited continue to shake the empire off then the standard of living in the west continues to collapse.

seems likely

GDP per capita isn’t a measure of standard of living either. For example, a country with a high level of exploitation will have high GDP per capita. There are plenty of better measures for the standard of living such as Physical Quality of Life Index. And there is plenty of evidence that the standard of living in China has been increasingly steadily.

that’s not a contradiction

The chart in the submission is using PPP measure, which is what ultimately matters.

ha

British Colombia

Must be hard going through life being a sack of human garbage that you are. Feel sorry for you bud.

Oh look, the least racist sack of shit liberal appears!

I really can’t see Putin giving in on any of these myself. These are the red lines Russia outlined a while back, and they remained consistent on their position. If anything, I think it’s likely that Russia plans to take more territory as opposed to less. The reality is that Russia is in a very strong bargaining position here. The US very clearly wants to extricate itself from the war, and time is on Russia’s side. If the US doesn’t accept the deal, then Russia will just continue to do what it’s doing.

Furthermore, the Kursk collapse couldn’t have come at a worse time for the US. There are pretty much no fortifications in the Sumy region, and Russia can just keep rolling all the way to Kiev from there. The AFU has no choice but to try and stop that by pulling troops from the southern front that’s already collapsing. The longer the US waits to make a deal the strong position Russia will be in.

Oh yeah no argument there. In general, I’ve always found the trend of western politicians negotiating with themselves and then just expecting Russia to agree to that hilarious. It never works out for them, but they keep doing it.

I mean he rightly rejected the idea of a 30 day ceasefire without any conditions. He’s basically saying, sure we can have a ceasefire after the following conditions are met:

• No NATO membership for Ukraine
• No NATO “peacekeepers” in Ukraine
• Ukraine is denazified/demilitarised
• The 4 Donbass regions are recognised as Russian territories plus Crimea

I expect Trump admin will ultimately gonna take the deal because their other option is to just cut and run. The deal will at least let the US normalize relations with Russia while cutting and running would just be humiliation.

I could not find a single article in western media about this.

He’s like a slightly more refined version of Jordan Peterson.

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It would be suicidal for Russia to do so.

The whole point of cutting aid was to let Ukraine know who’s boss. Now that dominance has been established, things can go back to business as usual.