Please no exploitation of gnc folk 🥺

How the fuck was this even something Europeans actually even found themselves believing?

It is explicitly the policy of the chinese government to not try to take Taiwan by force unless some red line is crossed and the one china 2 systems policy is irreversibly violated.

Since the policy hasn’t been irreversibly violated, the mainland hasn’t invaded. This has been the system for the past 70 years and has been maintained by every Chinese administration, including the current one which has run for 10 years already and has still maintained the same 1 china 2 systems policy.

Of course, due to many factors, such as the fact that an invasion is still possible, the military build up along the first island chain by the west in an attempt to encircle china, and the ability of western powers to cut off oil imports to China by blocking off the straits of malacca, the mainland builds up naval power as quickly as it can.

However! As other commentesr have pointed out, these barges are actually useless as military equipment, as can even be seen in the photo that is presented. Why would a country with aircraft carriers and a virtually unlimited supply of drones/missiles rely on such comically sinkable bridges to roll in tanks into Taiwan?

“It’s crucial that your support for Ukraine doesn’t decrease but instead continues and grows,” Zelenskiy said, according to a text of the speech. “And this is especially true for air defense, military aid, and our overall resilience.”

It’s crucial, why? What will it accomplish?

Kallas has put forward a proposal for EU members to deliver as much as €40 billion in military aid this year, stepping up after €20 billion flowed to Kyiv in 2024. Assistance would be voluntary, but participants would be encouraged to make contributions in cash or equipment in proportion to their respective economies. After several countries balked, the debate was narrowed to focus this week on the ammunition component.

Amazing. Every EU country is rushing to ramp up military spending by using the war as justification. Hundreds of millions of euros have been slashed from welfare budgets. And yet, they don’t want to spend any of this money in the country where the war is actually happening!

He said Russia had suffered more than 50,000 losses during the operation - including those killed, injured or captured.

I love how they are clearly just making up numbers.

Last week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the Kursk operation had “accomplished its task” by forcing Russia to pull troops from the east and relieve pressure on Pokrovsk.

But it is not yet clear at what cost.

It’s over. Ukraine has been "at what cost"ed by the BBC.

So far this isn’t anything like that period in German history.

Seeing the rise of AfD and Germany’s agressive collaboration on the Israeli genocide, I have to respectfully say, liberals like you are willfully burying your heads in the sand.

Poland has been doing more than its share for Europe defense

Europe’s defense against who? Europe faces no actual military threats from anybody. And no, civilians in the imperial periphery or immigrants don’t count as military threats. For the last 3-4 centuries, the only nations who have been killing Europeans are other Europeans.

Americans are more likely to invade Europe than help them in a conflict.

Even Trump, who is trying to shake down Europe has actually continued/resumed aid to Ukraine. I can’t believe that Europeans are falling for a con from the world’s greasiest clown. He only postures so that you guys are scared into spending more money on NATO and American weapons.

Wakes up to do what? Kill more kids in the Middle East?

If NATO tries to get Ukraine to join, the war will be prolonged and escalated. If they don’t, then what the fuck was Ukraine holding out so long for?

NATO is stuck in between a rock and a hard place. There is no way for them to come out of this without taking a massive hit to their reputation (which would be well deserved).

This video is only further proof of this. Europe and America can only “solve” this contradiction in the tried and tested way. Choose the easiest option, loot the parties involved, massage public opinion then move on. And often these steps don’t even happen in order.

About China, and I’ll try to word this as unbiased as I can, from what I’ve seen it’s not a state known for complete freedom of speech. In my country, some Chinese critics are harassed by “Chinese police stations” or radical lovers of china who seem to believe any critic is a death threat. In contrast, people from the country I’m from openly defy and mock ourselves (a bit too much if you ask me).

I’m not yothos, but the “freedom of speech” you guys have in the west should more accurately be called “the jester’s privilege”. You are allowed to say whatever you want, until what you are saying genuinely threatens the state or capital, in which case you get into legal trouble.

I’ve seen the police crack down on protests with my own eyes at my own university. I’ve seen the independent student media outlet we had get silenced, and have its editorial team disbanded and replaced because they criticized the university’s policies. What does it matter that the students can mock their country and university when the actual avenues of power we had were suppressed? We know that nothing we say truly matters and we are powerless. So we laugh. We mock. It is the soothing balm we use to cope with the pain of knowing that our future is fucked. Our planet will burn and our societies will be overrun by fascists.

In China on the other hand, the government simply listens to the people, which is evident from both the speedy development of the country, the application of mass line methods and high approval ratings of the government. Having consistently high approval ratings of a government across decades is not something any western “democracy” could ever hope to brag about.