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press embargo was likely for optics, russian allies participating puts pressure on ukrainian allies to do likewise. too far up the escalation ladder for comfort for most

they wouldnt gain anything, they would be handing the us a golden opportunity to generate instability in the region and thus divert large capital flows away from northeast asia and back towards the us. the point is to slowly and painlessly strangle the us influence out of asia while the us is bogged down in the middle east again.

you see the beginnings of this with yoons ousting and japanese waffling on anti chinese aggression while simultaneously trying their hardest to keep the ukraine conflict alive so that the americans have things to worry about other than igniting ukraine 2.0 in westpac.

lmao

chinese opinion-havers are floating the idea that the phillipines will be the one to be made an example of, reason being that taiwan is comically overmatched and that offing another vassal will send the same message of american impotence to sk/jp/tw while not actually destroying territory you intend to take. also because the pinoys are the least economically relevant entity in the region.

it took me a real life hour just to move my production and supply lines to another island in anno

just imagine if all that shit was real

they’re gonna swap reserve currency status for a chance to wipe out the national debt and reindustrialize via a hyperinflated currency

could work eventually imo, might have a hard time holding down the domestic situation in the meantime though

theyre not, the police get kickbacks and look the other way so long as people upstairs arent pressured to ‘do something’

there are routine inspections but heads up will be given so people can clear out ahead of time

as demographics shift, the problem of education (elite overproduction) will fix itself to some degree (50% hs admittance cutoff already relaxing, blue collar work is more and more well compensated as labor pool shrinks), but it wont go away without massive reforms, which will likely not happen as there are too many people who benefit from the way it is currently set up, same as hukou

this case of education and its motivating factors is a great example of superstructure shaping base, how pecuniary emulation remains a relevant, perhaps even marxist, concept even today, and is a primary driver of why the asian diaspora, particularly in america, is so dependent on white supremacy for its continued existence