• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    3029 days ago

    No changes until China decides to invade Taiwan and the sanctions that Russia currently has begin.

    • @InverseParallax
      link
      English
      2929 days ago

      Yeah, China are being “generic assholes” right now, but not crossing the lines into “serious villain shit” yet, at least for people who aren’t in China.

      But if they touch Taiwan, oh hell yeah.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        728 days ago

        I mean there are chinese spies in europe, which suppress, bully and sometimes even kill chinese journalists who have fleed (?) to europe. And thats not even a conspiracy theory, there were investigative journalists who have uncovered this in several countries. So I’d say that china is reeealy close to that villain line

        • @InverseParallax
          link
          English
          -128 days ago

          Yeah, I think thats still really brushing the line.

          This is a carrot and stick thing, by making Russia an extreme example we can steer them back from the edge.

          But we do need to have other sanctions, they’re just being dickholes.

      • AlexanderESmith
        link
        fedilink
        228 days ago

        They round up their own people and either brainwash or straight up murder them. Their government is as corrupt and evil as any other.

        • @InverseParallax
          link
          English
          128 days ago

          Yes, but it’s their people they’re butchering, so it’s less our problem just yet.

          I know, bullshit rules, but still.

      • Rikudou_Sage
        link
        fedilink
        English
        128 days ago

        Oh yeah, let’s wait until they start murdering people to maybe take some action.

        • @InverseParallax
          link
          English
          1028 days ago

          Yes.

          And when they start murdering people we bring down the wrath of God on them.

          That’s the problem with Russia, you have to be nice, up to the point they cross the line, then you turn the doom music on.

          We needed to start crushing their balls with a hydraulic press when they took Crimea, this is on us.

          • merde alors
            link
            fedilink
            English
            128 days ago

            who is this “we” who can “bring down the wrath of god”?

            • @InverseParallax
              link
              English
              128 days ago

              If they try for Taiwan, the whole west, you know, the people who depend on Tsmc chips for literally everything.

              We went to war over oil you better believe we’d mobilize to fuck for literally all our tech.

              • merde alors
                link
                fedilink
                English
                028 days ago

                over oil against Iraq. And that’s a shame. Even back then “the whole west” wasn’t united behind that lie.

                China isn’t Iraq.

                Iran neither. Iraq was an artificial state. Iran is there in some form for more than 2 millennia. 3?

                Russia is in Ukraine. Israel is, with the help of U.S. trying to start a war in “middle east”. Let’s say that China “try for Taiwan”, do you really think that the U.S. can “mobilize” effectively on all these fronts. And would Europe follow U.S.?

                Another question would be, let’s say that Trump is the next president: What would that change about your world war 3 fantasies?

                • @InverseParallax
                  link
                  English
                  128 days ago

                  Not much actually.

                  Because the president only controls the country if they aren’t a complete fucking moron, otherwise it’s like his first term where literally everyone told him to go fuck himself. :)

                  It helps not being lead by inbred fucktards, as the history of Russia has eminently proven.

                  • merde alors
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    128 days ago

                    i’ve read your comment history.

                    Why do you need this much hate? Some of your comments are ignorant and most are reeking of bigotry.

          • @Lauchs
            link
            English
            -128 days ago

            I mean, it probably would’ve been ideal then but as usual, America was recovering from/embroiled in the last Conservative disasters (financial crisis, Afghanistan/Iraq.) And Obama had just burned a lot of political capital giving people healthcare.

            • @InverseParallax
              link
              English
              228 days ago

              W annihilated our foreign policy, destroyed it completely.

              And yeah, Obama burned everything on the aca and recovering the economy while fox News had mustard gate and tan suit gate and saluting a guy with a coffee cup gate.

              His foreign policy was a mess, but at least he started the pivot away from the middle east back to meaningful places, but we really needed to deal with Russia then.