Yeah for sure. We’re a pathetic protectorate to the shameless inheritors of the British empire.

I am an anarchist, I think all states are inevitably going to be cruel. However the USA is uniquely horrible, communist china so far is the garden variety of empire. I would love to see us throw off the yolk of the usa and take our place in Asia Pacific diplomacy. We can all mix and learn, and hopefully find a way forward without world policing foreverwar empire.

It’s fucking embarrassing how Anglo centric we are, how we don’t learn Mandarin like all our neighbours, and how ignorant we are (media to blame here) of events in our local region.

Russia, China, and the US are all problems in similar ways, but different scales - in much the same way that the US has a deeply flawed, democracy while China and Russia are plain old autocratic.

The US would absolutely fuck us over for their own benefit (again), but what’s in their best interests is generally much more in line with our best interests than China or Russia.

I work in cybersecurity, and we track state sponsored threat actors (mostly, but far from exclusively China and Russia) - people suddenly rush to change the subject when I ask why we don’t track US threat actors.