Random, but why is this not recognized as a war? Looks pretty serious and Thailand came out with announcement that they're going after Cambodia's army and they're not interested in talks. In any other place, this would be a war, but people just say "border conflict"
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Comparing Warcraft to World of Warcraft is like comparing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 to Might and Magic 8
She didn't pick a fight directly, she stood ground on independence and anti-colonialism/occupation by supporting Taiwan's sovereignty.
You're essentially saying Germany should not annoy Russia by supporting Ukraine.
See how wrong that sounds? Or should we first wait till conflict actually breaks out and people start dying?
This would be like Canada threatening the US.
No, this would be like US threatening to invade Greenland and Canada recognizing Greenland's sovereignty. You're making the victim look like bully. Nice try CCP
But is it chasing stars?
Ahh yes, the Russia's approach. Instead of being a decent country and naturally attracting globally good opinions, talent, etc., they have to reduce themselves to brainwashing and strongarming.
That's the big part I mentioned. Do statistics look as good when you add "per person" in the equation? I'm still not seeing the effectiveness. China is just massive, but not immune to ineffective spending/economy.
a very effective centrally planned economy.
There's so much BS going on that you don't really know the full picture. The China fails a lot, their entire banking system has even been repeatedly called into question, the whole tofu drama, failures in planning and investments (like this one: https://flatbike.com/blogs/cyclist/chinas-huge-bicycle-graveyards-and-why-they-matter?srsltid=AfmBOooalRaFGimlCOQT1d8cBl2nPxpuXRQ587vta5lGYx8bIUL5OkKk), etc. Calling it effective is like calling US economy booming. They aren't special, they're just bigger and harder to catastrophically fail in a way that would affect the entire country.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-0132-1_1
Do you have a source for your claims? Because I do for mine. Also, look up land used by US in Japan. It has reduced by nearly 50% since they entered Japan.
You can just say "alright, the statistics really do look better, the issue is being fixed, officials are talking about it and I was wrong for saying that country should be defenceless because of few bad apples"
You don't think an enormous population of foreign military resulting in high rates of unprosecuted sexual violence and organized crime demonstrates anything about the state of politics in the host country?
So you believe people in Korea, Japan, and the Philippines at the highest levels of power just... want this for their people? Or do you think they're so beaten down they don't believe in their own capacity for self-defense?
Please read the article you yourself sent me and give me source for your "high rates". I'm not denying the issue exists, but officials have been fighting this issue with good results. If you think few bad apples are worse than risking entire country and millions of people then.. I can't even argue that, I'd just call you extremely dumb and move on.
Is the violent occupation of conquered territory only a problem for you when the occupying army is Slavic?
The irony here is that I'm Slavic. I also clearly signalized against Chinese aggression. I'm not anti-Russian, I'm anti-whoever-can't-stay-in-their-borders-and/or-do-colonialism
EDIT: Random, but who do you think is responsible for more Slav deaths - Nazi Germany or Russia?
Again, very bizzare take. There are people in literally every country that wants foreign influence or bases out, that proves nothing and that number of people is very minimal compared to people who want them. The locals in Okinawa are one such example as the military presence is disturbing and soldiers are not known for ethics. I'm in one of your so claimed "occupied states", and everyone's thankful for the alliance (literally no one calls it occupation except Russian people living here who hate everyone who tries to defend themselves from the next invasion).
Random, but did you know an alternate name for Russians where I live is "occupiers"? If you say "occupiers", literally everyone knows that means Russians.
Same goes for google. I initially refused to believe it, but after seeing with my own eyes them telling me "This does not go against ToS" after clearly showing them AI generated president of my country advertising crypto scams really convinced me