from Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org to world@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 2025 15:08
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/47117269
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/47116727
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“We are recording an actual increase in the de-sovereignization of part of Russian territory in favor of China. This primarily concerns the use of resource-rich lands and the sale of scarce resources to China,” Ukraine’s President is cited after a report by the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Oleh Ivashchenko.
“We are also recording that China is taking steps to intensify cooperation with Russia, particularly in the field of the defense industry. Intelligence services of our partners have similar information.”
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In a related report, U.S. outlet Newsweek cites Patrick Cronin, the Asia-Pacific security chair at the Hudson Institute: “Xi Jinping views Russia as an indispensable strategic partner in constructing a post-U.S.–led world order.
“Reconciling these competing impulses points toward a strategy of slow, steady accretions of effective sovereignty, punctuated by performative shows of solidarity, from parades to joint military drills, that mask an emerging asymmetry," Cronin adds.
Cronin said however that China “clearly appears poised to expand its influence across its shared borderlands through a mix of brazen cyber intrusions and opportunistic moves to anchor itself inside Russia’s increasingly enfeebled economy.”
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Sino-Soviet split is over, bro. You aren’t going to wish it back by shitposting.
Is that a way of saying “Separatist feelings are on the rise in Russia”? Or are they talking about regicide in a country without a reg?
I guess this is just saying that China is occupying parts of Russia.
Putin turning Russia in to China’s vassal-state, economically, while enforcing unpopular-war, while enforcing Russia’s economic grinding-to-hell …
… has consequences??
No, really??
I’ve stated for the last few years, that Russia is going to be China’s mere-vassal-state.
I’m adding, here, that WHEN Trump takes Greenland, as a means of militarily-enforcing his annexation of Canada ( Alaska/navy+airforce/mainland/navy+airforce/Greenland, sealing us off from ALL trade, to butcher us like Russia butchered Mariupol ),
THEN Putin, with BRICS’/China’s backing, will be rampaging Europe, for Putin’s ego/psychopathy & for China’s strategic gain, since once Trump & Putin, & their-legacy-regimes, implode, then China’s built-up empire ( Modi’s India bet-the-farm on Russia helping India fight China, which … is based in fantasy, not geopolitical-facts, so India has no stron ally within BRICS, & their tiny investment in military won’t match China’s: India will fall, when Trump’s rampaging Canada, the non-Republicans within the US in Civil War Part2, AND Central & South America, including Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, etc, in his greed to be the West’s “KING” ) … China’s built-up empire will then be able to begin butchering-down the remnants of NATO…
& that war-of-attrition will simply keep going on, & on, & on, for decades, until the world-population has been reduced by a few billion.
People back what they’re born-into, right?
Religions use that, to enforce their-population’s ideology/identity…
Political-ideologies use it, cultures use it…
Hofstede’s whole Cultural-Dimensions-Theory is rooted in it!
People born into short-term cultures ( macho tropical cultures, e.g. ) are more embodying of short-term values, views, & reacting-instincts, while people born into long-term cultures ( South Korea ) are more embodying of long-term values, views, & reacting-instincts.
Same is true for external-“success” orientation vs inner-“nurturing” orientation.
Same is true for uncertainty-denial vs uncertainty-comfort.
Nationalisms all use this same imprint/programming mechanism ( lower-forebrain, Kahneman & Tversky “System 1”, etc ), to prevent either objectivity or correct-reasoning from interfereing with them…
But then what happens when neither objectivity nor correct-reasoning is tolerated to have any place in any education, as Leninism & Fox Network & Repubican “education” all enforce??
Well, then you have multi-generational incapability of being anything whatsoever other-than ideology and ideological-reacting.
& what happens when the vast majority of the world’s population is born into that condition?
Global Deathmatch.
Some call it “The Great Filter”, but it’s the same thing.
Some call it “The Great Purification”, but it’s the same thing.
Some call it “The Valley of Death”/“Armageddon”, but it’s the same thing.
Some call it “The Tribulation”, but it’s the same thing.
ALL worlds that are as chimp-minded as we are, who gain industry & nukes, without our unconscious-minds growing-up, get the same “species-puberty” enforcement-process.
There’s nothing “religious” or “divine” about species-ignorance trying to beat & break universe/G-D into OBEYING its ego-ignorance.
Not on this world, not on any other, not anywhere.
It’s simply an ( ignorance ) addict breaking their-own life to “prove” that their addiction is the “only LORD”, same as any street-junkie obliterating their only life is doing, but humankind’s doing it at whole-planet scale…
The only method which can produce species-survival, is the Venn-diagram intersection of
No other method can produce survival of the species-“puberty” process on humankind, this century!
There are 3 categories of game:
That mass-shooters, Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, & Millei are playing Negative-Sum games, at their own scales, has consequences:
All who pretend that zero-sum-game is the game that they are pl