Be optimistic, he might accidentally destroy it.

Anyone remember Biden throwing a hissy fit over Iran and Saudi Arabia’s reproachment?

Now there’s indications that the China-brokered peace deal wasn’t just a photo-op. Saudi, Iranian senior military officials discuss defense cooperation.

Saudi Arabia has been a loyal US ally and for decades; and it is still deep in the US camp financially and militarily. I want this defense cooperation to be everything it can be, but I fear that the Saudi government isn’t ready yet to distance itself from US interests.

Zionist*

I am not going to get my hopes up. The government has the ability to keep functioning on autopilot regardless of who is at the top.

The rise of China makes boycotting the West much easier.

The true international community. A diverse collection of nations, languages, religions, and economic and political systems.

I wish there was a version with a better colour scheme. But this is the only one recent enough not to include Argentina and to include the upcoming tentative members.

It is significant how relatively insignificant the West got in one generation. A lot of Western leaders are too old and still think it is the 1990s.

It still serves as an unsinkable aircraft carrier off the coast of China

it may be in humanity’s best interest to direct and curb it though

“White man’s burden”

It is okay, you don’t have to. You are freed of your burden. The rest of the world can manage themselves better in a multipolar world.

My comment is about multipolarism being natural and long overdue. Not about whether any pole is “good” or “evil”.

Inshallah they don’t know better.

Differs by province. Aceh is not Bali.

Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country.

For everyone or just the US? Should I get a PS5 Pro and a Steam Deck now? Will the Switch 2 be out in time?

No, I want NATO to lose

NATO has attacked NOBODY ever.

This isn’t true, unless Arabs aren’t people. Being a liberal we probably aren’t people to you so whatever crimes NATO committed doesn’t count.

Edit: I always forget Yugoslavia, a European country that NATO attacked. The US even bombed the Chinese embassy there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade

NATO are only tough against small countries with marginal militaries.

In the past I would have understood this comment as perhaps hyperbolic, but now I do believe they just want to see the kill count go up. If Clinton feels that 40,000 dead Palestinians aren’t enough, who knows how he feels about dead Ukrainians and what number would he consider unacceptable.

Just in the last 24 years the US killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions; and now facilitating a genocide.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is nothing compared to the US crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq or the genocide it is enabling in Palestine. Not to mention the embargoes and sanctions on multiple countries now. The same sanctions that killed half a million children in Iraq in the 1990s.

You can’t defend the US crimes, so you have to scaremonger that the others will be worst. The thing is most of the world disagrees and knows better.

Remember: just because you believe in European supremacy and American exceptionalism, doesn’t mean that the rest of the world does or that it is even true.

A lot of people in the West still think it is natural and good for 12% of the world to dominate 88% of the world. Any other possibility is seen as an existential threat to Western civilization.