Me looking up the project: At least they figured out that they need a metro, given they plan the Nusantara Autonomous Rail Transit. Turns out it is a bus.

Unlike many other countries in the world, Spirits have the same right as humans in Manchuria. Your anti spirit racism is just disgusting.

Source: https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Manchuria

Exactly enough money to bridge the period between ending the war and having created enough jobs in the civilian economy. Right now unemployment is basically zero and given all the dead Russian soldiers that is going to be rather possible.

We are talking about $200B of Russian government assets in the EU. That is enough to pay the soldiers and workers in the military industry for some time until the economy can recover. Even if a lot is lost and lets be real that is happening with military spending as well.

Right now Russia has massive fuel shortages all over the country, the coal industry is collapsing, there are rolling black outs in some regions and high inflation. The base for recovery is pretty low. Add fossil fuel exports to the West at global higher prices and it goes a long way. Nothing some good propaganda can not handle.

Russia has some massive advantages ones they have peace. One is the assets they have in the West. We are talking billions and they could be sold to help out the local economy. The other one is lifting of sanctions. They sell a lot less gas and oil under market prices. So having those lifted would help the economy a lot.

It then is a matter of giving everybody who looses their jobs in the military sector a new one. That can be done with infrastructure spending or something similar.

The transition between unipolar and multipolar is inherently unstable. BRICS wants the multipolar world, so it is destabilizing the US world order. That means change, which can be for good. However the transitions tend to be bloody. We unfortunately see some of that. I just hope we do not end up with some US-China war.

The Paris Climate Agreement and still binding, but a lot of countries would rather everybody else does something about it and petrostates want no action at all.

As for Cuba, the issue is taking action. Words are cheap, but nobody wants to actually help Cuba.

By democratic on a grassroots level you mean that if you try democracy, you can see the roots of the gras growing above your grave?

That was kind of the case for the US as well. They became Germanys largest trading partner basically because Germany needed to replace Russian oil and gas. That has happened, so trade is probably going to fall.

Cheap EVs for Germany, but not the US…

Your antisemitism is active support of Israel. Not all Israelis are Jews and even more importantly not all Jews are Israelis. Antisemitism is the biggest argument for Zionism. As in if Jews are hated by everybody else, they need to have their own country to live without hatred.

In this conflict it is only a matter of time until the ceasefire is broken. Anything could be used as a cause.

Milei wants to dollarize Argentina. Ones you do that, it is very hard to move to your own currency again and it would give the US massive influence over Argentina. The good news is that Argentina has a much more functional democracy then the US and their parliament is stopping Milei from doing too much bs. So probably this is going to fail.

Actually thanks to US money, Argentina was able to support its farmers by lower export tariffs for soy beans. They then sold a hell of a lot of those to China. Soy beans used to be the biggest US export to China…

Health care somewhat pays for itself. Not the really sick people, but making sure workers are healthy to actually work properly has a massive return on investment.

The other part is taking care of general health. Things like cars, bad food, all sorts of pollution and so forth really are bad for health. If you have public health care it is often cheaper to fix the underlying issue then to treat the problems coming from it.

France, UK, Canada, Spain and a lot of other Western countries recognized Palestine as a country. That is a pretty clear sign of the reputational hit Israel has gotten due to the Gaza genocide. Politicans in the West understand that supporting Israel is no longer free, but comes with a massive price tag.

Egypt was and is very happy to blockade Gaza. The Saudis, UAE and a bunch more blockaded Yemen for ages. The Islamic State which commited a few genocides in the region was funded by the Golf States. Iran is financing a shit ton of genocidal groups around the region.

They really do not care about genocide. The population cares about Gaza, but the leadership does not.

Egypt helped blockading Gaza. Hell many were happy to blockade Yemen. The UAE currently finances a massive genocide in Sudan, which is certainly on a similar scale to Gaza.

The simple bloody truth is that similar to the West in MENA the governments do not care about genocide, but the people largely do.

All media is propaganda, so the question is whoes. This is from Singapore, which is very well placed to take in Chinese researches itself. So saying China is an option, is not extacly positive for them.

From Singapore…