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I can’t help but wonder: As America fights upstart China, who is our George Kennan? Who is the ideas man? What is the Long Telegram of our times? America is not bringing its best self to Cold War II. It’s easy to be a magnanimous good sport when China had us beat on making

« There’s no way we can do it without the World Bank » was what DG Rafael Mariano Grossi heard again and again from banks asked to finance nuclear projects. And for years it seems like there was no way to change that. Until today…

Here’s the thing: Taiwan can go ahead and spend 5% or 10% GDP on defense. 25% even. It will still be a rounding error compared to China. If we wanted to declare independence, the time to do it would have been the 90s. Even though we had 1/60th the population of China, Taiwans

It’s interesting how people can be propagandized so hard they don’t even know what kind of situation they’re in. So many ppl in Taiwan sympathize with the Israeli and look up to them for how fiercely patriotic they are. And they look down on the Gazans for being terrorists.

China would prefer to be chums with the USA. There are many points of contention with Russia not easy to resolve. But America has to be weird and Thucydides-brained about everything.

Good news for Gaza residents. They will have an end to warfare and a possible way out. As long as the emigration from Gaza is voluntary I can’t be against it although it is true it’s possibly a reward for Israel’s bad behavior as they get their hearts desire: Gazans out of

It’s so fucked that I instantly thought « well Vivek is OBVIOUSLY as Brahmin as it gets but it’s harder to tell with Zohran. He is giving Kshatriya even tho he’s Muslim so I don’t even know if he’s part of the system… »

"SOCIALISM" That word has no meaning. We live in a country of oligarchic socialism and anarcho-capitalism for everyone else. People will vote for whatever seems like authentic change, gives the middle finger to oligarchs and boomer hypocrites, and has a probability of getting

Isn’t it interesting how much less talk there is about how crazy and unstable Kim Jong Un is after he got the nuke? I guess it helped that the democratically-elected Yoon Sun Yeol was acting so much crazier, objectively: planning false flag attacks, trying to do a coup. Kim

It’s always interesting when Ukrainians make fun of Russians for being poor and backwards. According to the GDP per capita Ukrainians were not only half as rich as Russians they also never regained their peak of prosperity achieved under the USSR.

I don’t understand why all the whores of Babylon are right-wing influencers while the left-wing influencers, even if they are literal whores, are Athena-coded stats-doers.

Absolutely huge if true: it seems what I call SMR brain is well and truly dead, killed by the AI load demand. Good thing the AP1000 is a very modular reactor so you can just call it an SMR (Large)

Death to pick-mes.

Dude. I literally met a communist today and he told me “why would you have a government-run grocery store? That’s fucking retarded.” We don’t have many commies in Taiwan…the KMT shot most of them back in the day. But 鍾翔宇 Xiangyu is at least a fellow-traveler. I asked him what

This kind of pathological sentimentality is why Japan still has the fax machine.

« Could Iran’s Azeris break away? » I beg of you take a look at the ethnic makeup of the clerical class and the IRGC and find that they are chock full of Azeris. Ppl keep looking for ways to Balkanize Iran but it’s hard because Iran’s boundaries weren’t hastily drawn by a

The IDF has been killing just to kill. I'd accept this death toll if Hamas has been wiped out root and branch but they have not been, the IDF has been too afraid of casualties to do this, the campaign in Gaza has just been a blood ritual to appease the angry spirits of Oct 7th.

Im fascinated by this. Assuming it’s not just made up. You need the child to be a blank slate and then a shock to seal the memory. But if you want to try it for yourself can you do something less hardcore? Do a high level organic chemistry lecture onna plane before making