I watched it. I didn’t know it was an interview by Chris Williamson, who I’m subscribed to. Thanks.
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Donbass is part of Ukraine.
Occurred AFTER Russia invaded Ukraine. For the second time in 8 years.
The push to stand up to U.S. imperialism has new countries on the world stage coming together like nuclear powers Russia and China, to name only the two most powerful. Do you think these countries are as powerless against the U.S. as Saddam and Ghaddafi?
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Helped to continue the war.
Yes, mostly made of Russian speaking people. So they were shelled for about 8 years.
Who carried out The Revolution of Dignity? What class and why?
For a different perspective The crisis in Ukraine - World Socialist Web Site
Let the leaders in the U.S. know.
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I watched that video and I have a hard time believing that guy’s prediction will come true.
A country of over a billion people with an average IQ of 104, the largest middle class in the world, amazing technological advancement, and seemingly free of the mind rot we see in the West today cannot become a superpower?
Then who does have such potential? I mean, several counties are experiencing abysmal birthrates. Which ones with replacement levels can become superpowers?
Yes. Where is the USSR today? Oh yeah, it evaporated without the US having to kill one Soviet. And the US, and NATO nations, still exist and prosper.
China? It’s just a matter of time until it gives in to western values. If China’s government was desirable, it wouldn’t need to oppress and control its people; lie and hide reality from its own people in order to maintain power and the status quo. Eventually, the curtain will be lifted and Chinese kids will be just as lazy and unambitious as American kids.
If true, it’s the average of those that were tested. They still have pig toilets in China. I guarantee that if you didn’t test certain demographics in the US, the average IQ would be just as high. And we do know for a fact that when it comes to international testing, the Chinese are selective when it comes to who is allowed to take those tests.
It doesn’t seem like a dump.
It wouldn’t be the first time the evil Americans have prolonged a war against a sensible people looking to protect their fellow nationals outside their nominal borders. Let’s all remember FDR’s war-prolonging lend lease to the warmonger Churchill and his fellow irrational Britons who patently refused to consider publicly stated peace proposals.
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Until you want to exercise free speech.
Are the Chinese people as a whole, suffering under their government? If so, how? I’m sincerely open to proof of this. I’ll absorb what people say on the matter.
If they don’t have freedom of speech, is this bad for me, or other Americans?
I know a Uyghur who came to the UK. Hes told me stories of uyghur women being given to Han chinese, their husbands and sons sent off to camps. Any form of protest is met with severe violence. Beards alone will get a Muslim man sent to camps.
Reasons for sending someone to labour camp incline working out, storing more than a months worth of food, growing a beard, praying, celebrating a religious holiday. This goes for Christians and others too.
China is a hellscape. Yes some parts are pretty modern, thats not the issue with China.
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If China is seen as some model for us to follow or admire, it’s a problem.
So… you’ve done this repeatedly.
China, Russia etc…
‘how would living under these regimes affect the average citizen? Surely, it’s better than America/other democratic countries?’
There’s nothing wrong with asking these questions. In fact, it means you likely ‘think’ more than the average person as the average individual will say ‘China bad’ or ‘Russia bad’ without knowing WHY they’re bad.
I’ll answer as to why I THINK ‘China bad’ in terms of general living conditions.
Look past the genocide of Uyghur Muslims… that only affects a TINY minority of Chinese citizens. For those it does affect, they are subject to deportation, forced imprisonment and occasionally death by organ harvesting.
Look past Tiananmen square. This is one event wherein protestors were run over with tanks. Any reference of the event has been removed from public documentation, and learning about it or bringing it up can be punishable by indefinite prison sentences. Keep in mind protests in general from within China are met with harsh suppression.
But what if you just ‘follow the rules’? China can’t be THAT bad if you ‘just do the right thing’? This is an argument many proponents of crushingly oppressive regimes use. Regimes like China harshly enforce the development isolationist society. You like isolationism… to a degree…
But with China they have their own, highly censored version of the internet that removes anything critical of the Chinese government. They have their own messaging apps (wechat for instance) that can be monitored. But you like isolationism, so how is this a problem?
Isolationism is one thing. Replacing all consumable media with propaganda and imposing criminal sanctions for anyone who reads from alternate sources is another thing altogether. I dislike the website bitchute, you (and others on here) like bitchute. Imagine if you were sent to prison for looking at bitchute videos.
The government is overbearing to the point of insanity. There was a meme about winnie the pooh looking like the Chinese president. Result? Winnie the pooh is now banned in China. Mentioning or using imagery from winnie the pooh can result in a jail sentence. “so what? JuSt FoLlOw ThE rUlEs!”.
These rules don’t affect you… until a snap decision specifies, they do. Dare to publicly practise Judaism, Christianity, Islam etc in China… jail.
Chinese Christians face growing persecution, says charity (churchtimes.co.uk)
In the past, churches have been burnt down and those who practiced religion were killed. The official country/state sponsored religion of the CCP is atheism. Politicians in China are barred from practicing any form of religion whether that be in public or privately.
Personally… I don’t care, this doesn’t affect me. But it affects YOU. In theory, I’m ‘just following the rules’ whereas you’d be subject to persecution here for no good reason. The president Xi Xing Ping has gone nuts over recent years.
Punishment for thought crimes… Let’s hypothetically say you harboured certain beliefs that went against the grain of the status quo. In this case, beliefs that go against what the CCP want you to believe… Let’s say you shared these beliefs with a friend or relative and government officials got wind of your set of beliefs. Not hard in an Orwellian surveillance state where your conversations on messaging apps are monitored.
The punishment for that is going to a labour camp/what one might call a ‘gulag’.
To play devils advocate… The quality of healthcare for the masses in China is leaps and bounds better than that of the US. They have universal standardised healthcare alongside privatised healthcare. Great… That doesn’t account for China’s history of persecuting whoever they want to persecute in the name of upholding blind loyalty to the CCP.
Though despite being ruled by a ‘communist party’… Billionaires still exist in China.
Look into the following surrounding China
- one child policy (and resulting high rates of infanticide, forced abortion, sex-selective abortion… and the likes). China now has a massive disparity between men-women.
- lack of independent judiciary/due process when convicted of a crime. If you do ANYTHING that tickles the government, the wrong way… they can do whatever they want with you. As expected, there’s a lot of paranoia within the ranks of Chinese politics
- Look up the Hukou system
- Look up what happens to whistle-blowers. When covid came out… a businessman posted images with regards to what was happening in Wuhan at the time. He suddenly ‘disappeared’ and has never been seen since. Similar to how whistle-blowers and politicians in Russia have a habit of falling out of windows.
- Doesn’t allow freedom of association
- HYPER censored internet (like overbearing censorship)
- Forced organ harvesting
- No freedom of movement
- Torture and sexual assault of political prisoners (by this I mean human rights advocates or anyone dumb enough to protest in China)
- lack of property rights… Even if you privately own property.
- In China… If a man is raped, they legally cannot accuse the rapist (male or female) of rape
I could keep going.
You’d hate living in China and you’d hate living in Russia.
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Id prefer to live in Russia over the US or France 1000%. Liberal degeneracy isn’t a good trade off for more individual rights. Id 1000x prefer to live in an authoritarian state where children can’t chop their cocks off and social norms are enforced than in an atomized society where i can do more stuff.
Freedom to buy soda and burn a flag and call the president a retard aren’t actually terribly important to me. Living somewhere that enforces traditional gender roles and stops displays of social degeneracy in public etc but I am limited in some freedoms is a deal I would take.
Also America really isn’t that free. Its just a hell of a lot smarter in how it applies force. It lets the mask slip faily often when you challenge the philosophical liberal orthodoxy.
Because those governments limit their oppression and abuse of authority to dick guillotines.
And that moron got a lengthy sentence because he committed a felony that then had hate crime enhancements, which is something I find silly but it is the law currently. Also, he has prior convictions which lengthened his sentence. So though I feel bad about the hate crime enhancements he is a scumbag criminal who in the end, ended up where he probably belongs. Finally, don’t touch other people’s property.
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lmao look what happens to whistleblowers? Fucking hell lad thats a bit rich.
Bro
What is your problem with me?
You’d rather live in Russia?
Are you aware of the high prevalence of drug addiction over there? Some towns have a prevalence of heroin addiction as high as 18%…
Notwithstanding rampant alcoholism. The ‘liberal degeneracy’ you have an issue with is still a problem in Russia.
How many Russians do you know who currently reside in Russia? Just curious.
Agreed with this, but not necessarily for the reasons you’ve outlined.
America is categorised as a ‘flawed democracy’.
ALL countries have their problems. America (for all it’s problems) is still is one of the better places you could live in.
Children chopping their cocks off… you are nitpicking at fringe issues. This is SO rare
In my country (Australia) I believe transitioning as a minor is illegal.
Democracy is awful. Give me a good king anyday. Modern democracy where every idiot votes is dysgenic by design. Lets let the mechanic and the janitor and the basketball player decide our foreign policy! All it does is result in a deep state anyway. The end result of a democracy is always an oligarchy. The US is an oligarchy just like Russia.
Ive been to Russia have you? Ive lived in several nations, seems most people with your outlook have only ever lived in one.
