Rockhill is really on point from the interviews I have seen and snipits I have read. I should probably read his books.

Based. When it comes to people of similar ideologies getting together 1+1<2. The confidence of knowing you are on the right path will encourage you to double or triple down. These dudes should become Best Bros Forever. Traoré will benefit immensely from Maduro’s experience with securing gains from outside interference. I feel like Maduro could use a bit of encouragement to take the kid gloves off when dealing with domestic counter revolutionaries and I think Traoré is just the guy to encourage that.

Alternatively: “When you tell white imperialists to get the fuck out of your country”

China doesn’t even stand up against imperialism in other nations and they still get called authoritarian.

I’m sure it might be ok on less contentious subjects but most of the time I end up on quora it is a dead end of reactionary garbage. Lots of the answers are conspiratorial, ahistorical, or just a twisted version of truth. Maybe 10% of the time I end up on quora I find an answer that is reasonable.

But that doesn’t stop me from looking.

I’d love to see pictures or video of the americans faces as they walk out. There is something cathartic about seeing disappointment on the faces of such horrible people.

How I think this meeting will go:

China: are you going to drop the tariffs?

usa: we are prepared to consider it as part of the negotiations

China: Ok well, keep considering it and let us know when you change your mind.

The advantage usa gains isn’t against Russia and China directly. Its against everyone else. usa, Russia and China aren’t going to nuke India/Pakistan if they nuke each other. Everyone knows where the missiles are going. If they aren’t the target they wouldn’t want to set off the MAD cascade. Everyone would just watch.

usa has been proved to be a paper tiger. (they can’t even subdue the 10th poorest nation in the world) If they want to force their will on a smaller nation they just can’t do it anymore. Their economic weapons have been thwarted and workarounds are in place. Their navy is losing billions of dollars in jets to a nation who’s entire air force is a hand full of helicopters. Their tanks and troop carriers have been proven to be 2nd rate and their recruitment is in the toilet. Modern anti air is better than american jets or stealth tech. Regime change and Color revolutions just don’t work anymore. The empire’s power is slipping through its hands like Jesus holding a marble and everyone is watching.

The one thing that nobody can argue against is the american nuclear arsenal. (Russia and China could but don’t want to because it would be messy) But usa can’t use nukes to bully people because they have been locked by a unwritten rule that nukes are only to stop people from attacking you. The international rulebook is in the process of being shredded. The ICJ ICC and UN have been trashed by israel. Genocide is back on the table but the one thing that could turn everything around is if america used its nukes offensively. The whole world would turn against them if they crossed that line.

So how do they get past that blockage? How do they get the only tool they have left out of the tool box?

They get someone else to crack the seal first, break the taboo. but it can’t be done in a way that brings condemnation. The use of nukes needs to be justified. So if both sides have and use nukes? That’s a victimless war crime.

Then usa does a demonstration (which would be Yemen and they’d claim they had a nuke) and then anyone not explicitly protected by a large nuclear power is prey to nuclear blackmail. Canada and greenland would be part of america in months.

Dr. Strangelove wasn’t comedic fiction it was satire. In other words it was only funny because it was true. Nothing has changed.

Let’s all hope that China and Russia’s links with India and Pakistan are enough to reign them back in and force them to talk. Sadly I don’t expect much sanity from the Hindu supremacists in India and it really feels like they are the ones in the driver seat on this. “Ethno-nationalism, not even once.”

Of course it’s a stupid plan. So was arming the anti-communist mujahideen in Afghanistan and we all know where that went. So was provoking russia in Ukraine. So was imposing tariffs on China. When have warmongers ever cared about collateral damage or things spiraling out of control? When has the stupidity and potential for backlash ever stopped the white supremacist imperialists from doing anything?

Hey remember like a week ago when the threat of nuclear war wasn’t imminent? That was nice.

I’m 99% sure the terrorist attack in kashmir was done by the CIA. I feel like they are trying to provoke a nuclear exchange between 2 nations that wont set off the MAD response as a way to normalize the use of Nuclear weapons. I think this was part of the plan with the war between israel and Iran but Iran didn’t take the bait.

I think the USA wants to break the taboo on nukes because they are convinced it is only way america can actually win a war but it wont work if they are seen as the people who started using nukes first.