could trigger a humanitarian crisis

Yeah, that’s the point of the blockade.

Surely this couldn’t possibly have anything to do with a certain country using its control over financial institutions to prevent processing payments from “bad” countries.

Many such cases

This AND the fact that the investment is “no strings attached” unlike western investment usually entailing some kind of austerity or “market opening” stipulations. Also higher confidence that the deal won’t be broken on a whim.

So, in short the demands are: disarm yourself, and THEN we will totally not attack you!

Awwww, did you think US military would only kidnap people from bad countries like Venezuela?

he even removed the Israeli and US flag from his bio

Funnily enough, he also replaced “Anti-communist” with “Human”.

China, a developing country: lifts 800 million people out of extreme poverty.

Meanwhile UK:

Let us put backdoors in every single device our agents are using, what could go wrong!

So now that you know they had absolutely no basis for that story, hopefully you will be more skeptical next time about atrocity propaganda about our “geopolitical enemies”.

The comparative worth is this: At least we’re not as bad as those orientals!

Doing local peronal notes/wiki in a gemini format is such a cool idea. Thanks.

So far.

Basically the US government decided to de-segregate schools in order to counter the “malign influence” of Soviet “lies” that the US is an apartheid state, but soon realized that the people were so racist that the black schoolchildren needed federal agents as personal bodyguards to prevent lynchings.

Racial profiling with extra steps.

“Saying that Ukraine is a Nazi regime” == stating an inconvenient fact.

Wait, you guys study historical documents in your history classes?!

In 2018, the city of Shanghai lured Tesla in to build a gigafactory with what seemed like an especially attractive offer. For years, foreign automakers like Ford, GM, Volkswagen, and Toyota had dominated the Chinese car market—the world’s largest—but were required to form joint ventures with Chinese firms for the privilege of doing business in the country. Shanghai told Tesla it could fully own its Chinese operations. Subsidies for land and cheap loans were proffered as well.

Tesla’s Shanghai gigafactory was completed in 168 days. It quickly became Tesla’s largest in the world. And it was fed by a network of local component suppliers that cropped up around it. The only problem—for Tesla, anyway—was that those local firms eventually became the basis for a Chinese supply chain that supercharged the nascent electric vehicle sector in the country. Nearly overnight, firms like Nio and BYD were producing plug-in cars that could rival Tesla in cost and quality. As with solar, a wave of entrants battled for market share, causing profits to evaporate but giving consumers great choices at excellent prices.

The Chinese really mastered the art of using capitalist logic to benefit the people consumers.

Funniest argument as to why Putin is not a fascist is that if he was, Europe would have no issue “appeasing” him.

It’s a threat.