There is some tiny truth to it. I think there was this very corrupted dick in Ming Dynasty or something or maybe Qing Dynasty. He is corrupted , but his effective methods during a flood kept the death rate in the low thousands.
The honest official handling of the flood in another area was very incompetent . A few hundred thousand civilians were dead because of his actions.

But China " LOL "

This post was edited by Hamsterbaby on Mar 10 2023 05:06am

1) NATO doesnt steal, independent countries ask to join nato because they dont want to live in evil regime, where people are treated like animals (Russia). In fact nato didnt welcome Ukraine, bashed their application, because nato wanted to stay friendly with Russia and Russia promised they leave Ukraine alone. Did Russia live to that promise?
2) Ukraine wasn't Russia for 30 years. Of course for Russia its favorable to go back in time as much as they need. If Ukraine was free for 50 years, they would go back 50 years.
30 years is a human life. You ask 30 years old, 40 years Ukrainians, who dont even remember being part of ussr, to join the Russia. The country they truly hate, the country that tries to genocide them.
3) Ukraine was never really Russia. Russia was occupying them, just like Hitler occupied France during ww2.
4) if we give them Ukraine, they will ask for more. Its best to stop the villain before he gets too strong.

A few days before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Zbigniew Rau, polish minister of Foreign Affairs, made a visit to Moscow.
- Lavrov assured me that the State Duma would not agree to recognize the two split self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine as sovereign entities - recalls Rau.

Russians are just lying all the time, can't trust anything they say, anytime

Godwins law rears its head.

anyway here is a video - as i understand it this guy was an advisor of Navalny



The critical take away here for me suggests that there is no way this war will end in 2023, unlikely to end in 2024 and probably 2025 at the earliest. The first 13 minutes would be the most critical part to my mind.

Based on this video (regardless of when it was posted) to my mind it suggests that Ukraine has held, the Russians dont have anything else to send for now and that there will be a very strong counter offensive by Ukraine.

Russia at this point would need to conscript another 1/2 million men, and train them, for a different result.

in my limited view.

This post was edited by ferdia on Mar 10 2023 05:57am

Let people here bash the west. Let them bash the west right up until Wagner or the CCP are knocking on their door.
According to them nothing negative in the world happens without "the west" having a hand in it.

The grass isn't always greener, but whatever helps them normalize how authoritarian regimes will act.

If this war ends at 2025 earliest , it will give me ample time and a little more time to move shit back to Singapore. Might go back to Melbourne Australia or Tasmania just in case..
If it ends at 2025, it means the next big bang will be in 2032.

This post was edited by Hamsterbaby on Mar 10 2023 05:55am

Trump could have prevented the invasion of Ukraine? Where do these deranged aphorisms manifest?
On one hand the West in entirely to blame, but on the other hand the most populist and divisive leader in its history could have prevented the war?



You guys are fucking bonkers

This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Mar 10 2023 05:56am

What don't you understand about this? Trump is/was an anomoly. He did not want wars and had a completely different world view of the US then all other presidents before him all the way back to JFK.

This post was edited by ferdia on Mar 10 2023 06:05am

I understand perfectly. I am deriding the hypocrisy and lack of sound reasoning behind that position.

Do you accept that the US told Ukraine not to go to war over crimea in 2014, and Ukraine said "ok" ?

you can see where I am going with this.

This post was edited by ferdia on Mar 10 2023 06:07am