Gweiloman

I wonder how many times this Horowitz guy has met Putin. I’ll wager none. He’s (Horowitz)an idiot and Putin doesn’t meet with idiots lol.

Let’s agree to disagree. At least we had an intellectual discussion without the usual trolls jumping in with cries of propaganda and apologists and communists (this last description is the favourite of one particular poster who shall remain unnamed).

Most countries used to be more developed than China. If I’m not mistaken, until the 70’s, China was one of the poorest countries in the world. In my view, China’s meteoric rise in the world is primarily down to its system of governance. One party, promotions based on merit, no outside influence. One does not become a leader in the CPC without having proven themselves over and over again, from grassroots level, XJP included. If China had been a democratic country, it would probably be where India currently is. Developing countries need strong leaders with vision. LKY is one such leader. Putin inherited a very weak Russia from Yeltsin. It’s going to take many more years for Russia to rank among the biggest economies in the world. Considering the fact that the west’s Cold War mentality towards Russia never truly went away, he hasn’t done too bad a job, in my opinion. It’s GDP may not be among the highest but it is universally accepted as one of three superpowers in the world today.

Looks like a Vinfast.

As a Serb that has abandoned your own country, I don’t value your stance much. Every single one of you friends have left Serbia and yet you still have plenty of friends back in Belgrade? How does that work? Imaginary made up friends I guess. I rather believe what my eyes and ears tell me. I see the democratically (?) elected leaders of these countries welcoming the Chinese leader will great fanfare and open arms. These courageous and enlightened leaders know where the future of their countries lie.

Not quite sure what you mean. I reckon that Ukraine would have been better off remaining neutral and not tried joining NATO. They could have been a part of EU, that wouldn’t post any threats to Russia. Joining NATO is a different ballgame altogether as this would have enabled the US to station arms and troops alongside Russia’s border. I’m sure the US would not be too pleased if China did the same in Mexico. Heck, they (the US) even object to Mexico having a Chinese car factory.

GDP is but one measure of how a country’s economy is doing. In many respects, it’s a flawed measurement as it takes into account government spending, interest rates, borrowings, financial services etc. There are plenty of videos by qualified economists explaining this. By this measure, Xi Jin Ping is the most competent leader in the world and most of the European leaders fare among the worst. Leadership is subjective and qualitative. It’s about navigating the challenges faced and how well they are dealt with. It’s about what the population wants and expects and how these are met. It’s about how the leader is viewed on the global stage. It’s about how feared he/she is among his/her adversaries. No one fears a weak opponent. It’s only strong and competent leaders that are feared by their enemies. Imo, Putin ticks a lot of the above boxes, as does XJP.

Looks like @JBChiangRai response flew right over your head lol. Fire (not file) not found, hahahaha.

No matter how incompetent you think Putin might be, he can’t be worse than the previous two and future American presidents. America’s blundering president has emboldened the axis of evil in its quest to destroy the free world No, not from RT News. From British media, the Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/15/putin-xi-handed-terrifying-victory-by-gutless-biden/

Excellent post, well summarised. What you said is so blatantly and glaringly obvious and yet the CH-RU haters will just shout apologists! propagandists! Russia has been warning the west for years that Ukraine (and Georgia) in Nato is a redline. This has not fallen on deaf ears. In fact, this is the plan, to push and push until Russia retaliates so that they (the west, led by the US) can justify all the actions that they calculated will weaken Russia. This is the same tactic they are using on China, in this case using Taiwan. The parallels are there, supply the arms, train the army, encircle with military bases. We should be very glad that the Chinese government is made up of wise and far sighted leaders who got to their positions, not through donations from corporations and weapons manufacturers but through years of hard work and successful results. They see the situation clearly, knows exactly what the other side is trying to do and are successfully threading the line between war and peace. The sayings of Confucius and the writings of Sun Tzu are the cornerstones of this philosophy. Time is on Russia’s and China’s side. The winds of change has blown down from the Moskva to the rest of the global south and will continue to do so for many years to come.

Wow! How exciting! Brand new, the latest technology. For once, you’re right. It’s too complicated for simple folks like me. I like to K.I.S.S. Fewer moving parts, fewer things to go wrong. Common sense really, for those that have any.

The fact that Russia is aligning with China is good for world peace. Any unbiased person knows that China is not interested in wars and that it is America that is the major threat to world peace, sowing chaos and instability all over the world. America is very lucky that any land wars are unlikely to be fought in there, except maybe nuclear strikes, which is not impossible, given their desperation to hold onto an unipolar world. If China has any influence over Russia, it would be to keep the current conflict restricted to Ukraine’s land borders and not involve other states.

These homes would then be converted into affordable housing Good that the government is continually looking after the welfare of its citizens, even though homelessness is practically non-existent. Countries with large numbers of homeless would do well to learn some lessons.

Not really. Just having some fun feeding the troll lol

Hmmm… wasn’t a Nazi soldier recently celebrated and applauded in a western Parliament?

Oh, the irony…

You obviously “skipped” history lessons in school…

Clueless, as always. Just looking at headlines without realising the deeper meaning. This song encapsulate’s Neil Young’s angry indictment of society during the Bush Sr. Era, and to a lesser extent, the recently-ended Cold War. The first verse is about the narrator’s every day experiences in society, ending with how they’ve affected him. The second is him recounting one particularly disturbing example of what society has caused people to do. The third is a general criticism of the government and society as a whole. An equally apt description today, as when it was written.

+1. They are now even expressing concern that the Chinese Navy is training some Cambodian soldiers. Pathetic response. Those are not Russian talking points, they are facts. Is there any part of the world that the US is not meddling in? Rhetorical question. Answer: No.

I’ve noticed that he hardly ever posts anything of any consequence, just one liners that only he finds amusing. He also always have to have the last word, hence his almost 90k meaningless posts.

I didn’t realise so many posters here were Russians. I’m certainly not one.

Certainly a western country, most likely the one with the capability and the most to gain. If there was any suspicion that it was Russia or China or any African country, the UN wouldn’t be blocking calls for an international investigation and Denmark and Sweden wouldn’t keep their findings secret.

Islamophobic?

All this talk about propaganda, disinformation etc is really just a waste of bandwidth. Both sides engage in spreading propaganda and misinformation. When even the BBC and Mediazona reports more Ukrainian than Russian casualties over the course of the war, then I’m tempted to believe it as these are 2 pro-western organisations. Ukraine doesn’t care about how many of its soldiers die. This is obvious from their actions, throwing wave after wave of relatively untrained conscripts in Bakhmut and Avdiivka. This is evident also from the embezzlement of hundreds of millions of dollars meant for the construction of fortifications in Kharkov. Instead, the Russian army casually strolled in. The supposed fortifications one sees on a pro-Ukrainian map turned out be drawn by sharpies. Zelensky doesn’t care. He’s not even a native Ukrainian speaker. His native tongue is Russian. One of your war mongering senators doesn’t care. He’s on record for saying he will support the conflict to the last Ukrainian. Not related but he is also on record for encouraging Israel to drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza and he believes that America did the right thing by dropping 2 nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. And there are some on here that says Putin is evil. Pathetic.

It’s not ok for one side but ok for the other side? Hypocrisy, for sure. And what is your point about protests against the Foreign Agents act? The bill would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “agents of foreign influence”. I think it’s a good thing for countries to protect its own sovereignty, don’t you? It’s not dissimilar to America’s FARA Act either.