Skiluros

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[–] Skiluros 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Skiluros 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is false. In case of Sri Lanka, they did take the port back and arguably the whole thing was setup since the economic viability of the port is suspect.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html

You're either ignorant or a demagogue.

[–] Skiluros 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The American government (I think that's what you are referencing when using the term CIA) has done a lot of very bad things. I don't they've done anything as bad as the concentration camps and cultural genocide in Xinjiang (in the last ~100 years).

IMF can actually be flexible in some situations and there is measure of accountability. Chinese loans are managed by the CCP; an authoritarian criminal group.

[–] Skiluros 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They are not better than the IMF or more ethical than the CIA. They are most likely far worse.

[–] Skiluros 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

Don't be naive. If it benefits China, they would be more than happy to grind people to "cash powder".

[–] Skiluros 48 points 3 days ago (6 children)

50% decline is honestly still too low.

[–] Skiluros 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Not really, no.

There is definitely an above average amount people spreading russian propaganda considering the modest size (55K MAU).

Lemmy seems like the most viable alternative to US-based social networks. Hopefully it gets larger and outgrows its tankie roots.

[–] Skiluros 10 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Yeah, tankies are the definitely the most pathetic and disconnected from reality.

I would even go as far as saying it's mostly online roleplay (bored teenagers, internet demagogue-shitposters and the mentally ill).

And it's a not matter of me talking shit about them and hating (I am Ukrainian so I do actually hate them). They have zero presence in the real world and no one takes them seriously.

Russians treat them as useful idiots, I don't know Chinese (and I've never loved in China), but I will speculate that even Chinese nationalists don't take them seriously.

[–] Skiluros 10 points 6 days ago

This was a really rough attack.

Europe needs to understand that if you want progress, they need to help us strike military sites in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Set a target of 50 ballistic missile strikes a week.

This is how you get the russians to negotiate. Another option would be blocking of access to the Baltic and see and near complete blockade of Kaliningrad.

[–] Skiluros 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (14 children)

Funny stuff. Especially considering how tankies go ballistic with execution fantasies. I have personally seen one tankie fantasize about killing a non-tankie (that they were having discussing with) with an ice pick and generally behave like disgusting degenerates.

[–] Skiluros 1 points 1 week ago

It depends on your view of ethics.

Exactly! If you have a superficial view of ethics that does not account for reality, you will have a very simplistic view. If you are willing to look at what is actually happening on the ground, you will have a more sophisticated understanding of ethics that goes beyond theatrics.

The issue of collaboration is very a complex topic. There are many cases where low level collaboration (if motivated by factors other than support for russian genocidal imperialism) should likely be dealt with a simple affidavit requiring the individual to confirm that should ideological motivation for collaboration be identified at future date, they will have problems.

With Portnov, there is no complexity. It is a clear cut case. Open and committed treason and support for russian genocidal imperialism.

When you are a smaller country fighting for centuries against a brutal genocidal imperialist population, you need to act in a manner that greatly reduces the incentives for high level collaboration.

[–] Skiluros 5 points 1 week ago

You're clearly trolling

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37536459

Exclusive: Ukraine considers shift from dollar to euro amid geopolitical realignments

Ukraine is starting to consider a shift away from the U.S. dollar, possibly linking its currency more closely to the euro amid the splintering of global trade and its growing ties to Europe, Central Bank Governor Andriy Pyshnyi told Reuters.

Potential accession to the European Union, a "strengthening of the EU's role in ensuring our defense capabilities, greater volatility in global markets, and the probability of global-trade fragmentation," are forcing the central bank to review whether the euro should be the reference currency for Ukraine's hryvnia instead of the dollar, Pyshnyi said in emailed remarks.

 

A senior Russian official reiterated Russian President Vladimir Putin's insistence that negotiations with Ukraine must be based on the same uncompromising demands he made before the full-scale invasion and at the moment of Russia's greatest territorial gains, despite the fact that Ukraine has liberated a significant amount of territory since then. Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko stated on December 24 that Russia is open to compromise in negotiations with Ukraine, but that Russia will strictly adhere to the conditions that it laid out during negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022, when Russian troops were advancing on Kyiv and throughout eastern and southern Ukraine.[1] Matviyenko added that Russia would not deviate from these conditions by "one iota."[2] The partial agreement that emerged during the Ukraine-Russia negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022 stated that Ukraine would be a permanently neutral state that could not join NATO, and imposed limitations on the Ukrainian military similar to those imposed by the Treaty of Versailles on Germany after World War I, restricting Ukraine's Armed Forces to 85,000 soldiers.[3] Russia's demands at Istanbul were mainly more detailed versions of the demands that Putin made in the months before he launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022, including Ukraine's "demilitarization" and neutrality.[4] Matviyenko is reiterating Putin's demand from his annual Direct Line televised press conference on December 19, and more senior Russian officials are likely to make similar claims to domestic and foreign audiences in coming weeks.[5] ISW continues to assess that senior Russian officials' references to conditions Putin attempted to impose on Ukraine when he believed his full-scale invasion could succeed in a few days in 2022 reflects his projected confidence that he can completely defeat Ukraine militarily despite the tremendous setbacks Ukraine has inflicted on Russian forces since then.

 

The insurgents claimed on their Military Operations Department channel on the Telegram app Thursday that they have entered Hama and are marching toward its center.

“Our forces are taking positions inside the city of Hama,” the channel quoted a local commander identified as Maj. Hassan Abdul-Ghani as saying.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said gunmen have entered parts of the city, mainly the neighborhoods of Sawaaeq and Zahiriyeh to the northwest. It added that gunmen are also on the edge of the northwestern neighborhood of Kazo.

“If Hama falls, it means that the beginning of the regime’s fall has started,” the Observatory’s chief, Rami Abdurrahman, told The Associated Press.

Hama is a major intersection point in Syria that links that country’s center with the north as well the east and the west. It is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital, Damascus, Assad’s seat of power. Hama province also borders the coastal province of Latakia, a main base of popular support for Assad.

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