Look at China, over there building infrastructure and improving the living conditions of their citizens, menacingly.
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Their dealings with other parts of the world like Africa is coming from a place of cooperation and mutual respect; utterly barbaric!
[Narrator's Voice] purchasing oil in yuan instead of petrodollars
Capitalist fascist USA with its so-called "threat" from communist China and nukes... are we literally in the Fallout timeline? 
2077 is optimistic
certainly looking that way
What threat from china? They're just chilling.
They committed the ultimate sin, the highest crime, the most heinous act of depravity: they're not letting Wall Street pillage their economy. The empire must punish them.
I used to think that one of the worst takeaway of the Nuclear Arms race was that if you do nothing about an existential threat to humanity long enough, it will eventually go away. Now I realize the average Western leader who lived through the Cold War has decided its real meaning is that the risks of nuclear weapons don't need to be taken seriously because there's no chance they'll ever be used.
How are europeans not marching to take those ppl out of power and dismantle this shit? Arent you guys afraid of the conflict?
From what I hear from people IRL?
No. Not even because of a belief the west will win. Lots of people seemingly don't care if they die.
Lots of people seemingly don't care if they die.
"Our government and the media assures us it's worth it!"
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Generally:
- People believe the propaganda that China is doing something threatening, though I don't get what that would be.
- They lived thru the cold war so they think nothing will happen and there's no reason to worry (because apparently the reason nothing happened during the cold war was that those who were against nuclear holocaust did nothing instead of political agitation and a lot more).
- They say something like "eh they're just doing it to get reelected, besides all politicians are bad"
Plenty countries marched for it en masse decades ago. Nothing changed. Marching achieves nothing anymore, not even riots (see: French pension law).
Violent political suppression is just too strong in Europe, the people have little say anymore, even with direct action.
Like the 80s were wild. Incredible movies like threads or testament. Stay at home moms tiring themselves to military base gates and intercepting shipments and waste dumps.
None of it worked and we got so complacent when the Cold War ended. Nothing threatens them. Unions and direct action campaigns are honeypots waiting to be turned inside out.
Organize unionize strike is the power we have until the proletariat is ready for armed struggle
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The ultimate irony will be when the US starts a nuclear war and finds out most of that 50B$/yr arsenal maintenance just gets spirited away and there's only a handful that function.
I mean they haven't had much luck with testing launching the nukes, I think only one out of four actually launched?
NATO demonstrates why the solution to the Fermi Paradox is that civilisations destroy themselves before they become an interstellar civilisation.
It would be extremely funny if humans are the only ones in our Galaxy that nuke ourselves
What if humans are famous galaxy-wide as one of the most brutal species on record and we've been under an age old quarantine so total and extensive that if we learned even a fraction of the details it would make our heads spin
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Talking with a friend who's very anti china and Russia, I asked what it would take for him to think that NATO was pushing Russia to use a nuke. 'Nuclear sabre rattling' was his response. Well, here you go friend.
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Maybe China and Russia do need to first strike the West for their own protection, NATO is fucking unhinged
When I first saw that title I thought this was about Russia, then I saw that preview sentence and it's like why the heck are you pulling the nukes out on China? And why nukes? Is genocide Europe's answer to everything?
Is genocide Europe's answer to everything?
can americans just once in a while look in a mirror and see this is all the entirety of the "the west" has ever been?
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China needs to urgently reassess its no first strike policy and then number of warheads it publicly claims to have. It's rapidly becoming clear that both are seen by NATO only as a sign of weakness and not as a genuine desire for peaceful coexistence.
If NATO wages nuclear war on China then it will not stop until Chinese civilization is wiped from existence. The proportionate counter value threat to that is not China wiping out the US, or the UK, or France, but all colonial vestiges of Western civilization, irrespective of whether or not those vestigages are nominally participating in the war. 300, 600, or even 1000 warheads are clearly not sufficient to carry out this exchange.
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Who the fuck is Stoltenberg to make this decision for Europe?
I hate AfD and the other right wing parties of Europe, they’re definitely fascist and a bad thing for Europe.
But fuck man at least they don’t want nuclear war.
I’m not even asking for an actually socialist left anymore just give me some centrist socdems who aren’t willing to send us all to the wall for the sake of US imperialism. Why is even that too much to ask?
Indeed, like the bar is so low at this point that the choice between parties that want a nuclear holocaust and those that don't.
Why is even that too much to ask?
Because all the previous centrist socdems.
When you can't win the game fairly, it's time to piss in the pool everyone uses.
I fucking hate this 
love to die
lol a classic
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This link has all of them.
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It's so comforting knowing we have no agency in this. Even though it's sabre rattling
One day closer to nuclear bliss 
bro i just got not depressed, can we hold off on ending the world for like a minute
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