The only good "The West" has ever produced is Bach, and I would kill Bach a trillion times if that was the sacrifice required for "The West" to be destroyed.
Some Chinese opera is pretty great. This is from the Long March song cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh63s2jyRXU
Yeah Germany just applied colonialism to Eastern Europe which is Not Allowed. Germany previously committed genocide in its African colony of Namibia against the Herero and Nama peoples in the early 20th century and nobody gives a shit.
If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, landlords and financiers.
Still rings true, just replace English with the Americans
I mean Ireland's entire economy is based around letting US companies avoid taxes in the EU, so there's quite a bit the United States could do to fuck that up.
Combination of Ireland finally tacking to the right on immigration which Sinn Fein is not willing to entertain and this:
Sinn Fein’s problems have been compounded by scandals including a lawmaker who quit over the party’s handling of a complaint of harrassment against him, how it dealt with a senator who inappropriately texted a teenager, and controversy surrounding staff who gave job references to a former colleague under investigation for child sex offences.
That's exactly what has happened. Sinn Fein is basically imploding at exactly the moment where they had a decent shot at actually winning an election for the first time ever. Irish politics for the last century has been the ruling party switching from a centre right wing party to the exact same centre right party with a different name.
Nah unfortunately that match is being held at a "neutral venue" that has yet to be decided because UEFA realised if Maccabi ultras were allowed to run up against Çarşı (the ultras of Beşiktaş) they would straight up get killed.
Furthermore, in October 2024, the EU and G7 partners agreed to collectively provide loans of $50 billion to support Ukraine's urgent budgetary, military and reconstruction needs, financed by extraordinary revenues from immobilized Russian sovereign assets. The EU will contribute with $20 billion.
In July 2024, the EU made available the first $1.6 billion generated from immobilized Russian assets, of which $1.5 billion was channeled through the European Peace Facility for military support and $109 million through the Ukraine Facility for energy support.
I have to imagine it's the latter. Trump is the deals guy, he knows how negotiation is supposed to go if nothing else. He loves dealmaking just for the love of the game, even he's not stupid enough to start with his best offer.
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Settler colonialism in the New World was absolutely different than the migration of people's prior. Never before did a people come to a land and entirely exterminate a populace through mass slave labour and disease within a single generation (see the Taino genocide).
Half a century to entirely destroy a people. That's unprecedented. Usually there's intermarriage, intermingling, etc. Briton is a mix of all those peoples, the Anatolians didn't wipe out the original Britons but intermarried and stuff. Not so with New World settler colonialism.
EDIT: Agreed with your overall point about West Eurasian backwater though. A great book that covers this reality is The Great Divergence by Pomeranz. His conclusions aren't great, but demonstrates that the conditions of European industrialism were also present in (for example) Song dynasty China.