The people turn to extremists when reasonable politicians can no longer provide stability or economic prosperity.

In the same vein, people will ignore major problems if there is economic prosperity.

Credit to @PAstynome for the last one.
@PAstynome We may laugh at people like Hong Xiuquan. Especially his beliefs and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

But its that promise of stability and prosperity, regardless of problems that draws people in. Reality doesn't matter, so long as food and jobs exist.
@PAstynome Economic prosperity is often the mask for hidden problems. That really don't get looked at until things go really bad.

The average citizen doesn't really look at that. They blame the last ruler or bureaucrats before times went bad. To wash their hands of responsibility.
The collapse, decline, and fall of nations, lies in the hands of the citizens. With the government and society being the last to fall.

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Feb 24
Multi-ethnic empires either rule in three ways: suppression, acceptance, or assimilation of their ethnic groups. Or a combination of the three.
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Suppression. The empire destroys the identity of their ethnic groups to force uniformity. This can range from cultural genocide to exclusion. The goal remains the same- destruction.

In no circumstance is the ethnic groups permitted to express themselves. Image
Acceptance. The empire accepts the identity of their ethnic groups on conditional terms. They must speak the national language and follow the laws.And participate in the society.

But otherwise their language and customs are left alone. Image
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This level of commentary really tells you how badly "fake it till you make it" mentality has rotted everything.

We live in a golden age of fraud. Geopolitics, tech, and business.
It shows really the lack of education the average American lives in now. The complete ideological bubble they live in. Which is both self created and deliberate.

History no longer matters. Or subtelty. Only sentemental cope.
Its childish fantasy where its kindergarten and simple ideas of good and evil. And if only if everyone was like themselves, all would be right in the world.

Its total utter delusional thinking. And it keeps show itself.
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The only winner of the Ukraine War, is the USA. They debt trap the Europeans. Make money from the reconstruction.

Its not the EU. Or UK. Its certainly not the Ukraine. And its not gonna be Russia. Even if there's a settlement. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The economy was hurt by covid. The relief funds, the loss of labor force, less productive people, etc. Instead of focusing on domestic concerns?

They printed money. And decided to start more wars. To boost the defense industry. Again.
Taiwan also needs to wake the fuck up. They're not really looking at the Ukraine War hard enough. The point isn't to win a war.

The point is to generate revenue from a war. By drawing it out. They'll do it to the last Taiwanese or Ukranian.

While spouting unserious reddit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The 542nd is an Armored Brigade and 333rd is a Mechanized Infantry Brigade. A joint battalion has people from the Navy, Air Force, and Army.

It suggests that the ROC military is trying to upgrade its command and control, and combined arms capacity. Image
The command and control is something the ROC has really struggled with. Many of their equipment, including tanks and ships are outdated. Not to mention the officer corps is mostly reservists.

This seems to be an attempt by the US and the ROC to upgrade its dated doctrine.
The presence of the armored and mechanized brigades is also a hint. The US Army Armored School is most likely will be training officers in armored doctrine using the M1A2T. Which is a Taiwan version.

The first of these 108 tanks were delivered in June 2022. Image
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Its become more common the last few years.
In Asia, the math textbooks language is bery clear. The problems are hard. You have to spend a lot of time trying to learn the concept to solve.

The US is the otherway around. It focuses on looking hard, but the problems are usually simple.
And we hiring managers do see it. It goes even into the CS and data space too. Lots of natives born after 1990s (esp 2000s) struggle with this math and its CS applications.

It doesn't help colleges are passing these people on a curve either. Or using these nutter text books.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The extremist visions of the Gang of Four especially Jiang Qing would've left China in a state that Gordon Chang tries to predict.

Let me repeat. There is no virtue in poverty. All virtue and decency disappears with poverty.
I detest the ultras here for worshipping it. Let me tell you what poverty brings. Human trafficking. Drug abuse. Disease. Death. Crime.

Virtue and decency are the first to disappear. So you can survive.
My relatives survived the Famine of 1943. It caused exteme poverty. They put it bluntly: Those who stole, prostituted themselves, and cheated survived. Those who were generous and kind died first.

This is what poverty brings. Not virtue.
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