Pfft, I am more of a realpolitik supporter internationally with moderately libertarian and ethno-nationalist and utilitarian views.
Huntington and Kissinger and Hobbes are a fsr cry from Trotski.
So are Heinlein and Moldbug and AA.
Ah, so basically a little of everything to cover whatever you feel like arguing at the moment.
Standard boogieman searching from some of the more bellicose parts of the right.
I can not say I actually like those countries aside from Russia.
Yes, many aspects of their regimes suck, but guess what, them fighting a was with Muh West is something they use for propaganda purposes and some of our so called allies are just as bad. Like the Saudis and other loonie rooms gulf islamists.
Only retards would base their foreign policy on what the countries they don't like can possibly use for propaganda purposes and then not doing any of that (answer: they will use absolutely anything, and if they struggle, they will make something up, it's not like their serfs will know any better).
As far as whining about some allies and frenemies (more frenemies tbh) goes (also domain of certain political factions more than others), the saying goes, don't ask if they are bastards, ask if they are our bastards.
China as the big boogie man?
Hardly, they spend a hell of a lot on internal security and internal propaganda than they do on external stuff and their military.
They certainly don't have much of a desire to spread muh communism globally, their population is graying fast and they have the mother of all demographic and malinvestment crisies.
The commie party is basically the latest in a long line of highly bureaucratized dynasties that pays lots of lip service to their alleged ideology.
They are also afraid of having their legitimacy challenged, and Taiwan is a potential challenge.
Hey, there was another kind of socialist that was not interested in spreading his brand of socialism globally, yet he ended up being a huge pain in the ass to half the continent too.
As any socialists he also was a big fan of voodoo economics and bureaucracy.
Ideology or not, China has very clear ambitions of playing superpower, and it will do it for the satisfaction and benefit of CCP leadership, at the expense of everyone else it can get an upper hand over.
Besides the issue of Taiwan itself, once that's resolved in a way positive to them, on a high of victory in particular there's no way they will leave the rest of the region alone, including major western economic partners (in light of the topic, possibly soon not just major, but absolutely crucial) like Japan and South Korea, nevermind weaker, easier to swallow fish like Philippines and the rest of SEA states.
Furthermore, the west has done it's fair share of interference in the sovereign affairs of multiple countries, so, if you live on a glass house you should not be throwing stones and that has been going on for centuries and still continues.
Crimea river. States "interfere in the affairs of multiple states" since... well hard to say, certainly for as long as states and diplomacy between them exist. Either way, it started somewhere in the
ancient history, not centuries but millennia ago, and everyone and their dog does that since then, and probably will be for as long as such a thing as states exists.
Trying to make an argument on that basis is an insult to someone's intelligence, either your own if you believe it, or mine if you hoped i'll take it as a serious argument.
Great job falling for bureaucrat bullshit and lefty propaganda.
Fun fact, Syria is a third world shithole, doesn't have fancy biometric passports, and euroliberals aren't going to trust the government's word (and for good reasons), so, forgery hooray!
With border agencies struggling to cope, you can buy fake ID similar to that found at the Stade de France for as little as $250
www.theguardian.com
Any third worlder who speaks Arabic- even if bad Arabic, average EU bureaucrat won't know nor care, and remember many Muslims learn some Arabic just for religious purposes, has 250 bucks and can memorize a sob story (there are whole internet forums to help) could have become a Syrian "good enough for bureaucratic purposes " - and since euroliberals made it clear that Syrians as opposed to random third worlders get near perfect chances of successful asylum claim, there's a motivation for them to study. That is if the bureaucrat even care to make the basic checks, some more "no borders, no nations, no deportations" chanting bureaucrats will even handwave through Bengali Syrians who don't speak a word of Arabic and Somali Syrians with suspiciously dark skin (don't be racist!). Even the liberal guardianistas and merkelites realized it in 2015, yet you are 9 years behind them, because it serves your pet peeve of shitting on neocons if nothing else.
German customs officers seize packages containing Syrian passports amid reports that a black market in the documents is developing.
www.bbc.com
Migrants from countries like Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan and Tunisia pretending to be Syrian refugees ditch their passports and shell out big money in Turkey to…
nationalpost.com
For comparison, something less rife with application scammery, based on stated origin on arrival, rather than legalese in asylum application, and after the forgery and Syria virtue signalling got a bit curtailed:
Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 15,289 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea through the first 95 days of 2018, with about 44 per cent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided between Greece (33%) Spain (23%) and Cyprus (less than 1%). This compares with 31,060...
www.iom.int
So with Italy being the top boat people country for EU in these 2 years, Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria don't even manage to get into the top of the list, it's all Subsaharan Africa, Arabs who don't even have wars, and special honors for Bangladesh and Pakistan, that's fucking far away and no excuse.
Basically any shithole country that western leaders will declare that its citizens will get free western bleeding heart welcome is bound to see a huge rise in asylum seekers, some with real some with fake origin there, with all sorts of more and less credible sob stories for why they deserve a free migration pass with side benefits worth a 5-6 digit USD sum, no "muh western intervention" needed.
Why such huge smuggler network for muh western intervention countries?
Neocons are a bunch of grifting Trotskyists and other assorted flotsom from all over eastern Europe that ended in the USA, they are either pushing some form of liberal hegemony, which is just as dumb as global communism, or grinding some old family axe, like a certain Mr. Brezinski and a certain Mrs. Nuland, all the whole leeching money from the MIC.
I don't give a fuck about neocons, and i won't start simping Russia, China and Iran just to spite them or more like their ghosts and a bunch of senile retirees who are about to join the former, it's not 2005 anymore.
You are poking the bear obsessively, it will poke back, and your friends decide if is not worth it to help you if your excessive bellicosity brought it about and/or damaged their interests.
Take this russophilic great power spiel and return it where it belongs, beyond Ural mountains. That's something it seems we cannot see eye to eye on. NATO exists mostly to make sure that the bear doesn't get to throw its weight around with whining about provocations, "excessive bellicosity" and other bullshit like that, if the bear wants to make the argument that might makes right, then it should be the one to back down from superpowers like USA, not to mention whole NATO, which could be considered a hyperpower alliance. If the bear doesn't stop poking them and stay in its cold, dark cave, it may end up as someone's carpet or wall ornament.
For the record, I do not want any form of involuntary Pan-Slavism or Eurasianism that includes you.
You are not orthodox, you despise the superior Slavic alphabet, you have never had any cultural influence from Byzantium.
Well there's no voluntary form with Russia involved, take that as you will.
To me Poles do not fit in the east at all, Russia was on the wrong to try and make you be more like it culturally and the partition was not something one Slavic country should do to another.
However, the partition was all absolute monarch level 18 century power politics, and the person that was responsible for it wasn't even Russian but German.
Like it or not, Russia is not concerned about what Slavic countries can do to one another, Russia was always concerned what it can join into its empire, and having the creativity to find an excuse for doing it (the latter is never the hard part, just a little creativity is needed).
The USSR was also a disaster, but Putin is neither Catherine nor Stalin, and the power balance is far less favorable.
Unfortunately for him. Which is why he's stuck on Ukraine now.
You called me a communist first!
Now, I will admit, our shitty relationship was in part my doing, bit that does not mean you didn't provide your share of nasty provocations and that you don't have an awful debating style, and ther eis thst need of yours to always get the last word in and to browbeat the opposition.
I'd be happy to bury the hatchet and stay away you if you do likewise.
You regurgitated lefty foreign policy hot takes at me like here probably, so stop stealing commie's talking points if you don't want to be mistaken for one, steal them from someone smarter if you have to, you seem to even know where to look, i don't know why you don't.
We can bury the hatchet, but provocations are made in the judgement of the provoked, there is no limit what people can spin into considering as one, both in international politics and forum one, so throwing this term is something that will get it thrown back at you for no gain.
