> The USSR / Russia have goodwill because they helped Africans expel the colonizers

Yeah, another way to put it is they backed friendly movements and regimes that were even more brutal and oppressive then the ones they replaced. Decades later the results speak for themselves.

As a non western person this brings to light to me how much political dialogue is influenced by “winning parties “

I never knew the extent of what Obama (and now Biden) did.

HongKongese are Cantonese people, not Chinese!

Do not let CCP propaganda fool you, Cantonese culture is rich, unique, and separate from Chinese.

The Cantonese people have their own language, customs, and food.

For example, the Cantonese are very well known for soup making, and eating exotic foods such as shark fin and rhino horns.

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Russia is also a large country to cover. They will now have to decide which front they want to patrol.

Yeah....for his own survival. The rest of the Russians survival is at risk when he decides to use nukes.

Their boarder security/police and those on a Russian passport would be my starting point.

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Do you want the collapse of every moderately disadvantaged nation? The population drain is real and only adds to growing inequality between nations. Supporting development in other nations through aid is the key, not sucking out their best.

The republicans love affair with Russia and detestation for China has always been a mindfuck for me. It’s clear that republicans support anti-democratic values and minimal human rights, so why not love both countries?

Eh. You realize there are 44 or more active volcanoes so ... earthquakes are frequently felt... plate tectonics et al... just the big ones that do damage we are told about.

I am glad to have contributed to saving your ego!

Disasters that affect every continent, along with incredible AI/robotics/vehicle innovation, are a core theme this decade it seems.

Someone claims that if it became needed they could potentially call on some people to possibly report in.

The reality is indeed tragic, a civil war over existing ethnic and religious divides, exploited by Iran, and then exploited by Saudi Arabia as an extension of the conflict between Iran and KSA.

The Yemeni people are definitely the ones losing.

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Yes. African countries are all stupid. That’s why they don’t see how the IMF‘s and WorldBank offerings are great but the Chinese investment offerings are terrible. If only they could see how China will do the exact same thing we’ve been doing for hundreds of years.

Drones are positively horrifying now. They're only going to get more insidious, tiny, and deadly.

Never. Why ? Just compare the per capita emissions of the US to china. Guess which one is more than double the other

That’s a fair point. I was watching a video on how Obama started it by supporting SA as a way to placate them. At the end of the day these people are the ones voiceless and suffering

It actually is worrying how much Russians have advanced in some parts of Africa, by "diplomacy", aka bribery.

Or they are providing it to Belarus or Iran, so they can give it to russia.

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Pot luck to stew on there.

Dr. Margret Chan (direktor? of the WHO) said 2012 that we will live very soon in a post antibiotic era..