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Do I need to show you the history of Western meddling in elections and color revolutions and coups? Or the Western ambition towards conquering Asia? I think those are pretty well known and speak for themselves.

With that history in mind, we can’t dismiss Russia’s claims about Maidan being a Western-backed coup. Even if you don’t want to assume Russia’s side of the story is true, you’re making an additional leap by assuming the Western “conquest” narrative.

And yet you still assume that the narrative of “conquest” must be true, because of what you’ve been told by Western media.

There’s an obvious split between capitalist factions in Russia and the rest of the West.

RT serves Russian capital, not Western capital. Western media serves Western capital, but not Russian capital. Duh?

Okay, so you’re merely saying that they steal, but pretending that no one else does. That’s still Orientalism. There isn’t a powerful country in the world that isn’t engaged in industrial espionage. That’s just how industry works. It doesn’t make them scum.

In 2025 a Chinese company broke records with its innovations in perovskite-silicon tandem solar panels.

The idea that Asians are only good at making things cheap is more Orientalism. Maybe try to not be so fucking racist?

Do you think the only thing China has done is make them cheap?

Poison is something you encounter every day, too. Not poisonous animals, sure, but poisonous substances.

The idea that Asians only steal and can’t invent anything is a pretty old Orientalist trope.

Only four?

It’s the equivalent of knowing the difference between “poisonous” and “venomous”

For the vast majority of people it doesn’t matter. Maybe they learned in 8th grade, but they forgot, because it never came back up.

Now you’re just being racist. They’re learning from other technology and then innovating it further, not just copying.

And if you don’t think the other countries you listed aren’t doing the same thing, you aren’t thinking about this seriously.

China has a long history of espionage and theft to jumpstart many of their technologies someone else developed.

As they should.

Why should technology be gate-kept from less developed nations simply because they can’t afford it? That’s just a way to keep them underdeveloped, trapped in perpetual dependency on the more developed nations for so-called “intellectual property”

Someone not knowing there’s a difference between “radiation” and “radioactivity” doesn’t make them stupid.

If a crow gave me a pretty rock I would cherish it forever.

It’s less so about some arms race between countries over the technology and more to do with a difference of global opinion.

Well, yeah, if you look at the data center build-out the reason for this is obvious. The US is destroying itself trying to build as many data centers as fast as possible, every other country is taking it slow and steady. People are reacting to their material conditions.

Poor white people, they have it so hard. 😞

You either send fighters up and follow them until they leave

Then at least do that.

But they won’t even do that.

Do you really think Israel would nuke France if they grounded his plane?

Everyone who disagrees with you is a robot.

You are very smart.

The US couped the Australian government because the PM threatened to cancel the lease for the US Pine Gap facility.

That’s gotta be on lawmakers’ minds now that the US is involving itself here.