I’ve read that it’s probably more than that. That alot of the trusted partners that provide Europe with fossil fuels, likely get it second-hand from Russia, and just slap their own countries’ labels on it.

Though that might be for fossil fuels in general, rather than just LNG.

I feel like you’re very accurate, regardless

I like to think/hope that the Amerikkkan negotiators are slightly more intelligent than that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were that stupid.

“Exploitation is okay, because anyone can be your slave owner!”

I’ll take that as a yes.

You’re projecting and strawmanning

Deepthroat that boot, colonizer

Leopold would like a word with you.

I’m not reading your word salad.

The fucking tanks stopped, both at Tinyman and at Hungary, you stupid ass cracker. Unlike tanks in the U.S. or Neoliberal Europe, that actually run over people.

Cracker isn’t a slur, it’s an accurate description, an attack on your character.

You denying Tankie is a racial slur just further proves my point.

Does pure germ theory disgust you too? Does the pure scientific method baffle your simple mind?

China is so against Islam that for decades it has specifically acted to protect and preserve religious and ethnic cultures with the permission of village people and elders, and for over a decade plus has refused to blame Islam for separatist and terrorist attacks, and instead righfully blames foreign interference and religious extremism/fundamentalism, rather than Islam itself.

China hates Islam so much that the government bans anti-Islamic and anti-Uyghur racial slurs and sentiment, criminalizes language and actions that threaten to deny Uyghur identity as being part of China. China hates muslims so much that muslim-related minority groups for decades had been exempt from child restriction policies. China hates muslims so much that government spends untold billions of dollars preserving their cultural practices, customs and beliefs.

China hates muslims so much that they spent billions creating up-to date mosques with air conditioning and safer architecture.

Most rational people can and should argue that it’s not dystopian to block out trash and garbage. The real dystopia is having a global dictatorship that provides funding, support, weapons, and government mouthpieces that drowns out actual truth in a tsunami of horseshit, to psychologically abuse and gaslight the vast majority of a planet’s population. Especially when that nation has practically the entire world in a choking vice grip, and has done almost nothing beneficial for humanity, at least not without strings attached, and has invaded, sanctioned, couped and stalled human societal progress for centuries, and has the fucking gall to think of itself as the shining city on a hill, while completely misunderstanding the original meaning behind that phrase.

The only infestation here is your racism and bootlickery of the west. You capitalist bootlickers are without a shadow of a doubt the most stupid, heartless, sociopathic people on the entire planet, you are in the same league as pedophiles, rapists, and murderers. You constantly prattle on about stupid horseshit regurgitated from the global capitalist Amerikkkan neocolonialist hegemonic fascist legitimately Orwellian “news” networks that are almost all affiliated with the U.S, with nothing even close to resembling empathy or an actual original thought.

“Tankie” is a racial slur, used to demean Marxists (most of which are people of color) for daring to have a spine, a heart, empathy, and not believing everything they read from Cracker News Network.

“But muh Russian propaganda!”

I think the U.S. allowed the Falklands conflict because Britain is one of the U.S.'s best allies and they share the same interests.

Just like the U.S., alot of Bri’t’ish people have no goddamn spine or empathy. They love the fascism and dread.

I think that while improvement is always possible, I think that the Communist Party of China is nearly perfect. They have a very strong work ethic and goals and are willing to take and adjust ideas from everyone, while still having resolute ideals, and the party self-corrects to root out neoliberalism. I think that liberalism is kept at a distant reach in China, from my years of study. Not discarded or dismissed, but kept at a distance.

It pisses me off that Russia elevates often reich-wing figures and concepts as well.

I think that in terms of economic superstructure, Russia is definitely moving in the right direction. It’s socially/politically speaking that concerns me.

I know what it’s like to be a skeptical person, for what it’s worth.

I hate Putin and I think he is definitely a dictator, but he is also Russia’s best option for now.

I didn’t mean to sound like an asshole, and I’m sorry if I did.

You have very good and reasonable points.

I also agree that while Russia is and very likely will remain a strong friend of China, Russia is probably closer to being a fair-weather friend more than not.

Yet, I think that people are way too skeptical of Russia.

I’m not saying to not be skeptical or to not prepare or plan for if Russia decides to turn against China, or to not prepare for the worst.

But I think that if Russia were to become imperialist, or was secretly hiding it’s goals for decades straight, which is unlikely, it would have done so by now.

Russia for decades has been building mutually beneficial relationships with the rest of the Global South, no doubt following China’s example as well.

And there is no doubt that the Russian government is a far-right shithole cluster, just way more reasonable than the first world imperialist colonialist fascist west.

Elements of socialism are slowly returning to Russia and I’ve read that people are beginning to agitate for the eventual return of socialism and hopefully the overthrow of the oligarchy.

It’s in the Russian oligarch’s best interests to follow Putin’s and China’s leads. It would be incredibly stupid for the oligarchs to betray Russia now, at least without years and years of promises and schmoozing that haven’t started yet, and they would face mass resistance from the Russian populace.

Putin is just one man, and he is a dictator, but he and his administration and supporters somewhat keep the oligarchs in line.

I think you’re extremely delusional if you think there is more than a 0.01 percent chance of Russia accepting the U.S.'s offer to turn on China. And that’s me being polite. I can’t fault you for thinking that though.

The veneer of democracy in this country is over, for most rational people. Get out while you can.

I don’t think birthright citizenship would be the be-all-end-all moment you think it is, and I’m skeptical anymore that there will be any one single “oh shit, we crossed the Rubicon” moment for the U.S. Empire.

I don’t like to make a big deal about my race, but if it helps, I’m Latino, and being an Amerikkkan citizen, I feel like a Jew hiding from the nazis right now.

For me personally, the extremely thin veneer of democracy that the U.S. used to have, is now over. After Trump pushed through the executive order that basically makes him and the executive branch more powerful than a fucking king, I considered this country dead.

There is no fucking way that Russia will be schmoozed by the U.S. That ship sailed fucking years ago.