Don't get me wrong. I'm still reading, and a lot left, but the more I learn the more I'm convinced of this.

Some Russian statists thinks they're descendants of both the Mongol and Roman empires, and that plays out in their endless Imperialist expansion efforts.

My take is that Mao was a hero and one of my favorite revolutionary leaders in his youth, and all that problematic shit that happened later on is pretty much a direct result of stalinism infecting the Chinese communist movement

He wasn't socialist, but I mean come on neither was Stalin. Guy was a state capitalist imperialist who colonized eastern Europe and Central Asia.

He then lied to the Chinese about lysenkoism and imo is responsible for the ensuing famine

Russia is the perfect scapegoat because, well, I mean *they are* blackmailing him and it's been obvious AF to anyone with eyes

They've freely stated they're"at war with NATO". We just haven't shown up to the battlefield yet with any actual force. We're treating it like Poland and Japan in WW2.

@coolzonemedia.bsky.social does hood politics if you want news but honestly you can just bail from always keeping up with the news

I miss the quiet times

They didn't have as much juice until Stalin came around. I'm very familiar with the first red scare, but we survived that and got the most socialist and successful president ever only ~15 years past what we call the first red scare

I didn't know until today he settled 2 cases against little boys for millions. Blew my mind.

*aggressor

It's first time vs all homebuyers iirc

40 is median *first time*, 59 is median *overall*, which includes like retirees downsizing and all which is normal and good

The question is did a sitting president have a political liability assassinated while in federal custody.

THAT IS THE QUESTION!!!

And I think we all kinda know he did.

Yup, and Pol Pot even attacked first!

Vietnam was never the agreeable in those wars (even with France imo as colonialism is inherently an aggressor move)