BRICS is going after two things and it’s becoming increasingly transparent: natural resources and shipping lanes. Expect Indonesia (Malacca) and Algeria (Alboran Sea) to come soon.

If BRICS continues to expand towards natural resources, expect Kazakhstan and Bolivia. If BRICS continues to expand towards human capital, expect Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Thailand.

The world can be separated into a few cultural superblocs: Europe, the colonial West (North America, Australia, etc.), Indigenous/Latin America, the Arab World, sub-Saharan Africa, Hannafi Islam (including Turkey and Pakistan), Southeast Asia, and the blocs defined around Russia, China, and Iran.

There’s an increasing degree of separation between the first two blocs (Europe and the colonial West) and the rest, and BRICS has made significant progress towards unifying these remaining blocs:

In Latin America, there is Brazil (ex-Argentina).

In the Arab World, there is Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt.

In sub-Saharan Africa, there is Ethiopia and South Africa.

There’s a distinct lack of expansion towards the bloc represented by Hannafi Islam, but this is largely because this bloc is geopolitically dependent on the 4 BRICS countries surrounding it (Russia, China, India, Iran).

Then there is Southeast Asia, which has rather poor representation in BRICS and which MUST be corrected if BRICS seeks to unify the Global South.

For context on the drug problem in the Lower Mainland: currently it’s centered around the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. Richmond can be seen as a suburb of Vancouver (though Richmond Center is, in its own right, a thriving urban center), and most notably it’s a heavily Asian-dominated community. For a number of reasons, there are relatively few drug users in Richmond and few overdoses or deaths.

The funny thing about it is that news is no more or less truthful than it’s always been, it’s just more upfront about it. People are tribal, and they’ve been told that their tribe is flawless while the other tribe is flawed.

If you think about this for a second and apply some basic game theory, you’d realize what the natural steady state is.

Subjugation like… By applying the same standard to ethnic minorities that they do to the Han majority? People don’t realize how far affirmative action in China used to go. There were protests against it. Weibo kept exploding complaining about it.

You do realize that… The peer review process is not, inherently, robust, right?

There’s a reason different publication venues have different levels of prestige. Nature and Science? Very prestigious. The Lancet? Very prestigious. NeurIPS? Very prestigious. The Journal of Genocide Research? Not so prestigious.

Imagine fucking citing Wikipedia lmfao

Proper sourcing, friends, is important.

Inherently, naval targets are vulnerable to saturation attacks from a ground-based opponent, particularly when isolated (like the Caesar).

Australia being based for once

Isn’t this the same shit everyone was flipping out about when China did it to Filipino fishermen who were “trespassing”? At least in that case nobody died. RIP.

What’s the point of a navy when interceptors are expensive and limited while drones are cheap and limitless? While this use of resources is arguably productive in a land war, Ukraine has once again demonstrated the folly of deploying a navy against a land-based opponent.

If Ukraine can do this to Russia in Russian waters, what could China do to a US carrier group off it’s coast, thousands of kilometers from the US?

Hamas literally walked up to tanks to place explosive charges without issue.

The IDF is an absolute mess.

“We commend China’s commitment to the promotion of humanity’s common values which embrace universal and inalienable human rights,” the Ukrainian envoy said, recommending that Beijing “strengthen democracy” and “expand people’s participation in political affairs”.

Israel condemned China for its treatment of ethnic Muslims in Xinjiang while the Palestinian envoy, along with other majority Muslim countries in the Middle East, did not.

Not even the British considered Tibet to be independent lol

It’s the same concept where not even Taiwan claims they’re a sovereign and independent state: they’re the rightful government of all of China (including Mongolia).

See, when China sells weapons to Ukraine it’s just business, but when China sells broadcasting equipment to Russia it’s clearly China bad and China sponsoring Russia’s war effort.

I doubt the party has a chance of ever unseating Putin, but Putin must die eventually and they are well-positioned for that eventuality. Moreso than Navalny, who’s lack of support makes him a non-starter.

VOA propaganda lol

The ICC is toothless because the West will just ignore their decision. So is the ICJ. What’s the point?

Edit: this is per American policy. See “The Hague Invasion Act”

My only complaint is that Yemen took so long to sanction British ships