Liberals are basically a cult at this point.

Literally nobody here is making the argument that Carneys government isn’t responsible for what Trudeau’s government did in 2022. That’s just an idiotic straw man you keep trotting out to distract from the fact that there’s no consistency in the policy. Last I checked, Carney’s stance on Russia is the exact same as that of Trudeau’s government in 2022.

The only one being incorrect and intentionally dishonest here is you, as you’ve been in every single interaction I’ve had with you. You’re a deplorable troll and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself.

The fact that you still think you’ll run me out of here by clowning around really highlights the quality of your intellect. Get used to me posting here. Really looking forward to seeing more tantrums form you.

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I’m not really sure what critical areas China needs to catch up in at this point. The chips they produce are already good enough for any practical applications. It’s also worth keeping in mind that improving software is much easier than hardware. Western software stacks are incredibly bloated. For example, Huawei starting fresh with their HarmonyOS can make a much leander stack by cutting all the cruft and backwards compatibility out.

I also don’t see China being decades behind in chips. They can already make 7nm, they’re prototyping EUV machines, it’s not going to be long at this point. On top of that, China is investing into research of alternative substrates like graphene, spintronics, etc. Any one of these could make silicon look like vacuum tubes overnight if they can scale them up to mass production. There’s no new fundamental physics that need to be discovered here, we know these these things work in a lab. It’s just a matter of scaling up production. And that’s precisely where state driven development comes in.

Can you explain what this tide of reversal you’re talking about with BRI? Last I looked, the investment is record high https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3340442/china-signs-record-us213-billion-new-belt-and-road-deals-2025-report

The Epstein files are the biggest scandal the western system has faced to date in my opinion. This is bigger than stuff like Watergate because it spans multiple administrations in the US, as well as other western regimes. It’s a total indictment of the idea that there’s any sort of a democracy in the west. It’s now plain for everyone to see that the west is ruled by diabolical monsters who are accountable to no one. And this comes at a time of a rapid decline in the living standards which makes people angry and politically engaged. Things that might’ve been ignored before cannot be ignored any longer.

Finally, it seems to me that the west is headed for a massive financial crash. While people keep playing games with the numbers, it’s pretty clear that all the tangible metrics like job numbers and cost of living are doing very poorly. The only question in my mind is what the catalyst will be. It could be the coming war with Iran which might drive oil prices through the roof.

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True, they’ve dreamt of invading Iran since their regime there was overthrown.

Seems like you’re the only one with poor reading comprehension, and utter lack of critical thinking skills. Canada set a standard with Russia in 2022,/Carney is not applying the same standard to Israel today.

Let me know if you need me if that’s still too difficult for you to wrap your head around, and you need me to use smaller words.

oh look more whataboutism from my favorite lemmy troll

There might actually be a direct relationship there as well. Taiwan being the chokepoint for western chip production puts them in a perfect position to insert backdoors into all western tech. There’s a reason the US was freaking out over Huawei tech spreading in the west. The problem with it isn’t that there’s some Chinese malware in it, but rather that western agencies can’t use it for spying.

Yes is is, any class based society is a dictatorship of one class over the other. You either have capitalists or the workers in charge of society. As Anna Louise Strong puts it in This Soviet World:

Yeah it’s going to be a process. The dynamic I see is that people in the mainstream are becoming disillusioned as they see their standard of living continuing to decline while also watching the elites being completely unaccountable. As they fall out of the liberal mainstream, they become open to entertaining new ideas, and that’s where people on the left have to step in to help guide their understanding.

It’s kind of sad how even the far right holds their leaders to a higher standards than libs do with theirs. Liberals are truly a cult at this point.

whatever you say baby Goebbels

I think a lot of it comes down to the foundational mythology of the US. The whole shining city on a hill, the idea of American exceptionalism, and the reverence for the Constitution are all designed to cultivate the belief that the US is the Platonic ideal of human society, and that nothing better is possible.

So when people see the social contract start to fray, their gut reaction isn’t to question the system itself. Instead, they look for nefarious outside agents who are trying to undermine the perfect society the US is supposed to be. That’s why the narrative of Trump being a Russian puppet was so popular. It’s easier for people to accept that he’s an agent of a hostile nation hellbent on destroying America out of envy, than to see him for what he is: an opportunist who is a direct product of the system unraveling from within.

There’s no single report summing this up, but here are a few article discussing European dependence on US arms exports

• https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2025-03/arms-imports-soaring-in-europe-sipri-think-tank-says.html
• https://en.hespress.com/105384-report-european-militaries-reach-60-reliance-on-us-weapons.html?print
• https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/europes-dependence-on-us-arms-rose-in-last-five-years-says-report/article69311997.ece
• https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2025/sipri-top-100-arms-producers-see-combined-revenues-surge-states-rush-modernize-and-expand-arsenals

The problem that Europe has is lack of access to cheap energy. They’re now pretty entirely reliant on expensive LNG from the US, and industries things steel production, essential to the military, are incredibly expensive as a result.

That seems to be the dominant faction in the US right now for sure.

I’d argue both of these things are true. The people making profit off the war want to keep making money, and people who want to consolidate resources for strategic purposes like destroying Iran want to end it. You have to keep in mind that the US is not a hivemind with a common purpose. There are many different groups all pulling things in different directions based on their own interests.

The difference is that nazis in Ukraine are literally the ruling party in the government and in control of the military with elite openly fascist battalions like Azov. Last I checked this isn’t the case in Russia, but certainly is becoming openly the case in the US. Hence I guess why western fascists feel such deep kinship with the Ukrainian ones. Y’all have shared values.

ah yes this fascist movement you’re cheering for being an open fascist that you are?

• https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4440100
• https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/evidence-of-us-backed-coup-in-kiev/
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/us-imperialism-and-the-ukraine-coup/

Clearly, a fascist regime that suppresses rights of minorities, bans all opposition, jails people with opposing views, gets rid of independent media, and then cancels elections is the pinnacle of democracy.