oh i'm sorry you don't agree with the primary conclusion of the source you yourself provided
ironic that you also accuse me of cherry picking when you responded to half of what i said and left the rest
you could just spend your time to learn to paste links into an archive instead making a clown of yourself in public
looks like the wank bank comment touched a nerve 👀 👀 👀
also crazy that you just admitted to having an archival system for arguing with strangers on the internet my guy torture wouldn't have got that out of me
honestly if you're good enough at fucking to fuck your way into one of the most powerful positions on the planet, while also having some kind of built in ability to go manchurian candidate super-politician if there's a bluetooth speaker within a 10 foot radius, i think you should have it
it's astounding how balls deep you are in this without for one moment accidentally managing to do any critical thinking
The results show that Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) sets in motion a process of transformation in the local economy that damages local competitors but – at the same time – benefits local suppliers to the new Chinese firms as well as their local clients.
so it destroys the local economy, save for businesses now irrevocably economically tied to china?
if you can't see how this mirrors colonialism, or how "development" being defined as it is here also means that colonialism improves development, you might need to slow down on the koolaid
also you kept this one in your wank bank for so long some of your links are dead, so you might want to fix it
"You've already lost the argument, for I have depicted you as the baby having mommy milky time"
???
yeah it's what i use, but if i was happy with less than perfection i'd be using volume in the first place
isn't convection electric treated as an exciting new technology over there?
the us just spent a lot of money picking a new assault rifle specifically because they wanted one that could actually penetrate kevlar now that russia and china are issuing it to their troops
well, i guess maybe china is issuing it to their troops
no thank you give me the measurement in weight so i can have a digital read on it and not have to use my disgusting human eyeball to estimate
also so that i don't have to re-wash and dry my one measuring spoon 5 times
alright you get one more, then i kind of need to stop wasting my time with you unless you get more entertaining quickly
it's the Russian equivalent, you say, except the power dynamic is entirely different and CSTO isn't expanding. Interesting.
because nobody wants to join the alliance run by the country most likely to invade you? "russia is too disliked for their alliance to be popular" or "russia is too incompetent to run an effective alliance" is an incredible argument
why don't we ask azerbaijan and armenia how their membership is going if you're confused as to why csto is unpopular?
Export of Industrial and Financial Capital to exploited Countries to super-exploit for super-profits, like an international Capitalistic relation.
ohhhhhhh so you mean like sending in pmcs to countries in africa? or setting up debt traps for countries in africa?
I have explained how and why, your refusal to read is no longer my problem.
Quite the contrary, your selective reading and blinders mean you can't be reached with words.
literally nothing you've said has justified nato behaving in an imperialist way, other than your definition of imperialism, which includes russia and china, so good job
to paraphrase you, "membership expansion isn't imperialism", which is the only thing you've been arguing over, which is wild when the thing you're meant to be justifying is that "nato is a protection racket".
i don't think you know what a protection racket is
So then why bring it up?
because it's the closest equivalent to nato? the us also wouldn't be allowed to join brics, if that helps de-confuse you.
Invasion and Imperialism are not the same thing.
please provide a definition for imperialism that doesn't include what russia's doing in ukraine now
This kinda verges on anti-Russian racism, there's no analysis of why you believe this.
says the one who's just been continuously stating without expounding that nato is a collection of spooky imperialist powers
You indeed do not know.
The GDR indeed purged Nazis, as they were attacked by western Germany, which largely retained its Nazis.
or don't respond to what i posted that's cool too i guess
i think it's pretty clear you don't have much of an argument here, given that this started as "nato is a protection racket" and across 6 replies you've provided absolutely nothing to support that statement past whinging
peace
Has the US been denied entry into CSTO? Has the CSTO expanded against the will of NATO?
i don't think nato cares about csto
It's NATO's fault for consisting of the absolutely most grotesque reaches of Imperialist countries
russia is literally doing an imperialism right now, but nato is the one with grotesque reaches, okay
Bzzzt wrong. NATO has been expanding long before.
lmao because nato predates russia
and russia started getting into iffy wars basically at its inception
When and why did Russia start "misbehavin?"
probably because they're an imperialist power? i don't know
East-Germany purged Nazis
NATO was formed to be anti-USSR, after the collapse of which the Russian Federation tried to join NATO, and was denied.
in the same way the us wouldn't be allowed to join csto
The RF then complained about NATO expansion, which had not ceased.
i don't see how it's nato's fault that people are so sick of russia's shit that they're signing up to the defensive alliance against them in their droves
it was provoked by NATO expansion
nato expansion that existed because of russian land grabs
nato isn't the warsaw pact. they aren't sending in tanks to force people to be a part of their alliance.
this is just you doing the thing you accused me of doing by refusing to consider externalities
NATO didn't start after 2022
russia didn't start misbehavin' after 2022 either
many of its leaders were Nazi officers
east germany was part of the warsaw pact, and had plenty of ex-nazis in its ranks
the reason you can't draw a line from that to today is because the ussr folded like a cheap suit 30 years ago
it has always been a way to exert Western supremacy
you're just kind of saying things now
in this case the external pressure is a rogue state doing a cheeky land grab on its neighbor
i'm not sure why that's nato's fault, although i'm very excited that you're about to tell me
no it isn't, and also, it's rent-seeking by having countries ask to join? yes this makes sense
even if that was an accurate description of nato, that's not an accurate description of a protection racket
Essentially, NATO serves as a protection racket
what
I can say with reasonably certainty that if other polls match their results, which they do, then the MOE is meaningless
no that isn't how statistics works
Their own data says otherwise.
if you look at only their own data then no, there was a statistically negligible increase
so if a net change between the two is within the margin of error, you can't state with confidence that it's an increase and not just random noise