If the US gets pushed out of West Asia, I think we’ll see peace and stability in the region emerge very quickly.

If scientists didn’t come to burgerland from the rest of the world then you’d all still be banging rocks together.

Nah, China closed the gap long before people started fleeing the turd reich. The whole reason people go back to China now is the fact that it’s now ahead scientifically and technologically.

Somehow I doubt they’re eager to experience a repeat of Manchuria in 1945.

Always important to remind people that none of these problems existed until the US attacked Iran completely unprovoked.

Are there cases of fascists treating others well that you’re aware of?

Sure, but I’d argue good journalism doesn’t have much to do with having a bias. It’s perfectly possible for somebody to write good investigative journalism while having a particular bias. So, it’s not so much about the bias itself, but rather their ability to present the facts, to explain the relationships between the events, and to paint a broader context for the story.

What I think your actual concern might be is regarding deceptive reporting where people try to paint things as something other than what they really are.

Sure, but I don’t find it matters that much when you’re aware of the fact that people have biases as a reader. You can read news from any source and understand the slant of the publication. In fact, it can often be informative to read sources with known biases because the framing itself is informative. For example, you need to read the Wall Street Journal because it is the mouthpiece of the ruling class. It tells you exactly what capital is thinking, what they are afraid of, and how they are strategizing to protect their interests.

The reality is that truly neutral sources simply do not exist. Everybody has a point of view, that’s what makes us human, we will always interpret facts and events through the lens of our personal experience and our understanding of the world.

it’s certainly notable with the US threatening to invade Cuba and blockading it now.

indeed, the workers hold a lot of power here

seriously, Iran has been incredibly restrained here

Given how western economies are doing right now, it’s a question how long the pedo oligarchs can keep doing this.

and the way things are going, the Turd Reich is soon to be on that list as well

Kind of hilarious to frame it as China relying on the US occupation of the region and then in the next sentence admit that it’s actually the US that’s the cause of the problems in the region.

The war also illustrates the limits of Chinese power. For decades, Beijing relied on U.S.-provided security architecture in the Middle East as it powered its economy on Gulf energy imports. Now it can do little to check U.S. military action in the region, and Xi’s call to open the Strait of Hormuz went unheeded.

Same, it seems like they really thought that Americans would come to their senses at some point.

I guess they realized that would be rather unpopular and would be a pretext for the west to invade. Doing it in response to the US invading and losing, completely reframes it.

I don’t find anything odd about a country minding its own business and making trade relations based on mutual benefit rather than ideology.

I disagree that that there was anything amicable during Biden years. Biden picked up exactly where Trump left off before him and he escalated tensions with stuff like CHIPS act, ban on Chinese EVs and so on. There’s been a continuation of policy here across administration since Obama’s pivot to Asia when the US decided that China was the main adversary. Things have been steadily escalating, and now they’re entering into an openly hostile territory.