19 pointsby themgt2 hours ago4 comments
  • dabinat2 hours ago
    I sometimes wonder if Ukraine is to World War III what the Spanish Civil War was to WWII. However, I have also heard that Russia is a lot closer to collapse than they let on. But if they did collapse it could be very messy and I fear what Putin might do if he feels he has nothing to lose.
  • expedition3243 minutes ago
    I was thinking the other day that China is playing it smart. They just have to keep doing what they are doing and they'll win.

    Xi isn't doing anything ostentatious like sending his navy to the Persian gulf or overtly dropping weapons supplies in the Middle East. After all they are going for the economic win- something that always eluded the USSR.

    Let Trump hang himself and the Chinese make it out like the good guys. After all the most important thing nations want is not human rights it's stability.

    • epolanski11 minutes ago
      The most stable systems are parliamentary democracies.

      Sure, you might be switching governments often (and that's a feature, not a bug) at times, but things change slowly.

      Which is what you need in a mature rich democracy.

      The last thing you want is to elect hard to boot and control individuals like in presidential and semi presidential republics.

    • encoderer38 minutes ago
      Aren’t they going to lose about half their population in the next 75 years?

      That’s… problematic

      • unrented797715 minutes ago
        Given the course of climate change, that's likely to happen everywhere. That includes the US.
  • adm42 hours ago
    any one have a non paywall link?