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I'm going to be very short on this one.
Brian Berletic said it best or earliest, referring to Thailand, but I've said it in private to myself about my own country before he said it on youtube, so I'm going to paraphrase him:
"When you have no own national language, no investment into your own culture, no media, no digital walls to keep foreign influence out, you have no ability to tell your own story or protect your own interests."
The right-wing, is destroying our media, because their basic thinking goes like this, although this is true for all current Dutch political parties: "We have US media to take care of us. What we have should just repeat whatever the US says."
The only group I can say that's neutral on this are the Marxists thrown out of the Socialist Party as the Socialist Party here I will describe as yet another pro-US Feminist Party who threw out the tankies for not being woke.
So I keep saying it:
The EU need an own language that's not English, French is okay, and even Russian is if the EU fails and Russia takes over.
Otherwise we keep being stuck doing things what a country in another continent wants without any consideration of anyone living here.
We need tech companies and apps just like China has if we want to strengthen our nations.
So far, the only country doing so really is Russia.
It's a bit sad, because the other country that really wanted to do so is France, but they lack the power of Germany and Germany isn't doing anything to further EU integration to my knowledge.
I put my hopes on this Bubble Tea society failing miserably economically. Maybe, maybe we will enter a more reasonable movement that understands the direction the world is going in.
But I fear we're going headstrong into Anglo-fascism first instead.
It's the same as the US.
Hong Kong: All they want is democracy.
Donbas: It's a Russian invasion!
You know these people in Luhansk and Donetsk Republic are willing to die to get out of Ukraine.
It's the reason why Russia doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO. Half the country potentially wants to join Russia.
Are we going to fight a world war over a majority of people in a region wanting to leave the nation, even more than the Hong Kong population did.
With the Hong Kong situation, it's yet again, 'Britain gave them democracy. Chinese promised to retain the democracy. They lied.'. That's a three times no there.
Hong Kong was vassal state without any form of democracy, so it was a dictatorship through and through under a democracy.
How does that happen eh?
Furthermore, mainland China promised to improve it's democracy, which they did, with the promise from the British side that China had sovereignty over Hong Kong national security and defense issues.
People are constantly now making stuff up what the US is doing and what Russia and China are doing in order to excuse their anti free trade, and anti-democratic and anti-freedom actions.
If it's a Russian invasion, then of course you can oppress and genocide the people in the Donbass region.
If Hong Kong demonstrators "just want freedom", then of course a little bit of terrorism is allowed.
Going back to the Hong Kong situation.
Like Donetsk and Luhansk, a majority of people wanted to at least remove their oligarchically elected leader from office.
And yes, I get it, such elections aren't very democratic.
But during the entire protest, calls for democracy was put on the backburner.
What they really wanted and what the whole was about, was to build a wall between them and Shenzhen, with Shenzhen quickly becoming the richer city.
It's kind of like East and West- Berlin, except that it's West Berlin that would be the poor one in the middle of the country and they didn't build the wall to keep their citizens from fleeing, but to keep the East Berliners out from treating the West-Berliners like equals and not like gods to the dirt poor peasants they were.
If they had gotten independence, the situation would immediately turn into a civil war again as just like Ukraine, a significant part of the city rather wants to be part of China, seeing how Shenzhen is richer and they have to deal with that daily as they live at the mainland border, rather than the metropolic island.
That's why the demonstrators felt the need to lie and support the prevention of extradition of an axe murderer murdering a young woman in cold blood for cheating on him, in order to demonstrate for what they really wanted, retain the illusion of their status as the richest, most powerful city in China, to which they've frankly lost by 2020 to Shenzhen in PPP per capita.
So despite a majority being in favor of the protests in Hong Kong, I disagree with all of them for having a pipe dream that can only be upheld by being more and more violence as they keep losing power, thus throwing into an economic abyss.
The mainland rightfully believes that this is not a smart decision and considers the protesters to be like children led to the chompers.
The organiszers already felt the need to lie in order to hold the demonstrations and while the city used to be a safe haven for people fleeing from mainland China, mainland Chinese between 2014 and 2019 entered Hong Kong as "just another rich Chinese city" (since 2020 it's spoiled brat city) and looking at the attitudes during those demonstrations, where pro-US Hong Kongers were constantly beating up every pro-China person they saw, it got pretty clear on who is oppressing whom and why.
Back to the Donbas situation, it is straight forward.
Russia is richer, the protesters are sons and daughters of Russians who moved into Ukraine during the Soviet period.
Ukraine, already poor is further going backwards economically.
They border Russia. They want out and they'll get richer if they do.
This will keep happening and so it's no wonder that a "if we think you attack one of our members, you attack all of us" NATO isn't very welcome to Russia and pro-Russians wanting to separate themselves from near-NATO nations, in which any secession, of which some of the the Hong Kong 2019 demonstrators were opting for, is always seen as a direct Russian invasion.
P.S. Dutch state media made extremely suggestive language that Russia blocked gas going to Germany (via Nordstream 2) and that this is evil, while just a few weeks ago they agreed with the US to shut down Nordstream 2.
What planet am I living on?
Good god! It's why I started these rants today. I actually have wanted to do them a long time ago, but only today did I find an outlet.
The centre-right, or perhaps I should say the right-wing magazine of the Netherlands, Elsevier Weekblad, continuous to amaze me.
This week I read about an opinion piece on the ECB. It was also a call to step out of the euro.
The guy blames the ECB policies on southern Europe and said that the US and English central banks were doing better.
Then he warns that continuing the policy could cause a quarrel with examples given throughout the article.
Like, no dude, YOU are the example of causing quarrel. YOU are putting up blame! That's one.
Two, when you are saying that "quantitative easing", where do you think that English term comes from?
Do you really think that's coming from Spain or Italy?
NO!! The ECB's policy is MIRRORING THE US!
And that's not a consequence of it's policy,
IT IS THE POLICY!
The EU is full of US puppets and they're not doing anything other than looking at what the US is doing for almost everything they do.
They read the Wall Street Journal, Politico and The Financial Times for guidance. None of these are EU and so none of them are acting on EU behalf of any EU nation.
In fact, the article writer is one of them as his main complaint is that the ECB is not mirroring the US enough.
The ECB's only difference with the US FED is a slightly lower interest rate. When the US FED is at 0.25%, the ECB is at 0 or -0.25%. To prevent runaway price inflation, you need to mirror or go above your price inflation rate, which right now is something like 5-10% in the EU? In the US it's 7-15%.
And as the US is not raising their rates fast enough, so won't the ECB.
Mirroring the US further is going to crash the euro and stepping out of it means you're going to go down even quicker.
They're going to do both.
And I'll bet that when the Netherlands is going to step out of the euro, they won't reintroduce the guilder, but call their currency the dollar as well, because they'll think it will sell well.
Ha. Morons.
I think my subsequent rants are going to much shorter.
Nuclear energy is expensive.
Wind is cheaper.
World Solar power growth is around 25% a year.
It takes 5-20 years to build a nuclear power plant.
Let's say it takes 15 years to build all the nuclear power plants you need to offset Russian gas. Massive project.
With 25% growth a year you get a doubling of solar power in the world every 3 years. World solar power is around 25% of world nuclear power at this moment. So in around 6 years it should equalize it and then in another 9 years if like a miracle the nuclear output doubled in those 15 years, an amazing feature for it's run course, it would still be dwarfed by solar.
And while wind is growing at a slower rate, it's also going to surpass nuclear with ease.
This not even going to be a challenge.
What is a challenge however is natural gas. As unlike nuclear, natural gas is cheap.
But no, "Russian gas is evil" and therefor shall not be bought. We will only buy expensive frozen shale gas from the US.
This will cripple our economy, but let's sanction the Russians and while we're collapsing, blame everyone but ourselves for worshipping the US.
Because really, that's our current politics right now.
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