The article is rank propaganda. Coming from a supposed middle eastern journal it’s pretty shameful that it didn’t even mention what China is doing to Muslims in Xinjiang. Besides that, China is in taking aggressive actions against many of its neighbors, not just Taiwan but also the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, etc. Plus the wolf warrior stuff against Australia, South Korea and the like. Not to mention the illegal armed fishing fleet operations in the territorial waters of smaller nations around the world.

In comparison, the USA illegally invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, has meddled in the internal affairs of many Latin American countries, and supports Israel.

One could certainly argue that America’s crimes are worse on the margin, but the idea that one supports a rules-based order and the other does not is laughable. Both violate international rules and laws continuously whenever it suits them and they can get away with it.

If they said they didn’t find any, then everyone would know it was a whitewash. So they decided to “find” a small amount and then pat themselves on the back.

Reality is about to get all melty and people are gonna have six fingers.

More like you want to read your opinion echoed back to you and you really don’t care if it’s in the words of a CIA/Cheney ghoul or Charles Koch shill.

George Beebe is a former chief of CIA’s Russia analysis who served on Vice President Cheney’s staff from 2002-2004.

Why do these supposedly left hexbear/ml guys keep posting articles written by wingers?

Ok I get it now. You guys are living (or LARPing in) a fantasy world where the Soviet Union still exists and Russia isn’t a right-wing revanchist kleptocratic dictatorship.

There’s nothing up there but lakes, mud, and mosquitos

That’s a rude way to describe Saint Petersburg.

Guess my brain just isn’t giant enough to conceive of a world where invading someone is a defensive act.

I’ll never be as brilliant or wise as you or George Bush.

Yeah and that Malaysian airliner shot itself down because there were no Russians in Donbass, just some tourists!

At what point did this become Russia’s aggression?

When they invaded?

Yeah a thing the CIA did in 1953 definitely explains modern Ukrainian politics. Clearly they planted sleepers that had children who had children (real potent Nazi sperm) that were activated 60 years later to phony up the Euromaden uprising.

Remember that time Khrushchev ordered the bay of pigs invasion?

Usually if forced to decide who started a war one would go with the side that started in with the shooting.

Worse, the article was written by a Koch shill: https://www.macalester.edu/news/2022/04/professor-andrew-latham-receives-grant-koch-foundation-chinas-grand-strategy-a-history/

Russia is so terrified of Nato encroachment that they stripped their defenses along the Finnish boarder shortly after Finland joined Nato, and they’ve moved all the defenses at this point (first weapons, now troops) out of Kaliningrad.

The official statement of the Biden administration is “we expect our partners in Israel to conduct a full and thorough investigation and will not comment on the matter further until Israel has told us what to think.”

Is it really possible to sign away a right to sue a company, especially hidden in an EULA?

Yes it is. It is called “forced arbitration” and pretty much every contract you are compelled to sign has it.

In any kind of just society with a fair legal system it would not be legal. But that doesn’t describe us or our legal system.

Well they tried trashing him for providing tampons to women in need.

Then for being a retired military vet.

Then for making a joke about ladders.

So yeah, they’re really running out of stuff it would seem.