Russophia is a propaganda term.
A sober view of russian “culture” and history is not a phobia. It is reasonable to approach russians as they are (e.g. strong majority support for genocidal imperialism even with adjustments for preference falsification during polling) and not as one would like them to be.
What wasn’t refuted?
The port has no commercial viability. If it does, show me its transactions relative to ports of comparable size in say south India.
Have you ever lived or visited the region? Sri Lanka or south India. Or any part of the Indian subcontinent. Or any part of Asia for that matter.
Prove me wrong! I will admit I am wrong and will appreciate the correction.
Let’s not play dumb, ok?
That China’s investments aren’t necessarily beneficial for the country host country.
There is an element of domination and geopolitics (having a de facto military port on India’s doorstep).
Different port. I am referring to the one from 2018.
This article references the story of the OG port from 2018:
This is false. In case of Sri Lanka, they did take the port back and arguably the whole thing was setup since the economic viability of the port is suspect.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html
You’re either ignorant or a demagogue.
The American government (I think that’s what you are referencing when using the term CIA) has done a lot of very bad things. I don’t they’ve done anything as bad as the concentration camps and cultural genocide in Xinjiang (in the last ~100 years).
IMF can actually be flexible in some situations and there is measure of accountability. Chinese loans are managed by the CCP; an authoritarian criminal group.
They are not better than the IMF or more ethical than the CIA. They are most likely far worse.
Don’t be naive. If it benefits China, they would be more than happy to grind people to “cash powder”.
50% decline is honestly still too low.
It depends on your view of ethics.
Exactly! If you have a superficial view of ethics that does not account for reality, you will have a very simplistic view. If you are willing to look at what is actually happening on the ground, you will have a more sophisticated understanding of ethics that goes beyond theatrics.
The issue of collaboration is very a complex topic. There are many cases where low level collaboration (if motivated by factors other than support for russian genocidal imperialism) should likely be dealt with a simple affidavit requiring the individual to confirm that should ideological motivation for collaboration be identified at future date, they will have problems.
With Portnov, there is no complexity. It is a clear cut case. Open and committed treason and support for russian genocidal imperialism.
When you are a smaller country fighting for centuries against a brutal genocidal imperialist population, you need to act in a manner that greatly reduces the incentives for high level collaboration.
This is corporate propaganda, specifically of the “AI doomerism” subtype. The goal is to spread misinformation about the alleged AGI-like qualities of their solution to both continue grifting investors and for broader PR.
While profitability is key, revenue are actually extremely important. Case in point; many of the American tech companies that initially focus on scale/market share to the detriment of all other indicators.
Not at all.
For you this is all theoretical. My priority is dealing with the russian invasion and that is why I support increasing the costs for collaborators.
That doesn’t mean I support torture or targeting civilians even if the overwhelming majority of russian civilians are committed genocidal imperialists and generally lack humanity.
But you are welcome to believe whatever you want. Just sharing a different perspective.
Should have not engaged in corruption and worked as an agent for the russians. It’s not a difficult choice.
While I agree with you that as Ukrainian law stands today that would not be viable, I don’t see how I am being unethical.
Portniv knowingly (in a premeditated and genuine manner) contributed to mass killing and torture of Ukrainians at the hands of the russians (not to mention the mass scale destruction and life disruption for 10s of millions). Requiring community for a few decades is not a breach of ethics in any way.
My man, I don’t know how much you’ve travelled/lived around the world, but in many places the calculus for making a living has its own equations.
Working in Chernobyl has a massive pay differential for the same job compared to the rest of the country. Some people are desperate.
Portnov is a POW? This is news to me.
He is a local corrupt oligarch and russian collaborator.
Since when is it a war crime to require community service for high corruption and treason?
What info have you provided?
There is no moving goalposts. From the Wikipedia article:
Can you explain Kerry Brown’s arguement in context of this information?