And this time in the middle of an actual genocide they're enthusiastically supporting

Jesus fuck

on one hand shipwreck tells a compelling story that biden and his circle are exceedingly competent political operators playing a 5D chess game to ensure dollar supremacy. On the other hand they constantly do deranged shit like this.

I believe its to not seem weak on "the china issue" to the local audience. Like "We're going to try diplomatic means with the chinese (again), because we're the good guys who don't want a war, but don't you worry we see them for what they really are."

Then any concessions the US makes to the evil chinese "regime" are reasonable realpolitik necessities because of very complex diplomatic issues with a country thats notoriously tough to reason with and at the same time any concessions the chinese make are not good enough because it didn't bring that evil "regime" to its knees.

Core of the state is rotten through, their ideology is hollow and meaningless and endlessly self-referential, the president is someone whose brain is mush and would have been dead a decade ago if he wasn't incredibly rich and powerful, etc. etc.

No doubt conservatives believe it too. This entire country is just feral hogs

'Yes there is a genocide in Xinjiang, even though every actual attempt to prove this has resulted in a debunking'

'Also, Israel has a right to defend itself'

This fucking guy

Of course they do, they're all liberals

if i were them, i'd have the talks with blinken but ban all translators and insist on conducting the whole thing in mandarin

South Africa is weird, you have extremes on both ends. You have people spouting the most insane pro capitalist, pro western and pro israel talking points. These are usually the wealthier people living somewhat comfortably. But you also have a lot of people who deeply understand the need to resist western hegemony and neo liberalism.

The problem is also the desperate conditions that the majority live in. You're so utterly exhausted, mentally and physically, at the end of the day that you don't have energy to think about other things.

How dare he!