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Re: War
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 8, 2026, 5:18 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELtZnnIC6IE
Let's hope both sides keep their word: Trump about invading
Greenland militarily, and the EU about stopping him militarily.
But I am not optimistic yet, as we all know about the TACO
tendency, and there is also a chance that the EU leaders are
bluffing to achieve TACO, and will back down themselves if Trump
does not.
The US military becoming preoccupied with such a war would
actually reduce the likelihood of the US invading elsewhere
(Colombia, Mexico, etc.) and therefore should be supported by
those worried about US aggression. Many leftists seem to forget
this (or they might be False Leftists who subconsciously care
more about "white" lives).
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Re: War
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 23, 2026, 9:28 pm
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With Greenland apparently not in play after all, we are back to
our only hope:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ6Gnq0ksMA
Woke comments:
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> In addition to Outer Manchuria, you also have Outer Mongolia
a.k.a. Mongolia
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> A mate of mine suggested this half a year ago, with another
reason added: water. China needs huge amounts of fresh water for
their data plants, and Siberia and Manchuria have it.
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> Considering the fact that all these territories were ceded to
Russia under the same unequal treaties signed with other Western
powers, such as the U.K. and France, and considering the fact
that the People's Republic of China demanded the return of tiny
Hong Kong and Macau (really minuscule compared to the
aforementioned territorities) from the U.K. and Portugal, one
cannot but detect a sense of irony and double standard here.
When pointing out this reality to some Chinese nationalists who
would use all sorts of mental acrobatics to defend their
motherland's hypocrisy, you can literally FEEL their cognitive
dissonance.
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> We haven't seen China's army in combat but I'm pretty sure
they're stronger than Russia. Plus Russia is massive so they
gotta divert troops from Ukraine all the way to Siberia
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> NATO isn't going to initiate an attack on China - it's a
defensive alliance primarily built to counter Russia. NATO
certainly isn't coming to Russia's defense if China attacks
them.
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> Definitely a better idea than Taiwan.
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> as long as Japan gets Sakhalin and the kurils. I support this.
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Re: War
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 19, 2026, 3:08 am
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By now, China's best possible move is obvious to the whole
world:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBAnfeopVyA
Woke comments:
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>
俄罗斯屠杀了30万远东中国人
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>
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Manchuria
>
> Russia was literally one of the European powers and part of
the 8-nation alliance. Russian troops invaded Manchuria and
participated in the siege of Beijing.
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> The territory annexed by Russia is the last piece of the
concessions given during the Century of Humiliation, and larger
than all the other concessions combined then x100.
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> Russia should hand over the stolen lands
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> I think China could also try to incentivize chinese migration
into eastern Russia in order to change its demographics and try
to influence the region even further.
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> There are many border towns in Russia with a sizable Chinese
population.
>
> It would be an exquisite irony if some time in the future,
China decides to take those Russian territories with the excuses
of "being historical lands" and "protecting the Chinese
population"
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> Honestly eastern Siberia is probably easier to manage from
China than from Russia.
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> If Russia continue to weaken over their fight at Ukraine, i
can only wonder at what point Russia gets weakened enough that
China thinks that it's more realistic to invade Russia first
instead of Taiwan
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Accurately pessimistic comment:
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> The Chinese establishment is accustomed to maintaining
friendly relations with Russia, and our Han nationalism is even
more pro-Russian for many reasons you have no idea about.
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Re: War
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 10, 2026, 9:07 pm
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Greenland back on?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5vl-GIvVQ
:)
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Re: War
DIR By: Murkadin
Date: August 13, 2026, 1:52 am
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"The Clausewitzian Trinity, introduced by Prussian strategist
Carl von Clausewitz in his book On War, describes war as a
dynamic and paradoxical force composed of three core tendencies:
primordial violence and passion, the play of chance and
probability, and subordination to rational political policy. The
Three Elements and Social Organs Clausewitz mapped these three
tendencies to corresponding groups within a society:
Emotion and Passion: Primordial violence, hatred, and enmity
belonging mainly to the people.
Chance and Probability: The creative, uncertain, and chaotic
environment managed primarily by the military commander and the
army.
Reason and Policy: The rational subordination of war as an
instrument of the government.
Why the Trinity Matters Dynamic Balance: War remains unstable if
any single element—the government’s goal, the army's capability,
or the people's will—collapses or falls out of alignment.
Nature vs. Character: While the underlying nature of this
trinity remains permanent, the character of how war is fought
changes based on technology and history."
I suspect, if the trinity described above is true, that under
"Emotion and Passion" is were tribalism can creep in?
I disagree with Oliver Marcus Malloy when he states that
"tribalism leads to all wars", often perhaps, but not always.
Nations also go to war for non-tribal reasons often, do they
not? Germany went to war before for non-tribal reasons and
passions, and so has Iran most recently?
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Re: War
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 13, 2026, 2:25 am
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"under "Emotion and Passion" is were tribalism can creep in?"
I would say tribalism can also creep into "Reason and Policy".
It is not difficult to figure out that tribalism will outcompete
everything except perhaps folkism:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/ethnotribalism-the-computer-simulation/
"Nations also go to war for non-tribal reasons often, do they
not?"
Not only nations. For example, the American Civil War:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/abraham-lincoln/msg9922/#msg9922
Also, even sincere neocons are pro-war for non-tribal reasons
(albeit reasons we disagree with). This is why neocons get
attacked from the right by paleocons, the latter who want war to
only ever be for tribal reasons, and why I have always insisted
that paleocons have the potential to be far more dangerous than
neocons, a point that most leftists have only recently grasped.
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Re: War
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 15, 2026, 7:34 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpcRlAE8C9Y
So now hopefully Denmark is willing to fight the US over
Greenland, and it escalates until the US nukes Denmark.
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Re: War
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 19, 2026, 3:55 am
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I am not that optimistic, but we should still hope:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKFQNYkq8ww
Woke comments:
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> Russia doesn't need a reason to bully its neighbors, it just
comes naturally.
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> Down with moscovian Imperialism !!!!
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> Japan has created an amphibious Brigade - wonder where they
could use that when the time is right?
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> Japanese could easily ramp up production of plausibly deniable
drones and cause a bit of chaos for the Russian Pacific Fleet
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> Japan never signed an official surrender to Russia at the end
of WW2, they are technically still at war!... Japan should
finish it once and for all!
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> japan will have their territory and more if they want it
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> japan can take half o russia right now if they choose to
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> I also wonder about China's historical (currently formally
renounced) claim to its territory of Outer Manchuria, including
Vladivostok, stolen by the Tsar in 1860.
>
> Having Japan distract or weaken the Russian Pacific fleet
might give China a pretext to establish some bases there ... for
"mutual protection", you understand.
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> Japan needs to get together with China and they both need to
take their stolen territories from Russia at the same time.
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> It's obvious that Japan should announce that they will support
China when it makes its claim north to the Arctic west to the
Kazakhstan border in return for Sakhalin Island and the Kuril's.
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Re: War
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 22, 2026, 6:01 pm
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This would be nice (except the part about Taiwan obviously):
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VWkfON4Ido
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Re: War
DIR By: Murkadin
Date: August 22, 2026, 11:06 pm
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Multiple media outlets putting out similar pieces:
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> World War 3 or global poly-crisis? Russia, Iran, Ukraine and
the expanding conflict | DW News
> Russia's war against Ukraine and the US-Iran conflict are
becoming increasingly intertwined. From Iranian drones in
Ukraine and Ukrainian support for Gulf states, to North Korea’s
role, rising oil prices, the Strait of Hormuz, and shifting
global alliances - the lines between separate conflicts are
beginning to blur. Is this the path toward World War 3, or are
we already living through a new kind of globalized conflict?
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