Gucci_Minh [he/him]

Cheetahs go fast

Tim the pencil didn’t deserve that damn

Also see: Shanghai bottle opener building

China: here’s what we’re going to do for the next 5 years

West: we can never understand those inscrutable Confucian Orientals

His character arc from Hillary stan to decently principled socdem is actually pretty impressive

Probably stuff like ATGM carriers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornet-D, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJ-9 etc

It’s near impossible for modern MBT armour to stop a good hit from an equally modern ATGM or APFSDS round. The best way to survive is to not get spotted and hit in the first place. That’s why Soviet doctrine had it right, quick low profile tanks with “decent enough” armour. Hard and soft kill APS can help with RPGs and ATGMs but after seeing how the Trophy system of the IOF is absolute dogshit I don’t think it’ll be enough.

I think if natoids wanted an effective combat platform over grifting money, they would develop a tank with good all around protection against autocannons, but just enough armour on the frontal arc to get lucky vs dedicated anti tank weapons. If you have a 70 ton tank that gets penetrated by Kornets, might as well make a 50 ton tank that gets penetrated by Kornets instead and can actually cross bridges.

You’re in luck, China will back down from it’s red line (again), because they actually care about the continued existence of human civilisation over acting tough

However, because I just posted this prediction on chapo.chat, the opposite will come true and there’s gonna be a hot war.

Even with the current model of state directed capitalism, the amount of investment into social services and poverty reduction already shame the west. China isn’t yet in a position to press the communism button, but once the threat of America and it’s puppets decline there may well be a pivot.

If China can manage to turn its industries and markets to an internal production/consumption model and reduce its reliance on being an export economy, it would be much better off even without the massive growth. Growth will have to stop at some point, and the focus will be on stability, since China hasn’t made any indications it’ll try to fuel growth through imperialism like western economies have. Japan style stagnation would be not so terrible if your society is socialist.

I’m not checking for new food, I’m just wondering if my standards have dropped enough since last time I checked to eat the half a carrot and raw onion that’s been sitting there.

What 0 historical or geopolitical literacy does to a mf

Make tankie mean pro-Soviet intervention against reactionary Hungarian colour revolution again.

Socialism, in an extreme simplification, is a mode of political and economic organisation in which the workers own the means of production, and receive the full value of their labour. While social welfare programs are often attached to that, they are not socialism in and of themselves, nor are they a prerequisite to socialism (but it is nice to have).

I had it saved so I don’t remember where, but Googles reverse image search yields more matches than tineye

popular party

does something unpopular in every sense of the word

what bourgeois “democracy” does to a mf

newly uncovered photo of authoritarian tankies shooting anti war protestors

CW death

Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin

right here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianmen_Mountain