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Oh thanks for asking 😊. I'm back in states. Mobile Twitter was on is left in india so I'd deactivated Twitter before leaving. I'll reactivate later in Feb once work starts.

Even after dotcom crash underlying tech still mattered in the economy later. Sane with this I suspect

For book it Depends. There are books which you genuinely can't get into but will come to love it you read it later or in a different mood.

Love bakemonogatari and steins gate

Everything is blessing in disguise & nothing is bad for ind.Everything is chance for reform which will lead to growth sometime in far future. When someone wants to be optimist they don't like being countered. Topji has managed to make his success feel like ind so can't qustn without feeling antinat

If I was Indian opposition I wouldn't focus on natsec that much. BJP pretends to do muscular nationalism and rising ind & base and ind umc who care abt this pretend to believe it.Telling truth here is like explaining how magic trick works in middle of show. No one will like u for it. Evidence is how

Essentially accepting and even in Biden Era this was clear the old order which was anchored by American power is gone so for now old rules don't apply. Trump is just making it explicit.

That is correct. But right now there's no common set of rules so yes china will extend claim then onus wud be on east Asian countries whether they want to resist or bandwagon china unlike Russia offers carrots too. But whatever usa does here is irrelevant bc rules aren't accepted anyway. US is

Russia makes this argument anyway china is more subtle in Asia security by Asian framework. neither of them need Justification and for china international law is on its side with regard to Taiwan at least so they don't need Justification.

Which is what he's doing. But here's the thing sphere of influence isn't a legal term to be granted you have to show and others need to accept its your sphere India considers subcontinent its sphere. pak and china disagree. Russia too failed this. Will China succeed in East Asia.maybe.

Shared values is preceded by and basically means shared history which usa never had with ind unlike with Japan and especially chn & west ofc. This relationship was always transactional with bets being put for future. Neither ind nor usa ever believed they shared lot with each other.

People start crying nowadays when they hear shared value as if it's way to manipulate so tbc shared values with ind was used by a tiny group of us policymakers pre 91 mostly Kennedy group & post 91 ind used it instrumentally to get close to reigning hegemon.No one was naive innocent.Not us nor ind.

to adapt to balance of power where rules are selectively applied and interests are frankly acknowledged. US is unusually well suited for it bc its core economic space is self sufficient and it shares extremely deep cultural ties with other powerful players & hemisphere tougher for others to enter

Rbio isn’t necessarily in usa interest & multipolar world isn’t against it per se. as long as balance of power within system is such that it favours usa it might be better than a hegemony which declines anyway. Late stage hegemons talk legitimacy precisely bc material power declines. so its better

Say USA consolidated hemisphere,kept Japan & Korea maybe Aus,gulf on side was transactional about rest cud china win. I don’t see Eur going to chn cultural & civilisational ties are too strong. And you force chm to provide public goods & take responb for under dev countries rather than free ride

Men's porn brain being an actual problem for women not just distasteful but a problem

Radfems were right on one thing only and that's most men being bad on one specific issue

What you get on that tl that I don't.

Europeans were very clear that western alliance is cultural and civilizational coded ethnic so turkey was unlikely to be invited. As French said turkey isn't European.

Newsom loathes gop he doesn't really have any other policies which is good. But thing is there's deep longing for respectability politics within dems. It makes them feel smart and adult and I think Newsom might be the only one immune. Even then maybe.

Primary reason why many in latam support Maduro getting deposed I believe. So they can deport the Venezuelans.

Another amusing point your orban,mbz, lot of these small country depots even taliban to an extent are creatures protected by the previous international order they mock. What happens if Iran or a superpower simply eliminated those they disliked. Or even Europe did. It's not like they can retaliate

BTW we aren't in great power competition but carving up of world. G2+Russia if you'll. Think Frederick, Maria Theresa and Catherine coming to agreement by carving up Poland.

Historically after end of previous order transition period was chaotic then great powers came together to form some sort of system that everyone cud agree on that they imposed on others. Problem is who is great power who get to create the system was decided by war.Winners chose.Now more complicated.

Incidentally this is actual soft power. When you succeed it makes others want to associate with you. USA can never have the soft power of China or Russia since its leader of west and most countries define themselves as anti West what it can have is this soft power associated with winners.

By the way this is called a special military operation. This is exactly what Russia wanted to do with the vdv assault at airport at start. While usa has always been tactically and operationally far superior Thing is strategically this again seems to have no end game. They're great at how but now why

This is multipolar world btw. It literally means great powers can do whatever they want in their neighborhood. Amusing that 3rd worldies are its biggest supporters. Common L.While technically no one can do this to ind its also true that china being neighbor means India can't do it to others either.

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Kie. Yeah I followed

There's a reason why this was my pinned tweet. Transition of order always comes with problems.right now we're in Transition period. Topxi has advantage if he kidnaps dpp leader. Kmt is already pro china now. Putinji otoh probably doesn't. BTW imagine if ccp kidnaps topji how we do ask him back 😅