Aww same.

GDP will go weeeee! 😭

Hollywood movies performance in china is always so funny because often chinsese movie goers just don't seem that interested and it's only an average large market but then sometimes something seems to just click and suddenly the box office is like a bazillion.

Okay, thank you lots. 🫡

Yeah totally. And yet they also haven't realized their weakness yet. I worry that's ultimately the big danger: there's an increasingly big gap between what they want to do and posture for and what they're actually cabable and willing to do and that's very dangerous since it leads to miscalculations.

SLAY THE PRINCESS IS SO AWESOME!!

Yes it is!!! Everyone needs to play it, it's so amazing.

what russia's dong in any way ofc, i just think it's useful to try and follow their rationale and if we look at it like this i think it makes perfect sense why russia is rn completely uninterested in any negotiated peace that wouldn't physically put in in a position of overwhelming superiority.

faction in kyiv and most western countries. I think the EU might funnily enough be the most politically stable on the elite level of the major stakeholders in the ukraine war on the western side, but ofc they're also the least important by far. I'm not saying any of this to justify

one of their preconditions rn short of complete ukrainian collapse would be the centralization of ukrainian politics into a long term powerful and stable government that could then sign the concessions to russia and uphold them. But that's ofc a non starter both for the currently dominant

point are actually pro negotiations. The utimate point is just that ukrainian politics are extremely unstable and since even during the minsk accords there where enough powerful factions that resisted russia's demands to make the who thing insuficcient from moscow's pov, it's clear that

and even there it seems to be fracturing. The military itself also is probably a real wildcard. It seems like Syrskyi is under pressure to be removed but who would replace him if that happens is unknown. The Azovites are powerful ofc but from what i've read a lot of them at this

a secure establishment rn that you know will stay there regardless of administration. And in Ukraine things are probably even worse. With Yermak out i really don't think anyone knows where things are going to go soon. Zelensky now seems entirely dependant on parliment for his power base

Would Putin really want to make deal with the US to carve up ukraine right now if in three years the blob could be back in charge and do a complete 180. The US just doesn't seem like a country one can make an agreement with rn and reliably expect it to stick to it because there actually isn't