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China doesn’t want to rock the boat … yet!

WHEN they’ve got the imbalance in-their-favor enough, they will gut & smash India: that is their plan.

Modi’s relying on Russia, China’s economic-vassal-state, for protection against China, hands India to China, strategically.

Make-believe never saved any country’s life, nor will it, in the coming decade.

See it for what it is: now is only a “location in time”, during the slippery-slope ( low steepness, after 1 or 2 more world-process Punctuations, the slope will be STEEP! ) time before global-TANTRUM/POGROM that #ClimatePunctuation, combined with political-tantrum, including “populist” dictatorships, combined with religious-tantrum, combined with food-web collapse, combined with an increasing-fraction-of-humankind becoming refugee…

etc.

The Great Filter’s unfolding, but still in its Yin stage.

China doesn’t want to rock the boat yet.

When opportunity is ripe, however, they are going to.

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Don’t put-up with Israel’s gaslighting.

I used to support Israel.

As an Englishman, whose identity I don’t remember pointed-out, years ago:

IF the Jews of the region have a moral-right to their own homeland, THEN so do the Palestinians.

EITHER BOTH OR NEITHER-DO.

Once someone has proven they are only narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath/psychopath, through their nihilistic obliteration of other’s lives, and much more, and throught their sadism,

they have ZERO claim on God, on “scripture”, or on “validity” or on Truth.

The old rabbis ( find some interviewed on youtube! ) who call-out Israel & I stand together in contempting their lies.

KNOW gaslighters for what they are, & deal-with-them as such.

Rabies is rabies.

IF the patient can be got sane/healthy, then help 'em do that, but if not…

then don’t let 'em infect you with their rabies.

( & that goes also for Hamas’s terror-strike, too: both sides have crossed the line into worshipping nihilism/mass-murder, while claiming God, sadly )

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Read Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture”, and consider that a person in a high-collectivity culture, which also is a high-power-distance culture, may well answer the survey with what “face” requires them to say, instead of answering with what they, themselves, feel.

If you aren’t correcting for that, you’re doing propaganda, not science.

Different cultures REQUIRE different subjectivities be taken-into-account.

I think it would be more valid to dig into specific dimensions of happiness, & make some of those objective ( cortisol-blood-levels, for measuring stress, e.g. )

WHEN you ask people in individualistic cultures a question, and THEN you ask people in collectivist cultures the SAME question, they are not answering the same question, they are answering the social-pressure question, instead.

It makes complete mincemeat of cross-cultural measuring of “objective” things.

Try reading Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar” book, & understand just HOW different warm-vs-nordic cultures are, in instinct/reactions,

then it should be more obvious how such surveys are disinformation, not information.

Then it ISNT a

“Global Happiness Index”

, rather it is a

“Global URBAN Happiness Index”,

and such profound mislabeling of things is disinformation, not journalism.

Which, itself, is so systematic & profound, nowadays, that there isn’t much hope for integrity to win, in our world, now, anyways.

I haven’t read the article, but yes, wars do have time-limits:

Once a war becomes domestically impossible to participate in, Vietnam as 1 proof, then the-course-of-war changes.

Economic-collapse means that Biden’s hosed in 2024, and the Republicans are Russian allies, not NATO allies.

Yes wars have time-limits.

Simply wait & see: by the end of 2025, NATO will be gutted, Trump will have been crowned GEOTUS ( a term they already use for him ), and Trump will ( passively, at least ) back Russia.

Sickening, but it looks like that’s the fact of the unfolding global/geopolitical near-future.