Lame duck empty words.

Frequently engaging in bad faith, defending authoritarians, eh? Those things make up quite the accusation. Evidence?

Sigh, you're mad at me for calling out your bad faith conversational tactics here yesterday. I don't know where you get the China obsession.

FWIW, New Politics is not an unbiased journalistic organization, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Politics_(magazine), and doesn't claim to be one:

"New Politics is an independent socialist journal founded in 1961 and still published in the United States today[when?]. While it is inclusive of articles from a variety of left-of-center positions, the publication is historically associated with a "Neither Washington Nor Moscow!" Third Camp, democratic Marxist perspective, placing it typically to the left of the social democratic views in the journal Dissent."

Also FWIW, the linked article is a talk by Tanya Vyhovsky, a DSA-endorsed Ukrainian American Vermont State Senator, that "was delivered virtually from Ukraine to a panel at the Left Coast Forum in Los Angeles on October 3, 2026".

Your behaviour here is not indicative of good faith engagement, with all the presumptive assumptions you make about everyone else's intentions, and all the ad-hominem attacks, including towards me. You're breaking Rule 1. Reported and disengaging.

Balkan W

Question?

We need non-US controlled alternatives.

Go touch grass.

You're talking to unafraid Westerners. They will criticize their own governments. It's not complicated.

If we were a bunch of unafraid Russians and you said somethig about the west, we would add a complaint about Putin.

The emphasis is on the "are". You ARE using Sid and it's meant to be buggy every now and then, so what did you expect 😅

You are using Sid.