I suspect the number of Indian immigrant doctors abroad is due to brain drain rather than an abundance of doctors/lack of need in India.

I thought you meant that. Just so you know, ‘I can see an argument for that’ usually suggests that you agree with the initial statement. It’s like saying, ‘I could also make an argument in support of that statement’.

This is so the Brits can send their new conscripts over to fight Russia to protect their heritage rather than because NATO is getting directly involved.

And you think this has what to do with modern China? This is like criticising the USSR for Tsarism. You realise the CPC overthrew the previous system? And when it did, it had the cultural revolution to overcome the trappings of that system, for which it is regularly criticised?

I’ve been told that, but I haven’t seen any kind of evidence supporting the theory.

The example you’re discussing is the evidence. Reorientation does not mean fully reoriented. It means things are changing. An example that shows a changing relationship is evidence that relationships are changing. This remains true even if you don’t like the type of change or if things go back to the way they were.

At the moment we are still witnessing quantitative changes. Enough of those and we will see qualitative changes. The fact of quantitative change does not discount the fact of change i.e. reorientation.

Georgia is not in the EU.

The article still manages to paint China as the bad guy and gets in a few shots at Russia. Look at this:

Beijing didn’t limit its global influence efforts to propaganda. It announced an ambitious COVID assistance program, which included sending masks, ventilators and its own vaccines – still being tested at the time – to struggling countries. In May 2020, Xi announced that the vaccine China was developing would be made available as a “global public good,” and would ensure “vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries.” Sinovac was the primary vaccine available in the Philippines for about a year until U.S.-made vaccines became more widely available there in early 2022.

Xi you sneaky mf. Propaganda of the deed with Chinese characteristics.

Fr, though, the US is run by truly, truly despicable people. The US could’ve chosen not to limit its global influence efforts to propaganda or straightforward coercion but instead it doubled down. Not content with murdering 1 million of it’s own, it killed countless others in the shadows. For anyone wondering whether the US ruling class would rather destroy the planet with nukes than change it’s ways or give up power, there’s your answer.

From the comments:

Taxes need to be raised on the middle class. That’s where all the money is. There’s no more money to be raised in taxing the wealthy.

The west is doomed.

The vulture capitalists will want to. The moderates will warn them not to take too much too fast. In the end, refinancing for anything that isn’t repossessed. Rinse and repeat until the empire eats itself. Then:

Edit: ignore me; this applies more to consumer debt and the article is about national debt.

Me too and I’m kinda looking forward to it.

Let them go. They’ll struggle to leave with their telecommunication lines and their football clubs and their factories and their farmlands. Rich people leaving doesn’t have to mean wealth leaving.

I am actually shocked that something is being done even if, ultimately, nothing will change.

Not unlike the planes.

“The US has only one accountant with the knowledge to work out the free healthcare bill but she’s busy employed as an engineer for Arms Dealers LLC.”

A fighter jet without wings.

That might be why France wants to be at the front of the line and willing to use its FL not so much to fight the Russians but the Ukrainians. France needs another Niger. Ukraine might be it. The US might be happy to let France have it if this is the price that France has asked for not pivoting to China. It would put France deeper in the US fold and give the US a stronger foothold/ally if Germany starts to get uppity once its people realise what they gave.

Time to make those student loan repayments. That’s an expensive higher doctorate. I hope Ukraine learned something about trusting NATO. Probably not. But I hope so.

Does Ukraine have uranium reserves?

With what will they pay the fines, Toronto?

With what?

That’ll be a day to celebrate. 🎉