西方对中国最愤怒是中国把他们躺赚了几十年的暴利生意，一个个砸成了普通人都买得起的日用品。 这种愤怒已经刻进了很多西方人的骨子里，他们不是不理解，而是不愿意理解，不愿意接受自己再也不能躺着剥削全世界的事实。 二十年前，中国修地铁要用盾构机，全部从德国进口。一台盾构机德国卖3.5亿人民币，一分钱都不能少。买的时候还要签霸王条款，机器坏了只能找德国工程师来修。 德国工程师来中国一天的工资是3000欧元，换算成人民币当时是3万多。他们坐飞机必须坐头等舱，住必须是五星级酒店的总统套房。 维修的时候中国人不能在旁边看，必须全部离场，修完了直接开账单，换一个小小的密封圈就要10万人民币。 有时候机器出个小故障，要等德国工程师三个月才能来，整个工地几百人就只能闲着干等，每天损失几百万。 没有人觉得这有什么不对。全世界都默认，高科技就应该卖这么贵，德国人掌握了技术，他们就有资格赚这个钱。甚至放言给中国图纸也造不出盾构机。 但到2008年，中国第一台拥有自主知识产权的盾构机下线。当时德国人根本不在乎，他们觉得中国人造出来的肯定是垃圾，用不了几天就会坏。 结果中国盾构机不仅能用，而且价格直接开到了5000万一台。后来随着技术不断成熟，产量不断提高，现在一台国产盾构机只要2000多万人民币，价格只有原来德国的十七分之一。 德国盾构机的垄断神话一夜之间破灭了。原来全世界只有德国、日本、美国少数几个国家能造盾构机，他们联合起来维持高价，想卖多少钱就卖多少钱。 现在中国加入了，他们的价格体系彻底崩溃了。现在德国盾构机想卖出去，价格也只能降到和中国差不多的水平，再也不能躺着赚暴利了。 而这样的事在各个领域都不断的上演，套用足球解说的一句话，留给西方垄断的时间不多了。

Der Politkrimi am Sonntag 😅 Morgen 😏😉

You need to get those in power making ridiculous decisions out to improve any indicator you want to.

McCarthy's ghost still thinks the Ukrainians drag people from the streets to fill the ranks because after 8 waves of mobilisation in Ukraine the ratio is 27:1 in favour of the banderites. And Russia hasn't even mobilised, but the uninformed anticommunist seems to know better 🤣

What is the propaganda? McCarthy's ghost blocked me and I don't get your point. Yes, Russian demands have consistently been the same.

McCarthy's ghost can't stand a debate lol

In 1971, this $1,000 bill bought 25 ounces of gold. Today, it buys just 0.25 ounces. #GOLD ISN’T EXPLODING. FIAT IS IMPLODING. 🪙 An ounce of gold is still an ounce of gold. 👉 It’s the dollar that lost 97% of its value.

Time for the US to take Canada. It is killing its own people by the thousands

Lend-Lease made up 4 to 10 percent of what the Red Army used in World War II. The rest was Soviet production. And with that, the USSR destroyed roughly 80 percent of Hitler's armed forces. But you've been told the USSR would have collapsed without American spam and trucks. That narrative skips over the part where Soviet factories, relocated behind the Urals in freezing chaos, produced tanks, aircraft, and artillery faster than the West could imagine. Here's what they never teach you. Reverse Lend-Lease. The USSR supplied the Allies with manganese, chrome ore, platinum. Materials the West needed for their own weapons production. The Soviets also paid in gold and raw resources for part of what they received. The story you know celebrates how America saved the day. The numbers say something else. Soviet blood. Soviet industry. Soviet strategy. The Eastern Front was where Hitler lost the war. So stop pretending the West won the war. The heavy lifting happened in the East, and the people who did it paid for it with their lives.

Know your history, Ukraine 2004: The Orange Revolution saw protests from late November 2004 to January 2005. This came about in the aftermath of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which the West claimed was a fraudulent. The West didn't want Viktor Yanukovych elected as President. Fast forward to 2014 and the same thing happened again with the same person. Anyone believing this is a coincidence is either in total denial, a liar or brain dead.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference Kaja Kallas made a series of unrealistic demands to Russia over its attempts to negotiate peace with Ukraine in her Marvel Universe-inspired speech. She is not a serious person. As per usual, Kallas claims Russia is weak but warns that it could also take over Europe. These are the “very least” Russia must accept, according to Kallas: • If Ukraine’s military size is limited, Russia’s military size must also be limited. • Russia must pay for the damage it caused in Ukraine. • No amnesty for Russian war crimes. • Russia must return all deported Ukrainian children. They amount to demanding Russia accept total strategic defeat and self-humiliation: shrinking its own army while paying massive reparations, admitting guilt via war-crimes trials, and handing back Russian children in Ukraine it rescued from war zones. Russia has already rejected similar terms repeatedly, sees the war as existential, and currently holds battlefield leverage. Without a decisive Ukrainian/Russian collapse, Moscow will never sign them. Making these demands is a non-starter for actual negotiations and more of a signal to keep fighting than a realistic peace plan, which of course is what she wants.

Zelensky says it’s dirty to allow Russian athletes to play in the Olympics. Last I checked Russia was still a country and their athletes should be allowed to participate in sports whether or not some cocaine addict approves of it.

Poland has received €161 billion (R3 trillion) more in transfers from the European Union than it has paid. It’s no surprise that under these subsidised conditions, Poland is fast growing. Imagine how much faster SA would have grown if SA had been gifted R3 trillion since 2004 as Poland has been. Imagine if our govt has spent R3 trillion more since 2004 on energy, water, road, rail and other infrastructure, public transport, law enforcement, education, healthcare etc. at no cost to South Africans and without incurring any debt. Willem must wake up from his “free market” fantasy. Poland’s economy is subsidised.

Hungary has the lowest energy prices in the EU. No wonder the EU is desperate to remove Orban from power. He's embarrasing the vassals.

Fun fact: this "American" solar panel factory belonged and was built by Chinese solar giant Trina Solar. Late last year, just a few days after the factory opened, Trina was forced to sell the facility to Freyr Battery (now rebranded as T1 Energy) after Congress threatened to pass a bill called "American Tax Dollars for American Solar Manufacturing Act" (congress.gov/bill/118th-cong…) that would kill the factory's business model if it remained under Chinese ownership (src: electrek.co/2024/12/30/chine…). Now you know how America came to have such an impressively productive "domestic solar" production facility.

It's okay for the US to ban TikTok as a threat to national security because it's Chinese but God forbid Russia bans Whatsapp which help terrorists communicate. Comply with the laws like you do with the FBI in the US and release information on terrorists, if not bye.

Top 20 Countries by Internet Users 📶 01. 🇨🇳 China - 1.30 Billion 02. 🇮🇳 India - 1.03 Billion 03. 🇺🇸 United States - 323.89 Million 04. 🇮🇩 Indonesia - 230.45 Million 05. 🇧🇷 Brazil - 185.00 Million 06. 🇷🇺 Russia - 135.68 Million 07. 🇵🇰 Pakistan - 116.84 Million 08. 🇲🇽 Mexico - 110.35 Million 09. 🇳🇬 Nigeria - 108.70 Million 10. 🇯🇵 Japan - 106.93 Million 11. 🇪🇬 Egypt - 98.21 Million 12. 🇵🇭 Philippines - 98.03 Million 13. 🇻🇳 Vietnam - 85.62 Million 14. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh - 82.81 Million 15. 🇩🇪 Germany - 78.45 Million 16. 🇹🇷 Turkey - 77.47 Million 17. 🇮🇷 Iran - 73.75 Million 18. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 68.09 Million 19. 🇹🇭 Thailand - 67.83 Million 20. 🇫🇷 France - 63.45 Million

UEFA awarded Estonia and Lithuania technical defeats with a score of 0:3 for refusing to play against Belarus in the qualifiers for the U17 Women's European Championship The national teams of the two Baltic countries did not want to play for political reasons - UEFA did not take this argument into account and punished Estonia and Lithuania Thus, the Belarusian team scored 6 points out of 6 and took first place in the qualifying group of the European Football Championship without playing a single match. Meme countries being meme countries.

China doesn't have a company valued >1T USD, because there is COMPETITION. They don't have one Apple, they have Oppo, Xiaomi, Huawei They don't have one Tesla, they have BYD, Nio, XPeng, Li Auto They don't have one Amazon, they have Taobao, Douyin shops, JD. US trillion dollar companies are protected monopolies. Might be cool for the shareholders, but consumers have to put up with shitty Pixel phones, buggy Windows, overpriced mid Teslas, and Facebook bot-slop. Chinese consumers get better products for less money.