Although Russia is still a bit of a neoliberal hellhole, it has a lot of institutions, trade relations, and physical infrastructure which are holdovers from the USSR, and its MoD's separate academic tradition & role in economic decisions + renationalized control of nuclear industry, oil etc sets it apart from more compliant states. At this point Russia has far more economic links to Asia than the western world. Of course if they'd been given the opportunity United Russia gooners would have gone for a subimperialist relationship with US + Europe and not bothered with all of this developmentalism stuff, but it's really just too large and independent for that to be permitted, making Russia the primary example of an entity the west cannot lay siege to. Lot of Russian poli sci and foreign relations teach people to make decisions based on a kind of mnemonic policy sentimentalism backed by unanalytical historical (including Solzhenitsyn-tier sources so) analogies, they've got annoying war on terror Israel policy. They have copied a lot of China's foreign relations because it produces political stability + reduces foreign diplomatic pressure (independent allies can't be easily coerced), healthy trade relationships, stable skilled workforces to build industrial capacity that can travel abroad for training, low cost of labor through infrastructure rather than exploitation, creating military self-sufficiency + providing training & technology transfers rather than overburdening yourself through suppling military aid to an isolated country. They don't have contrary foreign policy building isolated blocs that they attempt to build up into semi-self-sufficient partners, there is a mutual interest in constructing international institutions + law (which mostly de facto dont exist, coalition of the willing rules based yadda yadda) and opposing unilateral sanctions. Instead of picking different countries in the periphery to sponsor they have a mutual interest in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Sahel states, etc are able to develop. KPRF is a lame socdem party but they pressured Kremlin for intervention to stop the aggression against DPR and LPR, and have been successful in ways that the western union/antiwar protest left has not. Like Latam socdems there is more potential for something there because it's not organizing labor aristocrats & humanities washouts, it's in the global semiperiphery

I'm not ragging on people, many developmental, human, and theoretical advancements were all made possible by the USSR, it's just important to see why it was in a position to be disassembled & how some of its institutions persisted, and how it was unable to uproot imperialism, why there was a doctrinal split with China (which made mistakes too). So with all that out of the way, China and Russia now have no reason to go through a diplomatic or military confrontation, and since they're so economically + militarily interdependent, they have a zillion ways to quash anything before it comes to blows. Even simply postponing the signing of a new bilateral cooperation agreement or not incentivizing tourism would be a stage of escalation in the event of a dispute. Most likely we'll see more pressure against Russia from across the arctic circle & from eastern Euros + Scandinavians, not Russia working against China and Southeast Asian countries. Russians - even the more 4th positionist/neolib-nationalist-style Russians - are genuine about economic crosslinking, problem is their western-academia-brain-poisoned leadership has been slow to recognize how essential it is + how little western countries will compromise on their mission to undevelop & privatize the natural resources of every global south country & keep their trade links linear + how much allies like Iran & central Asia states need support in order to make international law real for the first time

China and Russia have completely different foreign policy than Cold War China and the USSR, there's been no sign of friction over China maintaining attitude of neutrality re: Ukraine, they are increasingly collaborating on infrastructure + involved in each other's supply chains. There's plenty of other stuff to worry about. I just don't see any series of events leading to tensions

Russia is even more fucked up than just a capitalist country. Like the infrastructure itself there are some institutions which retain a lot of influence from the USSR, Kremlin + central bank nonwithstanding, which is why I recommend Samir Amin's book abt the transition to and out of the Soviet mode of production. The MoD has had a major role in the economic planning of the country and it's not academically bought-out by the west. Its influence grows the longer the conflict in the Ukraine and soon the arctic progresses

Chungus director

Wowow I won't pry but I'm curious what it was in as I wasn't getting much turns out especially since what I was getting was magnesium oxide which allegedly absorbs inefficiently. I have neglected to buy powder for it so I have just been eating rich foods. Makes me sleep better

Protein fiber potassium and fish oil are like 40%, 50% is constitution e.g. sleep + exercise + posture + stress + lymph drainage + inflammation, 5% is these weird substances i imbibe which hopefully do not contain heavy metals, 5% is unknown. It's just a baseline thing which makes any further medical treatment more accurate I don't mean to present myself as a holistic healer. Also you in general want to eat lots of plants because of all their unknown special chemicals we all love plants don't we folks

Oh shidd

I'm kind of happy that I scooped out the whole toys and vidya part of my brain and replaced it with history and computers

Yeah just launching an outlet won't do anything either we need to create a real crowd-controlled distribution system parallel to social media. Stuff like lemmy is a baby step

Oh sorry I wasn't thinking about the vitaminosis thing even tho you had just told me omg, I just feel a complete night and day difference in my personality when I eat 25-38g fiber, lots of fish for protein and omega 3s.In that case I will just say that you should watch your sodium and magnesium levels if you go any long periods without eating (I skip breakfast for metabolic reasons, so I take flavored electrolyte drinks I make, it's easy)

YOU NEED POTASSIUM NOBODY IS GETTING ENOUGH POTASSIUM YOU HAVE TO MAKE THIS YOUR FIRST PRIORITY ACTUALLY MEASURE HOW MUCH IS IN YOUR FOOD TRUST ME YOU ARE DEFICIENT EVERYONE IS NOBODY LISTENS TO ME PLS

You can get it in citrate or chloride powder it's suuuper cheap in bulk you can get a year's supply for like $20

Incomplete list of supplements that flip me from wanting to laze around to wanting to clean and go running:

• l-carnitine (good for muscle recovery and vegan diets, especially paired with carnosine, it's much cheaper in powder than in meat of course)
• beta alanine
• betaine
• citrulline malate (2 things but they come mixed)
• l-arginine
• taurine (very good for studying, has a calming and focusing effect)
• l-theanine (same as above)

Idk what alpha gpc is or does but it also seems to help lol. If this seems like some brain force shit it isnt, you'd be surprised how far ahead I am of those chumps lol. I buy all this shit separately but you can prolly get it if you search "caffeine free preworkout"

I wish you could get tianeptine or racetams etc, come move across the pacific 😉

I don't know how it can happen, I just have a pile of stuff about how messed up Nigeria is + historical reasons for it. This is my problem with the alt media particularly, they only traipse around after the general news narrative. If you want to actually get ahead of it and learn about Kenya, SAfrica, Nigeria, Argentina, Myanmar, Indonesia, etc in depth they will not help you at all. A friend compared it to small business owners painting themselves as opposition to big corporations when they just sit on the sidelines waiting to side with capital if it wins

It would be nice if they actually helped regions without real opposition media groups instead of trying to be the backup MSM that points out hypocrisy in opinion pieces

You're a simpleminded fool and all your weapons have been taken from you like you were a child

They've got support I just hope they can create strong international relationships and ride this out

Get real

Not more or less jerking. Jerk even harder

I think as long as all of these institutions are ideologically predisposed not to understand China, capital controls, or what industrial capacity actually is, it will recur

Well it looks like you've got the infamous Facebook-quality memes to work with

It's rebranded ISIS. People think because they have infighting with other parts of rebranded ISIS they aren't. They're

Oh damn hope you feel better. Honestly electrolytes rich diet & b12 will have you way higher energy than the caffeine pills after a while. Is it cool if I infodump about substances that revivify me? I wish you guys had tianeptine in your pharma system in the states

Did the gas leak improve or diminish your posting capabilities

Preemptive butterstrike