War of aggression that will affect all of us.

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Re: War of aggression that will affect all of us.

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I'll have to leave this negative subject after this . . .

I learnt from an Anonymous hack that Shephard Iverson turns out to have pretty much the same idea I do on North Korea, although my reasoning was slightly different. Whether it's Russia cosplaying their most recent former self, the "people's" republic with Chinese characteristics or the "people's" republic with Korean perspective, we must approach these groups precisely from how they see things, and most importantly, what they prioritise. North Korea prioritises Unification way more than peace on the peninsula. On the other hand even I have to agree with Biggie Small's dictator cousin and his predecessor when nu****r powers, ALL of whom happily break international law and militarily attack or invade non-nu****r powers for 'noble reasons', transverse between demanding and begging and demanding. I less commonly see sensible academics who say that we should be asking they minimise their arsenal, which is literally the only thing a nu****r power can legitimately negotiate for. But when you are a great power riding on your noble high horse, you fail to notice your very existence is an existential threat to nations small, poor, weak, or some or all of these, and you do not take seriously avoiding actions that encourage them to arm the demonic deterrent. Libya and Ukraine both gave up their arsenals. In the last 12 years they've both been attacked by either the US or Russia, the number 1 and number 2 in the demonic deterrent, and in both cases a peaceful alternative was very much possible. The CCP thinks Taiwan is some kind of birthday present waiting to be unwrapped. In other words, actions and words contradict. North Korea Prioritises Unification over non-violence. Let that be something you repeat multiple times before bed, and you might start taking it more seriously than your countries narcissistic moral grandstanding. Therefore we ought to remember that when we talk to them (or you, but I'm assuming most in that area rarely see much beyond their 15 webpages or some number around that), that we should disscus unification and human rights with them as much as n*kes, and first, so that when we do talk about these deterrents we look like we're on the same wavelength. Also remember this situation could be more the interest of the CCP than it isn't as long as they avoid an actual conflict different communist party members would . North Korea acts as a buffer between them and western influence. On the other hand, if Korea unites, there will be western influence on their border and initially one with n*kes. To this end it's to double US advantage to focus on unifying Korea over denuclearisation.

In both Ukraine and Korea, the key-player is Beijing-controlled China. To that degree, it is even more important that in terms of influence over all of China, both the Beijing and Taipei based governments . Something called balance of power, that that west espouses but selectively applies. Frustratingly, the war for the Donbass So ironically, the is to peacefully quell the independence movement in Taiwan in exchange for security gaurantees and, most importantly offering to back them dual representation campaigns for representing China. This puts the west in less legal difficulty with the CCP-- one of a few reasons the independence movement does nothing for anyone--while simultaneously boosting Taipei influence over China. This literally should be the number since apart from mad Vlad of today pulling back his forces or negotiating a peace treaty for independence for the Donbass, Alpha Xiro is the only one who can actually stop this war. And helping the Taliban sort out their confused doctrine requires pressure from the US AND Beijing controlled China.

WeiQi is an intangible cultural heritage. Mearsheimer notes the nightmare of nationalism replacing communism. We should encourage both governments of China to embrace Weiqi and XiangQi as part of what can replace a narrow form of nationalism, something both governments are guilty of. And we should also encourage Baduk and JangGi in North and South Korea as a unifying factor. In other words, in all of China and the Korean peninsula, we should encourage Lentears and Elephant Chess, and as soon as possible to get China to stop the ridiculous situations in Ukraine and Afghanistan lasting 10 years or so.

I'm indexing a list, or rather matrix, of cultural intuitions, but that would require a series of multiple books to properly explain and catalogue, so I leave that out for now

It takes two to tango in my philosophy--as long as just one person decides to avoid being hot-headed, nothing bad will happen. Yes I absolutely always blame both sides in online conflicts, and feel mortified for my species when I think it's often those over 18 or even 24 engaging in such behaviour. I personally don't think my opinion deserves any respect whatsoever just because it's my opinion, as rather than respecting all all opinions I respect all people and so avoid degrading their beliefs out of sensitivity to them, not the belief itself. So I would never see others disagreeing with me as mean in any way whatsoever, even if they are overly emotional when the do it. They're human beings not objects. Although it's an especially good thing especially if done civilly!
The fact is that North Korea obsession with violence and nu****r weapons just one element of their immorality. In addition, lecturing them on needing to remove something when you have many multiples of that very thing is fundamentally stupid, and no amount of cognitive bargaining can quibble that dissonance. Sorry. This is just an overactive left-brain when people realise everyone having theses demonic deterrents is a no-no. Sorry. Nu****r powers in general can save their narcissistic bragging on how noble they are for the heap where it belongs. Now back to serious business; therefore, ironically, the best solution for juche land isn't yapping in their facing about dropping the demonic deterrent when you are many times worse than them in that regard, but yapping in their face about human rights violations, in which you may be a bit less awful and so have a right to talk.

In a single standalone weiqi game, the aim is not to dominate but simply to score 1 point, or even 0.5 a point more than the opponent. Or win by even less. This should be the guiding principle for all international relations. We can ignore hypocritical 'one country can't tell another country what to do' statements, but the other extreme of dominating over other countries is just as hypocritical and also worthy only to be ignored. The correct attitude is the midway philosophy. One can tell another what to do within limits. At the least let's remember one can go around, just randomly, to find people to moralise on. It's not that difficult. Improving oneself is a tad trickier for many.

Let me add that territorial claims between countries like saying 'Taiwan is part of China' or 'Ukraine is part of Russia' or Kashmir/the Golan Heights/Whatever irrelevant area is being contested between Beijing-controlled China and India are fundamentally postmodernist. The earth does not recognise countries. Countries are made up in our head. Duh. Forcing me to recognise your territorial claims are a thousand times less legitimate than forcing me to accept you gender identity, and I prefer to do these things out of respect, and sensitivity over force. At least the form is people questioning consciousness and then out of their own craziness for a materialistic worldview rejecting their own quest in understanding consciousness and their intuition and finding a way to childishly reject spirituality, due to their fear of spirituality, at least they are real victims worthy of being nice to, than silly matiearlistic territorial claims done for ego, haha
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Re: War of aggression that will affect all of us.

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It's clear that all of the Russian speaking areas of Ukraine. meaning not the Donbass in the east but also much of south of Russia. So this is primarily an ethnic war fro Putin, but now he's turned even those ethic Russians he's claiming to save against Russia since he's kind of killing them. Obviously, in light of it being an ethnic war, the short term solution to stop the war is to declare all Russian majority regions as independent nations, which would then give the west more leeway to station capabilities including troops since those regions would no longer be Ukrainian.

But what if we end up in a position were not only Europe's largest and strongest go nation is excluded, but also the EGF's biggest go partner, CEGO of Beijing-regime controlled china.

Many western supposed officials are claiming that the coming party conference in October would mean an attempt on the alternative government of China, is less likely and are basing there predictions about Chinese attempts on the 2024 US elections. Basing it Around their reality. To me this is ridiculous. It's just as likely that Xi might try to use absorbing Taiwan as a way to boost his election chances given the failure on zero-COVID, which has made it possible he won't be elected. Ironically, the best thin for Taiwan is for China to run smoothly until the October conference so that he doesn't feel the need to pull anything for political gain. With the recent woes in the beijingi territories,

Of course if that were to happen the EGF would be put in a difficult position. I suspect that back then when the EGF first announced their pro project, I believe that part of the reason why the Nihon Kiiin snubbed, or rather snobbed, the concept was the high reliance on Chinese company CEGO for the plan--Something which Catalin Taranu mentioned in his response letter, so given that EGF officials knew about the china alternative government issue and still went ahead with a 10-year contract, knowing we may in a future within that timeframe be put in a position to choose between Taipei-China go and Beijing-China go . . . I guess you should be careful if you put all your hopes in a company, what that company is and where it's from.

Perhaps it's time for the west to reject claims of sovereignty with all parties and have only informal relationships with both Beijing and Taipei, a 'No-China' policy, and rekegate the PRC to observer status in international bodies, and have only Vice presidents . Or, What I would do, focu only on cultural exchange. Xi Jinping sees Weiqi as worthy, which is great for us and for Chinese go. I'm really hoping this attitude from the Beijing government would help raise the go in the regions they control, primarily the female go which lags behind korea and even could be behind Japan--a decade or so ago I think weiqi was introduced as a sbject in schools in some places, but strangely I'm yet to see that great an increase in their level. On the other hand, maybe it's better that Korea is 30 times better than bejingi china at weiqi, I don't know . . .
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Re: War of aggression that will affect all of us.

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Elom0 wrote:I'll have to leave this negative subject after this . . .
Is it not tiresome to ramble on and on about this as if it was alternate history fiction?

Today in particular with the news that China has announced military drills that are in effect an air and sea blockade of Taiwan, not unsimilar to the drills announced by Russia off the coast of Ukraine before 24th February, I do think the ramble is misplaced in this topic.
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