yogthos

exactly

indeed it is

here https://archive.ph/TJzyt

The US is at the centre of western world order. The rest of the west is tied to the states ideologically, politically, economically, and militarily. The global hegemony that the US created in the 90s is now starting to unravel and that's having a negative economic impact on all western countries. Europe in particular has been hit very hard. And hence we're seeing political discontent running all across the west.

Seems like mostly just people in the west because western world order is now visibly collapsing.

It can't work without breaking cryptography. Any system with backdoors in it is fundamentally insecure.

It's pretty funny that all the Yoon supporters are hardcore trumpists.

also true

To be fair they inserted the hand wavy next few years there, so basically they're admitting that the pace will continue in 2025, but the collapse is definitely coming some time in the nebulous future. :)

China continues its strategy of just sitting back and letting the US fuck up.

The problem isn't just with the style, it's with the actual content and meaning though. What makes it AI slop is that there is no coherent logic behind the statements. It's like somebody asked a LLM to write up why China isn't socialist and then pasted it here.

That is indeed the case, it's important to keep in mind that Ukraine was created by USSR out of parts of Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Romania. I highly recommend watching a lecture that Mearsheimer gave back in 2015 to get a bit of background on the subject. Mearsheimer is certainly not pro Russian in any sense, and he gives an objective analysis of the situation. Let's take a look at some slides from the lecture here. First, here's the demographic breakdown of Ukraine:

here's how the election in 2004 went:

this is the 2010 election:

As we can clearly see from the voting patterns in both elections, the country is divided exactly across the current line of conflict. Furthermore, a survey conducted in 2015 further shows that there is a sharp division between people of eastern and western Ukraine on which economic bloc they would rather belong to: