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Most likely if the author of the video is to be trusted as a learned and impartial source on the topic. I've seen his videos where he has demonstrated in his narration and presentation clear nationalist bias with an detectable undertone of triumphalism and jingoism as an Azeri and for the Azeri side in the conflict when covering the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces.

Could, but according to this video's information likely won't because of the potentially huge costs and losses an amphibious invasion would entail for the military force and domestic stability of the CCP controlled PRC. Who postulated this invasion theory? Admiral Philip Davidson - The Chief of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command - says conflict possible with Taiwan in the next six years. Conclusion of the video: ,, Invading and occupying Taiwan would be an extraordinarily difficult military action and not to mention an extremely risky proposition. Amphibious warfare requires precise coordination between air, land, and sea forces on a massive scale. The Chinese military would have to occupy an island with a hostile population of 23 million that is not going to be easy and insurgency would be unavoidable. An all-out invasion Chinese invasion at this point in time could theoretically succeed but it could just as easily fail miserably. A military disaster could have catastrophic consequences for the Chinese military - above all, it would brand it as a paper tiger and encourage foreign incursions elsewhere. For China, these considerations are too risky so a full-scale invasion is not likely in the near future." ,, What is possible however is that China begins a hybrid war which is a type of conflict that stops short of shooting and seeks to subdue the foe through fear and exhaustion. If performed correctly a hybrid war can be decisive, that's why Chinese warplanes are flying around Taiwan almost daily, sometimes launching multiple sorties on the same day. The pace of the Chinese incursions is unrelenting, so without firing a single shot China is depleting Taiwan's resources. Beijing can afford to keep the pressure and by increasing the tempo of these operations, the Chinese air force can inflict disproportionate stress on Taiwan. The purpose of hybrid warfare is to make the target feel as if it's isolated as if its allies are not coming to the rescue and that the military threat is not a bluff, for this to work the assault needs to be low-risk so as not to provoke a backlash from the United States." ,, China could for instance impose a naval blockade to suffocate Taiwan, it could intercept Taiwanese cargo ships claiming that they are carrying illicit goods and weaponry. No one would believe China and much of the international community would condemn Beijing's policy, but none of that would matter because no one would physically come to Taiwan's defense and such a naval blockade wouldn't result in an armed conflict and would likely force Taiwan into concessions allowing Beijing to claim victory and back down. Another example would be for China to ,,shock and awe" Taiwan into political concessions by seizing the Taiwanese controlled Kinmen and Matsu islands just off the Taiwanese coast." ,,The trouble with hybrid warfare is that it means abandoning physical soft power, physical action against Taiwan would stir up a zealous independence movement which would make the occupation all the more difficult. So while China could manufacture a crisis to reverse Taiwan's drift towards independence, the prospects of an all-out invasion is overblown at least in the coming decade, even then China would invade Taiwan if it's confident in it's victory or desperate for domestic approval."

I'm trying dig out of my head what's the first video I've watched back in 2017. I think it was on Why are you Lazy or And How to overcome Addiction (sorry if these are no accurate titles, I should probably rewatch some of those and take notes at this point in life). Anyways thanks a lot for that @Leo Gura those videos open the gates for me for your channels content, message, philosophy and it's possibilities and gave me and still give me hope that I can overcome some of my problems that I am struggling with in my life and for the candid advice that you gave me to some of the problems and things I posted on the forum. Also I would like to thank all the moderators really from the heart especially @Forestluv , @Nahm and @ajasatya for giving me advice and insights in hard personal times in the past and for the kind words of support they gave me also when I experienced heavy sorrow regarding some of my family members passing. And also you @Preety_Indiafor also giving me advice on and showing me kindness, openness and understanding for my addiction problems and psychological issues that I had during the time when I was most vulnerable and was desperately looking for help and advice. Thank you again for the shown kindness and understanding, and sorry for not responding and answering later to that thread during lockdown last year. Thank you again to all of you who work on this channel and forum for providing free avenues for people like me to have online resources in a single congregated place so they can easily find and access content that they need to fix and upgrade their lives and life experience. Thanks and Namaste ?

Wanted to post these pictures I've taken in this coping and emotional healing journal so I can remind myself of the beauty and magnificence of the atmosphere of this planet and the celestial bodies that are in it's proximity and also to have them somewhere stored so I can revisit them and remind myself of the privileges and luck that I have in that to be able to experience them and the ability to take a picture of them to have them as a memories.

Ask yourself what's your countries involvement (in the Wars in the Middle East, The Shadow War in Africa against terrorist groups such as Boko Haram etc., former colonial exploitation under colonialism and current exploitation of former colonies) that's making some groups in your country more likely to embrace terrorism in order to shock the domestic civilian population too see what their government is doing or how it is aiding and abetting other nations abroad in treating populations in other nations as cheap labour, as part of their nation-building political experiment with certain populations or in the worst case scenario unintended target practice for the military industry. There is famous terrorist called Abu Musab al Suri or the Syrian, who used to be a part of Al Qaeda until he separated from them due to disagreements in terror tactics and in the strategy of conducting terrorist attacks (for example he rejected, and left Al Qaeda for that very reason, the grandiosity and the scale of the 9/11 attacks as doing more harm than good for the Islamist jihadi cause since it prompted and gave an excuse for America and other allied countries to invade more Middle Eastern countries and to strengthen their military hold there on the behest of Muslims living there) and moved his terrorist cell in Syria (former French protectorate) during the still ongoing Syrian War. He suggested a radical change of approach and tactics to terrorist attacks. You don't target powerful symbols of nation's power and wealth and cause a world-wide spectacle with the attack as way and method by which you draw others and followers (mostly Muslims) to your Islamist cause but you target the core inner components of a nation and state and exploit them in order to weaken it and to put pressure on it in order for the government and leaders of that country to lessen, stop or withdraw policies they formerly advocated and supported that affected your country in some way. And a core component of today's Western liberal and pluralistic democratic states and society are the civilians which it governs over. The idea was, Suri argued, to scare and frighten the domestic civilian populations for their lives and livelihood just enough for them to be more amicable to electing parties and politicians that would be more inclined or would evenly openly support policies that involve lessening the targeted Western countries presence or eventually withdrawing it all together from the country that its presence or its influence is somehow involved in. I would guess that that's a similar tactic applied behind these terrorist attacks. I could be dead wrong since I can't read the headline and text since I don't speak French. Do you count the technocratic non-majoritarian and non-democratic institutions of the EU as that rational and calculating actor that effectively forces the final decisions in economics and politics on the pure attempted and predicted stability basis for the whole system that your country and Germany are an integral part of? Correct me if I am wrong if it is an element of the yellow component that you were looking for in your country and neighbouring ones in EU non-majoritarian technocratic institutions regarding monetary policy and even to some extent domestic policy (for example EU put economic sanctions on one of its members Poland, the last I heard, for turning legislation into law regarding the baning of abortion to a certain extent for women, on the basis that it is the violation of human and citizen rights of a population in a member state contained within the EU membership Charter and UN human rights charters, if I rember correctly).

The quote is part of a larger excerpt from his 2012 book: ,,Empire of Illussion: The Triumph of Spectacle and the End of Literacy": "Ideals cannot be achieved. Rather ideals are like stars that guide you through your life and they set standards." "Dreams were always a myth, but the possiblity of advancement in X was real." "Dreams were something you sought to attain." "Illussions are different. Illussions you live within." "We are a society that has lost the capacity to dream and live within a vast illussion."

I wanted to write this before I continue my studying because I felt I needed to express and verbalize in written form these heavy thought patterns and heavy feelings I've been having when I sat down on a chair to meditate a little bit for 10 minutes as a break from focusing my mind on studying and learning. Update: Sat still for 15 minutes felt the same feeling of fatigue engulf my mind and body. What I thought about and felt were thoughts about death, or to be more specific projected fears of me dying from my own hand as a result of failing to achieve what I set out for myself in life and failing to reach that standard, and giving up, not being willing to regress or degrade myself to a lower level of existing, thinking and feeling then I am currently at. There are of course regressions and downturns in life, but my fears I am having regarding this is of them being permanent and of not being able to return back, particularly to a state of consciousness and being in relation to the world where I once was when I look back at my murky memories. But what is stopping me from seeking death are the consequences of dying at this point in life, to be more specific, my imagined rule that if repeat the same fate as my mother has, the consequences would be extremely bad and difficult karmic chain to break when I, imagine, would return back to this earth again in a different form either to live out the unconscious punishment of that act or of having to go through the same mistakes I did and that I committed in this life until I learn from them and learn how to correct them. So, in essence, what's acting as a huge deterrent for me not to commit suicide is the inevitable heavy burden and karmic punishment that would result and occur in the next life, that would be severely worse and harder to endure than the one in this one, of having been unable to break the chain of suicides in my family with my mother's own reasons and undefeated pain and problems that led her to it, and because of the attachment and care I still have towards my father and grandmother of not wanting to cause them the, I am quite sure of it, the unbearable pain and suffering in their lives, that I fear the most, because of the loss of me, will push them as well down the path of not having a purpose and will to live any longer because of the unbearable I would inflict upon them If I would partake in such an act.

RIP Roger Scruton ?

I am just discovering the potential power it can bestow upon the individual if comprehended and practiced consciously and correctly. I was kinda of anti-religious and anti-Christian before due to my upbringing and being ingraved the stereotype by my family that religion, especially in my country's histories context is backwards and for hypocritical people, who preach one thing and do another or at least for people who have lost faith in themselves and have given all their personal power to be led or instructed by a person who claims to represent a higher authority. But in the last couple of months certain things and past memories resurfaced in my life that forced me to radically change my view and thoughts on religion and my feelings towards it. Didn't consider practicing meditation from time to time and casual research in spirituality as being a practicing something in some organized religion per se. I believe you! I had these casual and similar unexplainable feelings, at least to myself then, when being in a church as a child and sinking in, at least I interpreted it then, the intended created otherworldly atmosphere in it, with the scented smells inside and seemingly frozen in time images and icons caressing it's walls. I could probably go to the giant Saint Sava Church in Belgrade to at least try to imitate even for a tiny bit the feeling of grandiosity and awe that entering the Saint Peter Basilica can produce for a first comer. My professor of sociology of religion and the course Introduction to World Religions at my faculty, which I registered to attend this semester, described to us attending it, in detail, during a lecture this semester about the West and Islam and the history of religious tolerance in Muslim Spain, the feelings he got when he, as apart of researching the Islamic tradition in Spain, visited the Grand Mosque in Cordoba. He said of the experience I paraphrase: It is if I entered a never-ending and infinite maze of intertwined arches and pillars who's elegance and complexity in construction and decoration exceeded any reasonable and logical comprehension of how they came to exist as they are in the first place as a part of the rest of the human made architecture in the city and that I was indeed still on Earth when standing there in the mosques interior and just looking at them with awe and not some other otherworldy divine place. Perhaps Jannah itself, paradise in Islam, as if it would look if it had a place on Earth and if it was in an interior of a building imitatiting it of how it should look in the afterlife.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass in B Minor - Gratias agim tibi (We give thee to You). "All of Bach's music is an angelic tragedy. The earthly exile of angels is it's motivé and hidden meaning. This why we can only understand Bach when we distance ourselves from our humanity, when we experience our first memory. Afflicted by the fall in time, Bach only saw eternity. The pathos of this vision is to represent the process of ascending to eternity and not eternity itself. Music in which we are not eternal but where we will become. Eternity is the complete defeat of time and entry, not into another order of existence, but into a substantially different world... Heaven is the absolute moment, a loop where everything is current. The tension and dynamism of his music comes from the fact that we have to conquer paradise; we don't want it given to us." " Who, in ecstasy in front of this music, has not felt his naturally fleeting condition; who has not imagined the succession of possible worlds that come between us and paradise will never understand why Bach's sounds are so many seraphic kisses... " Emil Cioran, Le livre des leurres (The Book of Lures, 1936.) Credit for this music and quote goes to a good friend of mine who has discovered this for me ?

He may not be internationally well known but Patriarch Paul became famous in the Balkans during the time he was the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from early 90's till his death in 2005. for standing up against the insanity, anti-humanism and violence of ultranationalism, especially Greater Serbian nationalism since he thought it was his duty to do so since it was being spread from the country he was born in and in which he lived his life, during the 90's and for leading, as the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is supposedly a conservative and status quo institution that should not go up against the established order of rule and power, for time and time again resistance and demonstrations against the dictator Slobodan Milosevich in Serbia. He may have other conservative views as the patriarch of the regional autocephalous national Orthodox Church regarding the status of some internationally disputed regions and Serbian minority ethnic populations outside of and in relation to Serbia, but a lot of the times the sentiments he espoused in public were Christian universalist values regarding all men and their relationship to God and about their unity in the struggle of good against evil, which he deeply believed could be generated and contained in the heart of any man regardless of his race, religion, ethnicity, class status and class origin or family nobility. Here are some of the quotes from him in the Christian spirit about the need to fight to live and for your life since it is a gift from God and therefore of sacred origin and substance, to accept your fellow men regardless of however much he is different from or seemingly on the surface opposed to you and the destiny of what God put you here for in a conservative flavour: "A bird is bird if it flies, a flower is a flower if it blossoms, a man is man if he prays." - Patriarch Pavle "Your heart should not be poisoned with hate or vengeance. God's justice is always achievable." - +Pat. Pavle "A sinner is an unhappy man, especially if he is full of himself." - +Pat. Pavle "God will always put you through different temptations but never through the ones you are not already ready for." - +Pat. Pavle "Everything that is shared more there is less, but only when love is shared more there is more of it." - +Pat. Pavle "Do not let evil around you to awaken evil within yourself" - +Pat Pavle "If God is with you then what are you afraid of? If God is not with you then what are you hoping for? - +Pat. Pavle "Don't ever forget that evil is of a short duration, and only seemingly successful and shining... So on evil, cunning and fraud nothing should be founded upon...especially not life." - +Pat. Pavle "True love is one which doesn't seek its own, when you love someone or something without logic. That is as well also true freedom. And that's why I am a Christian." - +Pat. Pavle "People in essence are wonderful, but they corrupt themselves with bad habits. God gave us the power of the habit, but it depends on us what and what kind of habit will prevail." - +Pat. Pavle "He who cannot calm himself, will be calmed down by life itself. But life doesn't always have nice methods for this." - +Pat. Pavle "Wisdom without goodness is transformed into vileness, and innocence without wisdom becomes stupidity." - + Pat. Pavle "Let us be the collaborators of God, doing that which is our duty as humans, and God will help us in turn to pull through that which we alone can't stand against." +Pat. Pavle "To humiliate me can't do but anyone, but to humiliate me can only do but one. That one is myself." +Pat. Pavle "People of this world adorn and decorate themselves on the outside, and leave behind that which is most important, that which makes us human - justice, mercy and faith and truth and love." - +Pat. Pavle "We are bound to even in the worst of situations act as people, and there is no interest, either national or individual, that can become an excuse for us not to act as people [humans]." - +Pat. Paul "When a man is born the whole world rejoices and only he cries. But he should live his life in such a way that when he dies the whole world cries and only he rejoices." - +Pat. Pavle "Every rule and ruler is from God, just as love, truth and justice are from God. But not every rule and ruler is according to God's will but only by permission of God, because man is a free being. Not even God can save those who do not want to save themselves, because that would be violence, and God does not commit violence just as he is not for lies and injustices. Violence, lies and injustices are not power, but rather powerlessness." - +Pat. Pavle

I am glad you found it useful and that I helped you in that regard. Didn't as well know about it all until yesterday when a friend of mine linked it to me with the featured article via Facebook.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/26/aoc-m26.html 25 March 2021 Very interesting and informative article by WSWS about the history of the ideology and political strategy of DSA within the Democratic Party and a critique of Ocasio-Cortez's position on "class essentialism deprioritizing human rights" and "bad faith actors" . Conclusion of the article: And what does the DSA have to show for a half century of working within the Democratic Party? The party has abandoned any pretense to social reform, it has waged permanent war and overseen a massive growth in social inequality. The “realignment” strategy paved the way for the Democratic Party’s rapid movement ever further to the right. It succeeded in facilitating the Democrats’ adoption of identity politics, based on doling out privileged positions to corrupt representatives of various racial groups, and a more open acceptance of human rights imperialism. Ocasio-Cortez and the DSA are carrying forward their pro-imperialist, anti-communist traditions into the 21st century. Their main role, as expressed in the interview, is to serve as gatekeepers of the bourgeois political left, channeling social opposition into the Democratic Party and placing its left opponents beyond the pale. Those who fight to mobilize the working class (“class essentialism”) for a break with the Democratic Party are “cynical bad faith actors” who want to “destroy.”

You make some valid points, criticisms and observations (on some of the existing proposed options within electoral politics in the U. S. that I didnt have an idea about existing until you mentioned it here - apart from the much talked proposed reform about the filibuster and the electoral college) from a reformist point of view, prediction and perspective on the pathway and trajectory of change within U. S. politics and economy. I disagree on some of the stuff regarding the imagined people's perception of political radicalization and being radicalized in the dominant culture of the U. S. regarding politics since I think the term is prone for use in black propaganda by whatever the establishment of a state and is also used to politically and morally smear policy advocacy solutions that explained correctly should sound reasonable to most common people. So for that reason I think term radical and radicalization should be worked on being reinvented so it does not sound "bad" and "evil" and is not as stereotypically associated with for example terrorism in the mainstream discourse or popular imagination but as something that is a need and requirement at this pont in time. For example one could say: "We in the name of the people demand radical change of the current system that is no longer sustainable and has long abandoned the needs and wants of ordinary industrious and hard-working people in our country. We demand the radicalization of policies being proposed and carried out to address these systemic issues that have long been plaguing our country and pushing the majority of country further into impoverishment, debt and a mediocre standard of living. We are therefore radical in our advocacy and intent of adressing these systemic issues that others ignore or won't mention for the sole reason that we want radical change and reform for the benefit of majority of our people in our country and for the betterment of their lives, livelihoods and those es of their children and future generations. " For example one could say while using the word radical and radicalization in the sense I mentioned above in a bland, vanilla speech calling for radical change in the way things are in America.

Even though so why not at least try to work on building a strong Third Party base in the Imperial Core of Capitalism to have when times become even grimmer if you think most people would be just satisfied with a simple advocacy for some réformism here and there conducted via the Democratic Party. Do you think it would become radical enough over the years to actually address the mounting grotesque social inequality and possible state repression in order to keep the status quo over the next upcoming years? Who is going to stand up and adress the Big Tech Monopoliies and Multinational Corporations based in the U. S. that affect the whole world within the constraints of U. S. national electoral politics as if it is an isolationist wealth and company problem only under the administrative area of the U. S. government?

Yes I agree but it is also at the same time a possible avenue for the traditional white and other dominant ethnicities workers who mostly voted for Trump now or Bernie out of their own perceived class interests to find avenue out of this soft language of identity politics that Democratic party leadership and candidates espouse in their campaigns as tactic in order to get votes for the Democratic Party from minority and marginalised ethnic working class groups in America and into candidates and political parties that would speak in a more concrete and much more adversirial and critical language of class, class exploitation, class oppression and class domination against the actual groups who carry it out in society.

Yes somewhat I agree for the aim perhaps of targeting and trying to get some of the people who were the traditional voter base or voted for the Democrats or even Republicans who have become disaffected with the parties over the years to persuade them away from both parties and towards some Third party option for the workers or small business in America.

I have read it. For example this is a statement from the interview posted online in the magazine Democratic Left a couple of weeks ago that she gave to the editorial board member of that magazine Dan McIntosh and that the World Socialist Web Site columnist Eric London used excerpts from for his article analysing claims and statements she made in this interview. The statement Ocasio-Cortez made in the interview from the original article: "And so when I would see DSA showing up providing real structural support at BLM rallies, or support for abolishing ICE, where we felt like there wasn’t this class essentialism, but that this really was a multiracial class struggle that didn’t de-prioritize human rights, frankly, I was really impressed. And I felt like it was something worth being part of." WSWS article interpretation of that statement: Ocasio-Cortez saves the most vituperative comments for the genuine socialist opponents of Biden. When asked, “What was your path to joining DSA?” Ocasio-Cortez responds by repeatedly stressing what makes the DSA “distinctive” from other socialist groups: “We felt like there wasn’t this class essentialism, but that this really was a multiracial class struggle that didn’t de-prioritize human rights, frankly, I was really impressed.” The reference to “class essentialists deprioritizing human rights” shows Ocasio-Cortez and the DSA are working in line with a definite political tradition: American anti-communism. Nothing socially progressive can emerge from this morass. Ocasio-Cortez answer to the interviewers question in the original article: Question: Some on the Left have looked at Biden’s record and his differences with the Bernie wing of the party, and they conclude that no progress is going to come out of the Biden administration. What’s your view? "Well, I think it’s a really privileged critique. We’re gonna have to focus on solidarity with one another, developing our senses for good faith critique and bad faith critique. Because bad faith critique can destroy everything that we have built so swiftly. And we know this because it has in the past, and it’s taken us so many decades to get to this point. We do not have the time or the luxury to entertain bad faith actors in our movement. But also we have to value our solidarity with one another. For anyone who brings that up, we really have to ask ourselves, what is the message that you are sending to your Black and brown and undocumented members of your community, to your friends, when you say nothing has changed? Perhaps not enough has changed. And this is not a semantic argument. Just the other night, we in collective struggle were able to stop the deportations of critical members of our community. And that would not have happened in a Trump administration." Thank you. "They were just on the belt ready to go. And you just cannot say that nothing will change. We can make the argument that not enough is changing fast enough. And these really are not nitpicking questions of semantics, because this is how the language that we use communicates to individuals who is included and who do you consider a person. When you say “nothing has changed,” you are calling the people who are now protected from deportation “no one.” And we cannot allow for that in our movement. That’s not a movement that I want to be a part of. And I know that’s not the movement that we are a part of. We’re so susceptible to cynicism. And that cynicism, that weaponization of cynicism, is what has and what continues to threaten to tear down everything that we have spent so much time building up. We’re allowed to win too, by the way. [LAUGHS.] I prefer winning, actually." WSWS article analysis and interpretation of Ocasio-Cortez's following answer an statement: McIntosh asks, “Some on the Left have looked at Biden’s record and his difference with the Bernie wing of the party, and they conclude that no progress is going to come out of the Biden administration. What’s your view?” She replies: "Well, I think it’s a really privileged critique. We’re gonna have to focus on solidarity with one another, developing our senses for good faith critique and bad faith critique. Because bad faith critique can destroy everything that we have built so swiftly. And we know this because it has in the past, and it’s taken us so many decades to get to this point. We do not have the time or the luxury to entertain bad faith actors in our movement." Such “bad faith actors,” Ocasio-Cortez says, only betray their disdain for the poor and oppressed by criticizing the president. Ocasio-Cortez adds a noxious dose of identity politics to the old Democratic trick of presenting left-wing opponents as aiding the right: "For anyone who brings that up [i.e., opposition to the Biden administration], we really have to ask ourselves, what is the message that you are sending to your Black and brown and undocumented members of your community, to your friends, when you say nothing has changed?... When you say ‘nothing has changed,’ you are calling the people who are now protected from deportation ‘no one.’ And we cannot allow for that in our movement." The example of protecting immigrants from deportation is an unfortunate selection on Ocasio-Cortez’s part. In the weeks since the interview, Biden has suspended the right to asylum and deported tens of thousands of Central American refugees, denying them as much as a court hearing. Perhaps Ocasio-Cortez considers that the 15,000 children presently detained in immigration jails are “privileged bad faith actors” for opposing their own incarceration. Ocasio-Cortez saves the most vituperative comments for the genuine socialist opponents of Biden. So @OpoI think nobody is twisting her words here (especially not me since I haven't wrote that article analysing and interpretating the interview that Ocasio-Cortez gave to a DSA affiliate magazine about her politics and vision of what left-wing movements and parties ought to be in America and the conclusion that it got from her statements made on that very subject, it is just that I thought that what it was saying and concluding about the current nature and role of Cortez, DSA and Democrats under this administration in America and the conclusion that it came about them did have a point and a factual backing to it), it à conclusion that the author of the article Eric London posted on World Socialist Web Site made about the history and nature of the DSA political strategy within the Democratic Party and his own interpretation of Ocasio-Cortez's statements and opposition to the character and nature of left-wing socialist criticisms of the Biden Administration and of goalscope and achieviements of the DSA progressives in the U.S. Congress up until this point.

This maybe possible for middle-class people in developed countries to sell everything that they own and take this radical step with a partner that shares the same vision and beliefs about the necessities for it with them. You don't have to be middle class even but I think at the most you most have enough savings, a carefully developed and informed, from other few people who live such a lifestyle, plan and some starting and basic know-how to take the necessary first radical steps. I don't know for myself I thought maybe I would sell my property in the city and buy a cheap house in the rural countryside in the country in which I live in but I don't have a developed plan of going about this and information from and enough knowledge gained from other people in living such a lifestyle so currently I am to following rhythm, to a more less extent, of the consumer culture lifestyle here in the city in which I live with my dad and grandmother. In short I have two radically different plans for my long term future either moving to work anything in a developed first-world economy at some point in the next couple of years or selling property that I share with my family in the city and moving into the countryside. But not to avoid my personal responsibility but I think this topics problem is a lot more prescient for people who do not live in a landlocked country with only one big river flow to the sea and that already live relatively stable working class with savings or middle class lifestyles in metropolitan and urban areas in first world mostly industrialized and with large global economic impact developed first world nations who are worried and feel the the most guilt about the impact of their consumer lifestyle on a global level.

One of the consequences of most people seeing others adopt and then following the tribe and adopting themselves the hegemonic culture of the hedonistic and unreflective consumer lifestyle from which they derive pleasure of enduring the hardships of work in a global capitalist culture and economy. One of the solutions for this problem on a microlevel is adopting a self-sustained individualism and individual lifestyle of rejecting these dominant values and norms and overcoming the socially accepted addictions that serve the lone individual of enduring the hardships and uncertainties that they face in their lives by wanting to live, succeed and prosper in this dominant system and that serve the function of keeping the dominant pleasure inducing culture of mass unchecked and unreflective consumerism afloat.

I think the interests of this German media agency aligns with the interests of the country that you live in and you're country's current political interests alligns with your own class interests and also you're country's current political interests alligns with the interest of the biggest arms supplier to Taiwan the US. And all this interests aligning is what gives this geopolitical analysis point of view legitimacy and views from people who see it as being in their own interests. I am using the term interest in it's economic sense as pathway and claim for certain existential goods. Though I admit this interaction and correlation between interests is probably much more complex than what I listed above.

I basically now live in an authoritarian state with the head of state and ruling party modeling its way of governance and ideology of nationalism on Putin's Edina Rossia Party and the CCP. They've basically created an overarching clientelist political system where people who join the party have more chances of getting employed and helping their friends and relatives also getting more employment opportunities if they become party members. It has a larger number of members in the country than the Yugoslav Communist Party that governed a one-party system in Yugoslavia ever had, even though it almost had triple the population compared to Serbia. The problem is people seem to have rejected the multi-party system because it was unstable and the power often wasn't centralized enough for undertaking and planning large infrastructure overhauls and construction projects (mostly new residential areas for the rising middle class in the capital city and roads and highway's for the purpose of traffic and trade) across the nation which have since the party's ascent to power now gone underway. People have accepted that elections are by almost all standards no longer free and fair and manipulated by local authorities for the ruling party president and his party to always surely win every parliamentary and presidential election cycle (a similar thing happens in Russia with Putin's ruling party) even if they are boycotted by the opposition as a farce, but the people don't care since their living standards have slightly gone up since the party's rule, there is employment in these construction projects and most of them accept and support this form of totalitarian nationalism as a way of reinforcing their ethnic and religious identity and being proud in it's constructed national history and past because they want to see the return of the glorious ''good ol' days'' when the nation was dominant in the region. I can only imagine that a large part of also Chinese and Russian people, of all generations, also feel exactly the same way about this topic and subject.

@ted73104 @snowyowl Yeah ghosts from the past, as the British documentary film maker and writer Adam Curtis put it, seem to be day by day across the world slowly but surely returning in full force. Thanks to the both of you for the brief history summaries. @EnRoute and Hong Kong never had a democratic political system when it was run by the British to begin with. So the CCP uses that history as way pointing to the hypocrisy of the advocacy for democracy in Hong Kong by Western powers who never ran it as such in the first place until the end of it's lease by the British and gained political autonomy from Mainland China. It is state propaganda of course but it works for the government for mobilizing their people for their aims and plans for those two countries in the near future. What can you do about it? For a start someone finding a way for American and other European and other multinational corporations and companies to boycott and move their offshore production and investments away from the Chinese massive capital and labour markets.

Dunno about that ?‍♂️

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (The Turkmenistan President in the video) is the cruel and crude one there with the way he lifted up that puppy dog breed. He's sees a possession and a Turkmeni symbol that the he offers as a gift to the state representative with whom he has mutual beneficiary relations via trade, Putin sees a living being with senses and feelings that can feel either pain or care. However that does not change Putins history of relationships with his cronies and with his people who he uses to derive legitimacy from and people in other states who Russia directly or indirectly impacts.