As someone raised in that region, I would have to think long and hard to come up with anything positive to say about Russian or Turkish influence

Yeah, so you’re just openly racist, gotcha!

If by “Russian occupation” you mean “belonging to the communist geopolitical block of Eastern Europe”, then I ask, what good things can you come up with about your newfound American occupation?

Looks into Poland:

deeply racist and patriarchal country, with its roots deeply tied to Catholicism

Average lemmitor: “IT’S ALL THE FUCKING RUZZIANS AND TURKS!!!”

The Chinese Liberal Democratic Party referred to in the thumbnail seems to be a western organization, likely US-based, platforming anti-China propaganda without taking into account the desires of Chinese people.

What’s this source? And how did you find it OP?

Agreed, there is no democracy in Estonia.

Oh, I see, you’re being laughably dishonest by comparing border clashes (99% of conflicts post-1985) and support to Mali against literal ISIS, to actual wars and invasions such as that of the US in Iraq, or outright genocide funding as is happening in Palestine.

Are you being dishonest on purpose to pursue your ideological goals of western imperialism, or are you propagandized enough that you’d even remotely consider comparing border clashes with conflicts the caliber of the total invasion of Iraq?

I feel you. I’m a Spaniard, and for 10ish critical years in the 2000s-2010s, we had a so-called “sun tax” that made people pay taxes for solar energy their home installations output to the electric grid. This essentially killed the solar industry in the largest country in the super sunny southern Europe. We have no fossil fuel deposits, no intention of opening up nuclear plants, and no geothermal energy possibilities, and we killed our best chance at solar.

Goes to show how China’s socialist government model blows anything in Europe and America out of the water.

Regarding solar, you’re forgetting one thing: not only is China the highest installer of solar power, they manufacture 93% of the total world production of photovoltaic panels. Every solar power installation in the west relies on Chinese solar panels.

You could measure life outcomes instead of economic measures. The economy is the tool to improve life, not the metric itself. Let’s compare the evolution of key quality of life indices like education level attainment, alphabetization, life expectancy, access to healthcare, nutritional values of diets, or even things like government satisfaction.

Your sources do be like:

-Freedom Eagle Burger Institute report on China Badness 1990

-Austrian Painter Legacy Institution report 1984

-Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America, Propaganda Department report 2024

-Victims of Communism Memorial Association compilation of Top 10 China Bad arguments

Cope harder. China has the most vast high speed rail network in the planet and it works, for all intents and purposes, flawlessly, as do the immense metro rail systems in big cities.

Can you provide sources for those claims on your first paragraph?

Western imperialists are the worst when it comes to having braincells. Keep repeating your country’s anti-asian propaganda, will serve you very well when your capitalist overlords send you to die on their behalf in another of the endless conflicts fueled by the west.

Keep crying about China while the western empire disintegrates itself and carries out the genocide of Palestine.

Dude, you can just openly say you’re racist, it’s fine, we’re 7 comments deep and nobody is going to read this. Repeat with me: “I will hate China according to western propaganda lies and myths”

Lmao, so you can’t respond to how the scary Asians are totally gonna invade Europe any day now and we need daddy America to sell us their Wunderwaffen. American exceptionalism is one hell of a drug, man.

Again, who has China couped or fought in the past 40 years? Does China have military bases in the “Gulf of America”? Because the US does have military bases all around China’s sea.

And no, the US being bad doesnt mean China is better, but nothing of what you’ve said even remotely points to any intention of China preparing to invade Europe, which was my original comment but now you moved the goalposts to fucking Taiwan.

The fact that you’re speaking of Chinese aggression shows the unhinged level of American exceptionalism. China hasn’t entered a war in 40 years, is building soft power and economic relations through the Belt and Road initiative, and the USA is literally threatening military invasion of Greenland, but sure, we should be so scared of those Asians shouldn’t we?