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It's so crazy to see the Chinese steadily building out a dense web of business relationships and transit networks, from which their industrial and scientific power base commands enormous influence. And for westerners to look at this and conclude "They're going to start bombing us at any moment! We need to fight back first!"
Europe's been dropping bombs all over North Africa and the Middle East for the last three centuries. Hell, they've been bombing themselves straight through the Years of Lead and the post-Soviet civil strife. If Europeans have anyone to worry about, its each other.
How about you stop with the whataboutisms and stay on topic. As belligerent China has been to it's neighbors and has illegal police posts in Europe to threaten dissidents, we need to be wary of the PRC.
Your second paragraph is just straight up whataboutism. European wars the past few hundred years doesn't justify Russia invading Ukraine. Someone doing something bad isn't a justification to continue bad behavior.
How about you stop trying to defend genocide, eh? You're standing on a hill of corpses and you think you've got the moral high ground?
Get fucked. Trump's peeled the mask off your rotten empire. Nobody is falling for this shit anymore.
You were the one who brought up colonial endeavors when I only said we should be wary of superpowers like the US, Russia and China. And when I called you out for deflecting and going off topic, you accuse me of trying to defend genocide. Are you for real?