> I also wonder if the the KSA should be forced to divest from Twitter.
There is no equivalence. The KSA has no ability or ambition to shape the world. The royal family just wants to keep their kingdom business running, and even for that they're dependent on the US.
However, as a friend of human liberty, I cannot forget the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. [0]
While I would like to agree that KSA doesn't care about the rest of the world, and each culture should have their own space, the bone-saw story does prove that there are human factors which bind us all together. We all do live on one small rock, after all.
If the United States didn't exist when the Soviets were around, we'd have been living in one giant North Korea. That's why more needs to be done with the CCP, which is rapidly advancing their military and is already the preeminent industrial power.
Jamal Khashoggi is just one man. Tragedy it may be, but insignificant in the larger context.
Your ideology will murder us all, each one at a time, until none of us are left.
There is an alternative, and that is that we will win, as we always do.
When a simple, predictable man like Putin, or Xi, make themselves emperor for life, they prove the fragility of their system. Their system cannot survive beyond them. It is the final call. Just as it was in Germany, France, Portugal, Spain... all of the imperial powers had to lose their final war. Soon, you will lose yours. Finally your people will become "Western," aka peaceful. All it takes is losing the final imperial ambition. I welcome you to the future.
My family has lived through these idiotic ambitions for many generations. This is why I am still here, speaking to you. We will live through it again, until we are all at peace.
I am old enough to remember the cold war times. The Soviet Union disintegrated because they never built an economy. Until Gorbachev, the communists did maintain their grip. If they had an economy like China has, the Soviet Union might have still been around.
Also Xi is not Putin, and the CCP (and generally Communist Parties) are not United Russia.
> There is an alternative, and that is that we will win, as we always do.
Sure. But maintain the highest level of deterrence.
Neither the Nazis, nor the their Soviet allies could destroy my family. [0]
They could not destroy Europe as much as they tried. We are still here.
Ukraine, is a rising democracy and is still here. Please my brother, just as each European country had to lose their empires, to finally win our own independence from the specter of imperialist thought. So must you.
The Russian people deserve this more than anyone. It's about effing time my brother.
We have lived through hundreds of years of this murder. We do not want to live through this again. This is the end. This is the end, and finally Russian people will prosper. Take the "L," It's actually a win. Just like Germans did after "losing." Just like Spanish did after "losing." Just like Italy did after "losing." Just like Portugal did after "losing" their empire. Then we became boring European assholes and we get a little per captia rich and all got along.
Fine, have a different alphabet, have orthodox, the Greeks are part of Europe and they have this. Why can't Moscow just stop killing us???
And they kill Russians more than anyone!!! Please, just stop! Fuck!
> The KSA has no ability or ambition to shape the world.
This seems obviously false. They host conferences talking about how they want to shape the world. KSA has interests, and they will want to use any power they have to further their interests.
There is no equivalence. The KSA has no ability or ambition to shape the world. The royal family just wants to keep their kingdom business running, and even for that they're dependent on the US.