MasterDeeLuke

Can apply to either Trump or the US as a whole.

Pride: Nationalist rhetoric all over the place, disrespectful attitude to minorities and other countries that are viewed as lesser.

Greed: Championing capitalism and exploitation.

Lust: Everything regarding Epstein.

Envy: Hatred of China's development and making constant petty attempts to undermine them.

Gluttony: Pulling humanitarian aid and actively starving Cuba while America leads in obesity.

Wrath: Starting wars and dropping bombs left and right.

Sloth: Ignoring the domestic wellbeing of Americans and letting education, infrastructure, healthcare etc. go to shit.

I'm 29, all I do at my job is stack totes and I'm fine with it. Pay is low but I deal with it by being efficient in my daily living in ways like splitting bills with my brother, being very close to work, eating healthy so I don't have to worry about expensive medical problems and so forth.

Whatever you do, just make sure it's something you actually want to do. I knew someone who went $30,000 in debt for a teaching degree only to discover he hated it and ended up working in retail anyway. Also, whatever you do don't go into a job that will ruin your health, even if it pays well all that money might just end going towards paying for medical problems that the job caused.

Yeah otherwise it's some serious taking others for stupid behavior on Saudi Arabia's part, making a non-aggression pact without expelling or at least making legal exceptions for foreign bases effectively grants those bases invulnerability. If Mexico hypothetically starting allowing to China to send over loads of troops and build tons of military bases, and then later China attacks the US from those bases, then the US would obviously view that as an act of war on Mexico's part.

Let's all say it. Fuck the UAE. They in particular fully deserve the same level of trash bin respect as Israel.

Look, I sympathize, and I don't really like the way it seems they are rolling over so easily either but... calling for an overthrow which has a large chance of just creating further damage and instability this early seems a bit premature. Deng's China and their deals with the US could of been viewed as capitulating too and yet here we are.

Even if so...there are at least 150 other countries out there that would be better off having a revolution then Venezuela which at the bare minimum is still progressive and opposed to letting fascists take political control.

Just like that China is making one of America's biggest advantages, it's huge fossil fuel reserves, irrelevant. I don't think it can be stated enough how big of a geopolitical game changer these advances in renewable energy are.

I disagree with where they call the US loss in Vietnam insignificant. Had the US won Vietnam they would of had a staging ground to pressure China with land forces, potentially robbing China of the breathing room needed to focus on civilian economic development over immediate defense concerns. Afghanistan I think is debatable but I'll leave that for others.

Because none of America's wars with other nations were fought as an existential matter for the US, they were voluntary endeavors fought for expanding the US's reach and dominance. It's easy to "forgive" others when you entered the conflict with them of your own violation, and never faced mass slaughter domestically at home at the hands of another nation.

Montenegro, Kuwait, Djibouti, Liberia

Saudi Arabia: Are we a joke to you?

As non-interventionist as China has been they have always been extremely clear with one thing: Do not disrupt our ability to freely do business.