I agree with a large portion of what you said here, but I fail to see how that is relevant. The person I responded to equated Stalin with Hitler.

Ah yes, massively improving people’s living conditions and fighting against yet another Manifest Destiny is just like enacting yet another Manifest Destiny. /s

Just say that you are clueless instead of embarrassing yourself.

I am not sure what ‘false dichotomy’ you have in mind. Xiaohongshu has literally argued that the PRC attempting to ‘crush’ the USSR was good. Whether or not their perspective on how much of a contribution that made is not relevant to them being a national chauvinist who couldn’t care less about what the world outside of the PRC is subjected to.

Here’s a source, though Xiaohongshu has since deleted own comments there:
https://hexbear.net/post/3619307/5472177

How is saying that China should raise its wages so that the Chinese working class has the purchasing power to import from other Global South countries, a “chauvinist” position?

Not sure why you are asking this question, considering that I never raised issue with that.

The issue that I do have is that you quite literally supported the destruction of the USSR and anti-colonial movements of the world, with the justification being that that helped the PRC.

Also, on a minor note, do you still use the words ‘liberal’ and ‘neoliberal’ as synonyms?

If you somehow think I’m a “chauvinist” for China, you’ll see here that this is not the case

This is quite probably a reference to me calling you a national chauvinist over you supporting the destruction of the USSR and the establishment of the ‘cursed marriage’ between the PRC and the US, as you were evidently concerned solely with the well-being of people in the PRC, and were fine with colonial exploitation of the rest of the world.

Supporting the EU becoming this net importer so that the PRC gets to continue to enjoy the status quo would, in fact, be chauvinist of you.

The article doesn’t touch on Holodomor either

Why would natural disasters be relevant in this context in general?

your point would make more sense in the context only if Germany were currently ruled by a dictator whose forces were occupying Ukraine, forcing its people to speak German, trying to rebuild Nazi Germany, and so on

NATO is very comparable to nazi Germany, actually, complete with invasions, genocides, and colonialism

Is there a difference between that and invading another country and demanding or suppressing anything?

I wonder what you think about Ukraine invading Iraq and Syria. Let me guess, you are completely fine with that, aren’t you?

I see zero ethnic repression in the dev’s actions. They’re merely acting on what the majority of Ukrainians believe

You can apply this argument to a lot of things, including rampant racism in other de facto parts of NATO.

And that is ignoring the fact that those beliefs are either nonsense (‘totalitarian’ is not a meaningful word, for example), or unfounded (like claiming that the USSR was somehow bad for the world).

This does tend to happen when the standards of living improve, I’d imagine.

Well, then there was nobody to negotiate with, then.

You mean the NGO that is/was a tool of regime change by NATO, and you assume that there was no NATO involvement prior to after 1956?

I do not think that NATO-backed nazis should be negotiated with.

but the US didn’t represent the ideological strain they were trying to root out

If you aren’t trying to root out that ideological strain - of supporting colonial subjugation of the world by the European powers, - you should be the one rooted out.

Conciliation with the USSR would make one look like they agreed with the USSR’s path and wanted to do the same in China

By this logic, they found it more acceptable appearing to agree with genocides and colonialism of NATO.

These excuses do not work.

and normalizing with the US were driven by that fear, fear of a Chinese Khrushchev

This makes no sense. Siding with the world’s genocidal hegemon against the anti-colonial movements is much, much worse than a ‘Chinese Khrushchev’.

What should have been done differently?

Linen mentioned

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

NATO veterans deserve every bad thing that happens to them and then some.

NATO blockades also punish entities that trade with their primary targets.

Is this the same trade union that blockaded shipments to Pissrael, except for military ones, or am I mixing them up with somebody else?