Wealth and power, of course. The same things that have motivated imperialism all over the world, for thousands of years.
Imperialists gonna empire.
It’s in the name
Really though, I don’t know. What’s the term for a narcissistic country?
What’s the term for a narcissistic country?
Country. Otherwise the land gets claimed by a different narcissistic country.
Fair enough
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Why does Microsoft buy up patents and pull monopolisation tricks?!
Nah, China and Russia lost respect for the US when they elected Donald Trump. Imagine having to treat that baboon like a peer. International hostilities is the obvious outcome.
There’s no world police, so unless other countries dispute China’s claims and back them up with some sort of weight, the region is theirs by default.
So do I. Why? Because I can.
Amusingly, this is the reason given by Vietnam for banning the Barbie movie from theaters.
it is called “establishing ownership”.
Once their identity is consolidated that way,
then they can enforce their certain-in-their-own-unconscious ownership of Asia, through any violence necessary.
You can see equivalent self-dishonesty in the West, & you can see it in Modi’s delusion that Russia is going to help them against China, even through Russia is financially now a vassal-state of China…
Once the economy guts the Democrats in the US, losing them the 2024 election, & Trump guts NATO, backs Russia & Saudi Arabia,
what is going to protect Asia from China’s smashing it like they did Tibet?
7 years from Trump’s coronation ( in 2025 ) is all Asia has left, it seems.
Establishing ownership is fundamental to bullying, btw: rodents do it, sneaking into places at night, so that they feel righteous when fighting for “their” new territory during the day…
I hadn’t understood that bullying had both a yin/molesting/violating phase & a yang/overt-bullying phase until rodents taught me how it’s done…
The governments who push privacy-violating laws & systems, then later stomp civil-rights, they are demonstrating exactly the same Pattern.
The religions who push for “some” control of everybody’s life, relentlessly pushing for “a little more” authority, then once a tipping-point is crossed, suddenly they can switch from yin-bullying to yang-bullying … same thing.
It’s a really common pattern throughout human history, lately…
