China’s Markets Can’t Survive Covid Zero.

B-b-but I was told Covid Zero was the only thing that would allow for economnic growth. THAT WASN”T TRUE????!?!?!?! HOW COULD THIS BE???!?!?!?!?

I jest. Covid Zero is moronic, though.

For use the next time a tankie claims that the majority of the world is with Russia. https://t.co/o19I1ePhU4

— Tuga Fella ✙ 🇵🇹🇪🇺🇺🇸 (@Fella_Tuga) October 12, 2022

Tankies gonna tank. It won’t matter.

How many people know that they shit on the floors of the Capitol? In fact, I didn't know until now… https://t.co/qRE6WKUHOZ

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) October 14, 2022

I knew. Saw the photos.

But sure, they were just regular ol’ tourists, doing what tourists do…you know, shitting on the floors, beating people, stealing things. The usual. A tour group, definitely not an attempted coup.

I suspect if Russia does use a nuke in Ukraine that NATO (really mostly the US) will use conventional forces to wipe the Russian army off the map there. Anyway, that’s what I’d do. Retaliating with nuclear weapons would mean the end of the world but breaking the nuclear taboo cannot be allowed to stand either.

No matter what clowns like Ian Welsh believe, the Russian army is not great and a war to destroy it on the ground in Ukraine would be over in 1-2 months. Note I do fucking not mean invading Russia, which would be an insane and foolish thing to do. All I mean is annihilating the Russian forces on the ground where they’ve invaded.

I give Russian nuke use in Ukraine about 5% odds, but if that does occur, a conventional NATO/US response an 80% chance of happening.

Let’s hope none of these things transpire. But the risk is high, too high.