I read a bit about Sheng Shicai and he just seems insane.

He took over Xinjiang, had friendly relations with the Soviet Union including getting help suppressing a rebelling general that wanted to found “East Turkestan”, did a purge mirroring Stalin’s, and worked with the CPC to restaff his government with CPC bureaucrats. He might have been award the Order of Lenin but the wording was weird and might be talking about someone else. Overall seemed alright, right?

Then when Germany invaded the Soviets, he flipped. He pledged loyalty to the KMT government, kicked out the Soviets, and cracked down on CPC members, including executing Mao Zedong’s brother who was part of a Soviet plot to overthrow Sheng.

Then when the Nazis got BTFOd in Stalingrad and Kursk while Japan was winning against the KMT, he tried to flip back. He ordered the arrest of KMT personnel, telling Stalin that they were Japanese spies while telling Chiang that they were communists. Stalin told him to fuck off and the KMT removed him from power. He was given a powerless ministerial post in the KMT congress and fled to Taiwan with them.

The funny thing is Stalin actually saw through him at the very beginning:

Stalin commented that the Sheng’s letter made a “depressing impression on our comrades”. The content of Sheng’s letter led Stalin to refer him as “a provocateur or a hopeless “leftist” having no idea about Marxism”. In a reply to Sheng, Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov refused all of his proposals.

The ministry also provided 4,000 free cataract surgeries.

4 times as much as Mr. Beast’s dumb video and barely anyone knows about it.

There’s not much to defend apart from Lajes Air Base, but even that hasn’t seen much use recently.

That’s intentional. But it doesn’t change the fact that they are soldiers. But he was still on reserve so he was probably more into it than just the compulsory service.

Plus they can always take jail time instead of joining the genocide squad. It’s still a choice.

Reminds me of when libs were celebrating the death of a Russian tourist from a shark attack, just because he’s Russian.

And of course by “reminds me” I mean it highlights the stark difference between us celebrating the death a soldier of a genocidal apartheid state in an occupied zone and libs celebrating the death of a civilian because of his nationality.

That’s not true!

Many of them were Poles.

They don’t tell you this

There’s literally a popular organization dedicated to teaching kids stuff like this.

Isn’t there a thing about being commie skipping a generation?

Barron Castreaump will lead the workers’ revolt.

lmao at this reply

He didn’t say he will fold. And he won’t.

However if no negotiation happens, the US will unilaterally take a decision based on their self-interest.

“Trump won’t fold, he’ll just *describes folding*.”

I didn’t think it takes any experience to understand that holding out for Crimea is a horrible idea.

Moscow could relinquish its claims to areas of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions that remain under Kyiv’s control

Seems like a horrible idea. Just setting up future issues.

Xi please re-educate Lula from his succdem ways. Get him to found URSAL.

There doesn’t appear to be an AI disclosure on the Steam page, which Steam requires for games with AI generated assets.

So I guess they probably didn’t just run everything through some shitty “AI upscaler” and slap a $50 price tag on it.

Misanthropes are pretty shitty.

“How It’s Made” but included the bill of materials

That actually sounds interesting, do you have a link to one?

I want that for every “How It’s Made”.

Ioannes XXIV Guaidus

That’s part of why I’m saying line of control would be a bad idea. If they’re taking land, it needs to be along the existing Oblast borders.