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  • I guess holding them up to the standards set by the Soviet Union’s ideological commitments in foreign policy is asking too much despite the former having achieved far bigger financial and productive dominance.

    The PRC does not have military dominance compared with the SU. The SU during the 60s had more nukes than the PRC has right now in 2026. You can’t have a SU foreign policy without a SU military to back up that policy, and what the PLA currently has right now doesn’t cut it (although that will change very soon).

    The entire Warsaw Pact had 69k tanks ready to drive west and push the Atlanticist bourgeoisie straight to the Atlantic they love so much. The PLA does not have 69k tanks. The PLA doesn’t even have a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.








  • There are three parties in the ROC: the DPP, the KMT, and the TPP. The DPP are the separatist party and currently in power, the KMT are pro-status quo and the TPP are mostly agnostic between separatism vs status quo. On paper, the TPP should be ideologically closer to the DPP, but since the DPP has been trying to jail the chairman of the TPP on trumped up charges, the KMT and the TPP are in coalition.

    The KMT has its origins in the Chinese Civil War although it has gone through multiple iterations to the point where the modern KMT has nothing in common with Sun Yat-sen’s KMT or Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT for that matter. The DPP only officially existed after the end of martial law and liberalization during the 90s. The TPP is the new kid on the block having only been founded in 2019.


  • Galula

    Galula mentioned.

    VULNERABILITY OF THE INSURGENT IN THE SHORTCUT PATTERN

    In the case when the insurgent has chosen to follow the bourgeois-nationalist pattern, his vulnerability starts from a lower level since his action is clandestine at the outset. It climbs rapidly because of the danger inherent in terrorism, which the normal police force may be able to suppress if it has not been planned and conducted on a sufficient scale. The insurgent, who needs publicity above everything else at this stage, is also at the mercy of a tight and prompt censorship.

    However, surprise plays in his favor, and he can count on the fact that the counterinsurgent’s reaction is never immediate. If the insurgent has survived the first few days of blind terrorism, his vulnerability decreases.

    It soon rises again because the full power of the counterinsurgent begins to be mobilized against him; the armed forces, particularly, go into action much sooner than in the orthodox pattern. Vulnerability goes up to a new height. If the insurgent survives, it diminishes progressively.

    When the insurgent reaches Step 3 (guerrilla warfare) and rejoins the orthodox pattern, he is less vulnerable than he would have been had he chosen the orthodox pattern at the start because he has already successfully withstood the full brunt of the counterinsurgent reaction.



  • Look at what happened after the collapse of the USSR - 70 years of institutions simply went down the drain, and the society reverted to its past, reactionary form, just like that.

    This is not remotely true. The RF, as reactionary as it is, isn’t a past reactionary form but a new reactionary form distinct from its tsardom past, which makes sense since the tsardom and the federation have different modes of production. Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality isn’t the guiding ideology of the Russian state no matter how much Westerners try to paint Putin as a new tsar. The current Russian state cherrypicks the highlight reel moments of its distant feudal past and much less distant socialist past, but it’s still fundamentally a liberal state with a liberal ideology. And the fact that it cherrypicks its nonliberal history in order to form a highlight reel exposes an insecurity with the state: the liberal state is a young state that hasn’t accomplished a whole lot in the grand scheme of things.