India is an industrializing country, it will start off with horrendous worker rights and such similar to the US in the early to mid 20th century.

Workers rights and equality come with time.

being neutral only benefits the oppressor.

Machu Pikachu was their only tourist location and tourism is that important to the economy?

Now that sounds like a Conspiracy

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In 2020, the energy mix in the EU, meaning the range of energy sources available, was mainly made up by five different sources: petroleum products (including crude oil) (35 %), natural gas (24 %), renewable energy (17 %), nuclear energy (13 %) and solid fossil fuels (12 %).

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In 1997 my lab supervisor in Dublin was approached by friendly Chinese people interested in his research and were offering to fund it. This has been going on a long time and is not limited to Canada

Canadian research was offered to China for a joint project on a Chinese vaccine. Then the results were never sent back to Canada for testing as agreed.

Brazil's imports from Russia grew by 89% in the 3 months from the start of the war. So I guess not increasing the imports would be ideal? But I understand importing fertilizer, I don't think that would need to be part of the sanctions.

> just to please some other country's foreign policy? No, thanks.

What foreign policy are you talking about? The 'stop countries from annexing other countries' policy?

"West doesn't want this war"

This is actually so ironic. I can assure you that NATO couldn't be happier with this war on Ukraine.

Also, learn a little about Brazil and eventually you will find out that my country's position in ALL WARS (the exception being against nazi-germany) is NON-INTERVENTION. This is not only cultural tradition but is actualy WRITTEN in our constitution. Literally nothing shocking here.

They started center right, hit solidly right in the mid-2000's and then followed the GOP into far right crazy territory after 2016.

Fuming? The country is 80% fumes.

youd think they'd already be doing that by now. they need all of the equipment they can get.

Do it

How tf will china grow 5.2%?

Didn't the Japanese Ministry of Health just declare an official end to the necessity of public mask wearing? Whoops.

So what would have been the way to a lasting peace in Afghanistan - for Russia to arm the Taliban when the US was there? :)

More importantly, you can't act like the invasion is the only obstacle to a lasting peace in Ukraine. How about the majority ethnic Russian Crimea on one hand, and Ukraine aiming to be an ethnostate, suppressing other languages and cultures? What if many Crimeans don't want to be part of Ukraine?

Russia doesn't seem to understand that in many other countries, journalists aren't controlled by the state. They've had censorship for so long, they forget what freedom of speech is.

Though more likely they know the above full well, and still say things that aren't true as part of their information war on the west.

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> The 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo, which actually took place in 2021, had a global audience of approximately 3.05 billion, down from 3.2 billion five years earlier.

Just a few people.

This is why I roll my eyes when “environmentalists” rail against zoos. No, I don’t love that animals need to be in small enclosures. But I believe that’s better than extinction.

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It's not complicated, just easily misapplied. In the rest of the world, left/right is about economic policy. Notice how "The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party" doesn't actually explain why they'd be the scum party. That's just more US bias.