You think it’s possible to solve this problem without both parties agreeing that it’s a problem. I disagree with you.

You misunderstood the words. You can agree on this and fail to resolve. But you can not disagree on this and resolve. And that was the point

Cool. Now it’s just getting her to come up with different options that are based on her unique characteristics. Not everyone is made for planning. Not everyone is made for coordination. Not everyone is made for todo lists. She needs to bring her wholeself - he needs to contribute his special powers to supporting her developing her special powers and vice versa.

Step 1: get both parties to agree there’s an imbalance.

If you can’t get to this point, no other advice matters

The beginning of a century of repairing the relationship. Beautiful to see it starting

Very light on details that I am very curious about: what does it mean that the aircraft lost its defensive protection? What was it targeted with? It almost sounds like it was a signals attack and not a kinetic one.

US, UK, France. Italy, Germany, Finland… Who else is emerging fascist over there right now? I have to assume Belgium is not far behind. Spain? Portugal? Switzerland? Netherlands? Can we get a map going?

What a strange analysis. You think that the determinant of whether or not the USA is a world power is who is elected to a 4-year term? The USA still has 600+ military bases in 80+ countries, still has the world reserve currency, still has the influence over OPEC that requires it to trade oil in USD, still has ever world leader seriously considering their every word and deed through the lens of American hegemony.

What exactly about this election suddenly made America not a world power?

One country, two systems

I wonder if this could be a path to Korean unification. If Russia and China both have trade relations with both Korea and occupied Korea, maybe there’s a path to peaceful reunification

Well yeah, in that case I would imagine Japan realigning with China, which then encircles Korea. I doubt the DPRK wants to fight a civil war given how much suffering has already befallen the Korean people, it would be very difficult to justify even more suffering. More than likely SK will get pressured to push the last vestiges of the US military out in order to participate fully in regional cooperation, and that’s the condition DPRK is looking for to begin pursuing peaceful reunification.

I don’t think you know what a nation is. The Korean people are a nation - from the Latin root natus, they all share a common birth. However, there are two states, North Korea and South Korea. Both of them are internationally recognized states, meaning we currently have one nation (Korea) split between two states. The split between these states is entirely a construction of imperialism. The people in DPRK and the people in the occupied South do not constitute different nations nor is the 38th parallel a historical division within and among the Korean people that would constitute a meaningful boundary for their self-determination.

The Americans had no business being there at all nor demanding a partition of a nation of people. They did so as part of maintaining colonial occupation for the purpose of anti-conmunism both against the USSR and also against the emerging PLA in China. The US destroyed everything north of the 38th parallel to punish the portion of the Koreans who decided they would not allow their country to continue to be a colony. The USA bombed the countryside until pilots literally went on bombing runs and came back with full payloads because there were no more targets left to bomb. The USA used so much napalm that Koreans needed to live in caves.

The southern portion of the country (land) that was inhabited by the nation of Korea (people) was turned into a new state (South Korea) by the USA and purged of all people who would oppose them and their ideology. South Korea is ONLY separate because of an international legal fiction perpetrated by the US against the Korean people (the nation of Korea).

The leadership culture of the South was built entirely on subjugation to the US war machine. Leaders survived or failed or died based on their allegiance to the US military occupation. The transition from full occupation to what exists today is one of loosening the leash on a captive one inch at a time to confirm that the punishing dominance has had the desired effect - that effect being complete subjugation to the interests of the dominator.

You think the Korean people want US nukes on submarines in its waters? You think the Korean people want to have half of their homeland completely inaccessible to them? You think the Korean people want half of their people to be completely isolated from them? You think they like having the DMZ as an eternal reminder of the constant threat of readied lethal force directed at their own countrypersons?

One day, there will be one nation-state of Korea, and the division created by the imperialists will dissolve and the trauma of this period can begin to be integrated and healed by the Korean people, but it will not happen until the US loses its violent dominance over the Pacific region.

I feel like that would put the north in a hot conflict with the US pretty fast and China would not signal to the north that they would support.

That just means more US management though

You know I have been waiting for the eventual Japanese realignment with China and that I am always eager to see the latest developments. I cannot say the same for SK. What is the path for SK to shed the yoke of US occupation? Does it have to lose a civil war with the north before it can shed the yoke or does it have to shed the yoke before reunification is possible?

No. Korea, the nation, was occupied by Japan. It existed as an occupied nation. The USA, after nuking Japan, took over the Japanese colony on the Korean peninsula. The Korean people resisted the occupiers when they were Japanese, and again when they were American. The Russians supported the Korean people in their resistance of the occupying forces of the Americans. The Americans found all of the Koreans that were allied with their oppressors as their mode of survival and supported them in their reactionary defense against liberation. On doing so, the USA negotiated a partitioning of Korea with the USSR to avoid direct conflict between America and the USSR. That partitioning allowed the foreign occupation of Korea to continue.

South Korea is not a nation, it’s a colonial state. They do not have sufficient sovereignty to voluntarily host their occupiers. The Korean people in South Korea are the result of separating out the Koreans who sought liberation and killing them in the north of the country - the people left were dominated or complicit. There’s nothing voluntary about that.

The southern portion of the Korean peninsula would still exist as Korea with or without the USA. The difference would not be that it would or would not “exist at all” but rather whether it would exist as an occupied colony or as an independent nation-state.

Wow. Just wow. Calling it now, we’re gonna see this talking point spread.

Russia was literally invaded three times and lost millions upon millions of lives because the border with Ukraine is indefensible. That’s why Napoleon invaded Russia through it. It’s why the Third Reich invaded Russia through it. And it’s why Russia’s national security requires Ukraine to be a neutral country that NATO is not operational in. What NATO was doing in Ukraine absolutely justifies Russia’s actions. NATO simulated an invasion of Kaliningrad with Ukraine. It flew B-52s in exercises in Ukraine. It was literally building and exercising it’s logistics chain to establish nuclear first-strike capabilities. That’s been clear since the early 90s when Clinton duplicitously told Russia Ukraine would remain neutral while asking his own generals to draft a plan to include Ukraine in NATO. This is literally the definition of Russian national security. Ukraine needed to remain neutral and establishing a nuclear transnational military presence unaccountable to any sovereign nation or any nation’s people with an ambition of nuclear first strike capabilities lead by the USA that explicitly and publicly reserves the right for a nuclear first strike is exactly the opposite of remaining neutral.

This is why we need understand imperialism in the Leninists sense and not in the liberal sense.

The US transfered almost the same amount of material as the entire Russian military budget each year of the conflict.