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Uprightness100:It's getting thicker ..the Prophecy of Alois Irlmaier coming in to play. |
iykofias:I guess Project Europe is working perfectly according to plan for Uncle Sam. I must admit, like Putin said, they knew how to work. ![]() |
iykofias:Must you reply everyone that post gibberish? Some post are just meant for read and laugh. ![]() Whatever, it suits the Germans. While the likes of Turkey will keep getting its gas via Turkstream having played it wise, the Germans can grasp with the reality of their economic demise. As you make your bed, so you must lie on it. |
Babapyro:What goes around comes around. When you dine with the devil, be ready to clear the table, not to mention when you're not using a long spoon. Germany is doing just that. |
Clown Zelensky expect everybody to support his stupidity and sellout of his country. He expect Israel to give him weapons when they have a gentlemanly agreement in respect of Syria? Plus the many Russian Jews in Israel? Zele is truly a clown. |
SWATMan:On whose direction is the war tilting? |
It's nice debating with you guys. Thanks and God bless you all. ![]() |
Enugurangers:The truth hurts. Ideological difference doesn't negate the real fact. For instance, same previous Eastern Bloc countries like Hungary and Poland that were once tagged less developed by the western bloc became tagged as developed by same western bloc after they joined the western economic organizations like the OECD following the collapse of the Soviet Union. That's the demonstration of the ideological difference at play. |
Enugurangers:Okay, but do you agree with the correct usage now? |
opamoses1:I told them that from the beginning but they refused to believe or accept it even though it's all over the web. For instance, the moment the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact collapsed, nations such as Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland who later joined up with western organizations like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), become known as developed nations. It's just a matter of ideological difference ... You can read it here: "https://intelligence.fandom.com/wiki/CIA_developed_country_list" |
VKN23:You're not making sense. You said a country had to be a democracy to be called a developed country, then I pointed out to you that Saudi Arabia isn't a democracy but is classified as developed. How about that? |
Enugurangers:First, learn to be smart by stopping to use the term "first world" for Christ sake. It's Developed or developing country now. Secondly, China don't even give a dime about whether anyone classified it as developed or developing nation. They're even happy to be called a developing nation for reasons we will see shortly. Now, go and read up some of the replies I wrote about this and see why I said even the United Nations HDI bases of ratings is flawed, and as such China can never be ranked as developed nation based on the said limited indices. But that is just for the HDI. The WTO has it's criteria of rating a nation as developed or developing as well, which is totally different from that of the UN HDI. The WTO criteria is " it is entirely up to the Goodwill of member nations to classify themselves as Developed or Developing". And guess what China did? They happily loved to be called a 'developing' nation because it enable them to enjoy the same special and differential treatment afforded to nations like Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe. This thing dey make US vex die to the extent they have called for a reform of the WTO because China they use am pack money and privilege anyhow. The bastards Chinkos even calls it a "fundamental right" to be labelled a developing country. ![]() See it here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-11/why-china-is-still-categorised-as-a-developing-country/10980480Now, like I said before in other replies, here China is a developed nation in respect of many other indices. Here are some academic professors that classified China as a Developed nation: https://chinapower.csis.org/is-china-a-developed-country/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20World%20Bank,15%20can%20read%20and%20write. |
opamoses1:The point is the ideological difference which led to the classification of 1st and 2nd and 3rd world countries, terms that no one uses any more. |
joyandfaith:You seem to have so much joyandfaith in parotting igonarance. ![]() The US do classify nations as developed or developing. Checkout the CIA World Factbook. There are no first world, second world or third world nations any more. Those terms are gone now even though some people still use them loosely. "https://www.history.com/news/why-are-countries-classified-as-first-second-or-third-world " And those ( like some of you here) who wants to use them as a ranking scheme were described as "perfect nonesense" by this academic website: "http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/10/150.html" The proper term now is Developed or Developing nations. These are the terms the UN HDI is currently using to rank developed or developing nations of the world. And contrary to what you want to believe, Russia is rated as developed nation by the UN HDI. ![]() Stop embarrassing yourself.
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VKN23:Another seriously flawed logic. If democracy is the criteria for rating a country as developed (since all the agencies and organizations doing the ratings no longer uses 1st, 2nd or 3rd countries), then how would you rate Saudi Arabia, a monarchy which the UN HDI rated as a developed nation?. ![]() |
Enugurangers:I'm not a Prof but certainly not a dummy like those guys here. You don't expect me to prove their case for them. They said China isn't a first world country (for goodness sake, no one even used that term again) and I replied by saying they're wrong because the ratings of countries like China, Russia, and co as 2nd World countries while the west that does the rating are called 1st world countries is PURELY down to ideological and geopolitical differences during the the cold war. For example, West Germany was classified as 1st word while East Germany was classified as 2nd world. Why? Because the western part was ruled by the West (the US and its allies) while the Eastern part was ruled by the East (the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies). Hence, the classification was purely ideological because the the West and East were the same before the Berlin Wall was built. Today, the story is still the same although it has improved compared to previous times. The United Nations and other world renown agencies are no longer using 1st world, 2nd world and 3rd world ratings (you can only find the last one on textbooks or newspapers publications when referencing African and MiddleEastern countries). The new terminology now is "Developed and Developing nations". So, these people still basing their ratings on the old scale of 1st, 2nd and 3rd is wrong ab initio. Now, when it comes to the United Nations Human Development Index used in ranking and classifying nations as developed, these guys forget that the HDI also has many challenges because some of its indices used in gauging such ratings are seriously flawed and at variance with some other bodies because they do not take somethings like population difference into consideration. For instance, the full HDI 2020 list, starts on a count of 0.1 to .80. Any score .80 or higher is developed, and anything lower is developing. In arriving at this list, the HDI is quantified by looking at a country's human development, such as education, health, and life expectancy. Surprisingly, Turkey is on that list as developed, Honk Kong is there too, Montenegro and Kazhastan too, but China is not. Yet, when you compared some of the indices between China and Montenegro here: https://www.worlddata.info/country-comparison.php?country1=CHN&country2=MNE, you would agreed that China should be up there as well, not to mention the huge size difference in population and achievement in sectors like industrialization and technology that were ignored by the HDI. Now, what about Honk kong, which is under Chinese rule as at present? Except people want to sell a stone that Turkey is more "democratic" and politically stable than China. Should there really be the same HDI comparison between Qatar, Malta to China giving the sheer differences in the socio- economic and political culture/reality and geographical spread? For example, San Marino, Saudi Arabia and Slovenia and Mauritius are ranked as developed nations because they score a rating of 0.8 or higher based on the HDI indices stated earlier. But the reality is that, these countries are not even up to some villages or one town in China in terms of population. What this mean is that supposing a city like Beijing which has 21 million people has excellent healthcare and top-notch human services, that qualifies it as developed region, it still would be termed not developed simply because some few areas in China lacked similar quality in the aforementioned indices. Meanwhile, San Marino which has a population of less than 34,000 people would be termed developed simply because the aforementioned HDI indices were easily spread across the nation which is not even up to size of my village. If that is not flawed, then I wonder what is. |
Pierocash:If these guys were wise, they could have at least take the time to ponder why would the west rate a country like Iceland developed but China or Russia isn't developed? They don't even bother to look at the indices of these countries to compare and contrast. All they do is just jump in and say "yes sir, that's correct", like slaves use to do. I mean, is disheartening. This was why and how they easily believed stories like the Ghost of Kiev who single handedly killed 100 pilots. Independent reasoning is the problem with these folks. |
ken6488:gambojimeta cum Jimetagambo, can you please answer this question? Why is China not a first world country since you agree it isn't? ![]() |
jimetagambo:If from gambojimeta to Jimetagambo you couldn't decipher that western and eastern ideological differences plays a huge role in classifying countries as developed and developing, there is no amount of apple I would give you from my vineyard that would cure your mental enslavement. I'm sorry, bro. ![]() Just the same way your "western supremacy" academic obscuring books of history fed you with the lie that Christopher Columbus was the first to discover the Americas, even though it was blacks that did first, same way they have sold you the dumbest notion that China is a developing nation. And like the sheep you are, you bought it, line hook and sinker. I weep for this generation of brainwashed Africans. ![]() |
Pierocash:You ain't seen nothing yet. You're just witnessing the surface of the dept of western brainwashing machine effect on people. Are you just learning now that so many people can't reason independently? I'm sorry, be ready to be disappointed more. |
Pierocash:Who told you that is the definition of a First world country? How dare you! ![]() According to western knowledge, a 1st World countries are those within the exclusive club of the US and it's allies during the Cold War. The Soviet Union and its allies are referred to as the 2nd World countries while the rest are 3rd World countries. ![]() The ediots you're arguing with don't even know that these terms are archiac politically correct terms used by the West to gauge the political, economic and ideological differences between them and the East. They're now replaced with terms like "developed" and "developing" countries, and that is where the stupidity even becomes more pronounced. It will shock you to know that a nation like Iceland is rated by the west as developed while China and Russia is rated as developing. Now, you can understand how warped and slipshodly jingoistic the typical western ideology and narrative is. ![]() |
toxtimmy:I couldn't have said it any better. |
Meanwhile, Russian forces keep advancing in Bakmoth. |
Krismas:Ignorance and pure hate is their ultimate bliss. Imagine someone asking for a black Saudi president. ![]() |
Karnice600:It's clear you're suffering from slave mentality. Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. |
osazsky:Sheer ignorance. Those nations that you mentioned are just like one city or even local government in China in terms of population. Do you know how large China population is? Why should they be looking for outsiders to represent them in sports when they have so many people they can chose from? Must all countries have mixed race representatives in sports as validation for being open-minded and welcoming? If that should be the case, how many white men do you have in the Nigerian football team, athletic team and all that? How many black people are there in the Italian, Spanish football team or sport team? This your comparison vis assertion is puerile and illogical. The US did not participate in the Commonwealth Games because they don't see themselves as previously conquered territory by Britain colonial powers. So get your facts straight. The blacks you see today in America in various position of elitism and recognition fought and paid for these status with more than 300 years of slavery, gruesome murder and inhumane treatment, and the ripples of that still exist among them today. And for crying out loud, Russians and Chinese are just as welcoming and discriminatory as other nations across the globe, contrary to what you want to believe. Heck, there was even an elected council Blackman in Novozavidovo in Russia. China league has many black people playing football there. Russian league even have more black people than you have in some other European league of similar rating. In fact, China's Volleyball national team included Ding, a South America black player, as part of the national squad that played in the 2012 competition in England. You can also research Ari and Mario Fernandez, both black players who have represented Russian national football team several times. While society in Russia and China is still evolving, that doesn't make them worse than any other society elsewhere in Europe or in the Americas. Even today, black people are still being treated as second class citizens in America and in Europe in many aspects of life. Thus, you defining the Chinese and Russian societies based on these indices smirks of ignorance, hate and pure sentiment. |
Karnice600:Do people drink for a living? ![]() |
Karnice600:Admit what he says is fact, not the propanganda your so-called slave masters ditch out to you. The so-called generous west whom you think so much loves and care for your black asss lifted sanctions on Russian fertilizers recently, but on the condition that only them will recieve the fertilizers, and no one else. And they made good that threat. Few days back, Russia sent $300 million worth of FREE fertilizers to Africa and guess what happened to them... European port authorities blocked them from leaving the EU to Africa. Yet, you are here talking about getting visa to America. The way some of you demonstrate slave mentality on this forum is very disgraceful. You don't have to be pro-west or pro-east to admit facts and stand for the truth. What is wrong is wrong, no matter whose horse is gored. |
toxtimmy:Succinctly put. You just spoke the difference between Poroshenko and Zelensky. If Poroshenko was in power, even though he wasn't a saint either, he would NEVER had allowed himself to be goaded into warring with Russia. Zelensky was prepared for this exact purpose. The most painful part of it all is that he knew he was being used. In a recent meeting with Erdogan, Zelensky told him that he was being "lied to," and we all know who is lying to him...who is goading him to not strike a deal with Russia and avoid this sad reality today. Yet he keeps going and going. The Hungarian government was so right when they said that Zelensky has a mental problem, which you can easily see whenever he speaks even to his supposed helpers. When Zelensky made that Ukraine getting nuclear weapons and joining NATO comments during a NATO summit where he was invited sometime ago, I knew shite was coming...they have prepared and set him up as the spike with which to poke the Bear. And here we are today. Each time I see news from Ukraine, my heart bleed for the people thereof. While the western psyops and unbeatable propanganda machine running on full swing have catapulted the conmedian to the status of a hero, more than 10 million Ukrainians have left the country with thousands dead and wounded, and the most industrious and fertile parts of Ukraine are going away from it forever, courtesy of Zelensky the great sellout and Terminator of Ukraine as we know it. Pathetic. |
Krismas:Men! Only you taking on these lost brethren doing life in western prison of zombification? I admire your courage and tenacity. It's a herculian task trying to hammer sense into these lost brothers who are still living under the chains of mental slavery. Thumbs up to you. ![]() |
wowcatty:What do you expect from them? So many of our leaders and their cohorts here online are still under the chains of mental slavery. |
Heart3030:Spot on! Ukraine itself have said that the weapons and Intel NATO have supplied to Ukraine is more than enough to fight any other country but not close to wage war against Russia. Imagine that. So the Comedian President knows but he keeps fighting destroying his country. |
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This thing dey make US vex die to the extent they have called for a reform of the WTO because China they use am pack money and privilege anyhow. 