I really don’t care for how everything the Bad Guy Countries do has to be some “scheme” full of “ambitions.” it’s always such loaded language, and it is so normalised people think you’re a crank for displaying basic media literacy and pointing out the bias here.
Also it’s all kinds of fucked up how they will portray western countries with human leadership, but the bad guy countries are portrayed by animals and fictional creatures, to make them seem more savage and dangerous and literally inhuman. Even if the bear and dragon holding hands is kind of adorable.
I’m supposed to agree with the angry Belgian?
No, I am friends with the cute gay animals
Exactly. You’ve drawn someone involved as the most adorable little fluffy hug shaped bear, and I’m supposed to agree with the guy mad at the bear? Yeah, no, I’d rather hug the bear than agree with the guy yelling at the fuzzball.
They’re Belgian? Should have given them something recognisable, like a severed hand.
Honestly, I swear, these people cannot draw a “scary bear” that doesn’t look hug shaped. Couldn’t do it during the Cold War when they were using the Soviet Bear as a scare image, couldn’t do it when they used to draw China as a panda bear, still can’t do it when they draw Russia as a grizzly bear.
And even now that they’ve switched to drawing China as a dragon, the dragons are just as cute as the panda bears were. A little less hug shaped, but even more boopable.
To be fair, the image is AI generated, you ask it for simplified cartoon bear and dragon holding hands and its probably going to spit out something cute it ripped from etsy and redbubble stores
That explains a lot.
Wow, those USAID funding cuts hitting hard, anti China propagandists can’t afford human made art? That’s kinda funny.
im trying to think how one should portray a personified western leadership, and all i can really come up with is heavily armed settler-cops for US/Canada and wealthy/aristocratic cartoonish vampires in suits for Europeans.
I can’t really think of an animal, unless its just all fattened hogs in suits / military uniforms. all squealing over the non-functioning slop dispenser.
if we’re looking for reductive fictional monsters, there’s always Daleks
Corpse eating ghouls would certainly fit.
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Damn bro this this is going crazy
Are we about to see a lot of English speaking, Mongolian freedom fighters in the news?
I’m guessing this is specifically why Russia insisted that the pipeline go through Mongolia and the Mongolians get a generous toll for the use of their land.
get a generous toll for the use of their land.
Ukraine had that too, though.
It’s surprising that there hasn’t been more shit going down in Mongolia. One might expect that a large country right between the two main US enemies would be a priority target for destabilization attempts.
It’s incredibly sparse, though.
Mongolia barely has a higher pop than Wales (3,500,000 vs 3,200,000) but is… considerably larger (1,500,000KM2 vs 20,000KM2), with nearly half of the population live in the capital city.
Even if NATO flipped the government, there’s not much that they could do. The armed forces are minuscule (35,000 active service, most of the country is on the draft) and culturally/politically the civilian population is far too under the Russian sphere to ever accept that hypothetical govt for long.
I guess it could be a tactic to further tie up Russian forces on multiple fronts, but I feel as though if that were an option it would have happened by now.
It is entirely surrounded by Russia and China. Not easy to access.
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TIL Lisbon is in North America.
The dragon and bear holding hands is objectively cute.
It’s fascinating how influential the East-West transfer of oil and gas is considering how little leverage it provided the East during the first cold war.
Siberia 2: electric boogaloo, the story of the trans siberian who heroicaly built that railroad
