While much of the world watched with bated breath the grand, unprecedented in its scale and brilliance musical festival—the Intervision-2025 contest in
TIL : The first edition was in 1965 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervision_Song_Contest
We promised a higher growth than the evil commies had if they followed our advices(, and i love Jeffrey Sachs but it’s quite certainly multifactorial and we can raise Poland, Israel or South Korea if we want to), yet on the contrary post-u.s.s.r. countries economy was destroyed after following our advices on (perestroïka and )shock therapy.
We(sterners) never perceive it that way, yet it seems factual to state that we betrayed their trust/good-will.
The eleventh edition is already programmed, and it’ll be in Riyadh. Great.
Ukrainians, and perhaps even western ukrainians one day, will regret not to have joined crimeans and the Donbass. They were sure that they chose the winning side, and the “only” thing necessary to convince (most of )them to join their historical ally instead is if they change their mind, and see the East as the future.
I don’t see why their nouveaux riches oligarchs would reject the dollar and their europeans ally though, but since workers could theoretically prevent the bourgeoisie/‘rentier class’ from exploiting/‘living off’ them by voting communist but don’t, or why chinese billionaires are apparently selflessly working reliably for a p.r.c. that eventually aim to establish a.n classless/exploitation-free society, and too many other facts i don’t understand, then it could happen, my opinion was never worth much in the first place.
It’s always a question of two sides fighting each other, for borders or foreign regime changes, for making ‘our side stronger’/‘their side weaker’, but we can spread ourselves and our values/discoveries through words instead of swords, while never fearing for our safety ever again, i actually don’t understand on the contrary why no set of conditions would exist. And diversity makes us wealthier, while hegemony brings us closer to the end of progress/innovation/creativity, i don’t understand why we’d prefer what seems to me like undesirable aspect of our current world.
TIL : The first edition was in 1965 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervision_Song_Contest
We promised a higher growth than the evil commies had if they followed our advices(, and i love Jeffrey Sachs but it’s quite certainly multifactorial and we can raise Poland, Israel or South Korea if we want to), yet on the contrary post-u.s.s.r. countries economy was destroyed after following our advices on (perestroïka and )shock therapy.
We(sterners) never perceive it that way, yet it seems factual to state that we betrayed their trust/good-will.
The eleventh edition is already programmed, and it’ll be in Riyadh. Great.
Ukrainians, and perhaps even western ukrainians one day, will regret not to have joined crimeans and the Donbass. They were sure that they chose the winning side, and the “only” thing necessary to convince (most of )them to join their historical ally instead is if they change their mind, and see the East as the future.
I don’t see why their nouveaux riches oligarchs would reject the dollar and their europeans ally though, but since workers could theoretically prevent the bourgeoisie/‘rentier class’ from exploiting/‘living off’ them by voting communist but don’t, or why chinese billionaires are apparently selflessly working reliably for a p.r.c. that eventually aim to establish a.n classless/exploitation-free society, and too many other facts i don’t understand, then it could happen, my opinion was never worth much in the first place.
It’s always a question of two sides fighting each other, for borders or foreign regime changes, for making ‘our side stronger’/‘their side weaker’, but we can spread ourselves and our values/discoveries through words instead of swords, while never fearing for our safety ever again, i actually don’t understand on the contrary why no set of conditions would exist. And diversity makes us wealthier, while hegemony brings us closer to the end of progress/innovation/creativity, i don’t understand why we’d prefer what seems to me like undesirable aspect of our current world.