Ever heard of Churchill and what he (and other British people) did in India? He starved millions to death. Look up Bengali famine.

As a person living next to Russia, I tend to follow it’s situation. I know that the exports from Russia to India has been declining for years, following India moving (not all yet) production of weaponry home. Only oil remains strong.

Also India - I think - seems to be projecting more and more “Western” image. Not sure why. Maybe my perception is skewed here, because the CEOs of biggest corporations sound more and more indian every year. Maybe it’s Modi skipping Shanghai Cooperation Agreement summit - and generally avoiding public places where Putin is - since Russian invasion of Ukraine.

So while Russia and India will remain trade partners and probable allies, I think they are currently trying to figure out how to increase their trade ties (and India might be wanting to be hush hush about it for Western publicity). There might be other challenges there - if I remember correctly, the current trade flow is that India buys significantly more from Russia than it sells there, so they might want to increase their exports - but this is totally my opinion.

I know there were plans for more ports and trade corridors before the Ukraine invasion, but I don’t know their status now.

India Russia hate each other to the bone

I don’t think so. Russia supported India during Cold War, didn’t it? It also stood with India during India-Pakistani War. That counts for a lot, especially with older folks - and politicians tend to be older folks.

Compared to polish cities too it’s not that small.

That was my point, what I saw looked like a small, provincial polish city with an old town, tourists, relaxing people, etc.

I really don’t understand where your “Basel is a small provincial town” impression is rooted.

I literally explained that in my last comment. I thought it was small, provincial city, full of medium sized buildings, full of tourists, that was so close to neighboring cities they shared trams. I spent a month there. I swam down the river, was forced to see removed street, had a public grill next to the river, went to see some overpriced art festival, stuff like that.

I remember that after we took a tram to German suburbs (or neighbouring city) there was a lot of police checking out Arabs and their documents.

Thank you though for the population size information. Does it take into consideration metropolitan area across three countries or only the Swiss part? I’m not arguing here, just curious.

No, no, you don’t have to explain that to me, I’m from Poland. It’s just that Basel is like, small and lacking skyscrapers even for me (aka “cozy”), so I always thought during my time there that it’s like, IDK, Perth - not really known world wide nor really associated as the profile picture of the country - and thus my confusion. Does that make sense?

third largest

Oh, I didn’t know that. I loved that place but I thought it’s like… you know, deep province small city.

Yes, but it’s like a small city?

This looks like Basel, is it Basel? Why photo of Basel for Switzerland?

Please don’t upvote this person, I think they’re a bot. The libs use AWS SDK internally and claim 90% performance boost over AWS SDK, and the person explains it as “you can write less verbose code so development time is shorter”

The point is not a few less milliseconds, it’s many hours of reduced development for people implementing DynamoDB

So you’re comparing claimed performance (execution) gains to development time? Yeah, that makes sense.

I think you’re a bot.

I have a great idea.

Why don’t you all move to Russia?

Definitely outside of Moscow and Pitersburg. Preferably newly “liberated” territories.

I’m not saying Ukraine is good, or USA, or whatever, but I honestly wonder why you have not moved yet.

Cutlet is the best bad name for a cat. The cat will know it’s both your friend and a survival ration.

Thank you.

How did you check the performance though for the ORM? You claim it’s faster that AWS SDK, which literally impossible, as you are using AWS SDK to power it.

Out of curiosity, what do they do and did you use agentic approach or prompt and then copy?

downplaying

Where am I doing that?

Sorry is China cutting people hand

This is literally whataboutism.

Was Leopold bloody years of terror vastly worse? Yes. Who is arguing with that? Is China benevolent and non exploitative? The African studies done by locals tend to say no.

the claim that the famine was intentional is extremely dubious at best.

I’m splitting this to a separate comment because it’s a different topic.

Who said that it was intentionally made famine with the goal of killing people? And where?

Are you hung on the original commenter calling it “mass murder” and your point is that it wasn’t premeditated?

The famine was the produce of a great number of different factors, inefficient and backward agricultural methods, bad weather, compound effects of WW2 + the Chinese civil war, mismanagement, trade embargoes, etc… But others could explain it better than I can.

Would the governing body of PRC in 1962 attributing the famine to government errors convince you otherwise? Would the Chinese government 20 years later confirming the same and reiterating it was the Mao policy that was faulty at the core convince you?

If not, can you imagine a fact that would convince you, that the responsibility for that famine is on the then Chinese government? What is it?

You’re talking about narrative, spin a story about tribunal, and then spin a story that I’m defensive. I’m not.

Insisting that the event happened the way you say it did without providing any rational or cause-effect relationship

Literally what the first commenter gave - there was a widespread famine in China, it’s caused by Mao agricultural policies.

What are you contesting here? There was no famine? Famine is the narrative? Or that it wasn’t caused by policies but by… What? Weather? Weather was good.

I don’t understand your point, please clarify it, in a way that isn’t just calling your interlocutors stupid or defensive.

It’s not paywalled. I think you didn’t even bother to click “read full article” or whatever the button name is. They might ask you to register witb a free account.

If you want to use other people opinions as an argument, I’m going to ask you for what you asked for - studies. Preferably published in journals, not essays by socials celebrities like Caitlin Johnstone, nor articles in Chinese newspapers, nor Reddit. And that’s because a deluge of weak sources is worthless - that’s how US propaganda works and enforces itself.

Extra points if the studies are not from China or it’s close Allies, just so that you have exactly the same requirements as the ones you asked for.

Can be paywalled.

Edit: I highly recommend you read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

some credible china-bad studies that aren’t sourced from British or US state media.

University of Limpopo, South Africa, on China neocolonising Africa - https://www.jstor.org/stable/27159668. Is that credible enough for you?

If not, is there a source that you would call credible - and if it exists, what is it?

Note: I hope I don’t come as aggressive, I was trying to be succinct.

I’m sorry, but why would that matter? We tend to judge people by their actions, not their intent, when it comes to mass deaths.

Right?

Right?