Europe might have learned their lesson from the second Russian invasion. Slowly building dependencies and then cutting them overnight with China is too costly even for capitalists.
Interesting. I didn't think of Sheridan and Ivanova as pigs back then. Garibaldi for sure. But you're right that they're at least military. I could see it as a satire of authoritarianism nowadays.
If your chats are as innocent as the running topic then don't mind their issues. Nobody can know what someone's state is that makes them sensitive to random triggering.
As for what others said about bullshitting about someone behind their back or being overall negative, you can work on those.
The question was about people who don't understand that