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Economic Development Minister Maksim Reshetnikov warns russia on the brink of recession

Thoughts and prayers for the Microsoft building

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it apparently did not hit the building itself according to marmite, but still a sick ass photo ngl

Mexico's President has 82.5 percent approval rating - Prensa Latina

UK warship defies Chinese warnings to patrol disputed waters

China sent 74 warplanes across central line in Taiwan strait between late Thursday and early Friday

Before that

Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (MSDF) destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait last week There was also an incident with Japan arguing about Chinese planes flying close to Japanese patrol planes I think

Previously

Japan-US-Philippines hold coast guard drills as a show of unity against China

I was going to write a proper response to another Western article on the SCS but they all are so lame and predictable.

China militarizing sand blah blah blah.

And then the common made up theory is that’s why these SEA nations are “hedging” and “balancing” between great powers.

It’s all so tiring. Westerners managed to end one war in the ducking 1600s and they think they know anything about international relations or statecraft. And I am especially raging at Amerikans whose country barely existed for 300 years thinking their decades old “expertise” can navigate millenia old cultures and history. Yes I really care about what a Guy in Baltimore thinks about the South China Sea issue.

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The issue with a lot of those in the field international relations is that they can’t ever escape their Eurocentric pretensions and understandings. In the article they try to take an ideological “neutral” “understanding” of the South China Sea by evoking very tired concepts like “hedging” and mistakenly (or purposefully) project their own impressions and dynamics of Southeast Asian relations with China, and so they use the terms like “aggressive” and “great power”, when truthfully no one actually gives a fuck (except maybe VietNam) and no one in Southeast Asia ever uses those term, unless they have been groomed into Western institutions and education.

Literal Amerikan Geopolitical propaganda.

No one ducking lives there you dumb fucks. Are the fish victims of Chinese Imperialism? Perhaps their migration signifies hedging to US Navy boats. And actually I can hear one fish cry out, “save us from being victims of really good hotpot”.

Every accusation is projection and etc.

I recently saw a person who's very much on our side, another member of the LGBT (Let's Go Bomb Tel Aviv) movement, and he was talking about how bombing the Dimona plant would actually be a very bad idea for everyone, not just for pissrael. It's an outdated facility where isn'treal does a lot of uranium enrichment and exploding it might lead to the equivalent of dropping like half a dozen dirty bombs, which would contaminate not only Israel, but a huge region around the plant.

Is there any truth to that?

Few days old news but Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special” unit created for rich Big Tech mavens seeking military leadership roles.

A month ago, I posted about the China-Iran rail corridor being put into operation. As part of the Silk Road Railway, this corridor not only further integrates Iran into the Belt and Road Initiative, but also allows them to export oil to China, and for China to export goods to Europe while having the ability to bypass US Navy blockades. I'd imagine this would have set off alarm bells in the US, as they've been clear about wanting to control shipping routes in their efforts to contain China.

Some people on here were convinced that with this new rail corridor in operation, the next US action would take place in either Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, or Uzbekistan, which are all situated along this railway. What if they decided that with this new development, they couldn't wait any longer, and chose to accelerate their regime change plans for Iran instead?

In March, US intelligence agencies openly admitted that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, and right up until the moment this rail corridor was put into operation in May, Trump seemed to concur. Now Trump is claiming the total opposite, that Iran has been building nuclear weapons, and that any prior intelligence should be ignored. Of course, this could be considered standard behavior for Trump, but maybe the ghouls in control had to quickly shift gears.