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Biden’s debate performance sets off alarm bells for Democrats
  • Seriously though, I don't follow American electoral politics much, but why didn't they swap him out for someone else? It's a country of ~330m people. Like even the likes of Blinken would have been acceptable to them surely? What's the actual reasoning?

  • English language in Ukraine to receive a new status: Zelensky's bill already in the Parliament
  • So ban an established language in order to attempt to ethically cleanse a nation from the population and then introduce a virtually alien one from your western masters. This completely destroys all the arguments that were made to support the russian language ban.

  • Africa @lemmygrad.ml LarkinDePark @lemmygrad.ml
    The French are trembling with the election of Senegal’s new president Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

    He and his right-hand man Ousmane Sonko have an anti-colonial stance and want to pull out of the CFA Franc.

    France was recently expelled from Niger, and now there is a new blow coming.

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    NYT spreading sinophobia and warmongering as usual

    "Only China is an arguable peer of the United States, only China’s technological and industrial might can hope to match our own, and only China has the capacity to project power globally as well as regionally."

    "China offers a somewhat coherent ideological alternative to the liberal-democratic order."

    "China’s one-party meritocracy can advertise itself (...) as a successor to democratic capitalism, an alternative model for the developing world."

    "The establishment of Chinese military pre-eminence in East Asia would be a unique geopolitical shock, with dire effects on the viability of America’s alliance systems (...) and on our ability to maintain the global trading system that undergirds our prosperity at home."

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    Israeli Flashpoint - Localized Skirmish? Or the Beginning of Major Global Black Swan?
    simplicius76.substack.com Israeli Flashpoint - Localized Skirmish? Or the Beginning of Major Global Black Swan?

    The irruption in Israel caught many of us off guard. But to some extents it was a long-expected flashpoint escalation meant to begin the denouement of the Ukrainian conflict, by taking heat off from it. There are many circulating accounts of all the things that seem “off” about Hamas’ attack, so I w...

    Israeli Flashpoint - Localized Skirmish? Or the Beginning of Major Global Black Swan?

    I wasn't sure where to post this, world news it isn't, so here seems to be a good catch-all comm.

    It's a collection of speculations and theories surrounding the war in Palestine and its possible origins.

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    Any thoughts on this theory about the Niger coup?
    threadreaderapp.com Thread by @bidetmarxman on Thread Reader App

    @bidetmarxman: In 2022, Nord Stream was bombed, forcing Germany to import gas from the US. In 2023, the govt of Niger—France's largest supplier of uranium—was overthrown in a coup. Are these events connected? 🧵 Sinc...…

    Thread by @bidetmarxman on Thread Reader App

    While I very much sympathise with the stance of always suspecting the USA first and foremost whenever anything happens in geopolitics, I'm not sure if I credit it with this much competence.

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    Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine?

    A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security.

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    Rare instance of reddit overcoming its brainwashing

    I don't know if it's just this sub or what but I was shocked to see sinophobic crap being shutdown here!

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