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US Def Sec Lloyd Austin announces ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ to respond to “reckless Houthi attacks” from Yemen in Red Sea.
The group will include the UK, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain.
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Notably, Bahrain is the only arab country they managed to pressure into participating. From the Guardian article I posted yesterday :
Way to go Jake Sullivan on opening another friggin front through your completely inept geopolitical policy making. If Henry Kissinger lifted the role of National Security Advisor from
obscurity and irrelevance, Jake Sullivan managed to put the final nail in its coffin and bury it alongside Kissinger.
plawolf
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So we are actually at the stage where western ‘journalists’ are un-ironically going into full Ministry of Truth mode. Speaks volumes about the kind of society where this can happen for real.
Not even Oceania was stupid enough to piss off EastAsia and Eurasia simultaneously. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Guess that’s what happens when you hire some Ivy League graduate consultant to make your geopolitical decisions instead of people with actual experience.
plawolf
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The issue is less with employing Ivy League graduates, since it’s pretty normal and logical that the country’s best and brightest gets a fast track into positions of power and authority.
The problem is that modern Ivy League graduates are no longer guaranteed to be the best and brightest since admission can be purchased with a big enough bribe, sorry, totally legal donation.
Add to that the total separation between gross incompetence and any real consequence and you have the spawn of the rich and powerful endlessly failing upwards until clowns like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump can get elected to the top job while medically incompetents like Biden can stay in power and even run for a second term. Compared to that, think tanks and management consultants being utterly useless wastes of time and money really is small potatoes.
you mean this earthquake. that area is not known having buildings with new codes. California has earthquake retrofitting Programme but that may be only effective on light weight construction. for everything else deep pile foundation needed.
Could've sworn I've seen the same headline years ago.
EDIT: Yep. Exactly the same -
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CNA documentary about the Taiwan elections, with their obvious pro-US, pro-Boba slant. Nevertheless, ignoring all the usual political noises, there are some interesting insights towards the end after the 30min mark. It seems that a significant number of Taiwanese youths, especially the younger ones, like the fresh grads are actually tired of the DPP and KMT. They are also tired of the political tug of war between Mainland China and the US. So they lean towards Ko Wen je of the TPP. This is interesting to me, because I thought that youth votes for the DPP is already guaranteed. Apparently not.
The TPP leads the polls for voters under 40. Though I honestly don't know what Ko-Wen-je stands for. His cross-strait policy is ambiguous to me. He swings back and forth between Pan-Green and Pan-Blue views, and could be playing both sides for his own benefit. Its unlikely that Ko can win, but if he wins, I don't know if he will seek to lower tensions with the mainland, or is actually a Boba Trojan Horse.
As the polls stand, it still does look like the DPP is more likely to win. The corruption of the Taiwanese people by the US and Boba is still very strong. Yet polls are still polls, and I do hope it is wrong. The promising signs that I can see is the DPP's defeat in the 2022 Taipei elections, and the massive loss of trust in the DPP by the Taiwanese people, including the youths.
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Excellent. No more Dollars used in Russia and China trade transactions. Congratulations to both.
Russia and China are leading by example. There is life without the use of the USD and Euro in international settlements. A life of true liberation and empowerment.
Russia and China are leading by example. There is life without the use of the USD and Euro in international settlements. A life of true liberation and empowerment.