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This is the evil of the West's victim culture. Anyone who thinks themselves as a victim thinks it's okay for them to do everything onto others they don't want being done to them. You wonder why so many people want to be a victim? And you know the West knows what's it doing. Only one victim can be heard from at a time so the West doesn't have to placate all their victims at a time.
That XJP Thought we’ve been tasked with analyzing is looking awfully tempting right now.CIA offering buyouts to its entire workforce: report
The move is being made to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s agenda
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
In 2018, the company introduced policies that excluded applying AI in ways “likely to cause overall harm.” Now that promise is gone.
What do laid off CIA agents usually do
"(India)Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey document in Lok Sabha in Parliament on Friday, January 31, after which CEA Anantha Nageswaran did a press conference explaining the contents of the document. From expectations on India's growth, to China's dominance in manufacturing, to the impact on stock markets, how AI may actually disrupt entry-level jobs, how workplace culture in India needs a shift, and how ultra-processed foods need better labelling, the survey covered a bunch of key issues. "( the description said "China's dominance in manufacturing" but the title said "China threat"?)
The fall of the liberal international order continues.
The empire is changing its direction, but I don't agree that the US is giving up on the idea of hegemony. Rather, I think the US is getting rid of the idea of liberal hegemony - the sort that liberals have popularized for the last three decades and which the White House has more or less played along with, even when their actions contradicted it.
Trump and his allies both believe that liberalism is stupid - "why are we defending drag queens' right to parade!?" - and realize that liberalism is a collar around the US's neck. When you're a liberal, you have to play by certain rules - paying for DEI initiatives, promoting human rights around the world, defending feminism, calling for restraint against ethnic cleansing, playing at diplomacy and morality, political correctness, etc.
These rules, Trump figures, have made the US weak, and he's going to get rid of them. He's going to return the US to being a muscular empire in the old sense of the world, with a white nationalist / supremacist core. This is effectively what's been happening in the last few weeks.
But none of this implies the US is going to become isolationist. Trump hasn't argued for pulling back all the US's forces from around the world or for disengagement in the Middle-East or for cuts to military spending. He's just cutting out the liberal aspects of the US empire. No longer will it pretend to defend liberal democracy.
The biggest losers of this are those US vassals who have built up their values and institutions with the assumption that liberalism is the "end of history" and will always prevail. For instance, Taiwan's DPP and Canada's Liberal Party. They've transformed / brain washed their societies to such an extent, that it will be difficult to deal with a new US led by radical right-wing leaders, as they will essentially be caught between loyalty to their ideology and values, and loyalty to the US empire.
How they adapt will be interesting to watch.
"The issue of India China once again emerged in the parliament after the leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi launched a sharp attack during the Lok Sabha speech, Rahul warned that India's dependence on Chinese goods poses a national security risk and is tied to the failure of 'Make in India.' "
(Indian opposition party using CN to hurt modi admin? Or does the congress party not want better CN relations? Or their pro US?)
(He is also connectingg the alleged "failure of 'Make in India.' " with CN goods? But china is also the one who supplied capital goods like the furnace for a steel plant in india, as well as tunnel boring machines that build their infra now right? At lower cost than from other sources, does india have local tech and factories for those products to industrialize? Not to mention raw materials, like API for meds, maybe he only focused on consumer goods?)
(He is also connectingg the alleged "failure of 'Make in India.' " with CN goods? But china is also the one who supplied capital goods like the furnace for a steel plant in india, as well as tunnel boring machines that build their infra now right? At lower cost than from other sources, does india have local tech and factories for those products to industrialize? Not to mention raw materials, like API for meds, maybe he only focused on consumer goods?)
Everyone has been learning the art of the deal and using Trump's own tactics against him
If their concerned w USAID on bio stuff, why r they just focusing on CN thing?
Asian Exclusion Act coming up soon?
Bringing back distinctions between US nationals and US citizens?