A Secret Service agent spotted an AK-47-style weapon poking out of bushes
Dear Mods, I demand we get this as an Emoji:
I apologise for the 
comment in advance, but the absolute political shitshow we have witnessed in Europe over the past few years has given me a weird appreciation of Angela Merkel.
She managed to keep US influence relatively at bay, maintained good economic relations with Russia and China, knew how to throw a bone to the various anti-EU factions within Europe to keep them from gaining influence, annoyed the Brits to the point they left the union and obviously maintained the EU's imperialist projects while keeping their image and her legacy clean. Compared to her the Macron-Scholz-von der Leyen trio look like dumb, dumber, and the the dumbest. IMO she beats Obama for most competent imperialist of the past few decades.
elections are happening today. Does anyone have some knowledge how things are looking?
- As far as I see the far-right are winning the election, but not with enough votes to gain a majority so they will need to form a coalition with someone else.
- The leftist big tent party are polling as solid second. Mélenchon is cool and based, but I'm wondering how many positions did he have to concede to form the party?
- Macron's party is eating shit lol Why would you call snap elections at your party's weakest point in history??? Probably the biggest unforced error in politics since Biden agreeing to a live debate (so since yesterday I guess? God liberals are dumb)
Fellas, what the fuck is happening on TERF island?
Biden administration signals it will support push to hit ICC with sanctions
Okay this is getting ridiculous lol. I understand the geopolitical reason the US supports Isreal is that it needs a vassal state to exert military influence on the Middle East / North Africa and prevent any attempts of decolonisation. But at this point maintain the state of Israel is costing them the entirety of their soft power in every other region in the world.
Let's not forget that a massive chunk of America's power(especially in Europe and East Asia) comes from people liking them. Otherwise no one will agree to hosting tens of thousands of their troops in their own country. This is also why the US invests such a large amount on cultural exports like Hollywood movies.
So I missing something in my analysis? Surely the Middle East can't be more important than Europe and Asia? Or is the American political class so demented they can no longer make rational decisions even in the interests of the bourgeoise?
Biden calls ICC decision 'outrageous'
Critical support to Isnreal for destroying decades of Western "rules-based order" propaganda in a matter of weeks
Majority of ASEAN people favor China over U.S., survey finds
According to the State of Southeast Asia 2024 survey, compiled by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 50.5% of respondents opted for China and 49.5% preferred the U.S. if ASEAN had to pick sides -- the first time Beijing edged past Washington since the annual survey started asking the question in 2020. Last year's survey showed 38.9% preferred China and 61.1% chose the U.S.
Other findings of the survey include that 59.5% of the respondents see China as the most influential economic power in Southeast Asia, far ahead of the U.S. at 14.3%. Meanwhile, 43.9% said China is the most influential political power in the region, versus America's 25.8%.
Philippines and Vietnam are being a bit cringe, but all others look good
Tackling corruption in healthcare is actually evil and communist
Chad Ranking needs urgent patch notes