rise up
Oh word a tyrannical country freely raising money in the US that’s whack
One retaliation theory is that russias stance is anyone in a “coalition” against them is equally guilty of striking them, thus any member of nato or other US ally supporting Ukraine is a plausible target for retaliation.
Undersea cables between Finland and Germany for example.
Losing New York under a Trump admin will really fire up the base
I think the play is to appoint loud morons who will act as rage bait while they loot the federal government
Threading the needle between saying murdering children is evil and that they deserved it for being born there
Biden, after learning of his gaffe yesterday: Strike? Yes we’ve ordered a drone strike on them
Foreign Affairs - America Is Losing Southeast Asia
Yankees try to talk about Asia without making it all about “face” challenge: impossible.
Highlights from long article (summarized using HexB-AI)
Breaking down this year’s result by country shows that since the 2023 poll, the United States has lost the most ground to China among respondents in Laos (a 30 percentage point decline), Malaysia (a 20 percentage point decline), Indonesia (a 20 percentage point decline), Cambodia (an 18 percentage point decline), and Brunei (a 15 percentage point decline). The United States has also lost ground in Myanmar and Thailand (10 and 9 percentage point declines, respectively).
The United States still commands very high support in the Philippines (where 83 percent of respondents selected it over China) and Vietnam (where 79 percent did) and solid backing in Singapore (62 percent), Myanmar (58 percent), and Cambodia (55 percent). But only in three countries did respondents’ preference for aligning with the United States over China grow from 2023 to 2024—the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam—and these increases were small.
The United States has lost support most dramatically in countries with Muslim majorities. The 2024 survey revealed an especially sharp hardening of sentiment from 2023. Seventy-five percent of Malaysian, 73 percent of Indonesian, and 70 percent of Bruneian respondents surveyed said they would prefer alignment with China over the United States, compared with 55 percent, 54 percent, and 55 percent in 2023, respectively. The survey did not ask respondents why they made this selection. But it is telling that when a different question asked respondents to select their top three geopolitical concerns, nearly half ranked the Israel-Hamas conflict at the very top, surpassing the 40 percent that ranked the more geographically proximate South China Sea dispute most highly.
Western media outlets often carry reports about the debt traps associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. But BRI projects are generally welcomed in Southeast Asia for the growth and development potential they offer the recipient country. One high-ranking diplomat from the region pronounced it a model for how to win “hearts and minds.”
The United States wants to counter Chinese disinformation. But efforts to do so must address the root causes of why they resonate. China has depicted America as a “craven warmonger” in Gaza; many Southeast Asians with whom I recently spoke, including non-Muslims, said that this characterization rang true to them. Such a depiction would hold little water, however, if not for Washington’s own response to the crisis in Gaza, which has supported or at least acquiesced in Israel’s worst excesses.
Really sucks that Chinese disinformation has so much obviously true facts to work with
This was always the point of banning tankies.
There are two coherent world views: (1) the US is world hegemon and this is bad, (2) the US is a world hegemon and this is good.
Everything else in the middle is just confusion.
How can they vote when they’re undocumented?
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Dementia Incidence Linked to Inflammatory Foods
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