Jesus Christ they’re in Damascus? This feels like it happened even faster than Afghanistan.
Anxiety posting- Previous ICBMs were kinetic only, so the next escalation would be to include conventional warheads or to have a kinetic strike on Kyiv
Biden's Vaunted 'Allies & Partners' Have Their Own Ideas
A significant step toward this strategic realignment came as China’s President Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the BRICS platform to pledge further rapprochement, signaling a deepening partnership that challenges Western assumptions about regional alignments. This evolving partnership within BRICS could signify a broader trend of strategic cooperation, where Asian powers prioritize regional stability and economic integration over the security-driven approaches favored by Euro-Atlantic nations.
In Japan, newly elected Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has repeatedly advocated for revising the Japan-U.S. Forces Agreement, suggesting a push for Japan to develop its own military strategy. He proposed the establishment of Japanese bases in Guam and a “nuclear sharing” agreement with the U.S., arguing that the current arrangement is “unequal” and emphasizing Japan’s need for security autonomy.
Southeast Asian states also demonstrated their push for greater autonomy at the 44th Annual ASEAN Summit in Laos, where leaders prioritized economic integration and regional cooperation over defense concerns. Topics such as digital trade, supply chain management, sustainable agriculture, and environmental protection took precedence, highlighting a pragmatic approach to regional growth. Only the Philippines prioritized the discussion of South China Sea tensions, setting its foreign policy apart from other ASEAN states, which appear to prefer detachment from contentious security issues.
This series of events in October represents more than isolated incidents; collectively, they illustrate a structural realignment within Asia. The region is moving away from a paradigm where Euro-Atlantic nations drive security policies, evolving into a complex network of relationships less dependent on Western influence. Increasingly, the paths for countries throughout Asia are being defined by their own strategic calculations, which often conflict with the West's Indo-Pacific agendas.
Western miscalculations have also expedited this shift. For example, Western powers have built their Indo-Pacific strategies on the assumption that India would remain a reliable partner in counterbalancing China. Countries like the U.S., UK, Australia, and others saw India as a stable anchor with a steadfastly adversarial stance toward Beijing. But India’s actions this October, including its rebuffed attempt to reconcile with Canada after accusations of extraterritorial actions, reveal a more nuanced and independent approach to its foreign relations.
Calling bunch of football hooligans getting their shit kicked in “kristalnacht” is Holocaust denialism imo
If this claim were true then it would follow that Israel intended to hurt children
A take so cold it ended brat summer
There were a slew of articles coming from Ukrainian press earlier this year and late last year complaining about how half the conscripts were given only basic training (2 weeks) then sent to replenish the veteran battalions.
In the fascist battalions, the veteran old guard cadre were preserved in relatively safe rear positions and the raw conscripts sent to the front line trenches.
I am not sure about battalion vs battalion but there was significant anger and outrage that within fascist battalions it was the conscripts being sent to on the suicide missions.
The orientals are obsessed with saving face, according the nation that won the Vietnam War.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s hard to imagine a more wretched human being than Karl Marx.
I tried really hard to think of a worse German but I couldn’t think of one
As someone of German ancestry, I can attest that this type of slovenliness is not a typical trait of Germans, then or now. Germans tend to pride themselves on their cleanliness.
Germans are clean in a fundamentally genetic sense. And, after all, Marx was ethnically Jewish.
Jonathan Miltimore is the former Senior Creative Strategist of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education.
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He’s not sanctioning the world.
He’s sanctioning nvidia.