Jesus Christ they’re in Damascus? This feels like it happened even faster than Afghanistan.
They started with the fact the guy is a chad (basic criminal profiling tbh) and started looking at all the hot people in greenish-brown jackets nearby
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.
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I think Biden was planning for the Ukraine war and knew the US couldn’t support both the occupation of Afghanistan and Ukraine simultaneously, and it would provide Russia the opportunity to use the Taliban as a proxy to target US forces.
A take so cold it ended brat summer
Probably this election comes down to how much rain there is that day
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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NATO collaborating with Nazis why that’s an outrage that hasn’t happened since Nazi General Adolf Heusinger was chairman of the NATO general committee
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Trump is ACTUAL FASCISM and he will end our democracy and kill all trans and deport all migrants and it’s important to reach across the aisle in a moment like this. Build bridges, and camps too I guess.