@TamanishaJohn America is simply telling us in the Western hemisphere there is no international law. America will fire their big guns whenever they want, kill whoever they want and there is nothing we in the region can do about it. According to Trump, Rubio, etc it is the rule of the strong.
@JamaicaObserver Jamaica's Foreign Minister has a history of evasions and prevarication when confronted with evidence that Jamaica is colluding with American foreign policy. Like many Caribbean politicians she is very very good at this form of deceit. Treat our people as idiots.
Well. Well. Well. Gotta love the subliminal message in this picture of the ruins of a Lebanese village bombed by the Israelis. No wonder Hezbollah rejects latest ceasefire agreement as Israeli strikes kill 4 in Lebanon.
Source: AP
The West won the narrative war using their worldwide dominance of the media but 37 years later China is winning the economic and civilizational war. Imagine over the past 40 years, China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty while life gets harder for us in the West.
The Tank Man image is so powerful that most people believe tanks crushed protesters at Tiananmen.
They didn't. The tanks stopped for Tank Man. He lived.
The Israeli bulldozer did not stop for Rachel Corrie.
She was 23.
She was American.
She was wearing an orange vest.
She died on March 16, 2003.
Marco has never posted about March 16.
Zelensky is now begging Putin for a meeting. Meanwhile NAFO fellows and western media have been telling us Ukraine is winning the war. When did winners of a war go begging to End It?
@DD_Geopolitics It would be good to see Larry's head explode on the lawn of the White House on the very site of the proposed UFC commercial spectacle. Wishful thinking I know.
@TamanishaJohn America is simply telling us in the Western hemisphere there is no international law. America will fire their big guns whenever they want, kill whoever they want and there is nothing we in the region can do about it. According to Trump, Rubio, etc it is the rule of the strong.
@BowesChay@candaceO is a breath of fresh air compared to the willful deliberate Russophobia by the shills for the Military Industrial Complex and the Deep State who are bleeding America dry. Ex: Pentagon budget grows to $1 Trillion while the country goes to hell.
El momento en el que un autobús lleno de civiles de Donetsk, fue bombardeado esta noche con drones de origen europeo por el régimen de Zelensky, asesinando a 7 personas e hiriendo a otras 11 que iban en el vehículo.
Esto es lo que la UE está financiando, 90.000 millones de euros en drones y misiles para matar familias en un autobús.
¿Quién dio permiso a que usen el dinero de los contribuyentes para bombas que matan inocentes? ¿Entonces por qué lo llaman democracia?
@DavidHundeyin Just one more shameless rug-pull after all the promises that X would be an uncensored platform. Proof positive that our rulers always speak with a "forked tongue".
@georgegalloway Terrorism is the weapon of the weak. As Russia steamrolls Ukraine militarily with daily advances on the battlefield we can expect more atrocities by Kiev and its western backers.
@Glenn_Diesen According to Reuters only NATO, the Finns and Balts are affected by these drones. Seems the Russians have nothing to fear. The public is already being conditioned to believe any retaliation by the Russians is 'unprovoked'. Haven't we seen that movie before?
Today is the opening of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which was met with a Ukrainian drone attack. Everyone knows the Baltic States participate in these attacks, thus the line between proxy war and direct war has been crossed. This will end in disaster.
There is a strange development in which academics of international politics are expected to publicly condemn adversarial countries before they are allowed to participate in public discourse. The complexity of international politics is reduced to a moral question of good versus evil, and academics must make moral declarations before even discussing facts, history, strategy, and interpretations. Academics should explain why states behave as they do; they are not moral validators.
What value does it bring to an analysis if the analyst "condemns" one side? After Russia invaded Ukraine, the former Norwegian foreign minister actually argued that "this is not the time to understand, but to condemn". This ridiculous position is pushed on academics. However, understanding is not endorsement, explanation is not advocacy, and ignorance is not strength. I argue it is in Russia's security interest to push NATO away from its borders, it is in Iran's interest to control the Strait of Hormuz, and it is in China's interest to create a new international economic architecture. This is not advocacy, nor is it a normative position about how the world should work; rather, it is a recognition of how the world actually works.
An academic should examine interests, capabilities, and strategic calculations that produce such policies—not participate in ritualised declarations of virtue that contribute absolutely nothing. Furthermore, moralism and condemnation often lead to a lack of understanding and increased conflict. When the conclusion is always that the good guys are confronting the bad guys, then the solution is always "peace through strength", "weapons are the path to peace", and defeating the latest reincarnation of Hitler. If you want war, condemn the other side as pure evil. If you want peace, the first step is to understand the other side.
Imagine what the repulsive, lying English press would say if football fans in Moscow were allowed to trash, vandalize and piss-up the city if any of their teams won the Russian Premier League. Yet smirks and smug excuses by some for Arsenal fans who did that after winning their league.
UPDATE: A former senior CARICOM official sees the docking of one of the world’s largest warships, the USS Nimitz, in Jamaican waters on Monday as a tactic by the Donald Trump Administration to “intimidate” Cubans.
The Government on Monday welcomed the arrival of the aircraft carrier to Kingston, calling it a symbol of the long-standing bilateral relationship between Jamaica and the United States.
But former assistant secretary general to CARICOM, Ambassador Byron Blake, scoffed at the idea of the warship in Jamaican waters carrying out “pedestrian” missions.