Jacques

'He who lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?'

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Trump meant what he said, again, and everything is surprised, again

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@khamenei_ir Husband beats up wife: "Look what you made me do!"

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@FBI @NewYorkFBI This is not new, by the way. In the Biden era this South African academy was put on the FBI list.

https://t.co/fUIcaXofkb

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@visegrad24 Rubio does not forget

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@WhileTravelling How convenient. When the people do seek to change it, as they often seek to do it in Venezuela, Iran, and China, they get mowed down by the military.

You demand that the people change the country, but you would kill them if they tried.

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@MaxAbrahms Rubio is behind everything in Latin America, especially Venezuala. I am convinced of this.

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@MaxAbrahms "Social engineering" - The difference is Venezuelans do actually have a history of and do support democracy. Ousting a usurper there is not the same as building democracy in Afghanistan.

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I thought the U.S. opposed South American immigration?

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Anyone remember this?

https://t.co/zQRBa3qeuV

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@MFA_China A reminder that China routinely violates the sovereign waters of Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan and others.

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@BRICSinfo A reminder that Limpopo has a bigger GDP than Burkina Faso

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@BRICSinfo @Grok put them all in Winni the Pooh suits

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@RonaldLamola Are you still friends with Lavrov?

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@Martin_Sellner Indeed. Conservatives "lost" to liberals by embracing the ideals of diversity and equality in their party members. They celebrated having gay men and x number of colored people in leadership. They de facto accepted the liberals' premise.

Now the left is making the same mistake.

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@melofan544 @Partisan_12 Maersheimer's logical conclusion is for Turkey and Saudi Arabia to have nukes too, you know, for balancing.

How will this affect relations between these states and, say, Azerbaijan, Qatar, and other regions? Who cares. Give them nukes too, for balancing!

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@melofan544 @Partisan_12 Russia having nukes is the reason no European or American soldiers are in Ukraine. It's the reason Georgia was left to defeat.

Nuclear weapons are enabling Russian aggression. It will do the same for Iran, enabling it to annoy Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey.

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@Partisan_12 Naive logic.

This is true in a sense: mutual fear is great at restraining conflict. Yet it's so simplistic it becomes absurd.

"Let's give nukes to a corrupt, unstable regime so that the democratic Israel doesn't destabilize this regime. Cause that would be horrible."

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@btwn_dimensions Let's not say things we will regret

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Man I can picture this!

"If one should speak of the advantages that Europe has over the African lands they are at once prone to ask why the speaker did not remain at home and enjoy these advantages."

[Algoritmunte @algoritmunte]

O.F. Mentzel visited the Cape Colony in the 1730s and wrote about his encounters with the Afrikaner "trekboere" (wandering cattle farmers) who lived deep in the hinterland:

"The inhabitants of the country districts, the Boers, are at present mainly indigenous Afrikanders of European descent, who, since they have never left their own groove, prefer to speak about a pair of good "voor en achter" oxen that in the nick of time saved a heavily laden oxwagon from falling into a pit or sinking into a quagmire.

They would rather listen to a story told by their slaves or half-bred Hottentots than to one about the Grand Escurial or the beautiful Versailles. It is amusing to hear with what an air of importance these people discuss among themselves affairs of husbandry and cattle-rearing, agriculture and hunting, each of which subjects everyone would be a Master of Arts.

As soon as conversation drifts into different channels upon the appearance of a European visitor an end is put to their erudition. If one should speak of the advantages that Europe has over the African lands they are at once prone to ask why the speaker did not remain at home and enjoy these advantages.

If, however, a curious European should inquire about some peculiar African features, as in farming and hunting, or with regard to the Hottentots, etc., they would be amazed at his ignorance of such common, everyday topics. In such cases they would even take pleasure in imposing upon the inquisitive stranger false reports and descriptions."