East Below

This is now a follow account. Formerly posted about Asian geopolitics from the edges.
(Opinions are my own and not the views of current or past employers)

[East Below @EastBelow]

@EvilMopacATX How strange it is to be anything at all.

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@padillaccc The peoples of La Junta on the US-Mexico border. And likely several other people groups in the greater Southwest: https://t.co/VQJOlAw1xR

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@henryjwallis "God in creation
God when Adam fell
God way up in heaven
God way down in hell
He's God, God don't never change
God, always will be God"
https://t.co/DhaxMBCeyZ

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@EvilMopacATX Local brick from the Colorado made by companies like Butler would naturally be cream or white -- https://t.co/mjsaX3jNS0

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@WeirdMedieval @rzhongnotes "Hell is other people's beards"

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@briannunnery So dangerous. Maybe we all need to start carrying parasols in Austin to hide from the sun when stuck on these sidewalks...

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@EvilMopacATX Savage use of a literal quote 🤣

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@akhivae “It happened like this in the world. Old things lost their grip and dropped away; not always because they were bad things, but sometimes because the new things were more bad, and stronger.”

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@atxtransitblog Helps that the Latino neighborhoods there were decimated by gentrification. The lot on the right had the 13 houses on it demolished in the early 2000s and the left side of the street is a railway siding. A lot easier to remake an area in your image when the residents are ignored.

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@anikak03 Out of frame: A sidewalk to the right that runs along the storefronts. Beyond that, sidewalk all the way to Guad & beyond. To the right and left, beautiful walkable neighborhoods of bungalows.

[Paul Poast @ProfPaulPoast]

I disagree with John Mearsheimer on the causes of the Ukraine-Russian War.

Instead, I think...and stay with me on this one... Offensive Realism offers a better explanation.

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[Athens Zaw Zaw @zaw_athens]

American journalist Danny Fenster is firstly sentenced today for 11 years in Jail.

“Everyone at Frontier is disappointed and frustrated at this decision. We just want to see Danny released as soon as possible so he can go home”, said Thomas Kean, Frontier's Editor-in-Chief.

[Andrew Nachemson @ANachemson]

Arguably the most high-profile assassination by resistance groups since the coup. Killings penetrating further into elite echelons, must be making military allies nervous

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@akhivae Thank you!

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Essential historical context for the current conflict in central #Myanmar. Long story short: active, organized insurgency in core Bamar areas is new, except maybe the communists in the '40s https://t.co/k2m5SJwmGr

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@throughlineNPR Self-righteous/entitled rage and resentment.

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@WPReview @CFR_org @JoshKurlantzick Sadly, legitimacy is not the issue. NUG begins to matter if 1) it can militarily threaten the junta/ctrl territory 2) junta collapses/capitulates under pressure. Governance exercises are valuable if they promote either outcome. They can't hurt but won't help much. Treading water

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