Multipolarity doesn't mean Western people will become poor.
It means they will become normal.
It means a Congolese engineer and a German engineer will negotiate on terms that reflect their actual value rather than the legacy of who colonized whom.
It means the dollar will be one currency among several rather than the rent the whole world pays to America for existing.
It means European countries will have to make foreign policy based on actual relationships rather than the assumption that their preferences automatically constitute the international consensus.
Normal.
The horror with which this prospect is greeted, the language of civilizational threat, of decline, of loss, tells you everything about how far from normal the current arrangement actually is.
And who it's normal for.
On paper, Portugal has a great side. Vitinha, Neves & Bruno is a crazy midfield. Mendes and Cancelo are top fullbacks. Costa is a world class keeper. If Martinez was not their manager, I would have them as favourites alongside France, Spain, Morocco & DRC!
You’re a Member of Parliament. If accusations alone are enough to justify public punishment, what exactly is the purpose of a trial?
You acknowledge he denies the allegations and will stand trial, then immediately praise people for treating him as guilty anyway.
As a legislator, you should be defending due process, not undermining it. Extraordinary.
@lynn_ngugi1 Is cash legal tender? Yes.
Is digital money convenient? Yes.
Is digital money legal tender? No.
Must we use digital money? No.
As we ask traders in Eastleigh to account for their money, let's also require politicians to explain their money
@borzou@nlanc@FIFAcom He needs to go. He's made football tickets way more expensive to regular fans. Don't get me started on the stupid visa restrictions/ban on fans from unwanted countries or in Scotland's case deemed "antisemitic"
@joblijob16@borzou@FIFAcom Why should they after all the rigours of playing the qualification matches? That'll be handing cheap victory to Trump and his gang of petty subbordinates
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
@Honeyfarsafi@NetoAgostinhoMP Two snap questions:
1. Was this matter arbitrated or addressed in any way?
2. What was the verdict, if any? Why are you not mentioning that?
4. What dyu want done?
5. So, the 'victim' can't mention the 'culprit' because of defamation but you can? Are you immune from the same?
@USForeignAssist Ebola treatment needs exactly the facilities and expertise that your country has built in the past 250 years. What a patriotic way to celebrate 250 years by not letting your own citizens be treated in your own country? You have been to the moon and back why fear little ebola? ⚖️