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Last Thursday (s. ; or for the full live stream, s. ), @SevimDagdelen from #DieLinke has discussed with @RaniaKhalek & @EugenePuryear esp. the recently decided & billion-dollar rearmament of the German #Bundeswehr...
...as a result of the #RussianFederation's military invasion of #Ukraine, as officially justified by the #GermanFederalGovernment. A recommendable interview! Besides her opposition to such rearmament & the associated fundamental departure...
...from the so-called „#Entspannungspolitik“ established by #WillyBrand & #EgonBahr for #Germany's relationship with the #USSR (& also its territorially largest & politically strongest successor state in the form of the #RussianFederation),...
The news cycle is a confusing space sometimes;
Eg1.
- #ElectricCars are the future for the planet
V's
- Mining #Lithium batteries is destroying parts of Bolivia/Chile/Argentina
2.
- Decentralised #Cryptocurrencies are the future
V's
- Mining #Bitcoin = huge energy consumption
Eg1.
- #ElectricCars are the future for the planet
V's
- Mining #Lithium batteries is destroying parts of Bolivia/Chile/Argentina
2.
- Decentralised #Cryptocurrencies are the future
V's
- Mining #Bitcoin = huge energy consumption
The narrative around everything nowadays is all about #Values
Corporates latch onto every opportunity
Individuals the same (just read some of the stuff on LinkedIn) 🧐
Life & business is essentially a game
#Winning is always key! (Be nice tho)
The rest is Perception=Reality
Corporates latch onto every opportunity
Individuals the same (just read some of the stuff on LinkedIn) 🧐
Life & business is essentially a game
#Winning is always key! (Be nice tho)
The rest is Perception=Reality
I'm a #football fan & I see a footy angle in almost everything I read! 🧐
Not sure if these connections stand up, but here's what I saw;
- #Bolivia former President #EvoMorales was ousted in 2019. Evo a #SimonBolivar anti-imperialist styled leader
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- progressive.international/wire/2021-03-1…
Not sure if these connections stand up, but here's what I saw;
- #Bolivia former President #EvoMorales was ousted in 2019. Evo a #SimonBolivar anti-imperialist styled leader
⤵️
- progressive.international/wire/2021-03-1…
1. My thought on #ChinaUS relations at a webinar with friends from @BrookingsInst on August 13:
Full text: bit.ly/2QaaH3I
Full text: bit.ly/2QaaH3I
2.The China-US relationship is going in the wrong direction&it is happening when international cooperation is urgently needed. The deterioration of China-US relations undermines people's confidence in the global economy, with serious consequences for both countries and the world.
3. None of the major international crises in the 21st century, including the current pandemic, is a traditional security threat & can be resolved with the toolbox of great-power competition. The world has changed.
Are we in a #NewColdWar?
I took George Kennan's Mr X article in @ForeignAffairs from 1947 (The Sources of Soviet Conduct) and replaced Soviet with Chinese, Lenin with Mao, Kremlin with Zhongnanhai, capitalist with democratic, etc.
The results (excerpted below) are 😲:
I took George Kennan's Mr X article in @ForeignAffairs from 1947 (The Sources of Soviet Conduct) and replaced Soviet with Chinese, Lenin with Mao, Kremlin with Zhongnanhai, capitalist with democratic, etc.
The results (excerpted below) are 😲:
"{N]o opposition to them can be officially recognized as having any merit or justification whatsoever. Such opposition can flow, in theory, only from the hostile and incorrigible forces of dying democracy."
"When there is something the Chinese want from us, one or the other of these features of their policy may be thrust temporarily into the background...there will always be Americans who will leap forward with gleeful announcements that 'the Chinese have changed.'"
