Defiant, Dispirited, Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality, Development. Twitter threads turn into Polycrisis essays
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2/"Japanese and South Korean firms built supply chains across SE Asia to lower production costs and reach Western markets. Samsung invested heavily in manufacturing plants in Vietnam. Japanese automakers like Toyota...set up auto plants across Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia" 
This week we scan the latest frontiers of Trump’s trade war, from India to Brazil, amid the US pressure campaign against Russia. We end in Alaska, where Putin is slated to meet Trump on Friday. Is a new world order taking shape before our very eyes?
“The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.”
America in its Florentine Medici era
Claudia Sheinbaum:“Plan Mexico is the path that I am certain will lead us to a Mexico with more well-paid jobs, with less poverty & inequality...with a lower carbon footprint that respects the environment and increases our self-sufficiency and sovereignty"
2/"The Getty Villa Museum has caught fire as the Palisades Fire pushes forward in Southern California, according to reporting from the LA Times. The museum’s collection contains more than 125,000 artifacts, many of them Greek and Roman antiquities"
2/ In Israel's corner are US, UK, Egypt, Saudis, Jordan &Abraham Accord (informal milvalliance) with oil Kingdoms - UAE, Bahrain.
The vibe shift, on the ground, in swing state Wisconsin
2/ “The almost overnight surge in electricity demand from data centers is now outstripping the available power supply in many parts of the world” 
2/ This is not a a story of Guyana’s PM lecturing western liberals over hypocrisy climate, oil & Amazonian forests. 
2/ UKRAINE: US so far has sent more than $75 billion to Ukraine. Of new $106B, Biden asks $61B for Ukraine. 
if 2 is true, then the future has no electrostates. None. Not Indonesia, Australia, certainly not Canada. 
This July has been the hottest in our recorded history and, most likely, over the last 120,000 years
