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filoria OP ,

In unrelated news, the USS Eisenhower has moved about 1000km since last week, away from Yemen and towards the Suez Canal. Completely unrelated, I’m told.

filoria OP ,

The death of personal privacy happens not with a bang but with a whimper.

filoria OP ,

I know [email protected] is our resident climate activist, but they were tempbanned for shit talking some idiot peddling MBFC… I’m posting this, but know where it came from and pls unban them.

filoria OP ,

fuck off all you mods are MBFC apologists

shit site run by shit people

filoria ,

Citing MBFC without supporting evidence is lazy and actively harms discussion in favour of policing “wrongspeak”. I respect it.

filoria OP ,

All the complaints about supposed violations of international law that the US has made in the past really ring hollow now that Johnson has said the quiet part out loud: international bodies are designed to control the “impoverished, barbaric” Global East and South, not the “enlightened” Global West.

filoria OP ,

Camp David Accords? To shreds, you say?

filoria ,

The Associated Press, however, quoted an unnamed UN official as saying distribution of the shipment had not begun as of Friday afternoon.

The Guardian changes titles more frequently than you change underwear.

filoria OP ,

Usually not the biggest fan of bellingcat because they tend to be overconfident (and often wrong as a result), but when you have a surplus of information like in this case there’s little they can deny…

filoria OP ,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/

The NED is not the CIA (and the degree of inter-agency cooperation is likely not much greater than that between the CIA and NSA), but it serves the same purpose as an arm of the US intelligence apparatus. This is indisputable, as admitted directly by the founder of the NED.

IIRC with the pending fall of the Soviet Union (the primary counterweight to US influence) the US no longer saw a need for covertly influencing governments.

filoria OP ,

April Fools right guys? Haha… ha…

filoria OP ,

China doesn’t typically intervene in clearly foreign affairs unless Chinese citizens are harmed. This is as true in Sri Lanka as it will be in Pakistan. Balochistan’s days are numbered.

Edit: isn’t it just a little odd that Russia, Iran, and Pakistan (but really China) just conveniently got hit by terrorist attacks in the first 3 months of 2024?

filoria OP ,

China and Taiwan is a domestic issue stemming from civil war, which you’d know if you ever picked up a history book. There’s a reason Taiwan’s current territorial claims are larger than the entirety of mainland China’s (China signed some treaty with Vietnam, which Taiwan does not recognize).

filoria OP ,

Funny how ETIM is only a problem when it helps your argument. Otherwise, it’s “I can’t imagine why the Sea Sea Pea would do such a thing to poor innocent Uyghurs.”

The lack of terrorist attacks and mass shootings in China recently shows that whatever they’re doing, it’s working. China won the War on Terror.

filoria OP ,

The line between joint counterterrorism and an invasion is drawn with chalk in a rainstorm.

filoria OP ,

The US claims ETIM and Uyghur terrorists don’t exist.

filoria OP ,

ETIM is the Uyghur nationalist terrorist group

filoria OP ,

Real “cultural genocide” is when your schools have specific halal canteens in the dining hall.

Freedom and democracy is when you outlaw Islamic schools.

filoria OP ,

Bigoted against freedom and democracy

filoria ,

Weirdest ISIS attack in a while for sure. The Iranian attack was via suicide bombers, which is at least ideologically consistent.

filoria OP ,

Following the fall of the Qing Dynasty (and the ensuing Kuomintang government led by Sun Yat-sen and then Chiang Kai-shek), Tibet separated from China (an de facto independence which was never recognized by either China, Britain, or India) and began negotiations with the British to demarcate the line separating Tibet from India. In an effort to gain de jure recognition of the Tibetan state, Tibet gave up Arunachal Pradesh (among other territories) to the British. China at the time has bigger issues to worry about (internal turmoil from regime change, the Japanese threat, and then the civil war that saw the formation of the PRC), and while it never recognized British-Tibetan negotiations it took no action against it. In 1949, the PRC officially supplants the ROC and by 1950, Mao Zedong annexes Tibet with less than 300 total casualties from both sides.

The British negotiated with a government they didn’t recognize to take territory away from a government they did. Sounds familiar? Maybe it’s understandable, since Britain had more pressing concerns in Europe at the time.

filoria OP ,

Gee it sure sucks that Evergrande collapsed. What a horrible sign for the Chinese economy!

America is driving Germany’s deindustrialisation (unherd.com)

The cat is out of the bag. After months of denial, it is now conventional wisdom that Germany — and Europe more generally — faces deindustrialisation due to the end of cheap Russian piped gas. “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End,” reads a headline on Bloomberg....

filoria OP ,

The third holiest site in Islam. Access restricted.

Huh.

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