nekandro

nekandro , 6 months ago to worldnews in China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah

Is this the part of the story where you’re reminded that forced sterilization and forced abortion has also been applied to the Han majority in support of one-child policy? No? Oh.

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Two Chinese fishermen die after chase with Taiwan's Coast Guard, which alleges trespassing

IIRC these are the first proper deaths caused by military intervention in cross strait relations since at least 1979.

I would not be surprised to see China retaliate and retaliate aggressively, particularly since Taiwan’s Coast Guard alleges that the incident occured “near Kinmen,” which is a staggering 3 kilometers away from mainland China.

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Putin's suggestion of Ukraine ceasefire rejected by United States, sources say

Israel

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in U.S. Seizes Cargo Jet Iran Illegally Sold To Venezuela

Perfectly normal bilateral relations in the rules-based international order

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Putin's suggestion of Ukraine ceasefire rejected by United States, sources say

I question why the US is doing the rejection rather than Ukraine (and similarly, why the UK rejected the last peace talks…)

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Japan, Pacific islands oppose change of status quo amid China clout

You’re claiming that the same organization that was responsible for the design failure that caused Fukushima… Designed a reliable filtration system that’s never been used before? When their federal government has every incentive to cover up a cleanup to stem the hundreds of billions in bleeding they’re suffering?

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Japan, Pacific islands oppose change of status quo amid China clout

The PIF consists of Australia, the Cook Islands, Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and France’s overseas territories of New Caledonia and French Polynesia.

Japan, fearmongering the big bad China so tiny islands in the Pacific ignore their dumping of radioactive wastewater? Couldn’t be!

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Former PM Alexander Stubb wins Finnish presidency, narrowly defeating ex-top diplomat Pekka Haavisto

The slow march towards the right…

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Jordan, Iraq sign agreement for electricity supply

Jordan not happy with Israel, sends electricity to Iraq instead

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Ukraine's Zelensky replaces top general Zalushnyi with Syrsky in dramatic military shakeup

Syrskyi was born in 1965 in Vladimir Oblast, Russian SFSR, then in the Soviet Union. He graduated from the Moscow Higher Military Command School, the Soviet Union’s leading higher military educational institution in 1986 and served in the Soviet Artillery Corps.

Syrsky moved to Ukraine in the 1980s. He initially served in a self-propelled artillery unit equipped with the 152 mm 2S5 Giatsint-S and 203 mm 2S7 Pion self propelled howitzers, including in units earmarked to fire nuclear shells. He later served in Rocket Artillery units fielding the BM-27 Uragan MBRL. He served in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and the Czech Republic until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Born in what was then Soviet Russia, Syrskyi graduated from a military academy in Moscow and speaks Ukrainian with a heavy Russian accent.

An ethnic Russian, born East of Moscow, who speaks Ukrainian with a heavy Russian accent, and who’s entire military education was centered around Soviet doctrine, is the new commander in chief of the AFU?

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Net tightens on Brazil's Bolsonaro as police seize passport in coup probe

Bolsonaro’s former international affairs adviser Filipe Martins was one of four other people arrested, the sources said. A lawyer for Martins said he was awaiting access to the warrant and supporting evidence before commenting.

Relevant details about Martins from Brasilwire:

After working at the TSE electoral court until the 2014 election, Filipe Martins became an “economic advisor” to the US embassy in Brasilia.

Martins, who is credited with introducing Jair Bolsonaro to Steve Bannon, worked at the embassy for the duration of the coup period between December 2014 following the election and July 2016, when Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment was all but sealed.

According to Martin’s LinkedIn profile, he was responsible for research about the political conjuncture and economy in Brazil, in particular bilateral relations with the US, and media monitoring during that coup period.

[Martins has] been an influence on the foreign policy of the Bolsonaro government, alongside the President’s son, congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, who was accused by a former ally of handing a dossier of leftists and anti-fascists to the US embassy in Brasilia.

In July 2019 Martins met with the head of the FBI in Brazil, David Brassanini, who was accompanied by William Popp, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US embassy. Brassanini is the main overseer of the FBI’s expansion in Brazil since Bolsonaro (and Sérgio Moro) took office, as documented here.

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Report Finds “No Evidence” in Key Dossier to Support Israel’s UNRWA Allegations

You mean it was all BS? No way!

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Rubble from Bone: Israel’s War

Would you have flattened Ireland in response to the IRA’s bombings? If not, why condone flattening Gaza?

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in Indonesia dispatches naval hospital ship with humanitarian aid for Gaza

The hospital ship just transited Bab el-Mandeb and is en route to Gaza

nekandro OP , 6 months ago to world in Irish athletes boycott women's basketball tournament against Israel next month due to war in Gaza

Ireland once again showing they’re one of the only humane countries in the EU