Milked Dry

— Liu Rui | February 17, 2024

Illustration: Liu Rui/Global Times

RUSSIA SENDS JETS WITH HYPERSONIC MISSILES TO NATO BORDERS FOR 24/7 DUTY

Russia has reportedly sent three planes with hypersonic missiles to an exclave between two NATO members for around-the-clock combat duty amid fears of war between the alliance and President Vladimir Putin’s army.Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that the MiG-31 aircraft are now based at the Chkalovsk airfield in the Kaliningrad region “as part of the implementation of additional strategic…

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NATO (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION)

NATO (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION)

परिचय उत्तर अटलांटिक संधि संगठन (नाटो) सोवियत संघ के खिलाफ सामूहिक सुरक्षा प्रदान करने के लिये संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका, कनाडा और कई पश्चिमी यूरोपीय देशों द्वारा अप्रैल, 1949 की उत्तरी अटलांटिक संधि (जिसे वाशिंगटन संधि भी कहा जाता है) द्वारा स्थापित एक सैन्य गठबंधन है। वर्तमान में इसमें 30 सदस्य राज्य शामिल हैं। इसके मूल सदस्य बेल्जियम, कनाडा, डेनमार्क, फ्राँस, आइसलैंड, इटली, लक्ज़मबर्ग,…

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Biden Meets Both Swedish And Finnish Leaders After Countries To Join NATO

Biden Meets Both Swedish And Finnish Leaders In Part Of Countries' NATO Join After both countries joined NATO, US president Joe Biden meets the Swedish and Finnish leaders to show his support, the White House said. #JoeBiden #Biden #Sweden #Finland #Swedeshleaders #Finnishleaders #meet #whitehouse #NATO #Turkey #MagdalenaAndersson #SauliNiinistö #NATOallies #UnitedStates #USPresident #leaders

The White House said that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, expressed his support for the candidacies of Finland and Sweden to join NATO. After the formalities of joining NATO, Biden meets Swedish and Finnish leaders at the White House. The text states that the United States will work with Finland and Sweden to remain vigilant against any threat to their common security and deter.…

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Inclusion of parties like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal into Global Security Initiative framework — owing to the growing dependence of these countries on China — would be a major cause of concern for India, further building tensions in its strategic neighbourhood

Speaking at the Boao Forum at a time of geopolitical turmoil across Asia and Europe, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech titled “Rising to challenges and building a bright future through cooperation” has brought to centre-stage yet again his goal of building a “community with a shared future for mankind”. Such a vision, adorned with “Chinese characteristics”, has built itself as a counter to the US-centric pax-Americana world order, vying for replacement with a pax-Sinica driven Peking model of governance. In the latest attempt at exporting the Chinese governance model, Xi’s Boao Forum keynote address has seen the ideation of the notion of building an “indivisible security community” via proposing Global Security Initiative (GSI).

Ambiguously described as a “vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security”, the GSI ideation is an attempt to counter the efforts of democratic like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific which China has long heralded as misguided under “Cold War mentality” and “bloc confrontation” politics. By opposing “the wanton use of unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction”

referencing Western sanctions against both China and Russia, and embracing “a global governance philosophy”, the GSI’s rhetoric despite its flamboyant description spells imminent trouble for India and her partners.

Xi’s speech gave little information on what the GSI would essentially look like; whether it would follow a Quad like model of engagement or be more framed as a Chinese version of a security alliance is to be seen. As China’s fears of an “Asian NATO” grow — first anticipated by them as early as 2003 — Xi’s goal via the GSI is to present an image of upholding “true multilateralism”. However, for India, the freshly invoked “principle of indivisible security”, which the GSI despite all its talks about building a balanced security architecture is focused on, is a cause for concern.

there's this sentiment that states what's been happening in palestine (& the western stance on it) partly stems from the fact that palestinians are (mostly) muslims. while yes, that is true, there's some nuance missing. months ago i read a comment saying "if palestinians werent muslims people would care" or something along those lines. and i immediately thought to myself, nobody cared about armenians in artsakh and they were christians. and the genocide, as you could call it, bc all armenians living there were forced to flee, was happening shortly before october & the genocide in gaza. nobody cared about them either. the media coverage was abysmal, you didnt hear anything unless you either sought it out or someone you knew did

what i'm trying to say is, being muslim is a relevant factor in things colonization and genocide and exploitation. but claiming that people in the west would care if they werent muslim is just not correct. people in the west would care if it was in US's interest for them to care. if the attacked and suffering were US allies

I appreciate your little news updates so much, because sorting through the news really messes with my mental health, but I can read your little blurbs and then go find an article or two about each topic without having to scroll through every single bad thing that's happened in the last 24 hours. So like, I know it's just you posting about your personal political interests but I really appreciate that you do it 💚

Yeah, I can definitely understand that. Looking through certain topics of news does that to me too, which is why I don't include certain major news events.

Also, some more news I meant to include but missed or forgot:

A French journalist (doing journalism, not a volunteer fighter) was killed in Ukraine. this is the 15th journalist to be killed in Ukraine so far, and the third French journalist, which seems to have sufficiently pissed off France because they pretty much immediately opened a war crime investigation and are moving with the UK to label Wagner Group a terrorist organization. hopefully they can push Biden into picking up his balls and doing so as well.

Japan is in talks to open a NATO liaison office because "since the aggression by Russia to Ukraine, the world (has) become more unstable." It's just [chef's kiss]. I'm absolutely losing my shit. Russia is about to be surrounded on the west AND east by NATO and they did it to themselves! amazing! not only did they prompt Finland and Sweden to break their legendary neutrality, but JAPAN??? absolutely losing it over this. Putin spent two decades on policy designed to contain NATO expansion and the direct result is that he's spread it not only in Europe but also the Pacific. That's not even supposed to happen! It's the NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Alliance! and yet, here we are. truly amazing. shoutout to Putin for being NATO's biggest supporter of all time. Once again, Luigi wins by doing nothing.

Much more lighthearted: so there's an international competition to see what kind of tank (well, "armored gunnery") performs the best, and heartfelt shoutout to Britain on winning first place. Apparently this Iron Spear had the most competitors to date, too. The Brits may have lost their empire, their naval superiority, and they never really had air superiority to begin with but at least they still have the best tanks. so that's something!

NATO/SCO/BRICS preliminary map

probably we will remain unaffected from whatever happening between Israel and Iran due to being a NATO member but its still scary to think it could turn into a regional war ngl.

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my scariest and most evil take is that roger waters was actually correct and incredibly based in writing an open letter to zelensky to approach the war from the angle of deescalation

Open! It help to "kiss and tell" peeps😘😘😘

RT reports that next leader of NATO is picked already. A Ukrainian anti-Russian woman of Nazi origine (father led a Nazi newspaper) I guess peace will not be reinstated in Europe this century if noone start to think again... 🤨🤔

And the present general secretary of NATO is "suggested" fas the next leader of IMF, United Nations.

#gameofthones #21cebtury

North America is the site of a tragedy in so many ways we'll never actually comprehend because so much has been irretrievably lost

I FUCKING TOLD YALL IT'D BE ARTICLE 4

also enjoy more memes I stole from twitter and reddit.