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workersolidarity · 7 months

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Footage from Hamas desecrating the Israeli flag as militants raid illegal Israeli settlements.

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sharemarketinsider · 10 months

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Understanding the Influence of Geopolitical Events on the Stock Market

#stock market #influences on indian stock market #how does the stock market work?#stock market crash #geopolitical #how to trade the news #geopolitical events meaning #geopolitical events forex trading #geopolitical events #geopolitical events 2021 #markets #stocks #geopolitical events examples #global economy and indian stock market #stock market investment #indian stock market #global impact on indian markets #world countries and indian stock market

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aregebidan · 1 year

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i love you goncharov mythos, i love you innate human urge to make things up, i love you tumblr blorbos created By tumblr, i love you meta insight into current internet attitudes toward character archetypes that's inherent to this process of creation, i love you opportunity of witnessing yet another major event for very online people, and most of all i love you katya

#she sounds cool #goncharov #tbd #the more i think about it the more i realize that this is the single most interesting thing that's happened here since i made my account #like. sure nov 5th 2020 was wild but the goncharov renaissance developed completely independently of real world events #people aren't posting memes about geopolitical events anymore they're posting memes about a New Thing #with No real world equivalent and making up everything about it ON THE FLY #and it STILL retains some internal consistency because of the types of characters/traits that have grown into their popularity here #and i just think media studies people who write about the internet are having a fucking field day right now

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bloodpen-to-paper · 2 years

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So to recap (July 2022 edition) we got:

- 4th of July shooting in Highland Park + a shooting in Chicago

- anyone with a uterus has less rights than an assault rifle in the U.S.; right-wing Scotus can get hit by a plane

- Edit: Native Americans have been added to the list of people with less right than an assault rifle in the U.S.

- a third of the British Parliament resigning from various government positions cause of how much everyone hates Boris Johnson

- Edit: Boris Johnson has now resigned cause of how much everyone hates Boris Johnson

- Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, got shot while giving a speech

- Edit: *Former Former Prime Minister... he got Lincoln’d

- a far-right French politician accidentally pinned the assassination of Shinzo Abe on popular video game designer Hideo Kojima, which a major Greek news outlet relayed, only furthering the idea that Kojima did it

- the war in Ukraine is still going on

- the state of Canada can be summarized by this image: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/862558639735046146/995130724791365652/unkown.png

- Hunter Biden got trending on twitter for the hundredth time and nobody gives a shit seriously who gives a shit conservatives get him trending for literally breathing why is this still happening-

- Edit: ... Users of the well known “incel” website 4chan supposedly hacked the iPhone of U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and allegedly exposed the both of them as pedophiles, among many other things. Sweet shitting Christ almighty, if this is true, I have been proven incorrect in possibly the most cursed way imaginable, and it is a testament to my willpower and spite that I have not fallen in alcoholism from this news piece alone

- Baymax is a Leftist

- the U.S. House Select Committee began holding live public hearings for the January 6 insurrection and no one noticed

- Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the popular anime and playing card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, passed away (R.I.P., may he finally be free to kick Shinzo Abe’s ass without consequence in that great dueling arena in the sky...)

- the Argentinian economic minister has resigned (an announcement that was made not through any official news outlets, but via a Tweet) following an inflation crisis that is crippling the country, but all you’ll find on Twitter is people excited about the new futbol jersey for the next World Cup (no one is surprised by this)

- Elon Musk backed out of his deal to purchase Twitter for $44 billion; it was believed he didn’t know the meaning of the term “pulling out” so this was quite the surprise

- Edit: Twitter is now suing Elon Musk for not buying Twitter

- the President of Sri Lanka (not to be confused with the Prime Minister, because they apparently have both) pulled a Ted Cruz and has fled the country after citizens stormed the presidential palace in a mass riot following the announcing of the country being officially bankrupt (which the Prime Minister, not to be confused with the President, totally didn’t cause via corruption in office). The citizens involved in the protest then stormed the house of the PM, and took a swim in his pool promptly before sacking and burning the place, thus proving the month of July is truly a Hot Girl Summer

Edit: Both the PM and President of Sri Lanka have agreed to resign their positions; that is two world leader resignations and one former world leader assassination in one week; I now have the sudden urge to drink myself into 2040

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takow · 4 months

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I'm not Palestinian

I'm Algerian-Tunisian. My family survived and didn't survive the french colonialism, occupation and attempted genocide while the West was looking away. Israel was supporting France during our independence war. I've heard stories from my Algerian grandmother. I saw how horrified she was when I explained to her what they were doing in Gaza. I listened when she told me that she lived that too. But my family's tragedy was just one in millions. And when I see bloodlines erased in Gaza, I tell myself "oh it lasted 132y for us it could've been your family" and because I can't stand by when history is repeating itself I stand with Palestine

In that way, I'm also Palestinian

#palestine #free gaza #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #genocide #current events #imperialism #fuck israel #human rights #geopolitics #palestinian lives matter #colonization #solidarity with palestine #don't look away

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hussyknee · 6 months

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Fellas, is it an act of war against a Western European country to hold their citizens prisoner in the open air prison they're carpet bombing?

Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthis have been launching attacks on US military bases in Syria and Iraq and firing missiles at Israel in tandem with Hamas's attacks. All three are funded by Iran.

(I am HEAVING with laughter at Vox and every single one of these propagandist chucklefucks calling them "militias" and "terrorist organisations" and trying to frame this as justification for continuing to fund Israel like. MOTHERFUCKER WHOSE REGION ARE YOU IN EXACTLY?? WHO IS GENOCIDING PEOPLE ON THEIR OWN SOIL??)

"But they're fundie theocratic military states!!!"

*looks at Israel*

*looks at you*

*looks at current state of US*

Oh, ARE they?

US officials have met with the Lebanese caretaker government in an effort to try and prevent the conflict from spreading into Lebanon.

Um. Was this before or after Israel poured white phosphorus on Lebanon? Do y'all even have any control over your dog?

(Btw if you MCU brainrotted Western leftists don't stop trying to pick a Good Guy out of this mess instead of understanding basic geo-politics and the horrific ground realities of the countries the US and its allies have left in tatters, you're frankly just as much of an enemy to the people in those countries as your leaders are. Every one of these people are fascist cunts.)

For those of you who have been BLEATING about Ukraine non-stop, like it's NOT an expendable non-NATO country they're only interested in defending in case Putin gets any bright ideas about Poland, here's an opinion that makes sense to me:

Tell me it wouldn't be perfectly on brand if the US government announced, "Our great democracy bows to the will of the people. We hear you, we see you. We will divest...from Ukraine."

The West has never given one singular shit about protecting ANYONE from genocide. Vulnerability is liability. The only difference between them and Putin is that Putin is greedy megalomaniacal fascist surrounded by self-interested yes-men and the US is run by a committee of greedy egomaniacal fascists surrounded by self-interested yes-men whose end goal is keeping the death machine spinning money rather than even "winning" territories. All they have to do to turn this around is divest from Israel and focus on Ukraine. And no, Israel can't throw in with Putin because it'll be too busy trying to fight off three countries at once without the sugar from its Daddy.

Putin will not stop at Ukraine, for the same reason the US didn't stop at Afghanistan. Empires are built on their military power and militaries need to be fed and kept active and kept active to be fed. The minute you stop, it tries to eat itself. If Putin makes a move on Poland, NATO has to respond, and if the West is also embroiled in an all-out war with the Middle East, well. It looks kinda like a global conflict.

Oh and btw, if this does escalate into another regional war in the Middle East, we're going to be plunged into an oil crisis. Which might actually be the last straw for the UK economy, but it very DEFINITELY will be for the rest of the Global South.

(Also Biden's already auctioned off the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska for oil companies for such an intensive scale of fracking that it's projected to tip the world over the edge of climate collapse. In the event of a war in the ME, the US is going to need that oil soooooo. Good luck stopping it.)

#gaza genocide #free palestine #war in ukraine #death to america #death to israel #geopolitics #us politics #middle east #iran #hezbollah #lebanon #world news #current events #knee of huss

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vibingvoices · 3 months

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I spent 15 hours, across three days, watching and taking notes on the legal proceedings at the International Court of Justice, where South Africa filed a genocide case against Israel.

South Africa's case was a temporal snapshot that lay the weight of decades of historical context. Although the specifics of the case pertained to Israel's actions in Gaza, its overarching objective reached beyond these particulars. At its core, the case sought to address the substantial disparity between the lived reality of Palestinians and the narrative propagated by dominant political forces.

Across the globe, public anger regarding the events in Gaza has manifested on the streets. However, political leaders consistently chose to overlook, dismiss, ban, or vilify this collective sentiment. Maybe it is recency bias, but in my lifetime, there has never been such a disconnect between politicians and their people than when it comes to Gaza.

The significance of South Africa's case before the International Court of Justice is that it publically challenges the portrayal of the Palestinian cause as a fringe issue.

Beyond merely outlining the severity of events – 23,000+ killed in Gaza, the 1.9 million displaced, the 7,000+ missing under the rubble, and the thousands of bombs dropped, making this the deadliest rate of conflict of the 21st century – the case links these claims to the Geneva Conventions and human rights law.

But where are we as a society, as a human race even, that we are at a point where the case was brought forth in the first place? Such an initiative questions the legitimacy of the international response and underscores the diminishing persuasive power of Western logic in an increasingly multipolar world.

The case represents a broader confrontation within international institutions, raising doubts about the actual existence of the human rights infrastructure. The conflict has placed Western allies in the precarious position of undermining or neglecting their own established systems, eroding their credibility on the global stage. When you're against the United Nations and hundreds of human rights organisations and objecting to a submission in a global court (in the case of the US and UK, a court that they themselves established), you are simply pulling apart your house with the very tools that built it.

Western powers, having previously failed to support a Gaza ceasefire, will from now on be viewed in the global south as fighting on Israel's side. More so than they were already. And why wouldn't they be? These politicians have made it clear that they want to supply arms and military support to a regime, and their intervention, it seems, is contingent upon the safeguarding of goods shipment. These politicians assert that financial resources are lacking for reconstructing their nations, yet readily allocate funds for military endeavours. Why? How is any of this normal?

After the legal proceedings, Netanyahu said, "We will continue the war in the Gaza Strip until we achieve all our objectives. The Hague and the axis of evil will not stop us." Without compelling a policy change from Israel, what hope is there that South Africa's case will avail? It was obvious that Israel would use support from the US and the UK to prosecute the real agenda that Netanyahu and hundreds of Israeli politicians have hidden in plain sight (i.e. admitted on camera constantly): the destruction of Palestine and its people.

The recurring pattern is evident. Gaza transforms from an open-air prison to an open-air slaughterhouse under Israeli actions. Iraq faces invasion and fragmentation fueled by falsehoods and lies. Libya, once somewhat stable, descends into a state of civil war. Afghanistan witnesses invasion followed by prolonged failure and abandonment. Yemen endures relentless bombing, culminating in one of the most severe humanitarian crises in recorded human history. Syria? Also bombed, resulting in the displacement of thousands of refugees.

All of this, and more, is the legacy of Western "intervention", war, and policy in the Middle East.

Strangely, I find myself distanced from all this turmoil, yet the impact remains surprisingly profound. So many people I love have been impacted, yet I still experience a sense of detachment.

I go about my life. I have family and friends. I have hobbies and a job. But multiple times a day, it will hit me. I'll remember the videos I've seen of a mother crying over her son's body. Or the father carrying the remains of his children in plastic bags. Or the doctors performing amputations in overcrowded hospitals with nothing more than a dull butter knife. A wave of deep sorrow washes over me, settling in my chest like a persistent ache, lingering until I find a sufficiently absorbing distraction. And then, the cycle restarts.

But I don't want to be distracted. And I don't want to forget. I feel like I don't deserve to forget. It feels like the least I can do. Because I, unfortunately, do not have a megaphone loud enough to shout to those in positions of authority and tell them they are cowardly individuals sitting on chairs fashioned from the bones of Gaza's children.

In 2024, you would think that we would only be quoting Martin Luther King to learn about history and not to still use his message for current happenings, but he honestly said it best: "No one is free when we are all free."

#palestine #gaza #geopolitics #current events #ceasefire

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polgeonow · 7 days

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kaurwreck · 6 months

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that kunikida doppo died before ww1 preserves his war commentary in amber that calcified just before we industralized mass slaughter. but just before, so his work isn't divorced from ww1 either; it's blanched in the same gore that would shortly thereafter coagulate into the great war: nationalism, industrialization, imperialism, militarism, diplomatic blocs.

kunikida had a lens into war as we know it, but absent the bitterness of knowing and the redemptive gloss of suffering the consequences of having learned. instead, his characters titter about, partake in, and cling to war with tense, willful anxiety masquerading as naiveté. the idle frivilousness with which they refer to and exist within war belies the discomforted gingerness with which they mishandle the harbingers of calamity.

they can't know, not really, the nature of the horror they're shrouding in tulle. but they know it's something monstrous and ruinous, and they're afraid to acknowledge it lest it notice them too. so they pour wine in the hairline fractures and call it grout, knowing better but pantomining pride and ignorance and complacence. gorging on laxity and philosophy because they've already decided there soon won't be any left anyway. they feign eccentricity and wallow in learned helplessness and hurt themselves on the sharp edges of reality.

they couldn't have known those hairline fractures were about to split the atom, but they knew enough to convince themselves they couldn't stop what was already happening, and they knew enough to fear its consequences. their refusal to confront what could happen made inevitable what did happen.

that kunikida doppo died before ww1 and yet wrote characters who knew preserves in amber that we are not passive victims to ineludable patterns requiring aftermath to observe or affect. we know enough to chase helplessness rather than nurse our culpability, which means we know enough to know better.

anyway, if you ever find yourself flinching from the signs of the times, remember that sunrises are beautiful and resist cowardice.

#kunikida doppo #geopolitics #literature on war #current events #i'm reading a scrappy translation of some of his short stories to procrastinate work #and reminding myself that we can choose to be scrappy too #why bend to any authority least of all that of violence and suffering

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pactii · 6 months

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Whoa, they're finally gonna actually do something!! 😱

#current events #middle east #gaza #palestine #israel #war #genocide #saudi arabia #turkey #iran #idf #hamas #geopolitics #im warning you if you dont stop this #im gonna warn you again so hard

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workersolidarity · 7 months

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Politico defending LITERAL WWII Nazis.

Politico seriously suggests there is "nuance" around Yaroslav Hunka's joining of the Nazi 14th Waffen SS Grenadier Division (1st Galicia) to fight the Soviet Union and, like Canadian commentators over the last few days, suggests no war crimes were committed by this Division.

That's COMPLETE AND UTTER LUNACY.

The Nazi Germany 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS was NOTORIOUS for SLAUGHTERING their way through Ukraine, enthusiastically participating in the genocide of Poles, Roma, Jews, and Socialists/Communists

These people are manipulating history and your ignorance of it to make Nazis go from black and white obvious evil, to shades of grey in which you're not "expert" enough to have an opinion on, thereby weakening efforts to expose fascist ideology being integrated into Western society.

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anartificialsatellite · 6 months

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Cutting this because it's petty

Anyway I better never hear a fucking judgmental thing from any of you about my being into Hetalia ever again because for the most part all my Hetalia friends have been incredibly thoughtful and supportive the last few weeks - Meanwhile I've had to block people from my other fandoms for posting genocidal slogans and sharing blood libel. Weird how that happens, it's almost like people Don't Actually Care??

Man this is kind of petty and I'm probably going to regret posting it EDIT: I guess I didn't make it unrebloggable but doesn't super matter since it's cut -

Anyway it's funny (read: infuriating) how widespread the hateful bullshit has been from otherwise "uwu you're valid!!!" type bloggers on this site...

#i/p stuff #hetaposting #geeeeet fucked #not actually surprising that the fandom full of history nerds is more reasonable about complex geopolitical events than #most of the rest of this “school is hard you're abusive and privileged for expecting me to read things wehh” website

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havatabanca · 6 months

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#BAMN #by any means necessary #sean blackmon #jaqueline luqman #anglophone radio #caribbean news #palestine #free palestine #haiti #leftist radio #israel #israel hamas war #israel hamas conflict #israel palestine #current events #takes #geopolitics

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amaditalks · 4 months

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I really need for people to start connecting some dots.

Russia, a nation guilty of horrid human rights abuses for decades, continues indiscriminate bombings of residential areas in Syria and is engaging in a war of wholesale destruction against Ukraine, and by extension a proxy war with NATO (which includes the US), for the expansion and reassertion of its empire and dominance against allied western Europe.

China, a nation guilty of horrid human rights abuses for decades, is engaging in a war of interference and aggression with the political apparatus of several sovereign nations (including the US) and has announced its intention to forcibly retake Taiwan, for the expansion and reassertion of its dominance in the Pacific.

Iran, a nation guilty of horrid human rights abuses for decades, is engaged in a proxy game of chicken with Israel (and by extension the US as its main ally) via the combatant groups it funds and arms: Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Houthi Rebels, with a very real threat of becoming a full scale regional war with the stakes being nothing less than the destruction of Israel and expansion and reassertion of Islamist dominance in the entire SWANA.

Russia, China and Iran are formally allied to one another.

That is why the US is not going to stop supporting or funding Israel, even if we might institute limitations on how that funding is used (or more realistically, changing what military equipment we send them), and even if Biden is grey rocking Netanyahu in every communication.

We know (as do all nations) that the abandonment of an ally at a time of conflict sends horrible messages to other allies (will we abandon them if things get dicey? Will we use our size and resources to force our will on them rather than respecting their sovereignty? Is our alliance for them or for our imperial interests?) and sends a signal to the enemies of the (ex) ally that they can do what they please without the threat of the nation with the largest military watching.

In the current global climate, the US is the bulwark against Russia, China and Iran doing whatever they want, to whomever they want, wherever they want. We aren’t going to do anything that messes with that precarious balance.

It’s also why the Biden administration and Democrats are so adamant about continuing support to Ukraine, and why it is so alarming that Republicans are disinclined to do so, at best, and outright opposed at the baffling worst.

The world is complex, brutal and in many saddening ways an ongoing game of 4D chess that cannot be reduced down to slogans and sentence fragment imperatives. It’s necessary to look at things from both the micro and macro perspectives.

#current events #i/p conflict #israel/palestine #ukraine #geopolitics #global alliances aren’t just friendships

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em-nikolaev · 4 months

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Do you like International Relations, Model UN, Geo-Politics?

I found this free program that does a model UN type thing, but it's fully free and fully virtual, here's the link if you're interested:

#international relations #politics #geopolitics #model UN #UN #United nations #MUN #Geography #college applications #college #high school #opportunities #free #current events

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nordic-noire · 1 year

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'...the Finnish flag in Brussels signalled a new era for independent Finland'

After over a year since Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, Finland's accession to NATO was ratified by all 30 member states. On April 4 of 2023, the Finnish flag was raised at NATO headquarters in Brussels for the first time. The result is nothing less than another strategic blunder for Putin, who's declared pre-war objective was to stop NATO expansion.

The raising of the Finnish flag in Brussels signalled a new era for independent Finland. Finnish policymakers ended any remnants of finlandization towards Moscow and joined the West for good.

For Russia, despite its best efforts in 1939, Finland is finally beyond reach. Russia effectively more than doubled its NATO borders, with Finland adding a 1,300km front ranging from the Kola peninsula to Leningrad oblast through territory stolen from Finland in 1940.

Finland and Sweden ending their policy of non alignment effectively turns the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake and adds two modern Nordic militaries to Russia's Baltic front. Over the past year Europe has steadily rid itself of dependency on Russia & its influence, and has begun reinvesting in its conventional defence. All the while Russia remains stuck in an endless war of attrition in Ukraine.

That being said, one cannot forget Ukraine's sacrifice. Kyiv's resistance against Russian occupation, albeit with support from the West, allowed Finland's NATO application. Russia's stalled war gave Helsinki the freedom of maneuver to join the treaty organization. Finland will never again be alone, but for Ukraine the fight for independence continues.

'Never again alone.'

#current events #Finland #NATO #we are NATO #fuck russia #war #geopolitics #realpolitik #Russia #nordic #security #foreign policy

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