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Mathias Ssemanda

@MathiasSsemanda

Diplomacy and International Relations. International Development and Public Policy. USA-China-Africa relations. @Makerere and @Penn_State.

Kampala, Uganda Katılım Kasım 2012
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Barnabas Nawangwe@ProfNawangwe·
Wishing a joyful and reflective Eid-ul-Fitr to all our Muslim compatriots.
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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
If the immortal F-35 has been hit above Iran’s Airspace, you can’t rule out China or Russia’s involvement. China would be glad to test their capabilities against US’ most advanced weapons and fighter jets using the Iran conflict and battle turf.
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The Economist
The Economist@TheEconomist·
The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser econ.st/4lA7lEQ
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Larry Madowo
Larry Madowo@LarryMadowo·
Senegal’s president casually updates his social profile pictures to include the AFCON trophy behind him. How do you say “come and get it if you can” in Wolof?
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Arthur Musinguzi
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No better legend has ever lived than this guy 😆😆
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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
Washington Post publishes average cost of dying in the United States of America. Know the cost per zip code/city wapo.st/40wYTwz
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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
@kirya_ug That should be a normal office for a CEO. It also seems it works as his boardroom. Others will have the boardroom separate.
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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
TikTok has a 50cent from Masaka🤣
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𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐄`💎
@kamaroma22 Her obsession for pink is nauseating! Also over the years, I've realized most Phionahs love pink so much. It kind of made me love it less.💀
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Maggie Atwooki ❣️
Maggie Atwooki ❣️@kamaroma22·
Wait, Sasha, Canary’s ex wife’s charcoal stove is pink? Now this is a different love for the pink color 😂😂😂😂😂
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Mathias Ssemanda
Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
They world over. Actually in USA, their driver license validity is 7 years by default but when you click 65, they will start limiting your validity for each license like to 2 years because you are expected to perhaps have reduced sight and mental capacity. So every two years, it expires, you go they review your sight.
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Arthur Musinguzi
Arthur Musinguzi@digitaldidan·
Driving licenses have age limits kanno kapya ?
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Arthur Musinguzi@digitaldidan·
You check your phone battery at 10%.
Suddenly every app becomes suspicious.
Who is draining my future?
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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
@TheLoveDre The terrain of military cooperation with the U.S. and NATO is going shift in the GCC countries. When this war ends, Iran is going to want several demands met by this states.
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Andrew Mwanguhya
Andrew Mwanguhya@TheLoveDre·
Gulf States caught pants down.
Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان@Marwa__Osman

A double shockwave has just hit both Washington and Riyadh. According to a report by WSJ, Iran struck five U.S. aerial refueling aircraft stationed inside Saudi Arabia at Prince Sultan Air Base. For years, Saudi officials have insisted, over and over again, that their territory is not being used for hostile operations against Iran. Meanwhile, Persian Gulf media endlessly repeat the narrative that Iran is the destabilizing force threatening the Arab world. But let's ask the obvious question. What exactly are U.S. refueling aircraft doing on Saudi soil? Their purpose is obviously not humanitarian. Their sole operational role is to keep combat aircraft in the air longer, aircraft that carry out military strikes. In other words, the infrastructure for attacking Iran has been sitting comfortably inside Saudi territory all along. And the exposure did not come from Iranian media. It came from the WSJ and then Reuters picked up the story. Mind you, Washington has been insisting that the recent crash of a U.S. refueling aircraft Boeing KC‑135R Stratotanker in Iraq, and the fire aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, were unrelated accidents. According to the official U.S. line, these were simply "non-hostile incidents". Convenient timing, no? An aircraft carrier suddenly catches fire. A strategic tanker aircraft crashes over Iraq. Six pilots are dead. And we're expected to believe none of it has anything to do with the war currently unfolding. Yet the WSJ revelations punch a massive hole in the narrative pushed by Donald Trump and his administration, that U.S. losses are minimal and Iran is supposedly "on the verge of collapse". Reality on the ground, well in the air, appears very different. Iran's strikes are not random missile launches, as hostile media outlets often claim. They appear focused on the logistical backbone of U.S. air power: aerial refueling aircrafts, namely the pride of the American military industrial complex, the Boeing KC‑135R Stratotanker. Disable the tankers, and the entire architecture of long-range air operations begins to crumble. Five tankers reportedly hit in Saudi Arabia. Another one brought down over Iraq. Yet Washington still refuses to acknowledge the scale of the damage. Why? Because admitting it would mean admitting something far more uncomfortable: that Iran has managed to penetrate some of the most advanced air defense networks in the world. And suddenly the myth of absolute American military invulnerability starts to crack. Look at the geography of what is unfolding. From MBS's Riyadh to Netanyahu's Tel Aviv. From MBZ's Al Dhafra base to Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's Juffair. From Iran's Strait of Hormuz to Yemen's Red Sea. (Fyi Yemen announced its readiness to engage..soon) Never in modern Middle Eastern history has a regional power directly challenged U.S. military infrastructure across such a vast arc. This is precisely why hostility toward Iran is so intense. The United States sees the only regional actor capable of contesting its military dominance. Israel sees the only state willing to challenge its strategic supremacy. And some Persian Gulf monarchies see something even more unsettling: a future where the protection they once purchased with looted oil wealth may no longer guarantee their survival. So, the same states that launch military operations from their territory against Iran, ask the world to believe they are innocent bystanders. And that contradiction is becoming harder and harder to hide, because the real question is no longer who fired the missiles. The real question is who built the battlefield in the first place. And increasingly, the answer points not outward, but inward, toward regimes that opened their doors to foreign militaries while claiming to defend the region. History has a way of exposing these contradictions. And when it does, narratives collapse faster than air defenses.

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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
@GabrielAmooti @Iam_Isaka Victor GAO was the official English interpreter for President Deng Xiaoping. But now he is a leader at Chinese Center Global Studies or Globalization. He has plenty of time to do all those media interviews. He is good!
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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
Anthony Blinken, Sergey Lavrov and now just added Abbas Araghchi. They are the Cream of diplomats.
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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
@MayendeCaroline @roxie_ug @emirates By the way, I still don’t get it why you are so upset by us stating facts that things aren’t okay at all in UAE’s aviation industry due to the war. But it’s fine!
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The Charity Guy
The Charity Guy@roxie_ug·
You Realize Why People Trust The UAE. Flights Resume... And Every Plane Is Escorted By Fighter Jets For Their Safety. That's The Kind Of Leadership That Wins Hearts.
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Mathias Ssemanda@MathiasSsemanda·
@DuncanAbigaba Whom can you identify from the U.S. line up. Some pundits were excited recently when Condoleezza Rice checked on Trump at White House.
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