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A Chinese perspective on the Iran war from top scholar Zhang Weiwei: "The trade war failed. The tariff war failed. The tech war failed. This war will fail." "Trump's decisions are consistently very poor. With decision-making of that caliber, how dare he pick a fight?"

Fascinating to watch first 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for the rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.

@ctindale @nosh15 This American/Israel “special military operation” has a profound impact the total economy of the world. Who is going to stop this craziness? Dear Americans, you need to get control of your president

@SAHRCommission There's no water in Joburg, and service delivery has been limping for a long time in SA. You don't see us flee to Nigeria. Why is SA being made a solution for the failures of the governments of Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Pakistan, Bangladesh...?

@MHLUNGUOLUHLAZA America is out of control. Trump is a very dangerous man. But I guess they ended up with him as president because his craziness resonated with them.

Americans.... You are heavily armed and waiting for danger. The danger you are waiting for is within!! Stop shooting innocent school kids. There are pedophiles allowing a genocidal war criminal from a Shithole in the Middle East to lead your country astray!

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.” Simone de Beauvoir

Woolworths: You pay premium for the vibe, polite staff, and no chaos. Checkers: Chaos, but cheaper. Pick n Pay: Stuck in the middle, still expensive. Shoprite: Boxer prices but with extra drama. Me: Goes to all of them hunting specials like it's a treasure hunt. SA life.

@MalwareWandy Things are not looking good

Sundowns football is even gonna get worse in the next couple of months because people will no longer give their all trying to ensure they don’t get injured before the World Cup. We might as well as start playing our “B team”.

A good chunk of the top people in government were just openly exposed as abusive, likely satanic, pedophiles. And people are still clocking in for government jobs, still following orders passed down through a chain of command that ultimately traces back to the very same people. And even more people will still fork over a portion of their hard earned labor to them. Really wild to think about.

You cannot say it better than Adam Smith: "In the courts of princes, in the drawing-rooms of the great, where success depends not upon merit but upon favour, truth is seldom heard. This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful… is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments." equals.ink/p/adam-smiths-…

Due to extreme winds, the results of today's ITT won't count for GC, but they will count for a stage victory. Either the parcours is safe to ride, or it is not. Reducing the amount of people risking their safety, doesn't reduce the individual risk for those riders. 🤷‍♂️ #VCV

Child marriage is legal in half of Muslim countries why would they need to go to Epstein’s island?

@ricwe123 Took 80% of his people out of poverty…? Where do you get that stats? Are you aware that half the population of China has “disappeared”? How did that happen? Are you aware of forced organ transplantations and its effects on the population?

Call him a dictator, totalitarian, tyrant, etc. Meanwhile he took almost 80% of his own people out of sheer poverty. That is a pretty impressive accomplishment for any world leader......

@nicksortor @djkevking Shooting somebody in the back is equally cowardice and a bad idea

🚨 BREAKING: New video angle shows the struggle between armed suspect and Border Patrol agents who were forced to fire defensive shots This was captured by the woman in pink standing behind the scuffle in the original video Again, going at federal law enforcement with a firearm is a stupid idea.

@MattWalshBlog @djkevking Getting shot in the back puts a different perspective on the issue

If you dress up in your militia costume, arm yourself, and then go out into the street with the express intent of interfering with law enforcement, and then fight back when they try to arrest you, and then you end up dead, you only have yourself to blame for that whole series of deliberate and insanely idiotic decisions.

@cnnbrk @IvanCNN Dear Americans You have to get Trump out of office.

A man has been fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis, police chief tells CNN. DHS says he was armed. Follow live updates. cnn.it/4qDXKhY

@ReichlinMelnick OH MY GOD. These “agents” aren’t even agents. They’re J6rs with guns. They’re not even being trained. Just paid to murder

@BulwarkOnline America is deep into trouble with this crazy President. The Orange Man loves to refer to Africa as a shit hole. I am standing by watching him turn his own into it.

"They cannot believe what is happening around them and so, whenever something that feels normal, safe, or sane comes out of Trump’s mouth, they treat it as if that’s the real policy while everything else was just noise." lnk.thebulwark.com/469lyC2