Wayne 🏴☠️🇨🇨 ⚛️☮️
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Wayne 🏴☠️🇨🇨 ⚛️☮️
@onemoregrunt
Bumph intolerant realist. Once a vilified Y2K denier. Extinguished doodlebugger.
Australia Katılım Eylül 2012
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"Donald Trump has said that the 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳 agree that the war in 🇮🇷 should end and that the Strait of Hormuz should be reopened"
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Remind me, who started this cataclysm?
abc.net.au/news/2026-05-1…
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@maldivesjayp @boganintel Nope, but it is OK to say fuck the zionists.
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This is an Armageddon cult.
MintPress News@MintPressNews
🚨BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Take Over The Old City Of Jerusalem Israeli Security Minister just declared Israel’s sovereignty over Al-Aqsa Mosque. Bab Al-Amoud has been seized by extremists mocking the Prophet Muhammad & chanting “death to Arabs”. Fully emboldened with no response.
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What is the greatest threat to freedom in America?
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@AnaKasparian I guess the Japanese dude who created the seedless watermelon was a Zionist. 🤔
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I've got a crazy idea...how about we manufacture phones in America and actually enforce antitrust laws to spur competition and lower prices?
Not interested in a country that kills people with beeper bombs manufacturing my cell phone.
And they can keep their seedless melons.
Clash Report@clashreport
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: I hear people say, “I don’t want anything to do with Israel.” Okay, give up your cell phone. Give up car navigation. Give up some medical innovations that may have saved some member of your family’s life. Be sure, by the way, to give up some conveniences like cherry tomatoes and seedless watermelons while you’re at it. And let’s just go ahead and don’t buy anything that has an Nvidia or an Intel chip. Let’s get rid of most of your computers and a whole lot of the software that you use because it was innovated here. And I’m sorry to break it to you, but if you hate Israel that much, you’re going to be living a very different kind of life.
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@Kate_Jones1234 @JohnCleese It's real, but they had to cut that scene.
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@onemoregrunt @JohnCleese WTF did I just watch?
That is not in the original movie.
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If British jews are to be held responsible for what happens in Gaza...then by the same reasoning British Muslims should be held responsible for the massacres of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria
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@JohnCleese John Cleese
You haven't been funny since 1979.
And it must be said, the Python team carried you for years.
Just grow old & fade away old man
You're beyond irrelevant.
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The Thucydides Trap refers to the inherent tension that arises when a rising power (Athens) threatens to displace an established dominant power (Sparta). Fearing the erosion of its supremacy, Sparta chose to confront and contain Athens’ growing strength, ultimately provoking the Peloponnesian War — a conflict that resulted in Sparta’s own long-term demise and the destruction of the classical Greek world order.
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Xi’s obsession over Thucydides’s Trap tells me he isn’t anywhere near strong enough to take over from the US.
Rising East and Failing West no longer matters
Now Xi chases “constructive strategic stability” as a set back phrase.
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Wrong, it's actually for vessels heading east towards Singapore or south along the African coast. These floating armories provide anti-piracy security services. You board armed guards and weapons at Fujairah, then offload them in Sri Lanka on the way east, since Singapore doesn't allow firearms into port.
I’ve personally used the service. They also typically supply a lot of barbed wire, razor wire, and dummy guards as well.
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@embradon Security company for ships sailing through the Strait.
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Iranians take floating armoury anchored off Fujairah
Fishery research vessel operating as floating armoury bound for Iranian waters with AIS switched off.
Security company Vanguard shed further light on the incident, identifying the vessel as Honduras-flagged fishery research vessel HUI CHUAN. The vessel was operating as a floating armoury said Vanguard, citing the CSO.
seatrade-maritime.com/security/irani…
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This is the world view of a China-hater.
Murdoch's Sky gets @ajphelo on to spin 😱 China BAD 😱 on everything, this time the Trump-Xi summit.
But he casually calls Trump illegally attacking Iran, killing 160 schoolgirls and more, and screwing up global fuel supplies ... bold!
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@carlworker From what I understand, a resolution only needs one sponsor, and you can sponsor something even if you plan to vote against it later. So I’m not sure what all the fuss is about.
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Why would the Chinese vote for something so prejudiced and counterproductive?
Adla Massoud@Adlamassoud
🇨🇳🇺🇳China has still not committed to backing the US-backed Bahrain-led UN resolution on the Strait of Hormuz, Rubio says. The draft already has “100 and something countries” signed on as co-sponsors. “We hope the Chinese will vote for it… maybe that’ll change after today’s meeting.”
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"The Thucydides Trap refers to the inherent tension that arises when a rising power (Athens) threatens to displace an established dominant power (Sparta). Fearing the erosion of its supremacy, Sparta chose to confront and contain Athens’ growing strength, ultimately provoking the Peloponnesian War — a conflict that resulted in Sparta’s own long-term demise and the destruction of the classical Greek world order."
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Good editorial from @WSJ, placing agency for war where it belongs, in Beijing, and implicitly recognising that the "Thucydides trap" is a rhetorical trick for Beijing to displace that agency onto others to give itself more tactical space.
wsj.com/opinion/xi-jin…
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@onemoregrunt @NabilAbiSaab Do us all a favor and move to Iran.
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The number of countries co-sponsoring the U.S.-Gulf draft resolution has now reached 112 - an indicator of the level of international support it enjoys.
Negotiations continue with Russia and China to avert their use of veto against it when it is put to a vote.
Here's the latest list of co-sponsors:
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@AngelicaOung I enjoy watching Chas Freeman’s weekly interviews. At 83, he remains sharp as a tack, but he says his wife won’t let him run anything anymore, and she’s right.
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@onemoregrunt He’s 72. Trump is 79. Biden is 83. Once you’re past seventy the degradation in ability can be steep.
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« Biden once recalled that Xi told him: “Democratic systems cannot persist in the 21st century.”
Biden said Xi’s reasoning was: “Democratic systems require national consensus, but achieving consensus is too difficult, so democracy cannot keep up with authoritarian systems and one-man rule.” »
I don’t know if this anecdote is true or not but it is true that the basis for national consensus is thinning. Democracies, if they wish to be competitive, needs to confront this.
RJ@RJDAIGOGO
纽约时报：至少根据一种说法，习近平近十年前就已经对特朗普形成了自己的判断，而这一判断，很可能从此影响了他处理全球事务的方式，包括本周他在北京如何接待特朗普。 时间回到2016年底。当时特朗普刚刚意外赢得美国总统大选，震惊世界。习近平在秘鲁利马举行的峰会上最后一次与奥巴马会面，并提出了一些问题。 根据当时参加会谈的奥巴马政府副国家安全顾问本·罗兹回忆，习近平似乎无法理解，美国选民为什么会选择如此非传统的人物。 奥巴马试图向习近平解释，特朗普崛起反映了美国国内的不满情绪，其中部分原因包括制造业岗位流失到中国，以及知识产权被盗问题。 但按照罗兹的说法，习近平对这个解释并不满意。他说，习近平放下手中的笔，双臂交叉，说道：“如果一个不成熟的领导人让世界陷入混乱，那么世界自然会知道该责怪谁。” 如今，在即将于北京与特朗普举行峰会之际，分析人士表示，习近平希望把中国塑造成一个稳定而强大的全球力量，同时又会保持足够克制，以维持与特朗普之间脆弱的贸易休战。 奥巴马曾在中南海与习近平进行了一场长时间私人晚宴。会后，奥巴马助手原本以为两人会讨论南海等敏感议题。但本·罗兹回忆说：“实际上，他们花了很长时间讨论个人主义社会与儒家集体主义社会是否能够兼容。” 这种高高在上的表达方式，也体现在习近平对政治制度的看法中。 拜登曾回忆，习近平告诉他：“民主制度无法在21世纪持续存在。” 拜登表示，习近平的理由是：“民主制度需要全国共识，而达成共识太困难，因此民主无法跟上专制制度和一人统治。”
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@SariArhoHavren Most people have it backwards.
The real question isn’t whether a rising power can rise peacefully, it’s whether a declining power can decline peacefully.
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@HawleyMO The Strait was open before Nutanyahu ordered Trump to attack Iran.
Wasn't that a silly thing to do?
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If China wants to show some goodwill, they’ll quit undermining our interests
China needs to tell Iran to quit playing games and keep the Strait of Hormuz open
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@RealJakeBroe It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the US-NATO nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey, Italy, and other NATO countries when the alliance disbands.
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@DWalpiri On the global stage, Taiwan once held China’s permanent seat on the UN Security Council and wielded its veto power to block Mongolia’s admission as an independent country.
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China has no right to dictate what Taiwan can or cannot do.
Taiwan’s 23 million people have the right to represent themselves on the global stage, especially after being excluded for nearly a decade, including during a global pandemic.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
China says it will not allow Taiwan to participate in the 79th assembly of the World Health Organization Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiankun stated that the decision was made to uphold the "one-China" principle, asserting that Taiwan has "no right" to participate without the central government's approval. Taiwan's Health Minister, Shih Chung-liang, called the exclusion a "shame" and confirmed that he will lead a delegation to Geneva anyway. 🇨🇳🇹🇼
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@ASPI_org Something else for Australia to consider: French nuclear subs in the Pacific.
They have already attacked a ship in New Zealand.
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Something else for Australia to consider: Russian nuclear subs in the Pacific | Carl Janz | bit.ly/4wlR7V3
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