International Politics

[Nintex]

holy shit 

[Nintex]

Interesting tidbit, apparently if Palestine gets statehood, the US stops UN funding and aid programs that rely on US funding like the WFP are terminated.

[Nintex]

This guy turned out to be the smartest of them all

[TylenolJones]

holy shit 

Finally agree with him on something. Let them share a cell in The Hague.

[Nintex]

I love the people that got tricked into believing the pilot was a mossad agent named Eli Kopter.

The biggest retards on the planet fell for it too obviously. 

[Nintex]

How about we kidnap 250 hostages to get recognition for the Nintex Republic 

[Nintex]

Sunak has called for snap elections on July 4th.

[Besticus Maximus]

Sunak was a dictionary definition loser today. An absolute gimp.

[TylenolJones]

Sunak was a dictionary definition loser today. An absolute gimp.

A perfect representation of the current British empire. Your next PM is going to be a fentanyl addict.

[Nintex]

China blockades Taiwan with military drills

Taiwan stands strong

[Eric Cartman]

Sunak was a dictionary definition loser today. An absolute gimp.

Absolutely fantastic press conference though.

Him stood there like



while the song that accompanied the new labour landslide back in the 90s undercut his every word

[Potato]

In today's news, Communists continue to believe in fairy tales

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-food-security-dream-faces-land-soil-water-woes-2024-05-23/

BEIJING, May 23 (Reuters) - China, the world's biggest agriculture importer, has set targets to drastically reduce its reliance on overseas buying over the coming decade in line with its push for food security, but they will be exceedingly difficult to meet, experts say.

With limited land and water, China will have to sharply increase farming productivity through technology, including genetically modified crops, and expand area under cultivation to meet Beijing's 10-year projections.

The government envisions 92% self-sufficiency in staple grains and beans by 2033, up from 84% during 2021-2023, according to a document released in late April, on a path towards President Xi Jinping's goal to become an "agriculture power" by the middle of the century.
Cutting the country's imports would be a blow to producers from the U.S. to Brazil and Indonesia, who have expanded capacity to meet demand from China's 1.4 billion people, the world's largest market for soybeans, meat and grains.

Over the 10 years to 2033 the agriculture ministry projects a 75% plunge in corn imports to 6.8 million tons and a 60% drop for wheat to 4.85 million tons.
For soybeans, the biggest item on a farm import bill that totalled $234 billion last year, Beijing sees imports falling 21% to 78.7 million tons in a decade.

Those targets defy the trends of the past decade in which grains and oilseed imports have surged 87%.

[Nintex]

That's why they're betting on Putin to win the war in Ukraine. He probably promised them a share of the farm land.
Russia actually reported record grain exports last year, selling what they stole from Ukraine to China and Africa.

Problem is, the Russians are fucking retarded. Currently they're mostly selling the grain that was in storage and/or harvesting the crops already planted.
Once that is harvested and the storage is empty, the Russians will have to cultivate their own crops in the bombed out cratered fields 'protected' by convicts.

In fact security in the so called 'liberated zone' is so bad, that the Russians are scaling up border security between Luhansk/Donetsk and Russia.

I wonder if there will be some kind of uprising in China as Xi takes them down the drain by teaming up with Russia and Iran. 

On the Russian side the alliance isn't much better. China is now selling weapons to Russia but they aren't buying Russian products or investing in the Russian economy.
Gazprom is already losing billions because the EU isn't buying energy from Russia. A BRICS currency won't be worth the paper it is printed on if he can't take Ukraine. The Republicans are smelling blood in the water, telling Blinken to allow Ukraine to use NATO weapons on Russian soil so they can win the war, something that Sullivan has blocked since the beginning fearing escalation.

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[killamajig]

Li Jianwei is a former PLA soldier and a Chinese mercenary hired by Russia. He talks about his experiences in the Russia-Ukraine war on Chinese social media. In this video, he described the high causality of the Ukraine war and gave first-hand account of the Russian military operations and challenges.  He called Putin's war in Ukraine "unwinnable" at the end.

[Nintex]

Despite the heavy losses I don't think the war is unwinnable for Russia in current conditions.
Putin is throwing all sorts of minorities and foreign mercenaries into the meat grinder while Ukraine is losing future generations to this insanity. The towns they level are not in Russia but in Ukraine and if the US keeps blocking Ukraine from striking Russia itself, they won't be able to stop the Glide Bombs and cruise missiles.

The Russians care little about the lives lost (the common soldier has a very low social standing) which is why killing more Russians will not stop the war.
In their twisted view Ukraine should give up to stop the killing because resistance is futile.

Ukraine needs a free hand to destroy things the Russians (especially those in control) do care about and they mostly care about their stuff and luxuries.
I think if you lobbed a missile at a parking lot with fancy cars from local party officials and oligarchs, it would 'hurt' Russian morale more than killing their soldiers.

You can also see this in what the Russians target. They loot stores, bomb shopping malls and steal washing machines.

[Nintex]

It'll be a reverse Dunkirk

[killamajig]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/27/north-korea-plans-to-launch-space-satellite-by-june-4-japan



https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/27/north-korea-says-rocket-carrying-satellite-exploded-in-flight

[Nintex]

The former head of the intelligence services has been appointed as the new 'apolitical' Dutch prime minister. He's currently the secretary general of the Justice department and an expert in counter-terrorism as well as global and national security. 

Although he will be responsible to carry out the agreement Wilders made with the other parties and they don't call it a 'war cabinet', it obviously is.
Or rather, they're clearly putting people in place that if shit hits the fan we can act quickly and decisively. 

A lot of European countries have basically been 'asked' to pick a side by either allowing or denying Ukraine the right to use supplied weapons on Russian territory.
Some countries like France are also sending military trainers to Ukraine.

[Nintex]

Makes sense. First attack Ukraine so the EU bunkers down and the border in the east is secure.
Annex Ukraine and Belarus, start squeezing the baltics. Then move south into Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan to complete the land connection with Iran.
Next move into Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan to connect with China.

For China the strategy is probably:
- Bog the US down in Taiwan and possibly Japan with the help of Russia
- Annex North Korea, move on South Korea and Vietnam

After that they can start squeezing Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh and finally India from two sides and who knows India might join them.

[killamajig]

I'm not familiar with UK law so I'll ask here. Does Trump's felony convictions keep him out of the UK now?

[Nintex]

I'm not familiar with UK law so I'll ask here. Does Trump's felony convictions keep him out of the UK now?

I read there are about 40 countries that Trump wouldn't be able to visit if the convictions hold. 

Even if he is convicted he can still serve as President if elected however that doesn't mean he'll be released from prison.
He would be sworn in as President in prison and he'd have to serve his term in prison until release.
That includes meetings with the cabinet, other heads of state, signing ceremonies etc. obviously he wouldn't be able to travel.

Another thing that has been doing the rounds is that it is likely he'll be jailed during the appeal process because he is convicted unanimously by the jury for 34 felonies and hasn't shown any remorse. The prosecutor for his part, will certainly demand jail time.

Because this isn't a federal case but a case in New York, he also won't be placed under 'house arrest' in the Mar A Lago but will probably be incarcerated on Rikers Island.

Even if according to most legal experts the case is flimsy and stretching the limits of applying federal election laws to a misdemeanor in bookkeeping and a lot of mistakes were made during trial it doesn't change the conviction.

[Nintex]

Crazy thing to say for a European politician.

Leader of the French left calls out the US for trying to start a war with China.

[Nintex]

Well there is the "game changer"

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

what the heck is going on in the UK 

[Nintex]

They think Gen Z will rally around a middle aged stock broker for 'leadership' 
To be fair with Wilders winning in the Netherlands, everything is possible.

The EU bureaucrats think that thursday will be a very low turn-out for the EU elections and the Christian Democrats or Green/Labour parties across Europe will easily win and they can just continue as is.

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[Potato]

Pretty interesting story about Russian propaganda efforts targeting western media outlets and journalists

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-04/russia-war-ukraine-propaganda-disinformation-australian-media/103927386

Pro-Russian influence campaign targets Australian media outlets, including ABC, researchers find

Australian news outlets, including the ABC, have been targeted by a sophisticated new pro-Russian influence campaign, designed to sway public opinion about the war in Ukraine, according to researchers.

Australian Associated Press (AAP), The Daily Aus, The Conversation and the ABC are among 800 organisations in more than 75 countries that have been approached over email or social media to debunk purpose-made false content, such as anti-Ukrainian graffiti or fake news clips.

The coordinated effort has been dubbed Operation Overload in a report by Check First, a Finnish software company that investigates online disinformation, and Reset Tech, an online safety not-for-profit group.

The novel and surprising part of the campaign is that its tactics target journalists directly, instead of trying to push fake news onto the general public, as has previously been the case.

The name Operation Overload was chosen because one of its main goals seems to be clogging fact checking systems in newsrooms.

Maybe if modern journalists actually paid attention to their code and didn't think their job was about activism, then these tactics wouldn't work, but anyway...

[Nintex]

From what I've seen Russian misinformation is mostly useless in developed countries. The people that agree are usually the types that were already pro-Russia / anti-NATO or anti-war in general. I haven't seen a lot of people change their opinion on the Ukraine war because @tankiepatriot69 posts on X that Zelensky is a drug addict.

The only surprising flips are Mikhail Khordokovsky and Arestovych(although this one is still in doubt). A lifelong dissident and Zelensky's political advisor.