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Might be a hot take, but prosecuting the leader you elected just one election cycle ago might not be a sign of a healthy democracy?
An accident caused by a guided munition going haywire and seeking out the nearest “press” vest. An unfortunate but unavoidable accident.
Sri Lanka: stuck between a Chinese-owned and operated port and an India-owned and operated port.
Y’know, it would be great if it could be a Sri Lankan-owned and operated port… Adani Group didn’t even give them a choice in that matter.
Guess it’s time for Argentina to issue a new currency.
Sovereignty over monetary policy is extremely valuable and dollarization will simply trade one problem for many others.
I don’t think China really backs anyone as a matter of foreign policy.
Their position is really “if y’all don’t fuck around in our internal affairs, we won’t fuck around in yours.” What China claims to be internal affairs is rather broad, but in a historical context it’s seen as “where China was before the Century of Humiliation.” It’s somehow become a common-ground position between the CPC and KMT and stretches from the Opium Wars through the Sino-Japanese Wars and is widely recognized to end at one of two points (depending on who you ask): 1. Just prior to the CPC coming to power in 1949, or 2. Just after the Treaty of San Francisco (which invited neither the PRC or ROC) was signed in 1951.
I mean, anyone who was convinced otherwise was delusional. We’ve always known that methane has a substantially higher short-term impact on GHG emissions than carbon dioxide. We’ve also known for years now that natural gas is notorious for leaking obscene amounts of methane (even compared to coal mining per unit energy). That hasn’t stopped us from tapping and consuming more gas: in fact, total US fossil fuel electricity production has increased by 40% over the plateau in the 1970s-2000s.
In the short-term, we are incredibly, incredibly fucked. Eventually, methane decays and whatnot, but that might be too little, too late.