he is the secretary general of NATO

He has little to do with the US

Jesus fucking Christ. Guy’s been a lapdog of US foreign policy since Iraq in 2003. Get the fuck out of here with this Know Nothing bullshit.

Tell you what, I’ll start condemning China for fighting “Taiwanese Civil Society Participants” when I hear your people start condemning the mass forced closure of Confucious Centers in the states.

The number of Confucius Institutes at U.S. universities and colleges declined since 2019, from about 100 to fewer than five. Schools most commonly cited the potential loss of federal funding and external pressures as contributing to their decision to close their Confucius Institute. More than 60 percent of the 74 respondents to GAO’s survey stated that the potential loss of or ineligibility for federal funding, such as Department of Defense funding subject to limitations in the FY 2019 and FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Acts, contributed to “a great extent” to the institution’s decision to close the Confucius Institute. Schools also cited pressure from U.S. government, congressional, or state representatives among other factors that contributed to their decision.

every time China wants to cancel a human rights event in Zambia

RightsCon 2026

Bow-motherfuckin’-wow.

I do like how you rebutted the “China builds a hospital, UK sends a lecture” by linking to a series of TED Talks, though.

The same is true for Kenya

I bet it is.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte accused China, North Korea and Iran of helping sustain Russia’s war against Ukraine

tapping the brakes

Hey, Secretary General Mark Rutte, what were you doing back in February when the US abruptly ended nuclear nonproliferation talks with Iran by assassinating its leadership and killing tens of thousands of its residents in a surprise attack?

Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture

~ Dr Lubinda Haabazoka, Director of the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business and former President of the Economics Association of Zambia

Direct disenfranchisement is a drop in the bucket

It’s more than enough to swing elections by margin of victory

we could not get them to vote

The 2020 COVID crisis gave us some of the most lax voting laws in the country’s history, for a brief and magical window of time. Consequently, voting - particularly mail-in voting - surged nationwide and the nation experienced the biggest turnout in proportion to population to date. Democrats won in a landslide.

Over the next two years, nearly every single state in the country clawed back voting rights and slammed down novel new restrictions. This was under a Democratic Majority and Presidency, with windfalls of state legislatures and gubernatorial wins across the country. Democrats got absolutely shellacked as a result.

2022 midterm turnout plunged under the 2018 level. 2024 Presidential turnout saw liberals - particularly those “purity test” liberals - turned away from the voting booth in droves, by a combination of malicious conservative vote caging / registration purging and liberal administrative apathy. Much like with the reactionary campaign against GOTV groups like ACORN in 2008 and the lawfare conducted by anti-enfranchisement litigators in 2013 and onward, taking anti-VRA cases to the SCOTUS time and time again, the damage was done to turnout before the election began.

Probably didn’t help that ruling liberals annulled the possibility of a primary before dumping Harris into the top of the ticket over the objection of the sitting President, too. You’d think they would have known better. But I guess it’s just easier to fuck up and blame Palestinian and Transgender voters for your catastrophic defeat, when your Senate and Gubernatorial candidates are outrunning your Presidential nominee by a winning margin of votes.

It continues to get me that Americans are perfectly fine with doing over $300B in infrastructure demolition to the Islamic Republic of Iran, but go into hysterics when they get handed the bill for damage done.

Drill, baby, drill!

China’s offering of the zero-tariff policies to Africa may lock African countries firmly into China’s sphere of control.

Why don’t other countries also offer African states zero-tariff policies to compete?

But if AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) is used to build regional production systems, pool supply, harmonise standards and connect producers with processors and logistics hubs, China’s market could become an external demand engine for African value chains

Letting a UK crafted spin-off of the WTO control your continental trade policies?

It’s certainly an idea.

Can’t believe another country would just engage in espionage like that.

Glad we have a privatized panopticon of AI-powered mega-corps to protect all our precise sensitive data from the Dragon of the East.

While most of the terms related to defense and technology, the intruders also searched for some medical research facilities – and the very specific pathogen, “Chikungunya,” a viral disease transmitted to humans from mosquitoes that was responsible for an outbreak in China’s Guangdong province in July 2025.

Those motherfuckers are trying to steal our medical research to diagnose and treat a local disease epidemic? Without paying us for it?!

Make the call to Omaha. We begin bombing in twenty minutes.

Sorry. It’s fascism. Only thing you can do is double down

Really depends on what is in the pill and what happens if you get the formula wrong.

Idk, this sounds like cope.

India has an enormous energy demand and a lot of money. I’m sure a bunch of middle men are cleaning up, but I doubt anyone in Mumbai is enjoying a cheaper energy bill

At this point though, the market has largely diversified itself away from Russia.

Russia is doing plenty of business into India and China

US and Europe forced this war into a stalemate by not allowing Ukraine to do what was necessary in the early period.

This sounds like some kind of Hegseth rant. The US/EU wasn’t holding Ukraine back, it was juicing them up. The entire military budget for the country is being backfilled by NATO treasury notes. “Ah, but if we’d been just a bit more aggressive…” It’s all just Monday Morning Quarterbacking. “Shoulda thrown more Hail Marys to win the game.”

How’s that going with Iran?

Wasn’t this what blowing up the bridge back in 2022 was about?

Big storm hitting the Gulf during a global gas shortage?

Would be a fun week for the market

You’re literally in a world full of magic and fairies, but you aren’t willing to accept the Teleportation Stone destroys your body and then transports your ephemeral, eternal soul-essence, before reconstituting you into a new form?

Beginning to think big businesses care more about generating revenue than showing solidarity.