#geopol — Public Fediverse posts

🍁 Trump takes his "Lake America" push to Apple

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/31/trump-lake-america-apple-maps-request

#applemaps #lakeontario #tradewar #Canada #geopol

MapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario/

#google #uspol #geopol #canada

Finally the world is standing up to Trump, it took the #worldcup to finally band everyone together against your clown ass country.

#uspol #geopol #tariffs #tradewar

#GeoPol #Türkei #Israel #Gazakrieg

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👉Streit zwischen Ankara und Jerusalem eskaliert: #Erdogan will #Netanjahu erneut als #Kriegsverbrecher anklagen lassen👈

... Globale #Sumud-Flottille bezieht. Istanbul hat die Abfangaktion der Flottille in internationalen Gewässern als Piraterie charakterisiert, während eine gemeinsame Stellungnahme von 13 Regierungen die Anschläge auf Zivilschiffe und Aktivisten als Verstöße gegen das Völkerrecht und die humanitäre Rechtsordnung verurteilt hat."

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#GeoPol #Türkei #Israel #Gazakrieg

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👉Streit zwischen Ankara und Jerusalem eskaliert: #Erdogan will #Netanjahu erneut als #Kriegsverbrecher anklagen lassen👈

https://www.turkishminute.com/2026/07/14/turkish-court-seeks-interpol-red-notice-for-netanyahu-over-sumud-flotilla-interception/

Die Türkei hat ein Verfahren zur Erwirkung eines internationalen Haftbefehls (#INTERPOL #RedNotice) gegen Benjamin Netanyahu und weitere hochrangige israelische Amtsträger eingeleitet, der sich auf die Abfangaktion Israels gegen die für den #Gazastreifen bestimmte...

Wenig macht die westliche Arroganz so deutlich, wie die Ignoranz gegenüber der Tatsache, dass China eine Jahrtausende alte Hochkultur ist, und über lange Strecken eines der Zentren der Weltwirtschaft war.

Historisch ungewöhnlich ist nicht, dass China heute wieder Weltmacht ist - ungewöhnlich waren die rund 150 Jahre, in denen es keine war.

#china #bric #geopol

@HaWeCom

#GeoPol

1. Das Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der Zollunion #EU wurde mit dem Gemeinsamen Markt, #MERCOSUR, und nicht auf nationalstsatlicher Ebene abgeschlossen.
(vgl. früher: EG-Binnenmarkt "

2. #Paraguay ist ein Vollmitglied des MERCOSUR.

3. #Ecuador ist nur ein assoziiertes Mitglied, und das hat regionalpolitische Gründe--so etwas gibt es auch in Europa (Neukandidat: Ukraine, z. B.).

Du gehst also von falschen Grundannahmen aus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur

Übrigens: außer dem...

#HPsCommentary

#WarInUkraine #GeoPol #NortheastPassage

...point of the war:

No more oil sales and no more spare parts for the #Russia war machine and economy.

They have succeeded once, why not again?

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#HPsCommentary
#WarInUkraine #GeoPol #NortheastPassage

... #Russian #Icebreaker vessel for the final leg of this merchant fleet to #China. --So far, far away from any #Ukrainian drones or the third #GulfWar.

This could be a big change, unless...

...#Ukraine were to pull of yet another #SiberianPearlHarbor 1), either destroying that convoy or severely ending its manoeuvrability...

Cutting the economic ties with #China is of utmost importance at this...

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114610388021320755

#HPsCommentary
#WarInUkraine #GeoPol #China #Russia

...as the #UnitedKingdom and #France of operating a kind of shadow fleet themselves."

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https://www.europesays.com/de/1235890/

However, #Russia has been anticipating this reaction at least since 2023, working on a new merchant route through the #Arctic, the #NortheastPassage.
It scored a big success in Oct. 2025, when the first containership used that route to reach the #UK.

Presently, the probably largest convoy of merchant ships ever is awaiting a...

@theguardian_world_news

#GeoPol #Shipping #InternationalTrade #OilPrices #Politics #Oanama

Here, you can find the #BackgroundSory for the soaring cost and diminished capacity of the #PanamaCanal:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114112332193118824

#US ended one #ForeverWar in 2020 with withdrawal from Kabul and ended up in two #ForeverWars. One in #Iran and the other in #Ukraine. With no expectations that both wars will be won or will go in a direction which would be beneficial to Washington.

Meanwhile #US now spends on interest payments an amount that is almost equal to its entire defense outlay.

Sheesh, talk about jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

#IranWar #EndlessWar #EndlessWars #Geopolitics #GeoPol

🦅 The US government just banned Roombas

｢ It’s not coming for your existing Roomba, and companies can keep importing and selling already approved ones. But the government claims that future foreign robots pose a national security risk, and even robovac companies are suddenly being asked to commit to US manufacturing ｣

https://www.theverge.com/policy/972312/us-robot-ban-sweep-up-chinese-vacuums

#china #robots #tradewar #geopol

#NATO Article 6 excludes #US Pacific territories, like Guam, Hawaii from its ambit. It also excludes all French and British possessions in South America, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, like French Guiana, Diego Garcia, New Caledonia and others. So if any of these territories were to be attacked, #Article5 of NATO cannot be invoked.

Ergo if US goes to war with #China NATO will not help.
If #Guam is obliterated then Article 5 cant be invoked
If #Hawaii is nuked.............

#Geopolitics #GeoPol

#Ukraine by striking shipping in #Caspian Sea showed what the Ukraine war is all about. In case of #Taiwan contingency #China will loose access to sea. It will need Oil, Gas, metals, food, etc. which can be met easily by Russia and Central Asia. With Ukraine in NATO, supply from Caspian Sea, Caucuses, Central Asia and Iran can be interdicted.

It is a double pincer movement against China, from the western direction

#IranWar #ForeverWar #ForeverWars #EndlessWar #EndlessWars #Geopolitics #GeoPol

#Ukraine crossed a Rubicon by striking shipping in Caspian Sea. This action has potential to turn two regional conflicts into a global conflict. If this reckless strike is not repudiated and invalidated this will set a precedent for China and Russia. Both of them will use this as a precedent to attack any shipping. Globally.

Dont sleep walk into a June-1914 Sarajevo situation.

#IranWar #ForeverWar #ForeverWars #EndlessWar #EndlessWars #Geopolitics #GeoPol #WWIII #WW3

Diplomacy is back. Talks are on going. Updated #MOU may be out soon. Or interpretation of the #MoU will be clarified. As long as bombs are not falling, drones are not flying, missiles are not being launched that is a good thing. A welcome development.

#US is back to blockading #Iran. Not clear on how the Caspian Sea coast will be blockaded.

Meanwhile strait of #Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb are blocked.

#IranWar #EndlessWar #EndlessWars #ForeverWar #ForeverWars #Geopolitics #GeoPol #GeoPolitics

#GeoPol #GulfWar

PS:

"#Greece has deployed a U.S.-made #Patriot air ​defence ​battery, operated ⁠by #Greek personnel, in #SaudiArabia since ​2021 under an agreement ​to ⁠help protect the kingdom's energy infrastructure.
Saturday's interception was the second time ⁠that ​Greek personnel had operated ​the system."

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/greek-operated-air-defence-system-shoots-down-missiles-over-saudi-2026-07-25/

Cc @newsguyusa

#Iran is connected to #Russia via Caspian Sea and Caucasus corridor. #Iran is connected by land to #China via Central Asia and Russia.

If the expectation is to repeat the playbook used to overthrow Saddam's #Iraq i.e. degrade Iran over a period of a decade via sanctions and No Fly Zones so that the next US president can invade Iran easily, then that might not work

Meanwhile strait of #Hormuz is closed.

#IranWar #EndlessWar #EndlessWars #ForeverWar #ForeverWars #Geopolitics #Geopol #Geopolitic

The #MoU has been merely suspended. It has not been nullified. It has not been annulled. It has not been revoked.

Since the #MoU has not been abrogated, expect #US and #Iran to return back to its essence in a few weeks. Once the munitions have been exhausted.

That is the upside. The downside? Economically things are going to get bad. Very bad. For all. Not end of world type bad. Nor global conflict.

#IranWar #ForeverWar #ForeverWars #EndlessWar #EndlessWars #Geopol #Geopolitics #Geopolitic

#MoU has been suspended but not abrogated. That is a crucial and significant development.

There was a misunderstanding between the parties about what is there in MoU. While differences are sorted out, strait of #Hormuz remains closed. Maybe #BabElMandeb strait will be closed too.

Both the #US and #Iran are not bound by the MoU. They will be bound to the agreement which comes out of the MoU

#IranWar #ForeverWar #ForeverWars #EndlessWar #EndlessWars #Geopolitics #GeoPol #GeoPolitics #Geopolitic

@guardian

#HPsCommentary
#WarInGaza #Palestine #Religion
#Israel #GeoPol

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...might still come either way, given that the #UN estimates that there will be 300mn to 2 billion #ClimateRefugees.

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@guardian

#HPsCommentary
#WarInGaza #Palestine #Religion
#Israel #GeoPol

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... for anyone living today.
(There are no Stargates or Warp Drives.)

So, if there is to be a future for humanity, there is only one way this might and well for all of us:

All the alleged perpetrators of war crimes or crimes against humanity (and hopefully soon #Ecocide) must be tried at the #Hague.

The alternatives all entail a breakdown of society as we know it. .which...

@guardian

#HPsCommentary
#WarInGaza #Palestine #Religion
#Israel #GeoPol

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... astronomer and #Nobel Prize laureate said in a long 2025 #ORF interview:

"...the way things are currently progressing, humanity will not even make it to #Mars [let alone to an extrasolar planet, as #Longtermists crave.]

Like me, he's completely opposed to a "Planet B" approach, meaning, if we wreck Earth 🌍, we can just settle some other planet.
This will not happen, with almost 100% certainty not...

@guardian

#HPsCommentary
#WarInGaza #Palestine #Religion
#Israel #GeoPol

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...and now elsewhere,) but the global rise in #Antisemitism was also to be expected.

It can only be hoped, that they finally make the right decision in October when they will decide on the future of #Netanyahu in particular and #Israel's future in general--at the polls.

If human society is to survive, the return to the rules-based system implemented after #WWII is indispensable.

As a famous French...

@guardian

#WarInGaza #Palestine #Religion
#Israel #GeoPol

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...apart from some occasional #JerusalemPost headlines, but the global backlash, and even the classification of their military 's deeds as #Genocide, made it very obvious that there would be a reckoning:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/115129530425980355

It is extremely unfair to all the #Jews in the global #Diaspora who did not have a hand or even opposed the #Israeli regimes actions in #Gaza (and now elsewhere,)...

@guardian

#WarInGaza #Palestine #Religion
#Israel #GeoPol

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...to explain how the events
with which the forefathers engage are replicated to some degree in subsequent generations."

https://www.emethatorah.com/children-abraham

Christians know this concept from
1 #Maccabees 2:51-53:

"51 “Remember the deeds of the fathers, which they did in their generations; and receive great honor and an everlasting name."

There are even other Bible quotes that come to mind.

IDK what the #Israelis were thinking,...

#GeoPol #Ostsee

*#Moskau meldet massive Angriffe:
Brände in #Russland|s wichtigstem [kommerziellen] #Ostsee-Hafen Ust-Luga" [#УстПуга]*

👉 #Ukrainekrieg:

#Kiewer #Drohnen versenken Schiff 🚢 in #RUS Hafen, ca. 100 km südöstlich von #StPetersburg.
Es wird vermutet, dass es sich um einen marinestrategisch wichtigen neuen #Eisbrecher gehandelt haben könnte.

Noch wichtiger:
Brennende Hafenanlagen, wodurch die #Ölexporte schwieriger werden könnten.👈

von #ntv.de:

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Braende-in-Russlands-wichtigstem-Ostseehafen-Ust-Luga-id30508870.html

#AmnestyInternational:

#IranMassaker #GeoPol #Iran #Politik #Demokratie

👉Selbst laut offiziellen Angaben bereits über 2.000 Opfer des #Mullah-Regimes!
#UN gefordert👈

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"*Iran: #Massaker an #Demonstranten erfordert weltweite diplomatische Maßnahmen, um ein Ende der Straflosigkeit zu signalisieren*

Verifizierte Videos und glaubwürdige Informationen von...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/iran-massacre-of-protesters-demands-global-diplomatic-action-to-signal-an-end-to-impunity/

#GeoPol #Ukrainekrieg
👉️️️️* Russlands Krieg gegen Europa begann spätestens 2014/2015*👈️️️️
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Als ich nach der 2. Schlacht von Kiew vom 24.02.-02.04.2022 Präsident #Selenskyj & die erfolgreichen #ukrainischen Soldaten mit #Leonidas & seinen 300 #spartanischen Kriegern & ihrer heorischen Verteidigung #Griechenlands und damit #Europas vor den #persischen Invasoren verglich, war ich, zugegeben, bewußt etwas dramatisch.

Im Kern hat sich jedoch an meiner Aussage nichts geändert, oder wie es...

#Gazakrieg #GeoPol

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...Bevölkerung in der #Ukrainischen Sozialistischen #Sowjetrepublik ein. Ca. 3,5 bis 4,5 Millionen #Ukrainer starben durch die "Tötung durch Hunger" (#ukrainisch #Holodomor).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor?wprov=sfla1

Es kann bei aller "Freundschaft mit dem israelischen Volk" NICHT die Staatsräson der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sein, sich durch die weitere Lieferung von Waffen erneut an einem #Völkermord zu beteiligen!

Gleiches gilt naturgemäß auch für die...

@Bundesregierung

#Gazakrieg #Geopol
#Netanjahu Regime #IDF #Kriegsverbrecher #Genozid

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...diese Verse nicht wörtlich zu verstehen sind.]
Vielmehr👉 ist dies laut der mündlichen #Tora eine Anweisung, dem Geschädigten eine finanzielle Entschädigung zu zahlen👈, wie die Übersetzung des Satzes im #Targum zeigt.2"

https://de.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6491458/jewish/Was-verbirgt-sich-hinter-dem-Prinzip-Auge-um-Auge.htm

So schlimm und traumatisch der Überfall der #Hamas-Terroristen für die Opfer, ihre Angehörigen und das #Jüdische Volk auch gewesen...
@Bundesregierung

#GeoPol #Ukrainekrieg #USPol
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... seiner Rückkehr vom Finale der #FIFA-Klub-Weltmeisterschaft vor Reportern auf dem Stützpunkt
Andrews....
sagte, dass die Vereinigten Staaten den #ukrainischen Streitkräften zusätzliche #Patriot-#Luftabwehrraketen und weitere "sehr anspruchsvolle" militärische Ausrüstung schicken werden, während er seine Frustration über das Verhalten des #russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin im dreijährigen Krieg seines Landes gegen die #Ukraine...

@elefan

#Religion #GeoPol #Ukrainekrieg
#OrthodoxeKirche

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Korrekt, *ein* Antipode tat sich in den letzten Jahren jedoch immer mehr hervor, #KyrillI:

Von @sz

"Nur wenige Tage nach dem islamistischen Terroranschlag auf die #CrocusCityHall Ende März 👉haben #Patriarch #Kyrill und hochrangige Hierarchen der #RussischenOrthodoxenKirche (#ROK) ihre theologische Rechtfertigung des...

Quelle:

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/patriarch-kirill-wladimir-putin-heiliger-krieg-1.6531303

@jochenwettach

I have no crystal ball, though I'm starting to get a strong sense of his "concept of a plan."

🍊 and his secret club are going to go all in on The Great Rewire.

They're going to have the working class build it AND pay for it.

Upon its completion, they'll flip the switch that makes humans useless and celebrate with the largest fireworks display the planet has ever seen.

Unfortunately, it'll be the last Grand Finale for anyone not tucked away in an island fortress bunker like Z-Man in Hawaii.

https://youtu.be/NZ8XxTkXc2c

#MuzakLessons #Scorched #Overkill #AGIRace #GeoPol #GreatRewire

The #World Doesn't Need a #Hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtTJJsLQ8Fk

#Song #TheWorldNeedsAhero #TitleTrack

not to be confused with #TitleTown or #TitleTownTech

From #Megadeth #Album "The World Needs a Hero"

#MuzakLessons #GeoPol #GeoPolitics #USPol #Genre #Thrash #Metal #ThrashMetal

#GeoPol #WarInEurope #Belarus #NATO

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OPINION

#Putler is playing chess with #NATO. Having successfully re-activated his most succesful asset, the #OrangePeril, he's quietly been moving his biggest comparative strength vis-a-vis NATO, #TacticalNuclearWeapons, into strategic positions in his vassal state, #Belarus.
These missiles are now able to hit the #BalticStates, #Poland, as well as #Slovakia.

Using the West's permission (except...

https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-range-russian-nukes-moved-closer-nato-countries-1998658

#GeoPol #Weidel #Wagenknecht #Nahostkrieg

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...#Gazastreifen ist nivelliert und der bereits vor der massiven #israelischen Gegenoffensive der letzten Woche kurz vor dem Staatbankrott stehende #Libanon kann bereits jetzt weder die dortigen #Flüchtlingslager, noch größere Teilen der Libanesen ein menschenwürdiges Leben bieten.

Um es kurz zu machen:
👉Die Sicherheitsinteressen des #Netanyahu-Regimes und die aller europäischen Staaten stimmen nicht (mehr?) überein. 👈

Die ...

@GiColani

#Ukraine #China #NeueSeidenstraße #GeoPol
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Dass die VR #China sich am Wiederaufbau des Gebiets der #Ukraine beteiligen wird, steht für mich ausser Frage.

Zum einen benötigt es wieder die #ukrainischen Getreidelieferungen , zum anderen ist das Gebiet seit mindestens 2015 ein wichtiger Bestandteil der #NeueSeidenstraße-Strategie 1), welche #China sowohl Absatzmärkte, als auch Rohmaterialien sichern soll (#Neokolonialismus).

#Russland hat...

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https://en.cfts.org.ua/articles/the_new_silk_road_and_ukraine_five_key_questions

@GreenFire

#USpol #GeoPol #Security #China

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...thinking out-of-the-box. Time for the #US to stop the partisan fighting and catch up.

These big #LegacyTech #AircraftCarriers from the (previous) #ColdWar period?--I think the #60Minutes report indirectly shows that they could be "sitting ducks" for the #PRC's new rockets...

Oh, and yes, 2027 seems like a plausible date for a #Chinese invasion of the #RepublicOfChina. If #MoscowAgentGriftingAmerica, #MAGA #Trump remains the...

@SkyNews
@smaurizi

#WarInGaza #UNRWA #Hamas #Haza #Palestine
#GeoPol #Deluge #عملية #BlackSaturday #השבתהשחורה

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I rarely ask "what if" questions regarding #politics, as they can be used to further #conspiracy theories as well.

The facts:
The #Hamas and other terrorist organizations, at least part-funded by the #Iranian and #Russian regimes, attacks #Israeli citizens and foreign nationals on its territory, resulting in 1,139 immediate deaths and ca. 250...

https://news.sky.com/story/israeli-intelligence-report-claims-four-unrwa-staff-in-gaza-involved-in-hamas-kidnappings-13059967