#middlepowers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #middlepowers, aggregated by home.social.
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Opinion: Middle Powers and the “Voice of the Region” – Is Central Asia Becoming a Coordinated Actor?
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Opinion: Middle Powers and the “Voice of the Region” – Is Central Asia Becoming a Coordinated Actor?
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https://www.europesays.com/people/55880/ ‘Global South no longer passive’: Finland’s Stubb says nations like India, Egypt & Brazil to decide ‘next world order’ #AlexanderStubb #GlobalSouth #MiddlePowers #ReformMultilateralInstitutions #UnitedNationsSecurityCouncil #WorldOrder
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https://www.europesays.com/people/47542/ ‘Global South no longer passive’: Finland’s Stubb says nations like India, Egypt & Brazil to decide ‘next world order’ #AlexanderStubb #GlobalSouth #MiddlePowers #ReformMultilateralInstitutions #UnitedNationsSecurityCouncil #WorldOrder
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Multilateralism for middle powers
" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.
We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,
Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.
Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly -
Multilateralism for middle powers
" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.
We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,
Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.
Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly -
Multilateralism for middle powers
" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.
We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,
Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.
Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly -
Multilateralism for middle powers
" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.
We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,
Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.
Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly -
Multilateralism for middle powers
" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.
We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,
Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.
Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly -
World Disorder Edges Toward Event Horizon as 'Age of Disruption' Bites Deep
Canadian PM Mark Carney urged middle-sized countries to band together at Davos 2026 to face global power struggles and economic risks.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/
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World Disorder Edges Toward Event Horizon as 'Age of Disruption' Bites Deep
Canadian PM Mark Carney urged middle-sized countries to band together at Davos 2026 to face global power struggles and economic risks.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/
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World Disorder Edges Toward Event Horizon as 'Age of Disruption' Bites Deep
Canadian PM Mark Carney urged middle-sized countries to band together at Davos 2026 to face global power struggles and economic risks.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/
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World Disorder Edges Toward Event Horizon as 'Age of Disruption' Bites Deep
Canadian PM Mark Carney urged middle-sized countries to band together at Davos 2026 to face global power struggles and economic risks.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/
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World Disorder Edges Toward Event Horizon as 'Age of Disruption' Bites Deep
Canadian PM Mark Carney urged middle-sized countries to band together at Davos 2026 to face global power struggles and economic risks.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/
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The world faces more economic risks than last year, with leaders like Canada's PM calling for countries to work together.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/ -
The world faces more economic risks than last year, with leaders like Canada's PM calling for countries to work together.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/ -
The world faces more economic risks than last year, with leaders like Canada's PM calling for countries to work together.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/ -
The world faces more economic risks than last year, with leaders like Canada's PM calling for countries to work together.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/ -
The world faces more economic risks than last year, with leaders like Canada's PM calling for countries to work together.
#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/ -
Strategic Autonomy & Multipolarity: Fault Lines in the Emerging Security Framework
M K Narayanan – Former National Security Adviser of India
Introduction
It is…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #AI #CriticalSupplyChains #cybersecurity #energydiplomacy #energysecurity #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #globalgovernance #globalsecurity #Hegemony. #MiddlePowers #MultiPolarWorld #multipolarity #RulesBasedLiberalOrder #Strategicautonomy #UnipolarWorld
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Strategic Autonomy & Multipolarity: Fault Lines in the Emerging Security Framework https://www.byteseu.com/1931946/ #AI #CriticalSupplyChains #CyberSecurity #EnergyDiplomacy #EnergySecurity #ForeignPolicy #Geopolitics #GlobalGovernance #GlobalSecurity #hegemony #MiddlePowers #MultiPolarWorld #multipolarity #RulesBasedLiberalOrder #StrategicAutonomy #UnipolarWorld
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Christine #Lagarde on how trump has betrayed his #nowar mantra | The Economist #markcarney #worldorder #imf #worldbank #middlepowers #worldbank #wto #who #un youtube.com/shorts/Rt0OI...
Christine Lagarde on how Presi... -
Christine #Lagarde on how trump has betrayed his #nowar mantra | The Economist #markcarney #worldorder #imf #worldbank #middlepowers #worldbank #wto #who #un youtube.com/shorts/Rt0OI...
Christine Lagarde on how Presi... -
@MarciaW Yes, but #HenryKissinger was awarded the #NobelPeacePrize *before* the #MiddlePowers became #woke. #ElbowsUp https://www.news18.com/explainers/one-accepted-one-refused-the-story-of-the-most-controversial-nobel-peace-prize-ws-l-9640712.html
But the #FIFA #PeacePrize 😂 won’t help #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump escape #justice for the litany of crimes he has committed in the #UnitedStates and around the world.
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I can’t believe neither of these are trending in the #fediverse yet! #Canada #MiddlePowers #ElbowsUp
Which should it be?
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#Mexico is focusing on #Infrastructure that will build its #economy. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robertgcoulter_exciting-times-for-our-friends-in-mexico-activity-7439495856837332992-cwjz
#Canada is building #trade partnerships between ‘#MiddlePowers.’
Meanwhile, the #UnitedStates is stuck in a costly and deadly #quagmire in the #MiddleEast. 🤔
#Resist the #FelonsCrusade in #Iran.
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US becoming dominant military force in Northern Territory, report says
"The US is building a functioning operating ecosystem in northern Australia while Australia risks becoming a secondary user of its own strategic geography." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/nt-usa-becoming-dominant-military-force-northern-territory-aspi/106460770
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny #NT -
US becoming dominant military force in Northern Territory, report says
"The US is building a functioning operating ecosystem in northern Australia while Australia risks becoming a secondary user of its own strategic geography." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/nt-usa-becoming-dominant-military-force-northern-territory-aspi/106460770
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny #NT -
US becoming dominant military force in Northern Territory, report says
"The US is building a functioning operating ecosystem in northern Australia while Australia risks becoming a secondary user of its own strategic geography." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/nt-usa-becoming-dominant-military-force-northern-territory-aspi/106460770
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny #NT -
US becoming dominant military force in Northern Territory, report says
"The US is building a functioning operating ecosystem in northern Australia while Australia risks becoming a secondary user of its own strategic geography." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/nt-usa-becoming-dominant-military-force-northern-territory-aspi/106460770
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny #NT -
US becoming dominant military force in Northern Territory, report says
"The US is building a functioning operating ecosystem in northern Australia while Australia risks becoming a secondary user of its own strategic geography." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/nt-usa-becoming-dominant-military-force-northern-territory-aspi/106460770
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny #NT -
Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny -
Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny -
Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny -
Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny -
Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny -
“The leaders of #Canada, #Norway, #Sweden, #Denmark, #Finland and #Iceland have announced plans to band together and form a #bloc of #middlepowers to influence #worldaffairs, but they offered few details on how to make that happen. ” apple.news/AdEkVMQeSS0q...
Canada, Nordic countries vow c... -
“The leaders of #Canada, #Norway, #Sweden, #Denmark, #Finland and #Iceland have announced plans to band together and form a #bloc of #middlepowers to influence #worldaffairs, but they offered few details on how to make that happen. ” apple.news/AdEkVMQeSS0q...
Canada, Nordic countries vow c... -
Americana meets the Aussie bush
Trying to get some bread in a cafe on Bellingen's main drag. Once the obstacle course of the packs of dogs on extendable leads are overcome it is time for waiting in a long queue on a Saturday. Many hipster families are there to have breakfast done for them.
One set was showcasing their three toddlers in a full 'American Western-inspired aesthetic', cowboy hats and boots. Mum had that Instagrammable ‘Mar-a-Lago face’.
Wide-brimmed hats are ideal to protect oneself from Australia's sun, but this was in the comfort zone of a cafe.
The "cowboy core" aesthetic facade harks back to the wide‑open‑spaces where cattle-herders (cowboys, stockmen/ringers) managed grazing livestock, for the pastoral industry, particularly in the Australian outback or American Western frontier.
Already in the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle-raising traditions to Mexico and Florida.
The Western portrayed the cowboy as an enduring cultural figure representing freedom.
So why are these urban folks from the suburbs running around in 'costumes' looking like pastoralist workers from a mythical past? What 'sense of belonging' do they buy?
Maybe the fashionable habitus points to a vibe shift of the wannabe cowboys expressing preemptive subordination or imperial obsequiousness?
The rise of cowboy core: What's behind it.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/dr-karl-how-things-work-cowboy-core-fashion/106336574Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgeryImage :
In 1859 European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Now hats are made out of some of the invasive species.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/rabbits-introduced#cowboys #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #fashion #WesternWear #CattleHerders #belonging #Bellingen #culture #MiddlePowers #subordination #RupturedGlobalOrder #BellingenObservations
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Americana meets the Aussie bush
Trying to get some bread in a cafe on Bellingen's main drag. Once the obstacle course of the packs of dogs on extendable leads are overcome it is time for waiting in a long queue on a Saturday. Many hipster families are there to have breakfast done for them.
One set was showcasing their three toddlers in a full 'American Western-inspired aesthetic', cowboy hats and boots. Mum had that Instagrammable ‘Mar-a-Lago face’.
Wide-brimmed hats are ideal to protect oneself from Australia's sun, but this was in the comfort zone of a cafe.
The "cowboy core" aesthetic facade harks back to the wide‑open‑spaces where cattle-herders (cowboys, stockmen/ringers) managed grazing livestock, for the pastoral industry, particularly in the Australian outback or American Western frontier.
Already in the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle-raising traditions to Mexico and Florida.
The Western portrayed the cowboy as an enduring cultural figure representing freedom.
So why are these urban folks from the suburbs running around in 'costumes' looking like pastoralist workers from a mythical past? What 'sense of belonging' do they buy?
Maybe the fashionable habitus points to a vibe shift of the wannabe cowboys expressing preemptive subordination or imperial obsequiousness?
The rise of cowboy core: What's behind it.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/dr-karl-how-things-work-cowboy-core-fashion/106336574Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgeryImage :
In 1859 European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Now hats are made out of some of the invasive species.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/rabbits-introduced#cowboys #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #fashion #WesternWear #CattleHerders #belonging #Bellingen #culture #MiddlePowers #subordination #RupturedGlobalOrder #BellingenObservations
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Americana meets the Aussie bush
Trying to get some bread in a cafe on Bellingen's main drag. Once the obstacle course of the packs of dogs on extendable leads are overcome it is time for waiting in a long queue on a Saturday. Many hipster families are there to have breakfast done for them.
One set was showcasing their three toddlers in a full 'American Western-inspired aesthetic', cowboy hats and boots. Mum had that Instagrammable ‘Mar-a-Lago face’.
Wide-brimmed hats are ideal to protect oneself from Australia's sun, but this was in the comfort zone of a cafe.
The "cowboy core" aesthetic facade harks back to the wide‑open‑spaces where cattle-herders (cowboys, stockmen/ringers) managed grazing livestock, for the pastoral industry, particularly in the Australian outback or American Western frontier.
Already in the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle-raising traditions to Mexico and Florida.
The Western portrayed the cowboy as an enduring cultural figure representing freedom.
So why are these urban folks from the suburbs running around in 'costumes' looking like pastoralist workers from a mythical past? What 'sense of belonging' do they buy?
Maybe the fashionable habitus points to a vibe shift of the wannabe cowboys expressing preemptive subordination or imperial obsequiousness?
The rise of cowboy core: What's behind it.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/dr-karl-how-things-work-cowboy-core-fashion/106336574Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgeryImage :
In 1859 European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Now hats are made out of some of the invasive species.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/rabbits-introduced#cowboys #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #fashion #WesternWear #CattleHerders #belonging #Bellingen #culture #MiddlePowers #subordination #RupturedGlobalOrder #BellingenObservations
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Americana meets the Aussie bush
Trying to get some bread in a cafe on Bellingen's main drag. Once the obstacle course of the packs of dogs on extendable leads are overcome it is time for waiting in a long queue on a Saturday. Many hipster families are there to have breakfast done for them.
One set was showcasing their three toddlers in a full 'American Western-inspired aesthetic', cowboy hats and boots. Mum had that Instagrammable ‘Mar-a-Lago face’.
Wide-brimmed hats are ideal to protect oneself from Australia's sun, but this was in the comfort zone of a cafe.
The "cowboy core" aesthetic facade harks back to the wide‑open‑spaces where cattle-herders (cowboys, stockmen/ringers) managed grazing livestock, for the pastoral industry, particularly in the Australian outback or American Western frontier.
Already in the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle-raising traditions to Mexico and Florida.
The Western portrayed the cowboy as an enduring cultural figure representing freedom.
So why are these urban folks from the suburbs running around in 'costumes' looking like pastoralist workers from a mythical past? What 'sense of belonging' do they buy?
Maybe the fashionable habitus points to a vibe shift of the wannabe cowboys expressing preemptive subordination or imperial obsequiousness?
The rise of cowboy core: What's behind it.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/dr-karl-how-things-work-cowboy-core-fashion/106336574Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgeryImage :
In 1859 European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Now hats are made out of some of the invasive species.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/rabbits-introduced#cowboys #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #fashion #WesternWear #CattleHerders #belonging #Bellingen #culture #MiddlePowers #subordination #RupturedGlobalOrder #BellingenObservations
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Americana meets the Aussie bush
Trying to get some bread in a cafe on Bellingen's main drag. Once the obstacle course of the packs of dogs on extendable leads are overcome it is time for waiting in a long queue on a Saturday. Many hipster families are there to have breakfast done for them.
One set was showcasing their three toddlers in a full 'American Western-inspired aesthetic', cowboy hats and boots. Mum had that Instagrammable ‘Mar-a-Lago face’.
Wide-brimmed hats are ideal to protect oneself from Australia's sun, but this was in the comfort zone of a cafe.
The "cowboy core" aesthetic facade harks back to the wide‑open‑spaces where cattle-herders (cowboys, stockmen/ringers) managed grazing livestock, for the pastoral industry, particularly in the Australian outback or American Western frontier.
Already in the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle-raising traditions to Mexico and Florida.
The Western portrayed the cowboy as an enduring cultural figure representing freedom.
So why are these urban folks from the suburbs running around in 'costumes' looking like pastoralist workers from a mythical past? What 'sense of belonging' do they buy?
Maybe the fashionable habitus points to a vibe shift of the wannabe cowboys expressing preemptive subordination or imperial obsequiousness?
The rise of cowboy core: What's behind it.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/dr-karl-how-things-work-cowboy-core-fashion/106336574Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgeryImage :
In 1859 European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Now hats are made out of some of the invasive species.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/rabbits-introduced#cowboys #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #fashion #WesternWear #CattleHerders #belonging #Bellingen #culture #MiddlePowers #subordination #RupturedGlobalOrder #BellingenObservations
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/112966/ What We’re Watching: Two “middle powers” make deals, Power struggle in Senegal, US exploring “friendly takeover” of Cuba #IndianPrimeMinister #MiddlePowers #NewDelhi #Sénégal #VANCOUVER
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@j2bryson At the #WEF in #Davis #MarkCarney started a trend among #MiddlePowers.
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@fulelo The #MiddlePowers are tired of stale #TACO 🌮 🇺🇸 and are eager to put some spicy #Chinese food 🍜 🇨🇳 on the table!
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The #WhiteHouse of Lies is shaking.
#DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump is currently weathering a ‘perfect storm’ of #retribution.
A pissed-off neighbour, #MarkCarney announced a tectonic shift in world order at the #WEF in #Davos : #MiddlePowers uniting against #TrumpRussiaCollusion.
A pissed-off co-conspirator, #GhislaineMaxwell has still not received a pardon, and is signaling ‘time’s up!’
A pissed-off wife is fuming that the #fascist crackdown in #Minneapolis is stealing limelight from #Melania.
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It's high time the world stuck together and turned its collective back on the #USA in every way.
(While watching out for their backstabbing attempts, of course.)
Even if the #US makes it through this #Trump nightmare, the US must NEVER be trusted again. The US is neither reliable or safe.
#power #democracy #RulesBasedOrder #greatpowers #nato #un #us #Europe #newworldorder #middlepowers
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It's high time the world stuck together and turned its collective back on the #USA in every way.
(While watching out for their backstabbing attempts, of course.)
Even if the #US makes it through this #Trump nightmare, the US must NEVER be trusted again. The US is neither reliable or safe.
#power #democracy #RulesBasedOrder #greatpowers #nato #un #us #Europe #newworldorder #middlepowers
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It's high time the world stuck together and turned its collective back on the #USA in every way.
(While watching out for their backstabbing attempts, of course.)
Even if the #US makes it through this #Trump nightmare, the US must NEVER be trusted again. The US is neither reliable or safe.
#power #democracy #RulesBasedOrder #greatpowers #nato #un #us #Europe #newworldorder #middlepowers