#thewest — Public Fediverse posts

Bit of an off-the-wall connection, but the point of #Scifi IS to explore ideas through a lens of fiction...

I've been watching #StarTrek #Enterprise lately, with episodes like "Dear Doctor", "#Cogenitor", "North Star", and "Observer Effect" going into the realm of "why we don't interfere with other cultures, no matter what".

I've also been watching the #IranWar, with absurd projections of impossibly wishful scenarios of an instant transition to pro-US democracy with the low-cost application of a few hundred bombs, contrasted with the reality of an #Iran now galvanized against "#TheWest" by the completely unprovoked and sudden attack by the #US and #Israel alone against the will of all allies.

I don't think even Crazy Captain Archer would approve, and it seems to me like most of us should've learned this lesson the hard way by 2004, to the point where scifi writers were putting it on UPN.

#USpol #war #ENT

https://www.europesays.com/africa/211080/ AI audio falsely portrays Ugandan opposition leader lashing out at the West #BobiWine #France24 #NUP #OppositionLeader #PresidentialElection #TheWest #Uganda

https://www.europesays.com/africa/210830/ AI audio falsely portrays Ugandan opposition leader lashing out at the West #BobiWine #France24 #NUP #OppositionLeader #PresidentialElection #TheWest #Uganda

Shada Islam

'Racial logic is woven into our laws as well as our political, economic and social systems. It shapes access to jobs, housing, education and justice. It informs policing practices, border controls and foreign policy choices. Racialised biases are being stamped into our AI tools'

#euPol #racism #policy #europe #theWest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/orban-europe-eu-racism-migration-border

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

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/tuesday-march-31-2026/

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Why Russia Warned About The West’s Colour Revolution Plans In Belarus Four Years In Advance?

Why Russia Warned About The West’s Colour Revolution Plans In Belarus Four Years In Advance?

By Andrew Korybko

The timing of SVR’s warning about the West’s, and especially Poland’s and the US’, “NGO”-led Colour Revolution plans in Belarus during its 2030 presidential elections might signal Russia’s concern that President Alexander Lukashenko is moving too fast in his détente with them due to naiveté.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned in earlier this week that a collection of Western countries, Poland and the US importantly among them, is plotting to once again orchestrate an “NGO”-led Colour Revolution along the lines of 2020’s one during Belarus’ next presidential elections in 2030. Poland’s and the US’ inclusion is significant since the US has entered into a fast-moving rapprochement with Belarus under Trump 2.0 and is thought to also be mediating secret Polish-Belarusian talks too.

In late January, the Belarusian Foreign Minister shared a radically changed perception of Poland that was blatantly at odds with Russia’s, which was analysed here at the time. The preceding hyperlinked analysis also cites three background briefings about the emerging Belarusian-US détente. It was assessed that the US might be cleverly trying to divide-and-rule Belarus and Russia in order to break up their Union State. The US also wants Belarus to replace supposed Russian vassalage with actual Polish vassalage.

Between that analysis and SVR’s warning, former Belarusian opposition figure Roman Protasevich (who was arrested after a forced Ryanair landing in May 2021 as his plane was flying over Belarus and who President Alexander Lukashenko since claimed was always a KGB agent), shared some intel on this plot. The gist is that the West’s rapprochement with Belarus is a ruse for facilitating its geopolitical pivot away from Russia during the 2030 presidential election in which Lukashenko earlier said that he won’t run.

This will be advanced through five interconnected means:

1. The return of EU Ambassadors will enable them to directly pressure policymaking groups;

2. The creation of a pro-EU lobby is among the goals that the aforesaid means will advance;

3. The same goes for getting the government to allow fugitive “opposition” members to safely return;

4. The preceding two groups will then cultivate the 2030 generation under cover of “NGO” work;

5. And they’ll all try to engineer an identity conflict between Belarusians and Russians before the vote.

If their preferred candidate doesn’t win, then this network will initiate another Colour Revolution.

It’s one thing for Protasevich to warn about this scenario and another entirely for SVR to do so, which has a wider array of intel at its hands and whose motives are to inform the friendly Belarusian society about this plot in advance so that it can prepare itself to resist these forthcoming influences upon them. Moreover, the five interconnected means for pivoting Belarus away from Russia to the West in 2030 depend largely on what Lukashenko decides to do, which itself depends on the West’s incentives.

Whatever they offered him, it already got him to go from warning in January 2025 that “Poland pursues the most aggressive and bad policy against Belarus” to his Foreign Minister describing it a year later as “a genuine regional leader” that “pursues a pragmatic policy”. Even if he refuses a speculative quid pro quo of sanctions relief and political normalization for requesting the removal of Russia’s Oreshniks and nukes, he might still naively facilitate the geopolitical pivot sequence that Protasevich warned about in detail.

The timing of SVR’s warning about the West’s, and especially Poland’s and the US’, “NGO”-led Colour Revolution plans in Belarus during its 2030 presidential elections might therefore also signal Russia’s concern that Lukashenko is moving too fast in his détente with them due to naiveté. They backstabbed him once in summer 2020 when he was on the brink of pivoting away from Russia to the West so they might try to “finish the job” in 2030 if he isn’t careful and thus ruin his legacy as a multipolar pioneer.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

Why Russia Warned About The West’s Colour Revolution Plans In Belarus Four Years In Advance?

Why Russia Warned About The West’s Colour Revolution Plans In Belarus Four Years In Advance?

By Andrew Korybko

The timing of SVR’s warning about the West’s, and especially Poland’s and the US’, “NGO”-led Colour Revolution plans in Belarus during its 2030 presidential elections might signal Russia’s concern that President Alexander Lukashenko is moving too fast in his détente with them due to naiveté.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned in earlier this week that a collection of Western countries, Poland and the US importantly among them, is plotting to once again orchestrate an “NGO”-led Colour Revolution along the lines of 2020’s one during Belarus’ next presidential elections in 2030. Poland’s and the US’ inclusion is significant since the US has entered into a fast-moving rapprochement with Belarus under Trump 2.0 and is thought to also be mediating secret Polish-Belarusian talks too.

In late January, the Belarusian Foreign Minister shared a radically changed perception of Poland that was blatantly at odds with Russia’s, which was analysed here at the time. The preceding hyperlinked analysis also cites three background briefings about the emerging Belarusian-US détente. It was assessed that the US might be cleverly trying to divide-and-rule Belarus and Russia in order to break up their Union State. The US also wants Belarus to replace supposed Russian vassalage with actual Polish vassalage.

Between that analysis and SVR’s warning, former Belarusian opposition figure Roman Protasevich (who was arrested after a forced Ryanair landing in May 2021 as his plane was flying over Belarus and who President Alexander Lukashenko since claimed was always a KGB agent), shared some intel on this plot. The gist is that the West’s rapprochement with Belarus is a ruse for facilitating its geopolitical pivot away from Russia during the 2030 presidential election in which Lukashenko earlier said that he won’t run.

This will be advanced through five interconnected means:

1. The return of EU Ambassadors will enable them to directly pressure policymaking groups;

2. The creation of a pro-EU lobby is among the goals that the aforesaid means will advance;

3. The same goes for getting the government to allow fugitive “opposition” members to safely return;

4. The preceding two groups will then cultivate the 2030 generation under cover of “NGO” work;

5. And they’ll all try to engineer an identity conflict between Belarusians and Russians before the vote.

If their preferred candidate doesn’t win, then this network will initiate another Colour Revolution.

It’s one thing for Protasevich to warn about this scenario and another entirely for SVR to do so, which has a wider array of intel at its hands and whose motives are to inform the friendly Belarusian society about this plot in advance so that it can prepare itself to resist these forthcoming influences upon them. Moreover, the five interconnected means for pivoting Belarus away from Russia to the West in 2030 depend largely on what Lukashenko decides to do, which itself depends on the West’s incentives.

Whatever they offered him, it already got him to go from warning in January 2025 that “Poland pursues the most aggressive and bad policy against Belarus” to his Foreign Minister describing it a year later as “a genuine regional leader” that “pursues a pragmatic policy”. Even if he refuses a speculative quid pro quo of sanctions relief and political normalization for requesting the removal of Russia’s Oreshniks and nukes, he might still naively facilitate the geopolitical pivot sequence that Protasevich warned about in detail.

The timing of SVR’s warning about the West’s, and especially Poland’s and the US’, “NGO”-led Colour Revolution plans in Belarus during its 2030 presidential elections might therefore also signal Russia’s concern that Lukashenko is moving too fast in his détente with them due to naiveté. They backstabbed him once in summer 2020 when he was on the brink of pivoting away from Russia to the West so they might try to “finish the job” in 2030 if he isn’t careful and thus ruin his legacy as a multipolar pioneer.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/wednesday-february-11-2026/

* The White Nationalist Agenda, the "missing white voter" and hate mongering
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/stephen-miller-donald-trumps-immigration-policy-architect/106272938

* "Jean Guerrero, Hate Monger, a book that investigated the making of Miller. Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House."
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905403716/hatemonger-paints-trump-advisor-stephen-miller-as-a-case-study-in-radicalization

* The Apparatus of Whiteness, Linda Martín Alcoff »Cultural Racism« (2/3) Adorno Lecture >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUu9nCzxvs
#hate #immigration #WhiteRage #Whiteness #settlersociety #EthnoNationalism #TheWest #modernity #whitesupremacists #CulturalRacism #EthnoEssentialism #SocialCohesion #SocialFabric

"Those in the West who pretend this is about human rights, and not about eliminating the last elements of physical resistance to Greater Israel, are sickeningly hypocritical.

Opposition to the government of Iran and support for its violent overthrow has become the new entry ticket to the Overton Window Show of British media and politics. It is the new “Do you condemn Hamas?”

Those who bow the knee before the latest ruse of Western Imperialist conquest, in the interests of maintaining their establishment respectability, should be treated with contempt."

#Iran #Israel #Palestine #TheWest

New social and technological “giants” like loneliness, addiction, distraction, lies and complexity threaten the West and coordinated government action is needed to restore social cohesion, focus and trust. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/02/world/government-must-restore-social-cohesion-focus-trust/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #socialmedia #fivegiants #westernsocieties #thewest #us #sweden #finland #mentalhealth

While driving west on I-80 I think I could see Maynard Dixon’s inspiration.

#maynarddixon #art #thewest

Serbia’s Continued Arming Of Ukraine Risks Rupturing Relations With Russia

Serbia’s Continued Arming Of Ukraine Risks Rupturing Relations With Russia

By Andrew Korybko

Everything is proceeding according to the US’ plan, which Vucic might have even secretly agreed to.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic recently told German media that his country is eager to clinch large-scale ammo deals with the EU and doesn’t care whether they then pass his country’s wares on to Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to this by claiming that Russia “understands what unprecedented pressure is being put on Serbia” and that the issue is “not at all a simple story”, but nobody should fool themselves into thinking that it’s pleased with the latest development in this saga.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) accused Serbia of backstabbing it last May by indirectly arming Ukraine, after which Vucic resorted to his typical smooth-talking to promise that he won’t authorize any more ammo exports. This coincided with SVR claiming that this trade never stopped. In early August, Serbia then sent mixed signals about sanctioning Russia, which came roughly two months before Trump 2.0’s first sanctions against Russia. These imposed strict restrictions on its energy companies.

This coincided with unrelated US sanctions on Serbian national energy company NIS from earlier this year taking effect after it wasn’t granted another postponement. The Energy Minister accordingly warned in late October that its only oil refinery will run out by 25 November without new crude supplies, which it hasn’t been able to receive. This contextualizes Vucic’s eagerness to resume indirectly arming Ukraine since he might conceptualize this as part of a compromise for sanctions relief.

On the other hand, Vucic is nowhere near as close to Trump as the latter’s political ally Viktor Orban in Hungary is, who just obtained an exemption. This will certainly help his party during April’s next parliamentary elections and likely keep him in office for another term. By contrast, Serbia’s next elections will be held by the end of 2027, but Vucic said that he’ll move the date up. Any sanctions-instigated economic turmoil by then could ill for his party and possibly lead to a change in government.

Vucic is under what he and SVR consider to be Colour Revolution pressure, the purpose of which appears to be punishing him for not going all the way in risking a rupture of relations with Russia by sanctioning it and openly arming Ukraine. He’s now explicitly defying his country’s traditional partner by expressing his eagerness to clinch large-scale ammo deals with the EU for arming Ukraine as part of NATO’s proxy war against Russia but hasn’t yet nationalized NIS, seized Russia’s other assets, and sanctioned it.

That might be just around the corner though if Trump predictably doesn’t grant Vucic a waiver after the latter resuming indirect arms exports to Ukraine and then he goes through with the rest of the US’ implied anti-Russian demands as a last-ditch attempt to secure relief from the sanctions and/or protests. It’s also hypothetically possible that the aforesaid sequence was agreed to in advance and that whatever public drama might then unfold would be a ruse for facilitating a phased leadership transition.

Vucic already declared over the summer that he won’t change the constitution to run for re-election so he’s on the way out no matter what if he keeps his word as is likely lest he risk more unrest if he doesn’t. In exchange for avoiding corruption charges by whichever even more pro-Western figure succeeds him and/or personal sanctions by the West on the same pretext, he might have agreed to set into motion the rupturing of Serbian-Russian relations, which is arguably unfolding and might ultimately be inevitable.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

#DonaldTrump #EU #Geopolitics #NATO #Russia #Serbia #SVR #TheWest #Ukraine #USA

Serbia’s Continued Arming Of Ukraine Risks Rupturing Relations With Russia

Serbia’s Continued Arming Of Ukraine Risks Rupturing Relations With Russia

By Andrew Korybko

Everything is proceeding according to the US’ plan, which Vucic might have even secretly agreed to.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic recently told German media that his country is eager to clinch large-scale ammo deals with the EU and doesn’t care whether they then pass his country’s wares on to Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to this by claiming that Russia “understands what unprecedented pressure is being put on Serbia” and that the issue is “not at all a simple story”, but nobody should fool themselves into thinking that it’s pleased with the latest development in this saga.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) accused Serbia of backstabbing it last May by indirectly arming Ukraine, after which Vucic resorted to his typical smooth-talking to promise that he won’t authorize any more ammo exports. This coincided with SVR claiming that this trade never stopped. In early August, Serbia then sent mixed signals about sanctioning Russia, which came roughly two months before Trump 2.0’s first sanctions against Russia. These imposed strict restrictions on its energy companies.

This coincided with unrelated US sanctions on Serbian national energy company NIS from earlier this year taking effect after it wasn’t granted another postponement. The Energy Minister accordingly warned in late October that its only oil refinery will run out by 25 November without new crude supplies, which it hasn’t been able to receive. This contextualizes Vucic’s eagerness to resume indirectly arming Ukraine since he might conceptualize this as part of a compromise for sanctions relief.

On the other hand, Vucic is nowhere near as close to Trump as the latter’s political ally Viktor Orban in Hungary is, who just obtained an exemption. This will certainly help his party during April’s next parliamentary elections and likely keep him in office for another term. By contrast, Serbia’s next elections will be held by the end of 2027, but Vucic said that he’ll move the date up. Any sanctions-instigated economic turmoil by then could ill for his party and possibly lead to a change in government.

Vucic is under what he and SVR consider to be Colour Revolution pressure, the purpose of which appears to be punishing him for not going all the way in risking a rupture of relations with Russia by sanctioning it and openly arming Ukraine. He’s now explicitly defying his country’s traditional partner by expressing his eagerness to clinch large-scale ammo deals with the EU for arming Ukraine as part of NATO’s proxy war against Russia but hasn’t yet nationalized NIS, seized Russia’s other assets, and sanctioned it.

That might be just around the corner though if Trump predictably doesn’t grant Vucic a waiver after the latter resuming indirect arms exports to Ukraine and then he goes through with the rest of the US’ implied anti-Russian demands as a last-ditch attempt to secure relief from the sanctions and/or protests. It’s also hypothetically possible that the aforesaid sequence was agreed to in advance and that whatever public drama might then unfold would be a ruse for facilitating a phased leadership transition.

Vucic already declared over the summer that he won’t change the constitution to run for re-election so he’s on the way out no matter what if he keeps his word as is likely lest he risk more unrest if he doesn’t. In exchange for avoiding corruption charges by whichever even more pro-Western figure succeeds him and/or personal sanctions by the West on the same pretext, he might have agreed to set into motion the rupturing of Serbian-Russian relations, which is arguably unfolding and might ultimately be inevitable.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

#DonaldTrump #EU #Geopolitics #NATO #Russia #Serbia #SVR #TheWest #Ukraine #USA

$6 Billion Icebreaker Deal: U.S.-Finland Alliance Signals Strategic Arctic Encirclement

$6 Billion Icebreaker Deal: U.S.-Finland Alliance Signals Strategic Arctic Encirclement

By Uriel Araujo

America signals it’s in the Arctic race to stay. The question is: in heating up tensions in the High North, does the West secure interests or court conflict in a new domain?

The United States just inked a $6.1 billion deal with Finland to build 11 new icebreakers for its US Coast Guard, a move billed as historic and aimed straight at boosting America’s lagging presence in the Arctic. These 11 vessels — mix of polar and Great Lakes types — will extend operational seasons, support research, and assert presence amid rising activity from multiple players.

Deliveries should start in 2028 —  with Finnish shipyards lending their expertise to revive a US industry in a niche sector it once pioneered (when it comes to modern polar-class icebreakers) but that has been gathering dust for decades.

This of course isn’t just about ships — it’s the latest chapter in the intensifying Arctic race, where melting ice opens new shipping lanes, resource grabs, and strategic chokepoints. The US Coast Guard as of now operates a mere three polar icebreakers, the newest dating back to 1997.

Still, much of the Western media hype around this deal has been disproportionately triumphalist. Some commentary described it as a “game changer”  that would quickly close the gap with Russia’s longstanding Arctic fleet advantage. It’s not so simple.

Russia, by contrast, fields around 50 polar icebreakers, including nuclear-powered giants suited to its vast northern coastline and over two million Arctic residents plus critical infrastructure.

Talk of an “icebreaker gap” gets hyped often enough, but the real issue lies in America’s capabilities versus the growing demands of Arctic security. Northern routes are busier than ever, with China sending research icebreakers over US-claimed seabed off Alaska just this August, prompting the Coast Guard to dispatch its aging Healy for monitoring.

The real issue here, however, is not numerical parity with Russia, but rather Washington’s intent to securitize the Arctic and reshape the region’s political landscape in favour of the Atlantic axis.

From an American perspective, Finland steps in as the saviour here. Its shipyards build icebreakers fast and cheap — take Polaris, completed in three years for around €125 million ($147 million); this is a smaller vessel but still a proof of efficiency that shames US delays.

America’s own program for new heavy icebreakers, in contrast, has ballooned to $1.9 billion per ship; the troubled Polar Security Cutter program has been plagued by delays and ballooning budgets, with the first now slipping to 2029 at best. Suffice to say, America’s domestic shipbuilding sector proved incapable of meeting strategic demand thus far. No wonder Washington looked north to Helsinki, fresh off it joining NATO in 2023 and eager for Western buyers. It fits into broader NATO expansion across Scandinavia and beyond — Finland and Sweden’s entry, renewed US focus on Greenland — all part of encircling key Arctic zones.

Impact-wise, the deal bolsters US Coast Guard readiness for busier Bering Strait traffic and potential provocations. In any case, Peter Rybski, a former US naval attaché in Helsinki, put it plainly: America got by with few icebreakers when Arctic shipping was sparse, but that’s changing fast enough to demand action.

Risks loom large, though. Delays plague US shipbuilding thus far; costs could spiral as they have with domestic programs. Not to mention that geopolitical tensions escalate blatantly in this race — NATO exercises off Norway send signals not just northward but eastward too, risking miscalculations in a region long the world’s quietest frontier. This could change pretty soon.

Finland’s shipbuilders themselves remain cautious: while the agreement promises jobs and investment, it may also expose Helsinki to retaliation from Moscow — a country with which it previously maintained pragmatic economic relations. The arrangement may also deepen Finland’s integration into NATO military procurement chains, limiting future neutrality in high-stakes diplomacy.

The Arctic’s transformation into a chessboard in such a way reflects alliance reflexes better suited to past eras than a multipolar setup. Push too hard on energy sanctions or seabed claims, and retaliation could surface in unexpected spots, like the Gulf of Finland or shifted LNG flows to Asia.

Underreported amid Middle East and Ukraine headlines, Norway, for instance, is also emerging as the West’s quiet Arctic battleground, with NATO steadily expanding across Scandinavia and the US seeking to secure access to Arctic resources under the banner of “security”. This icebreaker deal adds fuel, expanding the confrontation between the US-led Atlantic axis and emerging Eurasian interests northward.

Control of the Arctic increasingly means control of emerging trade routes, energy corridors, and even undersea data cables — infrastructure likely to define the 21st century. The US-led West, unwilling to come to terms with the reality of Russia’s geographic advantages, seeks to neutralize them through alliances and the encirclement of key chokepoints. Moscow, understandably enough, responds by strengthening self-reliance and partnering with Eurasian allies.

The underreported dimension in mainstream discourse is that this deal further militarizes a region that should remain a zone of cooperation. Washington’s Arctic ambitions are not just about navigation safety or scientific research; they are tied to a wider containment policy targeting both Russia and China. And if Arctic cooperation collapses, miscalculations will become more likely — particularly given NATO’s growing activity in Norway’s waters and the Barents Sea. Again, these moves send signals not only to Moscow but also to Beijing, which sees the High North as a shared space of strategic interest.

This is a region that desperately needs diplomacy rather than gunboat-style signalling. Be as it may, the $6.1 billion investment marks a pivot. It plugs immediate gaps with Finnish speed while building long-term US capacity. Thus, America signals it’s in the Arctic race to stay. The question is: in heating up tensions in the High North, does the West secure interests or court conflict in a new domain?

Uriel Araujo, Anthropology PhD, is a social scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflicts, with extensive research on geopolitical dynamics and cultural interactions.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

#China #Eurasia #Finland #Geopolitics #HighNorth #NATO #Russia #TheArctic #TheWest #USA

I just read this message from @ruaa (sharing it with her permission):

“I was just coming back with some food for my family I’m in Al-Mawasi, near the sea when suddenly, boats started firing all at once, one strike after another. I ran for 30 minutes straight, without stopping, and finally made it back to the tent terrified.

Thinking the tent would somehow shield me from the bullets and shrapnel.

I think genocide back again :(

Its not stop at all”

I don’t know what more there is left to say. If humanity refuses even to stop genocide what good is there in its existence?

#israel #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #EU #USA #theWest #complicity #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

...i finish my evals of #arab nation #genocides in #africa..my heart shatters cos turns out its just perpetual #exploitation that ISNT only #western nations 2blame.

...#uae backs #rsf to gain #gold, agriculture, and #port access...#ksa backs #saf as rival for regional control against #iran and a foothold in #yemen, #egypt, #redsea

brothers?...how could you! SHAME! and how dare you set yourselves above "#thewest" WHEN YOU ARE NO BETTER than them with your evil schemes?!!

#sudan #chad #somalia

"#Finland’s foreign minister to #theWest: #Ukraine doesn’t need help to surrender — it needs strength to win

#ElinaValtonen said #Kyiv has all it takes to keep fighting #Russia and the West must help it defend, not capitulate"

On one hand, it's fucking obvious

On the other hand, "obvious" is in short supply

We need all the clear thinking we can get

There's a lot of stupidity out there, and madness in seats of power

Thank you Elina Valtonen

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/21/finlands-foreign-minister-to-the-west-ukraine-doesnt-need-help-to-surrender-it-needs-strength-to-win/

#UkraineWar

Germany Stands To Lose And Poland To Gain From The EU’s Latest Energy Move

Germany Stands To Lose And Poland To Gain From The EU’s Latest Energy Move

By Andrew Korybko

Poland’s role in providing more US LNG to Central & Eastern Europe is expected to erode Germany’s influence in this region and accelerate Poland’s revival of its lost Great Power status.

The European Council decreed that the import of Russian gas will be banned across the bloc next year, but with varying lengths of grace periods for countries with short- and long-term contracts, the longest of which will last till 1 January 2028. The Council earlier admitted that pipeline gas and LNG combined accounted for a little less than a fifth of the bloc’s imports last year. It should also be mentioned that the EU continues to import Russian oil too, including indirectly, which has proven to be similarly scandalous.

Nevertheless, the EU’s plans to phase out the remaining fifth of its gas imports from Russia will further enfeeble its economy by leading to their replacement with more expensive US LNG, which will predictably result in the costs being passed down to consumers. This was entirely predictable too since the EU agreed to purchase $750 billion in US energy by 2028 per the terms of their lopsided trade deal from last summer that was assessed here as having turned the EU into the US’ largest-ever vassal state.

Germany is expected to be the most dramatically affected by this development in terms of its domestic politics and geostrategy. As regards the first, a greater decrease in living standards caused by the costs of more expensive US LNG being passed down to consumers could accelerate the AfD’s rise, which would lead to significant political changes if they’re ever able to form a government. Even if they’re kept out of power, such blatant meddling by the elites could worsen political polarization and associated tensions.

On the topic of German geostrategy, Poland with whom Germany is competing for influence over Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) is poised to play a supplementary role in supplying Czechia and Slovakia with US LNG via the Swinoujscie terminal and the planned one in Gdansk. Ukraine will be supplied too. These countries lie within the sphere of influence that Poland envisages creating upon the revival of its lost Great Power status. Czechia and Slovakia are also part of the Visegrad Group together with Poland.

Hungary is a member too and could be supplied with US LNG via Poland or Croatia’s Krk terminal, whose expansion is one of the priority projects of the “Three Seas Initiative” (3SI) that Poland and Croatia co-founded in 2015 but which is now led by Warsaw. While Germany commands much more influence over CEE due to being the EU’s de facto leader and boasting its largest economy, Poland’s influence over them is increasing through its future role in suppling US LNG, which might pull them away from Berlin one day.

Energy geopolitics play a significant role in geostrategy so the impact of the aforesaid trend shouldn’t be underestimated if it continues to unfold. In that event, the overarching trend would be the likely decline of German influence over CEE, greatly facilitated as it was by Germany’s voluntary participation in the US’ anti-Russian sanctions regime and then the Nord Stream terrorist attack which pushed it beyond the point of no return. These might be seen in hindsight as the beginning of a new regional order in CEE.

While Germany thought that it would inflict a strategic defeat upon Russia, the US ended up inflicting a strategic defeat upon Germany by engineering the circumstances whereby its only Western competitor’s economy would decline. Together with Poland, whose Anglo-American-backed revival of its Great Power status conveniently creates a regional wedge between Germany and Russia, the US is geostrategically re-engineering Europe at Germany’s expense in order to facilitate Russia’s post-Ukraine containment.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

#CEE #CentralAndEasternEurope #EU #Europe #Geopolitics #Germany #Poland #Russia #TheWest #USA

Germany Stands To Lose And Poland To Gain From The EU’s Latest Energy Move

Germany Stands To Lose And Poland To Gain From The EU’s Latest Energy Move

By Andrew Korybko

Poland’s role in providing more US LNG to Central & Eastern Europe is expected to erode Germany’s influence in this region and accelerate Poland’s revival of its lost Great Power status.

The European Council decreed that the import of Russian gas will be banned across the bloc next year, but with varying lengths of grace periods for countries with short- and long-term contracts, the longest of which will last till 1 January 2028. The Council earlier admitted that pipeline gas and LNG combined accounted for a little less than a fifth of the bloc’s imports last year. It should also be mentioned that the EU continues to import Russian oil too, including indirectly, which has proven to be similarly scandalous.

Nevertheless, the EU’s plans to phase out the remaining fifth of its gas imports from Russia will further enfeeble its economy by leading to their replacement with more expensive US LNG, which will predictably result in the costs being passed down to consumers. This was entirely predictable too since the EU agreed to purchase $750 billion in US energy by 2028 per the terms of their lopsided trade deal from last summer that was assessed here as having turned the EU into the US’ largest-ever vassal state.

Germany is expected to be the most dramatically affected by this development in terms of its domestic politics and geostrategy. As regards the first, a greater decrease in living standards caused by the costs of more expensive US LNG being passed down to consumers could accelerate the AfD’s rise, which would lead to significant political changes if they’re ever able to form a government. Even if they’re kept out of power, such blatant meddling by the elites could worsen political polarization and associated tensions.

On the topic of German geostrategy, Poland with whom Germany is competing for influence over Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) is poised to play a supplementary role in supplying Czechia and Slovakia with US LNG via the Swinoujscie terminal and the planned one in Gdansk. Ukraine will be supplied too. These countries lie within the sphere of influence that Poland envisages creating upon the revival of its lost Great Power status. Czechia and Slovakia are also part of the Visegrad Group together with Poland.

Hungary is a member too and could be supplied with US LNG via Poland or Croatia’s Krk terminal, whose expansion is one of the priority projects of the “Three Seas Initiative” (3SI) that Poland and Croatia co-founded in 2015 but which is now led by Warsaw. While Germany commands much more influence over CEE due to being the EU’s de facto leader and boasting its largest economy, Poland’s influence over them is increasing through its future role in suppling US LNG, which might pull them away from Berlin one day.

Energy geopolitics play a significant role in geostrategy so the impact of the aforesaid trend shouldn’t be underestimated if it continues to unfold. In that event, the overarching trend would be the likely decline of German influence over CEE, greatly facilitated as it was by Germany’s voluntary participation in the US’ anti-Russian sanctions regime and then the Nord Stream terrorist attack which pushed it beyond the point of no return. These might be seen in hindsight as the beginning of a new regional order in CEE.

While Germany thought that it would inflict a strategic defeat upon Russia, the US ended up inflicting a strategic defeat upon Germany by engineering the circumstances whereby its only Western competitor’s economy would decline. Together with Poland, whose Anglo-American-backed revival of its Great Power status conveniently creates a regional wedge between Germany and Russia, the US is geostrategically re-engineering Europe at Germany’s expense in order to facilitate Russia’s post-Ukraine containment.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

#CEE #CentralAndEasternEurope #EU #Europe #Geopolitics #Germany #Poland #Russia #TheWest #USA

Beyond Ukraine: Norway Becomes The West’s Silent Front In Arctic Tensions With Russia

Beyond Ukraine: Norway Becomes The West’s Silent Front In Arctic Tensions With Russia

By Uriel Araujo

As NATO conducts exercises off Norway’s coast and Washington deploys spy aircraft, Arctic tensions are reaching a breaking point. Moscow’s Arctic strategy, once centred on cooperation, is turning defensive. The frozen frontier is quietly becoming the epicentre of a new East-West rivalry.

So much is written about the developments pertaining to Ukraine, but one crucial theatre of tension between Russia and the West remains underreported: the Arctic and the wider High North, as visible in Norway, a founding member of NATO. Despite a recent visit by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) delegation to Norway — led by Major General Andrei Kudimov, who smiled for the cameras as both sides discussed “cooperation” on border control and fishing rights — Russo-Norwegian relations are, as a matter of fact, deteriorating fast.

Despite those talks, NATO has been conducting large-scale military exercises off Norway’s coast. Moreover, the United States reportedly deployed advanced reconnaissance and P-8 submarine-hunting aircraft into Norwegian territory, flying missions uncomfortably close to Russia’s north-western frontier. The symbolism is clear enough: whatever “dialogue” exists between Moscow and Oslo, the military logic of deterrence — and provocation — still dictates the Atlantic agenda.

The Arctic, long portrayed as a realm of scientific cooperation and peaceful exploration, has quietly become the new crucible of Great Power competition. I have previously argued that the next confrontation between Russia and the West may well unfold not in Ukraine or Syria, but in the frozen North — where NATO’s overreach could ignite unprecedented tensions. That observation now seems increasingly on point.

Russia, for its part, has been revising its Arctic strategy, with new emphasis on military readiness and control over the Northern Sea Route — a shipping corridor that could transform global trade as the ice recedes.

Meanwhile, NATO has steadily expanded its footprint across Scandinavia. Finland and Sweden’s accession to the Alliance, and the renewed US interest in Greenland all form part of a wider encirclement strategy. As I wrote, the US has long sought to secure access to Arctic energy and mineral resources under the banner of “security.”

Beyond the military manoeuvres, the economic dimension of this rivalry is equally telling. The European Union, Norway, and Iceland have recently announced the end of their cooperation with Russia within the “Northern Dimension” framework — an initiative that once symbolized regional pragmatism and coexistence. The abrupt suspension, justified on geopolitical grounds, effectively dismantles one of the few remaining platforms for cross-border coordination in the Arctic.

Meanwhile, the cod fishing industry — historically a linchpin of the Barents Sea economy — has become collateral damage. As analysts have noted, growing geopolitical frictions could severely impact the joint management of fisheries that both Norway and Russia depend on.

The result? Rising costs, fractured supply chains, and yet another example of how Western sanctions and “security” policies often end up hurting the very regions they claim to protect. So much for “rules-based cooperation.”

Thus far, Western media have treated Arctic (and Baltic) tensions as footnotes to the Ukrainian crisis. Yet these northern frontiers are arguably equally strategic — and volatile. The Baltic Sea, heavily militarized, has become a corridor of confrontation. Poland’s nuclear ambitions, in turn, illustrate how the region’s security spiral is intensifying. As I’ve argued elsewhere, Warsaw’s nuclear trajectory is less a defensive reflex than a bid for great-power revival — one encouraged by a US eager to outsource its strategic burdens.

The logic is the same across the North: smaller states, emboldened by NATO, are taking risks they would not have dared a decade ago — from Baltic air patrols to Arctic manoeuvres. Norway’s hosting of US anti-submarine aircraft is but the latest link in a chain of escalations that collectively erode the fragile balance once maintained through calculated restraint.

Be as it may, the Kremlin sees NATO’s northern buildup as part of a long-term encroachment, not a series of isolated incidents. Moscow’s revision of its Arctic doctrine is thus both defensive and adaptive. And it is worth noting that Russia’s cooperation with China in Arctic development — through energy projects, infrastructure, and shipping — adds another layer of complexity to the equation. As I noted recently, as Arctic ice retreats, it exposes deep fault lines running through today’s global power architecture.   No wonder Washington now seeks to “bolster” its own polar presence — a polite euphemism for militarization.

What makes the northern escalation particularly dangerous is its subtlety. Unlike the Ukrainian front, where lines and allegiances are visible, Arctic tensions evolve through technical adjustments — radar deployments, flight routes, research bans, maritime patrols — each justified as “defensive.” Yet taken together, they form a creeping militarization of one of the planet’s most fragile environments.

This is not simply about deterrence. Control of the Arctic means control of future trade routes, energy corridors, and even undersea data cables — the infrastructure of the coming century. The US-led West, unwilling to accept Russia’s geographic advantages, seeks to neutralize them through alliances and encroachments. Moscow, surrounded and sanctioned, responds by doubling down on self-reliance and Eastern partnerships.

This dynamic, left unchecked, could lead to dangerous miscalculations. NATO’s exercises off Norway’s coast send signals not just to Moscow but to Beijing as well, both of which view the High North as a space of shared strategic interest. The idea that Europe can isolate Russia economically while containing China militarily — all without consequences in the Arctic — is, to put it simply, delusional.

The real story, underreported and underestimated, is that the global confrontation between the American-led Atlantic axis and the emerging Eurasian bloc is expanding northward. The Arctic — long the world’s quietest frontier — is becoming its most revealing one. As the ice recedes and new frontiers emerge, the northern theatre may well determine the contours of the next Cold War.

Uriel Araujo, Anthropology PhD, is a social scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflicts, with extensive research on geopolitical dynamics and cultural interactions.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

7 Courses in 1 – Diploma in Business Management

#Europe #Geopolitics #NATO #Norway #Russia #Scandinavia #TheArctic #TheBaltics #TheWest #Ukraine #USA

Beyond Ukraine: Norway Becomes The West’s Silent Front In Arctic Tensions With Russia

Beyond Ukraine: Norway Becomes The West’s Silent Front In Arctic Tensions With Russia

By Uriel Araujo

As NATO conducts exercises off Norway’s coast and Washington deploys spy aircraft, Arctic tensions are reaching a breaking point. Moscow’s Arctic strategy, once centred on cooperation, is turning defensive. The frozen frontier is quietly becoming the epicentre of a new East-West rivalry.

So much is written about the developments pertaining to Ukraine, but one crucial theatre of tension between Russia and the West remains underreported: the Arctic and the wider High North, as visible in Norway, a founding member of NATO. Despite a recent visit by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) delegation to Norway — led by Major General Andrei Kudimov, who smiled for the cameras as both sides discussed “cooperation” on border control and fishing rights — Russo-Norwegian relations are, as a matter of fact, deteriorating fast.

Despite those talks, NATO has been conducting large-scale military exercises off Norway’s coast. Moreover, the United States reportedly deployed advanced reconnaissance and P-8 submarine-hunting aircraft into Norwegian territory, flying missions uncomfortably close to Russia’s north-western frontier. The symbolism is clear enough: whatever “dialogue” exists between Moscow and Oslo, the military logic of deterrence — and provocation — still dictates the Atlantic agenda.

The Arctic, long portrayed as a realm of scientific cooperation and peaceful exploration, has quietly become the new crucible of Great Power competition. I have previously argued that the next confrontation between Russia and the West may well unfold not in Ukraine or Syria, but in the frozen North — where NATO’s overreach could ignite unprecedented tensions. That observation now seems increasingly on point.

Russia, for its part, has been revising its Arctic strategy, with new emphasis on military readiness and control over the Northern Sea Route — a shipping corridor that could transform global trade as the ice recedes.

Meanwhile, NATO has steadily expanded its footprint across Scandinavia. Finland and Sweden’s accession to the Alliance, and the renewed US interest in Greenland all form part of a wider encirclement strategy. As I wrote, the US has long sought to secure access to Arctic energy and mineral resources under the banner of “security.”

Beyond the military manoeuvres, the economic dimension of this rivalry is equally telling. The European Union, Norway, and Iceland have recently announced the end of their cooperation with Russia within the “Northern Dimension” framework — an initiative that once symbolized regional pragmatism and coexistence. The abrupt suspension, justified on geopolitical grounds, effectively dismantles one of the few remaining platforms for cross-border coordination in the Arctic.

Meanwhile, the cod fishing industry — historically a linchpin of the Barents Sea economy — has become collateral damage. As analysts have noted, growing geopolitical frictions could severely impact the joint management of fisheries that both Norway and Russia depend on.

The result? Rising costs, fractured supply chains, and yet another example of how Western sanctions and “security” policies often end up hurting the very regions they claim to protect. So much for “rules-based cooperation.”

Thus far, Western media have treated Arctic (and Baltic) tensions as footnotes to the Ukrainian crisis. Yet these northern frontiers are arguably equally strategic — and volatile. The Baltic Sea, heavily militarized, has become a corridor of confrontation. Poland’s nuclear ambitions, in turn, illustrate how the region’s security spiral is intensifying. As I’ve argued elsewhere, Warsaw’s nuclear trajectory is less a defensive reflex than a bid for great-power revival — one encouraged by a US eager to outsource its strategic burdens.

The logic is the same across the North: smaller states, emboldened by NATO, are taking risks they would not have dared a decade ago — from Baltic air patrols to Arctic manoeuvres. Norway’s hosting of US anti-submarine aircraft is but the latest link in a chain of escalations that collectively erode the fragile balance once maintained through calculated restraint.

Be as it may, the Kremlin sees NATO’s northern buildup as part of a long-term encroachment, not a series of isolated incidents. Moscow’s revision of its Arctic doctrine is thus both defensive and adaptive. And it is worth noting that Russia’s cooperation with China in Arctic development — through energy projects, infrastructure, and shipping — adds another layer of complexity to the equation. As I noted recently, as Arctic ice retreats, it exposes deep fault lines running through today’s global power architecture.   No wonder Washington now seeks to “bolster” its own polar presence — a polite euphemism for militarization.

What makes the northern escalation particularly dangerous is its subtlety. Unlike the Ukrainian front, where lines and allegiances are visible, Arctic tensions evolve through technical adjustments — radar deployments, flight routes, research bans, maritime patrols — each justified as “defensive.” Yet taken together, they form a creeping militarization of one of the planet’s most fragile environments.

This is not simply about deterrence. Control of the Arctic means control of future trade routes, energy corridors, and even undersea data cables — the infrastructure of the coming century. The US-led West, unwilling to accept Russia’s geographic advantages, seeks to neutralize them through alliances and encroachments. Moscow, surrounded and sanctioned, responds by doubling down on self-reliance and Eastern partnerships.

This dynamic, left unchecked, could lead to dangerous miscalculations. NATO’s exercises off Norway’s coast send signals not just to Moscow but to Beijing as well, both of which view the High North as a space of shared strategic interest. The idea that Europe can isolate Russia economically while containing China militarily — all without consequences in the Arctic — is, to put it simply, delusional.

The real story, underreported and underestimated, is that the global confrontation between the American-led Atlantic axis and the emerging Eurasian bloc is expanding northward. The Arctic — long the world’s quietest frontier — is becoming its most revealing one. As the ice recedes and new frontiers emerge, the northern theatre may well determine the contours of the next Cold War.

Uriel Araujo, Anthropology PhD, is a social scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflicts, with extensive research on geopolitical dynamics and cultural interactions.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

7 Courses in 1 – Diploma in Business Management

#Europe #Geopolitics #NATO #Norway #Russia #Scandinavia #TheArctic #TheBaltics #TheWest #Ukraine #USA

Kevin Costner apresenta ‘O Velho Oeste’ no History

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://mauricioaraya.com/2025/10/05/kevin-costner-apresenta-o-velho-oeste-no-history/

Western media often portray violent uprisings and disasters in the Global South as heroic revolutions or tragic spectacles, applying double standards by portraying similar events at home through a different moral lens. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/03/world/media-hypocrisy-on-insurrections-and-revolutions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #globalsouth #media #nepal #philippines #madagascar #indonesia #thewest #africa #southamerica

Western countries can watch this genocide unfold without lifting a finger. That is their prerogative. But what they cannot do – what they will never again be able to do – is to pretend that they give a damn about human rights or democracy or international law. What they cannot do is claim to be civilised.

If you cannot or will not stop genocide, you are not a civilised society.

You cannot lecture anyone on ethics or morals or values. You are barbarians who have accepted the law of the jungle.

So be afraid. Very afraid. Be always afraid.

And make sure you’re strong. Very strong. And endlessly cruel.

Become monsters.

Otherwise, you will be next.

And no one will lift a finger to help you.

For that is the law of the jungle.

But also ask yourselves, those of you who still harbour humanity and are burdened with a conscience: what kind of life is that? And is that what I want for myself and my children?

And if not, shut it down!

Shut it all down now until our governments take action and stop this genocide!

Or learn to live as the people who let it happen.

If you can.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/9/17/palestinians-march-south-as-israel-ethnically-cleanses-gaza-city

#israel #USA #germany #EU #TheWest #genocide #ethnicCleansing #settlerColonialism #apartheid #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

@istone826 @randahl

the #budapestMemorandum was a flimsy document with no security guarantees

i'm not letting the west off the hook

whatever the nature of the document, the west's tepid response to the invasion of #ukraine by #russia is disgusting

but there is a common misunderstanding of strong guarantees in the budapest memorandum that do not exist

in fact it feels a little like #kremlin disinfo:

the redirection of anger at #theWest instead of where it belongs, directed at #moscow

#JonathanCook | The West is in panic as Israel's plan for 'full control' of Gaza heralds a new Nakba

'Every Palestinian understood [Nandy's] real message, which could be paraphrased as: “We’ve lied to you about a Palestinian state for decades, and we’ve allowed a genocide to unfold before the world’s eyes for the past two years. But hey, trust us this time. We’re on your side.”'

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-west-is-in-panic-as-israels-plan

#Gaza #Genocide #TheWest #UK #WarCrimes #Nakba #NewNakba

Al Jazeera on China and the West

'During the low-wage era of the 1990s, China’s export-to-import ratio with the core was extremely high. In other words, China had to export very large quantities of goods in order to obtain necessary imports. Today, this ratio is much lower, representing a dramatic improvement in China’s terms of trade, substantially reducing the core’s ability to appropriate value from China.'

#china #foreignAffairs #usForeignPolicy #SouthEastAsia #theWest #EndOfEmpire

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/3/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china

Al Jazeera on China and the West

'During the low-wage era of the 1990s, China’s export-to-import ratio with the core was extremely high. In other words, China had to export very large quantities of goods in order to obtain necessary imports. Today, this ratio is much lower, representing a dramatic improvement in China’s terms of trade, substantially reducing the core’s ability to appropriate value from China.'

#china #foreignAffairs #usForeignPolicy #SouthEastAsia #theWest #EndOfEmpire

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/3/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china

Al Jazeera on China and the West

'During the low-wage era of the 1990s, China’s export-to-import ratio with the core was extremely high. In other words, China had to export very large quantities of goods in order to obtain necessary imports. Today, this ratio is much lower, representing a dramatic improvement in China’s terms of trade, substantially reducing the core’s ability to appropriate value from China.'

#china #foreignAffairs #usForeignPolicy #SouthEastAsia #theWest #EndOfEmpire

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/3/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china

Al Jazeera on China and the West

'During the low-wage era of the 1990s, China’s export-to-import ratio with the core was extremely high. In other words, China had to export very large quantities of goods in order to obtain necessary imports. Today, this ratio is much lower, representing a dramatic improvement in China’s terms of trade, substantially reducing the core’s ability to appropriate value from China.'

#china #foreignAffairs #usForeignPolicy #SouthEastAsia #theWest #EndOfEmpire

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/3/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china

Al Jazeera on China and the West

'During the low-wage era of the 1990s, China’s export-to-import ratio with the core was extremely high. In other words, China had to export very large quantities of goods in order to obtain necessary imports. Today, this ratio is much lower, representing a dramatic improvement in China’s terms of trade, substantially reducing the core’s ability to appropriate value from China.'

#china #foreignAffairs #usForeignPolicy #SouthEastAsia #theWest #EndOfEmpire

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/3/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china

I see that @tama was interviewed in The West about the social media ban. I'd link to it, but it's The West and paywalled.

#Ban #AusPol #TheWest

@Crispius The West just leaving the door open to whatever authoritarian regime has the cash.....all the while calling US 'terrorists?!'

#CCP #TheWest #Canada #UK

It is a war, and like with all existential crises, Liberal Western Democracy just isn't dealing with it. Or actively surrendering to it, to spite a Minority or too...

#Politics #Russia #TheWest

In today’s tech rivalry with China, scale — especially in AI — is now a vital edge the West must build and share with allies to stay ahead. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/22/world/scale-is-the-key-to-success/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #us #europe #thewest #technology #ai

My latest article, “Terribilis Occidentalis: A Dialectical Critique of Oikophobia,” will appear in the journal, Critical Perspectives, which is the new journal of the Institute for Critical Social Theory, published by Ekpyrosis Press. https://www.criticalsocialtheory.con
#philosophy #sociology #psychoanalysis #politics #politicalscience #academicchatter #MENA #globalsouth #theWest

Be so ashamed…

https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/s/zjWCqHpgZH

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #eu #europe #usa #theWest #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

Thank goodness if they implement this in WA. GPs already have limited authority to prescribe here but can only issue the patient's current dose, as my son's GP confirmed at his last appointment.

In other ADHD-related-weirdness news, I know the percussive, Pavlovian sound of a shaken Concerta bottle, I realised with shock at the chemist when I got up to collect it without being called!

https://thewest.com.au/news/health/gps-hail-life-changing-adhd-medication-rule-change-c-18813110

#ADHD #TheWestAustralian #TheWest #Concerta

#ShahidBolsen explaining and analysing #TheStateWeAreIn as human civilisation and in particular the future of #TheWest
https://youtu.be/62MUeLdcv68?si=O506OkOCeZsAJTGP

#GifsArtidote: shahid picturing 👌🏻 the brutal truth I have grown aware of from my personal psychological perspective it's so great to have discovered this man's teachings
now I know I'm not alone in my analysis

I will try to add my psychological comments to it, unfortunately I am not well so in meantime check this old article

https://gifsartidote.life/2025/01/14/the-state-we-are-in/

@wdjorth hopefully not #TheWest completely needs to reinvent itself specifically it's #antidemocratic #fascist (concentration of power in hands of few) #monetary #policy #finance #system

The West is not a geography but an ideal worth defending. Donald Trump doesn’t understand that. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/27/world/the-west-needs-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #europe #euusrelations #nato #thewest #germany