This is probably just the tip of the iceberg:

"we still don’t know the extent of the foreign payments that Donald Trump received.(…)

James Comer and House Republicans buried further evidence of the Trump family’s staggering corruption."

"Iranian-born Eliyahu Yossian, a virtual unknown until the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, has in recent months become a mainstay on Channel 14 – a right-wing pro-Netanyahu Israeli television station often likened to Fox News.(…)

Speaking during a news debate on Channel 14 last October, he commented: “I don’t believe in liberal values. I loathe liberal values. I utterly reject them. Now, you say that we’re liberals. That ‘we’ – I’m not part of it. There is no cultural affinity between you and me.”

He doesn’t like liberal values, he prefers xtreem right.

I’m trying to grasp what the ( geo political) consequences are of the entry of some of the newer countries, like for example Saudi-Arabia for current & future Western-Arabian cooperation.

It’s probably meant more as a framework to counter USA dollar dominance andcpolitics, and as a mean for China (&some pariah states) to extern influence.

What I don’t get is that the current & new members aren’t afraid of some sort reputation damage, and that this consequently will endanger current and new cooperations with the West.

Brics are probably gambling that the West will need their resources (oil, labour, wood, precious metals etc), and that in the end they will counter the worldorder, through simple Western greed or need.

On the other hand, and this is speculative, will the West maintain this ( Brics) cooperation, when it’s obvious that fundamental values like Freedom, democracy and human rights are at stake?

Currently, these values are threatened world wide, Bedrocks of democracy under threat across the globe, and this Bric expansion doesn’t bode well for these values.

The order as we knew it has ended. The free movements of goods and the dream of globalisation, will soon be only memories. Polarisation seems to be now the new order.

Is it time to consider a special Thread and or community for Israel/ Palestine ppl war( IDF /Hamas)? There are many posts.

Sounds pretty much like how it is in the North (Scandinavian model ) afaik.

added: example Dutch army chief article

"Some 600 youngsters took part in a voluntary year of service with the armed forces introduced this year along similar lines to Sweden. Wijnen said he hopes that in the future 2,000 to 3,000 youngsters will take part, around one third of whom will probably sign up for an army career. "

I’m unsure about the practices in Portugal. In Northern Europe we use the so called Scandinavian model..

This entails :1) gender-neutral and 2) selective and competitive, and therefore in principle still voluntary. Also there’s an opt-out option, and or a civilian service option. According to some comments, it appears to work that way as well.

German army has been having a huge neonazi problem

Maybe should’ve started with that instead of:

“Fuck them. They can go fight themselves their own shitty wars. I do not stand with the German government supporting and fueling all conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. If it ever comes to that, I’d rather break my own legs than take part in their neonazi filled summer camp.”

These are not the same.

their neonazi

You seem disoriented.

THEY are not the “neonazis”, in case you haven’t been paying attention.

btw our former head of state advocated for the Iraq war so yeah fuck no

Then don’t. Also, this is not about Iraq.

Germany and many other European countries which had abolished the compulsory military service years ago, are considering reintroducing it.

We had some decades of peace, but those times appear to be ending: EU should prepare for war by end of the decade

Add fyi: Is compulsory military service coming back in Europe

I don’t really get why two steady and operational fora need to change.

Why don’t you leave at is; and if necessary, or needed, you might want to create a new @worldpolitics.

And yes, US news, which has an impact on the world, should be worldnews as well. As long it’s not Internal US news, and placed with a correct country tag or title( like some suggested)

So, Tesla calling cars back, is world news , and so is a new nuclear thingy. But not Michigan officer this or that.

What nobody wants is too much one sided news, and dis/ misinformation. And some users don’t even want opinion pieces, because they are not " facts"

I don’t mind Opinions stuff though. As long as the tag & title are clear, anybody can decide for themselves whether to click ot not.

I also agree with the quality over quantity statement somebody else made.

Yeah, seems like it. This is true for a lot of online forums (… etc).

I wonder if they will answer that question.

Though, overall they are doing a pretty good job, it would be nice and appropriate to have a more cultural diverse Mod group @WorldNews.

Seems to me that the majority of the mods @Worldnews are US citizens. Is this correct?

Naturalgas posts about 5-10 pro-China pieces a day.

Naturalgasbad was the one I meant earlier. I saw he was banned yesterday, that’s why I checked whether this was about him.

Is this about that account called “nonaturalgas” or something? Anyway somehow that one always felt off . So good job.

Correction: it’s name was naturalgasbad and he was also banned. Some other poster stated he posted several pro China articles a day.

conservatism.

Is that the best word for describing the Taliban??

I’d call them extremists first. They exist on both sides of the left and right of the poltical spectrum.

Also,the por people of Afghanistan are so Fucked, they’ll need 50 years of (PTSD ) therapy, after they free themselves. I’m confident they will get through this too, somehow.

edit: spell & add.

Will we see billionaire cunts using this as an excuse to increase profit margins?

Yes, correct.

“Although supply chains have since mostly returned to normal, the security threat in the Red Sea could see prices double over the next few weeks, say analysts. Global freight rates were already rising again after the Panama Canal last month curbed the number of vessels that could ply the waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans due to a drought.”

How sad when being patriotic means you have to fight your own homeland. Sometimes there are no other options.

Here the original & complete NY times article, for those who want to read what they have written, and not what is speculated.

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