#Foreign hashtag - Bluesky

@aussienews.bsky.social

2 hours ago

Decade-old decisions come home to roost, leaving a different oil shock The early 2010s were the years of peak globalisation, when it seemed all trade barriers were on a one-way trip to elimination. That was before Donald Trump arrived and ruptured the global order. #oil #gas #trade #world #politics #economic #globalisation #foreign #affairs #industry

The early 2010s were the years of peak globalisation, when it seemed all trade barriers were on a one-way trip to elimination. That was before Donald Trump arrived and ruptured the global order. #oil #gas #trade #world #politics #economic #globalisation #foreign #affairs #industry

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CyberTaters

@potato.software

1 day ago

US Router Ban Explained: Should You Be Worried? Highlights The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is blocking new foreign-made routers from entering the US market. The move is based on potatose...

#News #FCC #router #ban #foreign #router #ban #US […]

[Original post on gizmochina.com]

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Allison Moon 🌙 🍁

@shewandersferal.bsky.social

1 day ago

The War That Funded A Merger YouTube video by The Drey Dossier

#BonesawRegime wants #CNN:

🍁 #CANpoli 🍁 #CDNpoli 🍁 #CanadaSky 🌌 #MediaConcentration

#Foreign #Propaganda
#CRTC

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@morchdr.bsky.social

2 days ago

The Rycroft Review into foreign interference in UK politics It is not just foreign money in our politics which is a problem, big money from UK sources is also damaging. Sign our letter to the Minister.

It is not just #foreign #money in our #politics which is a problem, big money from #UK sources is also #damaging. Sign our letter to the Minister.

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Social News XYZ

@socialnews.xyz

2 days ago

Foreign mercenary plot: Patiala House Court allows NIA plea to shift case hearings to its HQ New Delhi, March 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Delhi court on Friday allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s plea seeking that proceedings in the case related to the arrest of seven foreign nationals accused of providing terror training in Myanmar be conducted at its headquarters. Considering security concerns, the Patiala House Court permitted the anti-terror agency’s request and directed that all future hearings in the matter be held at the NIA headquarters, with the accused to be produced before the judge.

Foreign mercenary plot: Patiala House Court allows NIA plea to shift case hearings to its HQ #Foreign #PatialaHouseCourt #NIA #HQ #socialnewsxyz

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CyberTaters

@potato.software

2 days ago

US Router Ban Explained: Should You Be Worried? Highlights The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is blocking new foreign-made routers from entering the US market. The move is based on potatose...

#News #FCC #router #ban #foreign #router #ban #US […]

[Original post on gizmochina.com]

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CyberTaters

@potato.software

2 days ago

US Router Ban Explained: Should You Be Worried? Highlights The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is blocking new foreign-made routers from entering the US market. The move is based on potatose...

#News #FCC #router #ban #foreign #router #ban #US […]

[Original post on gizmochina.com]

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TinJar

@tinjar.bsky.social

2 days ago

How a prolonged Middle East conflict could reshape how we fly The Gulf's hub airports made long-distance travel cheaper - but now their future looks unclear.

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Little to no sympathy for these assholes - they oppress #women and treat #foreign #labor as #slaves + #airports #flights #airlines are for the #rich anyway. If these horrible places collapse - the world would be a better place.

#middleeast #war

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Aussie News

@aussienews.bsky.social

3 days ago

How close is a ceasefire deal in Iran? Donald Trump says Iran wants a ceasefire deal. But Tehran says it's not even talking with the US. So what's going on and how likely is a ceasefire? #world #politics #unrest #conflict #war #foreign #affairs

Donald Trump says Iran wants a ceasefire deal. But Tehran says it's not even talking with the US. So what's going on and how likely is a ceasefire? #world #politics #unrest #conflict #war #foreign #affairs

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LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

3 days ago

The New Forever War in Iran Keeps the Dog Wagging An Iranian flag standing amid a pile of rubble

#Campaigns/Elections #Endless #War #Foreign #Policy #Politics #War #Donald #Trump #Iran #Middle

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LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

3 days ago

The New Forever War in Iran Keeps the Dog Wagging At press time, the U.S. is engaged in a war with Iran—or at least very warlike behavior, including taking out much of a sitting government, killing Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top military commanders, dropping 2,000-pound bombs from B-2 stealth bombers on missile and nuclear facilities, and launching Tomahawk cruise missiles and drones at hundreds of targets across the country. Why? That depends on whom you ask and on which day. Perhaps there was an imminent threat—maybe even a nuclear threat?—to the United States. Or perhaps the Iranian regime is a sponsor of terror, on which we have already declared war. Or perhaps we need to support our allies in the region. Or perhaps just because Khamenei was just a world-historically murderous bastard, even in a region famed for its murderous bastards. Here's a good rule of thumb, both for understanding foreign policy and also for life in general: When someone offers a bunch of rapid-fire and mutually irreconcilable justifications for a controversial decision, they're not telling you the whole story. William Shakespeare might have invoked letting slip the dogs of war to describe the unleashing of violence, but these days we just "wag the dog." Popularized by _Our American Cousin_ —the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was shot—the phrase took on an explicitly political meaning after the ripped-from-the-headlines 1997 film _Wag the Dog_. In that otherwise pretty awful movie, a fabricated military conflict was used to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. Since then, the term has become shorthand for the idea that leaders sometimes use military action to divert attention from problems at home. A wag-the-dog allegation need not mean the reasons for war are made up from whole cloth. Real geopolitical tensions, real strategic dilemmas, and real threats obviously exist. But the utility of a foreign conflict as a tool for domestic political positioning—especially when electoral outcomes are looking shaky—is a recurring theme in American history. Trump's approval ratings are notably terrible. National polling aggregates suggest his job approval stands somewhere near 40 percent. A president facing a highly competitive election year and significant scrutiny on issues ranging from the economy to the ongoing incredulity and disappointment about the release of the Epstein files might well cast about for a distraction. The war also doesn't necessarily have to be popular to accomplish some doggish goals. Though reporting suggests that President Donald Trump believed Americans in general, and his MAGA supporters more specifically, would rally around the war, a Reuters/Ipsos survey shows only about 27 percent of the country approving of the strikes on Iran, while 43 percent disapprove and many are uncertain. A larger poll conducted by the University of Maryland before the attacks suggested that even fewer Americans support a U.S. attack on Iran under current circumstances, as low as around 21 percent. The two Trump terms have dramatically shortened the public's attention span. After a strike on Iran in June, which the administration declared a total success in eliminating Iran's nuclear capability, the president might have hoped for a polling bump, some "strange new respect" from the more hawkish Republicans on the Hill, or at least a few more days of coverage. But that episode quickly faded from view (and didn't resolve any of the underlying problems in the region). But Americans didn't seem to hate it either. So the temptation emerged to try again. Even when wars are unpopular or divisive, they command attention and can reframe political discourse away from domestic grievances and toward questions of national security. A war does not need majority support to serve this function. It needs only to be salient enough to shift the conversation. Even days of online dunking and pushback on Trump's inconsistencies on war with Iran can have a kind of invigorating effect. And at least the topic has some gravitas, unlike the slow-moving Epstein disaster or the dismal economic data constantly trickling out. Trump ran as an opponent of "forever wars," and he won over at least some voters with that emphasis. Those voters—and perhaps more importantly, increasingly fractious GOP influencers such as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly—are justifiably angry. Democratic politicians and voters are, of course, more than happy to pick holes in the confused and confusing justifications for a war launched without respect for Congress or the opinions of the American people. Too little, too late, Congress has creaked into slow action to hint at protecting its privileges to wage war. Once military action begins, it becomes easier for leaders to justify extensions, surges, and escalations without ever obtaining the degree of popular backing that a war with clear goals—or a thoughtful peace—might command. The current conflict with Iran, unlike the fictional war in _Wag the Dog_ , is rooted in decades of geopolitical friction, sanctions, proxy battles, and strategic competition. Many Iranians, at least in these early days, have reacted with joy to American bombings. But it remains true that when foreign policy is conducted in the service of domestic politics, wars become tempting as tools of distraction, puffery, and electoral signaling. Perhaps the many competing explanations offered for this war each capture some part of the truth. But when the list grows long and the emphasis keeps shifting, that often means the conflict is doing more than one job. And wars that do multiple jobs for the people waging them—military, diplomatic, electoral—are the ones most likely to stick around forever.

#Campaigns/Elections #Endless #War #Foreign #Policy #Politics #War #Donald #Trump #Iran #Middle

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LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

3 days ago

The New Forever War in Iran Keeps the Dog Wagging The domestic political uses of foreign wars At press time, the U.S. is engaged in a war with Iran—or at least very warlike behavior, including ta...

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[Original post on reason.com]

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