Right now, every country in the world is grappling with the inevitable need to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.
#NuclearProliferation #AggressorNations #SpheresofInfluence
During the Cold War, the United States and Russia were presented as opposites, like Yin and Yang. However, most people in the United States and Russia have this in common: they believe they are victims of the rest of the world, which justifies the use of force and therefore aggression. This aggression allows for colonial policy without saying so. They consider that they have been mistreated and that this justifies the aggression. For example, the massacre in Chechnya was justified by a so-called Islamist attack in a theater. For example, Crimea was reconquered on the pretext that it had been stolen from Russia. The wars in Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia are justified on the pretext that Russian minorities were being persecuted. For example, when the Iranian government nationalized oil, the Americans violently overthrew the government and installed the Shah, a violent monarch. For example, when casinos were nationalized in Cuba, the Americans assassinated Che Guevara. The majority of people in Russia and the United States are not particularly concerned as long as it happens outside their country. But very quickly, they find themselves victims of these same methods in their own country. When Trump captured the president of Venezuela or bombed Iran during the twelve-day war, he was publicly condemned, but there was majority consent. Previously, when the United States had a colonial policy in South America, it was condemned but accepted. These techniques used elsewhere are now being used in the United States: the use of violence without respect for the law. Emails are seized, people can be deported, people are victims of police violence or even killed. Putin assassinates journalists, activists, and political opponents on a global scale. He hacks into other countries’ emails and sensitive information and sends armies of mercenaries to Africa to overthrow governments. There was little resistance when he operated abroad. Today, people who resist Putin disappear. “No…
#Victims and #aggressors: www.aurianneor.org/victims-and-...
#assassinations #barbarism #camps #colonies #foreign #hacker #illegality #journalists #justice #law #lawenforcement #mercenaries #militias #mistreated #police #politics #repression #spheresofinfluence #torture #violence #wars #world
Farage hasn't thought this through. If Trump acquires Greenland it makes Norway's Svalbard potentially more vulnerable to comparable acquisition by Russia, and Taiwan by China #SpheresOfInfluence
When #Russia 🇷🇺 openly starts to support the actions of #POTUS 🇺🇸 in annexing #Greenland 🇬🇱 the mask slips further & time grows short ⏰ It’s chilling 🥶 Tick tock #Europe. Time to wake up #SpheresOfInfluence
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The state of the world: Three imperialist countries, #China, #Russia, and the #USA, divide the globe into #spheresofinfluence. The #lawofthenations is dead, #therightofthestrongest rules. Welcome to the #jungle.
"The chaos that Donald Trump is causing in the world makes the case for continental solidarity and explicit repudiation of Brexit divisions."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #UN #NATO #Europe #fa...
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
#SpheresOfInfluence #Trump #Putin
#Venezuela #Ukraine
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Cartoon by @theomoudakis.bsky.social
Forget "spheres of influence." That's too polite. The US, China, and Russia are building "hegemonospheres": integrated systems of debt, weapons, and information that bind nations to their will.
#spheresofinfluence #hegemonospheres #patrongeometries
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Hice un mapa. Básicamente esta es la idea (obviamente falta precisión porque no conocemos los términos de la repartiña) de las nuevas esferas de influencia que nos quieren hacer pasar como 'multipolaridad'. 'Realismo' al extremo.
#spheresofinfluence #新帝國主義勢力圏 #勢力圏
"Back in 2019, #FionaHill, a National Security Council official in the first Trump administration, testified to a House committee that Russians pushing the creation of #SpheresOfInfluence had been offering to somehow 'swap' #Venezuela, their closest ally in Latin America, for #Ukraine."
#SpheresofInfluence
"Then our former allies in Europe and Asia will close their doors and their markets to us. […] Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of #AmericanDominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all." #Venezuela #Mexico #Greenland
Repeated references to the #MonroeDoctrine & #US dominance over the western hemisphere clearly signal the #Trump regime seeks a return to #SpheresOfInfluence. The EU & UK in particular must wake up, lest Greenland is folded into the US sphere & Europe is ruled from Moscow.
Repeated references to the #MonroeDoctrine & #US dominance over the western hemisphere clearly signal the #Trump regime seeks a return to #SpheresOfInfluence. The EU & UK in particular must wake up, lest Greenland is folded into the US sphere & Europe is ruled from Moscow.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
"David Frum is joined by The Atlantic’s @anneapplebaum.bsky.social to react to the news of the American raid and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in a special episode of The @davidfrum.bsky.social Show."
Good listen.
#Venezuela #Maduro #SpheresofInfluence
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Here’s the good news. I won’t bore you with a super long thread. Where the Chinese and Russian #SpheresofInfluence are going to be should be obvious by now. 😏
I will however encourage you to follow Jim on Substack ⬇️⬆️ as nightmarish and dystopian as his…
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This Is the Way a #WorldOrder Ends - #TheAtlantic
Americans once associated #spheresofinfluence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.
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We don’t want #BackToTheFuture any more than we want #BackToTheUSSR! #SpheresOfInfluence & #VassalNeighbours only function to maintain oligarchical corruption.
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Trump's vision mirrors Putin's: spheres of influence where great powers dictate small nations' fate. "Greenland, Panama, Canada are mine. Ukraine, Baltics, Eastern Europe are yours. Taiwan and South China Sea are his. Mar-a-Lago's 'diplomatic realism.'"
#SpheresOfInfluence #PowerPolitics
A new reliable source as Canada won't play ball with Agent Orange. Another great idea while more pre-deal bullying against long-time allies takes shape.
#Canada
#Greenland
#SpheresOfInfluence
#NewWorldOrder
#NoInternationalRules
Flowers in the sunshine
It's all so depressing. So, back to basics. What can l do about the things I control that will help? And what is within my ability to influence that will help? #SpheresOfInfluence.
Scratching my head, not sure what it is, but there's something meaningful out there.
Meanwhile, the sun is out.
I CALL BACK MY POWER.
Like the ocean tides, we are pulsing with power. We are full of wisdom and can affect change.
What ritual will support you in calling back your power?
#power #socialjustice #transformationalleadership #ritual #spheresofinfluence #collectivecare #selfcare
Her latest newsltr hit me like ton of bricks after not reading much news these holidays.
Per @hcrichardson.bsky.social: Our rules-based order since WWII is seriously threatened. Read today's newsltr to see if you don't agree.
#SpheresofInfluence
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It would be reasonable to expect Ukraine to be invited in discussions and negotiations concerning #Ukraine, but reasonable seldom happens nowadays.
The 2020s is the new #MolotovRibbentrop decade with a new set of #SpheresOfInfluence.
It would be reasonable to expect Ukraine to be invited in discussions and negotiations concerning #Ukraine, but reasonable seldom happens nowadays.
The 2020s is the new #MolotovRibbentrop decade with a new set of #SpheresOfInfluence.
Winter w… I mean Olympics. Who said sports, or more precisely, ice hockey, & politics got nothing to do with each other? #spheresofinfluence