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In awe of this woman's ability to keep digging herself deeper and deeper
Georgian opposition leader Nika Melia and the former mayor of Tblisi, Gigi Ugulava were arrested along with several other protestors over the weekend in renewed protests against the Georgian government
Protests have been ongoing in the country since the November parliamentary elections, in which the Georgian Dream Party retained power and subsequently voted in a new president under new presidential election rules.
The former President of Georgia, Salomé Zourabichvili, left the country after her term expired but has yet to concede that she is no longer president.
- Telegram
Georgian Juan Guaido Gaiden Arc continues
I am a geopolitics baby. How the fuck did a French lady get elected president of Georgia? How do you move to a country in your 50s and still somehow climb to the top?
Zourabichvili was born in Paris, France, into a family of Georgian political refugees.
Eww, Soviet "refugees"
The idea of a country called "The Savior" being a prison colony sounds like some very on the nose world building.
Lol they are offering to house inmates for a fee. Literally the foreign policy of a private prison.
The foreign policy of a slavery state, because that's the jail they'll probably be sent to.
What we know about China’s retaliatory measures against the US
As we reported earlier, China’s Finance Ministry has slapped tariffs on certain American items in retaliation for the Trump administration’s 10 percent tariff on all Chinese goods entering the US.
Here are more details on China’s tit for tat levies:
- Starting on February 10, China will impose levies of 15 percent for US coal and LNG and 10% for crude oil, farm equipment and some autos.
- China’s Commerce Ministry and its Customs Administration said the country is also imposing export controls on tungsten, tellurium, ruthenium, molybdenum and ruthenium-related items to “safeguard national security interests”.
- China’s anti-monopoly regulator has also announced it is launching an investigation into Google, without offering details. Google products, including its search engine, are blocked in China, but it works with local partners, including advertisers, in the country.
Yeah China is the only country the US has threatened tarrifs against with the ability to fight against the tarrifs, interesting to see how this develops. I think if we have a prolonged period of economic warfare, the global economy will suffer. When the elephants fight, the mice get hurt. But I fully support China in standing up to the USA. They're the only country who can, and someone needs to do it.
Get our ass Xi
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7gp341j0o pretty concerning this contain specific instructions for how to become said cannon fodder
Love the arrogance of Westoids
Of course he was cannon fodder, that's what fighting a war is. What the fuck was either of them expecting, that Ukraine would make him some sort of backline general? That he was western and therefore immune to consequences and bullets? That he would be some Call of Duty spec ops soldier?
It absolutely sucks that a kid died young, but he did volunteer to go to war, and that's what war is like. Westoids have been so broken by 20 years of harassing and murdering poor civilians in the Middle East that they've completely forgotten what it's like to fight a peer force
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Byg8VZdKK88
"Trump can't be a fascist because he's simply working within our system of government" is quite a take from Jon Stewart and his writers.
lol all that Canadian defiance and “we will never retreat!!!” was just piss in the wind, just as everybody already knew
I don’t understand why everyone seems to be buying Trump’s propaganda that Canada and Mexico are caving in, when it seems obvious that they’ve just successfully fobbed him off with bs promises that cost them very little
the Mexican border guard postings might as well be a domestic jobs program. that's not even a real concession, usually nations pay to get foreign militaries away from borderlands. I think Sheinbaum or her team really got one over on trump/rubio there. The Canadian deal is just "drugs are terrorism" policies to mask civil repression, which is something they were already doing. And the opportunity to create a new alphabet agency for "counterterrorism" is like Christmas day for feds of all nationalities.
Actually these "deals" are so cheap I feel trump has to be trying to come back for more in a month
Canada agreed to implement a plan they already agreed to under Biden
Public Safety is coordinating the $1.3-billion effort to further strengthen the border, and disrupt illegal cross-border activity.
Basically giving Trump a propaganda victory to get him to shut up for a month.