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08-25-23, 06:15 AM | #616 |
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Prigozhin’s fate shows Russian mafia state and Brics despots are not what the world needs
Unsurprisingly, some fantasise about American power being taken down a peg or two. But be careful what you wish for. Russia’s degeneration into a mafia state – underlined by the violent demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin – shows there are far, far worse countries that could rule the world. The Brics group, with China and Russia at the helm, says it is ready to lead the planet into a better, Washington-free future. Brics is already home to 40 per cent of the world’s population and a quarter of global GDP. On Thursday, we learnt that existing Brics members – Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil – are going to admit Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates, thus cementing the organisation’s status as a confederation of the oppressive and the bankrupt. Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, immediately hailed the group’s effort to move away from dependence on the US dollar, a financial state of affairs that allows Washington to apply punishing sanctions on the barbarous regime in Tehran. Political extremists everywhere are cock-a-hoop. The end of not just American power, but Western influence, is what they dream of. “The rise of the Global South and multipolarism accelerates, as the obsolete regime of Western hegemony dwindles into irrelevance,” posted “independent journalist” Richard Medhurst on Twitter, in the stilted, sixth-form language of the far left. How lovely. Just think what awaits. Saudi Arabia’s suspected psychopath Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian despot Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could put their global stamp on social policies and human rights. The sadistic mullahs in Tehran could advise them on female dress codes. The war mongers in UAE could counsel Putin on the best way of wiping out as many Ukrainian civilians as possible, using the extensive experience the nasty Gulf state has acquired in its destruction of Yemen. China will be the real power in the group, so none of the Muslim additions are likely to say much about Xi Jinping’s Ughyur Muslim concentration camps. And of course, in the bright, Brics future, snarling sociopath Vladimir Putin will be in prime position to continue preaching the law of the jungle. Georgia and Moldova will be next to be brutalised and consumed by his post-Soviet sense of entitlement and warped reading of history. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...76414bac&ei=10
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08-26-23, 04:01 AM | #617 |
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Just a hunch, but I don't think I put this in the wrong thread. |
08-26-23, 06:13 AM | #618 |
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No, I'd be worried, hopefully the authorities look into it!
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08-26-23, 01:21 PM | #619 |
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08-27-23, 03:35 PM | #620 | |
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08-28-23, 11:40 AM | #621 |
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08-30-23, 06:47 AM | #622 | |
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Not everything is rosy in the house of BRICS apparently.
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08-31-23, 07:41 AM | #623 | |
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The more the merrier I suppose.
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09-02-23, 07:13 AM | #624 |
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09-04-23, 11:39 AM | #625 | |
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Why should I or anyone else be in the least surprised?
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09-04-23, 05:52 PM | #626 |
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How comes the West lets this happen?
https://www.ft.com/content/a940f22f-...2-f15ec218c3b5 https://www.ft.com/content/792fae47-...9-176b33ccc09a https://www.ft.com/content/09edaeb9-...c-29eaa654e4d5
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09-05-23, 06:44 AM | #628 |
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09-05-23, 11:36 AM | #629 | ||||
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The true nature of billionaire"flim-Flannery"?
...that at least has been resolved. Its not subterfugious chinkadero buyers seeking land around Travis AFB, but an investment company, FLANNERY ASSOCIATES, planning a revitalization of a decades-old plan for another new Bay Area city : "Suisun City". Napa Congressman Thompson is looking into the matter. The last thing we need in Solano County is another goddam major city....particularly as the entire county gets its water from next-county Napa's Lake Berryessa-set aside in WWII by the Feds to provide water for WWII related industry to critical 1940"s Suisun Bay industries. The artificial reservoir inundated prime grape-growng Napa farmland incl thd community of Berryessa. Napa gets no water from the reservoir...and WWII's been over for 78 year??! With CA droughts prevailing, conditions have generally reduced the levels of reservoirs throughout the state. Water is for farming; not new cities!
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Analysis: Xi reprimanded by elders at Beidaihe over direction of nation
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