International Politics

[steviewevie]

3 hours ago, Neil said:

and again the kippers will say that's why it was right to brexit.

well looks like Germany having it's own kippery moment, along with lots of other EU countries.

 

[steviewevie]

some high risk brinkmanship going on between NATO and Russia.

[charlierc]

I guess there's a question of how far is Putin bending before breaking. We've burned through multiple red lines by this point.

 

This Wikipedia page was a curio I found when lurking on Reddit the other day. It's a textbook from the late 90s published in Russia by a neo-fascist academic following a so called "neo-Eurasian" approach, which seems to have in retrospect been a bedrock for their foreign policy to a fairly unsettling degree.

[steviewevie]

Looks likes Putin's threats worked...for now...

[steviewevie]

13 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Looks likes Putin's threats worked...for now...

...although apparently the missile thing may well have been agreed but they won't ever publicly announce it.

 

[charlierc]

Politico are saying another meeting will be held on whether to give Ukraine permission for those missiles at the UN General Assembly, which takes place in a week and a half. So, for now, more waiting. And presumably more time for Putin & his mob to make threats.

[steviewevie]

15 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Politico are saying another meeting will be held on whether to give Ukraine permission for those missiles at the UN General Assembly, which takes place in a week and a half. So, for now, more waiting. And presumably more time for Putin & his mob to make threats.

More time for them to prepare for missile strikes.

They're running out of time if Trump gets in.

[steviewevie]

 

[Neil]

On 9/13/2024 at 6:36 AM, steviewevie said:

some high risk brinkmanship going on between NATO and Russia.

they're risking no one but the plebs like us!

[charlierc]

11 hours ago, steviewevie said:

 

Presumably Trump and Netanyahu will not be answering questions about how their push to unravel the 2015 Iran deal brokered by Obama and the EU lead to such a potential situation.