Ein Allerheiligstes wurde im Heiligen Land zertrümmert, als der Iran eine recht maßvolle, stark choreografierte Reaktion auf den israelischen Terroranschlag auf sein Konsulat/Botschafter in Damaskus inszenierte, eine faktische Aushöhlung des Wiener Übereinkommens über diplomatische Immunität.

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🌐 Irans “neue Gleichung” reicht weit über Westasien hinaus

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Tony: "We approached China from a position of strength."

🐻 And China approached you from the position of "who the f*ck is this clown?!"

And everyone saw it 🤷‍♂️

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🇪🇺 Why is Europe pursuing a path that embraces huge risks – one that potentially could drag Europe into a whirlpool of tensions ending in war with Russia?

For one main reason: The EU leadership held hubristic ambitions to turn the EU into a ‘geo-political’ empire – a global actor with the heft to join the U.S. at Top Table. To this end, the EU unreservedly offered itself as the auxiliary of the White House Team for their Ukraine project, and acquiesced to the entry price of emptying their armouries and sanctioning the cheap energy on which the economy depended.

It was this decision that has been de-industrialising Europe; that has made what remains of a real economy uncompetitive and triggered the inflation that is undermining living standards. Falling into line with Washington’s failing Ukraine project has released a cascade of disastrous decisions by the EU.

Many Europeans would opt for making Europe competitive again; making Europe a diplomatic actor, rather than as a military one.

Do Europeans even want to be at the American ‘top table’?

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Acabo de vivir una experiencia extraordinaria: una minigira de conferencias por Brasil en cuatro ciudades clave: Sao Paulo, Río, Salvador y Belo Horizonte. Salas llenas, preguntas agudas, gente fabulosamente cálida, gastronomía divina: una inmersión profunda en la octava economía más grande del mundo y principal nodo de los BRICS+.


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🗣 BRIC-o-rama: de gira por Brasil, con la mirada puesta en Rusia-China