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OT: World Politics

Can we spare a moment to recognize how much of an unmittigated shitshow the BRICS conference was?


- Putin couldn't go because he might get arrested and was present via video only
- Modi refused to get off of the plane until the South African President came to the airport to personally welcome him
- Xi skipped a scheduled speech allegedly because he didn't want to share stage time with the other leaders scheduled to speak at that event
- Putin whined about the US over video and blamed "The West" for the war in Ukraine
- Lula's "de-dollarization" rants were punctuated by BRICS bringing economic basketcases Argentina & fucking Ethiopia, mortal fucking enemies Saudia Arabia & Iran as well as Egypt into the group. This is the group of international freedom fighters that are going to free us all from the dominance of the US dollar? lol

Shit, we don't even have the catchy acronym anymore. BRICS is now what?
 
Questions: what language did they use to communicate with each other? Or to craft a joint communiqué that someone else would bother to fucken read?



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Someone needs to explain to the argies that their economic problems aren't due to the US dollar.

I'm not saying that IMF medicine is the best answer for them either, but cozying up to China isn't going to help.
 
Also, some interesting Ukraine War developments over the last 24 hours

Ukraine launched a 42....42 drone strike on Crimea overnight. Now it appears that all or most of the drones were intercepted, but the Ukies have been using drones launched at Crimea recently as air defence mapping tools as well as low cost, low tech decoys to help slip a few missiles through Russian air defence nets, and it seems like a missiles hit the Russian 126th division base in Crimea at the same time.

This happened less than 24 hours after Ukie special forces fired an anti ship missile from 30km off the Crimean coast to dummy an air defence radar station and then a few hours later Ukie special forces landed on Crimea and performed a raid against a Russian brigade in the area. The brigade was so unprepared that there is video circulating around showing a russian soldier in his underwear with a dart hanging out of his mouth running over to man his post.
 
Wayward DP said:
Not enough attention is being paid to the rise of Germany’s far right.
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America’s definitely not the only democracy in danger from fascists. Along with Germany, the far-right is pretty ascendant in France as well.

That’s probably largely what Putin is pinning his hopes on. That he can hold on to power and hang on for dear life in Ukraine until fascists take over the USA and one or two other major NATO countries.
 
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