I used to think berets were lame but I've officially had my mind changed
I like how each beret is a different color. They could get a power rangers thing going on, but with berets instead of full-body jumpsuits.
Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore: “Today, our relationship with Russia is primarily strategic. With Russia, there are no restrictions on the equipment we want to purchase. Others impose restrictions on us. They support us in terms of training, logistics, tactical training, and everything else. They provide support in these aspects."
The west just can't understand that sanctions don't work when countries can just go trade with someone else. This is yet another fantastic example. The US won't sell us shit? Okay we'll buy it from their enemies instead.
I hope the US sanctions the entire world.
I wrote a well cited essay in an English 101 class about how sanctions don't work and often have negative results, I got a great grade and it seemed clear based on the evidence, but these mofos just can't help but sanction. It must be useful in some way to the people doing it but what could be a personal benefit?
It must be useful in some way to the people doing it but what could be a personal benefit?
Financial speculation likely plays a part. It might seem geopolitically insane that Europe traded cheap russian energy for expensive american/norwegian/russian but through third parties energy... but everyone who's invested in American LNG is making a killing. And Europeans who own the privatized import businesses are also making a second killing too.
That aside there just seems to be a culture of sanctions. The west is used to breaking weak nations by isolating them from western finance, capital and technology. By sheer inertia this keeps on going despite how a country like China can just keep on prospering, or how countries like Russia and India can more than make do as well. Or how all the new economic powers mean that countries like the ASS group just has options and people to talk to.
Is western finance good at insurance? Probably. But it's not like Mumbai, Shanghai or Singapore can't do the same service.
The world is so lucky that China focused on self sufficiency and innovation instead of just becoming a western owned sweat shop.
cutting off from a market suddenly is probably useful for insider trading, at least. just keep it under wraps and keep the info to yourself so you can get the juicy stocks
like one of the biggest proponents of sanctioning iran is the cashew industry, too, and iran has a very large cashew industry, so it pushes a competitor out of the market. essentially protectionism with extra steps
like one of the biggest proponents of sanctioning iran is the cashew industry
pistachios, but yeah
It worked for a while when the hegemony was absolute or there was cold war ideology stuff for them to work with, but it turns out rigging the game only works as long as you're the only game in town.
I hope the US sanctions the entire world.
Back to isolationism, with extra steps
Traditionally the West then targets you for destruction for becoming an ally of the enemy (i.e. trading with the only people that would trade with you).
If you're being sanctioned you're already an enemy, allying with another enemy is gonna do what? Get you sanctioned?
That's what the targets hope for.
Historically, it means coups and fascist militias or bombing campaigns.
I can't think of one nation after being sanctioned then trading with another enemy nation and being bombed as a consequence of those actions. The coups and fascist militias happen regardless of who you trade with. If you can think of an historical example I'd like to hear it, in a non argumentative way. I'd like you to inform me. They have to have already been sanctioned and then their trading with a different enemy has direct violent consequence or its kinda just business as usual.
Guatemala, basically the first example of the US flexing its new status as the global seat of capital, used this as one of its traps: place embargos on it, including weapons, in response to Arbenz doing SocDem things. Then Arbenz traded with the Soviets as they were the only major country to offer. The US used this as a major pretext for its campaign of painting Guatemala as a potential forward base for the Soviets and getting taken over by the reds. This campaign was part of its larger coup effort that included the use of US-trained death squads, genocide of the Mayan communities, and finally a bombing campaign to seal the deal. Lumumba had a similar experience, etc etc.
Obviously there are no countries that have no other interactions with the US prior to getting sanctioned. Every country is a potential target, friend or foe, and friends get turned into foes at the drop of a hat. A country gets sanctioned because it's already a target, the US already has some stated pretext and a few schemes it's implementing.
I hope the US sanctions the entire world.
Congratulations bro, you
playedsanctioned yourself
The U.S: No Turkey we won't allow you to get the F35 because you bought S400 from Russia >:(
Russia: Yes United States of America? You want 31 Mi-17 helicopters? are you going to pay us? ok good they're on their way.
He cites
as an inspiration and was apparently a member of a Marxist group in University. So I'm leaning towards based.I think he might be good but for what it's worth kier starmer was a member of a Marxist group in university too. So I'll with hold judgement for now
Mali flag after being submerged in a river by an oil refinery for a week
In a joint statement following the two-day meeting in Mali’s capital Bamako, the foreign ministers spoke of the “great potential for peace, stability, diplomatic strength and economic development that a strengthened political alliance offers”.
“The ministers… guided by the ambition to ultimately achieve a federation uniting Burkina, Mali and Niger recommend the creation of a confederation to the heads of state of the Alliance of Sahel States,” the statement said.
“The ministers… guided by the ambition to ultimately achieve a federation uniting Burkina, Mali and Niger recommend the creation of a confederation to the heads of state of the Alliance of Sahel States,” the statement said.
everybody talks about the Bell Riots
and Irish Reunification of 2024 
but there's a couple ideas for a unified africa in there too. in the 60s it was lame "united states of africa" but luckily it was never mentioned on-screen and eventually they prophesied this confederation.In the 1977 Writers'/Directors' Guide for Star Trek: Phase II – the abortive second series – Uhura was noted as having instead been born in the "African Confederacy". This may have led to the naming of Geordi La Forge's birthplace as the African Confederation in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode TNG: "Cause And Effect".
united states of africa
African ConfederationAs a giant major huge trekking, good catch! I'm gonna do a little digging for whatever references I can find for Star Trek Pan-Africanism
Beret is when no colonialism and the more berets you have the more tears are in the mayo
i really hope they get guinea and chad in on it, apparently theres been talks on it?
Berets are lame unless you wear them with conviction. Ya gotta mean it
Just look how Sankara wore his comically small beret. It would look ridiculous normally but somehow wasn't on him.
but somehow wasn't on him.
Yeah, cuz Sankara was hot 🥵
next up: common currency
