Category: Foreign Politics

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General Banter #186, Charlie Kirk Complains About Women In Their 30s, A Gay Man Risked His And Many Others’ Safety In Qatar Using Grindr

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I would start a “this week in stupid” knock-off series for the blog, but where exactly I would get my dingers would be uncertain. Would I get my hot takes from the MAGA sycophants who don’t seem to come out during general elections and then cry about lost elections? Would I get my hot takes from the progressives because they’ve run out of faux things to be outraged over? For this week though, I have a couple of stories that should balance the dumb categories fairly well. Charlie Kirk has suggested that women who are in their 30s are past … Continue reading General Banter #186, Charlie Kirk Complains About Women In Their 30s, A Gay Man Risked His And Many Others’ Safety In Qatar Using Grindr

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Strange Numbers #312, Canada Reaches 41 Million People, Ontario About To Reach 16 Million People Alone

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Over this past week, Canada officially hit over 41 million people according to their population clock signifying one of the fastest rates of growth in the world owing largely to high rates of immigration. With the province of Ontario soon to hit the hallmark of sixteen million people, the nation’s growth comes during a period where the opposition Conservative Party is looming large over the nation’s politics, and the issue of immigration could come up as a concern for some voters. However, ignoring that focal point of Canada’s politics for now, what does it mean that Canada has grown another … Continue reading Strange Numbers #312, Canada Reaches 41 Million People, Ontario About To Reach 16 Million People Alone

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Foreign Politics, 3-24-2024, Updates Regarding Russia (March 2024)

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The past few days have been active in Russian politics relative to usual warmongering/war-shilling that the Kremlin has been doing regarding in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin has proceeded to rig another election to give himself another few years as President of Russia (gasp!), Dmitry Medvedev has suggested that the nation of Latvia doesn’t exist implying that an attack into the Baltics is next on the agenda after Russia finishes in Ukraine, and a terror attack in Moscow has ruined the optics of Putin’s celebration as a concert hall was attacked. Let’s get to the stories.             Starting off with the rigged … Continue reading Foreign Politics, 3-24-2024, Updates Regarding Russia (March 2024)

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Foreign Politics, 3-17-2024, Updates from Haiti, Portugal, and South Africa

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There have been several new updates around the world politically. In Haiti, the nation’s political stability has declined further with the release of thousands of gang members and the mention of possible genocide along with deteriorating living conditions. In Portugal, the ruling Socialist Party was defeated in last week’s election ensuring that the nation would have a different ruling party composition after a decade of Socialist Party rule. There are also new poll numbers from South Africa ahead of their next election in May 2024.                  Starting off with Haiti, the nation hasn’t had what most Americans would consider … Continue reading Foreign Politics, 3-17-2024, Updates from Haiti, Portugal, and South Africa

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Foreign Politics, 3-10-2024, The Rochdale By-Election In The United Kingdom

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When describing the difficulties that the Conservative Party faces, one can look at the last few by-elections on the parliamentary level of the United Kingdom and see they’ve lost several seats to Labour and the Liberal Democrats without snagging any wins in rival territory themselves. This has partially been due to Labour, seeing the fringed ends of the leftward social justice movement, attempting to appeal to the center on social and financial issues after having taken a leftward shift under former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. For all of the grandeur of the Labour revival that has been happening on the … Continue reading Foreign Politics, 3-10-2024, The Rochdale By-Election In The United Kingdom

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Foreign Politics, 3-10-2024, The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Contextualized In The Wake Of More Potential Conflict

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Armenians have been the victims of geography for the past hundred years being locked between the Sunni Muslim nations of Turkey and Azerbaijan, each having launched either military incursions or ethnic cleansing campaigns against the small Orthodox-leaning nation. This reached a boiling point in 2023 when the territory of Nagorno Karabakh was forcefully annexed by Azerbaijan creating a mass exodus of thousands of Armenians afraid of another possible ethnic cleansing campaign. Whereas the Russians, who have historically been on the side of the Armenians, would usually intervene against the smaller Azerbaijani military and government, the Russians failed to step in, … Continue reading Foreign Politics, 3-10-2024, The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Contextualized In The Wake Of More Potential Conflict

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Strange Numbers #308, The Most Likely Breakaway Regions In Europe Feature Some Of The Lowest Fertility Rates (Catalonia, Corsica, and Scotland)

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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve begrudgingly become more of a team player when it comes to life and especially when it comes to politics. While there will always be those outliers on your team that manage to irk you from time to time, the whole generally benefits from the parts operating from a place of compromise and understanding. Thus, my love of unionism in the year 2024 comes during a period when talks of secession from larger countries into micro-states appear to be firmly on the table in Europe in most of the major countries. France is dealing with the … Continue reading Strange Numbers #308, The Most Likely Breakaway Regions In Europe Feature Some Of The Lowest Fertility Rates (Catalonia, Corsica, and Scotland)

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Foreign Politics, 3-3-2024, Lula De Silva Outed At An Anti-Semite, Reproductive Rights In The Gaza Strip?

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There were several foreign policy stories that caught my attention over the past few weeks. At the same time that Brazil is attempting to betray American interests by allying with the new BRICS currency with other hostile countries like China and Russia, they have excused the murder of Alexei Navalny in Russian captivity as being unexplained (Putin tried to poison him prior) while simultaneously calling Israel’s actions to defend itself against Hamas’s aggression “genocide” like Hitler’s holocaust. On that same note, there was one Twitter comment that caught my attention because the person called for a ceasefire because of “repro … Continue reading Foreign Politics, 3-3-2024, Lula De Silva Outed At An Anti-Semite, Reproductive Rights In The Gaza Strip?

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General Banter #180, The Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolation Situation (My Takeaways)

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The most disturbing video that I’ve had to watch this week was the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell, the United States Air Force member that decided to light himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy before the fire was put out by authorities and he was rushed to the hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries. In the reasoning that was given, the general description was that he didn’t want to encourage “genocide” that was happening in Gaza alluding to Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks on October 7th that killed around a thousand Israelis and other nationalities … Continue reading General Banter #180, The Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolation Situation (My Takeaways)

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Libertarian Banter #112, A Writer from The Nation Can’t Differentiate Between Legitimate Protest And Violent Behavior

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I stated my opinion on the Aaron Bushnell story and I’ve unfortunately seen enough memes ridiculing a man who I believe had mental health concerns to be free from the image, so I’ve concluded that whatever opinion I have about being respectful toward the family and the deceased is going to get abandoned by the masses into the ether. This is nothing new for humanity, but it is sad, nonetheless. However, there was one comment from a writer in Jerusalem on the Palestinian side, Mohammed El-Kurd who works for the publication, The Nation, that was particularly egregious for the number … Continue reading Libertarian Banter #112, A Writer from The Nation Can’t Differentiate Between Legitimate Protest And Violent Behavior