Her analysis is very flat in that regard also because the USSR had sattelite states, but in general I think it is useful in the sense that it underlines that the US is no longer ahead of China. Her other articles on the topic are similar to the FA article. She doesn’t go into the details but the structure of the task the military of China and US seeks to fill is different: China has to fight US, US protects water ways, helps defend Europe, etc. which is a big factor in the military strategic balance between the two. The methodology can be found here https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/49/2/7/125214/Back-to-Bipolarity-How-China-s-Rise-Transformed

They did a very good job, many of the OSINT work goes unreported. Example: people like All Eyes on Wagner, Casus Belli, Sonarrow, Debunk Cafe have been tracking Russian trafficking yellow cake out of Niger when most news outlets care fuck all about Africa.

The article is from a Gulenist website but the report is credible. Turkey is the primary security provider of Somalia and is helping them against AQ.

You can see it when you zoom in the original file, sorry for not including the source. At first I thought he posted it to twitter only, but now I realise it is just a crop of the original.

The letters are fuzzy because of the hot air. The photo was taken by Task_Force23/TF 23 Photo.

Calling for Japanese people to have their skulls split open by the Chinese MFA, a PRC diplomat calling for Takaichi to be beheaded, industrial espionage, etc. All are stuff PRC does on a daily basis. The World is not only the US and the other states without agency. China and Russia back in 2015 have done attacks on the US in cyber that would constitute war by their constitution. Reporting the facts is not manipulation when this has been a thing for decades.

Deeply unserious comment. France is one of the countries in which the system is the most distributive and the taxes the highest.

In France, the biggest hurdle is our pension system that stifles education, health, and infrastructure spending but even the electorate wants the boomers to earn more when they already get 110% of what working people do. Still the UK’s triple lock might make them more of a gerantocracy in the future. Also note that if you read the official statistics for pensions in Grance the ones by gov workers are counted towards the budget of said institution. So now 90% of new education spending is actually getting to boomers. 1/4 is already for them. 1/3 of military spending too etc

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There is no reason the shinies and higher rarities are locked up when rn you trade cards of the same rarity. No secondary market from botted accounts would prop up as you would need the card of the equivalent rarity.

Nice composition!

Another idea that came to me: try to get the Wishiwashi emblem. That Pokemon is very cool

Yeah idk why they banned trading shinies! Nice pull, also managed to get one( my first Darkrai too, after I pulled at least 35 packs of Spacetime Smackdown.

To add to that in general they need to reduce the animation speed from clicking buttons. Things like just changing a deck or opening a pack feel slow.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/arabic-strawberry-elephant The OG elephant was made in 2007… Anti-slop

Just finished another one and got 2 rare pulls: Beedril EX and Gholdengo. I think the rewards for new accounts are very high. The challenges are worth the time spent.

https://www.afrobarometer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/News-release_Africa-Day-Africans-demand-greater-voice-Afrobarometer-23may25-1.pdf From the data under the graph. It seems they mistyped 19 instead of 32 when Carnegie did their graphs on the Afrobarometer data.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/us-leaving-cultural-agency-unesco-2-years-after-123951652 He also left after Obama cut funding. The US last rejoined UNESCO in 2023 under Biden

Ooops, I’m dumb. Thanks! Fixing the title