2025-12-10 14:22:17
From Anticolonial Heroes to Post-Independence Liabilities: Morphing Refugee Categorizations in African Geopolitics
New blogpost by Rose Jaji on @… blog
From Anticolonial Heroes to Post-Independence Liabilities: Morphing Refugee Categorizations in African Geopolitics
New blogpost by Rose Jaji on @… blog
The biggest fear of Putin is a prosperous, successful, strong and independent Ukraine at his border. That's why he will do everything to prevent any kind of fair deal with Ukraine.
#ukraine #russia #geopolitics
OH: "bgp stands for border geopolitics"
Regime change in Iran could also weaken Russia further, so we have a clear European interest here, also with regard to the war in Ukraine. But ofcourse the most important thing is that the Iranian people with their rich history and culture can enjoy more freedom.
#iranprotests #geopolitics
A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump's Personal Geopolitics (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/americas/trump-maduro-juan-orlando-hernandez.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B1A.-6Am.ugOJo2UCnSA8&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p58#a260104p58
I wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., Nanette Levinson, and Francesca Musiani. It initially seems to be a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading.
What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygo…
RE: #geopolitics
Taking out military assets in Venezuela is relatively easy, controlling Caracas ( 2 million people) and Venezuela as a whole is not.
#venezuela #usa #geopolitics
Time names "the Architects of AI" as its 2025 Person of the Year and takes a look at AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how we interact with the world (Time)
https://time.com/7339685/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects/
[OT] Europe is breaking up with U.S. cloud https://www.eetimes.com/europe-breaking-up-cloud-us/ Geopolitics forces European large organizations to abandon U.S. hyperscale cloud reliance.
Interesting and well-made , "The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next"
#geopolitics
"Weary of being captive to geopolitics, car companies are looking for ways to replace powerful rare-earth magnets in electric motors." The Ultimate Driving Machine has already done so. "Back in the '80s, GM developed magnets [not reliant on rare-earths…but] sold the technology to Chinese companies"
Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Risk:A Machine Learning Approach
Alvaro Ortiz, Tomasa Rodrigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.124…
💪 Does the US have enough graphite to meet growing energy demand? Yes, but costs, quality are concerns
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-graphite-energy-demand-quality.html
Trump wants to close airspace Venezuela.
#trump #venezuela #geopolitics @…
To quote Thatcher, “this is no time to go wobbly” , with regard to the sanctions from the US against the EU.
#eu #usa #geopolitics @…