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What kind of person [allegedly] brings their own food for foreign travel when the foreign country they're traveling to is ITALY?
https://www.economictimes.com/news/international…

JD Vance’s 40-car motorcade draws ridicule after navigating narrow Italian streets
US Vice President JD Vance faced online backlash during his Italy visit. People reacted to his large security convoy in Milan and crowd boos at the Olympics opening ceremony. His trip included sports events and political meetings. The visit also came during tense US-Europe relations under President Donald Trump.

Treating the US like a rogue state would be a seismic shift in international relations — a shift that slow-moving world will resist. But the US •is• a rogue state at this point, and other nations need to start treating it as such. Like…yesterday.

Pope Leo asks US, Cuba to engage in ‘sincere and effective dialogue’
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5717957-cuba-us-relations-pope-appeal/

"The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci once wrote.
“And the new world struggles to be born.”
In such interregnums, the Italian Marxist philosopher suggested, “every act, even the smallest,
may acquire decisive weight”.
In 2025, western leaders appeared convinced they – and we – were living through one such transitional period, as the world of international relations established after the second world war crashed to a halt.
During such eras, Gramsci more f…

'President Claudia Sheinbaum said “Mexico condemns the military intervention in Venezuela.”
'She also included in her post an article in the UN Charter which states: “The Members of the Organization, in their international relations, shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”'

World reacts to US bombing of Venezuela, ‘capture’ of Maduro
Donald Trump says the US has carried out a ‘large scale strike’ against Venezuela and captured its president.

Article 1
The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

Wait, wasn’t this the movie that sold, like, three tickets on opening night in the UK? https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115965146675078737

Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image "People are starving in Venezuela because of me, Iran is on the brink of civil war because of me, Ukrainians are dying because of me, international relations are crumbling because of me, civilians are being gunned down in the streets of Minneapolis because of me, but get your Melania tickets today!"

I was wondering when the question of international gold storage in New York would come up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/repatriate-the-gold-german-economists-advise-withdrawal-from-us-vaults

‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts

apologists gotta apolgist :-) Mr. Mearsheimer you are wrong!
https://universeodon.com/@KFuentesGeorge/115633495500461068