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Putin calls European leaders
‘little pigs’
and says Russia will achieve its
Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force
The Russian leader says the aims of its ‘special military operation’ will be met ‘unconditionally
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Wenn KI-generierte Fake News internationale Wellen schlagen: Ein gefälschtes Video über einen angeblichen Militärputsch in Frankreich hat für diplomatische Verwirrung gesorgt und den Zorn von Präsident Emmanuel Macron auf sich gezogen. 😮
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My favourite part of "The Diplomat", a drama about high level diplomacy, is when a character - during a moment of import - corrects someone over an utterly trivial aside, such as a figure of speech.

Europe expels 700 Russian spies under diplomatic cover, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/18/europe-expels-russian-spies-under.html

Putin calls European leaders 'little pigs' and says Russia will achieve Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force - Europe live (Jakub Krupa/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/dec/17/ukraine-russia-war-eu-european-council-frozen-assets-zelenskyy-europe-live-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p57#a251217p57

Say No to China’s Cruel New “Monkey Business” #AnimalRights

"The US is the richest country in the world!"
Oh yeah? What does its balance sheet look like?
Obviously it's absurd to ask that question, as any economist will happily explain why national debts shouldn't be treated like real money.
But it's also absurd that it's absurd to ask that question, and there's a thread to pull here: is the US "rich" because many billionaires live here? That doesn't seem to improve the lives of most of the population. Is it because our median income is so much larger than many other countries? That's in large part a product of exchange rates, since costs of living are also higher here, so is the real reason the fact that the dollar has so much purchasing power? Why does it?
Well, at some level of abstraction, exchange rates boil down to: "How much confidence do the ultra-rich place in the stability of the country" which is intimately related to: "How much military/diplomatic power does the country have?"
So... The US is the "richest" country in the world because it uses its military dominance to bully other countries and keep them down, and it also uses the resulting economic dominance to do the same. We can see this happening via US-sponsored coups, International Monetary Fund bullying, and attendant multinational corporate looting of countries with little economic power (rampant in Africa and Central America, for example).

On July 18, a mild, overcast night in Nairobi, Kenya, a team of Donald Trump’s top foreign aid advisers
ducked into a meeting room at the Tribe Hotel,
their luxury accommodations in the city’s diplomatic quarter,
for a private dinner.
To press the urgency of the situation in East Africa, the embassy officials enlisted Dragica Pajevic,
a World Food Program veteran of more than two decades.
Pajevic arrived at the Tribe Hotel early. She brought props. The b…

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Finally getting around to watching The Diplomat.
It has the ever delightful Rufus Sewell in it so of course I'm watching it.
#TheDiplomat #TV
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The Diplomat (TV Series 2023– ) ⭐ 8.0 | Drama, Thriller
50m | TV-MA

EU diplomacy chief arrives in Kyiv to discuss aid, Ukraine's energy sector: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/eu-diplomacy-chief-arrives-in.html