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Una brutta sorpresa per l'Occidente: mentre combatte, altri ne traggono un guadagno - C'è questo paese incomprensibile che sa come combattere (se necessario) e farsi amici contemporaneamente gli Stati Uniti e la Cina. Ma non solo, sta pure guadagnando sulla loro rivalità.
Questo paese è il Vietnam. Ma in realtà, oggi più di una dozzina di Stati si comportano allo stesso modo, anche se non tutti sono altrettanto abili. Durante la visita di Biden sono stati raggiunti accordi sugli investimenti americani (le aziende USA cercano un'alternativa alla Cina) e sull'estrazione delle terre rare, ma il partenariato non prevede la monogamia. Infatti la crescita del commercio sino-vietnamita supererà i 200 miliardi di dollari quest'anno — come con la Russia.
Xi Jinping aveva ragione quando osservò: "Un'altra Cina è ancora la Cina". Il calo delle esportazioni dirette della Cina verso gli Stati Uniti sarà compensato da un aumento delle presunte esportazioni vietnamite verso gli USA - molte delle aziende situate in Vietnam sono di proprieta' cinese. Succede qualcosa di simile in Turchia e negli Emirati Arabi: le sanzioni contro la Russia hanno stimolato il commercio attraverso paesi terzi e l'insediamento di aziende russe in quei paesi.
Si scopre un'immagine piuttosto interessante del mondo. Gli ideologi occidentali hanno cercato di creare due blocchi economici contrapposti, ma non ha funzionato, anche perché le aziende, incluse quelle occidentali, hanno trovato soluzioni alternative. E si può solo immaginare come questi stati "poligami" influenzeranno il corso degli eventi. @LauraRuHK (Traduzione reinterpretata di un articolo di Dmitri Kosyrev) https://ria.ru/20231213/vetnam-1915408651.html

In 1981 I was on the run. Literally. I had run away from the Swiss boarding school my parents had sent me to. They wanted to keep me away from the political activities that in those years would land you in jail. Yes, in 1981 Italy had more political prisoners than any other country in the West, more than Northern Ireland, the place i was heading to. The Interpol was looking for me so to reach Belfast I hitchhiked across several borders, hidden in the sleeper cabin of trucks that had a curtain behind the front seats. With very little money, a backpack, an Olympus camera and a tape recorder i intended to cover the hunger strike that had just started in Long Kesh. The independent radio station i reported for had given me a press card but i never used it because i soon realized that no one trusted journalists in West Belfast. I didn't use my camera either as it would immediately raise suspicion. I claimed to be older than my age, spent several months between Derry and Belfast, travelling from funeral to funeral in the cars of people who would be stopped and searched by the British army. I interviewed the families of prisoners and guys who had just been released from jail. But most importantly, i lived with them. My boyfriend had shared a cell with one of the hunger strikers, his mother had lost her eyesight after being hit by rubber bullets, two brothers and a sister were serving long sentences. At night we went dancing in social clubs that were surrounded by sandbags and barbed wire. The clubs collected money for prisoners and their families, and of course wouldn't let any strangers in. Foreign correspondents were holed up in the Europa Hotel, watching the news, attending press conferences, talking to spokespersons and drinking with other journos. Most of them had no desire to leave their comfort zone. When I interviewed two IRA-Sinn Fein spokesmen i was fully aware they wouldn't tell me anything i didn't already know - after all, they had told the same stories to dozens of journalists before. My friends had actually laughed when i announced i would talk to so-and-so. They thought it would be a waste of my time and they were right. The people i was hanging out with had far more interesting stories to tell and they would not share them with anyone who carried a camera and a tape recorder. Years later one of the Sinn Fein spokesmen i had interviewed, Denis Donaldson, turned out to be a MI5 informer. My friends, who despised Denis, had a hunch about him. You can watch the show or hang out in the backstage. The backstage tells you more about the show than a seat in the front row. PS. I stopped impersonating a journalist or aspiring to be one immediately after leaving Ireland. @LauraRuHK

The Mariupol-Melitopol highway is expanding to four lanes.
The road works are in full swing. This will certainly improve logistics in the Zaporozhye direction.

When you overpromise and underdeliver as EUnuchs did, you just have to keep kicking the can down the road till the end of your mandate. https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-true-beliefs-on-ukraine-are-put-to-the-test/

Putin holds annual end of the year Q&A/Presser

✅Using dollars doesn’t strengthen national sovereignty; referring to Argentina

✅Use of Dollar & Euro have declined since sanctions

✅ The West is “shooting itself in the foot” when it limits Russia’s ability to use dollars & euros

✅ Putin called ensuring the safety of passengers as main criteria when deciding on the opening of airports in southern Russia; Krasnodar airport will be opened

✅High-speed highways are not only being considered between Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also toward the south

✅ Air passenger transportation in the Russian Federation increased by 16.4%

✅Domestic tourism in Russia is developing at a good pace

✅Russia needs to reasses if prison terms are fair but there is no “witch hunt” in cases against journalists on charges of extortion.

✅ Putin says he’s “dismayed” by the 14-15 year sentences for those convicted of economic crimes

✅ Global support is growing for traditional values that Russia holds important

✅ Many people in Europe, the US & other regions of the world support Russia’s actions

✅Russia isn’t afraid to fight for its own interests without encroaching on others

✅ He also spoke on how the situation in Gaza is catastrophic and there is NOTHING like this in Ukraine

✅ Putin said he’s absolutely confident in what he’s doing

✅ Russian authorities welcome private assistance to special operation fighters on the front line, but 99.9% of everything is done by the state

Don't miss Putin's annual Q&A session in Moscow. You can watch it in full on RT's mirror site if you live in a country that has banned Russian media. It is a marathon, so get a pitcher of your favourite drink, sit back and savour every minute. No summary can ever do it justice. https://swentr.site/russia/589033-putin-president-press-conference/

So much for the #Hamas attack on civilians. Israelis admit more than 500 security forces were killed on 7 October, now they admit an "immense and complex quantity” of “friendly fire” incidents that day, especially at the Supernova music festival.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-admits-immense-amount-friendly-fire-7-october

😉 Priorities: Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, wanted to give the floor to a New York Times reporter, but was interrupted by the president. "Xinhua news agency first, please, then The New York Times!"

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Multiple explosions in Kiev - Ukrainian media reports.

The Russian Ministry of Defense, with very dark humour: "Have you watched the Q&A session with the Russian President? That's it. Now ask your own President something." https://t.me/zakharprilepin/20561

OPERATION "COPIUM" - In an old article titled "Is Russia Losing the Information War?" I pointed out that Russia's priority wasn't winning the war in the Western metaverse. https://medium.com/p/79016e0ee32e ▪️Well, it seems that the US intends to do just that. After realizing that Russia cannot be defeated on the actual battlefield, the US will declare victory... in the metaverse! ▪️The CIA is planning to create a virtual Russia with an interim administration to oppose the real Russia, the Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin revealed. https://ria.ru/20231214/tsru-1915811119.html?rcmd_alg=slotter ▪️Disclaimer: I had no knowledge of the CIA plan. I just read coffee grounds. @LauraRuHK

Finland will give the US access to 15 of its military bases under a defense cooperation pact, Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen stated.

Next week, the US and Finland are expected to sign the Defence Cooperation Agreement in Washington. Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat reported that the bases would host US ground forces, navy and air force personnel. The Finnish cabinet clarified that the agreement will be signed on December 18. (Source: Sputnik) @LauraRuHK

As many of you may know, i am a former academic who had first-hand experience of the good, the bad and the ugly of university life. When the tsunami of mediocrity hit my department i left. I have long known that you can't win against organized mediocrity because it usually comes in a nice, convincing package. But of course, universities don't exist in a vacuum, they reflect the dominant ethos of society. When i was a student the course leader, who had a superficial grasp of all the subjects taught in the programme but had made a career out of marketing and managing it, would occasionally invite specialists to deliver the odd seminar. These were the kind of experts the university no longer employed, the eccentric remains of the past. I vividly remember one of them. A Nietzsche scholar who arrived with a suitcase full of books. He had dedicated most of his life to the study of the philosopher's work and those were Nietzsche's books, he carried both the German and Italian editions. He would read a passage in German, a language very few of us understood, compare original and translation, and then explain and contextualize that passage. He insisted that listening to the author's words was key to understanding them because every word mattered, their sound mattered: Nietzsche's writing style arouses his readers’ emotions or, more precisely, brings their emotions back to the forefront of their minds. We were no longer used to primary sources after years spent reading commentaries and when we finally had a chance to access them, the floodgates opened. Everyone wanted to read Nietzsche, for six months it was impossible to borrow his books from the library, we had to put our names on a waiting list and some of us even started to learn German. Unfortunately we never saw that specialist again. Apparently the budget for seminars had been cut. @LauraRuHK

Many years ago i used to write short stories for actors. It was a lot of fun. I could indulge in the guilty pleasure of fiction writing, sit in the audience and see how the public reacted. The format of the show had been standardized by the organizers - stories couldn't exceed 1200 words, had to be entertaining and actors were not allowed to pick and choose them, the organizers of the show made the selection. Come to think of it, something similar is still going on, but this time vloggers lift passages from my articles, ideas from my posts and make them their own. It's part and parcel of labour division - i write, someone else delivers. If you want to take a break from politics and be entertained, here is a story about a Hong Kong chaologist who is paid to recognize patterns for the investment company he works for. Paul is a narcissistic Eurasian playboy with OCD, an Oedipus complex the size of his walk-in wardrobe and a penchant for Russian women. From the hourly hotels of Wanchai to his office in Central, he is on the quest for the Golden Fleece in a city where razor blades and Brazilian wax have made female body hair as elusive as love. Colonial decadence, Greek mythology, algorithms, an ironic take on erotic fiction and much more. Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfpFrGcZ39o&t=320s Read the whole story https://te.legra.ph/THE-FUZZY-LOGIC-OF-PATTERN-RECOGNITION-12-15

Orban e' andato a prendere il caffe' su invito di Scholz in modo da non bloccare l'avvio dei negoziati di adesione con l'Ucraina, ma si e' opposto al pacchetto di aiuti, 50 miliardi di euro. Questo permette all'UE di continuare ad illudere Kiev, ma a basso costo. In fondo Orban ha fatto un favore all'UE: i soldi nel pozzo senza fondo non ce li vuole piu' mettere nessuno. Del resto neppure il Congresso degli Stati Uniti era stato in grado di trovare un accordo sugli aiuti all'Ucraina. Bruxelles ha salvato le apparenze e puo' continuare a fare promesse che non verranno mantenute. @LauraRuHK