"The Rwandan genocide is 1 of 2 events in the 1990s that prodded a guilt-ridden world to pledge never again to stand aside & allow mass atrocities. The other was the massacre by Bosnian Serbs of thousands of Muslim men & boys in Srebrenica the following year. In 2005 the UN General Assembly adopted the principle that all countries have a “responsibility to protect” (R2P) people from genocide and war crimes, by force if necessary."
However, w/o telling him to desist from further escalation or else...it will not work.
Besides, "Bibi" is the guy who embarrassed mighty Ronald Reagan twice with severe acts of aggression. (Interesting #TheEconomist pod last week--paywalled.)
For decades, the US always had his back. He's not going to change now, not in his old age and with his political and legal back against the wall.
I'm ...
#NieWiederIstJetzt--auch hier.
Alle Macht geht vom Volke aus. Ist diese Macht durch Wahlen delegiert, dann ist auch der Amtsweg im Rechtsstaat einzuhalten und keine Selbstjustiz zu üben oder sich selbst zum "Hilfssheriff" zu ernennen, usw.
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Quelle für China:
PayPal geschützter #TheEconomist Podcast, vermutlich aus der Serie #DrumTower
"Japan’s archetypal gender roles—the salaryman husband and stay-at-home mum—were cemented during the country’s long post-war boom. Following the oil crisis of the early 1970s, those rigid roles began to break down in many Western countries. By contrast, Japan tried to overcome the crisis by extending men’s working hours. While Western countries went through a “transition point” in gender relations, Japan missed the opportunity to change."
"Costco's gross margins are 12%, compared with Walmart’s 24%. The company makes up the shortfall through its membership fees: customers pay $60 or more a year to shop at its stores. In 2023 fees from its 129m members netted $4.6bn, more than half of Costco’s operating profits."
According to #theeconomist being #insane used to legally bar you from being an MP in the #UK. That law has now been removed.... Now I can fully understand why the #conservative party and some ex-Tory MPs have issues.
"“He had lost a great part of the forces with which he came, and all his friends and generals except a few,” wrote Plutarch of Pyrrhus of Epirus, a Greek king who defeated the Romans but shattered his army in the process."
A message from an old media #TheEconomist to the new..
#SocialMedia#SocialNetwork
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I cancelled my Economist subscription last year because it seemed their signal to noise ratio was going into the toilet and it was becoming more NYT/MSM-like on social issues and clickbaity content. I nailed it :( There are no good news outlets left. #TheEconomist#MSM#uspoli
•The safeguards put in place by the founders that a CEO wouldn't go rogue and circumvent the safety net didn't stand the reality check: greed has infected almost all #OpenAI's employees.
•The only one left to reign in AI are big countries governments.
•The AI tech is developing much faster than anybody expected
Der #hamas-Überfall auf #Israel war ein "Glücksfall" für #russland: #Europa weiter gespalten und damit geschwächt, Waffenlieferungen aus den #USA in die #Ukraine auf der Kippe. Mehr denn je gilt jetzt für die Rettung der freiheitlichen Demokratien: geschlossen nach vorne schauen!
Jein. - Taiwan beherrscht zum einen Schlüsseltechnologien, v.a. Chips. Aber viel wichtiger ist der historische Aspekt: die ehemalige Regierung von China floh nach Taiwan. "One China" ist noch mehr Staatsraison dort als in Deutschland das "Existenzrechts Israels". Es gab zu Taiwans Geschichte unlängst einen #TheEconomist special podcast. Sehr interessant.
"Pharma & hospitals attract much of the public ire for inflated costs. Much less attention is paid to the middlemen who extract far bigger rents from the system’s complexity. [...] They are the intermediaries—insurers, chemists, drug distributors & pharmacy-benefit managers (PBMs)—sitting between patients and their treatments. In 2022 the combined revenue of the 9 biggest middlemen equated to nearly 45% of America’s health-care bill."
The island nation of Tuvalu is already preparing for its climate change future when its islands are going to disappear under the ocean.
"The government is keen to make explicit that it would expect to retain its claim on the waters surrounding present-day Tuvalu. [...] Leaders fear that they will lose those rights—and a tuna industry worth billions—if any or all of the islands that make up their territories disappear."
Was looking today at rankings at the back of #theeconomist for a number of relatively rich countries in 2022. The piece I read covered #GDP per head in $ at the prevailing exchange rate, the same adjusted for cost and price differences and the latter adjusted for hours worked. Some #European countries do very much better on the third measure whereas #Asian countries like #Japan and #Korea do much worse.
Da bist du der erste, den ich so lese. Viele Strategen gehen von einer militärischen Konfrontation zwischen den USA und ihren Verbündeten und Rotchina aus.
Noch nicht angehört, #TheEconomist Podcast dazu von heute:
"The Intelligence:
Independents' day
#Taiwan's election of
William Lai Ching-te of the
👉pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party is sure to annoy leaders in #Beijing👈; we ask what to expect next."
Hi Tim.
There are very few perodicals that I have been following for so many years with so many contributions.
Apart from an unavoidable personal bias (Descartes), #TheEconomist has been doing an excellent job reporting an analyzing International affairs.
That said, it has been very critical about President Xi's rule, even producing an excellent biographical pod series on him, The Prince ( https://i.sonnet.fm/9qCpJrfBwqs3ktB57).
Reporting on the..
What @MichaelTurton critizes in this age-old #TheEconomist article, without providing a source link, looks reasonable at face value.
There have been hundreds, maybe thousands of articles on Red China, which I like to call it, and, to a lesser degree, #Taiwan. Many have been really good. Even if that author erred on the CCP side back then, that doesn't disqualify #TheEconomist for me.
What I dislike, though, is that interaction is only possible on their websites and app,...