To put it another way, the "rules based international order" is not an alternative to "might is right" but a subset of it and depends on the US having overwhelming power. The worl… (View Post)

It was previously reported that the US thought the Cubans would execute Maduro if he tried to flee, so the Americans probably did him a big favour by getting him out alive. (View Post)

At this very moment, there are people with the unenviable task of listening in on Starmer's communications. (View Post)

Trump is a keen student of J.L. Austin's concept of performative utterances and recognises that to say is to do. It's meaningless to judge a statement like "we're going to run Ven… (View Post)

Quite a good long post from a Danish MEP on the rules-based international order: https://x.com/SociologenHD/status/2007768737961689529 If we confine ourselves to the permanent members of the UN Secur… (View Post)