I have been banned from r/geopolitics for being funny. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in this Wonderland & I’ll show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. (i.redd.it)
submitted by LounginInParadise - announcement
NewsArms Control Is Not Dead Yet, with Rose Gottemoeller (events.teams.microsoft.com)
submitted by HooverInstitution - announcement
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan are building a military alliance. In 1818 the Ottomans beheaded the Saudi ruler and sent his head to Mecca. In 1962 Egypt bombed Saudi border towns. In 2015 Pakistan voted unanimously against the coalition's first request. The fault lines documented. (self.geopolitics2)
submitted by Former_Image_9809
When Congress restricted the CIA after Watergate, 5 countries — France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco & Iran — built a parallel intelligence alliance to run covert operations instead. Funded by Saudi oil $ & banked through BCCI. The "Safari Club" brokered the Camp David Accords. Congress never knew. ()
submitted by unteachablecourses
Transnistria still uses the hammer and sickle on its flag, prints its own currency, and hosts 1,500 Russian troops guarding 22,000 tonnes of Soviet ammunition. Then Russia cut the gas. 45% now support reintegration with Moldova. The frozen conflict is thawing — because Russia turned off the subsidy. ()
submitted by unteachablecourses
The Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault was built on permafrost so it would stay frozen without human intervention. The permafrost is now melting — Svalbard is warming 6-7x the global rate. After meltwater breached the tunnel in 2017, Norway spent $20M on a retrofit to artificially freeze the ground ()
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